The Contributors

Marco Aponte-Moreno, PhD, is an actor and academic. He has been performing in theater and film for the past fifteen years. He obtained his PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, specializing in Hugo Chávez’s political discourse. His current academic research focuses on the role of language and theater in leadership development. Aponte-Moreno teaches leadership and communication at University College London, where he is also the director of the graduate program in management.

John Eric Baugher, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His recent research and teaching activities concern emotional and spiritual dimensions of transformational learning, bereavement, and end-of-life care. Baugher is a member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the social science editor for the Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. He provides training in spiritual care to hospice and other organizations, and for more than two decades he has been following the lead of dying and grieving persons as a certified hospice volunteer.

Sylvia van de Bunt-Kokhuis, PhD, is co-director of SERVUS, the Servant-Leadership Centre for Research and Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has an international career in business, corporate governance, and academia. She has published extensively in international academic journals on higher education, talent diversity, community building, and servant-leadership. She is the author of Academic Pilgrims (1996), editor of World Wide Work (2006), and coeditor of Competing for Talent (2009).

Brighid Dwyer, PhD, is the assistant director for research and training in the Center for Multicultural Affairs at Villanova University and serves as one of the university’s ombudspersons for bias concerns. She is one of the co-directors of Villanova’s Program on Intergroup Relations, a faculty member in the program, and an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Peace and Justice Education.

Catherine Etmanski, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Royal Roads University and first-year program head for a master’s program in leadership studies. She is passionate about teaching arts-based and environmental leadership as well as action-oriented, participatory approaches to research. She enjoys integrating the arts into her work, and her doctoral studies employed participatory theater as a research method. She practices yoga and meditation.

Mark Fulton, MA, is a seasoned consultant, facilitator, and trainer with over twenty-five years of experience leading organizational effectiveness work—that is, helping organizations develop the capability to execute their strategy and achieve their business goals. He has worked with thousands of frontline leaders, senior executive teams, project teams, and groups of employees in a broad range of organizations from large multinational high-technology corporations to small start-ups. His MA from Concordia University is in human systems intervention.

Ralph A. Gigliotti is assistant director of Student Development for Leadership Programs at Villanova University. In this role, he coordinates the leadership education initiatives for aspiring and current student leaders. He has taught courses in communication, leadership, and public administration and is pursuing his PhD in organizational communication at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, PhD, has over twenty-five years of experience in leadership development, organizational consulting, and somatic learning. She has helped hundreds of executives to cultivate healthy organizations and is a professor in the graduate faculty of organizational psychology at Alliant International University. Goldman Schuyler has published widely on leadership and change and is the author of Inner Peace—Global Impact: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work (IAP, 2012). In her private practice, she teaches children and adults with moderate to severe neuromotor challenges to move, learn, and live well.

Olen Gunnlaugson, PhD, is an assistant professor in leadership and organizational development in the Business School at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. He views business education as a key societal vehicle for developing the next generation of self-aware, sustainably minded leaders. Gunnlaugson brings an increasingly multidisciplinary background to research and consulting in leadership, communication in teams, and executive coaching. His research has been published in several books and numerous peer-reviewed academic journals and presentations at international conferences.

Karin Jironet, PhD, theologian, Sufi murshida (guide), and Jungian psychoanalyst, is dedicated to leadership development in times of transition. Specializing in applying psychospiritual principles to boardroom dynamics for more than a decade, she counts as her clients the major international banks. Jironet is an internationally published author of articles and books on new approaches to organizational development and leadership. Her latest book, Female Leadership, was nominated for best book of the year by the Gradiva Award, New York 2012. She is a board member of the Dutch Association of Analytical Psychology and cofounder of In Claritas.

Linda Kantor, BSoc Sci, MA Psychology, is a counseling psychologist, hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and mindfulness trainer based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has taught mindfulness in various contexts from community to corporate. She is a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches mindful leadership. She is also a facilitator for the University of Stellenbosch certificate in mindfulness. She is undertaking her PhD, exploring applications of mindfulness in the corporate context.

Hanna H. Lee is the assistant director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Villanova University. In this role, she advises students and develops programming around nationally competitive scholarships and undergraduate research to help students reach their full intellectual, professional, and personal potential. In addition to fellowships advising and academic programming at Villanova University, she teaches in the Intergroup Relations Program, Global Learning Communities, Service Learning Communities, and Honors Program.

Lena Lid-Falkman, PhD, focuses on value-based, authentic leadership and on leadership as communicative and rhetorical. Her PhD thesis was elected the best in business administration in Europe 2010 by the European Doctoral Programme Association in Management and Business Administration network and was in the top three in the Jablin Dissertation Award for Leadership Studies. Her recent research deals with authentic leadership as communicated through technology such as social media. She is a Marie Curie Scholar at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

Guy Nasmyth, MA, is a consultant, trainer, and educator working in the areas of leadership and human systems. He is also associate faculty at Royal Roads University and the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His research and PhD studies have focused on collaboration and leadership as a shared or distributed phenomenon. He has worked in a variety of locations, including Cambodia, Thailand, and India.

Hellicy C. Ngambi is the vice chancellor at Mulungushi University in Zambia. She has over thirty years of management and teaching experience in higher education in Africa and overseas, including executive director, CEO, executive dean, principal, and managing director. She holds the following qualifications: DBL, MSc, MBA, BA, ITP, ACE fellowship, and Prosci certified. She has authored, edited, and published several articles and books, including RARE Total Leadership: Leading with Head, Heart and Hands.

M. Beth Page, author, educator, speaker, consultant, and Dream Catcher Consulting founder, helps people explore and act on their leadership vision. Her recent works include Change Happens, Done Deal: Your Guide to Merger and Acquisition Integration, and a chapter in the best-selling Awakening the Workplace. She holds degrees from Pepperdine University, Western Illinois University, and Carleton University. A certified Emotional Intelligence Coach (EQ in Action), she is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Victoria.

Deana M. Raffo, EdD, serves as assistant professor of management at Middle Tennessee State University, where she coordinates the leadership studies minor. She has had rich professional experiences involving student services, student affairs, and leadership education. Her research interests include leadership and personal development, leadership education, and the introverted qualities in leadership.

Jonathan Reams, PhD, practices the cultivation of leadership through awareness based consulting and leadership development program design and delivery in a variety of settings. He has a position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, serves as editor in chief of Integral Review, and is a cofounder of the Center for Transformative Leadership. He brings awareness based technology to focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges.

Juliane Reams, MA, began her career in the fashion design industry, turned to tourism and adventure sports, elementary and primary school pedagogy, and earned a master’s...