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+1.301.405.5218
ila@ila-net.org
3119-F Susquehanna Hall
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
United States
About Our Home
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Chair -
Tom Sechrest, Associate Dean & Director, Master
of Science in Organizational Leadership & Ethics
Program, St. Edward's University, Texas, USA.
Chair-Elect
- Diana McQuarrie, Owner, Altus AAT Solutions.
Immediate Past Chair -
Laura Santana, Enterprise Associate, Center for
Creative Leadership, North Carolina, USA.
 Tom
Sechrest
Tom is currently Associate Dean of the School
of Management and Business at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas,
where he has also served for the past five years as Director of the
Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Ethics Program.
He has spent over thirty years in the leadership development field,
as an entrepreneur, in the public sector, in the private sector, and
in the non-profit sector before entering higher education.
In each of these roles, he has been an advocate for
broad-based leadership development activities and has both designed and facilitated such
activities in the United States and abroad.
Tom received a BA in Psychology and a MS
in Instructional Design from The Florida State
University and a mid-career Ph.D. in Human Resource
Development with an emphasis in Leadership Development
from The University of Texas at Austin.
Contact:
thomasls@stedwards.edu
 Diana McQuarrie
Diana is the Founder and Executive Director of
Denver Pet Partners one of the largest Delta Society Affiliates
in the nation, and the owner of Altus AAT Solutions, providing
professional consulting and instruction in the effective delivery
of human-animal interaction services in the healthcare, education
and child welfare fields. As a recognized expert in the field of
animal-assisted therapy (AAT) over the past 12 years, Diana has
developed curriculum which is used internationally and taught
extensively to both volunteers and healthcare professionals, on
effectively integrating animals as part of the therapeutic treatment team.
She co-created a national program for incorporating therapy animals into
the criminal justice and child welfare systems to help children who have
been abused regain self-esteem and heal. Her leadership experience includes
developing and overseeing an AAT program and team of over 200 volunteers
and staff which collectively provide over 30,000 hours of community
service to 125,000 people annually.
Diana earned her BA in Communications from Biola University
and also has a MS degree in Organizational Leadership (honors) with an emphasis
on leadership and management from Regis University. She is a member of the Alpha
Sigma Nu Honor Society.
Contact:
dianam@altussolutions.org
 Laura
Santana
Laura is a Senior Enterprise Associate for
the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) having dedicated
over twenty years to facilitating CCL’s leader and leadership
development programs in Latin America, Europe, US, and the
Middle East. As a member of CCL’s Blended Learning Solutions
team she was instrumental in piloting and implementing the
system-wide web-based follow-through management system to
increase transfer of classroom learning back to the workplace
and to extend the learning community past the face-to-face
portion of the development program. Her doctoral research
leverages the use of post-classroom technology design to
provide a lens on transformative leader development (human
capital) and leadership development (social capital) with
clients from the private, public, educational, military,
and NGO sectors.
Contact:
santanal@ccl.org
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