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Gerry Goertz
Gerry Goertz has served as the Director of Leadership Asheville since November, 2003. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies where he currently teaches courses in leadership studies.
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Laura Shiver
Laura Shiver is the Youth Leadership Coordinator at UNC Asheville. Her expertise is in the
areas of youth leadership development, youth-adult partnerships, service-learning, and
civic engagement.
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Kelly Pittard
Kelly Pittard is a junior at UNC Asheville majoring in Business Management and Administration and works part-time for Leadership Asheville.
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Faculty
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The following program faculty members have participated in Leadership Asheville sessions within the last three years:
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Leslie Anderson
President of Leslie Anderson Consulting, Inc.
Leslie Anderson Consulting, Inc.
10 Blackwood Road
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 252-4913
Area of Expertise: Public Affairs
Leslie Anderson worked for over twenty years in the nonprofit and public sectors before founding Leslie Anderson Consulting, Inc. She gained extensive experience working collaboratively with people in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors of the community to achieve common goals, including complex community-wide initiatives and private-public partnerships. During her nine years as Asheville's Director of Downtown Development, she enabled over $63 million in private investment in the business district; initiated and coordinated $16 million in streetscape, landscape and public works projects; resolved the downtown parking problem; gave birth to the Asheville Downtown Association; initiated and administered two major, annual festivals and many special events, including Bele Chere; and staffed and coordinated many joint public-private ventures. Ms. Anderson holds a BA and a Master of Public Affairs from Western Carolina University.
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David D. Bailey
CEO
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County
50 South French Broad Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 255-0696
www.unitedwayofabc.org
Area of Expertise: Community volunteerism
David first arrived in Asheville in the spring of 1996 to serve as the Campaign Director of the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County under George Pfeiffer. When George retired in 1999, the board hired David on as the CEO.
Prior to that, he served as the CEO of the United Way of Pitt County in Greenville, NC and the Director of the United Way of Sumner County in Gallatin, TN. His true passion for United Way comes from working with community volunteers in all aspects of the organization and learning about and appreciating the outstanding services that the partner organizations provide.
K. Ray Bailey
President
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
340 Victoria Road
Asheville, NC 28801
828-254-1921
RBailey@abtech.edu
Area of Expertise: Management, administration services, and education
K. Ray Bailey has served as President of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College since 1990. He has been employed at the College for 40 years, previously serving as Vice President for Administrative Services, Business Manager, and Director of Adult Basic Education. He was recognized as the North Carolina Community College President of the Year in November 2005.
Mr. Bailey holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University and Western Carolina University. He is a very active community leader and was the 1998 Leadership Asheville Forum Circle of Excellence Award winner for his community service.
Ron & Karen Ballard
Co-Presidents of Productive Consulting Resources, LLC
14 Cardinal Lane
Candler, NC 28715
(828) 665-7501
rkball@bellsouth.net
Areas of Expertise: Consulting, Leadership, Training
Ron Ballard has strong relationship-building skills and a wide range of cultural and diversity awareness. His passion is in nurturing client relationships and developing strong business teams: hiring, training, and mentoring staff. Five years ago, Mr. Ballard joined his wife Karen in Productive Consulting Resources, LLC specializing in organizational and leadership development for businesses and nonprofits. Karen Ballard has been a corporate trainer for 12 years. She helps individuals and organizations become more effective in serving their clients. Mrs. Ballard has been certified to teach training programs for many different levels of organizations.
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Mayor Terry Bellamy
Mayor,
City of Asheville
PO Box 728
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 259-5600
mayorbellamy@ashevillenc.gov
Area of Expertise: City Government
Terry Bellamy is a native of Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is working on a Masters degree at Western Carolina University. Terry also serves on the Asheville City Council. She was the highest vote getter in 1999 and during her re-election campaign in 2003. On December 6, 2005 Terry Bellamy was inaugurated as the Mayor of Asheville, North Carolina.
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Joseph Berryhill
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
206D Carmichael Hall, CPO# 1960 One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8505
828-251-6832
jberryhill@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Psychology
Joseph Berryhill has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville since 2002. His research covers different themes - but is united by an interest in changing policies, institutions and environments to promote hope for children living with disadvantages such as poverty. His articles have appeared in journals such as Prevention Science and he has an article forthcoming in the American Journal of Community Psychology on community organizing in a neighborhood of African American and Latino residents. Joseph worked as a newspaper reporter for four years, most of it at the Raleigh News and Observer, before tiring of chasing public officials. He then served as a volunteer at an orphanage in Mexico, where he taught English and later led a team caring for 54 third- and fourth-grade boys. It was there he became interested in psychology as a means to promote the welfare of children, leading him to graduate school at the University of South Carolina and then a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University's School of Medicine.
