General Information
Kate Beatty, Ph.D.
Kate Beatty is an organizational psychologist at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). She is the Group Manager, Leading Teams and Organizations, and works closely with CCL's clients who are interested in enhancing the effectiveness of their individual leaders, their teams and their organizations. Kate has extensive experience in the area of strategic leadership, and is co-author of the book Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success. Prior to joining CCL, Kate worked in executive development at Anheuser-Busch Companies, and she was a consultant with Colarelli, Meyer and Associates. She also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and she applied those skills while working for both General Motors and GE Medical Systems.
John McCann
John McCann is an educator, facilitator and consultant. His specific expertise is in leadership education, visioning and strategy development for organizations and conflict mediation. McCann is a founder and Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy and Practice (ICPP) at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA. In this capacity, McCann has designed the Community Arts Leadership Academy for the Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA); serves as lead faculty for the Orchestra Management Fellowship Program of the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL); and has designed leadership seminars for Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance, Dance/NYC and Americans for the Arts, the national service organization for local arts agencies.
The Institute, under the direction of John McCann, manages the Orchestra Forum, a ten year leadership and change initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation involving 14 of the nation's most diverse and artistically vital orchestras. Additionally, McCann has served as a faculty member for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations, the Prairie Arts Leadership Institute, the New York Alliance of Arts Organizations, the Empire State Partnership for Arts Education and the American Planning Association.
As co-founder of Emc.Arts, Inc., McCann has served as a member of the consulting team for a broad array of clients including the Aspen Music Festival and School, Arts International and the 18th Street Arts Complex. He has facilitated planning retreats and strategy development sessions for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, DC, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Washington Ballet, Dance Place, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), Maryland Citizens for the Arts and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, McCann facilitated the focus groups designed to inform the creation of the Challenge America program. Recently he has been a member of the moderator team for both the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City and the Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference in New Orleans.
He is currently Vice President of the Association of Arts Administration Educators and serves as a regular panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Eugene (Geno) Schnell, Ph.D.
Geno Schnell is an independent consultant focused on the areas of leadership development and organizational change. Clients have engaged Geno as coach, facilitator, trainer, advisor and designer to help them develop robust solutions for complex problems. Recent consulting work with MedImmune, Neuro-Nexus, Lockheed-Martin, Fannie Mae, Medex Assistance Group, Zurich Insurance and Akros Chemicals has been focused on challenges such as developing leadership bench-strength, new venture acceleration, senior executive on-boarding, top team development and corporate diversity strategy.
Geno also works with extensively with professional staff and scientists in non-profit and government settings, such as the Stanford University BioDesign Program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, Institute for International Education and the Whitaker Biomedical Foundation. In addition, he is the designer and faculty director for the highly-regarded Executive Leadership Institute, an action learning leadership program for urban leaders and librarians.
Prior to running his own business, Geno was a professor focused on the areas of leadership, negotiation, innovation with the Carey Program in Entrepreneurship at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and also served as JHU's Director of Organization Development and Diversity from 1998 until 2004. Outside the United States, he has presented and consulting with the University of Iceland, University of Lodz (Poland), Ministry of Health for the Republic of Kenya and in the U.K. for the Cambridge Management Center and the Oxford Psychologists Forum.
Geno is the author of several popular management development materials that are based on an interpersonal relations instrument known as the FIRO-B, including Introduction to the FIRO-B in Organizations, The Leadership Report Using the FIRO-B and MBTI and Participating in Teams. He is also the author or co-author of several chapters in books and of research articles appearing in Leadership Quarterly, Mt. Eliza Business Review (Australia), Journal of Venture Management, Journal of Consulting Psychology, and the Annual Review of Research on Quality Management.
Geno received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Adult Learning/Human Resources Development and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Rochester. He is former member of the Coordinating Council for the Diversity Leadership Forum and a member of the Executive Coaching Roundtable.