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M. KATHLEEN ARCHAMBEAU

Ms. Archambeau brings over 19 years high tech management experience working for such companies as: Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computers, Amdahl and Sybase. In addition, she has consulted with several pre-IPO Internet Start-ups. She was involved in Proposition 13 restructuring, closing a division and placing over 90% of the employees within 9 months, mergers and acquisitions, repositioning and branding startups

Kathleen holds a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science from San Jose State University. She has taught in the MBA program at Golden Gate University and, for 10 years, at the College of Notre Dame — Belmont, in the Communication Department — CND, The Bella Brigada Writers’ Group, the Glen Park Neighborhood Association, the Sierra Club, SF MOMA and several local charities.

KAREN ARNOLD

Karen Arnold has over twenty years experience in all aspects of Human Resources. She has developed and led an organizational development and training department. Karen also has significant experience in employee relations, compensation and benefits, change management, team building, and strategic planning. Karen was with Blue Shield of California as an Human resources Director for the past fifteen years.

LINDA BABCOCK

Ms. Babcock has over 25 years of experience in the banking and financial industries. In addition, she has years of experience teaching business classes that have focused on interpersonal relations, ethical issues, negotiations and organizational behavior. Ms. Babcock has also published articles and given talks on corporate banking. She earned a B.A. in French and History at Northern Illinois University and a M.A.in Educational Administration at New York University. She has served on boards of environmental conservation and youth organizations. Just prior to joining the adjunct faculty of USF, she and her husband spent a year cruising the waterways of the East Coast and Mexico.

LINDA BEAL-RAY, M.A.

Linda Beal-Ray, has worked for the California State Automobile Association (CSAA) for the past 20 years. She joined the Human Resources division in 1988 as a Training Specialist and has developed and implemented training programs for Customer Service, Management Development and Technical training. Linda has produced many CSAA training videos. Her most recent position was the Sr. Manager of Corporate Education where she managed training operations, e-learning and enterprise-wide training initiates.

Linda was widely involved in the grass-roots stages of CSAA's Diversity effort by serving on the Diversity Taskforce and working with several Affinity Groups. She managed CSAA's on-site English as a Second Language (ESL) Program for five years in conjunction with San Francisco State University's English Fluency Program.

Ms. Ray has a B.A. in Psychology from Holy Names College of Oakland, California; a M.A. in Management from JFK University in Orinda, California and a Certificate in Human Resources from SFSU. Linda has been a guest lecturer for St. Mary's College of Moraga, California since 1999.

Affiliations:

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)
The Society for Insurance Trainers & Educators (SITE)

DAVID BERGEN

David Bergen attended the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. After a brief stint as a professional musician, he earned an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from San Francisco State University. David worked for 21 years at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of management roles in areas as diverse as finance, information technology, distribution, channel marketing, and Internet Marketing (his last position at HP was Director of Worldwide eMarketing).

A constant factor in David's work has been leading organizational change. He re-organized a marketing operations team to effectively manage new distribution channels, led a change management effort to re-orient a traditional Information Technology department to gain competencies in Web technologies, and managed the integration of HP and Compaq Web marketing teams following the merger of these two companies. He has given lectures and held workshops on website globalization and Internet marketing at a number of industry conferences.

Jim Bryan

Dr. Jim Bryan received his doctorate from the University of Southern California and is an alumnus of USF where he received his masters and bachelors. Hr currently is Associate Dean of the College of Extended Learning at San Francisco State University. He specialized in new program development, international education, and alternative education program for adults. He has a strong interest in development self-led organizational teams. In addition, Jim is also an organizational development consultant for public and private organizations specializing in communications, conflict resolution and employee motivation.

ELENA CAPELLA

An expert in healthcare risk management, quality assurance, and case management, Ms. Capella is a Legal Nurse Consultant with Catholic Healthcare West. She has been an Adjunct Faculty member at USF in the HSA and OBL Programs since 1997 as well as an Adjunct Instructor with Samuel Merritt College since 1998 and was on the faculty of the University of Phoenix for five years. She worked for a number of years for Dominican Hospital in various capacities such as Manager of Utilization Review, Director of Patient Administrative Review and Director of Quality Services.

LYN DE L'EAU

Lyn de l'Eau began her career in accounting. Formerly with Price Waterhouse, she is a CPA with 10+ years of both public and private accounting experience.