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Dr. Ken Betsalel
Associate Professor
Political Science Department
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
255 University Dinning Hall, CPO #1940
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 232-5041
betsalel@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Political Science and Ethics
Ken Betsalel is currently an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at UNC Asheville. He is a political scientist and award winning documentary photographer. His areas of specialty include the politics of law and culture. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ed Brenegar
President of the Community of Leadership Institute
210 Wood Dale Drive
Hendersonville, NC 28791
(828) 693-0720
ed@edbrenegar.com
Area of Expertise: Leadership, Ministry
Ed Brenegar directs the Institute's Compelling Visions Planning Programs and 21st Century Leadership Excellence program. He focuses on enabling organizations to achieve their potential through programs of leadership excellence and visionary planning. As a graduate of the American Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Brenegar learned to identify the broad themes and connections that affect the lives of people. He received a ministerial degree from Gordon-Conwell Theoogical Seminary in Massachusetts and did his doctoral work in leadership and ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
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Grace Campbell
Lecturer
Humanities Program
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
UNC Asheville, CPO #2840
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 251-6312
gcampbell@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Humanities
Grace Campbell, UNCA faculty member since1996, is recipient of the UNCA Distinguished Teaching Award in Humanities and general editor of The Individual in the Contemporary World (Copley, 2002). She is Coordinator of HUM 414, UNCA’s senior -level capstone Humanities course. Campbell’s teaching vitae includes the four-course sequence of in Humanities plus environmental ethics, business ethics, and ethics, science and technology. She has presented at national conferences on curriculum design and interdisciplinary teaching, supervised undergraduate projects in environmental ethics and lectured in the community on such diverse subjects as Aristotle’s Ethics for Business and Ecofeminism. She has eight years of private sector experience as an environmental consultant—designing beyond-compliance environmental initiatives for large industry clients (Chemical Manufacturer’s Association, American Forest and Paper Products Association) and writing for environment/industry publications such as Total Quality Environmental Management and Pollution Prevention Review. Campbell’s academic research draws from her professional background, informing her analysis of corporate environmental practices. In her teaching, Campbell uses intellectual and creative works in the Humanities to highlight critical linkages between environmental values, corporate behavior and social choice.
Jack Cecil
President & CEO
Biltmore Farms, Inc.
One Town Square Boulevard, Suite 330
Asheville, NC 28803
Area of Expertise: Community Building
Mr. Cecil has served as President and CEO of Biltmore Farms, LLC, since 1992. Established in 1897, Biltmore Farms has focused its efforts of community building, through completing an extensive portfolio of real estate projects from a regional shopping mall, suburban corporate offices, hotels, mixed-use master planned communities, urban villages, medical office buildings and over 500 homes.
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Karen Cragnolin
Executive Director|
RiverLink, Inc.
PO Box 15488
Asheville, NC 28813
(828) 252-8474 ext. 110
karen@riverlink.org
www.riverlink.org
Area of Expertise: Economic and Environmental Revitalization
Mrs. Cragnolin is currently serving as the Executive Director of RiverLink, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation spearheading the economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River as a place where people can work, live and play.
She is currently serving on numerous boards and commissions including: Ex Officio member Greenway Commission, Acquisition chair for Clean Water Management Trust Fund’s Board of Trustees, Buncombe County Environmental Advisory Board and Buncombe County Conservation Board, City of Asheville Watershed Advisory Board and Warren Wilson College’s Board of Visitors.
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Joseph F. Damore, FACHE
President & CEO
Mission Health Hospitals
509 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 213-1144
velinda.fisher@msj.org
Area of Expertise: Healthcare Management
Since December 2004, Mr. Damore has served as the President and CEO of Mission Health and Hospitals, western North Carolina’s largest health system and employer. Mr. Damore was the President and CEO of Sparrow Hospital and Health System in Lansing, Michigan from 1990 to 2004. Prior to this position, he served as Executive Vice President of Mercy Health Services in Farmington Hills, Michigan; Vice President of the Western Reserve Care System in Youngstown, Ohio; and Vice President/Administrator of the Greenville (South Carolina) Hospital System.
