Dr. Jeff McCausland is the Founder and CEO of Diamond6 Leadership & Strategy, LLC. Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. He has been a national security consultant for CBS television and radio since 2003.  Consequently, he has been a frequent commentator on the ongoing conflicts in both countries as well as other stories focused on national security. 

LTG David Barno

David Barno is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Responsible Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. A highly decorated military officer with over 30 years of service, he has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the United States and around the world, to include command at every level.

Dr. Kent Bechler served as superintendent of the Corona-Norco Unified School District, the 9th largest school district in California from 2007 to 2012. Kent has extensive training experience in management, leadership, systems, policies and procedures, strategic planning, labor relations, and developing collaboration and teamwork within organizations.  He is well known for developing trusting relationships, team building and resolving organizational conflict.  

Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. has served since 2008 as Chairman of the Stimson Center in Washington, DC.  Mr. Bloomfield was the U.S. Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction from 2008-09 (reducing the availability of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to terrorist groups), and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs as well as Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State for Humanitarian Mine Action from 2001-2005.

Patricia Cook has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Emory University and a B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis. She currently teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in the School of Business and Public Policy. 

Maureen brings over 30 years of financial services, healthcare and higher education experience to her role as a senior manager on our management consulting team, developing and delivering customized management and leadership development programs for a variety of clients from different industries. Her training and consulting engagements focus on advancing leadership skills and interpersonal communications and creating high performing teams.

Joe Doty is the Executive Director of the Dr. John Feagin Leadership Program and Associate Director of the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) curriculum at the Duke University School of Medicine.  He recently returned from three years in Singapore working as a leadership and ethics advisor.  Joe is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point NY, and served in both educational and leadership positions during his 28 years in the Army.

Doug Douds is a Marine Colonel, a professor at the U.S. Army War College, and a Licensed Battlefield Guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park.  He holds history and political science degrees from Wake Forest University and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.  A fighter/attack pilot by trade and a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun), he also has served as a strategist and senior speech writer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. 

Stan Florer, President of S F Dynamic Solutions, LLC, supports organizations large and small to help them more effectively develop their leadership and management teams.  He brings to his clients his experience from a 28-year career in the Army and ten years of business consulting.  His Special Forces leadership positions in Command, education and training development give him the insight needed in today’s education, business and defense related government organizations.    

Stephen (Steve) Gerrasis the Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Command, Leadership, and Management at the U.S. Army War College. He served eight years as the director of the strategic leadership curriculum at the War College. Colonel Gerras served in the Army for over 25 years, including commanding a light infantry company and a transportation battalion, directing the leadership curriculum at West Point, and serving as the Chief of Operations and Agreements for the Office of Defense Cooperation in Ankara, Turkey during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Don Holder is an independent consultant on leadership, Joint Force and Army doctrine, and training. As one of six Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) Senior Mentors, he coached commanders of Army corps, divisions and brigades in advanced training exercises.  He advises doctrine writers and force designers on future operations and lectures on theater operations at foreign and US service schools.

Olav Holst is currently a military historian in Honolulu Hawaii specializing in the history of the Pearl Harbor attack.  Olav is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a degree in International Business. He also graduated from the Pacific Asian Management Institute and the University of Hawaii Real Estate Appraisal School. He was commissioned from the University of Hawaii Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and served for twenty years as a combat engineer and a civil affairs officer. 

J. Mark Jackson is a Distinguished Military Graduate from Ohio University, served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry Platoon and Support Platoon Leader, and completed the Armor Officer’s Advanced Course and Airborne. Since leaving the Army, he worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Cooper Tire Co., and now Tire & Battery Corp. Jackson served as a leadership trainer and consultant for the U.S. federal government for 15 years, working with executive-level students and conducting seminars at the Federal Executive Institute, Eastern Development Manage Center, Western Development Center, and selected corporate clients.

W. Brad Johnson is Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy. A clinical psychologist and former Lieutenant Commander in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson is the author of 130 journal articles and book chapters, and 13 books, in the areas of mentoring, professional ethics, and counseling. His most recent books include: The Elements of Mentoring, 3rd edition and Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women.

George Lucas is Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis), and Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). He has taught at Georgetown University, Emory University, Randolph-Macon College, the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and served as Philosophy Department Chairman at the University of Santa Clara in California

During her 47 year career at CBS News, Linda Mason charted a path from Desk Assistant at CBS Radio to Senior Vice President of CBS News. During that time she worked with anchors Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News and Charles Kuralt of Sunday Morning. Mason has been honored with the highest awards in broadcast journalism: two Peabody Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the RTNDA,13 Emmy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NYC Chapter of Professional Journalists.

Dr. Kathy Maxwell previously taught_ kinesiology, business, and special topics Honors courses at Penn State University. While at the University, she earned programming awards from the National Continuing Education Association, was the recipient of multiple Teaching with Technology grants, and won an Outstanding Teaching Award. Kathy's academic background includes advanced degrees in Nursing, Health Education, and Adult Education.

Tanya McCausland is the Chief Operations Officer at Diamond6 Leadership & Strategy, LLC and a health and wellness speaker. Tanya holds a Nutrition Consultant certification from Bauman College in Berkeley, California and is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition through the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. Prior to her work in health and nutrition, she worked for Martha Stewart Living Radio (MSLR) in New York City as lead producer and fill in host for Morning Living, an early morning drive time talk program.

