According to the New York Times (May 2008), our Civic Sector Leadership Faculty includes a rock star! not Obama, not Springsteen, but... Stew Friedman!

“Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.”

To read more about Stew, click here:
Stew and eleven more top tier faculty promise a learning experience that will influence your organization (and the individuals you nominate) for years to come! Who are your best and brightest? We are especially interested in nominees of color and diverse ethnicities.

Deadline for Nominations is January 15, 2009

The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA) and the University of Notre Dame invite nominations of emerging leaders in the nonprofit human services sector to become Civic Sector Leadership Fellows. The cohort of Fellows will participate in an intensive, one-week experiential learning program, executive coaching, an ongoing virtual learning community and a culminating capstone weekend.

This learning opportunity differs from others because it is exclusively designed for and focused on human services or civic sector nonprofit organizations. Other details include:

Dates:		March 22-27, 2009 and February 21-23, 2010
Location:		Villanova Conference Center, Radnor, PA (outside Philadelphia)
Tuition:		$3900 includes all lodging, food (for the week in March and capstone weekend in February, individual coaching, 360° assessment, materials, expertise of stellar faculty

 

Organization Benefits

• You'll be preparing loyal, engaged staff members to ensure quality leadership in your organization for years to come.
• The Fellow you nominate will return to your organization with a 21st century perspective on human service dilemmas, emerging innovations and on systems change.
• Your nominee will establish a network of peer colleagues--extending across the sector and beyond your own organization--with whom to consult as they grow into leadership roles in the human services field.
• Your organization will be the beneficiary of the synergy that develops when a cohort of diverse colleagues grapples with similar challenges and complex human service issues while developing and enhancing their own management and leadership styles.

Benefits to the Nominee

• Each Fellow will learn about the latest issues and trends affecting the human service sector from experts and researchers in the field;
• They will identify the characteristics of high-performing nonprofits and how to replicate them in their own organizations;
• Skills development and knowledge will prepare them for roles as senior leaders and CEOs;
• Each participant will become part of an ongoing learning community that will grapple with critical issues affecting the human services sector and its top leaders;
• They will receive individualized coaching and feedback designed to develop their leadership skills; and
• Establish a personal work plan designed to deepen knowledge and strengthen key competencies, by gaining the tools to address challenges facing organizations and the sector over the next five to ten years.

 

The one-week intensive will take place March 22-27, 2009 at the Villanova University Conference Center in Radnor, PA (outside Philadelphia).

The $3900 tuition includes all lodging, food, individual executive coaching, a 360° assessment, and materials at both the week-long intensive and the capstone weekend, as well as a top flight cadre of faculty from Notre Dame's renowned Mendoza College of Business and other elite colleges, universities and organizations.

The competitive fee for the Civic Sector Leadership Fellows Program is possible thanks to underwriting by an anonymous donor.

The program is limited to 30 participants who will reflect the broad diversity of the human services field today.

The capstone weekend will be held at the same location in February 21-23, 2010. At that time, Fellows will make presentations based on projects completed since their March '09 intensive program.

 

The Civic Sector Leadership Fellows program is not an open enrollment program in which individuals can self-nominate. The program has been designed to elicit and accept nominations exclusively through the national headquarters offices of nonprofit human services organizations by providing them the opportunity to select and invest in professionals from throughout their systems who, from the national, system-wide perspective, represent the highest potential talent to be considered and developed as future key leaders of your organization.

Up to three individuals may be nominated from your organization for consideration in the 2009-2010 program year.

Please carefully consider the following points as you evaluate who is an appropriate candidate:

A prospective Civic Sector Leadership Fellow typically has

• made a commitment to a career in the nonprofit human services sector;
• a minimum of five years of experience managing human and financial resources in the  human services sector;
• participated in previous leadership development or training;
• demonstrated enthusiasm about acquiring new knowledge and developing new skills; and
• the support of his/her board of directors and senior leadership which is reflected in the freedom to invest time away from regular responsibilities in order to participate fully in the program.

 

Click here for the nomination packet. It contains detailed instructions and the forms necessary to submit an application.

 

Civic Sector Leadership Fellows Faculty
(listed in alphabetical order)
March 22-27, 2009

Matt Bloom, PhD

University of Notre Dame's Associate Management Professor, Matt Bloom, conducts research in the areas of the improvement of the human condition at work, with a focus on intrinsic motivation, happiness and meaning, and innovation. He received his B.S. in psychology from Baker University, an M.A. in organizational and personnel psychology from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Studies from Cornell University. He teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive courses in innovation and workforce related topics.

