CCLP Facilitators
The ALP Board of Directors represents a broad spectrum of membership representing communities across the nation. Please click their photos for more information.
Griff Hall
Griff Strategic Leadership
Lauren Healey
Fanning Institute
Brendan Leahy
Fanning Institute
Julie Meehan
Fanning Institute
Griff Hall
Griff Stratiegic Leadership
CCLP Course: Advanced Facilitation
Prior to founding GSL, Griff held three chief executive positions and has been a senior practitioner faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business for more than 15 years. These experiences together with an entrepreneurial spirit led Griff to form GSL in 2007 with the aim of combining practical application, relevant research, and exemplary practices to help leaders in small to mid-size organizations identify and accelerate value through growth. Griff was founding Board Chair of the Association for Leadership Programs and has held numerous other Board positions. He continues to teach at Carey on a part-time basis specializing in strategy, leadership, and ethics while leading GSL.
Lauren Healey
J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development
CCLP Course: Developing and Managing Volunteers and Boards
Lauren Healey is a public service faculty member at the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, specializing in youth engagement and leadership education. She has more than 18 years of experience in curriculum development, program design and delivery, and evaluation of both youth and adult programs for diverse audiences. With her successful background in the management of and collaboration with schools and community agencies, she provides valuable technical assistance to groups and assists them in meeting their leadership goals. Prior to joining J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, Healey worked as a 4-H youth development agent in both rural and urban counties. In this position, she was responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating educational programs for youth ages 9-19. Healey has an MS Degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University; and a BS in Psychology from the University of Georgia, and is a current Ph.D. student in the College of Education at UGA.
Brendan Leahy
J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development
CCLP Course: Adult Learning
Brendan focuses much of his efforts on community leadership programs, while also working heavily in subject areas such as instructional design, applied research and leadership assessments. He has expertise with a variety of leadership, social and communication styles assessments, including Emergenetics. In addition to his work in community leadership, Leahy also works on a variety of Fanning Institute programs and initiatives, including those focused on leadership development in a wide array of contexts, youth leadership development, general facilitation and organizational and community strategic planning. Before joining the Fanning Institute, Brendan served as President for Leadership Plus and Associates in Athens and the UGA coordinator for the SciTrain University initiative, a project of the U.S. Department of Education and a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology and UGA. He has also worked with the Georgia Department of Education, Northeast Georgia Learning Resource System and Anderson and Ward Educational Services.
Julie Meehan
J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, UGA
CCLP Course: Developing and Managing Volunteers and Boards
At the Fanning Institute, Julie focuses on working to build leadership capacity in nonprofit and community organizations through strategic planning processes, board and executive development, system mapping and evaluation. Currently, Julie leads the planning team for the Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations (ELPNO). In addition, she has co-planned and implemented UGA's Vivian H. Fisher Public Service and Outreach Leadership Academy, has led strategic planning processes for multiple nonprofits in the Athens area and elsewhere and helps deliver the institute as adult community leadership curriculum. She brings twenty years of experience in nonprofits, most recently serving as the executive director of Community Connection of Northeast Georgia from 2004 to 2013. In this role, she managed collaborative processes of nonprofits in the region and provided incubation services to developing nonprofits. Meehan also served as the program director for The TreeHouse, Inc., and development coordinator for Hands-on Atlanta. Meehan holds a BA Degree in International Development and Social Change/Political Science and an MSW from the University of Georgia.
Nancy
Dering Mock
Management Consulting
Nancy Dering Mock
Management Consulting
CCLP Course: Leadership Theories and Applications
Nancy brings over 40 years’ experience as a government executive, entrepreneur and executive trainer and coach to her current work as a consultant specializing in strategic planning, leadership development and change. For the past 35 years, she has been involved in several community leadership programs as both a volunteer and consultant: a founding board member, a curriculum developer, strategic planning facilitator; and designer and facilitator of opening and closing retreats. She shares her leadership insights and development resources at her blogs, www.nancyderingmock.com and www.exploringcommunityleadership.com.
Yemi Akande-Bartsch is President & CEO of FOCUS St. Louis and Director of Leadership St. Louis. Recognized as an accomplished, innovative inclusion strategist, and visionary leader specializing in implementing strategic plans and organizational development, Akande-Bartsch has led FOCUS St. Louis since 2014. Akande-Bartsch spent ten years of her career in the Cleveland, Ohio where she held senior leadership roles with Cleveland Leadership Center as Senior Director of Civic Education, and Director of the Cleveland Executive Fellowship.
With a passion to educate emerging and established leaders and mentor them to achieve success, Akande-Bartsch has held key teaching positions at several universities including Assistant Professor, Communication at John Carroll University, Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication at Cleveland State University, and Adjunct Faculty, Communication Studies at Kent State University. As a leader in the community, Akande-Bartsch is affiliated with and / or serves in key roles with various organizations. Akande-Bartsch holds three degrees from the University of Oklahoma, including a PH.D. in Communications, Intercultural, Political and Organizational Communication, an M.H.R. in Human Relations and Organizational Development, and a Master of Arts in Public Relations, Journalism & Mass Communications. She earned her B.A. in Speech Communications from Southwest Baptist University.
Dr. Akande-Bartsch serves on the Board of Directors of The St. Louis Regional Chamber, The Sheldon Arts Foundation, Downtown St. Louis and the Integration Advisory Team of Greater St. Louis, Inc. She is a member of Urban Land Institute Advisory Committee (St. Louis), and Chair and a Commissioner of the Botanical Garden Sub-district. She is also a member of the Association of Leadership professionals and the International Leadership Association.
Barbara Boone has had the distinct pleasure to have worked with 2 community leadership programs in her career. First with Leade she serves as Executive Director. Her time at Leadership Jacksonville began when participating in LJ Class 1991 representing the Junior League of Jacksonville. She brought a history of working in the social work profession and volunteering in the community to the organization. For the next several years, she was able to learn firsthand about community trusteeship from some of the finest community leaders in Jacksonville, most notably from longtime LT ED Eleanor Ashby who passed away. She was later hired as Program Director for Leadership Tallahassee take the organization into the 21st century.
In 2013, Cathy was part of the team at Lipscomb University that created the first statewide leadership program in Tennessee and was named the program’s Executive Director. Leadership Tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance connecting a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens. In 2015, Cathy successfully created the framework for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to expand the work of the program to broader audiences and more communities statewide. Cathy oversees the Signature Program and the community engagement work, including Vote TN and LT NEXT, traveling the state in an effort to bring collaborative conversations to rural and urban communities statewide.
Prior to her move to Middle Tennessee in 2011, Cathy served for six years as Executive Director of Leadership Blount County with a focus on educating local leaders on issues affecting Blount County and the East Tennessee region including education, sustained growth, health care and environmental issues.
Cathy has over twenty years of experience with the outdoor, leadership training and development company Mountain Challenge at Maryville College. Cathy’s expertise in developing course outcomes and facilitating groups in ropes course and indoor, leadership exercises has given her the opportunity to serve a variety of corporate teams including companies and organizations such as ALCOA, Ruby Tuesday, Inc., Pilot/Flying J, TVA, Clayton Homes, Tennessee Department of Transportation, University of Tennessee, University of Memphis and various youth groups in East Tennessee. Cathy also served as Assistant Dean of Students at Maryville College in the 1990s and where she developed her passion for teaching and helping groups develop.