Barrett-Kelly, Susan
Foundations
Susan Barrett Kelly is an independent human resources consultant and coach who partners with people, teams and organizations to go from where they are to where they want to be. With more than 20 years of experience in training, human resources and organization development, she has worked with clients in local, regional and global organizations.... read more
Bausch, John
MSLOC Elective - Transformational Consulting
John Bausch is a consultant at Strategic Talent Solutions, following a 19-year career at Hewitt Associates. At Strategic Talent Solutions, John is working with both leaders and teams to ensure the right people are in the right roles so that business achieves desired results. He also consults with leaders on organizational issues, including... read more
Berger Darlow, Gail
Capstone II
Capstone III
Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
Capstone I
Gail Berger brings academic and professional experience in the areas of organizational behavior, conflict resolution and organizational leadership. After receiving her doctorate in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, she consulted to small firms and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of executive... read more
Blesoff, Dorie
Designing Sustainable Strategic Change
Dorie Ellzey Blesoff runs an independent consulting practice that specializes in leadership development and designing and facilitating sustainable strategic organizational change. Her work includes leading practice areas such as appreciative inquiry, emotional intelligence, scenario planning and other participatory methods for strategic planning... read more
Burokas, Cecilia
Foundations
MSLOC Elective - Transformational Consulting
Cecelia Burokas is an independent consultant whose company, Working with Groups at Work, specializes in strategic planning, change management, coaching, learning and development, and not-for-profit board development. Her clients have included corporate, small business, and not-for-profit organizations. Prior work includes Consulting Practice... read more
Clare, Mark
MSLOC Elective - Cognitive Design
Mark Clare has 20 years of experience in knowledge management, technology and business strategy with leading Fortune 500 companies that include 3M, Allstate and a Silicon Valley start-up. He is also active as an independent researcher, teacher, writer and consultant. Mark is author or co-author of many publications including the book Knowledge... read more
Douthit, Mindy
Capstone II
Capstone I
Capstone III
Mindy Douthit brings both professional and academic expertise in the areas of organizational development and change and social network analysis. She spent several years with Anderson Consulting working in the areas of organization analysis and design, human-computer interaction, and training design and... read more
Finn, Peter
Creating & Sharing Knowledge
Peter Finn is currently the director of learning and development for the Society of Women Engineers, where he oversees leadership and career development education. He has designed and managed a number of projects for a diverse set of organizations including non-profits, associations, educational institutions and corporations. Prior to his... read more
Green, Jennifer
Jennifer Green is artistic director at the nationally acclaimed Piven Theatre Workshop, where she was previously director of educational programming and a senior faculty member for the past 10 years. Jennifer has been actively engaged in the Chicago community as a director and teacher working in arts consulting and curriculum development in... read more
Hollister, Rose
Executing Strategic Change
Coaching for Learning & Performance
As the founder and principal of Hollister Consulting, Inc., Rose Hollister brings 20 years of strategic business experience to her teaching. She is dedicated to partnering with clients in the areas of leadership development, change management, executive coaching and team alignment. Clients include McDonald’s, Jones Lang LaSalle, Edward... read more
Kalata, Erica
Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
Erica Kalata is an independent consultant in the Human Resource Development field with more than 15 years of experience. She was previously a manager with Deloitte Consulting in its Human Capital group specializing in organizational effectiveness and change management. She has extensive experience in evaluation, strategic planning, performance... read more
King, Marsha
Coaching for Learning & Performance
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Capstone I
Marsha King is a human resources consultant specializing in human resource interventions focused on accelerating development and improving performance. She formed Ingenuity Search Partners, LLC to utilize her expertise in assisting clients with upgrading their executive talent and forecasting future talent needs. She has worked with many... read more
King, Stephen
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Capstone I
Assistant Vice President
Learning & Organization Effectiveness
Allstate Insurance
In November 2008, Steve King joined Allstate’s senior human resources team to lead the learning and organization effectiveness function. His responsibilities include enterprise learning, talent and succession management,... read more
Learning & Organization Effectiveness
Allstate Insurance
In November 2008, Steve King joined Allstate’s senior human resources team to lead the learning and organization effectiveness function. His responsibilities include enterprise learning, talent and succession management,... read more
Martin, Michael
MSLOC Elective - Social Network Analysis in Learning & Organizational Change
Michael Martin is a senior consultant in IBM's Software Group, focusing on the client adoption of social software. This practice is responsible for utilizing leading-edge change strategies to support client business transformations and realize the value in the use of IBM's suite of applications that support collaboration and social networking.... read more
Mazloff, Debra
Executing Strategic Change
Debra Mazloff brings both professional and academic expertise in organizational change, communication studies, and organizational strategy and design. Currently Debra is the Assistant Vice President of Change Management at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company where she leads strategic change initiatives transforming the organization from a niche... read more
Merrell, Jeff
Creating & Sharing Knowledge
Independent Study
Practicum
Foundations
Jeff Merrell is Associate Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change (MSLOC) and the Center for Learning & Organizational Change (CLOC). At MSLOC he teaches the program's organizational knowledge management course and is faculty adviser for student Practicum projects. Through the CLOC he manages the development... read more
Micari, Marina
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Marina Micari is an Associate Director at Northwestern's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, working in the areas of undergraduate peer learning, faculty development, and educational program evaluation. Her recent projects address the student experience in small-group learning environments, student approaches to learning, and... read more
Mitchell, Cassandra
Coaching for Learning & Performance
Cassandra Mitchell, executive coach and organizational consultant, develops great leaders and teams. She has more than twenty years of experience in helping clients achieve their business goals by delivering a range of services from one-to-one leadership coaching to large-scale organizational design.