She left accounting in 1989 and joined choices for Change (CFC), a Santa Rosa nonprofit agency serving families in recovery from addiction. As a trainer/educator at CFC, Lyn helped parents and kids learn new ways of communicating and problem-solving. She spoke to community groups and organizations about the disease of addiction and its at risk factors. She eventually became the agency's Interim Director, and negotiated a merger of the agency with Social Advocates for Youth, where the program still thrives.

In 1993, she graduated from Sonoma State University's Masters in Organization Development program. Since then, she has been helping both groups and individuals to make change to accomplish their goals. She is the immediate past-president of Petaluma Toastmasters; she also just completed a one-year term on the Downtown Petaluma Rotary's board of directors. She has served as adjunct faculty at Santa Rosa JC and Sonoma State.

Currently, Lyn has her own organization development consulting practice. She helps teams in government, private industry, and non-profits to improve work processes, make better decisions, solve problems, and develop better interpersonal communication. She uses her knowledge of groups and group dynamics for team-building, strategic planning, and systems change to maximize human productivity and organizational effectiveness. Her full range of accounting background contributes to a sound business knowledge, understanding or organizational purpose and profitable problem-solving.

LEE EDWARDS

Dr. Edwards has extensive experience in leadership and management; complex organizational change; organizational behavior; strategic management; executive education and development and distance learning. He completed an outstanding military career as a senior officer. Currently he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Program Manager and Adjunct Professor in the Human Resource and Organization Leadership academic programs at Chapman University in Monterey, and has taught for the college of Professional Studies in the OBL, MSOD, MPA and HAS programs since 1987. He spends some of his free time volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Boy Scouts.

SUZANNE GARRETT

Ms. Garrett has over 10 years of teaching experience as an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension and other Bay Area schools. She has taught various project management, research, math, and accounting courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has held the rank of Full Professor of Business Administration as well as Associate Dean and Chair of the Undergraduate Programs at JFK University. Ms. Garrett has also conducted numerous computer workshops and has created and taught online courses. Before teaching, Ms. Garrett was a structural engineer at Dominion Resources, designing and overseeing various design and construction projects as well as writing computer programs and overseeing the time management of her department. Currently, she is a project management consultant and trainer. She is Deputy Vice President of Professional Development and Director of PMP Training for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of PMI; a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has taught PMP review courses for 3 years.

RICK GRIEGO

Rick Griego has been a University of San Francisco Adjunct Faculty member for over 14 years and teaches research and statistics in the Organizational Behavior and Leadership Program. Mr. Griego is currently an Assistant Bureau Chief for the California State Attorney General's Office, Department of Justice (DOJ). He holds a Masters Degree in Criminology and manages the DOJ swing shift and morning shift operations which consists of over 250 personnel, across three bureaus, and several major program areas. These public safety programs include the DOJ Computer Room, Command Center, and fingerprint identification/criminal history programs. In previous assignments Rick was responsible for managing the Statistical Data Center and was responsible for the collection and analysis of crime data for the state publication entitled, "Crime and Delinquency in California " and numerous other research studies, legislatively required reports and statistical publications. He also previously managed the Attorney General's Violent Crime Information Center which included high profile programs such as the Missing and Unidentified Person, Sex Offender Registration Program and Megan's Law, among others. Rick has also participated on numerous state and national committees, task forces on computer technology, crime, and public safety.

Stephen Hally

Stephen Halley has a MBA from Xavier University and an undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco.

Steve Halley started a practice in Organizational Change, Strategic Planning and Marketing Planning as an internal consultant for the For-Profit Hospital Industry in 1985. He got much of his experience turning them around, shutting them down, and/or getting them ready for sale in the 80’s.

Steve evolved his practice into an external consulting business in 1990, specializing in the Organizational and Process Analysis, Marketing/Strategic Planning, Planned Organizational Change, Strategic Workforce Planning, Master Training Plan/Corporate Universities development, and Executive Coaching.

Steve has worked with: American Pacific Mortgage Corporation, California Rural Indian Health Board, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, California Senate Select Committee on Palliative Care, Corning, US Forest Service, USCS International, California State Treasure’s Office, California State Department of Personnel Administration, California Franchise Tax Board, California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, Save Mart Supermarkets, California Department of Health, California Department of Social Services, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Episcopal Church San Joaquin Diocesan Council, and the NOAH Healthcare corporation.

