School of Professional and Continuing Studies

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Welcome to the Executive Leadership Consortium. The Consortium was established in 2003. A very strong and active advisory council — represented by business and organizational leaders and faculty — guides our work. This is coupled with an exceptionally committed group of  executive fellows — thought leaders who volunteer their time to share with students and faculty cutting edge practical and real world business applications.

The main purpose of ELC is to bring leaders to campus to interact with students. We believe students’ exposures to leaders will enrich their experiences which further socializes or acculturates them.

Leaders Preparing Leaders is our tagline. We emphasize this because we are very student focused, ELC’s primary stakeholders. Yet, the important role of business leaders is unquestionable. To wit, there is a cross-fertilization taking place that has created a unique esprit de corps.

The Consortium could not have been successful without a whole host of supporters. It takes leadership and vision to launch such an innovative initiative. The forward thinking of so many will prepare students to compete at the highest levels of current and future leadership positions.

The 21st Century presages an increased need for competition, risk and creativity but most importantly, leadership. The experiences of UMSL students have uniquely situated them for opportunities and challenges ahead and we look forward to continuing with this exciting work.

Mission

The mission of the UMSL Executive Leadership Consortium/Division of Continuing Education is to prepare students and a cross-section of career professionals to become effective leaders to meet current and future demands in response to regional, state, national and international needs. 

Vision

The UMSL Executive Leadership Consortium is a program of exceptional prominence with a global reach.  It serves as a model of choice for leadership experiences and opportunities for UMSL as well as professionals in the region, state, nation and internationally.

Events & Series   

Students from all majors are invited to attend programs. Faculty are encouraged to refer students and, if appropriate, give credit for attending ELC programs.

Distinguished Speaker Series

Public Private Partnership’s Maximum Value for a University Foundation

When: Monday, March 11, 2013 | 5:30-6:30 PM (program)  6:30-7:15 PM (reception) 
Where: UMSL, Millennium Student Center - Century Rooms

The purpose of the Distinguished Speaker Series is to feature a leader of notable achievement to talk about topics pertinent to business. The series continues to reach out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the larger community to convey invaluable information about business leadership. Free & open to all students, campus community & the public.

brian lavin

Brian F. Lavin

Brian F. Lavin has served as the president and chief executive officer of each of NTS Realty Capital and NTS Realty Partners, as well as director of NTS Realty Capital since their formation in 2004. Lavin also has served as president of NTS Corporation and NTS Development Company since June 1997 and of NTS Mortgage Income Fund since September 1997.

From November 1994 through June 1997, he served as president of Paragon Residential, a division of Paragon Group, Inc. and prior to 1994, as vice president of Paragon’s Midwest Division. In this capacity, he directed the development, marketing, leasing, management and financing for Paragon's Residential twelve state multi-family portfolio. Paragon Residential developed and operated multi-family properties with an aggregate of 25,000 units in the Midwest and Southeast sections of the United States.

Lavin has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is also a licensed real estate broker in Kentucky and certified property manager. He is a member of the Institute of Real Estate Management, council member of the Urban Land Institute and member of the National Multi-Housing Council. Prior to his current membership with the World President’s Organization, he was a member of the Young President’s Organization. He has served on the board of directors of the Louisville Science Center, Louisville Ballet, Greater Louisville, Inc., National Multi-Housing Council, Louisville Apartment Association, Louisville Olmstead Parks Conservancy, Inc. and the Inquiry Commission for the Kentucky Bar Association. He currently serves on the board of overseers for the University of Louisville.

Lavin and his wife Mary reside in Louisville, Kentucky with their 10 children and 3 grandchildren.

Previous Speakers

Women's Networking Series

Filling Your Personal Toolbox

When: October 25, 2012 | 3:00–5:00 PM
Where: UMSL, Millennium Student Center

Register: Contact Malaika Horne by email or at (314) 516-4749.

This program is to enhance the knowledge and skills of women students about networking. It is open to all women students majoring in business, communications, the arts, nursing, education, etc.

It includes a panelist of women professionals discussing practical ways to network effectively. Other women professionals and women students are also invited to discuss real-world experiences and engage in networking exercises. Students are encouraged to dress in business attire and bring business cards.

Panelists 

Moderator 

Gloria Ross, president, Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis and principal, Okara Communications

This program is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of women students about networking. It is open to all students of any major and classification.

It includes a panelist of women professionals discussing real-life, practical ways to network effectively. Other women professionals and women students are also invited to discuss real-world experiences and engage in networking exercises, followed by a power networking session. Students must sign up for this program. They also receive an orientation and are encouraged to dress in business attire and bring business cards.  Students can also sign up the next semester for the Women’s University Mentoring Project to be mentored one-on-one by a woman professional who attended the program.