Dr. Bloom is widely known for his energetic and interactive ‘lab’ learning experiences. He will challenge attendees by deploying his expertise on the topics of innovation, creativity, employee motivation, and the role of intrinsic motivation in employee engagement.

Recent teaching awards include the 2008 BP Amoco Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2008 Master of Nonprofit Administration Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2007 MBA Outstanding Teaching Award. Bloom serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.  He is also an ad hoc reviewer for numerous research journals.

 

Audra M. Bohannon

Audra M. Bohannon is Vice President of Consulting for Novations Group, Inc. with responsibility for directing their Diversity & Inclusion Consulting group.

Ms. Bohannon is a frequent guest speaker on the topic of leveraging diversity and inclusion to achieve business success, thus her selection to lead the Fellows' session on “Diversity in the Workplace”. Her passion and commitment to the development of all inform her enthusiastic delivery for the subject matter. Her style and technique are to work with organizations as a business partner, helping them recognize that mastering diversity and inclusion in their organizations will directly and positively impact their business results.

Ms. Bohannon well understands the retail industry, her roots prior to joining J. Howard & Associates (now Novations Diversity & Inclusion Consulting Group) in 1983. During her tenure, and as a result of working within Fortune 500 companies, she broadened her knowledge of professional and industrial work environments, including the airline, banking, financial, health, and technology industries.

These experiences have significantly informed her vision and shaped the skills that enable her to provide guidance and develop solutions toward capacity building for all individuals within client organizations.

 

Richard Brewster

Richard Brewster is Executive Director of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise (NCNE), a national capacity building organization which helps nonprofits allocate their resources effectively to achieve sustainability. NCNE provides a resource base of materials, publishes books, presents conferences and delivers training on a number of aspects of nonprofit economics.

For eight years until February 2003, Richard was chief executive of Scope, a national disability charity and one of the UK's largest nonprofits.  As CEO, he oversaw major changes in governance and in the strategy of the organization, and introduced an outcome driven approach to the delivery of programs. Prior to this, he was Director of Marketing at Scope, responsible for all aspects of fundraising including a major thrift shop chain, public relations and advocacy. 

In 2003/4, he was Senior Visiting Practitioner at the Center of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University. He is currently visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Open University Business School in the United Kingdom, under whose auspices he is conducting research on the “Inner Life” of chief executives of charities in the UK. Richard was educated at Oxford University and spent the first 10 years of his working life commercial management in commercial management in ICI, then a major multinational chemical company. He joined the nonprofit sector in 1986 when he became the National Appeals director of Oxfam, a major UK NGO.

 

Amy E. Colbert, PhD
Amy E. Colbert, PhD, is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Organizations, University of Iowa, having served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, University of Notre Dame from 2004-2007. Her dissertation focus was “Understanding the Effects of Transformational Leadership: The Mediating Role of Leader-Follower Value Congruence”. prepared her well to challenge the CSLF cohort to understand how they, as leaders, influence the degree to which work is perceived as meaningful, fulfilling, and positive for their employees. She will address “Self as Leader: Understanding Yourself Through 360 Degree Feedback”. (Fellows will have received a 360° assessment prior to the March leadership intensive).

Dr. Colbert has extensive teaching and research experience in the field of management, particularly in regard to leadership styles. She is widely published on everything from intrinsic employee motivation to workplace deviance. A much abbreviated list of her publications follows:

Colbert, A.E., & Witt, L.A. (in press). The role of goal-focused leadership in enabling the expression of conscientiousness. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Colbert, A.E., Kristof-Brown, A.L., Bradley, B.H., & Barrick, M.R. (2008). Transformational leadership and goal agreement: Understanding the implications for individuals and organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 51, 81-96.

Bono, J.E., & Colbert, A.E. (2005). Understanding responses to multi-source feedback: The role of core self-evaluations. Personnel Psychology, 58, 171-203.

Colbert, A.E., Mount, M. K. Harter, J.K., Witt, L.A. & Barrick, M. R. (2004). Interactive effects of personality and perceptions of the work situation on workplace deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 599-609.

