2014 ANNUAL MEETING SPEAKER, PANELIST, AND PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Most Rev. John Barres was ordained a Bishop and installed as the fourth Bishop of Allentown on July 30, 2009. He was the first priest ordained a bishop within the Diocese of Allentown. In almost 5 years as shepherd of the Diocese, Bishop Barres has supported efforts of pastors, teachers, parents and the former Bishop’s Commission on Catholic Schools at strengthening our Catholic schools. In the 2012-2013 school year, Allentown was the only Diocese in Pennsylvania to see an increase in enrollment and the only diocese from Maine to Maryland to show an increase in elementary school enrollment. The current school year makes the second straight year that the Diocese of Allentown’s school enrollment has increased, no other Pennsylvania diocese can make that claim. With the assistance of former Honeywell Chairman and CEO Larry Bossidy, Bishop Barres has guided the Diocese on its first strategic plan, which over two years has resulted in cutting edge efforts to enhance pastoral ministries and help to strengthen the financial condition of the Diocese. The Bishop, recognizing the importance of social media in spreading the Gospel message and the New Evangelization, has launched a video blog on the Diocesan website and is working with a committee of outside experts to expand the Diocese’s social media presence. Nationally, Bishop Barres has been an active member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. He has spoken out forcefully on the issue. The Bishop also serves on two other USCCB committees: the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth; and the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis. He was recently appointed Episcopal Liaison to the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Rev. Efrain Bautista was born and raised in Calexico, California, located in the Imperial Valley, the southern, most eastern part of California. Fr. Bautista attended public school in Calexico and attended the local university where he obtained a Business degree. After attending college, he started to work in several local non-profit organizations, all of which provided services to the less fortunate one of the poorest areas in California. Fr. Bautista worked there for about 3 years before deciding to apply to the seminary for the Diocese of San Diego. Fr. Bautista was admitted into the seminary in the Fall of 2002 and began his philosophical studies at the University of San Diego. In August 2006, his Bishop sent Fr. Bautista to the Pontifical North American College in Rome, to complete his theological studies. Following his ordination in June 2010, Fr. Bautista returned to the Imperial Valley to the town of Brawley, CA where he served as an Associate Pastor at Sacred Heart Church and St. Margaret Mary Church prior to being assigned to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Vista, CA, north of San Diego. In May of 2012, following the departure of the Pastor, Fr. Bautista was named Administrator and subsequently pastor of the St. Francis of Assisi in October of the same year and has been there ever since then. St. Francis of Assisi is a vibrant multi-cultural parish community with 9 Sunday Masses celebrated in three languages, Spanish, English and Vietnamese. In addition, St. Francis has a school, religious education in each of the three languages, over 100 ministries, making the parish one of the largest in the Diocese of San Diego.

Robert J. Birdsell is the co-founder and Managing Partner of the Drexel Funds, a family of non-profit venture funds for private schools. Prior to founding the Drexel Funds, Rob was CEO of the Accelerate Institute. At the Accelerate Institute, Rob led the organization through a strategic planning process which shifted its focus from a teacher preparation program to having a singular concentration on transformational urban school leadership and also rebranded the organization during this process. Under Rob’s leadership the organization also expanded its footprint to Memphis, Newark, Baton Rouge and Milwaukee and he built a business model which focuses less on philanthropy and more on local partner investment. In the past two years, Rob has raised investment commitments on the local and national level of over $10 million for the Institute. Prior to the Accelerate Institute, Rob was the President & CEO of the Cristo Rey Network. Over his tenure, he oversaw the significant growth of the network from 12 to 25 schools, grew revenues of $33 million in 2007 to $75 million in 2012. Rob dramatically expanded Cristo Rey’s leadership development programs, advocated for high performing urban schools and education reform on Capitol Hill, and led an initiative at Cristo Rey to increase the quality of outcomes for students. Rob also put in place a disciplined approach to managing growth and recruited seven new outside directors to the Cristo Rey Network board. Prior to Cristo Rey, Rob led Eduventures consulting practice and he began his career teaching high school English in Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Rob is a frequent speaker on education policy and sustainability for urban schools. He has spoken at the America’s Promise Alliance’s Grad Nation Summit, the Council on Foundations Annual Meeting, the United States Department of Education Leadership Conference, Notre Dame University’s Conference on Sustainability for Faith-based Urban Schools, and Yale University’s Summit on Education Reform. In addition, Birdsell has been published or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, USA Today, America magazine, World at Work Journal, Company Magazine, the Atlanta Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, Conversations, and the Ligorian.