Executive Fellows Mentoring Project

Where: UMSL, 427 Social Sciences & Business Building

The purpose of this mentoring project is to help students meet their career goals after graduation. Executive fellows facilitate three sessions per program with small groups of three to five students. This mentoring project is open to all students. Students must attend all three sessions. Faculty gives credit for student participation.

Contact Malaika Horne at (314) 516-4749.

Business and organizational leaders serving as executive fellows at the UMSL Executive Leadership Consortium hold sessions with students, any major and classification, to provide support and guidance in transitioning from college to their professional careers for success after graduation.

Gary Lee, Executive Fellow

Robert Muldoon, Executive Fellow

Tom Teasdale, Executive Fellow

Dick Navarro, Executive Fellow

St. Louis Rotary Club Ethics Panel

When: February 20, 2013 | 5:30-6:45 PM
Where: UMSL, JC Penney Summit Lounge

Topic:  Addressing Professional Ethical Dilemmas

A panel of leaders, St. Louis Rotary Club members and other professionals, discusses professional ethics with students and faculty. Can reserve for an entire classes to attend. Faculty can give credit for student participation. Also faculty can reserve for an entire class to attend.

Director

The director, Dr. Malaika Horne, is the administrative head of the Executive Leadership Consortium. She directs the manner of the implementation of the policies of the institute and oversees procedures, rules, and regulations.

The director's responsibilities include:

Malaika Horne is founding director of the Executive Leadership Consortium. Previously she served as a professor at Webster University, School of Communications and Journalism. Before that, she was managing director of Narcotics Service Council.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UMSL, a master’s degree in Urban Affairs from Saint Louis University, a doctorate in public policy studies from Saint Louis University, and a post-doctorate in psychiatric epidemiology and bio-statistics from Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.

She is a journalist and academic writer, currently writing a column in the business section of the St. Louis American newspaper and frequently writes for St. Louis Women on the Move magazine.

Dr. Horne is curator emeritus of the University of Missouri System, serving as president in 1997. She has served in many other board capacities, including founding vice chair of ARCHS, co-chair of its Sustainable Neighborhoods, the Urban League Guild Friends of KWMU Board.

She currently serves as board vice president of the Scholarship Foundation, board member of Coro Leadership Center of St. Louis, board member of the St. Louis Art Museum, board member of Accion Social Communitaria, a social service program for immigrants and a member of Ready Readers, a program that promotes reading to underserved children. A longtime advocate of character education for children, she serves on the national advisory council of Sri Sathya Sai Baba Education in Human Values, a worldwide organization.

She is recipient of the 2001 Women of Achievement Award and has received numerous other recognitions and awards.

She is married and lives in the Central West End with her husband, Prince A. Wells III, music professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Her hobbies are volunteerism, reading, art, music, fashion, interior design, health and fitness, and travel in this country as well as abroad to Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America.

Vision

Linking the Campus to the Community

The University of Missouri-St Louis, a premiere land grant university, envisions an Executive Leadership Consotium of national prominence that makes a contribution to the university and the community by heightening awareness of the importance of leadership and increasing leadership qualities and skills.
The Executive Leadership Consortium is a student-centered program that aids future leaders to realize and strengthen their potentials so that students can be more effective in a rapidly changing organizational environment. The Consortium believes that investing in leadership effectiveness will foster personal growth of students, enhance their career opportunities, contribute to workforce development and strengthen economic vitality.

The Institute is comprised of Executive Fellows who serve as bridges between UMSL faculty, students and business leaders. Executive Fellows are also business leaders, retired or transitioning, who volunteer their time at the institute primarily to promote real world applications in a reality-learning environment for students, faculty and staff. By the same token, Executive Fellows and other business leaders will become more familiar with the university environment, including its academic programs. Executive Fellows will also interact and work with faculty, for example they will serve as guest lecturers, put on seminars and work with staff in Career Services and the CBA internship coordinator. This cross fertilization (linking the campus to the community), will also create a cadre of supportive leaders in the community who not only have their finger on the pulse of business and public needs, but will render further support to the university which will open more doors to the community.

Executive Fellows will be selected from various areas of interests and expertise. Each Executive Fellow will also work on a project compatible with his or her background to constructively engage students, faculty, Advisory Council members and other leaders around leadership topics and issues to build bridges between the campus and the community. Whenever possible, the institute seeks to cut across disciplines as well as public and private sectors to encourage viewing leadership as a widely held principle characteristic of virtually every segment of society and to view leadership in new and different ways.

