Staff and Faculty

Lisa DeAngelis is the director for the Center. Lisa brings more than twenty years of divisional and corporate leadership experience to ELP. In her role as a leader within the Human Resource function she created strong business partnerships with line executives helping them to identify, clarify, implement, and achieve aggressive strategic objectives.

Her corporate experience with companies of all sizes - from a 300-person start-up to a 32,000 person Fortune 500 global organization, and such diverse industries as call centers, insurance, construction management and IT consulting - served as a strong platform for her current work. In September 2009, Lisa and her husband leveraged their corporate experience along with her learning’s from the ELP to launch their own business, “Leading with Values” where they coach CEO’s and line executives as they address business and professional challenges by helping them connect to their own capabilities, values, and beliefs, and by helping them structure opportunities to realize the potential of others they work with. Lisa has also helped facilitate the Authentic Leadership Program for the high potential offering at Wharton for the past two years.

Lisa also brings her unique mix of skills and experience to others not yet involved with the corporate world. Specifically, she volunteers with Summer Search, an organization whose mission is to find resilient low-income high school students and inspire them to become responsible and altruistic leaders by providing year-round mentoring, life-changing summer experiences, college advising, and a lasting support network.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bryant University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Regis University.

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Maureen Scully, Ph.D., studies change programs in the workplace.  She is a faculty member in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She is also an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management in Boston.  She is a research consultant for the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program.  Her previous academic experience includes a faculty position at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a fellowship at the Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Stanford University and her B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges. Prof. Scully has studied how employee resource groups improve the climate for diversity in organizations.  She has conducted research and done consultations on the role of bystanders in supporting workplace diversity, the emergence of team-based work in a variety of settings, and the challenges and opportunities for teams that work “virtually” across space and time.
Prof. Scully is the co-author of a textbook that is widely used in MBA programs, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes.  She is co-editor of The Reader in Gender, Work, and Organization.  Her research papers have appeared in several academic publications, and she won the 2001 “Breaking the Frame” research paper award from the Journal of Management Inquiry.

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Andrea Wight is the assistant director of the Center for Collaborative Leadership and the Emerging Leaders Program at UMass Boston. She works closely with the director of the Center to implement the work of the Center.  This includes planning for the Emerging Leaders Program, professional development programs, and events. Along with the ELP Alumni Board, she plays a critical role ensuring the ELP alumni continue to have strong networks and communication outlets through monthly newsletters, emails, Linked in groups, and the Center’s website. Andrea maintains and updates the Center’s website and takes the lead on communications and public relations on behalf of the Center across a variety of medium.  She is also manages the budget and accounts for the Center. Andrea was a fellow in the Greater Boston Chamber’s Women’s Leadership Program 2011-2012. The Program is in collaboration with the Simmons School of Management. She has over eight years of experience in higher education administration from UMass Boston’s College of Public & Community Service where she was the Academic Services Coordinator. Andrea received her BA from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York

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Christina Kelley is the administrative coordinator of the Center for Collaborative Leadership and the Emerging Leaders Program at UMass Boston. She serves as the first point of contact to the internal and external community regarding the Center and the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). She also assists the director of the Center for Collaborative Leadership with logistics associated with all center and ELP activities and events. Christina has over five years of experience in the administrative support field from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, and the University of New Haven. Christina received her Bachelors of Science degree from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut. Christina is an active member of the Greater Boston NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and plans to pursue her MBA at UMass Boston.

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Sue Reamer, PhD is a Senior Scholar at the Center for Collaborative Leadership.  She holds a registered nurse license and has extensive experience in nursing home administration, public health nursing and public health nursing education.  She sits on the the this Center’s Advisory Board, the UMass Boston’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy’s Advisory Board, and the Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute’s Board.  She is the recipient of the Wonder Woman Award of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus and the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from the Boston University School of Management.  At a brand new stage in her life, for the past four years, she has been delighted to babysit four days a week with her two grandchildren, Alice and Sammy, who live five blocks from her.

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Emerging Leaders Program Faculty

Lee Teitel teaches courses on leadership development, partnership and networking, and understanding organizations and how to improve them. He directs an innovative multischool effort that focuses on bringing high quality teaching and learning to scale in urban and high need districts. The program, the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, builds on several prior initiatives at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government, and works with state commissioners of education and school superintendents, along with their leadership teams and key stakeholders. Teitel’s research has focused on principal and superintendent leadership development, including those in “alternate” or nontraditional settings, and on interorganizational collaboration and other partnerships, especially between schools and universities. As a consultant, he has worked with numerous individual partnerships, networks, and with a statewide school and teacher improvement efforts. Teitel has worked extensively on executive leadership development with principals and school superintendents, collaborating with KSG colleagues Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky to set up superintendent networks in Massachusetts and Ohio, and co-facilitating the Connecticut Superintendent Network with HGSE colleague Richard Elmore. Teitel has taught at HGSE for the last seven years as a part-time lecturer and visiting professor (2004-2005). He comes to the School full-time after more than 15 years in teaching and writing about educational leadership at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he was full professor and associate chair of the Department of Leadership in Education. Dr. Teitel has an Ed.D. from Harvard University.

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Eben A. Weitzman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution, and in the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  He received his Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology in 1994 from Columbia University.  His work focuses on conflict within and between groups, with emphases on organizational conflict, cross-cultural conflict, and intergroup relations, and on research methodology.  He does conflict resolution and organizational development work with a wide variety of individuals and organizations in both the public and private sectors, including organizations in health care, education, government, law enforcement, social services, business, and the courts.  He is Reviews Editor for the journal Field Methods, and has consulted on numerous large qualitative research studies in health care and human services.  His recent publications include Problem-solving and Decision-Making in Conflict Resolution, in The Handbook of Conflict Resolution;  Interpersonal Conflicts of Women in Nursing Homes: An Administrative Perspective, in the Journal of Clinical Geropsychology; Interpersonal Negotiation Strategies in a Sample of Older Women, in the Journal of Clinical Geropsychology; Responding to September 11:  A conflict resolution scholar/practitioner’s perspective, in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy; Analyzing Qualitative Data with Computer Software, in Health Services Research; and the book, Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage).
 

 

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