LAURA HARRISON

Dr. Laura Harrison has worked extensively in higher education administration contexts, particularly in the areas of needs assessment, program evaluation, and student development. She is currently an Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Women’s Community Center at Stanford University, where she also teaches a course on gender and leadership.

Dr. Harrison earned her Ed.D. in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco, where she won the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for the quality of her dissertation, Advocacy and Agency in Student Affairs. In this research, Dr. Harrison studied how middle managers working in institutions of higher education made decisions in cases where they experienced role conflict between serving as student advocates and agents of the university. Leadership for social change, conflict resolution, and participatory research methodologies continue to be Dr. Harrison’s primary scholarly interests.

Monika Hudson

Dr. Monika Hudson is a public administration professional with twenty-nine years of experience and the Managing Principal of the MGT Group. Until 2007, she directed the Renaissance /Bayview Business Resource Center, a micro-enterprise technical support program located in the Bayview/Hunters Point section of San Francisco, which helps emerging and existing businesses grow and thrive.

Over the last seventeen years, Dr. Hudson has focused on general administration, policy analysis, economic development and strategic planning projects including providing business education training for Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and other micro-enterprise organizations. A trained mediator and facilitator, she has facilitated strategic planning sessions for the State of California’s Department of Health Services; conducted strategic planning training for numerous public and not-for-profit agencies; and developed financial feasibility analyses/business plans for the creation of non-profit associated, for-profit ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Hudson has served as City Manager of the City of Palo Alto, Interim City Manager for the Town of Colma and Assistant City Administer for the City of Millbrae, California. Dr. Hudson has also worked in the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oxnard, California in a variety of senior management and policy analyst positions.

Dr. Hudson received her undergraduate degrees in communications studies and political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; completed her graduate work in public administration a California State University—Northridge; and received her masters in business administration from University of San Francisco. She is a Mandel Fellow and recently received her doctorate in management from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.

STEPHANIE KIPPERMAN

Ms. Kipperman is a clinician, educator and manager with over twenty years of experience in social services. Stephanie works with individuals and groups to help them to improve interpersonal skills, develop new competencies, and achieve desired outcomes. Ms. Kipperman has written curricula for courses in family life education, citizenship and English-as-a-Second-Language. She has published articles on volunteer management and has provided training and consultation in areas such as confidentiality, liability issues, effective meeting management, customer service, and motivating and retaining volunteers.

DENA LASH

Ms. Lash is the manager of Sonoma County Job Link, a One-Stop Career Center serving employers and job seekers. At the center Ms. Lash is responsible for the coordination of One-Stop operations and activities including training, program development, public relations and marketing of the center. Given her interest in public and community relations, she hosted a local T. V. show for several years. Ms. Lash is also a private consultant providing training for businesses in the areas of strategic marketing, team development, values clarification, train the trainer and coaching methods for supervisors. Before moving to Sonoma County, Ms. Lash resided in Southern California where she was an Account Executive with General Telephone and an Adult Education Instructor for Los Angeles Unified Schools. She holds a B.A. from California State University Northridge, an M.A. From University of San Francisco and extensive course work in Organizational Development, Training and Career Development. Ms. Lash maintains a passion for teaching, which is exhibited in her classroom vitality.

PETER BROWNE LIEBOWITZ

Mr. Liebowitz was raised in Woodside, California and started a hay brokerage business at 13 years of age with his best friend and ran it successfully until they were 19. He received a B.S. from Cal State University, Hayward and an M.B.A. from Haas School at Berkeley, and has completed various Executive Potential Development and Global Business Management post-MBA courses at Harvard and other venues.

Since joining IBM as a Marketing Trainee in 1973 he has worked for various companies with extensive work in international business. He has worked in Washington D.C., Latin America and the Far East. Mr. LIebowitz has served on several company Boards, spends 25% of his time working with non-profit organizations and is fascinated by the requirements for and the dynamics of change in the American and Global business environments.

CURT MANDELL

Curt Mandell has earned a reputation as a leader, change catalyst, and teacher in his twenty plus years of business experience. He has managed a number of functions including IT, Marketing, Service Quality and Strategic Planning. Most recently he was the Director, Planning & Performance Improvement for the California State Automobile Association. Curt earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Masters in Management from John F. Kennedy University. His consulting practice focuses on partnering with clients to conduct organizational assessments, and identify sustainable issues to core issues. The resulting initiatives are managed in a manner that fosters ownership and commitment from those impacted. Curt enjoys the complexity of changing an organization's culture to improve performance and build an adaptive capacity. He has a firm understanding and experience in the relationships among people, technology, and work processes that make up organizational systems.