While business faculty, students and business leaders represent the priority for the institute, students with other majors and other organizations such as civic, cultural, education and government will be part of institute activities, particularly when the needs of business intersect with the aforementioned.

The Consortium aims to foster and cultivate a sense of community. It will engage and work collaboratively with the Executive Leadership Consortium Advisory Council, faculty, administrators and staff within the university and with leaders in the business community. Additionally it will collaborate with other leadership programs on campus to further strengthen its mission, such as the Center for International Studies, Public Policy Research Center, Sue Shear Institute, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, Bridge, Student Affairs, Multi-cultural Relations, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, CORO Leadership and the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program.

Executive Fellows

In addition, ELC has an Executive Fellows component. Executive fellows are thought leaders, typically former or transitioning heads of companies or agencies. They arrange with the director to serve six-month to two-year terms, volunteering to impart insight about leadership development with students, faculty, staff and the public. They are also members of the ELC Advisory Council.

Responsibilities include:

Karen Carroll

Karen assumed the role of president/CEO of KCI Enterprises Inc. in March 2003. She brings to the position a wide range of executive leadership experience as well as valuable community and regional perspectives on economic issues.



Prior to forming KCI, Carroll served as vice president/general manager of KMOX Radio, the Voice of St. Louis. While she was at KMOX, the station achieved national prominence for coverage of the Pope's visit, the election of 2000, plus numerous special news programs. KMOX won the Edward R. Murrow award for best news coverage.

Carroll was recognized by law enforcement community leaders for bringing the AMBER program to Missouri and for bringing the region together by producing the 9/11 Together We Stand, an Interfaith Prayer Gathering.

During her tenure at KMOX, she expanded the station's collaborative partnerships to include the Weather Channel, Post–Dispatch Business Reports, RCGA President's Report, St. Louis American CEO's Report, and the Edward Jones Stock Market Report. Special programming added included evening specials, "live" overnights. and Showdown with Saddam. Business operations expanded, advertising revenues reached record heights, and the station maintained its rating dominance of No. 1.



In addition to the five years as GM/VP of KMOX, Carroll spent 20-plus years crafting the No. 1 radio group in the St. Louis region — pioneering the operational design for the changes brought about by the Telecom ACT of 1996. Starting her years as general manager of KYKY-Y98 FM, she then added the GM responsibilities of KSD-AM 550 and KSD-FM 93.7. As consolidation continued, she also became GM of soft-rock KEZK-FM and 590 all-sports KFNS. Soon after, Rams football joined the fold as part of the group's special programming.



Carroll began her career in the mid-70s at one of St. Louis' first FM properties. The positions she held there included sales manager and then general manager. During this period she developed and was one of the founders of the St. Louis Radio Association and was chosen as its Woman of the Year in 1994.

Other past projects include service as a representative for EZ Communications on the National Radio Advertising Bureau. Working the president, she authored and implemented the company training program to all employees across the city in seven markets and 21 stations.

Carroll founded Outreach St. Louis, the charitable 501(c)(3) that was responsible for major awareness campaigns raising funds for the Bob Costas Cardinal Glennon Cancer Center, Edgewood Children's Home, Our Little Haven, the Saint Louis Zoo, and Forest Park Forever. Both chairman and founder, she ascertained the community needs, educating the region and raising funds to help fulfill various charities missions.

During her extensive career, Carroll has dedicated time to a number of boards. Currently, she serves on the boards of Junior Achievement, Forest Park Forever (executive committee), American Cancer Research Center (executive committee, former president), The Muny, and Red Cross Disaster Relief, as well as chair for the Red Cross Clara Barton Society 2003–2004. Carroll is also currently serving Barnes Jewish Children's Hospital, for the Siteman Cancer Research Foundation leadership giving initiative. Carroll is in her third year as the chairman of the University of Missouri–St. Louis Chancellor's Council.

Other special recognitions received during her career include National Radio Industry Woman of the Year in 1994, YWCA Leadership Award in 1999, Top 100 St. Louis Business Leaders in 2001, Top 25 Women Business Leaders in 2000, and the Woman of Achievement Award in 2003.



A born-and-bred St. Louisan and alumna of the University of Missouri–Columbia, Carroll has spent her entire professional career based in St. Louis. Carroll also serves as an investment partner in Platinum LLC d/b/a Byrd, a women's retail boutique, and Westmoor Investments LLC, a real estate investment company specializing in multifamily and commercial properties. New Heights International, owner and operator of Sylvan Learning Centers, which provides supplemental education, enrichment, and remediation for kindergarten through high school students, is her largest holding with plans for expansion.

