"The range of faculty and business partners involved in leadership for change helped us learn from many different teaching styles and perspectives.
Business Partners
Business partners are executives and consultants who have joined the faculty in designing, developing, and delivering the Leadership for Change program in a variety of ways.
Peter A. Crawley, MS
President, Satoria Investments
Peter is an independent investment manager and consultant specializing in sustainable real estate development. He has worked in both the Public and Private sectors, including at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, John Hancock Properties, Boston Capital Real Estate Partners and Meredith Management Corp. In addition to his real estate experience, Peter co-founded an Internet company in the 1990’s, where he implemented learning organization and open-book management techniques. Peter is committed to creatively integrating business, social and environmental concerns. Peter also directs the Arts & Justice social awareness series in Jamaica Plain, and is President of the Zen center at the Cambridge Buddhist Association. Peter is an alumnus of Leadership for Change and lives in Cambridge.
Janice E. Jackson, Ed.D-Harvard Graduate School of Education
Lecturer on Education
Senior Associate for the Executive Education Leadership Program
Janice is jointly appointed to the Department of Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education. She provides professional development for schools and school districts on leadership development, organizational change, improving student achievement, and diversity issues. She serves on the boards of several local and national organizations that are focused on elementary and secondary education.
Mary Jo Hatch, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Guest Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Mary Jo is an organizational theorist who specializes in topics ranging from organizational culture, identity and corporate branding to jazz and other aesthetic approaches to leadership, organizing, and change. Her consulting work focuses primarily on values and corporate branding as tools to align vision, culture and images. But her book The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest, and her work on jazz as a metaphor for organizing, have inspired managers and students around the world. She has written a best selling textbook called Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives.
Robert Leaver, MS, Founder and President, New Commons, Inc.
New Commons of Providence, RI works creatively with organizations, systems and communities on formulating strategy, creating and managing knowledge, and structuring for performance. Robert's areas of focus is city making, organization building, entrepreneurship, networks, teams and scenario planning. A central tenet: Organizations and places/communities, like cities, are symbiotic. He is a founding business partner of Leadership for Change bringing poetry and aesthetics to matter as much as action. He is the editor of the forthcoming "Uniformed Edition II of James Hillman's Work: City and Soul."
Manuel Manga, M.Ed-President, Center for Evolutionary Leadership
Manuel is founder and president of the Center for Evolutionary Leadership, which focuses on leadership development and organizational learning toward sustainability. Manuel works as a consultant and executive coach doing work in both the profit and non-profit sectors of the United States and Latin America. He facilitates programs in Evolutionary Leadership, Transformational Conversations, Valuing Diversity, and Organizational Learning. He is a member of SoL, The Society for Organizational Learning.
Kenneth Mirvis - EdD President, The Writing Company
Ken provides business writing workshops and editorial services to business, industry, governments, and trade associations. His primary writing work involves curriculum development in the fields of water and wastewater, energy, environment issues, and science. His educational programs have received numerous awards and have been used by millions of students across the U.S. Ken has also worked with Leadership for Change to develop and deliver customized consulting programs.
Phil Mirvis, Ph.D.- Senior Research Fellow
Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College
Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist whose research and private practice concern organizational change, the workforce and workplace, and the role of business in society. He has authored nine books on his studies including The Cynical Americans, Building the Competitive Workforce, and Joining Forces. His most recent are a business transformation story, To the Desert and Back and one on business innovations to improve society, Beyond Good Company. Mirvis has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Boston University, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and the London Business School.
Joe Raelin, PhD - Asa S. Knowles Chair and Director of The Center for Work and Learning, Northeastern University
Joe specializes in work-based reflective practices and is committed to developing a new paradigm for learning that combines knowledge with experience and brings together practitioners and theorists into collaborative learning environments. At Northeastern, he is responsible for mobilizing scholarly inquiry and capacity building in the domain of practice-oriented learning. His recent works include: "Work-Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development" (Jossey-Bass, 2008) and "Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone" (Berrett-Koehler, 2003).
Steve Waddell, PhD, MBA - Founder of Leadership for Change, Senior Researcher and Consultant, Strategic Clarity
Through diverse leading roles in financial institutions, labor unions, property development, academia, research, and consulting, Steve has focused on the development of intersectoral collaborations (among business, community, and government organizations). In the U.S., Canada, and around the world, he generates synergies and win-win relationships by developing innovative collaborations and global networks. He has written numerous articles on intersector collaboration, emphasizing action learning and state-of-the-art research in his consulting practice. Steve is also Executive Director with Global Action Network Net