LAUREL MARCH

Laurel March is an independent consultant who specializes in nonprofit leadership coaching and development, conflict intervention, and team effectiveness. Her consulting practice focuses on organizational learning and communication to reduce the human barriers to productive interactions and goal achievement. She works with individuals, teams, or organizations in values clarification, development of shared visions, relationship building, and strategic planning. Laurel uses her background in management to help organizations identify blocks to success and to anticipate and respond to change. She is a certified mediator and mediation trainer. She earned a master's degree in management and bachelor's degree in psychology. Prior to becoming a consultant, Laurel spent 20 years in management, 15 of which were in health care.

BRAD MORRISON

Brad Morrison has been teaching at the USF College of Professional Studies since 1998. His current interests are in the areas of inter-organizational relations, collaboration and large-system change movements. His passion for teaching and adult education extends back to his early student-vocational experiences and later memories as a working adult with a family pursuing graduate education.
Brad is an organization development consultant with extensive professional experience in the areas of change management, strategic planning, group development and effective communication. Prior to establishing his consulting company in 1994, he worked in management and service positions for over fifteen years.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology /Organization Development from Sonoma State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of San Francisco.

KIM MYERS

Dr. Kim Myers has been a faculty member in CPS since 1994, and has taught courses in the former MSOD program, as well as in the MPA and OBL programs in a variety of areas. He has over 25 years experience as a practitioner, consultant, manager and executive in both public and private sector human resource and organizational development positions. Dr. Myers is the Vice President of Human Resources and Employee Relations at San Joaquin Delta Community College District in Stockton, CA. He has a Doctor of Education degree in Organization and Leadership from USF, a Master’s degree in Human Resources from Golden Gate University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UC Davis. Dr. Myers also has lifetime accreditation as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Human Resources Certification Institute.

KATHLEEN NAKFOOR

Dr. Kathleen Nakfoor received her Doctor of Education in Organization and Leadership at the University of San Francisco (USF). Dr. Nakfoor is Adjunct Faculty at USF in the Master of Public Administration/Health Service Administration and Organizational Behavior and Leadership Programs. Kate holds a Master of Business Administration Degree and Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing.

Dr. Nakfoor brings to the University a dynamic blend of theoretical and actual experience in the fields of business, education and healthcare. Dr. Nakfoor has spent most of her 30-year career in the healthcare industry in nursing, information technology, as a business owner, educator and consultant. Dr. Nakfoor has done extensive research and published on the U.S. healthcare delivery system and managed care.

Dr. Nakfoor is President and CEO of Nak IV Health, a healthcare consulting firm. She is a consultant to healthcare entities in such areas as organizational development, process improvement and managed care.

JEFF NEWCOMB

Jeff Newcomb is the principal of Red Widget Strategies, a leadership development and training venture based in Walnut Creek. He consults and facilitates in project planning, market strategy and organizational change. In addition to his teaching in the Organizational Behavior and Leadership program with USF’s College of Professional Studies, Jeff is a lecturer in the graduate business programs at California State University Hayward, and serves as chair of the Civic Arts Education Council for the City of Walnut Creek. Previously, Jeff was chair of the MBA Program at John F. Kennedy University and co-founder of its Center for Entrepreneurship. As vice president and senior consultant with the Tom Peters Group, Jeff designed and delivered training and development programs for corporate clients in the US and Europe. He co-founded Excel/Media, Inc., a producer of award-winning training packages for executive development, and expanded international film and video projects while with WGBH Public Television in Boston. He holds the AB, Colgate University and MBA, State University of New York Binghamton.

MARTHA BRYNNE SALY, MHROD

Martha Saly is organization development consultant specializing in facilitation of health-focused collaborative groups. She works with public and private organizations, including state and local governments, community groups and nonprofit organizations. Martha enjoys building community partnerships through the development of common goals and that focus on positive, measurable results. She is experienced in project management, strategic planning and policy development, and recently completed a two-year project focusing on quality improvement for hepatitis C prevention, education and care in nine California counties.

Martha holds a Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. in Management from Saint Mary's College of California. She taught in the School of Extended Education at Saint Mary's for five years before joining the adjunct faculty at USF in 2005.

Martha lives in Rohnert Park with her husband David and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Driver. She is the chair of the Sonoma County Hepatitis C Task Force and serves on the Board of Directors of Education for Healthy Choices, a Sacramento-based nonprofit organization.

