The theme of the event is "Leading the Way Forward: Being, Seeing, Doing"

800 West College Avenue
Saint Peter, Minnesota, 56082
United States

Barbara McAfee

Barbara McAfee is a voice coach, singer/songwriter, keynoter, and author who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound.

Brian Konkol

Brian Konkol is a Chaplain of Gustavus Adolphus College and has served in international assignments in Guyana and South Africa.

Bruce Jackson

Bruce H. Jackson has dedicated his career to the development of individuals, teams, organizations, and communities that seek to maximize influence, leadership, and change at every level.

Carol Markham-Cousins

Carol Markham-Cousins has spent the past 35 years nurturing an educational career dedicated to working toward equity, access and excellence for all students, especially those whom our system rejects and removes. Starting in 1978 as a special education teacher she has been fortunate to teach and administrate at all levels of education. For 20 years as a principal, her role has been to ‘turn around’ schools, challenging the status quo.

Carry Metkowski

Carry Metkowski, part design thinker, part producer, part coach, part prayin’ Mama – fueled by 100% chutzpah and intuition. Whether it’s from her years producing products and services at ChartHouse Learning Home of the FISH! Philosophy, or building film-based learning programs with folks like Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Leider - It’s her mission in life to help people contribute to a workplace where they feel they can do their best work.

Fardousa Jama

Fardousa Jama graduated from University of Virginia and has won “Volunteer of the Year” for her work with the Salvation Army. During her life in Minnesota she has worked vigorously with “at risk” youth, particularly in minority populations of Hispanics and native Somalis. Fardousa founded the Somali Community Barwaaqo Organization, is a first-responder as an interpreter for the Red Cross’ Emergency Management Disaster Relief team, and has also worked with the Echo Food Drive in Mankato, MN.

Jenny Evans

Jenny Evans is a speaker, author and on-air expert on resiliency, stress, performance, exercise physiology, nutrition and health. She is the founder and CEO of PowerHouse Performance and author of the book The Resiliency rEvolution: Your Stress Solution for Life – 60 Seconds at a Time.

Kathy Lund Dean

Kathy Lund Dean currently holds the Board of Trustees Distinguished Chair in Leadership and Ethics at Gustavus Adolphus College. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior and ethics from Saint Louis University. For over fifteen years she has been active in the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators and the Academy of Management. Kathy serves as co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Management Education, the management discipline’s premier experiential learning journal. Outside of work, she is learning Spanish and serves on the board for local youth basketball programs. She also strategizes how to spend more time skiing and snowshoeing.

Leila Brammer

Leila Brammer, PhD, is a professor of Communication Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Deliberation, civility, social movements, and rhetoric/argument are among her research interests. She spearheaded the development of Public Discourse, a nationally recognized model for teaching deliberative discourse and citizenship.

Lisa Dembouski

Dr. Lisa Dembouski is an educator, activist, gardener, ally, traveler, introvert, and a really bad dancer. This is her eighth month teaching in the Gustavus Education.

Meghan Krause

Meghan Krause is a wellbeing professional who helps people and organizations enhance their health, joy, and success.

Nicole LaVoi

Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D. (GAC ’91), is a faculty member in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota, and Associate Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport. LaVoi focuses her research on barriers experienced by women coaches, and media representations of females in sport.

Paul Batz

Founder/president of Good Leadership Enterprises, Paul Batz will show that with shared values, good intentions and concern for people both personally and professionally, good leaders thrive in all kinds of market conditions and placate the complexities that test our resilience.

Pete Machalek

Pete Machalek is a speaker, a coach, a trainer and a facilitator with a passion for helping people live self-designed lives in synergy with others, both personally and professionally.

Tom Thibodeau

Thomas Thibodeau is a distinguished professor of servant leadership at Viterbo University and is a 33 year veteran of the Viterbo faculty. The Master's degree in Servant Leadership at Viterbo is the only Master's degree of its kind in the country. Tom is a husband, father, grandfather, teacher and founding member of the Place of Grace.