Board of Directors

President

Jera Niewoehner-Green

Associate Professor of Community Leadership - The Ohio State University

niewoehner-green.1@osu.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"Leadership is rooted in relationships - all of the connections we make with others has an impact on the work we are trying to accomplish."

Immediate Past President

Brittany Adams-Pope

Associate Public Service Faculty,  J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development - University of Georgia

brittanyap@uga.edu  

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

Vice President

Kate McCain

Collegiate Assistant Professor - Virginia Tech

kdmccain@vt.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"Your leadership story is a journey that unfolds with each new experience. Crafting your story allows your voice to make an impact that can inspire and create change."

Secretary

Director, Center for Transformational Learning & Leadership and Scholarly Associate Professor - Washington State University

awhitehall@wsu.edu

Treasurer

Wren Mills

Pedagogical Assistant Professor - Western Kentucky University 

wren.mills@wku.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"We all have the capacity to be both good leaders and followers. The trick is to develop the skillset to help us know which we should be in a given context."

Austin Council

Collegiate Assistant Professor - Virginia Tech

adc@vt.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"Leadership is an ongoing inner journey for the betterment of yourself and others.”

Lauren Edelman
Director, Aleshire Center for Leadership & Community Engagement - Washburn University

lauren.edelman@washburn.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"Commitment to growth is one of your greatest advantages as a leader. When we are committed to learning new things, asking hard questions, and failing forward we can surpass even our own expectations of ourselves."

Professor of Leadership and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies - Wartburg College

michael.gleason@wartburg.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"We each have unique strengths and interests to bring to the leadership experience. By enhancing our understanding of ourselves and then partnering with others who have different skillsets, we can create the teams needed to make progress on the complex issues in today's world."

Assistant Professor - Austin Peay State University

jennyokoliko@gmail.com

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"What you know is only a tiny fraction of what needs to be known. Be genuinely open to the perspectives of others and adjust your actions daily as you learn."

Jenn Smist
Teaching Assistant Professor - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

jsmist@illinois.edu

Associate Professor - West Chester University of Pennsylvania

zwooten@wcupa.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

 “The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use change fix help save enroll convince or control but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself if you will allow it.” -Barbara Brown Taylor

Editor-in-Chief, Joural of Leadership Educators
Associate Professor - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

dmrosch@illinois.edu

After working with me, I hope leadership learners have learned:

"The importance of 'tickling the amygdala' when leading other people. If those people don't feel things when they're with you, they won't learn things from you. And if they don't learn things from you, they won't follow you."