Alexander Grashow is a member of CLA's Executive Committee and Managing Director of its consulting practice. As such, he is responsible for the overall design and content of CLA programs as well as the recruitment and development of CLA associates and affiliates.

Having used and delivered programming, consulting, and coaching in the Adaptive Leadership framework for many years, Alexander has worked extensively with executive teams and is experienced in delivering adaptive leadership in a variety of formats. Among the CLA clients with whom he has worked are Watson Wyatt, CARE and the United Jewish Communities. Regardless of client, Alexander focuses on what change and impact are possible within the context of the assignment, whether it is a two-day or a two-year program.

Prior to joining CLA, Alexander was at The Synergos Institute, where he was the co-founder and director of the Bridging Leadership Program, which worked in partnership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to develop collaborations across sectors. In this capacity, he developed training, research, and communities of practice among international businesses, business schools, and national non-profits.

He is the co-author, along with Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, of a forthcoming book to guide practitioners in the hands-on, day-to-day work of exercising leadership and doing more for what they most care about. A graduate of Wesleyan University and a serious Japanese printmaker, Alexander derives "both joy and courage" from his wife and daughter.

CLA co-founder Ron Heifetz, is also the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is renowned worldwide for his seminal work on the practice and teaching of leadership; he speaks and consults extensively in the United States and abroad with leaders in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Heifetz's research at Harvard focuses on how to build adaptive capacity in societies, businesses, and nonprofits. His courses on leadership and authority are among the most popular in the university, and his widely acclaimed book, Leadership Without Easy Answers has been translated into many languages and is currently in its twelfth printing. Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, written with Marty Linsky, was published in 2002.

A graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Heifetz is also a physician and a cellist, having studied with the Russian virtuoso, Gregor Piatigorsky.

As a member of CLA's Executive Committee, Jeff Lawrence is deeply involved in the further conceptual development and practice of Adaptive Leadership and, as a CLA Principal, he is engaged with a variety of public and private sector organizations, helping them develop to build their leadership capacities. Among his current and/or recent clients are Watson Wyatt, Duke Corporate Education, Best Buy, Massachusetts School superintendents and Verizon.

With more than 25 years of experience in the fields of personal, organizational and business development, Jeff brings a broad range of capabilities to his Adaptive Leadership work. He has taught, coached and consulted with executive teams, CEO's, and work teams from five to fifty members. He is highly regarded for his platform as well as his one-on-one communication skills and works with CLA clients on a wide variety of issues, including strategy implementation, team building, succession planning, building alliances and leadership development.

Prior to joining CLA, Jeff's professional experience ranged from a corporate environment in financial services to starting and building his own company as a sole proprietor and as a partner with others. He holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Counseling from Colgate University. He currently teaches leadership at Northeastern University.

Karen Lehman

Karen Lehman is a Senior Associate who has overseen significant CLA client work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Past engagements include work with the Icelandic education system, Best Buy, the Scottish Executive (civil service), and Parent to Parent, an advocacy group of parents of children with disabilities working for system change.

Karen brings more than 20 years' experience in advancing multi-stakeholder initiatives in both urban and rural areas, and internationally as well as domestically. A systems thinker by training and inclination, she has focused her career on the nexus between business, government, and civil society on issues ranging from trade policy to food systems.

Her training and expertise in Adaptive Leadership are extensive. Karen received a Bush Leadership Fellowship to attend Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she earned a Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in Leadership studies. She remained at Harvard as Ron Heifetz's teaching assistant in two of his Harvard courses before joining CLA.

Marty Linsky has had extensive experience as a consultant, facilitator, teacher and trainer in leadership with a wide range of public and private sector clients in the US and abroad. He is a prolific author; his most recent book is Leadership on the Line, co-authored with Dr. Ronald Heifetz, with whom he co-founded CLA.

Marty is also a full-time faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he has been since 1979, except for three years in the early 1990s when he served as Chief Secretary and Counsel to then-Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. At Harvard, he teaches about leadership, press, politics, legislatures, and public management. He has been faculty chair of several of the school's executive programs on leadership and public management, both here and abroad.

Marty is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School. He is married and the father of three children. For relaxation he runs (nine marathons, but no more), works out, enjoys good beer and all Mexican food (a reward for the running and working out) and collects baseball cards (over 25,000 of them).

Eric Martin

Eric Martin is CLA’s Business Director responsible for overseeing strategy development and implementation, finance and general operations.  He has over a decade of experience in consulting and organizational development for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, specializing in strategic planning, change management, impact assessment and evaluation, and financial management.

Previously in Japan, Eric consulted to local governments, international NGOs and private corporations. He is fluent in Japanese.