Alex Boucher is Project Administrator of the Leadership Roundtable’s CatholicPastor.org, a collaborative virtual learning forum, part of their ongoing leadership formation program where priests, as a community of practice, can engage in an extended conversation, learn from one another, and share best practices. In addition to his work with the Leadership Roundtable, Alex serves as Program & Operations Manager for the Catholic Apostolate Center, where he assists in forwarding the Center’s mission through partnerships, program implementation, planning, and internal operations. Alex coordinates the Center’s higher education cooperative alliance with Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. He also facilitates the Center’s support of the Campus Ministry Leadership Institute and Empowered Campus Ministry, co-sponsored with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat of Catholic Education. A native New Englander, Alex is a proud alumnus of Cheverus High School, the Jesuit college preparatory school of Maine. As a high school student, he served on his parish council and parish evangelization committee, and served for two years on the Maine Diocesan Council for Catholic Youth. Alex previously worked in full time parish ministry at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and several other diverse and multi-cultural parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine in the areas of parish life, liturgy, and faith formation. Alex currently serves on the diocesan liturgical commission and assists as a master of ceremonies for his diocesan bishop. He is currently completing a degree in Theology in the School of Theology & Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he is active in campus ministry, including men’s ministry and the Knights of Columbus.

Lawrence A. Bossidy is the retired Chairman of the Board and CEO of Honeywell International Inc., a global $26-billion advanced technology, controls and manufacturing company. Mr. Bossidy’s distinguished fivedecade career in business began with the General Electric Company’s renowned financial training program in 1957. For the next 34 years, Mr. Bossidy served in a number of positions with GE, including Chief Operating Officer of General Electric Credit Corporation (now GE Capital Corporation), Executive Vice President and President of GE’s Services and Materials Sector, and Vice Chairman and Executive Officer of General Electric Company. Mr. Bossidy joined AlliedSignal Inc. as Chairman and CEO in 1991. He is credited with transforming AlliedSignal into one of the world’s most admired companies. During his tenure with AlliedSignal, the company achieved consistent growth in earnings and cash flow, highlighted by 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13% or more and an eight-fold appreciation of the company’s share price. He was named CEO of the Year by Financial World magazine in 1994 and Chief Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine in 1998. In 1999, Mr. Bossidy became Chairman of Honeywell International Inc., following the merger of AlliedSignal and Honeywell in December 1999. He retired from the company as scheduled in April 2000. Mr. Bossidy returned as Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc. in July 2001 following General Electric’s unsuccessful acquisition bid for Honeywell. He retired from Honeywell again in 2002. Mr. Bossidy is co-author of the best-selling book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, and its sequel Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success. Mr. Bossidy graduated from Colgate University in 1957 with a BA degree in economics. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of General Electric, JPMorgan, Merck & Company and the Berkshire Hills Bancorp. He is also an advisor to the Aurora Capital Group, a private equity firm, Chilton Investment Company & CapGen Capital Advisors, LLC. In addition he is a contributor to CNBC Squawk Box.

Michael Brough is the director of strategic engagement for the Leadership Roundtable. He works with Catholic leaders to create and implement resources that assist parishes, dioceses, and Catholic nonprofits to address the development and implementation of management structures and personnel policies and procedures that enhance the effectiveness of all those in Church ministry. Mr. Brough is also a presenter in the Leadership Roundtable’s training for new pastors and a keynote presenter and workshop facilitator at national and diocesan conferences. He is certified by the Center for Creative Leadership to deliver the Catholic Leadership 360 assessment tool. Previously, Mr. Brough was executive director of RENEW International. He is an experienced presenter and teacher and worked for the Scottish bishops in the area of justice education. He has led training for Catholic lay ministers, priests, and bishops throughout the US and in 12 other countries. Mr. Brough holds degrees from St. Andrews University, Scotland, and Loyola University, New Orleans, with further qualifications in clinical and pastoral counseling and education.

Paul V. Butler is the president of GlobalEdg, a leadership development consulting firm. Paul works with senior executives in organizations to increase capabilities of individuals, teams, and organizations. With over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, he is well positioned to support organizations going through large-scale change efforts and produce sustainable results.