 

Ami Dar

Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Action Without Borders/ Idealist.org, described by some as “an online supermarket for social action which makes it possible for virtually anyone to act on their desire to change society.�  Built in 1996 with $3,500, Idealist has become one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the web, with information posted by 75,000 organizations around the world, over 60,000 visitors every day, and a staff of 70 in New York, Portland, Oregon, and Buenos Aires. The Nonprofit Times has repeatedly included Ami in its annual list of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector, and in 2004 Ashoka invited him to join its global fellowship of social entrepreneurs.

Ami was born in Israel and grew up there and in Peru and Mexico. At 18, he was drafted into the Israeli army, where he served as a paratrooper in the Lebanese war of 1982. The misery and senseless destruction he saw in Lebanon, combined with the extreme poverty he had seen growing up in Latin America, led him to start an organization that would make it easier for people everywhere to take action on the issues that concern them. In 2000 the Stern Family Fund awarded Ami its annual $100,000 Public Interest Pioneer grant (renewed in 2001) to help support his work.

 

Allison Fine

Allison is a successful social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassroots organizations and activists successfully implement social change efforts. Her book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, winner of the Terry McAdams National Book Award, was published in 2006 by Wiley & Sons.

As a senior fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for Change and Action in New York City, Allison researches and writes about the future of social change and civic engagement in this new digital age. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also a frequent contributor to Huffington Post, Personal Democracy Forum, Alternet and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Allison served as the C.E.O. of The E-Volve Foundation in 2004-2005, and was the Founder and Executive Director of Innovation Network, Inc. from 1992-2004.

Allison currently serves on the board of directors of Just Vision, a nonprofit organization that increases awareness about Palestinian and Israeli non-violent, civilian-led efforts to build a base for peace in the Middle East. Ms. Fine has a Masters in Public Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Vanderbilt University. From 1987-1989, Ms. Fine served as an elected trustee of the Village of Sleepy Hollow, NY and was appointed the Fire and Police Commissioner.

 

Stew Friedman, PhD

Stew Friedman has been a faculty member of the Wharton School since 1984. He became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work on the application of theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, he was responsible for the design and delivery of the required Wharton MBA course, Foundations of Leadership and Teamwork.  He also initiated and leads the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project; its mission is to develop leaders and enable change through action research and learning.

Stew recently concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he served as director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25 MM operation while on leave from Wharton.  He launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford's culture, in which over 2500 managers per year participated.  He brought his concept of “total leadership” – integrating work, home, community, and self – to Ford, which created measurable change in both increased business results and enriched lives.  “Total Leadership” will be his topic at the CSLFellows week in March.

Stew worked for five years in the health care industry before earning his Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Michigan. His book, Work and Family -- Allies or Enemies? (Oxford University Press, 2000), based on a study of business school alumni, was honored by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books in 2000. With Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1998), Stew and his colleagues published the first collection of learning activities designed to build leadership skills for integrating work and life.

He has consulted with executives in a wide range of industries as well as in the public sector, including then Vice President Al Gore. Stew is the recipient of numerous teaching awards at Wharton and appears regularly in business news media.

 

Frances Johnston, PhD

Dr. Frances Johnston co-founded the Teleos Leadership Institute with Annie McKee in January 2001. The Institute is a values-based, professional consulting firm that provides services in both the private and public sectors and encourages and develops values-based leadership around the world.

Fran's topic will be “Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace” in which she will deploy an approach that involves the strategic use of executive coaching, action learning, and integrated organization development.

Fran often works internationally with senior executives as an advisor, focusing on the intersection of leadership and strategy as well as organizational transformation to create effective processes and structures for continual growth and ongoing development. She designs and implements advanced facilitation programs throughout North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Prior to Teleos, Frances Johnston was the regional organizational effectiveness and management development practice leader and senior consultant with the Hay Group. Before joining Hay, she designed custom executive education programs at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was also adjunct faculty in the Leadership Program of The Wharton School, as well as Instructor of Group and Social Process at Temple University and the Community College of Philadelphia. In addition, she is a long-time network member of Elsie Y. Cross Associates, Inc., one of the premier diversity and organizational consulting firms in the USA.

Fran received her doctorate from Temple University in Adult and Organizational Development. She received her Masters in Sports Psychology from Temple University where she helped athletes integrate mind, body and emotion in pursuit of high performance and an integrated sense of self. She is Associate Editor of the first-ever Encyclopedia of Women in Sport in America (1999).

