Certified Workshop Leader training: this online course helps practitioners put their new skills into practice through a guided/coached process of planning, carrying out, and following up from a Strategic Doing workshop. You must have already completed the 2.5 day course to begin the certification process. The course is offered a few times a year.
Experienced Certified Workshop Leaders may be invited to become Strategic Doing Fellows. Fellows are the teaching corps of Strategic Doing, leading the practitioner and certification trainings. As is the case with many disciplines, teaching Strategic Doing calls on a skill set that is significantly different than using Strategic Doing. The best way to explore this option is to talk with a Fellow.
Janyce Fadden
Janyce Fadden is Director of Strategic Engagement at the University of North Alabama Sanders College of Business and Technology’s Agile Strategy Lab where she is part of a team advancing agile leadership and strategy initiatives. She is co-author of the award-winning book, “Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership” and serves as a certified fellow of the Strategic Doing Institute, a breakthrough process for doing more together.
Scott Hutcheson
Scott is a Senior Lecturer of engineering and technology leadership at Purdue University. He is co-author of “Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership” and “Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact (Wiley).” He is a regular contributor to Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc. magazines. He’s trained 1,000s of leaders in Strategic Doing in his graduate courses and professional development offerings.
Jeff Agnoli
Jeff Agnoli, recently served as the Senior Liaison for Strategic Partnerships with the Ohio Innovation Exchange in the Office of Corporate Partnerships at The Ohio State University. He is building a sustainable future for the Ohio Innovation Exchange – an initiative of the Ohio Department of Higher Education. This platform is driving industry and higher education partnerships across the State of Ohio and beyond.
Jacco Dros
Jacco Dros brings innovation to communities, regions, businesses, educational institutions, and NGOs — both within and across organizational boundaries. He is enthusiastic, creative, and a bit unconventional — but above all, he stays true to himself. Jacco lives in Arvika, Sweden, where he and his wife Mariëlle run a small-scale retreat center. In addition to his work as Strategic Doer, he prepares delicious vegetarian, Ayurvedic meals!
Reinder Schonewille
I am a high-end business coach and advisor for visionary leaders who want to shape the future with joy, impact, and soul. My gift is bridging inspiration and implementation – uniting energy, soul, and strategy so that transformation becomes not just possible, but inevitable. With lightness and presence, I activate new energy in organizations, teams, and networks. I help turn vision into concrete action, always keeping the human at the center.
Mary Marshall VanSant
Mary-Marshall VanSant, CCP, has been a Certified Strategic Doing™ Fellow since 2016. She serves as Director of the Center for Learning & Professional Development at the University of North Alabama, home to the UNA Agile Strategy Lab. She has led Strategic Doing trainings and workshops nationally and internationally and also serves as Chief Doing Officer for the Shoals Shift Pathfinder Project
Aniko Drlik-Muehleck
Aniko is an educator who helps the next generation of public service leaders realize their potential. Aniko’s work with students, AmeriCorps volunteers, and communities focuses on economic development, rural capacity-building, and inclusive outreach. She values collaboration and public empowerment as mechanisms to achieve community-based change. Aniko has been using Strategic Doing to jumpstart rural communities in Oregon to action.
Liz Nilsen
I’ve been a Fellow for nearly a decade, leading practitioner trainings and consulting. Through my work at the Agile Strategy Lab (from its beginnings at Purdue and now in its current form at UNA) I’ve worked with organizations and collaborations throughout the US (and beyond) on a wide variety of challenges. The primary goal of all my work is to equip people with the skills needed to tackle complex challenges in partnership with others.
Jennifer Horn-Frasier
Jennifer Horn-Frasier is the founder of strategy and facilitation consultancy Bluebird Sky. She helps people, organizations, and coalitions craft agile strategies, strengthen collaboration, and move ideas to action. Her primary focus bridges education, workforce, and innovation ecosystems to create meaningful, measurable impact, and her work as a musician and writer supports arts-oriented engagements. She is an active Strategic Doing instructor.
Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer Hunter is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gensyn Design, where she brings a unique blend of visionary thinking and practical problem-solving to her work with business and community leaders. With experience in strategic planning, Strategic Doing, design/systems thinking, and organizational change, she is passionate about creating conditions for meaningful change, fostering collaboration, and building processes that enable collective action.
Thomas Banta
Connector. Coach. Collaborator. I’ve been an SD disciple since 2016 and a passionate promoter of the framework in addressing and overcoming the complex challenges of our time. I became a Fellow in 2020 and have trained over 100 practitioners and conducted dozens of workshops over the past decade. My primary areas of focus have centered around community and economic development, workforce, and innovation/entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Ubaldo Cordova
Professor of Chemical Engineering at UPRM and PI on NSF awards exceeding $20M, including an NSF CAREER Award. Former Executive VP for Academic Affairs and Research of the UPR system. Research focuses on reconfigurable and multifunctional soft materials. Founder of Acerola Strategies LLC, specializing in adaptive management, innovation, and agile strategy.
Ruth Ellen Calhoun Whitt
Executive Director of Leadership Texarkana. By professional training and with over 4 decades of real world experience in leading community-based initiatives for progress in Texarkana USA, Ruth Ellen Whitt is a proven community leader, problem solver, change agent and educator whose forte is using intentional and targeted communications to successfully frame issues and define solutions that generate understanding and support for matters of significance to her community.
Kathy Opp
Kathy Opp is the CEO and Owner of K2OHSolutions, LLC. She is a seasoned business executive and Strategic Doing Fellow providing strategic directioning and process improvement services, culture assessment and change management, facilitation, as well as leadership, management, and team coaching. My goal is to help clients foster a positive work environment that will have a lasting, positive effect on people’s lives.
Robert Brown
Bob Brown is an Associate Director at Michigan State University’s Center for Community and Economic Development, working exclusively in Flint. He champions asset-based community development (ABCD), or asset-based community-driven development as it is sometimes called, a bottom-up way of working with communities. He is also the founder of Neighborhoods Without Borders, a community network that works on identified Flint neighborhood issues.
Jennifer Hawkins
At the heart of my work is a commitment to public value, practical innovation, and partnerships that make lasting impact. My work bridges data, strategy, and collaboration — helping teams align people, processes, and purpose. I hold dual master’s degrees (MBA and MPP) from the University of Minnesota, along with a Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation, and I’m a certified Strategic Doing Workshop Leader and Fellow.
Josh Bruce
Bruce received his master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon in 2002. He maintains professional certification with the American Institute of Certified Planners and has achieved professional accreditation in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design from the United States Green Building Council. Bruce serves as the Applied Research Director for the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement at the UO.
Robert Parker
Bob Parker is Director of Strategy and Technical Solutions for the University of Oregon’s Institute for Policy Research and Engagement (IPRE). Since 1989, Bob has managed more than 500 policy and planning analysis projects. Bob has four decades of experience with housing, economic development, growth management, and organizational strategy.
Doug Barrett
Doug Barrett is Interim Dean and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Economic Development in the Sanders College of Business and Technology at the University of North Alabama. He has a Ph.D in Statistics from the University of Alabama, and certifications in Strategic Doing, AEM-Cube, and GrowthWheel. A Strategic Doing Fellow since 2017, Dr. Barrett has been teaching Practitioner Training each year starting in 2016.
Kim Mitchell
Kim is an architect and city planner. As founding director of the Center and Institute for Community Renewal, Kim utilizes Strategic Doing in systems change experiments that begin with growing relational capacities of a citywide network of caring. Since 1994 Kim has worked with Ed to develop concepts, practices and community of Strategic Doing.
Jo’Anne Langham
An experienced strategist and researcher specialising in human-centred design, governance, and systems change. Bridges theory and practice to help organisations shift from hierarchy to collaboration. Leads global networks to foster trust, experimentation, and shared leadership. Believes innovation flourishes through connection—when diverse actors align around shared purpose and measurable outcomes.
