Azadeh Davari, Ph.D., is a certified executive leadership coach with over 10 years of experience in developing personal and organizational leadership programs. Her global research has been focused on intercultural understanding and diversity. Azadeh is currently a faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego. She facilitates open enrollment as well as customized leadership solutions focusing on developing self-awareness, leadership and organizational change, human development, group relations, conflict management, and diversity and inclusion. Her diverse background of education and global experience is significant to her style of program design, coaching, and facilitation.

Nathan Eva, Ph.D. (he/his) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the Monash Business School, Kulin Nation, Australia. He was a 2021 Fulbright Scholar. Nathan was awarded the 2016 and 2013 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and nominated for Monash University’s 2017 and 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for his local and international leadership development units. ​​Nathan’s research on servant leadership and leadership development has appeared in leading international outlets such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management. He is a board member of the Network of Leadership Scholars, the Incoming Chair of the Leadership Scholarship division for ILA, a Senior Editor for Management and Organization Review and an editorial board member of The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Group and Organization Management.

Kathy Guthrie, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University where she serves as the director of the Leadership Learning Research Center and coordinates the Undergraduate Certificate in Leadership Studies. Kathy’s research focuses on leadership learning, socially just and culturally relevant leadership education, online teaching and learning, and professional development for student affairs professionals specifically in leadership education. Kathy has authored/co-authored over 90 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited 4 issues in the New Directions series. She co-authored Operationalizing Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning, Engaging in the Leadership Process: Identity, Capacity, and Efficacy of College Students, and The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Leadership. She has been honored as an ACPA Diamond Honoree and NASPA Pillar of the Profession. Guthrie has served on several editorial boards and is currently the editor of the New Directions in Student Leadership series.

Sadhana Warty Hall is dedicated to social justice and empowerment, both locally and globally. Through her work in Asia, Pacific, the former Soviet Union, India, and the US, Hall has learned about the differences between management and leadership and the key competencies required to excel in a workplace—regardless of the field of endeavor. She believes that working within and across cultures requires an understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is interwoven in her presentations and discussions. 

Hall has conceptualized curricula of high-impact co-curricular leadership and mentoring programs in the US and internationally. Over 30 students in her leadership programs received awards, including the Rhodes, Truman, Fulbright, Knight-Hennessey, Schwarzman, and Pickering scholarships, and credited these leadership programs. 

Hall also works with professionals through interactive and reflective workshops on management and leadership topics and has offered them in higher education, public health, and in other organizational contexts with excellent reviews.

In 2015, Hall was the recipient of Dartmouth’s flagship Sheila Culbert Distinguished Employee Award. In 2019, she received Australian Endeavour Executive Leadership Award to work with Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd and will continue working with them through the Fulbright Specialist Program in 2023. For more information, please visit here.

Dan Jenkins, Ph.D., is Professor of Leadership & Organizational Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He received his doctorate in Curriculum & Instruction as well as an M.A. in Political Science from the University of South Florida and a B.S. in Communication Studies from The Florida State University. Dan is a co-author of the book The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning and has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on leadership education.  As an award-winning international speaker and facilitator, Dan has engaged thousands of leadership educators, students, and professionals on topics such as leadership pedagogy, followership, and curriculum and course design. Additionally, Dan is a co-founder of the ILA’s Leadership Education Academy, Vice-Chair of the Collegiate Leadership Competition, Associate Editor of the Journal of Leadership Studies, and co-host of the Leadership Educator Podcast.

Darren Pierre, Ph.D., (he/him) is a lecturer in the Office of Global Engineering Leadership in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland-College Park. Pierre is a thought-leader within higher education, authoring a book, book chapters, journal articles, and presenting at numerous conferences on topics centered on leadership, identity development, and student engagement. In 2020, he led a team in developing one of the nine strategic priorities developed to inform the 2020–2025 National Leadership Education Research Agenda (NLERA). He is co-editor of  the special issue Leadership Education through Complex Transitions in the New Directions for Student Leadership series. Dr. Pierre received his Ph.D. in College Student Affairs Administration from the University of Georgia.

Kerry Priest, Ph.D. (she/her) is a professor and director of graduate studies in the Mary Lynn and Warren Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University. She teaches graduate courses in leadership theory, community engaged scholarship, and qualitative research methods. Kerry is also the director of K-State’s interdisciplinary Leadership Communication Doctoral Program. She is a researcher with the Kansas Leaders Center’s Third Floor Research program. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on advancing leadership learning and development, building civic capacity, and leading change. She is interested in leadership learning and development from critical and complex systems lenses, which includes building the capacity of individuals, groups, and communities to engage in collective, relational, adaptive, and socially just leadership practice. She is co-editor of the book Navigating Complexity in Leadership: Moving Toward Critical Hope (2022, IAP), and is co-editor of the special issues Being and Becoming a Leadership Educator and Leadership Education through Complex Transitions in the New Directions for Student Leadership series. Kerry received the 2018 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Association of Leadership Educators. She is an associate with the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, a certified Analytic-Network Coach, and a member of the International Leadership Association.

Corey Seemiller, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations at Wright State University. In addition to her 35 articles and chapters, Corey is the author of several books including Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Generation Z Goes to College, Generation Z Leads, Generation Z Learns, and The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook. Corey has served as an issue editor for New Directions for Student Leadership, co-chair for the National Leadership Symposium, co-chair for the Leadership Education Academy, board member of Lead365, and Associate Editor for the Journal of Leadership Studies.

John Weng, MA, ICF ACC is a leadership educator, coach, and practitioner. He is the Principal of his own practice, John Weng Consulting LLC and serves as Faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership and a Leadership Coach with Exec Online. He is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at the University of San Diego in the department of leadership studies teaching and department for counseling and marital family therapy. He is credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach, Gallup as a Certified Strengths Coach, and the Myers-Briggs Foundation as a MBTI Master Practitioner. He is certified in a variety of tools such as the Hogan, Actee Change Management and the CCL 360 Assessments. He is a co-editor and contributing author of the special issue Leadership Education through Complex Transitions and upcoming issue on Intentional Emergence in the New Directions for Student Leadership series. His scholarship and practice is informed by his experience with the group relations methodology, as a consultant candidate with the A.K.Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and Co-creator at Group Relations International.

Cris Wildermuth, Ed.D. (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Education and the Director of Barry University’s Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership. At Barry, Dr. Wildermuth teaches organizational leadership, ethics, and human resource development courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Wildermuth has traveled extensively, facilitating leadership development programs in Europe and Latin America. She is the author of the book Diversity Training, published by the Association for Talent Development, and has been published in various academic journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Academic Ethics, the Journal of Leadership Education, and the Journal of Psychological Issues In Organizational Culture. Wildermuth is passionate about the use of pop culture – especially TV shows, movies, and fables – in her graduate and undergraduate courses. Her courses have incorporated materials from classic TV Game Shows, The Hunger Games, the legend of King Arthur, the Food Network “Chopped” competition, and the TV series Game of Thrones. Currently, Dr. Wildermuth is exploring applications of the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale to adaptive and crisis leadership.