Our Leaders

Officers

Joel Wright
President

Joel is a social entrepreneur, innovator, and catalyst focused on scaling leadership development in education...He also enjoys his pretty amazing family of three kids and a great wife!

“I believe everyone has leadership potential and everyone, everywhere should have access to leadership development.”

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Anne Hunnex
Treasurer/ VP

Anne has spent her career building IT Project Management functions and developing teams of project managers to serve as leaders in financial service organizations.

“The Leadership Forum Community is important because there is no greater test of a culture than how well they develop leaders who can inspire people to face challenges, work together, take risks, and build a better tomorrow.”

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Vanessa Mbouw
Secretary/Communications/
Member Care

Vanessa is based in Indonesia. She has served as Youth Ambassador for a nonprofit, spoken at events worldwide, and released her original music. She is most passionate about empowering youth and building cultural bridges.

"Leadership is universal - it goes beyond cultural, religious, and racial differences. It has the power to unite people and ignite change."

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Matthew Mullens
Monthly Programs & Technology

Matthew’s goal is to use business as a force for good, utilizing his passion for sustainability along with his drive for problem solving to have a positive impact on society and planet.

“Leadership is important to me because everyone has potential to be a better person, and being a better you leads to a better world.

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Faith Hassell
Program Events & Services

Faith's passionate about leadership development and meeting people where they are at in their leadership journey. There are so many amazing resources out there, it's just about finding the right one for you.

"There is a leader in all of us and the Leadership Forum has given me a safe space to grow as my own leader and support others on their leadership journey."

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Board of Directors

Linette Gomez,
Board Chair

Linette partners with organizations, teams, and individuals to accomplish new heights. Through her coaching programs and marketing consulting, teams and their leaders rethink what's possible in how they develop, perform and drive results.

"Leadership is about empowering other people as a result of your presence—and making sure that impact continues into your absence."
- Frances Frei, UNLEASHED

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Howard Kraft

Howard is a health care leader with over 25 years of experience in leading & consulting on health care strategy, design & implementation.

“Leadership is a team sport – one in which honing skills and improving outcomes are within reach for all. The Leadership Forum Community is the perfect spot to gain insights and develop the relationships to help everyone succeed, no matter where they are in their leadership quest.”

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Kathy Bittner

As a confident and articulate executive coach, Kathy strives to be insightful, truthful, and empathetic to help others unlock their leadership potential and live more meaningful lives.

“Leadership is important to me in that each one of us can feel empowered to create and communicate vision, mission, and goals to others and reach consensus in our quest to make our work, lives, and world a better place.”

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Poyee Chiu

Poyee is committed to helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals and expand their contributions by building and deploying strategies that energize the workplace with creativity, purpose and inspiration.

"I believe that leadership development is important because everyone is a leader and we all have the power to influence the world around us to bring about positive change that impacts generations to come."

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Kevin Gailey

Kevin is dedicated to promoting the growth of people, be it as a teacher, coach, parent or some other method of leadership.

Steve is dedicated to promoting the mutual gains approach to problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiations.

“Leadership is important to me because intentionally guiding ourselves to develop as individuals and communities maximizes our potential to positively affect those we encounter.”

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Diana Brooks

Diana is a workshop leader and coach who is committed to helping new and mid-level leaders carry out their roles with wisdom, empathy, confidence, and lasting effectiveness.

“My role as a leader is to pursue both commercial and ethical interest. Foster a community and culture that empowers teams to deliver business results while helping create more good than harm in the world."

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Lyndon Rego

Lyndon Rego focuses at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and transformation to nurture empowered individuals, collaborative and innovative teams and organizations, and inclusive and thriving communities.

"We live at a time when the need for conscientious and inclusive leadership is greater than ever."

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Ken Judy

Ken is a software executive manager, developer, product owner and agile coach. Currently, he is CEO of Stride Consulting, which builds and delivers custom software. Ken's vision is to unlock human potential by engineering better systems

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Giovanni Perillo

Giovanni is a highly experienced professor and manager, as well as leader of numerous international projects in the engineering field.

"The challenges we face teach us that the only way to overcome them is to promote sustainable and shared leadership so that everyone can contribute to the development of the planet".

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Kanya Balakrishna

CEO & Co-founder of The Future Project. Kanya has learned first-hand how important it is for young people to discover their power to make change. She leverages this belief in the work she does each day as an organizational leader and advocate for young people.

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