ILA’s Board of Directors

Mike Hardy

ILA Board Chair
 
Founding Director, Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK

Cynthia Cherrey

ILA President & CEO*, USA

Janis Bragan Balda​

ILA Vice Chair

Senior Lecturer—International Business, Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

Joanne Barnes

Chair, Membership Committee
 
Dean of the Graduate School, Indiana Wesleyan University, USA

Michael Chikeleze​

Richard C. and Francelia A. Gozon University Professor, Values-Based Leadership, Valparaiso University, USA

Tasha Coppett

Assistant Director of Off-Campus and Graduate Housing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Sean Creighton

Chair, Board Development Committee
 
President, The New American Colleges and Universities (NACU), USA

Amanda Ellis

2021 Global Conference Chair*
 
ASU Global Futures & Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Cheryl Getz

Associate Professor, Department of Leadership Studies, University of San Diego, USA

John Heiser

ILA Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee
 
CEO, LabVantage Solutions, Inc., USA

Mikinari Higano

Professor & Director, Leadership Development Program, Global Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Kathryn Johnson

Co-Founder, Center for Global Services Retired CEO, Health Forum, USA

Angelica Maria Larios Arias

CEO & Founder, ALACONTEC, Mexico

Kevin Lowe

Professor in Leadership, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, Business School, The University of Sydney, Australia

Susan Elaine Murphy

ILA Secretary

Professor and Chair in Leadership Development, Organisational Studies, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Raj Narang

Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion Talent Strategy, Fidelity Investments; Doctoral Student, Leadership Studies at Xavier University, USA

Annika Hilding Norberg

Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland

Laura Osteen

Assistant Vice President, Campus Life, Tulane University
USA

Cindy Pace

Vice President Global Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, MetLife, USA

Kara R. Price

Operations Site Head, Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, USA

Gillian Secrett

Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge, UK

Carolyn Stefanco

Chair, Fund Development Committee
 
Retired University President, USA
Founder and CEO, Baret Leadership Consulting

*Ex-Officio (not voting)

Emeriti Board Members

Jean Lipman-Blumen

T. Bradshaw Prof. of Public Policy, The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, USA

Gama Perruci

Dean, McDonough Leadership Center, Marietta College, USA