Senior Fellows

Quinn is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company and has been a leading artistic voice in the company since 1995. The New York Times wrote that Pig Iron is “one of the few groups successfully taking theater in new directions.” Quinn has toured around the world with his productions and has taught courses and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.  In 2016 he was named a USA Eisenhower Fellow.  He has also been awarded a Henry Luce Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship (one of 6 awards given out nationally), a USA Knight Fellowship and an Independence Foundation Fellowship.

Quinn regularly teaches leadership sessions for Wharton’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education and for the Wharton MBA Leadership programs.  He and his team are a part of Wharton Executive Education’s flagship program, the Advanced Management Program. His focus as a teacher is on leadership development through work on Leadership Presence, Storytelling, Creativity and Innovation, and Developing and Sustaining High Performing Teams. Past clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, CitiBank, Spotify, Cox Communications, Credit Suisse, US Trust, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Exelis, FINRA, Danisco and ADP, among others.  He has taught theatre courses and workshops at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, UPenn, Stanford, Swarthmore College, UVA, Georgetown, Wesleyan, OSU, and American University, among many others. In February, 2020, he published an essay, “Train of Thought”, in The National, Amtrak’s magazine.  He has been an executive and communication coach for C-suite clients as well as High Potentials from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Gilead Sciences, and Wharton MBA students.

In 2023, Quinn became Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Higher Education, bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world to preserve and transmit ensemble-based theatre in the United States. It resulted in the May 2024 edition of Yale’s Theater magazine devoted to new research springing forth from the Institute, including an article by Quinn. Quinn is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Ecole Jacques Lecoq. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two teenage sons.

Quinn Bauriedel is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company and has been a leading artistic voice in the company since 1995. The New York Times wrote that Pig Iron is “one of the few groups successfully taking theater in new directions.” Quinn has toured around the world with his productions and has taught courses and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.  In 2016 he was named a USA Eisenhower Fellow.  He has also been awarded a Henry Luce Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship (one of 6 awards given out nationally), a USA Knight Fellowship and an Independence Foundation Fellowship.

Quinn regularly teaches leadership sessions for Wharton’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education and for the Wharton MBA Leadership programs.  He and his team are a part of Wharton Executive Education’s flagship program, the Advanced Management Program. His focus as a teacher is on leadership development through work on Leadership Presence, Storytelling, Creativity and Innovation, and Developing and Sustaining High Performing Teams. Past clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, CitiBank, Spotify, Cox Communications, Credit Suisse, US Trust, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Exelis, FINRA, Danisco and ADP, among others.  He has taught theatre courses and workshops at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, UPenn, Stanford, Swarthmore College, UVA, Georgetown, Wesleyan, OSU, and American University, among many others. In February, 2020, he published an essay, “Train of Thought”, in The National, Amtrak’s magazine.  He has been an executive and communication coach for C-suite clients as well as High Potentials from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Gilead Sciences, and Wharton MBA students.

In 2023, Quinn became Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Higher Education, bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world to preserve and transmit ensemble-based theatre in the United States. It resulted in the May 2024 edition of Yale’s Theater magazine devoted to new research springing forth from the Institute, including an article by Quinn. Quinn is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Ecole Jacques Lecoq. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two teenage sons.

Karin is the Head Coach for the Penn Women’s Lacrosse Team. Through 25 seasons as head coach, Karin has established Penn as one of the nation’s elite women’s lacrosse programs. The Quakers have won 12 Ivy League championships over the past 16 seasons and, after making 13 straight trips to the NCAA Championship prior to the pandemic, picked up where they left off with selections in 2023 and 2024. The run since 2007 includes an appearance in the championship game in 2008, two other semifinal appearances (2007, 2009), and three other quarterfinal runs (2010, 2016, 2024) as Corbett’s teams have established themselves as a perennial Ivy League and national power. The pinnacle of Corbett’s tenure was that 2008 season when the Quakers not only were NCAA finalists but also spent a number of weeks ranked No. 1 in the country after defeating Northwestern during the regular season.

Karin was instrumental in developing the Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy in 2017.  Athletics and Wharton developed a partnership and Karin became the Director on the Academy and is a member of the board.  She worked with Wharton in developing a curriculum and build the program which develops athletes into leaders while at Penn and beyond.

Alex is the CEO and Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson. Prior to this he was Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group and a member of the Company’s Executive Committee.

Alex began his Johnson & Johnson career as a sales representative with Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1988. Over the next 15 years, he advanced through positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing and management and, in 2001, was appointed President of Janssen. In 2003, he was promoted to Company Group Chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Alex left Johnson & Johnson in 2004 to serve as the chief operating officer for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. In 2005, he was named head of Pharma North America and Chief Executive Officer for Novartis.

