MLDP Session Description and Speaker Bios

1. Management and Leadership Development Program (MLDP)
Session Descriptions & Speaker Bios
Spring 2012
The Management and Leadership Development Program is a term-long program offered in the Fall, Winter,
and Spring to engage sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the development of management and leadership
skills common to corporate, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Participants will come away with new and
improved management and leadership skills, and the ability to better apply these skills to roles within campus
organizations, internships, projects, and in careers in "life after Dartmouth". Each Tuesday evening
throughout the term is led by an expert guest speaker to lead discussion and learning exercises on vital
elements of management and leadership.
Successful completion of MLDP is a prerequisite to become a paid student assistant or a student discussion
group leader at the Center, and strengthens students’ applications for Rockefeller Center funding for unpaid
internships in the field of public policy and selection into other Rockefeller Center programs, such as
Rockefeller Leadership Fellows.
For more information about MLDP, including application deadlines for the 2012-13 academic year, please
visit us at: http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/studentopps/mldp.html
Darin Eich
Founder, ProgramInnovation.com
University of Wisconsin
Tools and Techniques for Facilitating Group Leadership Discussion and Activities
How do you get a group of students to engage in activities, discuss topics, and learn?
How do you get the activity started quickly and guide the flow? How do you engage all of
the voices to share somewhat equally? Learn tips, tools, and techniques for facilitation
and engage in different activities at this fast paced experiential session.
Catalyze: Connecting to Collaborators, Challenges, Leadership, and Learning
Make rapid connections to begin MLDP and set the stage to take ownership of your own
leadership development. This highly interactive session will orient you to the MLDP program and we will guide
you through connecting rapidly with fellow student collaborators and co-learners in the program. We will help
you to reflect on the leadership challenges that you currently face in your life and those larger challenges in
society that you are most passionate about. We will also connect you to strategies and models for more engaged
learning in the program and a platform to focus on your own leadership development to grow in the areas that you
choose so you can become a better leader in real time during the duration of the program.
Darin Eich earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin
where his research focused on leadership development programs. He has been a graduate student and developer
of programs at the University of Maryland & William and Mary. Darin’s passion involves helping people to
become themselves, find and live their strengths, and become more creative, innovative & successful leaders.
Professionally, Darin does projects ranging from hundreds of college speeches to helping institutions develop
leadership programs & retreats to facilitating innovation sessions for the most innovative Fortune 500
companies. Darin has been consulting with Dartmouth since 2009 and is the founder of various leadership
development and innovation initiatives and organizations, including a global innovation generation company
called BrainReactions. He is the author of “Root Down and Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership
Development Programs.”
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2. Elizabeth Winslow ‘83
Associate Director of the MBA Program and Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Business
Administration
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
What Makes a Good Leader? Vision, Confidence, Training and Commitment
Do you think you have the ability to become a good leader? Do you think leadership is
learned, or are some people simply “born leaders?” Actually, the answer is: both!
Leadership is a combination of innate ability, training, and situational control. In this
session, we’ll explore the way leadership is defined, the various competencies
necessary for leadership, and the ways each of us can assess our own skills and
become better leaders and managers.
Betsy Winslow is an Associate Director of the MBA Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
College, and an Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Business Administration. Before coming to Tuck, Winslow spent seven
years as first an Assistant Director and then an Associate Director in the undergraduate admissions office at
Dartmouth College, where she was responsible for hiring and training new admissions officers, organizing staff
development activities, acting as a liaison for all alumni volunteers, and representing the admissions office on the
Committee on Standards. Prior to her time in admissions, she taught English and coached soccer, ice hockey,
cross-country and track, at several secondary schools in New England, including The Noble and Greenough
School, The Salisbury School, The Loomis Chaffee School and Lebanon High School. Winslow did her
undergraduate work at Dartmouth College, graduating with a degree in English in 1983. She completed her
Masters in Education (EdM) and her doctorate in Education (EdD) at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education, in June of 2004, with a focus on Administration, Planning and Social Policy. Her dissertation, titled
Proposing Significant Organizational Change: A Case Study Examining the Views of a Cross-Section of
Participants’ Perspectives About Dartmouth’s Student Life Initiative, is a case study of the Student Life Initiative
at Dartmouth, analyzed through the lens of Organizational Change Theory and Organizational Behavior. She
also holds a faculty appointment at the Tuck School as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Administration,
and teaches a course called “Comparative Models of Leadership.”