Cassandra has provided coaching, needs... read more
Nicholas, Tracy
Practicum
As Vice President for Alter Construction Management, Tracy Nicholas provides client services including strategic planning, transition management, owner's representative and project management, focusing primarily on non-profit capital improvement programs.
Nicholas facilitates planning sessions to ensure successful relationships... read more
Nicholas facilitates planning sessions to ensure successful relationships... read more
O'Connor, Kathleen
Foundations
Kathleen O’Connor is an independent consultant specializing in the identification and development of leadership talent. She has more than 15 years' experience in corporate education and organizational change as an external consultant and previously as an internal consultant at Hewitt and Motorola.
O'Connor has personally... read more
O'Connor has personally... read more
Olson, Aaron
Leading with Strategic Thinking
As Chief Learning Officer, Aaron Olson is responsible for talent management and talent development at Aon Hewitt, one of the world's leading HR consulting and outsourcing firms. His team manages executive development, technical learning, performance management and succession planning for Aon Hewitt’s 29,000 colleagues around the world.... read more
Olson, Jeanne
Designing Sustainable Strategic Change
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Jeanne Marie Olson is an independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the fields of human factors, learning and cognition, user experience/participatory design, instructional methodologies, organizational strategy, and knowledge management. She is most interested in the intersection of design thinking, learning theory and strategies,... read more
Ovaice, Ghazala
Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
Ghazala Ovaice, Ph.D., Director of Global Organization Development (OD) at Abbott where she
leads the OD center of excellence by providing consulting for strategic performance needs with specific
concentration in culture change, change management, M&A, employee engagement, organization design,
and organization research. Her research... read more
Ruda Seiden, Vanessa
Capstone III
Vanessa Ruda Seiden is a Partner with Ruda Cohen & Associates, specialists in management and leadership development. Her client base covers a variety of industries; both small firms and fortune 500 companies. Her area of expertise includes executive selection and promotion, executive coaching and development, and team-building. Dr. Ruda... read more
Schnieders, Robert
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Rob Schnieders is Chief Learning Officer at Deltak, a company that partners with universities nationally to help them develop fully online degree programs. Rob leads the academic services team, which works with faculty to design, develop and measure the effectiveness of online courses. Prior to joining Deltak, Rob was the director of national... read more
Schwan, Sandra
Executing Strategic Change
Sandy Schwan is the managing partner of Evolving Strategies LLC, a consulting firm helping companies and people learn, adapt and perform. Clients include Northern Trust Corporation, United Airlines, Thomson Reuters, the United States federal government, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Accenture and Zebra Technologies. Prior to founding Evolving... read more
Scott, Kimberly
Capstone III
Independent Study
Foundations
Capstone II
Capstone I
Kimberly Scott is Assistant Professor within the School of Education and Social Policy, and Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change and the Center for Learning & Organizational Change. She has worked with a variety of organizations and Fortune 500 companies for over fifteen years in consulting and management... read more
Simerson, B.K.
Leading with Strategic Thinking
B. Keith Simerson has provided consultation to professional services firms and to clients in the financial, consulting, health care, architecture, and engineering professions and automotive, industrial supplies, paper, rubber, heavy machinery, petrochemical, hospitality, food processing, business-to-business merchandising, and electronics... read more
Smerek, Ryan
Foundations
Accelerating Learning & Performance
Ryan Smerek is a lecturer in MSLOC and an interdisciplinary scholar who studies organizations and leadership. He has published papers on job satisfaction, the cultural complexity of universities, open book finance, and the link between culture and financial performance. His dissertation, titled Sensemaking and Sensegiving: Leadership... read more
Sullivan, Margaret
Creating & Sharing Knowledge
Margaret Sullivan is the director of recruiting and staff development at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. She has 20+ years in designing, program managing and delivering large-scale initiatives in the areas of organizational development, knowledge management and technology innovation. Prior to her current role, she was an associate partner... read more