Dennis Corcoran has more than 30 years of full-time parish employment. He holds a BA in Religious Studies from Caldwell College and a MA in Pastoral Ministry/Church Leadership from Boston College. Dennis is currently the Pastoral Associate for Christ the King Church in New Vernon, NJ. He was previously the Director of Parish Operations for Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River from 19952005. Dennis is a consultant for organizational leadership to Catholic parishes and dioceses throughout the country and is a member of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management where he is on the faculty for the Pastor’s Toolbox. Dennis lives in Randolph with his wife, Laura, and 4 children - 22, 20, 17, & 15.

Mary Cornwell is a 2012-2013 ESTEEM Alumni from Michigan State University. Due to a desire to do post-grad service and continue diving into Catholic Social Teaching after this program, she joined Amate House, a young adult volunteer program through the Archdiocese of Chicago. The past year, she has been living in intentional community and working at Girls in the Game, organizing and coaching after school programs to promote health, leadership, and sports in under served neighborhoods. This fall, she will be pursuing a Master’s in Public Health to study issues related to physical activity and nutrition and health equity.

John Deinhart is the Director of Stewardship and Strategic Planning for the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville. In his role at the diocese, John oversees all areas of development including the annual Bishop’s Appeal, planned and capital giving, and the work of a number of diocesan foundations. John is also responsible for all facets of diocesan strategic planning and serves on the Bishop’s Senior Leadership Team. Prior to his career in development, John worked in consumer products marketing and sales for nearly 25 years, leading sales and marketing teams at Ralston Purina and Bush’s Beans. In his most recent role with Bush Brothers, he led the brand’s expansion efforts into Canada. Since moving to East Tennessee in 1999, John and his wife Crystal have been actively involved in many Catholic ministries, including their longtime advocacy and support of the mission of Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (NPH), a home for over 3,500 orphaned, neglected and abandoned children in 10 countries across Latin America. John serves on the executive committee of the National Board of NPHUSA and is known to the kids at NPH as ‘Senor Frijol’ (Mr. Bean).

Peter Denio is the Coordinator for the Standards for Excellence program and CatholicPastor. org for the National Leadership Roundtable. In this capacity he has worked with parishes, dioceses, religious communities, schools, and nonprofits on the integration of best management practices. He was the former Acting Director of the National Pastoral Life Center. He has worked as a Lay Ecclesial Minister for almost 20 years and currently serves as the part-time Pastoral Associate of Adult Faith Formation at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, NJ. He sits on the advisory boards of the Fordham Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, and the Paulist Office for Reconciliation. He received a Masters in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College and a Masters in Public Administration from Seton Hall University. He is married for 12 years to his wife Mary. They live in Fair Lawn, NJ and have three children together: Conor (10), Riley (7), and Devon (6).

Katie Diller is the director of student outreach at St. John Catholic Church & Student Center at Michigan State University and the national program coordinator of ESTEEM (Engaging Students to Enliven the Ecclesial Mission), a joint project of the Leadership Roundtable and Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University that engages young adult Catholics into the full life of the Church. As a postgraduate volunteer in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), Ms. Diller served as a high school chemistry teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, the University of Dayton, and Yale University.

Rev. Joseph Donnelly is a native of Waterbury Connecticut. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1968 and did his priestly formation at the North American College in Rome. While there he completed a licentiate in fundamental theology at the Gregorian University in 1972. He was ordained a priest in Rome for the archdiocese of Hartford in 1971. Father Donnelly served in parish ministry in the archdiocese in several parishes before joining the formation faculty at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield CT as spiritual director in 1977. During this time he completed a masters degree in Spiritual theology at Creighton University in Omaha. In 1984 he was invited to join the formation faculty of the North American College in Rome where he served as vice rector until 1989. After a sabbatical consisting of a 30 day retreat and a semester at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge MA he was assigned as the priest on a pastoral team at St. Bridget Parish in Manchester CT. He served there until 2003 when he was appointed pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Southbury CT. He continues to serve there. In 2007 Fr. Donnelly was also appointed chair of the Board of Directors of the St. Vincent DePaul Mission of Greater Waterbury, a social service agency under Catholic Charities which operates the largest homeless shelter in Connecticut as well as a soup kitchen, thrift store, mental health facilities and housing for the working poor in Waterbury. Father Donnelly has served the archdiocese of Hartford in various capacities on the Presbyteral Council, the Committee for Continuing Education of Priests, and as a teacher in a local college and Catholic high school and in adult education programs. He also worked for several years at the Institute of Living in Hartford as a spiritual director for priests in their in-patient therapeutic program for professionals.

Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik (US Army, Ret.), is a trustee of the Leadership Roundtable. Lt. Gen. Dubik assumed command of Multi National Security Transition Command-Iraq on June 10, 2007. During this final command, he oversaw the generation and training of the Iraqi Security Forces. Previously, he was the Commanding General of I Corps at Ft. Lewis and the Deputy Commanding General for Transformation, US Army Training and Doctrine Command. He also served as the Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division. Lt. Gen. Dubik has held numerous leadership and command positions with airborne, ranger, light and mechanized infantry units around the world. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry from Gannon University as a Distinguished Military Graduate in 1971, and he retired from service on September 1, 2008. He is a frequent writer and speaker and he holds degrees from Gannon University, Johns Hopkins University, and the US Army Command and General Staff College.

John Eriksen is the director of special projects for the Leadership Roundtable, overseeing the organization’s programs focusing on Catholic schools and pooled strategic investment. He was previously superintendent of schools in the Diocese of Paterson, NJ. Mr. Eriksen began his career as a high school teacher in Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) before moving to the Leadership Roundtable, where he headed the organization’s management consulting practice. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Carol Fowler is the recently retired Director of the Department of Personnel Services for the Archdiocese of Chicago. The Archdiocese employs about 15,000 people. As one of the seven Archdiocesan department directors, she served on Cardinal Bernardin’s Cabinet and Cardinal George’s Administrative Council. She served the Archdiocese in this role from July 1991 until June 30, 2012. Her position included supervision of all human resource functions for laity, clergy and religious, including policy development, recruitment and hiring, performance management, employee relations and benefits management of health, pension and related benefits. Carol was a member of the Board for the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. She was president of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators and served on that Board for several years. She is past president of the National Association of Diocesan Directors of Campus Ministry, served on the board of the Catholic Campus Ministry Association and was on the Bishops’ United States Catholic Conference Committee on Education. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Church Management at Villanova University, is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and an Associate of the Dominican Sisters of Adrian. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Baltimore. Her doctoral project was on lay ecclesial ministry. She has a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology and a B.A. in Social Science with a secondary teaching certificate from Michigan State University. The Human Resources Certification Institute of the Society for Human Resource Management certifies Ms. Fowler as a Senior Professional in Human Resources. Ms. Fowler currently teaches, conducts workshops and consults on areas of Church management, best practices in Church human resources, leadership development, new pastor workshops and a variety of parish and diocesan administration issues.

Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J. has served as the 23rd president of Loyola University Chicago since June 2001. A seasoned university administrator, tenured professor, author, and scholar, Father Garanzini has spent the majority of his career working in higher education. In June 2011, Father Garanzini was appointed by Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus, to serve as the Secretary for Higher Education for the Society of Jesus. In this new role, which officially began on September 1, 2011 and is in addition to his continued service as president and CEO of Loyola, Father Garanzini assists the Father General on a part-time basis, coordinating and championing Jesuit higher-education issues around the world. Father Garanzini’s solid academic credentials combine with a rare blend of experience in teaching, research, service, and administrative leadership at some of the nation’s leading Jesuit institutions of higher learning, including Georgetown, Fordham, Saint Louis, and Rockhurst universities, as well as Gregorian University in Rome. A St. Louis native, Father Garanzini received his BA in psychology from Saint Louis University in 1971, the same year he entered the Society of Jesus. Father Garanzini serves on the following boards of trustees: the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU); the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities; the Archdiocese of Chicago, Board of Catholic Schools; the Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation; and LIFT-Chicago. He serves on investment committees for the ACCU, the Society of Jesus, and other organizations, and he is chairman of the Cuneo Scholarship Foundation. Active in community service, Father Garanzini is known for his work on behalf of children and families. He is a frequent speaker and has published many books and articles on issues suchas child and family therapy, moral development, and Catholic education.

