Board of Trustees
Howard Behar
Starbucks Coffee Company
2401 Utah Ave. South, EX-2
Seattle, WA 98134
hbehar@starbucks.com
Howard Behar is the former president of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International. He joined Starbucks in 1989 as vice president of sales and operations, and grew the retail business from 28 stores to more than 400 by the time he was named president of Starbucks Coffee International in 1995. Under Behar's leadership, Starbucks opened its first location in Tokyo in 1996, then introduced the Starbucks brand across Asia and the United Kingdom. He retired as president of Starbucks North America in January 2003, but continues to serve in an advisory capacity and to coach leaders at all levels. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1996. He serves on several other boards, including Anna's Linens, The Gap Inc., Jewish Family Service of Seattle, and the Washington State Budget and Policy Center. Behar is the author of It's Not about the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Lynn.
Jeff Blade
6240 N.Sherman Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46220
jeffblade@sbcglobal.net
Jeff Blade is the Interim President, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and CFO of the Steak n Shake Company (SNS). Since joining the Company in March 2004, Jeff has been focused on leading transformational change and participating in the development and implementation of the Company's strategic plan. Prior to joining Steak n Shake he was Vice President of Finance at Cott Beverages USA. He joined Cott in 1999 as part of the executive team that led a successful turnaround effort of this $1.0B+ publicly traded company. This included transformational change of the finance organization to develop a team capable of being business partners in driving the initiatives of the organization. Jeff also spent 11 years at Kraft Foods in a variety of finance assignments working across the value chain. He started his career at Price Waterhouse working in the Indianapolis and Chicago offices as a member of the audit practice. Jeff received a B.S. in Accounting from Butler University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is active in Junior Achievement and serves on the Board of Visitors of the Butler University College of Business Administration, the Board of Directors of Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity and on the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Opera.
John C. Burkhardt
Professor of Higher Education
Director, The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good
University of Michigan
610 East University, Suite 2339
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
jcbforum@umich.edu
Dr. Burkhardt is a professor of higher education and the Director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good at the University of Michigan. From 1993-2000, John was program director for leadership and higher education at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where he led several major initiatives focused on transformation and change in higher education and participated in a comprehensive effort to encourage leadership development among college students. John serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership Studies. He was a senior fellow at the James McGregor Burns Academy for Leadership at the University of Maryland, a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (Austria) and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is past chairman of the board of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital System and a trustee emeritus of the Eastern Michigan University Foundation. John has been honored as an exemplary alumnus of the University of Michigan School of Education, an Institute for Educational Leadership Fellow (1986) and a Kellogg National Fellow (1989-1992).
Sally Chew (Chew-Ong Gek Tee)
The Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (Asia)
c/o 795 Upper Serangoon Road
Singapore 534667
gektee@tp.edu.sg
Sally Chew (Chew-Ong Gek Tee) is Director of the International Relations & Industry Services Department at Temasek Polytechnic, a government-funded institution of higher education in Singapore. She is also responsible for the IP Management/Tech Transfer Office. She previously served as Deputy Director of the School of Business and Director of Strategic & Quality Development. Before joining Temasek, she was in private legal practice for 15 years. She is the National President of the Girls Brigade in Singapore, International Vice President of the Asia Girls Brigade, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (Asia). She is a founding member of Beyond Imagination Pte Ltd, a social enterprise in Singapore; she is an Associate Lay Leader in her church; and she is the mother of six children.
Geneva Johnson
16745 Mary Cliff Court
Brookfield, WI 53005
gjohnson5695@wi.rr.com
Geneva Johnson is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Family Service America, Inc. and Families International, Inc. She earned a B.S. degree from Albright College, an M.S. in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate in Executive Management from the Harvard Business School. She began her career in human services as a Program Director for the Houston YWCA. She served United Ways in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York before joining the United Way of America in 1978 as a Senior Vice President responsible for strategic long-range planning and public policy. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Family Service America from 1983 to 1994, and as Executive Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Mount Mary College from 2001 to 2004. She currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute.
Mrs. Johnson has received numerous recognitions and awards. In 1985, Savvy magazine named her one of the top 12 nonprofit executive women in America, and in 1990 Business Week magazine named her one of the top five best managers in the United States in the social services field. She has served on many boards, including the Peter F. Drucker Foundation and the National Center for Nonprofit Boards. Her current board memberships include The Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School, Froedtert Hospital, Leader to Leader Institute, and Volunteers of America.
Richard R. Pieper, Sr. (Greenleaf Center Board Chair)
Chairman, PPC Partners, Inc.
