Experienced Faculty Who Care
Our Graduate School in Leadership & Change Faculty work side-by-side with our students every step through their educational journey. Our faculty are as diverse as our students, from all many different disciplines and diverse backgrounds. The GSLC faculty have primary appointments in either the PhD Program or the MLP, although they engage with GSLC students in both programs in a variety of ways.
Laurien Alexandre, PhD
Provost
Professor and Director
Graduate School of Leadership & Change
Areas of Expertise: Relational practice and relational leadership; Higher Education leadership
Meet Laurien
Carol Baron, PhD
Clinical Professor of Research Methods
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic focus: Adult development and research methods
Meet Carol
Lize Booysen, DBL
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Cross-cultural and cross-national leadership; transformation and diversity management; organizational development
Meet Lize
Philomena Essed, PhD
Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Leadership Studies
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Critical race and gender studies
Meet Philomena
Elizabeth Holloway, PhD ABPP
Professor of Psychology
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Relational practice and relationship leadership; Supervision & mentoring; Narrative methods
Meet Elizabeth
Shana D.L. Hormann, PhD, MSW
Teaching Faculty
Primary designation: Master in Leadership Practice
Academic Focus: Leadership development, facilitation, organizational trauma
Mitch Kusy, PhD
Professor of Organization Learning and Development
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Culture and organizational culture change; multi-level, multi-discipline strategic planning
Meet Mitch
Donna Ladkin, PhD, FRSA
Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic focus: Aesthetic, embodied and ethical aspects of leadership, philosophical approaches to understanding leadership, leading for sustainability, action research and arts-based inquiry methods.
Meet Donna
Beth Mabry, PhD
Professor of Leadership and Change
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Leadership and change, social processes, and research methods
Steve Shaw
Faculty Research Librarian
Graduate School of Leadership & Change
Research interests: Assessment, social epistemology and the history of thought
Meet Steve
Aqeel Tirmizi, PhD
Professor of Leadership, Management and Service
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Responsible leadership; employee and organizational well-being; social innovation; social sector leadership
Meet Aqeel
Lemuel W. Watson, EdD
Senior Scholar Fellow
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Higher education, non-profit leadership, and entrepreneurship, innovation, equity, aspects of race, gender, identity and otherness, and strategic engagement
Meet Lem
Jon Wergin, PhD
Professor of Education Studies, Core Faculty
Primary designation: PhD in Leadership & Change
Academic Focus: Adult learning and development; Leadership & change in higher education; Research design; Practice-based learning and research
Meet Jon
Research Affiliates
The Graduate School also has a wonderful group of Research Affiliates who are available to mentor students in particular research methods. These Affiliates are graduates of the PhD in Leadership and Change Program and have been mentored by our Core Faculty to work with our doctoral students to develop competence in both qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and action research.
