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LSI Executive Coach
Every Fellow in the Leadership and Society Initiative is supported by Next Chapter Advisors.
These coaches and mentors are selected based on the Fellow’s personal background, strengths, and goals to facilitate their progress through the on-campus immersion and their work on their capstones.
Executive Coach
An experienced counselor guides Fellows through introspection, providing personalized tools to help them reflect on their values, reconnect with who they are at this stage, clarify their purpose, and design a roadmap for their next chapter.
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A member of UChicago’s world-renowned faculty, who has subject matter expertise in a societal issue that the Fellow is interested in addressing, helps each Fellow to investigate current research on the topic.
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Already five or more years into their own encore leadership, this advisor shares experiential wisdom on the transition from an accomplished career into a significant next chapter for society.
View Distinguished MentorsLearn more about this community of exceptional educators and practitioners:
Executive Coaches
Angela Cobb
LSI Executive Coach
Gail Golden
LSI Executive Coach
Chuck Grant
LSI Founding Instructor & Executive Coach
Deepa Gupta
LSI Executive Coach
Sonya Malunda
LSI Executive Coach
Carolyn Ou
LSI Founding Instructor & Executive Coach
Jon Powell
LSI Executive Coach
Amy Rubinstein
LSI Executive Coach
Elisa Spain
LSI Founding Instructor & Executive Coach
Samir Wagle
LSI Executive Coach
Academic Advisors
David Chrisinger
Executive Director of the Harris Writing Workshop
Harry Davis
Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, Booth School of Business
David Gallo
Professor, Department of Psychology
Marco Garrido
Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology
Christina Hachikian
Clinical Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Booth School of Business
Aimee Hilado
Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Shantá Robinson
Research Associate, Harris School of Public Policy, and Senior Research Director, Inclusive Economy Lab
Susan Stokes
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Division of the Social Sciences
Distinguished Mentors
Ellen Alberding
President & CEO and Board Member, The Joyce Foundation
Kate Markin Coleman
Principal & Founder, IAS Advising LLC
Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for All Voters
Kent Dauten
Chairman, Keystone Capital
David Dillon
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner, Dillon Kane Group; Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Together Chicago
Ana Dutra
Experienced Corporate Board Director
Symon Elliott
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
Jonathan F. Fanton
President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Janet Froetscher
Chair of the Board, Senior Advisor, and Former President of The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation
Helene Gayle
President Emerita, Spellman College; Former President and CEO, the Chicago Community Trust
Susan Gianinno
Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Steve Hagerty
Former Mayor of Evanston, Emergency Management Advisor:
Julie Hamos
Senior Advisor, Office of Medicaid Innovation at the University of Illinois
Mark Ishaug
President and CEO, Thresholds
Kate Jerome
Senior Publishing Executive and Author, Cofounder – Little Bridges
Carl Johnson
Retired Chairman of the Board, Nautilus, Inc.
Suneel Kamlani
Chairman of the Board, MUFG Securities Americas Inc.
Maria Kim
President & CEO, REDF
Michael Klowden
Executive Vice Chairman, Milken Institute
Steven Koch
Managing Partner, Bowline Group, LLP
Tom Manning
Executive Chairman, Cresco Labs
Renetta McCann
Chief Inclusion Experience Officer, Publicis Groupe
John W. McCarter, Jr.
Life Trustee and President Emeritus of the Field Museum of Natural History
Marquis Miller
Vice President, Economic Development, Obama Foundation
Saurabh Narain
President and Chief Executive
National Community Investment Fund
Jeffery Perry
Founder & CEO, Lead Mandates; Board Director; Retired EY Global Client Service Partner
Stephen Potter
Lead Director, Miami Corporation; Retired CEO of Northern Trust Investments and Vice Chairman of Northern Trust Corporation
Larry Richman
Former Chair, U.S. Region, CIBC Bank USA
Deborah Rutter
Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University
Sunil Sanghvi
Senior Partner Emeritus & Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Eric Schurenberg
Former Editor-in-chief and CEO, Inc. and Fast Company
Michelle Seitz
Founder & CEO, MeydenVest Partners
David Snyder
President & CEO, The Economic Club of Chicago
Julia Stasch
Immediate Past President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Barbara Stewart
Former Chief Executive Officer, AmeriCorps
Rishad Tobaccowala
Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Dilnaz Waraich
President, WF Fund
Kevin Willer
Partner, Chicago Ventures
Jill Wine-Banks
Attorney, Author MSNBC Legal Analyst