 

Frances Kunreuther, M.S.

Frances Kunreuther is the Director of the Building Movement Project, working to support social change organizations in the United States. Housed at Demos, the project has developed strategies for movement capacity building and has conducted a study of generational differences in social change organizations. Resulting in her frequently cited article, “The Changing of the Guard: What Generational Differences Tell Us About Social-Change Organizations.” Based on this field of study, she will be working with the CSLFellows to understand the importance of developing “The Multi-Generational Workplace.”

In 1997, Kunreuther was a fellow at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Prior to the fellowship, she was the Executive Director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a multi-service agency for lesbian and gay, homeless, and HIV-positive youth. For over twenty years, Kunreuther worked in nonprofit organizations in New York City addressing the needs of homeless youth, immigrant groups, domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, crime victims and defendants in the criminal justice system.

Frances has a Master of Science in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and was Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate at Earlham College in Richmond, IN.

 

Lisa Lahey, Ed.D.

Lisa is Associate Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Despite the over-use of the word ‘change’ in recent election politics, Lisa will work with the Fellows cohort on the complex topic of change, the inevitable resistance to it, and the challenge or threat when an organization (or an individual!) is immune to change. Her current professional interests focus on adult development within school districts, and tightly connecting individual development with district-wide goals for improved student performance. Lisa coaches leaders on how to create, facilitate and maintain conditions to support individual, group and organizational development. She also coaches individuals and groups on transforming communications for improved collaboration, work performance and decision-making. She has extensive experience in designing and facilitating processes that promote deep adult learning that serves organizational goals.

Lisa's clients have included: Lexington Public Schools; Acton Public Schools; The Fleet Initiative for Boston Public Schools; The Winsor School; McKinsey & Company; Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; and The Dalton School. She is co-founder and senior consultant at MINDS AT WORK, a consulting firm specializing in school and workplace learning in the U.S. and Europe. A former principal and high school teacher, Lisa has also taught extensively in graduate school programs in several Boston area schools and professional development programs. She is co-author of numerous articles on adult development. Her first book, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation (co-authored with Robert Kegan,) was published by Jossey Bass in 2001. She earned her M.Ed. and Ed.D. in human development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Frank Martinelli, M.S.

Frank has over 35 years of work experience with a variety of nonprofit, community based groups and public agencies. He is president of the Center for Public Skills Training where he specializes in strategic planning, governing board development, systems thinking, and community partnership and alliance building, having provided training and consultation to more than 1600 organizations in the US.

Frank served as a member of the national faculty of The Learning Institute, a joint venture of the Society for Nonprofit Organizations, PBS, United Way of America, and the University of Wisconsin, that was designed to deliver training through a range of emerging technologies.

From 1981-1992, Frank served as Coordinator of THE RESOURCE CENTER, a major provider of training to nonprofit groups in the Greater Milwaukee area. He served as a community organizer for the Citizen Action Program (CAP) in Chicago and as a founding organizer and staff director of the Milwaukee Alliance of Concerned Citizens. He also served as Senior Training Consultant to ACTION/VISTA from 1977 to 1981.

He has been trained by the Peter F. Drucker Foundation in the use of the Organizational Self-Assessment Tool. Frank has recently completed the Distance Education Professional Development Certification Program offered at the University of Wisconsin and is presently developing a number of web-based and other distance learning offerings for nonprofits.

 

Shirley Sagawa, J.D.

Shirley Sagawa has served as a presidential appointee in both the first Bush and Clinton Administrations. As Deputy Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton, she advised Mrs. Clinton on domestic policy and led the planning for White House Conferences on Philanthropy, Partnerships in Philanthropy, and Teenagers. Shirley was instrumental to the drafting and passage of legislation creating the Corporation for National Service and AmeriCorps. After Senate confirmation as the Corporation's first chief operating and policy officer, she led the development of new service programs for adults and students, including AmeriCorps, and directed strategic planning for this new government corporation.  She is currently a fellow with the Center for American Progress.

Her book, Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value through Business and Social Sector Partnerships (Harvard Business School Press), describes how business and social sector organizations can collaborate for mutual gain, and serves as the basis for her session in the CSL Fellows program.

Co-founder of the Sagawa/Jospin consulting firm, Shirley was named a "Woman to Watch in the 21st Century," by Newsweek magazine, and one of the "Most Influential Working Mothers in America" by Working Mother magazine.

