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Leadership 2011 Training Team
 
Kevin Duggan

Kevin Duggan was appointed ICMA’s West Coast Regional Director in May. Prior to that he worked in California city government since 1971, the last 27 years as a city manager for the cities of Campbell and Mountain View, California. As West Coast Regional Director, he will serve as the primary staff link between ICMA and members and professional associations in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Nevada. Kevin began his career as an administrative intern for the City of Mountain View while earning a BA in Political Science from San Jose State. He then served as an intern for the City of Campbell while obtaining his MPA, also from San Jose State. Kevin worked for Campbell for 18 years, the last 6 as city manager. He then returned to Mountain View in 1990 as city manager where he served until this past April. Kevin has served as President of both the City Manager’s Department of the League of California Cities and Cal-ICMA. Other professional activities have included serving on the State Board of Fire Services, participating in an international city management exchange with Limerick County, Ireland and serving on ICMA’s Task Force on Organizational Structure and Governance. He has served as an ethics trainer for ICMA and has written a number of articles for professional journals with topics ranging from budgeting during tough economic times, city council/city manager relations and ethics.

Ted Gaebler

Ted Gaebler has been helping governments change for 45 years. He has been a City Manager and/or CEO of seven local government agencies (in five states) and is an internationally-known author, consultant and lecturer. Currently, he is the City Manager of Rancho Cordova, California, [situated ten miles east of the capital city of Sacramento], which was just named one of the 10 All-America cities. Rancho Cordova is a city of nearly 65,000 with a growth potential to 350,000. Because of his previous managerial successes, Ted was hired to be the first City Manager of this brand-new city in 2003, just after incorporation. Ted has worked closely with the City Council, staff and community to nurture the new entity. In seven years under Ted’s innovative leadership, the City has accomplished much, including receiving the Sacramento Workplace Excellence Award (SWEL), recognition in the Sacramento Bee as “One City That Has it Right” and, most significantly, achieving a positive financial picture - especially laudable amidst the budget deficits of surrounding cities, counties and the State of California. Mr. Gaebler is the co-author of the book “Reinventing Government,” which became an international best seller about transforming governments from outdated, bureaucratic organizations, to flexible, customer-focused organizations. He has testified before congressional and state government committees advocating reinventing concepts. He is experienced in advising top-level administrative and elected officials at all levels of government in 59 countries. Making governments better—not “just managing”—has consistently motivated Mr. Gaebler. Through his roles as City Manager, County Executive Officer, teacher, and mentor, he has been acknowledged as a revolutionary “reinventor,” and “public entrepreneur,” changing governments peacefully from the inside out. Mr. Gaebler is a long-time CEPO supporter and trainer and has invested hundreds of California workers in the CEPO program. Mr. Gaebler graduated from Miami University in Ohio before earning his Master’s Degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has been married for 47 years to his wife, Bonne, the Housing Director of Petaluma, California. They have two successful, grown children.

David G. Jones, Ph.D.
Dr. Jones is Executive Emeritus of CEPO, President and owner of Sentient Systems, Inc., and a member of the CEPO Board. David G. Jones, Ph.D. was the original designer and Training Director for CEPO at our beginning in 1973. A pioneer in the Human Potential/ Organization Transformation movements, he has trained and consulted with organizations in 48 of 50 states, and on 3 continents. He has worked professionally with numerous cities and with over 500 city councils. Author of five books and numerous articles, Dr. Jones is the creator of the leadership model "Beyond Bravery: The Courage to Lead".

Maureen Kane
Maureen Kane is the CEPO and California Technical Track for Clerks Institutes Director and CEPO's Executive Director. She served as a member of the Riverside City Council from 1993 to 2002. Other affiliations include: Past member of the National League of Cities Finance, Administration, and Intergovernmental Relations Committees, Chair of the CA League of Cities Revenue & Taxation Committee, Past President of numerous non-profit organizations – including the CA Association of Leadership Programs. Maureen is a licensed registered nurse and mother of four grown daughters.

Juan Lopez
Juan T. Lopez began his consulting career in diversity in 1980. For five years, he worked with Dr. Price Cobbs, founder of Pacific Management Systems, a nationally recognized firm and one of the first to provide diversity training. His work in diversity began with race relations, and he was part of a small group of diversity pioneers who worked on expanding diversity beyond race relations and affirmative action into managing diversity, diversity awareness, and working with a diverse workforce. In 1982, Juan Lopez began providing one of the first Latino Leadership programs to Fortune 50 companies. In addition to this program, he initiated multicultural leadership programs for NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Juan and Rick Morales are co-founders of LLEAD, which is a premier, intensive, leadership program for Latinos in senior-level positions. They have offered this program to a wide group of corporations over the last 12 years. Rick and Juan are currently collaborating on a book about Latino Leadership that will be published in 2011. Since 1985, Juan has focused on organizational change and development, leadership, managing diversity, innovation and reinvention. In addition, Juan has worked with many private and public organizations to create hospitable work environments that value and practice diversity. In addition, he consults on strategic design of organizational change to help recruit and retain talent in order to survive and compete in a global market.

