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Our Vision and
Mission
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ARC Leadership Group is dedicated to advancing the study and practice of ethical and moral leadership throughout the world by developing human potential, encouraging workplace excellence, and promoting positive transformation in organizational life.
Our Values:
We advocate social responsibility, personal integrity, spiritual vitality, and authentic engagement among leaders everywhere.
Our Strategy:
In Leadership for the 21st Century, Joseph Rost (1993) asserted that effective leadership is about influence relationships between leaders and stakeholders grounded in mutual purposes which are intended to effect positive change. At ARC Leadership Group, our strategy is to extend this idea by developing more effective leaders through a systems-oriented framework based on cutting-edge research and practices. Our strategic framework:
- Promotes ethical values and principles that help build greater stewardship and accountability in the workplace and in life
- Encourages emotionally intelligent servant leadership in creating high performance collaborative cultures
- Advocates global socio-organizational sustainability and citizenship
- Addresses 21st Century challenges through integrated scholarship, education, and practice.
Our Team:
We are a global collaboration of scholars and executives with proven expertise at building and leading high performance teams and organizations. The ARC team brings together diverse professional skills in organizational development, leadership education and training, change management, executive coaching, and strategic business transformation to provide a wide range of services that can enhance any organization’s or individual’s leadership success.
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| MANAGEMENT |
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| DR. RONALD LESNIAK, PRESIDENT & CEO |
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Ronald Lesniak is Founder and CEO of Teledex Corporation, the largest manufacturer of telephones in the luxury hotel industry with customers in over 125 countries. His firm has been honored twice as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in
Silicon Valley
,
California
. Ron has a Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from the
University
of
Phoenix
, an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from
Marquette
University
. His professional background includes numerous technical, marketing, and managerial positions at ROLM, GTE, and ITT. In addition, he is the recipient of three US Patents. Ron is an avid musician, collects art, and enjoys riding motorcycles in his spare time.
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| DR. RICK BRYDGES, CFO AND CHIEF STRATEGIST |
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Rick Brydges is an avid entrepreneur, educator, consultant, author, and publicist. He currently serves as the Executive Director for the Institute for the Advancement of Leadership and as Academic Chair and Lead Faculty for Graduate Strategic Management at the
University
of
Phoenix
. His academic background includes a B.S. in Engineering from the US Naval Academy, an M.S. from the
Naval
Postgraduate
School
at
Monterey
, an MBA from the
University
of
West Florida
, and an Ed.D. in Leadership Studies from the
University
of
San Diego
. He also currently serves as Chair of Global Business Leadership for the International Leadership Association, a premiere forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on business leadership.
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| DR. CAROLYN SALERNO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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Carolyn Salerno has 30 years of experience in the field of education, sales, marketing, management, and consulting. She was a sales representative for IBM and McGraw-Hill publishing for 13 years. Carolyn has also been the owner and director of an educational business. She is a director at the Institute for the Advancement of Leadership and serves on the
University
of
Phoenix
faculty, where she was instrumental in co-developing an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Management and Organizational Leadership. Carolyn has co-authored a book on cultural democracy and co-facilitated leadership among high school students in a developing country. She earned a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the
University
of
San Diego
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| EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD |
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| CLAIRE GERUS, CHAIR, EDITORIAL BOARD |
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Claire Gerus has been a publishing professional for more than 25 years. She has been an editor-in-chief of two publishing houses and acquired and edited books for eight major publishers, including Rodale, Random House, Doubleday, Wiley, Kensington, and Adams Media. As a journalist in
Toronto
, she wrote award-winning cover stories for
Canada
’s top newsmagazines, including Macleans, Toronto Life, and Canadian Business. Her corporate work includes writing and editing annual reports for clients such as Shell Oil, and teaching corporate communications at Fortune 500 clients such as Procter & Gamble, Prudential,
Aetna
, Kelloggs, and IBM. Claire attended
New York
University
and received a B.A. in English at Southern Connecticut State University.
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| BARBARA STAHURA, PUBLICATION CONSULTANT |
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A professional writer, Barbara Stahura takes an original and transformative approach to the topics she covers, ranging from business to spirituality, high tech to art. Residing in Tucson, Arizona, she has written articles, interviews, and personal essays for a variety of print and online publications, including Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek online, The Progressive, Spirituality & Health, Science of Mind, MSNBC.com, Science & Spirit, and numerous others. She has also written and contributed to several books and is currently working on a compilation of personal essays. Barbara has served as an editor, is an avid poet, and has been a radio essayist for an NPR affiliate.
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