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Lon Debman
Diabetes Prevention Project Coordinator
YWCA of Asheville
185 South French Broad Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 254-7206 x. 101
www.ywca.org/asheville
Area of Expertise: Diabetes wellness program activities
Lon is the Diabetes Prevention Project Coordinator at the YWCA of Asheville. The Diabetes Prevention project includes all the diabetes wellness program activities plus a 12-week weight management class. The project targets individuals who are at high risk for developing diabetes and who are interested in exercise as a lifestyle intervention.
Scott Dedman
Executive Director
Mountain Housing Opportunities, Inc.
64 Clingman Avenue, Suite 101
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 254-4030 ext. 24
Fax (828) 254-0120
Scott@mtnhousing.org
Area of Expertise: Affordable Housing
Scott Dedman is Executive Director of Mountain Housing Opportunities, a private, non-profit community development corporation serving Asheville and Buncombe County. He was one of a small group of volunteers who founded MHO in 1988, repairing homes for elderly and disabled homeowners. Since then, the group has grown from a part-time volunteer effort into a full-time program of home repair and rehabilitation, affordable housing development, and neighborhood revitalization. Scott joined the staff of MHO as executive director in 1993.
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Patti Digh
The Circle Project
P.O. Box 18323
Asheville, NC 28814 U.S.A.
Phone: 828-280-5766
patti@thecircleproject.com
www.thecircleproject.com
www.37days.typepad.com
Area of Expertise: Consulting, Writing, Globalization and Diversity
Patti Digh is a business consultant, writer, and trainer with more than 20 years experience in the areas of globalization and diversity. She has developed international divisions and diversity strategies for major nonprofit organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences. A faculty member for the Intercultural Communications Institute, her comments have appeared on PBS, and in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and London Financial Times, among other publications. She has written over 75 published articles on diversity and globalization issues and has lived, worked and traveled over 60 countries.
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Peg Downes
Professor of the Literature and Language Department
Karpen Hall 203, CPO #2130
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 251-6577
downes@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Interdisciplinary Humanities, Medieval British Literature
Dr. Peg Downes is a campus- and statewide teaching award recipient at UNC Asheville. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literature and linguistics. Dr. Downes twice has chaired UNCA's forty-two-year-old core Humanities Program, twice chaired the Dept. of Literature & Language, and has twice served as the university's Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Her Ph.D. is in interdisciplinary humanities with a dissertation on William Blake; she also has extensive graduate studies (A.B.D.) in medieval British literature. Dr. Downes is President of the National Association for General & Liberal Studies, and serves on the national advisory boards of the Association for Core Texts & Courses and ACTC's Liberal Arts Institute at St. Mary's College of California.
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Clifton B. Dodson
Superintendent
Buncombe County Schools
175 Bingham Road
Asheville, NC 28806
Phone: 828-255-5876
Fax: 828-255-5923
cliff.dodson@bcsemail.org
Area of Expertise: Education
Cliff Dodson has attended Pembroke State University, the University of Georgia, and Clemson University where he has earned a B.S. Degree, a Master’s of Education in School Administration, and an Ed. Spec. respectively. He attended the I.B.M. Leadership School in 1985 and Vanderbilt University where he participated in the Advanced Study Program. He is currently working on a Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina.
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Jonathan Flaum
CEO of WriteMind Communications, Inc.
WriteMind Institute for Corporate Contemplation
58 ½ Lexington Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
info@writemindinstitute.com
Phone: 828-253-1733
Fax: 828-225-8127
www.writemindinstitute.com
Area of Expertise: Arts in Philosophy of Religion, Fine Arts in Playwriting
Jonathon Flaum is the author of The 100-Mile Walk and How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim, both published by AMACOM books in 2006. His work has been featured in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily and on 800 CEO READ.
A former playwright and University instructor in philosophy of religion, Jonathon brings a unique perspective to the world of business, drawing on both the contemplative and creative traditions to achieve genuine results with today’s top corporate leaders.
Kevan Frazier
Assoc. VC for Alumni Relations
Department of History
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Office of Alumni and Development
CPO#1800 – UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 251-6512
kfrazier@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: History
Kevan Frazier is a native of Asheville and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in history. Upon graduation, Kevan continued his history studies at Kent State University in Ohio, where he earned his masters degree and West Virginia University, where he earned his doctorate.