Rev. J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also the Secretary for Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. Prior to assuming these positions Father Hehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the national network of Charities in the United States, from 2001 through 2003. From 1973-1992 he served on the staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., addressing issues of both foreign and domestic policy for the church in the United States. From 1984-1992, he served on the faculty at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School as Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society. From 1998-2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of the Divinity School. Father Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degrees at St. John’s Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association, the Global Development Committee and the Independent Sector. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1984 and is the recipient of over thirty honorary degrees from American colleges and universities. Publications include: “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty”; “Catholicism and Democracy”; “Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition”; and “The Moral Dimension in the Use of Force”.

Susan King is secretary of the Leadership Roundtable board of directors, dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor. Prior to joining UNC, Ms. King was vice president for external affairs for Carnegie Corporation of New York. She worked for nearly five years in the US Department of Labor as the assistant secretary for public affairs and as the executive director of the Family and Medical Leave Commission. Her journalism career included stints with ABC, CBS and NBC. Ms. King was also an independent journalist reporting for CNN and ABC Radio News. She was a local television news anchor at stations in Buffalo, NY, and Washington, DC. She has hosted the “Diane Rehm Show” and “Talk of the Nation” for NPR. Ms. King holds degrees from Marymount College and Fairfield University.

Most Rev. Joseph Kurtz was born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania in 1946, Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz earned bachelor (1968) and master of divinity (1972) degrees from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia and a master’s degree in social work (1976) from the Marywood School of Social Work in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Archdiocese Kurtz was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Allentown in 1972 and served 27 years in various roles within the Diocese, including as a social worker, Catholic Charities director, pastor, and teacher on the high school, college, and seminary levels. In 1999 Archbishop Kurtz was appointed Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee and in 2007, Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky. Elected President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2013, Archbishop Kurtz serves on the executive and administrative committee of that body. He is the vice chancellor of the board of the Catholic Extension Society, and he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America and on the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Bioethics Center and St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. He serves on the Advisory Board to the Cause for Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification. In February of 2014, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Kurtz to the Holy See’s Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Elizabeth McCaul provides a broad range of financial and regulatory advisory services to clients in the United States and Europe, including assistance with matters related to safety and soundness, risk management, corporate governance, and capital markets. Elizabeth joined Promontory after serving as the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, where she was responsible for supervision of some of the world’s largest institutions and most of the foreign banks operating in the United States, as well as community banks, mortgage companies, and the overseas banking activities of investment banks and insurance companies. All told, she oversaw financial institutions representing $2 trillion in assets. She is well recognized for her safety and soundness and risk management credentials. As Superintendent, she introduced capital markets specialists to the examination teams, established targeted hedge fund reviews, opened a Tokyo office, and helped banks and securities firms comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the USA PATRIOT Act. In her early days as Superintendent, Elizabeth directed a $22 billion banker’s bank, following its liquidity problems. After the 9/11 attacks, she worked with banks, securities firms, and the Federal Reserve to get the U.S. markets reopened and functioning properly. She subsequently worked with federal regulators and top law enforcement officials to create mechanisms to help guard against the use of the U.S. banking system for financial terrorism. Elizabeth served as the Chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and as a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). She was an instructor on corporate governance at the Financial Stability institute at the Bank for International Settlements. She also worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs from 1985 to 1995. Elizabeth earned a Bachelor of Arts at Boston University and received a scholarship from the German government to the Common Market Program at the Institute of European Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Kathleen McChesney has held unique leadership positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference and The Walt Disney Company before establishing Kinsale Management Consulting. She served in many leadership positions in the FBI, heading its field offices in Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon and the FBI’s International Training Academy, before being appointed as an Executive Assistant Director - the Bureau’s third highest position. As a detective with the King County Police in Seattle, Washington, she specialized in the investigation of homicide and sex abuse cases, and as an FBI Special Agent she directed investigations in the areas of organized crime, public corruption and terrorism. Dr. McChesney was selected by the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference to establish and lead a national office for child protection. She developed and oversaw a national compli - ance mechanism to ensure that all Catholic dioceses complied with civil laws and internal policies relative to the prevention, reporting and response to the sexual abuse of minors. She coordinated a major research study into the nature and scope of theproblem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and has published and lectured frequently on the issue of sexual abuse of minors in youth-serving organizations. Dr. McChesney has served on several non-profit boards including the National Children’s Alliance, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Safety Advisory Board of the Boys and Girls Clubs – USA, the Foundation of Former Special Agents of the FBI, the National Leadership Roundtable, the Federal Executive Boards of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, and the Villanova Center for the Study of Church Management. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the President’s Award for Distinguished Public Service, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Center for Women in Policing and an honorary Ph.D. from Anna Maria College. Dr. McChesney is the coauthor/co-editor of two books: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis (2012); and Pick Up Your Own Brass: Leadership the FBI Way (2010).

