2008 EMI FACULTY

Gladis Benavides—Alliance Executive Consultant Select Group; President, Benavides Enterprises
Today’s society is racially integrated yet often culturally segregated. Everyone has internal cultural tapes that influence their assumptions; the workforce challenge is to learn to be effective in a complex environment with complex interpersonal situations. Benavides uses an anthropological approach, addressing how people differ in ways that are not necessarily defined by obvious differences. Her sessions are highly interactive, involving exercises and case scenarios. Everyone in an organization needs cross-cultural competency, she notes, though a manager’s needs will differ from those of a receptionist. Born and raised in Brazil, Benavides was educated in France and the United States, and then settled in Wisconsin.

Susan Dreyfus—Executive Vice President for Strategy, Rogers Behavioral Health System
With a career-long devotion to the welfare of children and families, coupled with sharp political wisdom and political savvy, Susan Dreyfus spent nearly five years as senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Alliance for Children and Families where she successfully implemented a branding initiative that yielded clarity of Alliance value to the Alliance and its members, strategic guidance on member services, recruitment, and marketing. In her previous role as administrator of the Wisconsin Division of Children and Family Services, Department of Health and Family, she successfully led the assumption of all child welfare responsibilities from Milwaukee County by the state and the transfer of contracts from county government to nonprofit agencies. In her current role at Rogers Behavioral Health System, she is responsible for developing, implementing, and providing for a dynamic and ongoing strategic planning and positioning process, as well as strategic development and integration of marketing resources.

James Duderstadt—President Emeritus, University of Michigan
Dr. James J. Duderstadt is president emeritus and professor of science and engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Duderstadt received his baccalaureate degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from Yale University in 1964 and his doctorate in engineering science and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1967. He was appointed president of the University of Michigan in 1988 and served in the role until 1996. Duderstadt’s teaching and research interests have spanned a wide range of subjects in science, mathematics, and engineering and he has been recognized with numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service activities. He has served on and chaired numerous public and private boards.

Peter Edelman—Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
On the law school faculty at Georgetown since 1982, where Edelman teaches constitutional and poverty law, he has also served in all three branches of government. He was counselor to Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and then assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the same department during the Clinton administration. He was a legislative assistant to Sen. Robert Kennedy and issues director for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s 1980 presidential campaign; he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and has held several other posts in the justice system. Edelman is the author of Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, and has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. With Harry Holzer and the late Paul Offner, he recently co-authored Reconnecting Disconnected Young Men.

Peter Goldberg—President and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families
Peter Goldberg is president and chief executive officer of Alliance for Children and Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc. The Alliance for Children and Families represents more than 360 nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations. Alliance members serve millions of individuals annually in thousands of communities, providing services ranging from residential care for children to community centered prevention and intervention programs to economic self-sufficiency initiatives. Goldberg also serves as CEO of Ways to Work, another subsidiary of Families International. Ways to Work is an innovative program that provides modest loans to low-income workers to help pay for expenses that could interfere with their ability to keep a job or stay in school. Before joining Families International in 1994, Goldberg held a variety of positions in the corporate and philanthropic field and in the public sector. He has been selected by The NonProfit Times as one of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector six times since 1998.

Thomas Harvey—Director, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Thomas Harvey is an internationally recognized leader in social welfare. Over the course of his 40 year career, Harvey has led local and national organizations committed to confronting the challenges of poverty, discrimination, health care, and human services. In 2003, he was chosen by the Council on Social Work Education as one of 50 pioneers in social work to be highlighted in Celebrating Social Work: Faces and Voices of the Formative Years. Formerly senior vice president of the Alliance for Children and Families, he is now director of a special master’s degree program for nonprofit leaders at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. He is also the president emeritus of Catholic Charities USA, which he previously served as president.

Patrick Lester—Senior Vice President for Public Policy, Alliance for Children and Families and United Neighborhood Centers of America
Patrick Lester manages the joint legislative office of the Alliance and UNCA in Washington, D.C. He most recently served as United Way of America’s director of public policy, the organization’s primary liaison to Congress, the federal executive branch, and the media on national charity law and charitable tax incentives, the federal budget, and children’s health. Lester has also served as senior public policy analyst at the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations, legislative director for the Coalition on Human Needs, and was a budget analyst with OMB Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization. Earlier, he served on the staff of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, and was a legislative analyst for the Maryland General Assembly.

Daniel Mulhern—First Gentleman, state of Michigan
When Jennifer Granholm became Michigan’s Governor in 2002, her husband Daniel Granholm Mulhern put aside his business and quickly became one of the hardest-working volunteers in the state. As Michigan’s first “First Gentleman,” Mulhern champions volunteerism and community service throughout the state as chair of the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC). He is an accomplished leadership coach and organizational development expert and a tireless advocate for children. In addition to caring for the couple’s own three children, the Granholm Mulherns have undertaken an enormous effort called Mentor Michigan that works to insure that all of Michigan’s children have the same opportunity to be influenced and taught by a caring adult; both are matched with young people through the Capitol Area Big Brothers Big Sisters organization. A prolific public speaker, he recently published a book called Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics and Life.

John Tropman—professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work and Ross Business School
John Tropman holds a Ph.D. in social work and sociology and has spent his career at the University of Michigan, teaching non-profit management courses at the School of Social Work, organizational behavior and human resources management courses at the Ross School of Business, effective decision-making and creativity in the university’s executive education program, and leadership and other material at the executive education program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is a widely published author in the field and is currently researching “executive calamity”—executives who go down and take the whole organization with them. Tropman has worked as a consultant with both for-profit corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit human service organizations, including helping organizations and their boards with strategic planning, environmental scans, and developing product/service profiles.

Robert Searle—Partner, The Bridgespan Group
Since joining Bridgespan in 2000, Bob Searle has worked with foundations and direct-service clients across a range of issue areas, including education, the environment, and youth development. In addition to his client work, he is the author of a number of case studies and articles, including “Moving Eco-certification Mainstream” and “Can Nonprofits Get More Bang for the Buck?” Bob’s other experiences in the nonprofit sector include staff positions at social service and arts organizations, including Ronald McDonald House and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony. Before attending business school, Searle was a professional musician, playing four years with the U.S. Marine Band and performing with the Boston and Seattle symphony orchestras.

Ari Weinzweig—Co-Owner, Founding Partner, and CEO, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
While attending the University of Michigan as an undergraduate, Ari Weinzweig began washing dishes in a local restaurant and soon discovered that he loved the food business. Along with his partner Paul Saginaw, Ari started Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan, a staff of two, a small selection of great-tasting specialty foods, and a relatively short sandwich menu. Today, Zingerman’s is an Ann Arbor institution—an organization of eight distinct businesses with a 450-person staff and annual sales approaching $30,000,000 a year. Zingerman’s was instrumental in the founding of Food Gatherers, a perishable food rescue program, and continues to be a major supporter of the organization. Every year Food Gatherers delivers over a million pounds of food to people in need.

Lynn Perry Wooten—Clinical Assistant Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organizations, University of Michigan, Ross Business School
Lynn Perry Wooten joined the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1998. She earned her B.S. in accounting from North Carolina A&T State University, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and her Ph.D. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Wooten’s research projects focus on sources of organizational effectiveness that are embedded in human capital. Her research has been published in academic journals, such as the American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Management Inquiry and Sex Roles.