Juan currently works with PepsiCo leaders on diversity and leadership development and sits on their Global Diversity & Inclusion Governance Council. He also provides multicultural leadership programs for top talent and future leaders of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Juan is responsible for Johnson and Johnson’s, Crossing the Finish Line: Global Multicultural Leadership Program. In addition, he co-facilitated a Hispanic Leadership program for Wal-Mart’s top managers, as part of Price Cobb’s senior team.

Juan has his M.S.W. from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, where he emphasized organizational planning/administration and community health services. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, in Psychology and in Latin-American Studies, from Sonoma State University.

Juan co-created Diversity 2000, a national think tank that meets annually to work on compelling diversity issues. Thus far, the group has produced 17 reports of innovative ideas and programs. In addition, Mr. Lopez was the co-chair for three years of the National Diversity Conference, which had been one of the premier national events addressing diversity issues. He has been a member of the Collegium since 1993, a diversity think tank of diversity pioneers who develop diversity concepts and leadership models. He recently was featured in The Diversity Journal as one of the Diversity Pioneers. He is a co-author on a chapter in The ASTD Leadership Handbook which was published in September of 2010.

Juan Lopez and Giselle Sanchez co-founded Amistad Associates in 1982, in Oakland, California, where he currently serves as CEO. In 1985, Amistad Associates became a full time venture; in 1988, it relocated to Sebastopol, California, and in 1997, opened its second office in southern California. Amistad Associates is a management-consulting firm that offers executive briefings, seminars, leadership development, training, executive coaching, organizational development and consulting services in the areas of Managing Diversity. We facilitate individual programs as well as large-scale strategic planning to address changing employee/client demographics, shifts in the organizational culture, and women and people of color moving into management and senior leadership positions. Amistad Associates approaches each organization as a unique system. In its many years of providing consultation and training to organizations on diversity interventions, Amistad had gained a reputation for quality and for customizing its programs to meet a client’s specific needs.

Stacey McLaughlin
Stacey McLaughlin is an executive management consultant and organizational development trainer, (www.mountaintopinsight.com) dedicated to assisting organizations with change management and leadership development. Stacey has more than 25 years of diverse and practical administrative experience in the public sector in two states and has worked throughout the country with corporate, nonprofit and public interests. Through this experience she has garnered a comprehensive understanding of federal, state and local government operations and has a keen sense of where they connect and disconnect. Her work focuses on building strong empathetic communication systems and trust cultures that produce meaningful, compassionate and purpose driven environments.

Placing a high value on responsibility, accountability and transparency when dealing with public resources, Stacey understands the varying motivations between elected and appointed officials. Adept at council/board development she works to raise consciousness about the value of organizational team building and community building within the municipal environment, while actively promoting ethical and effective governance – where the focus is on empathetic leadership. Awakening creativity – something Stacey believes is innate in all of us, and organizational storytelling – “separating the wheat from the chaff,” and “sorting out the genuine stories from the institutional myths and folklore”, are key components of her work.

Although she has a strong sense that life is the best classroom, Stacey holds an interdisciplinary degree in Public Administration and Communications and is recognized for her creative and innovative facilitation, believing patience, humor, and compassion are essential when working with stakeholders, partners and especially the citizen community. Her personable, presence-centered facilitation and training style makes her very approachable for all personality types and a highly sought after trainer and facilitator in both casual and formal settings. Stacey is certified to administer the FIRO and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and facilitates healthy 360 Assessment processes.

Pamela Miller
Pamela Miller is the CEPO Program Director. She currently resides in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where she works as Vice President for The Consortium for Community Development. Her work there includes organization and individual capacity building, as well as community development. Her work includes supporting a non profit board of 30 members from 27 different community organizations, spearheading the Benton Harbor Promise and College Access Network initiatives, and providing assistance to the City of Benton Harbor's Emergency Financial Manager as an executive-on-loan. Pamela's public sector experience includes Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and Administrative Manager for the County Executive Office for Napa County, Deputy City Clerk for the City of Vallejo and as a consultant to Contra Costa County. In addition to her public sector experience, she has 25 years of private sector management and customer care experience, including project management and strategic planning for telecommunications, internet and employment services companies. Ms. Miller has earned a B.A. Degree from Siena Heights University, and is currently earning a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership. She earned a certification in Total Quality Management, held the Certified Municipal Clerk accreditation, and is a graduate of CEPO and the Training of Trainers Program.