Her book, with Deb Jospin, The Charismatic Organization, (Jossey-Bass 2008) offers breakthrough insights into building strong, effective, and well-resourced nonprofit organizations.  She has also managed successful collaborations in the private sector, including the Learning First Alliance, a partnership of national education associations. She began her career as the Chief Counsel for Youth Policy for the Senate Labor Committee, specializing in education, children's, and youth issues, and subsequently served as senior counsel to the National Women's Law Center, and on many nonprofit boards.

Shirley is a graduate of Smith College, the London School of Economics and Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review.

 

Amy Shuen, Ph.D.

Amy Shuen is currently Professor of Management Practice at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), having formerly taught at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Her areas of research interest are Web 2.0 Strategy and New High Tech Business Models. Her Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide, was published by O'Reilly Media, earlier this year and serves as the title and focus of Amy's learning session.

Amy founded The Silicon Valley Strategy Group which created a $100M corporate strategic innovation venture fund and funded $20M in new ventures in the wireless, financial services, media, software and nano-sensor areas. She has consulted with such Global 100 clients as GE Europe, Virgin, Societe Generale, PPR, Bouygues, Nokia, SCF, France Telecom, EDF. Previous positions have included: founding team, Sloan Foundation Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program at Berkeley, a global industry consortium (1990-5); Marketing Manager at Intel (1983-6); New Technology Group Associate, Booz Allen & Hamilton (1981-3); Internal Corporate Venture Manager, Procter & Gamble (1977-9); Patent and Technology Licensing Intern, Bell Labs Murray Hill (1976).

Amy has also served as in a number of academic capacities at the University of Washington, San Jose State University, and Ecole des Ponts and Ecole Polytechnique. After graduating from Yale University, Amy obtained a PhD, University of California at Berkeley, in 1994. She also holds an MBA, Harvard Business School.

 

John Tropman, PhD

John E. Tropman, PhD, is associate dean for faculty affairs, and professor of social work at the University of Michigan, School of Social Work. His research focuses on the organizational elements that create high-performing human service (and other) organizations. The title of his dinner presentation is “Board Governance – Getting as Little Done as You Do Now – in Half the Time”, hints at the humor and liveliness the CSL Fellows will enjoy (and learn from!) at their closing night dinner.

Topics of special interest to John are entrepreneurship, effective group decision making, the person of the executive (executive director, chief professional officer, or chief executive officer), the problem of executive burnout and flameout, and organizational rewards systems.

Tropman is also interested in culture in general, and organizational culture in particular. His book, The Catholic Ethic in American Society, addresses this issue. Other areas of research/scholarly interest include social welfare policy, community organization, and planning.

 

Time	23-Mar	24-Mar	25-Mar	26-Mar	27-Mar
Morning Session	8:00-12:30	8:00-12:30	8:00-12:30	8:00-12:30	8:00 to closing (12:30)
Theme	Self as Leader	Systems Thinking and Execution	Inspired People Management	Overcoming Resistance to Change	Fostering Innovation
Topic	"Self as Leader: Understanding Yourself through 360 Degree Feedback"	"Systems Thinking Tools For Nonprofit Leaders"	"Total Leadership"	"Immunity to Change"	"Innovation"
Faculty	Amy Colbert PhD	Frank Martinelli, MS	Stew Friedman PhD	Lisa Lahey Ed.D.	Matt Bloom PhD
Topic	"Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace"
Faculty	Frances Johnston PhD
Lunch 12:30-2:00
Afternoon Session	2:00-5:30	2:00-5:30	2:00-5:30	2:00-5:30
Theme	The 4 Generation Workplace	The 2.0 Nonprofit	Partnerships and Collaborations	The New Nonprofit Economics
Topic	"The Multi-Generational Workplace"	"The 2.0 Nonprofit"	"Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships"	"The New Nonprofit Economics"
Faculty	Frances Kunreuther	Allison Fine MPA	Shirley Sagawa JD	Richard Brewster
Workshop Title	"Diversity in the Workplace"	"Nonprofit 2.0: A Strategy Guide"
Presenter	Audra Bohannon	Amy Shuen PhD
 Evening Session	7:30-9:30	7:30-9:30	7:30-9:30
Topic		"Mobillizing for Change Online and Offline"	"Board Governance- Getting as Little Done as You Do Now - in Half the Time"
Faculty		Ami Dar	John Tropman PhD