Julie L. Kalish, Esq. ‘91
Lecturer in Writing
Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, Dartmouth College
Writing in the Workplace: Understanding the Collective Context
You’ve gotten “A’s” on all of your college papers, but your boss just returned your
newsletter article covered with so much red ink you can’t find five words strung
together as you originally wrote them. What happened?! While many values of good
writing – clarity, “correctness,” concision – are constants in all writing contexts, the
workplace presents a host of new considerations that can (and do) dramatically affect
writing and the capacities required to do it effectively. If your boss gave you a
“research project,” would you know what she wants? How much research? Analysis or
just the facts? How long? Email or hard copy? “Memo” or “report” … or both? Should you vet any of it with
colleagues before submitting? Will someone other than your boss be reading it? How would that affect your
work? We will use hypothetical situations to explore these issues and produce a series of student-written e-mails,
which we will discuss, as a group, in class. At the end of the term, students will have another opportunity to
practice with a standard form of workplace communication when they are asked to write a professional
memorandum exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the MLDP experience.
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3. Julie Kalish is a Vermont attorney and Lecturer in Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. She teaches
Writing 5 and Writing & Public Policy 41: Writing and Speaking Public Policy. Julie earned her BA from
Dartmouth in 1991, an MA in Literature from University College, London in 1992, and a JD from Vermont Law
School in 2005. She serves as a cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Vermont and is a member of its Legal
Advisory Panel. Julie has given talks on topics ranging from academic program design and pedagogy, to “The
Use of Narrative and Storytelling in Cases of Maternal Infanticide,” to First Amendment Free Speech and “Sext-
ing.” Before her most recent return to Dartmouth, Julie was the Assistant Director of Academic Success at
Vermont Law School, in charge of creating and developing bar passage policy and programming for the school.
She has also taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy for Vermont Law School’s Legal Writing Department.
David Uejio
Lead for Talent Acquisition
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Presentation Design for the User Experience
Few words provoke a more visceral negative reaction than “PowerPoint.” Learn how to
use this and other visual tools responsibly by engaging your audience, framing your
narrative and accentuating your story.
Dave Uejio currently serves as Lead for Talent Acquisition at the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. Following his graduation from the University of Minnesota’s
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs with a Masters in Public Policy, Dave came to
NIH as a Presidential Management Fellow. He is currently the principal analyst in the Office of the Director of
OHR, overseeing the NIH’s employer branding, social media recruitment, and executive recruitment and
onboarding programs. He also manages the Office’s Presidential Management Fellows. Dave has a great deal of
experience briefing senior leadership on pressing matters, as well as contributing as a member of the OHR
leadership team. Dave is also the founding President of YGL’s Bethesda Chapter, and previously served as the
Chief Strategic Officer of the YGL Executive Board. Dave is also well regarded as a public speaker, presenting
on personal branding, public speaking, intergenerational recruitment strategies and social media at conferences
and events across the country.
Kari Jo Grant
Health Education Programs Coordinator
Dartmouth College
Relax? I don’t have time to relax! Stress Management Tips & Techniques
This session is intended to teach you the principles & benefits of relaxation and time
management. Dartmouth is often described as a place that “breeds stress & anxiety”. If
this has been your experience, come to practice relaxation with your peers who are also
yearning for a more balanced life as a student. Please wear comfortable clothing and be
prepared to practice “active relaxation”.
Kari Jo Grant is the Health Education Coordinator in Student Health Promotion &
Wellness Office. She serves as the trainer and advisor to Sexperts and Eating Disorder Peer Advisors (EDPAs),
and co-facilitates the termly 5-week Mindfulness Program. She also advises the COSO-sponsored group Active
Minds”. She has worked at Dartmouth since Fall 2004.
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4. Christianne Hardy Wohlforth
Acting Director
Dickey Center for International Understanding
Developing a Global Mindset
Technical competency is absolutely essential in the workplace, but to be effective one
needs to be able to navigate cross-cultural differences. This session is designed to help
students to recognize cross-cultural experiences and associate them with learning
opportunities, to understand what constitutes a global mindset and how it influences
one’s effectiveness in working in different settings and to explore different ways to
enhance one’s cross cultural sensitivity and effectiveness.