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Judy Futch
Leadership and Strategic Planning Consultant
660 Blue Heron Road
Mars Hill, NC 28754
(828) 689-9146
judy@judyfutch.com
Area of Expertise: Consulting, Counseling
Judy Futch serves as a leadership and strategic planning consultant to college and educational institutions, health care, for-profit and nonprofit organizations. She directed the Management Education Program at Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville for five years working with community based health programs and hospitals. As Mental Health Education Director at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, she established the mental health education department and developed a comprehensive information service program and a psychiatric residency rotation at area community mental health programs.
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Jeffrey Green
President and Publisher
Asheville Citizen-Times
P.O. Box 2090
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 232-5933
jgreen@citizen-times.com
Area of Expertise: Media
Jeffrey Green was named President and Publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times in September 2006. He is responsible news and business operations for the daily newspaper, four weekly newspapers, three magazines and www.citizen-times.com, the largest web site in Western North Carolina.
He joined Gannett at the Honolulu Advertiser in Hawaii in June 2004 after a long newspaper and consulting career. At The Advertiser he was responsible for all advertising revenues, marketing and custom publishing ventures. He also managed Pacific Media Publishing, a subsidiary of Gannett Pacific that publishes shoppers, community newspapers and professional directories in Honolulu.
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Wanda Greene
County Manager
Buncombe County Administration
205 College Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 250-4100
wanda.greene@buncombecounty.org
Area of Expertise: Public Administration
Wanda has her Bachelor’s degree in accounting, a Master’s degree in public administration, and her Phd in business administration. She joined Buncombe County in 1994 and became County Manager in July of 1997.
Prior to her return to western North Carolina, she worked in Guilford County and also Ventura County California.
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Harry Harrison
Executive Director
YMI Cultural Center
39 South Market Street
Asheville, NC 28801
828-252-4614
Area of Expertise: African-American History and Public Administration
Harry Harrison serves as executive director for the YMI Cultural Center in Asheville, North Carolina, a position he has held since April 2006. From 2002-2005, Harrison served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Prior to his tenure in Philadelphia he was Vice President for Education and Public Programming and succeeded to Vice President of Museum Operations at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan.
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Haydn and Terry Hasty
President and Vice-President
MindSpring Consulting, Inc.
966 Tunnel Road
Asheville, NC 28805
(828) 298-2488
haydn@helpingyougrow.com
www.helpingyougrow.com
Area of Expertise: Emotional Intelligence
Haydn Hasty is President of MindSpring Consulting. He has a Master's Degree in French, holds an Ed.S. degree in learning and teaching styles, and a Ph.D. in psychology. He is a certified emotional intelligence trainer and a former finalist for North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Haydn serves as a consultant, facilitator, and therapist for groups and individuals across the United States. He is the author of The Fathers of St. A. and Mind, Intention, and Outcomes, an 8 CD series.
Terry Hasty is Vice-President of MindSpring Consulting and holds an M.S. degree in human resource development. She has studied human resource development abroad in London and has facilitated educational workshops in Europe. Terry serves as a consultant, facilitator, and program designer.
The mission of MindSpring Consulting, Inc., is to provide individuals with the skills and motivation needed to better their personal and professional lives through the understanding and mastery of the forces shaping them. They are in the process of building a new facility at 966 Tunnel Road, due to open December 1, 2007, and their web site is: www.helpingyougrow.com.
Bill Hogan
Police Officer
City of Asheville, Police Department
PO Box 7148
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 251-1152
WHogan@ashevillenc.gov
Area of Expertise: Law Enforcement
Bill Hogan was born in Huntington, West Virginia and began his law enforcement career in 1974 with the Huntington Police Department.
While serving with the Huntington Police Department, he completed his Bachelor of Science Degree in Law Enforcement and his Master’s of Arts Degree in Political Science with a concentration in Public Administration at Marshall University. He also graduated from the Southern Police Institute’s Leadership Program at the University of Louisville.
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Richard B. Hurley
Square D/Schneider Electric
Box 3107
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 255-1490
Richard.hurley@us.schneider-electric.com
Area of Expertise: Community Engagement
Richard Hurley is the Human Resources Manager for Square D Company in Asheville, NC. He was recently selected as one of two from across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico as a Special Guest of the President at a company awards event. Furthermore, Richard has served as the President of the Western North Carolina Industrial Human Resources Association and as a Board Member of the Manufacturers’ Executive Association.