Dominic Perri is a principal of the Essential Conversations Group, a management consulting firm based in Chicago. In this role, he provides facilitation, leadership development, training and consultation to organizations throughout the United States and Canada. Dominic has led strategic planning and re-structuring processes for corporations, universities, government agencies and nonprofits. Dominic is also a dynamic presenter who has created and delivered leadership training programs across the U.S. Among the topics he addresses are managing people of different generations in the workplace, using social media to improve performance and increasing collaboration and teamwork. Dominic also has extensive experience in the field of survey research, developing and analyzing surveys and focus groups at two university research centers. He has worked as a researcher at both the Survey Research Center at the University of MarylandCollege Park and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dominic is a member of the board of directors of the Organization Development Network of Chicago. Other professional memberships include the Academy of Management and the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits. Dominic holds a B.S. in Physics from the Catholic University of America, with minors in both religion and philosophy. He also has an M.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dominic lives with his wife Patricia and their two daughters in Forest Park, IL.

Brian Reynolds is the Chancellor and Chief Administrative Officer for the Archdiocese of Louisville. In this position he coordinates the planning, personnel and administrative functions for the archdiocese serving 111 parishes. Besides his work as a diocesan administrator, Dr. Reynolds has served as a consultant, trainer and author in church ministry for more than 30 years. Over the years he has worked with more than 100 Catholic dioceses in the United States, Canada and Ireland. In addition, he has served on the adjunct faculty of several colleges and universities where he has taught courses on leadership, ministry, stewardship and ethics. He is the author and co-author of five books and more than 40 articles on church ministry, adolescence, and religious education. Dr. Reynolds presently serves on a number of boards locally and nationally including: Board of Trustees, Spalding University; Catholic Youth Foundation - USA; and the Center for Interfaith Relations. He is the recipient of several national awards including: Vision Award from the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators; the Yves Congar Award from the Conference of Pastoral Planning; the Spirit Award from the National Association for Lay Ministry; and the National Catholic Youth Ministry Award. He earned a Bachelors Degree from Fairfield University, a Masters Degree from Fordham University and a Doctorate in Leadership Education from Spalding University. He has been married to his wife, Catherine, for 33 years and they have two young adult children.

Kerry Robinson is the executive director of the Leadership Roundtable. She is a member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities (FADICA). She has served as a trustee for several organizations, including the Education for Parish Service Foundation, the Gregorian University Foundation, the National Catholic AIDS Network, the Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College, the Center of Applied Research in the Apostolate, the Center for the Study of Church Management at Villanova University, Busted Halo, America magazine, the National Pastoral Life Center, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, and Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Ms. Robinson served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University where she led a successful multi-million dollar fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel’s intellectual and spiritual ministry and to construct a Catholic student center. She holds degrees from Georgetown University and Yale Divinity School.

His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl is the Archbishop of Washington and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2010 by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. He participated in the March 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis. He serves on numerous national and international bodies including the Vatican Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith, Bishops, and the Clergy as well as the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Promoting Christian Unity. He was the Relator General for the October 2012 Vatican Synod on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith. Cardinal Wuerl is known for his teaching ministry and is the author of numerous articles and books, including the best-selling catechisms, The Teaching of Christ and The Catholic Way. His recent books include, Seek First the Kingdom (2012), New Evangelization: Passing on the Catholic Faith Today (January 2013), and The Light Is On For You (February 2014). The Cardinal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received graduate degrees from The Catholic University of America, the Gregorian University in Rome and a doctorate in theology from the University of Saint Thomas in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 17, 1966, and ordained a bishop by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and served successively as Auxiliary Bishop in Seattle, Bishop of Pittsburgh and Archbishop of Washington. His titular church in Rome is Saint Peter in Chains.