Kate Moreland
Kate is an experienced leader and CEO who understands the struggles of career decisions, conscious leadership and the power of wellbeing and authenticity. For the past 12 years she has been coaching others as they explore interests, uncover strengths, and consider career and life changes.
Signe Bell
Experienced nonprofit professional with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education and nonprofit sectors. Skilled in board and staff training, nonprofit organization management, nonprofit consulting, program evaluation, conflict resolution, and volunteer management.
Lorien Carter
Ann Marie Hess
Dr. Andrea Hunt
Andrea’s teaching, research, and community work cover a diverse range of topics including trauma, identity, inequality, experiences of first-generation students, gender bias in instructor evaluations, the role of academic advising in student retention, mentoring, effective online pedagogy, and learning experiences that promote information and media literacy.
Angie Jenkins, Ed.D.
A passionate and tenured leader with interdisciplinary educational and professional experiences that is dedicated to implementing and monitoring systemic school-wide and district-wide initiatives to optimize teaching and learning outcomes as well as college and career readiness for students.
Meris (Mandernach) Longmeier
Meris Mandernach Longmeier is an Associate Professor and Head of Research Services for University Libraries at The Ohio State University. In this role she develops services for OSU Libraries to support the research endeavors of all faculty, staff, and students at Ohio State.
Tracie J. Metz, Ed.D
With over twenty years in public education, serving as a teacher, school administrator, student success coach, and substitute bus driver in rural communities across North Carolina, developing and advancing cross-sector partnerships centered on education and workforce is both a personal and professional passion for me.
Mira Mihajlovich
Experienced Research And Development Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Government Proposal Writing, Sales, Event Management, and Fundraising. Strong community and social services professional with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) focused in Law from Indiana University Bloomington.
Troy Mix
Troy Mix is an Associate Director and Policy Scientist with the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA). Troy leads IPA’s Regional Development and Planning Team, which works with communities, individuals, and organizations seeking to shape the future of places they care about.
Patrick Ripberger, MPH
Patty Rose
Passionate about healthcare transformation, improving health equity, and reducing health disparities. Patty assisted small rural providers in improving their quality of care, adapting their workflows, and optimizing the use of their electronic health records systems to enhance the patient.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens
Outcome-based leader with mentoring, coaching, supervisory, project management, fundraising, grant writing, and training experiences in higher education. Specific expertise with recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations, marketing and communications, leadership development, social media, training and career coaching.
Dr. Nathan A. Schaumleffel, CPRP, CNP, CFRM, CVA, CYSA
Dr. Nathan A. Schaumleffel, CPRP, CNP, CFRM, CVA, CYSA is Proprietor and Senior Consultant of Driven Strategic LLC, a company that specializes in consulting for nonprofit & public organizations; parks & recreation; park foundations & friends groups; youth & human services; and university engagement.
Liesl (Voges) Seabert, AICP
Danielle Sullivan
Danielle loves a good business story and helping executives make meaningful connections with reporters. With an eye on the big picture and a focus on excellent execution, she is passionate about working with teams as they navigate what it means to be a purpose-led organization.
Certified Workshop Leader
Maureen Ennis is a High-Performance Team, Executive Coach, and Change Consultant. Having delivered millions of dollars in value to her clients using her Big Impact Team™ methodology, Maureen is known for her future-forward approach.Her mission is to partner with executives to build highly productive, cohesive teams based on trust, the foundation for collaboration, productivity, and transformative growth.
Tim Cornelius
Transformational leader with comprehensive experience creating a bottom-line impact through innovative initiatives. Demonstrated success in program and project management, agile principles design thinking, curriculum design, budget planning, Strategic Doing, and pioneer recruitment administration. Recognized for devising creative learning opportunities. Strong background in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindset thinking.