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Gary Jackson
City Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the City
City of Asheville
PO Box 7148
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 259-5604
Area of Expertise: Public Administration
Gary Jackson has served as the City Manager Asheville since 2005. As City Manager, Mr. Jackson is the Chief Executive Officer of the City. He is appointed and responsible directly to the City Council for the administration and operation of Asheville. Before joining the City of Asheville, he was a self-employed management consultant in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to that, Jackson served as City Manager in Fort Worth, Texas; Carrollton, Texas; Liberty, Missouri; and Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
Mr. Jackson has a BS in Business from Miami University of Ohio and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Kansas.
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Bruce Larson
Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
Highsmith Union, CPO#1280
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 250-3896
blarson@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Economics
Bruce Larson has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at UNC Asheville since fall 1983, having served eight years as its Chair. He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since fall 2004 Bruce has served as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNC Asheville. Bruce has broad interests. Over his career he has studied and written on: the history of mathematical economics, especially the French tradition; the economics of religion; and the economics of higher education. Most recently, however, his activities have been directed toward developing himself as someone who can "help faculty have extraordinary careers embedded in exceptional lives," and it is in relation to this that he came to discover and appreciate The Learning Paradigm College, by John Tagg, and its powerful message for higher education.
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Shonnie Lavender
Trainer and Author
ShonnieLavender.com
coach@shonnielavender.com
MarriageVowWorkbook.com/blog
(828)778-2871
Area of Expertise: Public Speaking
Shonnie Lavender is a faculty member of the Secretan Center, a global consulting practice specializing in cultural and leadership transformation. Shonnie is a Lead Community Coach for the Higher Ground Leadership Community at Coachville, a coach-training organization.
Don Locke
Director of Diversity & Multicultural Affairs
Office of the Chancellor
252 Phillips Hall, CPO# 1400
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8503
828-251-6822
dlocke@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Dr. Don C. Locke joined UNC Asheville as Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs in July 2005. He holds degrees from Tennessee State University and Ball State University, and pursued post-doctoral work at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Previously, Dr. Locke served as Director of the Asheville Graduate Center and as Director of North Carolina State University's doctoral program in Adult and Community College Education, offered through the Asheville Graduate Center. Immediately prior to joining the Asheville Graduate Center in 1993, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Counselor Education at North Carolina State University. He was named Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor at N.C. State in 2003.
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Richard Lutovsky
President & CEO
Asheville Area of Chamber of Commerce
36 Montford Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 258-6123
rlutovsky@ashevillechamber.org
Area of Expertise: Economic Development
Richard Lutovsky serves as the President and CEO of the Asheville Area of Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he was President of the Binghamton, New York Chamber from 1997-2000 and President of the Metro Decatur Chamber of Commerce from 1978-1996. He was responsible for Trust Department Investments at the Millikin National Bank for one year, and prior to that he was Assistant to the City Manager in Decatur, Illinois, from 1972-1977. Mr. Lutovsky also served in the Adjutant General Corps of the US Army for three years. Mr. Lutovsky’s professional affiliations include the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (past director), and the Carolina’s Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (director).
Mr. Lutovsky serves as a board member of Asheville-Buncombe VISION, the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County, the YMCA of Western North Carolina, the North Carolina Arboretum, WCQS Radio and the Economic Development Coalition of Asheville-Buncombe County.
Mr. Lutovsky received his MA in Economics with an emphasis on Economic Development from North Dakota State University.
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Craig Madison
President & CEO
The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa
290 Macon Avenue
Asheville, NC 28804
Phone: 28-252-2711
Area of Expertise: Hospitality Industry and Management
J. Craig Madison is President and CEO of The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, North Carolina.
Madison is an Asheville native who began his career in the hospitality industry while working summers during high school. He started as a Bellman at the (then) Great Smokies Hilton in Asheville and was promoted to Front Desk Supervisor shortly thereafter.
Following graduation, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying Radio, Television, Motion Pictures and Advertising. Three days before he was to start his senior year, Madison left school, got a Small Business Administration loan and co-founded The Alpha Group, an advertising agency in Asheville. He was President of The Alpha Group from 1978 – 1999.
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Ron Manheimer
Director of the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
NC Center for Creative Retirement
University of North Carolina at Asheville
210 Reuter Center, CPO #5000
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8511
Phone: 828-232-5180
rmanheimer@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Philosophy
Ronald J. Manheimer is executive director of the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR), an award-winning lifelong learning, leadership, research, and community service program of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he also holds an appointment as Research Associate Professor of Philosophy. Before becoming the NCCCR's first director in 1988, Manheimer was director of older adult education for The National Council on the Aging (NCOA) in Washington, D.C. Manheimer is trained in philosophy with a Ph.D. from the Board of Studies in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book, Kierkegaard As Educator (University of California Press, 1977, Korean translation, 2003), explores the Danish philosopher and theologian's stages of human development. Manheimer has taught at Wayne State University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, San Diego State University, The Evergreen State College, UNC-Asheville, and the Smithsonian. He is a Fellow of the University of North Carolina Institute on Aging.
