Andrew Bennett Adjunct Professorial Lect
Andrew Bennett is a speaker, consultant, coach, magician, university professor, and 2x TEDx presenter specializing in leadership, organizational culture, and personal development.He spent the first te…
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Ilona Birenbaum Adjunct Professorial Lect
Ms. Birenbaum is a leadership and organizational consultant/leadership coach with over 20 years of experience and a diverse organizational development background. She is an adjunct professor and co…
Tracy Burnett Adjunct Professorial Lect
Tracy is a Leadership Coach based in metropolitan Washington, DC. Tracy is passionate about helping leaders discover their path to achieving individual and organizational goals. Tracy is the principal…
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Bryan Champion Adjunct Professor
Dr. Bryan L. Champion is a Professor of Public Sector Leadership at the American University Key Leadership Programs. He has over 37 years of employment with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) …
Clarence Crawford Adjunct Professorial Lect
Clarence Crawford is founder and president of the Teach ‘em to Fish. The God-given value proposition for the ministry is to establish a business incubator that helps deserving people get a fresh st…
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Sandra Donati Adjunct Professorial Lect
Sandra Donati focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, building high-performing teams, federal government workshop facilitation, and strategic planning. She works with senior leaders to …
Thomas Draffen Adjunct Professorial Lect
Tom supports leaders in the development of their strengths and skills to develop a global model of stewardship. Tom is the Vice President of Operations for Objective Area Solutions, LLC, a boutique co…
John Driessnack Adjunct Professorial Lect
Driessnack is a nationally recognized expert in Systems and Portfolio/Program/Project management and controls in the federal government. Professor Driessnack has worked with over five different federa…
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James Eisenmann Adjunct Professorial Lect
Jim Eisenmann is an experienced advocate, leader and educator specializing in advising federal and private sector employees and employers on a variety of complex employment issues including investigat…
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Catherine Fox Adjunct Instructor
Catherine Fox is Founder and Principal of an international consulting and coaching practice CJFox Associates to support organizations and their leaders in implementing change. She is consultant to…
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Edward Girovasi Adjunct Professorial Lect
Ed Girovasi is a Senior Consultant with the Acquisition and Product Support Group of LMI in Tysons, VA. LMI is a not-for-profit strategic consulting firm dedicated to improving the management of go…
Seth Grossman VP, People & External Affairs & Counselor to the President People of External Affairs, Office of
Seth currently serves as the Vice President of People and External Affairs & Counselor to the President of American University and a faculty member in the Department of Public Administration & Policy …
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Jennifer Hart Adjunct Professorial Lect
Jennifer Hart is a corporate communications leader, training facilitator, and ICF-certified coach with a talent for building relationships and aligning expectations among diverse individuals, organiza…
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Angelo Ioffreda Adjunct Professorial Lect
Angelo Ioffreda is the chief engagement officer and founder of io spark communications, a strategic communication and management consultancy based in Arlington, VA, whose purpose is to help individual…
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Susan Jenkins Adjunct Professorial Lect
Susan Jenkins is the Director of the Division of Evidence, Evaluation and Data Policy for the US Department of Health and Human Services. She is also a member of the Federal Interagency Council for Ev…
Kenneth Jones Adjunct Professorial Lect
Ken Jones is a healthcare executive for the US Army. He works full time as a professor at a military medical school where he teaches: statistics, information systems, marketing and strategy. He holds …
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Willard Kayser Adjunct Professorial Lect
Cliff brings 20 years of experience in organization development, leadership coaching, and training. In addition to KEY, he is a faculty member in Ame…
Nancy Kingsbury Adjunct Professor
In October 2000, Dr. Kingsbury assumed the newly created position of Managing Director for Applied Research and Methods at the Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office), wh…
Theodore Kniker Adjunct Professorial Lect
Ted Kniker is an internationally recognized expert and thought leader in organizational performance improvement, with extensive executive leadership roles in the public and commercial sectors. His …
Christopher Koepke Adjunct Professorial Lect
Chris Koepke, Ph.D. is the Director of the Strategic Marketing Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He is responsible for all Medicare and Health Insurance Marketplace communic…
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Patrick Malone Director and Executive in Residence SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Professor Malone is the Director, Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University. He is a frequent guest lecturer on kindness, gratitude, emotional intelligence, compassion, ethics, mindfuln…
Mark Maxin Adjunct Professorial Lect
Mark Maxin has over 30 years’ experience in federal sector employment law, addressing critical issues involving equal employment opportunity, diversity, civil rights, bargaining and grievance right…
Wendy Melillo Farrill Assoc Professor SOC - School of Communication
Wendy Melillo is a full-time professor of Journalism. She teaches in the School of Communication's Journalism division. Her research is focused on how strategic communication influences society and th…
Matt Minahan Adjunct Assoc Prof Public Admin SPA
Matt Minahan, Ed. D., is president of MM & Associates, an international consulting firm specializing in strategy, structure, leadership development, and communications.