Chris Wohlforth is an educator and academic administrator. She came to Dartmouth
in 2000 to expand the programmatic offerings of the Dickey Center for International Understanding and currently
serves as the Acting Director. Her responsibilities include oversight of the Center's academic, faculty and public
programs, as well as management of the Center's staff and public relations. In these responsibilities she has the
pleasure of working with the entire Dartmouth community, including students, faculty, alumni and staff. She is a
frequent cross-campus collaborator, serving on a wide range of committees, and is part of the College's mentor
program. She has taught courses on European Politics in the Government department where she holds an adjunct
appointment, and on Social Science Field Research for the International Studies Minor. Prior to coming to
Dartmouth, Chris served as the Associate Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European
Studies at Georgetown University, and was a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at
Fordham University. She holds a BA in International Studies from the University of Washington, where she spent
a year studying at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, and MA and PhD in Politics from Princeton. She is
married to William Wohlforth, a Professor in Dartmouth's Government Department, with whom she has two sons.
They reside in Lyme, New Hampshire.
John Burwell Garvey
Professor and Director, Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Problem Solving, Decision Making and Negotiation: You CAN get There from Here!
Everyone has problems, makes daily decisions and negotiates. But have you ever
thought about the process involved? Did you know that there are basic tools and
processes available which can allow you to: systematically identify problems (including
wants and needs); identify the desired outcome; decide what options are available to best
achieve the desired outcome, and; negotiate with those who must be included in the
process of obtaining the desired outcome? All leaders and managers must acquire these
basic tools and processes and become proficient in their use. This session will introduce
you these important skills and processes which will assist you in your career and in everyday life.
Professor Garvey is the Director of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at the University of New
Hampshire School of Law. This first in the nation program prepares law students for admission to the bar based
upon rigorous evaluation of their practical legal skills as well as substantive knowledge of the law. Initiated by
the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the program is a collaborative effort of the Court, the New Hampshire Board
of Bar Examiners, the New Hampshire Bar Association and UNH Law. This ground-breaking program has
already received national praise and encouragement from judges, lawyers and legal education scholars. Law
School Confidential calls it “the future of legal education.” Carnegie Report co-author Lloyd Bond calls it “...the
sea change we had in mind.”
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5. Professor Garvey has been identified as a national leader in the evolution of legal education; he was selected to
serve on the Carnegie Foundation’s Initiative on the Future of Legal Education and is often asked to speak at
national and international conferences about the Webster Scholar Program and legal education. In recognition of
his work, he is this year’s recipient of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Award for Outstanding
Professionalism. In addition to his extensive experience as a teacher, he has over 30 years of trial experience and
is an accomplished mediator and negotiator. Professor Garvey’s courses include Pretrial Advocacy, Alternative
Dispute Resolution, Evidence and Client Counseling. Along with Professor Charles Craver of George
Washington University Law School, he is authoring ADR, a new book for the Lexis/Nexis Skills & Values Series.
Marty Jacobs ‘82
President
Systems In Sync
Turning Dreams Into Reality: The Power of Strategic Planning
Got a great idea but can’t seem to marshal the resources to make it happen? Feel like
every time you try to do something, barriers are placed in front of you? Or maybe it just
feels like a moving target. Well, it probably is. This session will help you learn a
framework that will enable you to reach your goals. We’ll discuss the steps to a strategic
planning process and some basic premises that will help the process be successful, and
you’ll be asked to apply your learning to a case study. You’ll also be given sample
strategic plans to evaluate with respect to the concepts presented.
Marty Jacobs, president of Systems In Sync, has been teaching and consulting for twenty years, applying a
systems thinking approach to organizations. She currently provides strategic planning and policy governance
expertise for the Vermont School Boards Association and has worked with several school districts to engage them
in community conversations. In the nonprofit sector, Marty provides strategic planning, board leadership
training, Policy Governance implementation, community engagement facilitation, and staff development.
Additionally, Marty has served on a variety of nonprofit, professional, and school boards over the past twenty
years. Marty has also written for The Systems Thinker, Vermont Business Magazine, American School Board
Journal, Leverage Points Blog, and Confident Voices for Nurses on topics related to organizational learning,
systems thinking, workplace culture, board governance, and community engagement. A graduate of Dartmouth
College, Marty received her M.S. in Organization and Management from Antioch University New England in
Keene, NH.
About the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center is a lively, intellectual gathering place for students and faculty, and a catalyst for
public policy research and education.
Through the opportunities it offers for discussion and interaction with scholars, policymakers and political
figures, the Center prepares students for lives of leadership and service in a diverse and globally
interdependent world. Students are encouraged to bridge their academic and personal lives through informal
discussions and structured, intentional programming.
Scholarly work of the Dartmouth faculty is supported through interdisciplinary workshops and seminars. The
Center also funds research and classroom enhancements. The community as a whole benefits from the
distinguished guests the Center brings to campus for public programs.
For more information, please visit our website at http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu
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