Barbara Crosby, associate professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Integrative Leadership: Leading Across Boundaries for the Common Good

Barbara C. Crosby is associate professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and  former academic co-director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota. She has taught and written extensively about leadership and public policy, integrative leadership, cross-sector collaboration, women in leadership, media and public policy, and strategic planning.  She is the author of Leadership for Global Citizenship and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World.

Thomas Cronin, McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at Colorado College, Professor Emeritus at Whitman College

Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox

Thomas E. Cronin is a political scientist and leadership scholar. He is McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at Colorado College and President Emeritus at Whitman College. He is author or co-author of a dozen books on American government and politics. He is co-author with Michael A. Genovese of Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox to be published this April by Paradigm Publishers (Boulder and London).

Sharon Daloz Parks, Principal, Leadership for the New Commons

Leaping into the Swamp? The Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership in an Uncertain World

Sharon Daloz Parks is Principal of Leadership for the New Commons, an initiative of the Whidbey Institute. Formerly, for more than sixteen years, she held faculty and research positions at Harvard University Harvard University in the Schools of Divinity, Business, and the Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith.  Her publications also include Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World and the co-authored book Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World.

Juanas Bordas, Principal, Mestiza Leadership International

The Power of WE: Leading in our Diverse and Multicultural World

Juana Bordas is the principal of Mestiza Leadership International in Denver. Mestiza provides training and organizational services that demonstrate the benefits of collaboration, diversity, and effective leadership. Juana is also the founding President and CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute and worked as a Senior Program Associate with the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs. She has authored Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age, Latino Leadership: Building a Diverse and Humaninstic Society - Journal for Leadership Studies, and African American Leaders: Guardians of Public Values - International Journal on Servant Leadership.

Colonel Gary Packard, Department Head, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, United States Air Force Academy

Developing Leaders of Character: How the United States Air Force Academy Grows Military Leaders

Colonel Packard is permanent professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership (DFBL) at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colonel Packard leads a diverse faculty of psychologists, sociologists, and industrial/organizational and human-factors engineers responsible for teaching over 30 undergraduate courses to more than 3,000 cadets annually.

Lt. Colonel Douglas Lindsay, Deputy Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, United States Air Force Academy

Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. He received his doctoral degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University with a focus on leader-follower interactions and the subsequent impact on performance. His interests are in the areas of leader/leadership development and he has conducted and published research in these areas.

Gloria Burgess, Professor, OSR Graduate Program, Seattle University.

Legacy Leadership: Making a Covenant with the Future

An author, speaker, executive coach, and consultant who engages individuals and organizations in the process of finding the vital core of their creative self, Gloria weaves together her own
personal legacy using the threads of authenticity, creativity, soulful living, and cultural inclusivity. Gloria holds a PhD in Performance Studies and an MBA in Organizational Behavior and
Information Systems from the University of Southern California. She also has an MA in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute at Bastyr University, and an MA in Speech
Communication and Theater from the University of Michigan. Her most recent book is Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside.  She is the author of Legacy Living and three books of poetry

Mary Uhl-Bien, Professor, Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership.

Complexity Leadership: Making Sense of Leadership in Today's Complex World

Mary Uhl-Bien is the Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership at the University of Nebraska. Dr. Uhl-Bien’s current research and teaching interests are complexity leadership, relational leadership, followership and ethics. Her research has been published in leading journals and books, and she has won best paper awards for her work on complexity leadership and followership. Professor Uhl-Bien is senior editor of the Leadership Horizons series for Information Age Publishers and has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, and International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management.

Polly Higgins, Barrister and International Environmental Lawyer

Bold, Courageous, Moral Leadership: Giving Context in the New Paradigm

Polly Higgins, award-winning author of "Eradicating Ecocide," barrister and international environmental lawyer has proposed to the United Nations a law of Ecocide to be classed as an international law alongside genocide. She has proposed a law which will impose a legal duty of care on all companies to place environmental considerations first. By creating a crime of Ecocide, the flow of destruction will be prohibited at the source and will prevent mass damage and destruction to ecosystems. Such a measure will attach duties to CEOs, heads of state and heads of financial institutions - all who are in a superior position of responsibility - preventing decisions that lead to, support or finance mass damage and destruction. International governance mechanisms and law are part of the dialogue at the Earth Summit this year. Polly argues that new Earth laws, such as Ecocide and Earth Rights, are the new rules that can change the paradigm. Polly has been named as one of the "World's Top 10 Visionary Thinkers" by The Ecologist and was named "The Earth's lawyer" by the 2010 Performance Awards. In Spring 2012 "Earth is our Business" will be published.

Sharon McDowell-Larsen, Senior Associate and Exercise Physiologist at the Center for Creative Leadership

Top Dog, Fit Cat: 15 Years of Adventures in Fitness and Leadership

For over 10 years Sharon has worked with executives from all parts of the globe to improve their health and fitness.  She has worked with numerous clients to design and implement a Fitness for Leadership component in their leadership training courses.  Clients have included SAIC, DOW Chemical, Mars Inc., Women in Cable and Telecommunications, Sodexo, the U.S. Navy, Pfizer and General Motors.  Sharon has written and been quoted in numerous articles on executive fitness and leadership stress which have appeared in the Wall Street Journal-Hong Kong, Forbes, the Washington Post, Virgin Active South Africa, The San Diego Union-Tribune, HR Magazine, Human Capital Management, Supply Management, Comites Executifs and the South China Morning Post.   She is also a co-author of Dealing with Leadership Stress, a CCL guidebook.