LINDA E. SAULSBY

Linda Saulsby is currently an adjunct associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. Prior to joining the faculty, she held the position of Regional Director of Corporate and Community Relations for the Saint Mary's College School of Extended Education. She is also a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Previous to making a career change to the world of academia, Professor Saulsby worked over twenty years in executive operations, organization development, training and human resources. Her last corporate position was Senior Vice President of Operations at GE Capital (General Electric Company).

Ms. Saulsby holds a B.S. from the University of the State of New York and an M.A. from Saint Mary's College of California. She was selected for the Yale Summer Writing Program in 1993, where her long-held desire to write was nurtured. She has published a number of essays and articles for educational periodicals and is currently completing a novel manuscript.

Ms. Saulsby has served on the board of directors of several non-profit organizations in the Bay Area, as well as in Arizona and Washington D.C.

CAROLYN SHAW

Carolyn C. Shaw has been a Training & Development Specialist for eight years in a corporate environment. She has taught project management classes and consulted for local government and financial service groups. She has been a project manager for research and development as well as construction projects.

LARRY SILVERMAN

Larry is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, College of Professional Studies. He teaches within the department ofOrganizational Behavior and Leadership where he specializes in courses in leadership and planned change. In addition, Larry is the president of People First, a consulting firm specializing in performance learning systems, change management, and organizational development.

Before starting People First in 1997, Larry had a career of nearly three decades with both Federal Express and Continental Airlines where he served as Director of Training in addition to holding managerial positions in both sales and marketing. He has lectured extensively throughout the United Sates, South Pacific, and Asia on the subjects of leadership, managing change, and the people side of business.

Larry obtained his masters degree in Organizational Development at the University of San Francisco, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California where he majored in business.

TODD SLINGSBY

Todd Slingsby is currently the Director of Organization Development for The Clorox Company. In this role, Todd is the strategic driver of organization development and effectiveness of the Clorox Organization worldwide. His team is responsible for developing and implementing function-wide strategies organizational design, organization effectiveness, and organizational capability at the team, functional, division and organization levels. A major arena of work includes building a culture of change capacity and capability. In addition, Todd designs and teaches several courses at the Clorox Diamond Leadership Institute, and is an internal consultant to a variety of cross-functional business and corporate organizational initiatives.

Prior to serving four years as a United States Marine Officer in the mid ‘70s, Todd earned a B.S. In Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Todd joined Procter & Gamble as a sales representative in 1978, and in 1981 joined The Clorox Company as a Region Sales Manager where he held increasing positions of responsibility, including Sales Merchandising Manager, Division Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Acquisition Team Functional Leader, and Process Redesign Team Leader. In this role, Todd led the re-design of the trade promotion process that resulted in a significantly improved customer interface and more than $40 million in annual savings.

Todd completed his Master’s degree in MSOD at the University of San Francisco and now lives with Linda, his wife of twenty-seven years, and his children Lauren and Todd Joseph in Alamo, California.

JOAN STROHAUER

Joan Strohauer has over twenty years experience in leadership and management development, performance improvement, and organizational development. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco where she teaches in the Organizational Behavior and Leadership undergraduate program.

Prior to establishing her own consulting business, Ms. Strohauer worked as a Senior Training and Development specialist for Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the US Office of Personnel Management. In these capacities she managed all aspects of the employee and development function, specializing in new program development, needs assessment, and training evaluation.

Ms. Strohauer is responsible for developing and managing a leadership program attended by over 800 employees that was awarded the DLA national Business Reengineering Champion Award. She also co-developed an innovative computerized training needs assessment instrument that assisted business groups identify and assess core competencies and training needs as identified from both the employee and management viewpoint. This tool enabled groups to link occupational training needs to strategic goals. Ms. Strohauer also received a national director’s award for her work in this area.

CHRISTIE J. STRUCKMAN

Ms. Kennedy currently works as an Organizational Development Manager at Intel. In her past ten years at Intel she has worked numerous positions in the Information Technology and Manufacturing groups (technology deployments, technology support, strategic planning and business practice positions) and has been a manager for the past eight years. Research publications and interests are in leadership, management and organizational change. Ms. Kennedy has done management and strategic planning consulting work with various industry and CA government organizations. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. She is also an active member of the Sacramento chapter of the Junior League, a woman’s charity organization.


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