2007 International Spirit at Work Award Selection Committee

Elisa Mallis, Chair

Elisa Mallis is a Human Performance Consultant and Professional Coach. Working for Accenture, she has consulted to Fortune 500 companies across various industries throughout the United States, Central America and Europe. Elisa has focused on producing transformational change in individuals, workforces and enterprises, by delivering a variety of solutions focused on holistic people development. Within Accenture Elisa designed and led the development of an internal coaching initiative and is currently leading the Coaching and Leadership Community of Practice within Accenture.

Elisa's client work is currently focused on measuring and improving coaching and leadership effectiveness for large numbers of managers so they can unleash the power and potential of their people on the front-line. Elisa has earned a Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology and a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology, both from Columbia University, and has completed coach training at the Graduate School of Coaching.

Elisa has presented at various International Coaching and Leadership Conferences and has published articles in related journals. Elisa has also chaired the Selection Committee for the International Spirit at Work Awards for the last three years and has been invited to serve as an Advisory member of the EBBF Board of Directors for 2006/07.

Sabine Bredemeyer

Sabine lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, and has been an independent consultant for organizations and communities since 1987. After having been a successful entrepreneur for 13 years she sold her PR-agency and created a consulting-company, Bredemeyer & Friends.

As a personal- and business coach, consultant, facilitator for large group interventions, master hypnotherapist and trainer Sabine works on organizational health and transformation, conscious leadership and personal development. She facilitates for up to 1000 people at a time. The conferences focus on creating collective futures scenarios, visions, new strategies or single projects.

Her clients are large and mid-sized German and international companies, organizations and communities. Sabine has published articles and co-authored several books about organizational change, large group interventions, and management tools. She is also a speaker at German and international conferences.

As a Steward of Spirit in Business (http://www.spiritinbusiness.org ) she supports Business leaders throughout the world in being prepared for the challenges of this century.

An International Spirit at Work honoree in 2006, Julie Edwards is the Chief Executive Officer of Jesuit Social Services in Australia, which provides leadership in the development of creative and sustainable responses to communities, families and young people with long-standing and entrenched problems.

Julie has 30 years experience engaging with marginalized young people and families experiencing breakdown and trauma. She is a family therapist and a grief and loss counselor. Julie has a masters in Social Work and is currently completing her doctorate in this discipline.

"I've always been passionate about finding ways to give practical expression to my social justice values, exploring the most effective means to build a more just society and promoting a values-based model of leadership".

Alex Gharagozlow

Alex Gharagozlow is Executive Director of Operations with Phenomenex, Inc. Founded in 1982, with offices in the USA, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, Phenomenex is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and supply of chromatography products for the separation, analysis and purification of chemicals and bio-chemicals. Phenomenex clients include major pharmaceutical corporations such as Pfizer, Merck, GSK, as well as small/medium size companies, research institutes and universities.

With more than 15 years of experience in general management, sales, marketing, and business development, with geographic responsibilities covering Europe and USA, Alex currently oversees Phenomenex operations in manufacturing, information technology and human resources. During his tenure, he has helped expand Phenomenex's North American sales between 1994-1997 as Technical Sales Consultant and as Eastern Division District Manager.

Between 1998-2000, he was assigned to launch Phenomenex Germany, first as National Sales Manager and then as Business Manager. Upon his return to the US, he assisted the company CEO in general management issues, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, finance, strategic planning, managing relationships with legal council, and a wide array of philanthropic activities.

Prior to joining Phenomenex, Alex was Sales & Marketing Manager for a start-up chemical company in Southern California and completed a management training program in international banking in London. Alex has an honours degree in chemistry with management science from the University of Kent Canterbury.

Mark Guerrero

Mark has worked in the skateboarding community for the past seven years, seeking to bring inspiration to the sport through his interaction with fellow skateboarders and his development of skateboarding through alternative channels. In Mark's recently debuted book, titled Back Foot Revolution, he highlights some of skateboarding's most neglected possibilities and presents an inspirational story intended to spark the youth of today to seek greater dimensions in life, rather than a world with no dreams, hopes, and desires.

Mark has worked with Valerie Sutton, the inventor of Sutton Movement Writing, a writing system for body movement. Together, Mark and Valerie expanded a section of the system, called SportsWriting, to now include the writing of skateboarding. This on-going work has pioneered a new profession called Sports Notator.

Along his path, Mark has taken an interest in SignWriting and wishes to help the SignWriting Literacy Project for Deaf Children, which provides signers from 40 countries with dictionaries of their native language, sign language. His awareness of the human soul has also lead him to assist the National MS Society by raising funds and awareness in the Southern California region by organizing community wide events.

Mark currently works as a Product Manager for J.D. Power and Associates, a global marketing information company. He received his BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from California State University, Northridge and looks forward to attending an MBA program in the near future.