Matt's clients are in …
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Sasha O'Connell Executive in Residence & Director, THSP MS Program SPA - Justice, Law and Criminology
Sasha Cohen O’Connell, PhD is an Executive in Residence in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology, School of Public Affairs (SPA), American University where she currently teaches cyber policy at…
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Meredith Persily Lamel Adjunct Instructor SPA - Key Leadership Program
Meredith Persily is CEO and founder of executive-coaching firm Aspire@Work, a consultant and facilitator, and adjunct professor/lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Americ…
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Andrew Rahaman Adjunct Professorial Lect SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Dr. Rahaman has over 25 years working nationally and internationally in diverse leadership positions building teams to design and implement both technical projects and overseeing geographically dis…
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Roger Schwarz Adjunct Professor
Roger Schwarz, Adjunct Professor Roger Schwarz has been teaching leaders and consulting to organizations since 1980. His area of expertise is leadership and teams. His writing, speaking, and consul…
Carl Shapiro Adjunct Professor
Carl Shapiro has been an economist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for over 25 years. Currently, Dr. Shapiro is the Science Impact Program Coordinator. The Science Impact Program is a focused e…
Gwendolyn Sykes Adjunct Professorial Lect
Gwendolyn Sykes is the United States Secret Service Chief Financial Officer. In this role, she is responsible for the execution, development and stewardship of the Secret Service’s resources and curre…
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Robert Tobias Distinguished Practitioner in Residence SPA - Key Leadership Program
Robert Tobias teaches courses in public sector leadership in the Key Executive Leadership Programs. He also teaches facilitation and team development, conflict management and alternative dispute resol…
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Marlana Valdez Adjunct Assoc Prof WCL-Washington College of Law
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Ruth Wagner Adjunct Professorial Lect SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Dr. Ruth Wagner is a graduate of the AU MSOD program and a very active OD scholar-practitioner. After an early career in software engineering, Ruth led a change management practice of 50 consultants i…
Reginald Wells Executive in Residence SPA - School of Public Affairs
Reginald F. Wells was named Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of Human Resources effective July 15, 2002 after serving short tenures as Deputy Associate Commissi…
Patricia Day Williams Adjunct Professor
Patricia Day Williams transitioned from practicing and teaching family medicine to consulting in organization development (OD) over 25 years ago. She maintains a broad-based OD practice that includes …
Brian Williams Adjunct Professor
Brian Williams, Ed.D. is a senior training specialist and the owner of Awzom Technology & Management. He is an Organizational Development Professional, Executive Coach, Professional Speaker, Author…
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Kevin Zachery Adjunct Professorial Lect
Kevin Zachery was born in Paris, France, and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. He’s been a student of leadership and organizational development since high school, when he was the Commander of his Navel J…
Ruth Zaplin Senior Executive in Residence SPA - Key Leadership Program
Dr. Ruth Zaplin is an Executive-in-Residence, School of Public Affairs, Department of Public Administration & Policy and Director of International Programs, Key Executive Leadership Programs at Americ…