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Mary Lynn Manns
Assistant Professor of Management and Accountancy
210 Owen Hall, CPO# 1850
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8507
(828) 251-6858
manns@unca.edu
Areas of Expertise: Computer Science, Management, Accounting
Dr. Mary Lynn Manns has been a member of the UNC-Asheville faculty since 1981. She was the recipient of the 1995 UNCA Distinguished Teaching Award in the Sciences. Dr. Manns' book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas was featured as the "Best Book of the Year for 2004" in the Journal of Object Technology and made the "Books that Changed My Career" list on amazon.com. Dr. Manns has also published significantly in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has done numerous professional presentations throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. She has also been very involved in undergraduate research. Her courses include Systems and Information Management, Management Science, Foundations of Management, and the Masters of Liberal Arts Program. Research Interests: Object Technology, Systems Development Patterns.
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Leah Greden Mathews
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Economics CPO 2110
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
lmathews@unca.edu
(828)251-6551
Fax (828)251-6572
Area of Expertise: Economics
Dr. Leah Greden Mathews grew up in the small town of Northfield, Minnesota, where the motto is “Cows, Colleges, and Contentment.” The cows and colleges weren’t enough to keep her there past high school, when she enrolled at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to get a taste of city life. She earned degrees in Economics, French, and International Affairs from Marquette in 1991.
Dr. Mathews earned her PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota and started teaching at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1997, though not in that order. At UNCA she teaches principles of microeconomics, land economics, natural resource economics and the senior research seminar.
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Kelly Miller
Senior Vice President & Executive Director
Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau
Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
Physical Address: 36 Montford Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1010, Asheville, NC 28803
828.258.6104
kmiller@exploreasheville.com
www.exploreasheville.com
Area of Expertise: Tourism
Kelly Miller has been the Executive Director of the Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina for seven years. The Asheville CVB has a talented staff of 23 who manage an annual budget of nearly $7 million.
During his tenure, Asheville has experienced tremendous success that includes increasing hotel sales 60 percent since 1999, championing a two-year branding process and creating one of the country’s first tourism product development funds that generates $1.5 million annually for tourism related projects. The Asheville CVB team was awarded the Southeast Tourism Society’s CVB of the Year Shining Example Award twice in the 2000s: 2002 and 2006.
Prior to landing in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Kelly spent nine years in Atlanta, Georgia including six years with the Atlanta CVB team. Duties with the Atlanta bureau included manager of Olympic marketing and director of international sales & marketing.
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Dan Pierce
Associate Professor
Department of History
204 New Hall, CPO# 2830
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
828-232-2996
dpierce@bulldog.unca.edu
Area of Expertise: History, Consulting
Dan Pierce was a teaching award nominee for a Professor of History at UNC-Asheville. He has published many articles on the southern Appalachian region, stock car racing/NACAR history, Southern and Southern Appalachian Culture, and race relations in the South. Dr. Pierce teaches courses on Appalachian History, Environmental History, Southern History, Foreign Relations in the U.S., North Carolina History, both halves of the U.S. History Survey, and 20th Century U.S. History.
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Elizabeth Pou
President of Human Resources Consulting
25 Broad Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-1767
elp@humresconsult.com
Area of Expertise: Consulting, Human Resources Management
Ms. Pou's experience encompasses a broad range of human resources activities and functions, from technical areas, such as benefits, compensation and employment law, to her current focus on the strategic role of human resources in developing organization capabilities. She is adept at working with diverse groups of people, building and facilitating teams, and coaching executives and managers. Prior to her human resources career, Ms. Pou practiced law in Atlanta Georgia. She is a consultant with HR solutions, a group established by the GE Energy Learning Center to provide GE-designed management processes and programs to GE and its customers.
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Nathan Ramsey
Commissioners Office
60 Court Plaza, Suite 206
Asheville, NC 28801-3565
(828) 250-4006
nathan.ramsey@buncombecounty.org
Area of Expertise: County Government
Nathan Ramsey is in his second term as Chairman of the Board. He is a thirty year resident of the Fairview Community in Buncombe County. He has a BS degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Tennessee and is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. He and his family own a dairy farm in Fairview. Chairman Ramsey currently serves on the County Audit Committee and the Buncombe County Board of Health.