Tim Pagano
Tim has been in the field of Recreation and Community Services for 14 years in the capacity of School-Age Programs administration and Youth Programs. He currently is working for the City of Brea in the role of Community Services Specialist I overseeing all after school programs provided through the city. He has had the pleasure of working in the communities of Walnut and Chino throughout his career in the public sector. Tim sits on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Teen Coalition and has presented at many local, regional, and statewide conferences including CalSAC, BOOST, CPRS, and SCMAF. He also coordinated the LA Scholars Workforce Development project for the City of Los Angeles in 2008 to support the need for the out of school time workforce. Tim is a Continuing Education for Public Officials (CEPO) Graduate.

Wandzia Rose
Ms. Rose is a management consultant and Integrative Coach professional, partnering with individuals and assisting organizations in identifying opportunities and actions to overcome obstacles and enhance performance (www.rosecoachingandconsultancy.com). As an effective “organizational translator”, Ms. Rose uses her ability to “see the bigger picture” along with her knowledge of behavioral dynamics in effecting transformational change needed to create high-functioning, outcome-driven individuals and teams. Ms. Rose also employs her significant field experience as an information technology executive to assist agencies in aligning their information technology resources with strategic business priorities. Prior to going into private practice, Ms. Rose served in the public sector for over 25 years, holding key executive positions in large and medium-size public agencies as well as educational institutions, including Interim City Manager and Assistant City Manager (City of San Leandro, 1988-2001), and Chief Information Officer (City of San Jose, 2001-2004). Ms. Rose has earned a B.A. degree from the University of San Francisco, is a certified Sentient System’s “Beyond Bravery: The Courage to Lead” as well as “Success Signals” trainer, and co-created the “Performance Leadership” leadership training program (www.DunkinWorks.com). She currently serves as President of the Wladyslaw Poniecki Charitable Foundation and as a Member of the CEPO Board. She is also an active member of the International Coach Federation and Coach Success Network.

Lorie Tinfow
Lorie is a CEPO and Training of Trainers graduate. She serves as the Assistant City Manager/Administrative Services Director with the City of Walnut Creek. Her responsibilities include oversight of four divisions—human resources, information technology, finance, and central services. In addition, Lorie is also the project manager for Walnut Creek’s new downtown library and parking garage project. Lorie first worked for the City of Walnut Creek during 1996-2001 as Assistant to the City Manager. Her wide-ranging assignments at that time included administering the City’s cable television franchise, overseeing operations at Boundary Oak Golf Course and leading the preliminary library design activities. In 2001, Lorie left Walnut Creek to serve as Assistant City Manager with the City of Saratoga where, among other duties, she successfully managed the construction of their 50,000 square foot library. In October of 2005, she joined the City of Pleasanton as Administrative Services Director. There she managed human resources, the City Clerk’s Office and Central Services, as well as a number of special projects such as investigating City acquisition of an historic cemetery. Lorie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Earth Science from Stanford University and a Master in City and Regional Planning from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Dave Wright
David H. Wright was named the General Manager of Riverside Public Utilities in 2005 and oversees all electric and water operations for the City of Riverside, which serves a population of more than 300,000. Under his leadership Riverside has been named the California Department of Conservation’s first “Emerald City” for extraordinary efforts in sustainable activities in many environmental areas including renewable energy. Wright has been with the city since 1988. He previously served as the City of Riverside Controller, Utilities’ Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Director. He is an active member of a variety of professional and community organizations including the California Society of Municipal Financial Officers Association, Political Action Coalition for Elections, Greater Riverside Chambers Board of Directors, Mayor’s Multi Cultural Task Force, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Riverside Leadership Steering Committee. In 2010, Wright was appointed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the state’s Health Professions Education Foundation Board of Trustees. He holds a BA and MBA from California State University Fullerton and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Throughout his time Wright has negotiated multi-million dollar, individual cost based customer contacts for electric services. Managed the design, construction and initial implementation of several innovative and award-winning photovoltaic projects and water treatment facilities. Administered Joint Projects financial management and debt issuance through Power Agency of California, Financing Authority for Resource Efficiency in California, Southern California Public Power Authority and Intermountain Power Authority with over $8 billion in short and long term debt. Overseen the development and management of energy and water conservation rebate programs.