Business MIG Leadership

Acting Chair - Lize Booysen, Professor in Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Antioch University; Adjunct Faculty, Center for Creative Leadership.

Chair-Elect - Karen Geiger Leadership Faculty, McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte.

Immediate Past Chair - Joanne Barnes, Associate Professor, Department of Graduate Studies in Leadership, College of Graduate Studies, Indiana Wesleyan University, IN, USA.

Lize Booysen

Lize Booysen is a scholar, practitioner and teacher of leadership. She is a full professor of Leadership and Organizational behavior and core faculty at Antioch University’s PhD program in Leadership and Change. Lize is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of diversity, race, gender, and leadership. She is well published, and an international leadership consultant and coach, with 27 years working experience.  She holds a doctorate in business leadership from the University of South Africa, (1999) as well as master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology, (University of Johannesburg, 1990) and Research Psychology (1988), and Criminology (1988), (University of Pretoria) all with distinction.

Dr. Booysen is also adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and has been involved in the 12 nation Leadership Across Differences (LAD) research project steered by the CCL, since 2003. She participated in the GLOBE 65-nations research project on leadership, national culture and organizational practices, during 1994 - 2003 steered by Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Antioch in 2009, Lize was full professor at the Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL), University of South Africa since 1992. She served on the SBL Board of directors from 1999 to 2006, she held the portfolios Director Human Resources Development, and Academic Director. She was the Research Manager at the SBL in 2007 to 2008, and the Editor of the South African Journal of Labor Relations from 2006 - 2008.

Some of Lize’s many awards include the GLOBE Research Award (1997) and Best Academic Career Achievement, University of South Africa (2004), Best Professor in Organizational Behavior Award (2010) to be conferred at the World HRD Congress & Innovation Summit, Mumbai, 16 February, 2011. She is also included as one of fifty role models for South African women and as leadership expert in the book Inspirational Women @ Work (Lapa Publishers, 2003).

Contact: abooysen@antioch.edu

Karen Geiger

Karen Geiger is a member of the Leadership Faculty of the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte. She holds a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University, an M.S. in Education from Indiana University, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Rochester. She is the former Associate Dean of the McColl School, a position she assumed in August 2002. In that position, she was responsible for developing and implementing leadership development in all McColl School programs and supporting the Dean in all strategic activities. She joined the Executive MBA faculty in 1994, where she created the school’s first MBA-level Leadership Development course and still teaches organizational behavior, human resource management and leadership. She is also President of Karen Geiger & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational development.

Before starting her own business, Karen was a Senior Vice President at Bank of America (formerly NationsBank) Corporation, where she held positions as Director of Corporate Training and Development, Director of Career Planning and Director of Work/Family Programs. In her role as Director of Corporate Training and Development, she was responsible for the direction of all corporate-wide management development and training activities including designing and conducting leadership development programs for executives, providing follow-up coaching for those executives, developing the bank’s first succession planning process, and designing a leadership development process that met the needs of then-NCNB’s acquisition activity. She also designed and conducted other development activities such as team building, conflict management, executive inventories, supervisory skills, and career development for all levels of employees.

As a private consultant, Karen has continued to design and conduct leadership experiences, develop core competencies and related development planning, design and conduct team building activities, lead strategic planning efforts and offer one-on-one coaching and 360-degree feedback for managers and executives. Her client companies include those in financial services, medicine, manufacturing, not-for-profit organizations, city-county government, law and marketing.

Contact: kag@mindspring.com

Joanne Barnes

Dr. Joanne Barnes is a professor with Indiana Wesleyan University, College of Graduate Studies – Doctorate of Organizational Leadership program. She has been with Indiana Wesleyan University as an adjunct professor, adjunct administrator and now full-time associate professor since 1996. Her educational background consists of a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration, Masters of Science Degree in Management and Doctorate in Organizational Leadership.

Prior to becoming a full-time faculty with Indiana Wesleyan University, Dr. Barnes was employed by Delphi Electronics and Safety in Kokomo, Indiana for 37 years. During her employment with Delphi Electronics and Safety, she held various management and leadership roles. Prior to her retirement from Delphi Electronics and Safety, she was the Global Quality Systems Manager responsible for driving common quality systems in the facilities located in North and South American, Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Barnes has also led diverse, multi-cultural teams, delivered coaching and training, served as an executive mentor, managed executive budget for Customer Satisfaction organization, and conducted internal and external audits. Dr. Barnes is also certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt, ISO 14001 Environmental Auditor, ISO/TS 16949 Lead Auditor and a certified trainer/coach for Quality Systems Standards and Core Tools which includes, Production Part Approval Process, Advance Planning and Quality Planning, Statistical Process Control, Failure Effect Mode Analysis, and Measurement Systems Analysis. Additionally, Dr. Barnes has served as the publicity chair, information chair, registration chair and team chair for the Howard County American Cancer Society Relay For Life.

Contact: joanne.barnes@indwes.edu

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