ALP Conference Consultant Bios

Conference Creator/Principal Investigator

Tracy Wallach, M.S.W. - Independent Organizational Development and Leadership Consultant, Brookline MA; Doctoral Candidate, Lesley University; Doctoral Fellow, PERG (Program Evaluation and Research Group), Lesley University; Adjunct Faculty, College of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Past President, Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems (Boston Affiliate, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems); Past Board Member, AKRI.

Conference Directors

Nimer Said, M.A. - Clinical Psychologist, Group and Organizational Consultant, Private practice, Haifa; Member, Besod Siach - The Israeli association for conflict resolution in groups of the Israeli society; Board Member, OFEK, The Israel Association for The Study of Group and Organizational Processes.

 

Hon. Peter A. Shapiro - Founder and former Director, Rawlings Center for Public Leadership, Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland; Former Chair, County Council, Prince George's County, Maryland; Leadership Program Coach and Consultant, IMD (Switzerland) and INSEAD (France) Business Schools; Board Member, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems; Graduate, Leading Consultation 3, IFSI, París, France. 

 

Conference Administrator

Janine T. Hackshaw, M.B.A - Associate/ Consultant, Elson Consulting Group; William McGowan Scholar; Member, Society for Human Resource Management.

 

Consulting Staff

Chiraz Ben Messaoud - Training & Development Manager at an American biotechnology company in the Netherlands; M.B.A., University of Deusto (Spain);  Member of the International Forum for Social Innovation; Consultant to the International TransformaCtion conference (France).

 

Leila Djemal, M.A. - Organization Development Consultant in private practice.; Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College; Member, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems; Member, New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems.

 

Anan Fareed - Clinical Social Worker; Lecturer at Alquds University, Jerusalem; Researcher in Palestinian women's issues: violence, abuse, education; Designer and facilitator, seminars for homeless women, Boston; Trainer in leadership network for female candidates for elective office, West Bank; Co-Founder, Organization for a Non-Violent Society, Jordan; Founder, Student Social Worker Union, Alquds Open University, Palestine; Co-Founder, Insan Center for Gender and Women's Studies; Chair, Tent City Elderly Committee, Boston.

 

Jack W. Lampl III – Mediator; Video Producer; Independent Investor; Musician; Visual Artist; President Elect A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems; Former President Threshold Foundation.

 

Shahin Sakhi, M.D., Ph.D. - Clinical faculty, Semel Institute, UCLA Psychiatry department;  President, Grex, West Coast Affiliate of AK Rice Institute; Psychiatrist, Educator, and Consultant.

 

Evangeline Sarda, J.D. - Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Member, Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems; Past Associate, A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.