LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ACADEMY

Rian Satterwhite, M.Ed., (he/him) serves as Director of the Office of Service Learning and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; the office has recently doubled in size and includes leadership development, community engagement and volunteerism, service-learning across the university curriculum, scholar programs supporting more than 150 students from historically underserved populations, and support for students experiencing food and housing insecurity. He has served as Chair of Leadership Education and Co-convener of the Sustainability Leadership Member Community within the International Leadership Association, and has secured more than $750,000 in grants and gifts in the last two years. Rian co-edited Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2018), was a lead author for one of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025 priority areas (Journal of Leadership Studies, 2020), and has contributed to many other projects such as Leadership for Environmental Sustainability (Routledge, 2010), Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook (SAGE, 2012), Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging Trends (Emerald, 2015), and Navigating Complexities in Leadership: Moving Towards Critical Hope (Information Age Publishing, 2022). Rian also teaches for Claremont Lincoln University in the M.A. Organizational Leadership and M.A. Sustainability Leadership programs.

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., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the Monash Business School, Australia and a current Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago Business School. 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 leadership research has appeared in leading international outlets such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.

Sadhana Warty Hall, MPH, MA., is the current Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, Sadhana Hall manages overall operations. She conceptualized the curricula of high-impact co-curricular leadership and mentoring programs and now oversees them. Hall’s commitment as both a teacher and practitioner of leadership reflects a deep dedication to justice and empowerment, both locally and globally. She has applied her experience in management and strategic thinking to community development at institutions ranging in location from New Hampshire and Vermont to Tuvalu, Armenia, and Bhutan. In recognition of her work, Sadhana received Dartmouth College’s Sheila Culbert Distinguished Employee Service Award, the Australia Government’s Endeavor Executive Leadership Award to adapt and implement leadership curricula for Australian Indigenous communities, and acceptance into the Fulbright Specialist Program. She is the co-author of Teaching Leadership: Bridging Theory and Practice (2018) and her second book, Leadership Blueprints: Adopt, Adapt, and Adjust was published in July 2021. Hall earned an M.A. in history from the University of Rajasthan, India and completed an M.P.H. in public health from the University of North Carolina in the United States.

Dan Jenkins, Ph.D., is Chair and Associate 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.

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. John currently works at UC San Diego as the Assistant Director for Student Governments, Auxiliaries and Services. He is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at the University of San Diego in the department of leadership studies teaching. He is an On-Call facilitator with the Center for Creative Leadership and Leadership Coach with ExecOnline in addition to being the Principal of his own coaching and consulting practice, John Weng Consulting. 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 a co-editor and contributing author of the special issue Leadership Education through Complex Transitions 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’s of Science in Organizational Leadership. At Barry, Dr. Wildermuth teaches organizational leadership, leading change, and human resource development courses at 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 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.