Alan Harpham

Alan describes himself as what Charles Handy calls 'a portfolio manager'.

Alan is part-time Chairman of the APM Group, established in 1993 as the trading arm of the Association for Project Management, now an independent accreditation, assessment, certification and examination body with offices in US, Holland, China and Australia. He spends the rest of his time in voluntary work associated mainly with the spirit at work phenomenon and the Anglican Church.

Alan has always had an interest in spirituality and work. He is currently chairman of the ecumenical body Workplace Ministry Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire in UK. He is an early member of the Association of Spirit at Work network in the US, a member of the Spirituality in Work network based at Douai Abbey, a former steward of the Spirit in Business organisation (now no longer in existence) and a member of the Ridley Hall Foundation with its publication 'Faith in Business'. He was founding chairman of MODEM, a charity to promote dialogue between those interested in leadership, and organisation and those interested in spirituality and ministry.

Alan has co-led MODEM's research project on the 'Hope of the manager', researching the energy managers use to achieve near impossible tasks and its nature. He has also been chairman of the St Alban's Ministerial Training Scheme, and founding co-chairman of the St Alban's and Oxford Ministry Course, a churchwarden, lay chairman of a deanery, member of St Alban's Diocesan synod, and a lay-assistant on the St Alban's voluntary self- appraisal scheme for clergy. He is a freeman of The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants in the UK and is a mentor to Chief Executives of Charities.

He is a former director of:

• P5 the Power of Projects - a management consultancy focused on programme and project management (1990s & 2000s)
• Subject Matters - an events management company (2000s)
• Managing Director and senior consultant of Nichols Associates (now part of The Nichols Group), one of the UK's leading consultancies in project and change management. (!980s to 1990s)
• an early Director of Cranfield University's MSc in Project Management where he started his own project management consultancy (1980s).

Alan's early career (1960s to 1980s) was as an engineer and line manager with John Laing, where he rose to become Overseas Contracts Manager for its M & E activities. His M & E experience included construction of the UK's first major North Sea oilrig, and a large contract for a PVC plant in Poland where they took a significant proportion of the workforce (over 1,000 men) from the U.K.

Judi Neal

Judi received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University in 1985 and was a manager of organizational development and training for Honeywell in the 1980s. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Haven and is the Founder, President & CEO of the International Center for Spirit at Work. With John Renesch, she is the co-founder of the International Spirit at Work Award. She is the author of Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and Break New Ground. This book was number five on the BarnesandNoble.com website for best new business books in November 2006.

Judi has edited several special issues of academic journals and has published numerous professional and scholarly articles on management. She is the President of Judi Neal and Associates, International, an organizational transformation consulting firm (www.judineal.com). Services offered include Leadership Development, Change Management, Team Building, Communication Skills Development, Coaching and Spirituality in the Workplace.

Her clients include Pfizer, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Yale University, Yankee Gas, United Illuminating, Jackson Newspapers, Sennheiser, Unilever, the Ohio Hospital Association, and numerous other organizations. In addition, Judi has become internationally known for her Edgewalker Workshops and Edgewalker Organizational Programs (www.edgewalker.org)

Marc Silverman

Marc has consulted to families on Family Wealth Preservation and Family Businesses from startup to multi-nationals. With family businesses he has consulted from first through fifth generations and from 3 to over 100 family shareholders. He specializes in working with complex family systems of three generations and over 25 family shareholders in integrating the needs of different generations into clear succession and governance structures. Most of his clients have over 4000 employees. A frequent seminar leader, he has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars in over 12 countries.

He has published over thirty articles on various topics, including Estate Planning as if the Family Mattered and Leadership and Succession Planning in Family Business. Currently he serves as Professional in Residence to Florida International University’s Center for Family Business, as a columnist for “Dinero” and “Instore” magazine and as a Family Business Consultant to national and multi-national family businesses dealing with issues of succession, developing corporate and family governance structures, conflict resolution processes and wealth management.

An early member of this relatively new field, Marc is considered a pioneer in the field of Family Business particularly in Latin America and has been granted Fellow status by the Family Firm Institute. He has worked with dozens of families in various countries including several well-known family dynasties.

Marc received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration, his master’s degree in Family Systems and his Ph.D. in Organization Development specializing in Family Business from American Commonwealth University. He brings over 15 years of experience in Family Business Consultation specializing in areas Conflict Resolution, Succession Planning, and Corporate and Family Governance. His work includes the development of Family Business Assessment Tools (Questionnaires, Interviews, Experiential Exercises), effective Boards of Directors, Family Councils and Family Protocols. He has served on the Board of Advisors to Association of Organization Development of Latin America and as President of the International Organization Development Association for nine years.