2012 Executive Leadership Institute Faculty
Susan Dreyfus
President & CEO
Alliance for Children & Families and
Families International
Laura Lein
Dean
University of Michigan School of Social Work
John Tropman
Professor
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Lynn Wooten
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs; and Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organizations
University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Paul Light
Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service
NYU Wagner
Founding Principal Investigator
Global Center for Public Service
Ari Weinzweig
Co-Owner and Founding Partner
Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
Marty Mitchell
President and CEO
Starr Commonwealth
Katherine Bailey
Senior Facilitator
The Energy Project
Ronna Alexander
Visual Practitioner
Alexander Ink
Randall Dean
President & CEO
Dean Consulting & Training
Jeff DeGraff
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Gladis Benavides
President
Benavides Enterprises, Inc
Polina Makievsky
COO
Alliance for Children and Families
Laura Pinsoneault
Director of Evaluation and Research Services
Intellectual Capital Division
Alliance for Children and Families
Daniel Magnuson
President & CEO
Pathfinders
For questions about ELI, contact the Alliance Intellectual Capital Department.
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Alliance Intellectual
Capital Division
The Alliance Intellectual Capital Division is responsible for generating new initiatives, ideas, and solutions to move the nonprofit human service field forward. Currently within the division's purview are:
- Civic engagement program
- Evaluation and research services
- Executive Consultant Select Group
- Executive Leadership Institute
- Families in Society social work journal
- New Age of Aging initiative
- Strategy Counts! initiative