Alex returned to Johnson & Johnson in 2008 as Company Group Chairman and Worldwide Franchise Chairman for Ethicon. At that time, he also was appointed to the Surgical Care Group Operating Committee. In early 2009, he was appointed Worldwide Chairman of the Surgical Care Group and also was appointed to the Johnson & Johnson Executive Committee.

Alex holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and spent six years in the U.S. Army, finishing his military career with the rank of Captain. Alex earned a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.

A longtime advocate of diversity and inclusion, Alex was named the 2009 Mentor of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, an organization he has been involved with for many years. During his tenure with Novartis, he established the Novartis CEO Award for Diversity and Inclusion. Currently, he is the Executive Sponsor of the Johnson & Johnson Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Alex serves on the board of directors of the Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, PA. He and his wife, Pat, have a son, Nicholas.

Todd Henshaw teaches Executive Leadership Programs at Wharton. Prior to coming to Wharton, he was a Professor at Columbia University, and Academy Professor and Director of Leadership Programs at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A key architect of West Point’s Leader Development System, he also served as the inaugural Director of the Eisenhower Leader Development Program, a graduate partnership with Columbia University that prepares Army captains to develop future officers.

At Wharton, Todd teaches leadership and leader development to both executives and MBA students, and consults with organizations desiring improvement in leadership at all levels. He has worked to enhance leadership capacity in numerous global organizations, including General Electric, Glaxo Smith Kline, Coca-Cola, Bao Steel, Kuwait Ministry of Finance, Huawei, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Novartis, Penske, McKinsey, Bain and McKesson and the National Military Academy of Afghanistan. He earned his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin, concentrating in Executive Leadership and Strategy, and a Ph.D. in Business at the University of Kansas, examining leadership development and organizational culture.

Ginny Hutchinson is a Fortune 100, marketing executive recognized for her strategic and innovative approach. She is a leadership consultant, executive coach and principal at Zero Point Partners. Offering programs on leadership and high-performance teams internationally, her practice focuses on helping world-class leaders a make positive impact in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Ginny is a Senior Fellow at the McNulty Center for Leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At Wharton she instructs in Executive Education Programs, in MBA Leadership Ventures and holds Women in Leadership workshops.

Based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she enjoys skiing, cycling, trekking and traveling in remote regions of the world with her husband John and their family.

Martin Ihrig is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is also associate dean and clinical professor at New York University and an adjunct professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As a faculty member at Penn GSE, Dr. Ihrig teaches in the Penn Chief Learning Officer program and the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. Also at Penn GSE, he served as the founding academic director of the nation’s first executive master’s in Education Entrepreneurship program.

As a faculty member at the Wharton School, Dr. Ihrig teaches strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the open enrollment and customized programs at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education. His research and consulting focuses on the strategic and entrepreneurial management of knowledge (SEM-K), and he is the co-founder and former research director of the SEM-K initiative at Wharton’s Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center.

In his position at New York University, Dr. Ihrig runs the Division of Programs in Business at the NYU School of Professional Studies. Dr. Ihrig is also the co-founder and president of I-Space Institute, an applied research and consulting venture that helps organizations create innovation growth opportunities. In addition, he has previously served as a visiting professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. He received his Master of Business Studies from University College Dublin and his doctorate in Business Administration from Technische Universität Berlin.

Rodrigo Jordán is founding director of Vertical in Chile, an organization devoted to using the mountains as classrooms for groups ranging from company mangers to school children. He also directs Fundación Vertical, the non-for-profit arm of Vertical to serve the underprivileged students of the poorest schools in Chile.

Rodrigo is an accomplished mountaineer who has climbed throughout the Andes, summited Mt. Everest by the difficult east face in 1992, and led a Chilean team in 1996 in a successful ascent of K2. In 2002, he led a four-person team in an unsupported 250-mile traverse, much of it unexplored, of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. In 2006, he led a national team of 15 members to the summit of Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest mountain.

He received his doctorate in organizational administration from Oxford University, and he teaches Leadership and Decision Making in the MBA program of the Universidad Católica de Chile. Rodrigo was chosen to be the present chairman of the Chilean National Foundation for the Overcoming of Poverty, the most important NGO dealing with Poverty and Social Development today in Chile.

John is an executive coach, strategic leadership consultant and principal at Zero Point Partners. His expertise is leadership development, teamwork and decision-making for executives in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. His practice focuses on building resilient leaders and high-functioning teams in the private, public and non-profit sectors.