Dan Keith Ray
Founder
The Institute at Biltmore
One West Pack Square
Suite 1505
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 277-1202
dray@strategicplan.org
Area of Expertise: Economic and Community Development
Mr. Ray is a nationally recognized expert in organizational development, is the founder of The Institute at Biltmore and is the creator of its award-winning planning systems: the Resource Development System®, the Community Development System®, and the Resource Management System. The fundamental principles forming the cornerstone of the planning systems were developed early in his career, first in his work with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, DC, and later, as President of the Third Sector Project, a three year exploration of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations. Dan’s work with the Third Sector Project garnered him many commendations, including editorial praise from The Washington Post for his creative work on behalf of the National Symphony Orchestra.
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Susan Roderick
Executive Director
Quality Forward
265 Pearson Drive
Asheville, NC 2880l
(828) 254-l776
(828) 253-5427 (Fax)
susan@qualityforward.org
Area of Expertise: Environment
Susan Roderick, a graduate of Leadership Asheville 3, has had a long relationship with Quality Forward, the Keep America Beautiful organization of Asheville and Buncombe County. Beginning in 1975, she has served as a volunteer, board member, and part-time staffer at the organization. She transitioned into the role of Executive Director in 1982. She has a total of 32 years experience with the mission and goals of the organization. Susan received her BS in Journalism and Public Relations from Ohio University in 1970.
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Molly Levin Rouse
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Sociology
Zageir Hall, CPO #1930
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 251-6426
mlevin@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Latin American Studies, Anthropology
Molly Levin Rouse was born and raised in western North Carolina. After majoring in Latin American Studies at Carleton College in Minnesota in 2001, she moved to Asheville where she worked for two years with a local nonprofit to raise literacy and conflict resolution abilities in public school students. In 2003, Rouse pursued her Masters in Applied Anthropology at the University of Maryland. Her love of her native mountains and their culture drew her back home for her graduate practicum: working for HandMade in America, developing a survey tool to measure the impact of Handmade's Small Towns Revitalization Program on residents' quality of life. She now lives in Asheville, NC with her husband and teaches Anthropology at UNC-Asheville. Rouse is keenly interested in community development, and the roles individuals play in forging their communities' futures.
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Nancy Russell-Forsythe, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist & Partner
Leadership Bridge
P.O. Box 925
Skyland, NC 28776
(828) 681-8999
www.leadershipbridgeltd.com
nrforsythe@leadershipbridgeltd.com
Area of Expertise: Psychology and management
Nancy Russell-Forsythe grew up in Albemarle, NC, lived and worked in Winston-Salem, Washington, D.C. and various locations in New Jersey. In 1998, she returned to her home state to reside in Asheville.
Nancy is a partner in Leadership Bridge, a business consulting firm which was founded by her husband, Greg. As a licensed psychologist, she has over twenty years experience in management consulting to businesses, government, non-profits and education. She assists organizations build competency models, develops leaders and managers, provides executive coaching and career counseling and gives selection input through assessments and feedback. Nancy’s clients include U.S. and international organizations in the pharmaceutical, financial, manufacturing, personal care and communications areas.
Nancy joined Leadership Bridge in 1991. Her prior experience includes management positions with three major consulting firms – Manchester, Seagate and Drake Beam & Morin. She has also worked in administration at the Department of Commerce and as a teacher, guidance counselor and guidance director with public schools in North Carolina and New Jersey. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in psychology from Fordham, an M.A. in counseling from Seton Hall and a B.A. in English from Wake Forest.
Nancy is an active member of The Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-A, sings in the Asheville Choral Society and works as a community volunteer with ALTRUSA and the Asheville High Business Alliance.
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Scott Shuford
Planning and Development Director
City of Asheville
Department of Planning and Development
PO Box 7148
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 259-5830
sshuford@ashevillenc.gov
Area of Expertise: City Planning and Development
Scott Shuford is a North Carolina native and a UNC DCRP graduate with 24 years of local government planning experience. He is currently employed by the City of Asheville as Planning and Development Director. Prior to coming to Asheville he managed planning and development operations in St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Brevard County, FL and in Wilmington and Carolina Beach, NC. The Asheville City Development Plan 2025 won the NCAPA Marvin Collins Award for large community comprehensive planning.
