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	Dr. Shann Ferch Professor of Leadership Studies 509 313 3490 ferch@gonzaga.edu Office: Tilford 228 Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616 View my faculty homepage
Dr. Shann Ferch has taught in the Doctoral Program of Leadership Studies since 1995. After earning a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada, he earned a dual Masters of Fine Arts in poetry and fiction from The Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. As a poet and prose writer, his work has appeared in some of the nation's leading literary venues including McSweeney's, Narrative Magazine, StoryQuarterly, Best New Poets, and Poetry International. Dr. Ferch has also served as a research psychologist with the Centers for Disease Control, United States Government, and is a systems psychologist in private practice. In his doctoral work at the University of Alberta the focus of his research was touch, forgiveness, and reconciliation among people who have suffered a breach in beloved relationship. Dr. Ferch's work regarding executive leadership, organizational culture, and the human will to forgive and reconcile has appeared in scientific journals internationally. As a lead consultant for Leadership Spirit International, in partnership with Principal consultant Paul Nakai, he designs and implements comprehensive executive coaching programs for CEO's and their leadership and management teams. His work with executives and organizational culture involves performance enhancement coaching, team building, leadership development, personal effectiveness and resilience, servant leadership, and relational discernment. Dr. Ferch is also Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Servant-Leadership, in collaboration with senior advisory editor Larry Spears, CEO of the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership. He is the author, with Larry Spears, of The Spirit of Servant Leadership. Dr, Ferch is on sabbatical until September 2012
	Dr. Lisa A. Mazzei Associate Professor of Leadership Studies 509 313 3630 mazzei@gonzaga.edu Office: Tilford 224 Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616 View my faculty homepage
Dr. Lisa A. Mazzei brings experience in research, undergraduate, and graduate teaching and advising from both a U.S. and U.K. perspective to the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies. She has a broad background in the areas of applied research, qualitative inquiry, urban teacher education, program leadership, and instructional leadership. Previously, Dr. Mazzei served as a Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the United Kingdom. Prior to moving to the UK she was an Associate Professor of Education at Ohio Dominican University, located in Columbus, Ohio. She has experience working with graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including education, higher education, social services, health care, and government. She is on the editorial board for the International Review of Qualitative Inquiry and has published two books: Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions in Qualitative Research, (co-edited with Alecia Jackson) and is the author of Inhabited Silence in Qualitative Research: Putting Poststructural Theory to Work. Dr. Mazzei earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Educational Policy and Leadership with a major in Instructional Design and Technology and minors in Social and Cultural Foundations of Education and Qualitative Studies in Education. Her research interests center on poststructural theories of language and meaning and applying those theories to narrative and voice in qualitative research, racial identity and awareness among white educators and implications for pedagogy and curriculum, and a feminist critique of leadership.
	Dr. Chris Francovich Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies 509-313-3592 francovich@gonzaga.edu Office: Tilford 227 Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616 View my faculty homepage
Dr. Chris Francovich is a lifelong self-directed learner and avid student in the social and natural sciences. Dr. Francovich is a senior research associate for the Northwest Regional Faculty Development Center at the Boise VA Medical Center, and an Associate with the consulting firm of Chagnon & Reina Associates, Inc. of Stowe, Vermont - specialists in measuring & developing trust in individuals, teams, and organizations. He is also a Board Member of the Mary Parker Follett Foundation in Boise, Idaho. His research interests include mixed method research in clinical medical education, the effects of dialogue practice on individual and group dynamics, and the investigation of leadership phenomena through the lens of non-dual frameworks arising from the work of Mead, Dewey, Vygotsky, and other theorists taking seriously the work of physical and social scientists in the 20th and 21st centuries revealing the relational and emergent nature of phenomena. Dr. Francovich earned an Ed.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Boise State University, completed Post Graduate work in the Humanities & Education at Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, and Boise State University, and holds a B.B.A. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Gonzaga University. He is currently studying Kashmir Shaivism (a variant of Hindu philosophy and a type of 'consciousness studies') with the renown scholar Paul Muller-Ortega.
	Dr. Caroline Fu Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies 509 313 3488 fu@gonzaga.edu Office: Tilford 225 Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616 View my faculty homepage
Dr. P. Caroline Fu is an assistant professor of the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University and a principal executive consultant for Bergeon, Fu & Associates. She holds a Ph.D. in Leadership & Change and an M.A. in Whole System Design, both from Antioch University. Dr. Fu has also earned an M.S. in Computer Sciences and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Engineering (EE) and Physics, both from University of Wisconsin. Her further credentials include a Certificate of Completion in System Dynamics Advanced Study from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Diploma of Competency on Systems Renewal Consultation from International Institute of the Study of Systems Renewal. Presently, Dr. Fu is expanding her Leadership-as-Energy-Flow model for assessing leadership theories and practices. The theoretical model combines Tao leadership with modern physics to understand the energy-flow dynamics of leadership and transformation. Her experience includes graduate level teaching and 20 years of corporate management, during which she led advanced computing technology implementations and headed a 6000-person organization transformation effort. Her goal is to develop a computer-based learning laboratory around a virtual expert system for leadership decision support and learning.
	Dr. James Beebe Department Chair Professor of Leadership Studies 509 313 3484 beebe@gonzaga.edu Office: 226 Tilford Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616 View my faculty homepage
Dr. James Beebe holds a Ph. D. in International Development Education, an M.A. in Anthropology, and an M.A. in Food Research (International Agriculture Development) all from Stanford University. He brings twenty years of experience living and working outside the United States as a Peace Corps Volunteer, graduate student, researcher, U.S. Foreign Service Officer (United States Agency for International Development), Global Technology Corps Volunteer, Senior Fulbright Specialist, and project participant and director with long-term assignments in the Philippines, Sudan, Liberia, and South Africa. HIs dissertation research was conducted in the Philippines. Among his numerous publication Dr. Beebe has published a book on the qualitative method of research entitled Rapid Assessment Process: An Introduction. His research interests revolve around RAP and he has been involved in RAP based research/training on community colleges in the U.S., the public sector's ability to respond to HIV/Aids in South Africa, state farms in Eastern Europe, and response of university students to HIV/Aids in Botswana. An emerging area of research he has been involved with is leadership in Africa, with a focus on indigenous models of values-based leadership. Dr. Beebe has been with the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies since 1996 and served as program director from 1996-2000.

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