He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School, McNulty Center for Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. In this capacity he develops curriculum, leads Wharton Leadership Venture expeditions and he teaches executive leadership and high-performance teams through Wharton Executive Education.

John and his wife Ginny live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where they enjoy the benefits of mountain air and life. He is an avid skier, cyclist and interested in all things outdoors.

Thabo is the inaugural Managing Director of the Carl H. Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, where she leads research at the intersection of sustainable agriculture, climate, and energy policy. Her work focuses on building a comprehensive research agenda that explores how agriculture can address the challenges posed by climate change and the global energy transition.

Her experience reflects a deep commitment to societal impact. Before joining the Kleinman Center, she served as Managing Director of Penn Praxis, where she oversaw strategic planning, business development, and operations for the applied research center focused on social impact at the University of Pennsylvania. At Gensler, a global design firm, she not only worked as an architect and project manager but also collaborated with the executive team to drive initiatives related to justice, inclusion, and social impact. Notably, she led the establishment of Gensler’s Africa practice and supported CEO Diane Hoskins in her role on the Obama Administration’s Presidential Advisory Council for Doing Business in Africa (PACDBIA). Additionally, she served as the inaugural secretary of the Board for the African Union Pan-African Diaspora Women’s Association from 2017 to 2018.

An entrepreneurial spirit has driven her to found several social ventures, further highlighting her commitment to equitable development. In addition to her professional achievements, she has taught design studios at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland. Thabo serves as Vice-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Placemaking Product Council, and is an Associate Scholar at the Penn Center for Global Health.

Thabo holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded the Africa Regional Scholarship, as well as dual master’s degrees from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

F. William McNabb III is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard. He joined Vanguard in 1986. In 2008, he became chief executive officer; in 2010, he became chairman of the board of directors and the board of trustees. He stepped down as chief executive officer at the end of 2017 and as chairman at the end of 2018. Earlier in his career, he led each of Vanguard’s client-facing business divisions.

Mr. McNabb is active in the investment management industry and served as the chairman of the Investment Company Institute’s board of governors from 2013 to 2016. A board member of UnitedHealth Group and the chairman of Ernst & Young’s Independent Audit Committee, he is also chairman of the board of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, a board member of CECP: The CEO Force for Good, and a board member of the Philadelphia School Partnership.

In addition, Mr. McNabb is the executive in residence at the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at the Le Bow College of Business and a member of the Advisory Board of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. He is a member of the Wharton Leadership Advisory Board of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management and a member of The Wharton School’s Graduate Executive Board. He also serves on the Dartmouth Athletic Advisory Board.

Mr. McNabb earned an A.B. at Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Meredith has served as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 2009, working within the Wharton School, the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), and the Positive Psychology Center. Meredith has won excellence in teaching awards in the Wharton School and SP2’s Nonprofit Leadership Masters Program.

In her research and consulting, she has coached international leaders, executives and board members in non-profits, foundations, and industry on how to forge healthier relationships for more sustainable business results. Key subject areas include: the science of human flourishing, leadership, collaboration, bias in decision-making, emotions at work. She also has helped develop and execute training programs to build problem-solving and collaboration capacity within mission critical teams such as those within the New York Fire Department, Navy Special Warfare and US Army Special Operations Command.

Outside of her university-based roles, Meredith is the Executive Director of Job Crafting LLC, which leverages cutting edge research on the workplace to help people construct their work in ways that promote a greater sense of purpose and engagement while enhancing business results.

Meredith holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania / the Wharton School, in the dual-degree Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business.

Dave Pottruck is the Co-Chairman of HighTower, a $14 billion nationwide wealth management firm. Mr. Pottruck was formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of The Charles Schwab Corporation, where he worked from 1984 until 2004.

In addition to HighTower, Mr. Pottruck serves on the Board of Directors of the Intel Corporation, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation. Mr. Pottruck also serves Senior Advisor to Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, and serves as a Senior Fellow and adjunct faculty in the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. Mr. Pottruck was formerly a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the San Francisco Committee on Jobs.

Mr. Pottruck has received significant recognition by various organizations. He has been named one of the “Top 15 CEOs” by Worth; “CEO of the Year” by Information Week, “Executive of the Year” by The San Francisco Business Times; and “CEO of the Year” by Morningstar. Mr. Pottruck also received the Anti-Defamation League’s 2000 Torch of Liberty Award.

Mr. Pottruck co-authored a “best seller” business book, Clicks and Mortar: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World. He was appointed by Congress and then President Clinton to serve as a commissioner on The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce.