Chris Smith
Assistant General Manager/Community Relations Liaison
Asheville Tourists Baseball Club
McCormick Field
30 Buchanan Place
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: (828) 258-0428
Fax: (828) 258-0320
Chris is in his twelfth full season with the Tourists and his eleventh as Assistant General Manager. He is responsible for group and outside sales, on-field promotions and community relations. Chris also coordinates the “Tourists Against Tobacco” program and serves as a board member with The Asheville Tourists Children’s Fund. In his first season with the team, 1997, Smith filled the role of Media Relations Director, and following the 2000 season, he received the South Atlantic League’s inaugural Media Relations Director of the Year award. The Hendersonville native has been a fixture at McCormick Field for the past 19 seasons, having served as official scorer as well as beat writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times.
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Pat Smith
President & Executive Director
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
PO Box 1888
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 254-4960
smith@cfwnc.org
Area of Expertise: Community Development and Grant making
Pat Smith, President of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, has been with the Foundation for twenty-two years and became Executive Director in 1990. Formerly a CPA, Pat is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and an Asheville native.
She currently serves as a board member of Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Community (treasurer), Community and Economic Development Alliance, and the North Carolina Association of Community Foundations. She is board chair of the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers, and on the steering committee of NC Gives and North Carolina Collaborative for Hispanics in Philanthropy. She also serves as a Director of Asheville Savings Bank.
Pat is a graduate of Leadership Asheville and the 1996 recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award. Former volunteer leadership positions include chairman of the Asheville/Buncombe VISION; treasurer of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits; board member of the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research; president, Junior League of Asheville; president, Western North Carolina Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Executives; chairman of the 1996 Buncombe County Children’s Conference; treasurer of United Way of Asheville/Buncombe County; treasurer, Asheville City Schools Foundation; treasurer, MANNA Food Bank; co-chairman, Asheville Downtown Streetscape; treasurer, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce; finance chair, Central United Methodist Church.
Bill Spellman
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in Humanities
218 Phillips Hall, CPO# 1411
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8503
(828) 251-6505
spellman@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: History, Humanities, Leadership
Bill Spellman has been a faculty member in the Department of History since 1988 and has served as Chair of the Department, Director of UNCA's Humanities Program, and Interim Dean of Curriculum. Currently, he is working as Associate Vice Chancellor for Programs in Humanities. He won the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1993 and was a recipient of the National Endowment in the Humanities Professorship in 2000. Dr. Spellman is the author of seven books in the field of modern English history and comparative world civilizations and he has co-authored two other books.
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Dr. Surain Subramaniam
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina at Asheville
One University Heights – CPO #1940
Asheville, NC 28803
(828) 251-6983
surain@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: International Relations and Asian Politics
Dr. Surain Subramaniam is a tenured member of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he teaches courses on international relations and Asian politics, as well as in the Humanities, Master of Liberal Arts, Honors, and Integrated Liberal Studies programs. He was awarded a university teaching award for Distinguished Teaching in the Social Sciences in 2005. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in international studies from the University of South Carolina, and a B.A. in international studies and political economy from Muhlenberg College, a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His recent publications have appeared in Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of Strategic and International Affairs, and in Asian Affairs: An American Review. He has received fellowships from the Institute for the Study of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and the Earhart Foundation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has conducted fieldwork research in Malaysia and Singapore, most recently as a Visiting Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He is currently working on a book length manuscript on the impact of the non-Western world on our understanding of international relations since the end of the Cold War. He is a native of Malaysia, received his early education in Singapore, and in London, England, and has lived in the United States for the last seventeen years.
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John Wood
Assistant Professor
Sociology Department
123 Zagier Hall, CPO# 1930
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8508
828-251-6977
jwood@unca.edu
Area of Expertise: Anthropology
John Wood has taught anthropology in UNC Asheville’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology since 1999. Much of his field research has been done with Gabra nomads in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. His research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Geographic, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where Wood was a post-doctoral fellow. He has written a book and numerous articles on Gabra, the most recent of which is “Roads to nowhere: Nomadic understandings of space and ethnicity,” forthcoming in an edited volume, Changing Identifications and Alliances in Northeast Africa. His work has largely focused on the construction – perhaps “production” would be a better word – of cultural identities. In the past two years he has shifted his research to the study of race and racism in South Africa and America. Before turning in midcareer to anthropology, Wood was a journalist.
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