Center For Health Leadership

Kenneth V. Hardy, Professor, Couple and Family Therapy Department, Drexel University

Keynote Speaker, Working Across Differences in Collaborations and Partnerships
Presenter, Workshop 3: Power Dynamics in Collaboratives

Dr. Hardy is an internationally recognized clinician, author, and trainer. He is also the Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City where he maintains a private practice specializing in working with traumatized and oppressed populations.  Dr. Hardy is the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, and Trauma at the Ackerman Institute in New York City, and formerly served on the faculty at Syracuse University where he held numerous positions including Director of Clinical Training and Research, as well as Chairperson of the Department of Child and Family Studies.

He has won considerable acclaim for the contributions that his publications and videotapes have made toward challenging our society to think critically about the hidden but significant connections that often exist between trauma and issues of oppression.  He is the co-author of a three books -  Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Class, and Gender; Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions for Breaking the Cycle of Violence; and Minorities and Family Therapy. In addition to his own writing, Dr. Hardy serves on the editorial boards of six publications, including the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. He is a frequent contributor to the popular media such as USA Today,  Good Housekeeping, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, and 20/20.

Alfredo Vergara-Lobo consults to nonprofit organizations and foundations on strategic planning, strategic partnerships/mergers, board development, and cultural competence. As a bilingual/bicultural professional, he has provided culturally competent educational, counseling, teaching, and coaching services in Latin America and the U.S. Prior to consulting independently, he served as a Projects Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. He obtained his BSW and MSW degrees from San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley respectively and has taught as a guest lecturer in both programs. For more about Alfredo, visit http://www.alfredovergaralobo.org

Eileen Blumenthal is a principal of Rocket Science Coaching & Consulting and works with a broad range of extraordinary individual and organizational clients. In all her work, Eileen strives to build intimacy, connection and effectiveness resulting in great fulfillment and impact. Eileen has held several professional roles -- higher education administrator, legal services attorney, non-profit manager and now coach and consultant in the non-profit, public and academic sectors domestically and internationally. Recent projects include helping to plan and facilitate an NIH-funded think tank to inform the President’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy, strengthening the collaborative efforts of U.S. federal agencies in Mozambique, supporting youth advocates in the Kenya Youth Empowerment and Employment Initiative in Nairobi, and facilitating a convening of Executive Directors leading SF Bay Area LGBT organizations. Eileen earned degrees from Bucknell University, Harvard University and UC Hastings College of the Law. She serves on the faculty at the Coaches Training Institute (where she received her coaching certification) and was guest faculty at the Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute, training emerging public health leaders in peer coaching. Eileen has spent most of her life living on the east or west coast of the US and in the Netherlands, and now resides in San Francisco with her partner and their very smart cattle dog, Gracie.

Ernest Mark, CPCC, has coached numerous individuals through professional leadership development, life balance and fulfillment, strengthening relationships and personal/professional transitions. His coaching style is bold, challenging, and supportive and promotes living by one’s dreams and values. Ernest also brings over ten years of experience as an organizational development consultant for small to large social justice organizations with programs in environmental justice, social services, community arts, community development and youth development. He has completed relevant training programs with the Coaches Training Institute, National Community Development Institute, Community at Work, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and the Institute for Zen Studies.  He also has a Bachelors Degree in Cultural Anthropology from Tufts University in Boston. He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute. For more about Ernest, visit http://www.ernestmark.com

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