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Hosting Team
 Val Ulstad is an an educator, facilitator process consultant and coach. Her work has focused on helping individuals and groups make progress on their work. She has been a cardiologist for over 20 years in academic and private- practice settings and have served in a variety of leadership roles. Currently, she serves on the Archibald Bush Foundation Medical Policy Board, co-directs both the Bush Leadership Fellowship leadership development program and the Courage to Imagine professional renewal retreat series for Bush Medical Fellows for the Bush Foundation, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Courage and Renewal.
She works with highly skilled professionals as individuals and enjoys working deeply and broadly within organizations to facilitate transformative change. Her work requires helping others develop clarity of purpose, capacity to hold the tension of paradox and willingness to embrace a sense of possibility. She facilitates renewal retreats focused on finding and maintaining meaning, courage, and heart in one’s life and work; coaches leaders and leadership teams to enhance their personal and professional effectiveness, and helps organizations to build sustainable capacities in making progress on tough problems.
Her work is informed by Adaptive Leadership (Dr. Ron Heifetz) and Courage Work (Dr. Parker Palmer). Adaptive leadership helps map the territory of human behavior, describing what people do and how they behave in systems. More importantly it reveals what people can do with a deeper understanding of fear and resistance to change. The work of Dr. Palmer is anchored in the belief that one must do one’s own inner work to prepare for service to the community. These bodies of work apply well to health care and challenges in organizational citizenship where there are complex, refractory problems, perceived scarcity of time and attention and a developing crisis in relevance. These opportunities have helped her develop an appreciation for the usefulness of great questions. her favorite form of work has been with cohorts of individuals doing work together using cases from daily work life as fodder for development of their capacity to exercise leadership.
 Wendy Morris, founder of the Creative Leadership Studio, is a
leadership development educator, consultant and coach. She serves on the
faculty at several leadership venues in North America including ALIA
Institute/Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership in Nova Scotia,
Canada and Banff Centre Leadership Development in Alberta, Canada. She
is also a Strategic Partner with TMI Malaysia. At home in the Twin
Cities Wendy hosts Thought Leader Gatherings with Heartland, Inc. and
teaches master’s level courses in Creative Leadership Development at St.
Mary’s University of Minnesota. Her work has received over 25 awards for
excellence. www.wendymorris.org
 Jodi Sandfort is an Associate Professor at the University of
Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a senior fellow at
the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, where she develops programming for
their Leadership Development initiative. Jodi strives to help people
learn more about how organizations (both government and non-profit) work
and what can be done to make them work better. Jodi has spent her
career moving back and forth between professional practice and academia,
most recently directing the human service program at the McKnight
Foundation in Minneapolis. She is very interested in the structures
established by public policy as well as how people and groups can exert
leadership to change and improve those structures. sandf002@umn.edu
GUEST HOSTS
 Ronald A. Heifetz, King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public
Leadership, is the founding director of the Center for Public
Leadership. Known for his seminal work during the last three decades on
the practice and teaching of leadership, his research focuses on how to
build adaptive capacity in societies, businesses, and nonprofits. His
book /Leadership Without Easy Answers/ is currently beyond its 13th
printing and has been translated into many languages. He coauthored the
best-selling book /Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the
Dangers of Leading/ with Marty Linsky. His teaching is studied in
/Leadership Can Be Taught/ by Sharon Daloz Parks. Cofounder and
Principal of Cambridge Leadership Associates, Heifetz consults
extensively in the United States and abroad. He is a graduate of
Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, and the Kennedy School and
a physician and cellist who studied with the Russian virtuoso Gregor
Piatigorsky.
Barbara Crosby is an associate professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, and a member of the Institute's Public and
Nonprofit Leadership Center. Dr. Crosby was coordinator of the Humphrey
Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota from 1990 to 1993 and
director of the Humphrey Institute's Reflective Leadership Center from
1999 to 2002. She has taught and written extensively about leadership
and public policy, women in leadership, media and public policy, and
strategic planning. She is the author of Leadership for Global
Citizenship (1999) and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for
the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World of
(2d. ed. 2005). She is an associate editor of Leadership Quarterly. A
frequent speaker at conferences and workshops, she has conducted
training for senior managers of nonprofit, business and government
organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and
Ukraine. She is a former gubernatorial press secretary and speech writer.
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