External & Internal Stakeholders

External & Internal Stakeholders conducted Content Validation of UW-Madison Leadership Framework

There were many important roles that contributed to the success of the content validation effort across both stages.  Those roles and those that shared in the leadership of are highlighted below.  The titles and information included were collected at the time of their participation. 

Stage 1

Dr. Beth Hoag has served as an Associate Director of the Illinois Leadership Center and the Chair of Illinois Student Assessment Committee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  As Associate Director she has coordinated academic partnerships and oversaw research and assessment efforts.  Dr. Hoag has over 15 years of experience in student affairs focusing on student involvement, leadership, student employment, assessment, evaluation, and collaboration between student affairs and academic affairs.  Dr. Hoag has served as the Chair of the Illinois Student Affairs Assessment committee and has been an active member in the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA). 

Dr. Jerlando Jackson has served as the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education & Director and Chief Research Scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has managed the Innovation Incubator (I2), National Study of Intercollegiate Athletics and the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education which fostered two new university start-up enterprises: Compete Brands LLC and Beyond the Game™ Solutions LLC.  Dr. Jackson served as founding Executive Director of the Center for African American Research and Policy, a nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit research organization. His central research interests have included organizational science in higher education, with a special interest in hiring practices, career mobility, workforce diversity, and workplace discrimination. His research has focused on interventions to broaden participation for underrepresented groups in the scientific workforce. Dr. Jackson is credited with over 100 publications and has delivered over 200 research papers and keynote addresses globally.  

Dr. Susan Komives has served as a Professor Emerita in the Student Affairs Graduate Program at the University of Maryland. She served as past presidents of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education and of the American College Personnel Association. 

She co-authored or co-edited a dozen books and has given over 500 keynote speeches. She served on teams that wrote Learning Reconsidered or developed the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. She is the founding editor of the New Directions for Student Leadership series, founding co-Principal Investigator of the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, and been a PI for the Leadership Identity Development project. She is a founder of the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs.  She has served as chair/senior scholar with the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and been a board member of the International Leadership Association. She has consulted in leadership or student affairs internationally. Dr. Komives has received many awards for teaching, research and scholarship. 

Stage 2

Dr. Enrique Alemán, Jr. has served as the Lillian Radford Endowed Professor of Education, Director of the Tomorrow’s Leaders Program, and the Director of the Center for Educational Leadership at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His research agenda has included studying the impact of educational policies on Latina/o and Chicana/o students and communities, the utilization of Critical Race Theories in educational research, and the application of community-based research methods for educational empowerment. Published in Harvard Educational Review, Race Ethnicity and Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Equity, Excellence and Education. Dr. Alemán has previous faculty and leadership appointments at both the University of Texas at San Antonio (2015-2020) and the University of Utah (2004-2015). In 2013, Dr. Alemán executive produced and co-wrote Stolen Education, a documentary about a federal desegregation court case from the 1950s, Hernandez et al. v. Driscoll Consolidated School District (1957).  

Steadman Harrison III has served as the CEO and Innovation Catalyst of GoInnovation. He spent twenty-two years with the Center for Creative Leadership, opening their EMEA office in Addis Ababa and pioneering Leadership Beyond Boundaries, a movement that brought leadership development to 500,000 people across Africa over 5 years.  Harrison continued to serve as a senior associate with CCL. He is passionate about facilitating dialogue-driven learning experiences capable of transforming individuals, groups, organizations, and whole societies. In his roles with GoInnovation, the work has focused on implement scalable human development partnerships, equipping leaders to multiply their leadership capacity and solve the world’s toughest challenges through coaching, consulting, custom face-to-face experiences, assessments, and training of trainers. GoInnovation efforts have been committed to the process of democratizing leader development making the very best solutions affordable, accessible, and scalable.

Deborah Meehan is a Founder and Former Executive Director and has served as a Senior Consultant for the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) a learning network of over 8,000 people who run, fund and study leadership development and share a belief that promoting leadership that is inclusive, networked, and collective will help us to make greater progress on social justice issues. Meehan has over 25 years of experience in the leadership development field. She was a Kellogg National Leadership fellow, a Salzburg Fellow and member of the Global Youth Leadership faculty for Salzburg. Meehan created a consulting services arm of LLC and has conducted scans of the leadership field, used Social Networks Analyses to activate leadership alumni networks, participated in the design of programs, and evaluated national and international leadership programs for numerous foundations. She has authored several publications on Network Leadership and Leadership and Race. 

Dr. Darren E. Pierre is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Pierre’s teaching has focused on college student development, student affairs profession, and leadership. Dr. Pierre has renown as a storyteller, exploring complex topics simply to elevate an organization, institution, and the individuals within them. He has delivered keynote presentations on leadership, diversity, and inclusion, inspiring a shared vision, and developing powerful practices for work and life. Dr. Pierre authored book chapters and journal articles on leadership and identity development and authored the book, The Invitation to Love. Dr. Pierre’s research has been focused on a wide array of topics: college student leadership development, organizational leadership, human development, and critical perspectives in higher education.

Dr. Lorri J. Santamaría (Louisiana Creole Choctaw descent) has served as the Director and Principal Investigator for Healing the Soul –Curando el Alma – Na Sánaeé Inié and Director for Proyecto ACCESO at The Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project. Dr. Santamaría has served as a Professor of Multilingual and Multicultural Education and Educational Leadership in the Schools of Education at California State University, San Marcos, and The University of Auckland in New Zealand. With over 60 scholarly books and publications, her research interests have centered around critical aspects of social justice & equity, Indigeneity, Indigenous healing, and diversity as a resource. She has been focused on international culturally responsive/ sustainable educational leadership, Spiritual Activism and anti-racist research and leadership practices. In 2017 she was granted the Jeffrey V. Bennett Award for Outstanding International Research for the University Council of Educational Administration. 

Stage 1

 Anna Badamo, Center for Leadership & Involvement 

Katherine Charek Briggs, Gender and Sexuality Campus Center 

Nancy Graff-Schultz, UW-Madison Libraries 

Heidi Lang, Program and Leadership Development, Wisconsin Union 

David Mott, School of Pharmacy 

Stage 2

Meaghan Blair, Center for Leadership & Involvement 

Katherine Charek Briggs, Gender & Sexuality Campus Center 

Delaney Egan, International Academic Programs 

Jasmine Enriquez, Center for Leadership & Involvement 

Nancy Graff-Schultz, UW-Madison Libraries 

Jim Gray, HR & Development Office (past) & Past consultant for Initial Leadership Framework 

Sarah Marty, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Wisconsin School of Business  

Stage 1 (Center for Leadership and Involvement students/staff) 

Anna Badamo

Barb Kautz-Wittwer

Donna Freitag (Project Lead) 

So Hee Hyun

Mark Kueppers  

Stage 2 (Center for Leadership and Involvement students/staff & Dr. Sun) 

Meagan Blair

Larry Jolón (Project Lead)

Mark Kueppers  

Lauren Surovi

Dr. Ning Sun (Division of Student Affairs)