5070 N. 35th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53209
pieperr@pieperpower.com
Richard Pieper is Chairman of PPC Partners, Inc., which owns a series of electrical service and construction firms. Richard joined Pieper Electric as President in 1960. At that time the family-owned business had eight employees and was doing $250,000 of business per year. Today, PPC Partners, Inc. employs 900-1,100 people, has sales in the low nine figures, and is one of the top electrical contracting firms in the United States. It is known for its management principles, and in particular, its pace-setting continuing education programs addressing all employee needs. Richard serves on the Boards of Character Education Partnership, Junior Achievement, Milwaukee County Boy Scouts of America, Learning for Life, Boys and Girls Clubs, Present Music, Florentine Opera, Electrical Contracting Council Foundation, Boelter Companies, Inc., and Elliot Companies, Inc. He has endowed chairs for professors of servant leadership at colleges and universities.
Roxanne Spillett
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
1275 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30309-3056
rspillett@bgca.org
Roxanne Spillett is the President & CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in education from the State University of New York, did graduate work in guidance and counseling at St. Lawrence University, and studied public health administration at Hunter College in New York. Spillett joined the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) in 1978 as director of the National Health Project. In 1991, she became BGCA's assistant national director for Program Services, and led development of the Commitment to Quality process to ensure the effectiveness of program and service delivery in Clubs nationwide. She also served as vice president of BGCA's Northeast regional office, managing all programs and services throughout the 11-state area. She was appointed president of the BGCA in 1996.
Spillett was selected in 2004 and 2005 as one of the "Power 50" by The Non-Profit Times, and received the Excellence in National Executive Leadership Award presented by the National Human Services Assembly. Most recently, Spillett and BGCA were cited by Newsweek (July 2006) as "15 People Who Make America Great." She has also received three honorary doctorates. In December 2005, President George W. Bush appointed Spillett to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. She is past chairperson for Leadership 18, an alliance of executives from the nation's most influential nonprofits, and serves on the boards of the National Human Services Assembly and BoardSource.
Kurt Takamine Ed.D.
Chapman University College
16355 Laguna Canyon Road
Irvine, California 92618
takamine@chapman.edu
Dr. Kurt Takamine is the chair of the Organizational Leadership program at Chapman University's 26 campus locations, throughout California and Washington State. He is also the Graduate Professor of Chapman University's Organizational Leadership and Human Resources program in Manhattan Beach, California. As an author, Takamine has written Servant-Leadership in the Real World: Re-Discovering Our Humanity in the Workplace (2002), as well as articles addressing retention, Asian Pacific American (APA) Leadership, the Glass Ceiling, leadership ethics, marketing strategies, succession planning, organization change and leadership theory. Kurt was previously the Senior Research Fellow with Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP), a national organization that offers leadership training and training to Fortune 500 corporations. In his involvement with the Leadership Management Institute, Kurt developed 360° feedback assessment training, consulting, and executive coaching to Asian Pacific American (APA) managers in Bausch & Lomb Inc., Lifescan, Hospira, IBM, The Raytheon Company, Capital One, Northrop Grumman Corporation, SBC Communications, and others.
Robert N. Thomas 
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree Street, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
robert.thomas@ile.gatech.edu
Dr. Thomas earned his BA in Economics from LaGrange College, his MBA from the Executive MBA Program at Georgia State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His areas of specialization are corporate leadership and governance, ethics, entrepreneurship, and servant leadership.
Dr. Thomas joined Georgia Tech in January 2006 to develop a curriculum and create programming for the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship, an interdisciplinary unit that enhances leadership and entrepreneurship for socially responsible and sustainable value creation. Dr. Thomas also is a senior academic professional in Georgia Tech's business school, the College of Management, where he teaches courses in leadership. In addition, he serves as executive director of the Georgia Servant Leadership Alliance, a non-profit organization that promotes the concept of servant leadership among Georgia's colleges and universities.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Thomas was a senior leadership fellow at North Georgia College and State University (NGCSU), and the director of LaGrange College's Servant Leadership Initiative, a five-year organizational development program designed to integrate the principles of servant leadership into the culture of the college and its local community. He currently is on the Board of the Bennett J. Sims Institute for Servant Leadership, and has served on the boards of the ArtReach Foundation, the Americorp Carelink Council, the Youth Leadership Troup, and the Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.
Ed Voerman
Willemslaan 15
1406 L T Bussum
The Netherlands
e.voerman@planet.nl
Ed Voerman is founder and Chairman of the UTS-Unigroup, a global organization of international moving companies. His partner in the United States is Unigroup (Mayflower and United Van Lines). Ed studied economics, and lived and worked for eight years in Columbia and Brazil, before returning to the Netherlands. He started his own company, Voerman International, focused on transport, logistics, and international moving. Over twenty years the company grew, employing 600 people in 11 branches in the Netherlands and four branches in Eastern Europe. In 2006 Ed sold the national branches and continued with the international activities, serving as Chairman of the Board of the Voerman International Group. Ed learned about servant leadership in 1998, and introduced it into his own company. He leads the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership- Europe, which holds a national conference, and which began its Academy for Servant Leadership in the Netherlands in 2007. As a result of his social commitment, Ed received a Royal decoration in 2004.
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