Fellows

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.

Change Management and Organizational Development Professional

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.

Designing collaborative action plans and strategic teams for organizations that want to get more accomplished.

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.

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, 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 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.

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.

Associate Vice President, Engagement and Innovation Partnerships

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.

Professor Emeritus of Humanities at New Mexico Tech. Collaborative leadership through curiosity, motivation, empathy, listening, improvisation, systems thinking, and experiential learning.

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.

For nearly 20 years Joe has been helping communities and organizations collaboratively design and manage transformations to help them become more resilient and competitive.

Experienced Organizational Development specialist in higher education with program management, DEI, technical/creative writing, consulting, facilitation, research development, and grant writing assets.

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.

Post-secondary leader focused on growing applied research and innovation in the Kootenay region.

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 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.