Richard Navarro

Richard is a senior lecturer in the University of Missouri–St. Louis College of Business Administration, where he teaches courses in process management and financial and project management. He retired from the Boeing Company in 2006 after 42 years, where his most recent assignment was director of Information Technology and Corporate Business Systems Architect, responsible for IT business systems technologies and directions for the corporation. His previous assignments included serving as director of Information Systems, director of Systems and Processes Integration/JSF, director of Quality Systems Integration, chief engineer–chief software technologist, and chief engineer–F/A-18 Ground Systems.

Navarro graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering. He holds master’s of science degrees in mechanical engineering and computer sciences and a master’s of business administration. In 1996, he was awarded a professional degree in aerospace sciences by the University of Missouri–Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology). Navarro holds emeritus status on the UMSL MIS Board of Visitors, is an associate fellow of the AIAA, and is a member of the MUST Academy of Mechanical and Aeorspace Engineers.

In addition to his position with UMSL, Navarro is an adjunct professor in the Engineering Management Department of the College of Business at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is also an adjunct professor in the MBA departments at Washington University in St. Louis and at Webster University, where he teaches courses in IT technology evaluation and management and production operations, respectively.

He and his wife, Virginia, an associate professor of educational psychology at UMSL, have been married for 38 years and have four children: Paul, 35, an attorney in North Carolina; Kevin, 33, a middle school teacher and associate head of school in St. Louis; Jon, 27, clean air coordinator for the North Carolina Research Triangle; and Claire, 22, a publications editor in Chicago. When Navarro is not teaching, volunteering at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation, or reading his e-mail at home, he can often be found in the basement of their 90-plus-year-old home working on what will some day be the finest HO-scale model railroad in Glendale.

John Bachman

John is a senior partner of Edward Jones, grew up in Salem, Ill. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Bachmann is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wabash College and an honorary Doctor of Arts from the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Bachmann began his career at Edward Jones as a part-time college intern in 1959. Upon completion of his formal education, he joined the firm full time.

Beginning in 1963, Bachmann spent seven years as a retail investment representative in Columbia, Mo., and in 1970 returned to St. Louis as a partner with responsibility for fixed-income product marketing. He later gained experience in strategic planning, corporate finance, and technology.

In 1980, Bachmann succeeded Edward D. "Ted" Jones Jr. as managing partner of Edward Jones. Bachmann built upon Jones' philosophy of serving the needs of individual investors from one-investment-representative offices. This included using technology in a way that directly benefited, yet was transparent to, individual investors. During Bachmann's tenure, Edward Jones grew from 200 offices in 28 states to more than 9,000 offices throughout the United States, as well as its affiliates in Canada and the United Kingdom.

After 24 years in the role, he stepped down as managing partner and became senior partner in December 2003.

Bachmann served two terms as chairman of the Securities Industry Association, in 1987 and 1988, a time of great turbulence because of the October 1987 stock market crash.

Bachmann's past outside activities include: chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2004–2005); chairman, Executive Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2005–2006); campaign chairman, United Way of Greater St. Louis (2002); chairman, St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (2000–2002); and chairman, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. His current outside activities include: Canadian Honorary Consul in Missouri; trustee of Wabash College; chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Peter F. Drucker Center and trustee of the Claremont Graduate University; trustee of Washington University in St. Louis; commissioner of the Saint Louis Science Center; director of AMR Corporation, American Airlines Inc.; director of The Monsanto Company; and director of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD).

Stephen Burrows

Steve was employed by Anheuser-Busch for 30 years, serving as a corporate officer for the past 15 years. Most recently he served as the chief executive officer and president of Asia Pacific Operations for Anheuser-Busch International Inc., the international beer subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. He served as a member of the Anheuser-Busch Strategy Committee for the parent company, a board member of Anheuser-Busch International Inc., and on the boards of a number of Anheuser-Busch International subsidiaries. Burrows previously served as a board member of the Harbin Brewery Group Ltd. in China and Crown Beers India Ltd. in India and remains in service as the vice chairman of the board of directors of Tsingtao Brewery Co. Ltd. in Qingdao China.

Before moving to the international operation in September 1992, Burrows was vice president of brand management for Anheuser-Busch Inc., the company’s domestic brewing subsidiary. In that position, he directed national and regional advertising, sales promotion, merchandising, packaging, research, and other brand marketing activities for Budweiser and the company’s other beer brands.