Eric is a Milano Graduate School of Management Master of Science candidate in Organizational Change Management. He holds a BS in Operations Research and Systems Analysis from the University of Michigan, with a minor in technical Japanese.

Hugh O'Doherty

Hugh O'Doherty has consulted extensively with CLA, developing Adaptive Leadership™ capacity in a wide variety of private, corporate and public clients. A faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Hugh is involved in many executive programs related to leadership.

A native of Northern Ireland, Hugh has consulted to many international organizations, including the Northern Ireland Mediation Network and the Center for International Understanding. He has worked in Bosnia, Croatia, and Cyprus, and has addressed the United Nations Global Forum on Re-Inventing Government.

In the US, his work often focuses on community and public service challenges, such as assisting urban school superintendents to develop the leadership required to address the complex challenges inherent in meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Education Act.

Kristin von Donop has more than 20 years of experience helping public and private sector clients achieve strategic change. She has earned the trust and respect of senior executives running multi-billion dollar businesses in information technology, professional services and sales environments. She is known for her ability to mobilize people at all levels to address difficult issues that get in the way of business results. Kristin is adept at applying strategies and practices that help clients identify their most significant challenges, generate new solutions and exercise the leadership required to implement them.

Prior to joining CLA, Kristin was a leadership consultant for the top 10% of executives at IBM and previously was a member of the Organization and Human Performance practice at Accenture. Her tenacity and passion for her client's success distinguish her as a consultant. Her professional experience includes roles in strategy development, leadership development, business process design, organization design, change management, and executive coaching.

Kristin holds a BS in International Business from Northeastern University and MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an avid motorcyclist and has toured New England, Northeast Canada, Northern California, and New Zealand.

Sousan Abadian teaches, consults and facilitates in organizations utilizing the Adaptive Leadership™ framework applied by CLA. She specializes in non-profit and public sector organizations, and her areas of expertise include the work of leadership in community and international development, recovery from collective and widespread trauma, orchestrating and managing social change, and cultural renewal.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Abadian also holds two masters' degrees and a Ph.D. (in Political Economy and Government) from Harvard University.

Steve Boyd is deeply experienced in the practice and application of the CLA adaptive leadership framework. Steve has engaged with many clients in organizational development and the practice of Adaptive Leadership™, including experience across corporate, public and non-profit sectors.

Steve was founder and president of the Washington Leadership Institute and the Washington Governors' School for Citizen Leadership. Founded in 1985, the Washington Leadership Institute is a private, not-for-profit civic enterprise initiating model programs in leadership development, civic education, community service, and problem solving with youth and adults.

Married and the father of two daughters, Steve is a former professional musician. He plays harmonica, flute, clarinet, soprano sax, guitar, and congas. He is a former University of Washington student body president and Eagle Scout, not to mention that he also claims to be a world-class barbeque chef.

Kate Lye is a senior associate with CLA and its lead representative in the United Kingdom. With 15 years of consulting experience in the UK and US, she is responsible for the overall design and content of CLA programs in Europe. Having used and delivered programming, consulting, and coaching in the Adaptive Leadership framework for many clients, Kate has worked extensively with executive teams and is experienced in delivering adaptive leadership in a variety of formats.

Among the clients with whom she has worked are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BT, McKinsey, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AstraZeneca. She has worked extensively on M&A integration projects for large scale multinationals. Prior to joining CLA, Kate was a Partner at Stanton Marris, where she led their private sector business.

Kate is the author of numerous articles on leadership, organization development and executive competency. Kate is a graduate of London University and holds a B.A. in Business and an MSc in Organisational Behaviour and Psychology.

Ellen Meyer Shorb works with the Adaptive Leadership™ framework in a wide variety of client settings where she designs and delivers workshops, provides consulting services, and supports the development of leadership cultures. She teaches leadership in the mid-career undergraduate program at Northeastern University. With more than 20 years experience in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors as a senior manager and consultant, Ellen has worked in Latin America, Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Previously, she worked in senior management for multiple nonprofits, in the fields of international development, international relations, affordable housing, and community development. Beginning in the 1980s she worked at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University on crisis prevention and avoiding nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. She also served as Advisor to the Chair and CEO of The Enterprise Foundation, where she oversaw a $30 million loan and grant portfolio disbursed to urban community development organizations in ten cities across the country.

She holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, a MBA from Stanford University, and a BA from Dartmouth College. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras and is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French. She enjoys Latin music, strength training, and watching her four children grow up.

Lee Teitel is deeply practiced in the work of teaching and consulting on Adaptive Leadership, having worked for more than 15 years in educational leadership as a professor at the University of Massachusetts and as a lecturer and visiting professor (2004-2005) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. He recently became the founding director of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, an innovative national effort based at Harvard that works with state commissioners of education and school superintendents, along with their leadership teams and key stakeholders. to bring high-quality teaching and learning to scale in urban and high-need districts.