Mr. Pottruck graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, and earned his MBA with honors from Wharton in 1972. A native of New York, Mr. Pottruck and his wife, Emily, reside in San Francisco. He is the father of three adult children.

Megha is a Senior Director in the Employer Mobilization Practice at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit organization that accelerates the alignment and transformation of the American education and workforce systems to drive equitable economic advancement for all. In this role, she drives strategy for and thought leadership on the role that private sector employers and institutions play in creating quality jobs for all. In her prior role as JFF’s Director of Organizational Strategy, she led the enterprise effort to align the organization’s CEO and Executive Team around a guiding North Star, an organizational theory of change, a set of strategic focus areas/priorities, and an emerging impact framework/metrics for JFF’s work in the field.

Megha has over 15 years of experience working in strategy and innovation. She started her career working for the federal government, dabbled in research and analytics at The Brookings Institution, and spent close to a decade working on unique, challenging, and high-visibility consulting engagements at Monitor Deloitte, where she focused on how large-scale disruptive trends impact organizations, communities, and people. She was also a fellow at the World Economic Forum, where she launched a major research initiative and publication at the 50th WEF Annual Meeting in Davos in 2020. Megha is an accomplished researcher, writer, and speaker on what is driving transformation and change in today’s uncertain and rapidly evolving world – and is particularly passionate about helping social impact organizations navigate and weather change and growth in support of their mission and impact goals.

Megha holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MPP from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and dual Bachelors degrees from the University of Maryland. Megha identifies as a first generation South Asian woman and lives in greater Boston with her husband, daughter, and 100-lb Bernedoodle.

Kat divides her time between the custom division of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS Custom Education) as a Senior Expedition Leader, and Leadership at Play, LLC. She has led over 100 wilderness expeditions in N.A., Europe, Argentina, Chile, and Australia, teaching mountaineering, whitewater canoeing and back-country skiing. Highlights include canyoneering with Shuttle Crew STS 122 during 100yr flood conditions and summiting Mt. Burney, in southern Chile for the second time, 30 years after its first ascent.

A few of Kat’s past clients include: NASA, Google, the United Nations Development Programme, the Wharton School, Wharton Exec Ed, the Prevention Management Organization of WY, Teton Science Schools, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Timbuk2, Four Season’s, National Park Service, and Tata Steel.

With a unique talent for inspiring people to be their best and concluding discussions positively, Kat offers insights, builds common understanding and encourages contributions from all team members. A firm believer in learning from practical experience and cultivating robust self-awareness, Kat practices her own lifelong learning with passion and focus. She has a M.A. in Leadership and Training (Royal Roads University), a B.Ed. (Queen’s University), a B.A. (Trent University) and is a certified Integral Master Coach.

Kat is happily married and lives in the Teton with her two dogs, Hank and Luna. She loves soaking in remote hot springs, exploring the backcountry by bike or skis, sketching, cooking and slowing down.

Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D., consults, teaches, researches, and writes in the areas of organizational and individual change, leadership, group effectiveness, and conflict resolution. He is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change, Adjunct Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and of its Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School, President of Shea & Associates, Inc, Senior Consultant at the Center for Applied Research, and a principal in the Coxe Group, an international consulting firm serving the design professions. He served as Academic Director for the Johnson and Johnson/Wharton Program for Health System CEO’s and for fourteen years as Academic Director for the Johnson and Johnson/Wharton Fellows Program for Nurse Executives.  His awards include an Excellence in Teaching Award from Wharton. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.

He has co-authored We Can Fix Healthcare: The Future Is Now (2016), Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work (2013), Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (2009),  American Healthcare & the Consumer Experience (2005), and The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine (1999) and has contributed chapters to the following books: Business Management for the Curious: Why Study Business Management (2015),  Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Action in Health Care (2007), Medicine and Business (2000), Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd edition; 1992), Managing Hospitals (1991), and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management (Volume 5; 1987).  Dr. Shea’s writing has appeared in the Sloan Management Review, Journal of Applied Management, Journal of Applied Behavior Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Management Development, Healthcare Transformation, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Annals of Surgery, Health Management Policy and Innovation, and School Administrator. He serves as Associate Editor of Healthcare Transformation and has also served as contributing editor to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. He is a regular contributor to Wharton’s Sirius Radio channel.