Prior to these duties, Burrows spent two years as vice president of consumer awareness and education for Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc., directing the corporation’s alcohol awareness and education programs, as well as participating in numerous community and industry forums about responsible drinking. He also has been regional sales vice president for the southwestern region of the United States and has held a number of other sales and marketing management positions since joining Anheuser-Busch in 1979.

Burrows serves on the board for the Family Resource Center for Abused Children in St. Louis and the University of Missouri–St. Louis International Business Advisory Board. He also is co-chairman of the Harbin-Anheuser-Busch Civic Development Fund for Harbin, China.

A native of Albany, N.Y., Burrows holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and geography from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and an MBA from Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO.

Gary Lee

Gary graduated from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas, in 1969 with a bachelor's in business administration. He currently lives in St. Louis but has lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Atlanta, with jobs ranging from sales and marketing for a large steel company to working for a family company and later for Newell Rubbermaid as a company president. Most recently he started two businesses: an Internet design company and an importer of building products selling to installers for new homes.

Lee has had numerous leadership roles in his church and served over 10 years on the board of Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club. He is currently an assistant basketball coach at Chaminade High School.

Lee’s father, Desmond Lee, is a well-known philanthropist who has given his time, talents, and money to help others in St. Louis. Lee has two children who have successful careers in North Carolina and New York.

Tom Santel

Tom was formerly President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch International, Inc., and Vice President of Corporate Planning for Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc., which was a St. Louis-based global corporation that operated the largest U.S. brewing organization, the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of aluminum beverage containers and one of the largest theme park operations in the country.  He had overall responsibility for the company’s beer businesses in the United Kingdom, Europe, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, South America, Canada and Asia.  He also oversaw strategic and financial planning for Anheuser Busch. Under Santel’s leadership, Anheuser-Busch International, which had sales of $1.2 billion, increased profits by over 40% on a constant currency basis.

In 1996 he was named a member of the company’s Strategy Committee, which was the group of senior executives responsible for corporate policies and strategic direction.  From 1998 through 2008, he was a board member of Grupo Modelo, S.A.B. de C.V., Mexico’s leading brewer.  He currently serves on the boards of Boys Hope Girls Hope, St. Louis University High School and the St. Louis chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  He is a member of the Chancellor’s Council of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Prior to joining Anheuser-Busch in 1983, Santel worked as a CPA for Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young), a major international accounting firm.

Santel graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from St. Louis University in 1980 and received a master’s of business administration in finance from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1987.

Tom Teasdale

Following the receipt of his degree from Washington University and three years in the U. S. Air Force, Tom began a long business career with an established St. Louis firm where he rose through the ranks to the position of  company president in 1995. His specialities with the company included project management, quality control, financial management and marketing.
 
Tom has served on a various business related local and national committees and boards. He has received numerous honors including the AIA Gold Honor Award for Lifetime Achievements and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University. The mayor of the city of Kirkwood appointed Tom to terms on the Board of Adjustment and the Architectural Review Board and he currentlyserves on the Community Advisory Board for SSM St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, MO.
 
Tom is past president of the Rotary Club of St. Louis and The Executives Association of St. Louis.

Robert Muldoon

Robert is an international business consultant. His  background includes financial management such as manufacturing plant controller, division controller, treasurer, vice president of finance and vice president of operations in companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small, family-owned.

As division controller, he was responsible for financial evaluation of manufacturing feasibility studies, undertaken at foreign locations, which resulted in establishing factories producing medical supplies in Petit Rechin, Belgium and Fukuori, Japan.

As vice president of operations, Muldoon consolidated several manufacturing subsidiaries that resulted in profitable reorganization of companies.

As a consultant, he was invited by the Prime Minister of Ireland to make presentations to academic and government officials that transferred the technology involved in an econometric model of world agriculture from universities in the U.S. to universities and Departments of Agriculture in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Muldoon received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA in Specialization-International Business from St. Louis University. He is currently working on his doctorate in Adult Education at the University Missouri-St. Louis.

Women's Leadership Working Group

The Women's Leadership Working group advises and helps to plan all activities dedicated to women put on by the UMSL Executive Leadership Consortium. The group is comprised of women professionals who by and large have leadership responsibilities within their organizations, within UMSL and other organizations and companies.

Leadership Resources

The Nonprofit Management & Leadership Program (NPML)

Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Neighborhood Leadership Academy

Social Work Leadership and Management

AIESEC

President’s Academic Leadership Institute (PALI)

Programs for Academic Leaders

Office of Student Life

Center for International Studies

MIS (management Information System) Mentoring Program

UMSL Executive Leadership Consortium