With his CLA colleagues, Lee has worked with hundreds of school superintendents and principals across the country to help them understand and use Adaptive Leadership in their daily work. He has coached individual superintendents, helped set up on-going learning networks among superintendents and among principals, and has worked with intact leadership teams to support them in applying Adaptive Leadership ideas to the challenges facing their districts and schools. He also co-facilitates the Connecticut Network School Superintendents (with Richard Elmore) and has extensive experience in developing and evaluating leadership development programs for universities and school districts.

Lee has researched, published, and spoken widely on leadership issues and school/university partnerships. His most recent book is The Professional Development School Handbook (Corwin, 2003). Dr. Teitel holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard as well as a graduate degree from Tufts University.

Lee Warren has worked closely with Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky in the Adaptive Leadership™ program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She also serves as Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard.

Currently, she consults around the country, leading sessions on leadership and strategic performance. Her particular interests center on leadership development and practice, classroom diversity, and case teaching as she works on issues of group process, consults with groups and individuals, and leads workshops and seminars.

With Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, Lee has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In her work with CLA, Maryann's imaginative approach to change and leadership development challenges professionals to learn how persuasive leadership, communication, and influence skills empower individuals to strengthen their organizations. As both executive educator and coach, Maryann designs leadership development programs that link action learning and reflective learning techniques, and she works with senior-level and high potential professionals to help them achieve their professional and personal goals.

Until recently, Maryann Hedaa was a director of Hildebrandt International and a member of the Strategy Practice Group. She has taught in the MBA and Executive MBA programs at Columbia Business School and has served there as a faculty director of the Global Leadership Program.

Maryann earned an MA from St. Mary's College, an MS from Columbia Business School, an STL from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and a BA from St. John's University. She is an active board member for St. Ignatius School, working to build a Jesuit middle school for girls in the South Bronx. She enjoys sailing, cooking, music, and raising Labrador retrievers.

Mark Jamison is actively involved in working with the regulatory and telecommunications industry as it addresses the significant adaptive challenges associated with adjusting to new competitive pressures.

He is the Director of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC) at the University of Florida and serves as its Director of Telecommunications Studies. He has held senior positions in both the public and private sectors. A native of Kansas, he recedived his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Florida, his M.S. in Agricultural Economics and his B.S. in Agricultural Education from Kansas State University.

Michael Johnstone is recognized as an innovator in high-impact leadership learning; he facilitates several national and international executive leadership programs. He is also sought after for his expertise in strategic thinking, communication, executive coaching, and human systems.

With more than 20 years experience in individual, organizational, and leadership development, Michael's accomplishments and activities are numerous. Currently serving as Executive Director of Vantage Point Consulting, one of Australia's foremost leadership practices, he has been on the visiting faculty at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government executive leadership programs. Michael is a registered psychologist and has held a variety of professional roles.

He currently calls Australia home, although he has lived, worked, and trained in New Zealand, Israel, the United States, Malaysia, and England, bringing an international perspective to his work. Based on his multi-disciplinary training and varied experience, Michael is known for his ability to draw ideas from divergent fields to meet the needs of his client groups, and for his energetic approach to his work.

Jay Kaufman brings to Cambridge Leadership Associates a lifetime of teaching, and thinking about leadership. Jay's work with CLA focuses primarily on engaging and empowering people and institutions in the worlds of education and public life.

Currently in his sixth term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Jay chairs the Committee on Public Service and is widely recognized for his articulate leadership in the State House and for "Open House," his award-winning, televised public policy series. His main policy interests include public education, health care, campaign reform, and social and economic justice.

Jay was also recently named founding Director of Northeastern University's Center for Leadership and Public Life where, in addition to teaching, directing undergraduate and graduate degree programs, consulting, and leading workshops on leadership and public policy, he is charged with developing professional development programming for community leaders and those in both elected and appointed positions in state and local government.

David Luna is skilled in formulating fundamental organizational strategies and models, leading executive groups, creating and implementing action plans, revitalizing work structures and processes, and managing change. Known for his values-based, entrepreneurial spirit and his ability to lead effectively through periods of uncertainty and ambiguity, David has applied these abilities to a variety of causes.

David's work experience spans the public, private and non-profit sectors and includes, extensive coaching, guiding Internet startup companies, and developing and implementing numerous leadership workgroups and strategic planning sessions.

David holds a JD from the University of Chicago, an MBA and BA in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is licensed to practice law in both Illinois State and Federal courts. His community service includes numerous board memberships in nonprofit education and charitable organizations. David has recently set a new goal for himself: to compete in a triathlon, a particular challenge, as he must first learn to swim.