Dr. Edna Greene Medford is Professor of History at Howard University. She has also served as director of the department’s graduate and undergraduate programs and as director of the history component of New York’s African Burial Ground Project. Dr. Medford specializes in 19thcentury United States history and teaches courses in the Jacksonian Era, Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the African American experience. She lectures widely to community groups and at universities around the country and abroad, including the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Canada. 

Lt Gen (ret) Chris Miller last served on active duty as the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs, leading the Air Force's multi-billion, five-year program formulation and longer-range planning efforts. As part of his current work, he supports the Air Force Academy's Center for Character & Leadership Development as the inaugural Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Chair for the Study of the Profession of Arms. In this capacity, he is exploring the impact of increasingly complex missions and newly contested domains on the nature and cohesion of the military profession, its boundaries and its relationship with civil society.

General Miller was a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and of the College of Naval Command and Staff, and holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University.

Bernadette Mitchell is Chief Strategy Officer at AXA Equitable, she has over 25 year of experience in Finance.  She has been instrumental in building a distribution channel for AXA Equitable’s Retirement Benefits Group (RBG) of over 1000 financial services representatives nationwide. Her career has been focused on the Retirement Savings market for educators and non-profit employees.  Bernadette has headed up the Retirement Benefits Group responsible for the Strategic development team, including the training and business optimization for AXA Equitable’s pension businesses within the employer-sponsored markets. 

Therese Orr earned her guide license in September 2016 and was Lead Assistant at the Rupp House History Center in Gettysburg, telling the story of the civilian experience during the 3-day battle. She has also presented many specialty tours for the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg and had her choice for Gettysburg Unsung Hero published in the July 2019 issue of “America’s Civil War” magazine. Therese retired from the United States Navy after 3 years of Active Duty and 27 years in the Navy Reserve before transitioning into her role as a guide.

Roy J. Panzarella served as the Chief Executive – UAE for Lockheed Martin Global Incorporated. He led the corporation’s business development activities in the UAE. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in September of 2005, Mr. Panzarella served as a U.S. Army Aviator and Foreign Area Officer for over twenty-seven years. As the Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy, he was responsible for numerous bilateral programs to include the Joint Strike Fighter, F-16, C-130J, and Missile Defense Programs. 

Matthew Pinsker holds the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College in Carlisle,Pennsylvania. He also serves as Director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, an innovative effort to build digital resources on the Civil War era. Matt is currently a Visiting Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. He is also a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.

Carol Reardon is George Winfree Professor Emerita of American History at Penn State University.  A military historian who specializes in the Civil War and Vietnam eras, she served two terms as president of the Society for Military History, the field's preeminent scholarly organization.  She has taught as a visiting professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy and at the U.S. Army War College, and she served for fourteen years on the Board of Visitors of Marine Corps University.

George E. Reed, Ph.D. is the dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. For the previous eight years he served as a professor and associate dean in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of San Diego he was the Director of Command and Leadership Studies at the U.S. Army War College. He served for twenty-seven years as a Military Police Officer and retired at the rank of colonel. 

John Rinehart has used his diverse background, combining experience in community-based leadership development, nonprofit management, production agriculture, and retail sales, to create a consulting business that is based on real-world experience and delivers real-world solutions. John began his involvement in leadership development as a fellow with the Pennsylvania Rural Leadership Program (RULE), a two-year intensive leadership development experience funded by the state of Pennsylvania and administered by Penn State University.

David O. Smith is a Distinguished Fellow with the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan policy research center in Washington, D.C. He retired from government service in 2012 after serving in a senior position in the Defense Intelligence Agency. Prior to that he was Senior Country Director for Pakistan in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) in the Department of Defense. During thirty-one years of service in the U.S. Army, he served in a wide variety of field artillery assignments and spent 22 years dealing with politico-military issues in the Near East and South Asia. He is the author of The Quetta Experience: A Study of Attitudes and Values Within the Pakistan Army, published by The Woodrow Wilson Center in 2018 and The Wellington Experience: A Study of Attitudes and Values Within the Indian Army, published by the Stimson Center in 2020.

Dr. Joe Thomas currently serves as the Class of ’61 Chair and Distinguished Professor of Leadership Education at the US Naval Academy and as the Academic Director, US Customs and Border Protection Leadership Institute, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.  He’s also taught at the University of Notre Dame, George Washington University, National Outdoor Leadership School and is the past Director, John A. Lejeune Leadership Institute at Marine Corps University.

Dennis J. Volpe, M.S., M.A., is an associate consultant of Leadership Research Institute (LRI) who specializes in leadership development and executive coaching for leaders in governmental agencies, manufacturing companies, staffing services, financial services, small businesses, non-profits, local governments, educational institutions, high school and collegiate athletes, and entrepreneurs.

Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.  

Colonel Fred Wieners, U.S. Air Force (Retired), served for 28 years as a command pilot, Pentagon staff officer and university professor from 1975 thru 2003.  Fred holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Lehigh University, a Master of Arts degree in Personnel Management from Central Michigan University and a Master of Science degree in National Security Studies from the National Defense University.

Lily was the principal of PS 130 Manhattan – The DeSoto School for 25 years from 1990 to 2014.  As principal, she is credited for transforming PS 130 from a corrective action Title I school into one of the city and state’s best elementary schools, recognized for consistent high achievement and performance as a New York City, New York State and United States Department of Education Title I Distinguished School.