Dr. Shea is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and holds an M.Sc. in Management Studies from the London School of Economics and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale University.  His website is http://gregoryshea.com/

Nadya K. Shmavonian is Director of the Nonprofit Repositioning Fund and a partner at SeaChange Capital Partners. The Repositioning Fund is a Philadelphia-based pooled fund of philanthropic partners that encourages and supports mergers and other types of formal, long-term strategic alliances and restructuring opportunities among nonprofit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia regionSeaChange is a New York-based nonprofit merchant bank whose mission is to enable transactions that increase the impact of nonprofits while offering leveraged opportunities for funders.

In addition to her ongoing management of the Repositioning Fund, Ms. Shmavonian contributes to SeaChange’s national collaboration field-building and advisory services and explores potential opportunities for SeaChange to engage in projects in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Nadya served as president of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) from 2010–2012, where she presided over the responsible dissolution of the organization. Nadya has extensive foundation management experience, having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, and executive vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she also worked as director of administration and as a program officer in health and human services. Ms. Shmavonian serves on the boards of many nonprofits and is an instructor at the School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches graduate seminars on nonprofit governance, and was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2018. Nadya holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. with a concentration in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award from Wharton Women in Business in 2011.

Mark Turner, WG01, is the former Executive Chairman, President, and CEO of WSFS Bank. In addition to his service on our Advisory Board, Mark currently serves on the Board of ChristianaCare, a network of private, non-profit hospitals providing health care services to Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.

Mark was appointed president and CEO of WSFS in April 2007 and served as a member of the executive leadership team for more than two decades. During his time at WSFS, customers repeatedly selected it as the “top workplace” and a “top bank” in Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Vale is currently a Senior Managing Director at Promontory Interfinancial Group working with corporate clients. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor and the Business Liaison for Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign. She was responsible for strategizing, designing, and executing the campaign’s engagement with the business community throughout Massachusetts and nationally.

Previously, Elizabeth served as the Director of the Division of External Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she had primary responsibility for the Bureau’s engagement with Capitol Hill; the media; consumer groups; local, state, and international governments; and the business community. Prior to being named Director of External Affairs, Elizabeth was a Senior Policy Advisor to Elizabeth Warren on the CFPB’s Implementation Team. In this capacity, she served as the liaison to community banks, credit unions, and small businesses.

Elizabeth served previously as the White House Business Liaison and Executive Director of the White House Business Council. She coordinated a consistent White House message to and from the business community across 12 federal agencies.

Prior to her career in public service, Elizabeth was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. She has 22 years of investment experience. Before joining Morgan Stanley, she was a Vice President and portfolio manager at Philadelphia National Bank, now part of Wells Fargo. Earlier in her career, Elizabeth was a Legislative Assistant in economic policy for Senator John Heinz, supporting his work on the Senate Banking and Finance Committees.

Elizabeth received an A.B. cum laude in government from Harvard University and studied at the London School of Economics. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Ilene Wasserman has over 30 years of experience in Organizational Consulting, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Leadership Development, and Executive Coaching. As founder and president of ICW Consulting Group, Ilene helps leaders and teams throughout organizations leverage multiple dimensions of domestic and global diversity by enhancing communication and collaboration. Ilene has served as an executive coach with senior executives and boards of directors of Fortune 100 companies, socially responsible businesses, health care institutions, and institutions of higher education. In addition to consulting and coaching, Ilene has taught courses in leadership, organizational consulting, leading diversity, organizational communication, emotional intelligence and cultural competence, and group dynamics at the graduate level. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership, and a Fellow of both the Taos Institute and The Lewin Center. She also serves on the Boards of the CMM Institute and the Public Dialogue Consortium, and is a Member of NTL.

Joseph Westphal is the former U.S. Ambassador to Saudia Arabia and former Under Secretary of the Army. He has had a distinguished career of service in both academia and government. He served as Chancellor of the University of Maine System and Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. He also served as the Provost, Senior Vice President for Research, and Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School in New York City. Joseph stepped down from this position to serve as a member of President Obama’s Transition Team for Defense matters in December 2008.

He spent his first 12 years in academia as a faculty member of Oklahoma State University, where he was a Professor of Political Science, later becoming head of the Department. During his many years of public service, Joseph has lectured at numerous universities around the world and taught public policy as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University while working in Washington, D.C. In 2001, he served as the Acting Secretary of the Army and earlier he served as the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works from 1998-2001. He has had extensive experience working in the U.S. Congress and other departments within the executive branch. Joseph served as the Senior Policy Advisor for Water Resources at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He also worked in the U.S. Congress in various capacities, including directing a bi-partisan congressional caucus in the House and Senate and as a budget analyst and assistant to the Chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget. Earlier in his career, he worked as a policy advisor to the Secretary in the Department of the Interior.

Joseph received his Bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University, his Master’s degree from the Oklahoma State University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.