Our faculty draws from a wide range of backgrounds and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our courses.

Bea Boccalandro
Bea Boccalandro helps businesses design and evaluate their community involvement programs. She is adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership where she teaches corporate-nonprofit partnerships and evaluation; and President of VeraWorks, a national consulting firm dedicated to helping companies with their community involvement. She has supported many corporate-community involvement efforts, including helping to redesign Aetna’s program into a highly strategic version that won the Award for Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Programs; to refine Allstate’s program into a cohesive national program; to benchmark Bank of America’s program against the industry; to take Levi Strauss & Co.’s program global; and to develop metrics for The Walt Disney Company’s program. She is a popular public speaker and author of several research reports and industry standards, including Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering: The Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Giving Programs and Fortune 500 Performance and The Methods Behind the Magic: Examining the Practices of Atlanta’s Exemplary Employee Volunteer Programs.

Ron Brown
Ron Brown is founder and President of Impact Resources, Inc, a firm dedicated to providing a management development, facilitation and consulting services with a primary focus on the development of successful corporate citizenship programs and strategies.  Ron has extensive corporate experience in the electric utility industry.  He was Director, Community Relations Program Development with Progress Energy prior to founding Impact Resources.  His extensive business experience and professional development background provide a valuable combination for skills development and application in the corporate environment.  As a faculty member, he has developed and taught a broad range of professional development courses and provided consultation services for a wide range of national and international businesses. His most recent courses include the Corporate Citizenship Institute, Community Involvement Strategy, and Developing Exceptional Volunteer Programs, plus numerous customized offerings for in-house staff development. 

Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman, principal and managing director of Cause Consulting, advises Fortune 500 CEOs, marketing and foundation executives on the development and execution of corporate citizenship vision and strategy. The firm specializes in integrating communications, business, and social disciplines to maximize impact. Mark is co-author of “Causes and Effects,” a best practice article on signature cause programs in Harvard Business Review. He and his team launched Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream and AMD Changing the Game, two brand building signature initiatives. Earlier in his career, Mark served for eight years as executive vice president of Cone’s cause branding practice, where he was responsible for client consulting and the Cone Research Series on corporate citizenship.

Ken Freitas
For more than 10 years Ken Freitas led the development and implementation of global strategies at the Timberland Company. As vice president of marketing, Ken developed the worldwide brand position and creative platform for Timberland. As vice president of social enterprise, he led the effort to establish corporate citizenship as a central part of the company's value. In both roles, Ken served as a member of Timberland's core senior management team. His experience in marketing includes brand management, advertising, corporate communications, visual presentation and sports marketing; in social enterprise it includes public/private partnerships, cause-related marketing, employee volunteerism and urban retailing. Ken consults with corporations and nonprofits on marketing and corporate citizenship.

Cheryl Heller
Cheryl Heller is a leading strategist, writer and creative director, partnering with companies to transition their brands from the traditional values and tactics of the past to behavior and communications that will engender the trust, loyalty and support required to flourish in the future. She is CEO of Heller Communication Design in New York City and Norfolk, CT. She has developed brands and launched products for Fortune 100 and start up companies in fields ranging from fashion and beauty, automotive, entertainment, retail, technology, food and beverage, health care, manufacturing and finance. Her deep, diverse experience working with corporations has included the launch of three new divisions for Reebok, and major repositioning efforts for Kodak Professional, Bayer Corporation, The Girl Scouts of America, Cemex, Ford Motor Company, Seagrams, Engelhard Corporation, StoraEnso, MeadWestvaco, Marriott International and Sappi.
 

Patricia Hurley
Pat is a senior consultant with Cause Consulting, where she guides companies in reaching the hearts and minds of their customers and employees. Over almost 20 years, through her work with both for-profit and non-profit organizations, she has garnered diverse experience in brand marketing, public relations, strategic philanthropy, and training/facilitation. Earlier in her career she served as a senior vice president for Cone, Inc.; associate creative director for Burson-Marsteller; director of community relations at Barnes and Noble; and most recently as the director of communications for Trinity Church in Boston. Some of the many programs she helped create include Avon’s Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade; Chevy R.O.C.K. (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids); Making Smoking History campaign; and the Kimberly-Clark Community Playground Project.

Farron Levy
Farron Levy is president of True Impact, a provider of web-based tools and consulting services for measuring social, financial, and environmental return on investment (ROI). True Impact’s “triple bottom line” evaluations have helped companies such as Allstate, Deloitte, Home Depot, PNC Bank, and Verizon to prove value, guide strategic investment, and promote continuous improvement of community engagement, sustainability, and other corporate citizenship activities. Farron was formerly a partner and director of cost-benefit-analysis services at SmithOBrien, a social auditing firm; co-founder and president of a yield-management service for the restaurant industry; and an analyst with Industrial Economics, Inc., an environmental and economic consulting firm. Farron has also managed urban economic development projects for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Social Venture Network, and CitySkills (where he was executive director); and served as an advisor to City Year, New Profit, and CitySoft. He earned an MPP from Harvard University, and a BS with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University.

Julie Engel Manga, Ph.D.
Julie Engel Manga, Ph.D., has over 20 years experience as an organization development consultant, coach, facilitator and trainer in the corporate sector. She has worked with the Boston College Center of Corporate Citizenship for the past six years, on the Center’s staff as a senior research associate, consultant and assistant director of research, and as a Center faculty member. During her tenure at Boston College, Julie's research focused on the processes through which corporations initiate and build alignment for a commitment to socially and environmentally responsible business practice, and integrate this commitment into core business operations and strategy. She also established a peer-to-peer learning network of corporate responsibility managers and executives from 14 Fortune 500 companies. Julie also leads workshops and provides one-on-one coaching and consultation supporting executives and managers in their role as catalysts for change around responsible business practice.

Philip H. Mirvis, Ph.D.
Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist and and senior research fellow at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. His studies and private practice concern large-scale organizational change, the character of the workforce and workplace, leadership development, and the role of business in society. An advisor to global businesses headquartered on five continents, he has authored nine books including, most recently, Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship (with Bradley Googins and Steve Rochlin). His writings on citizenship have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business & Society, and California Management Review, and in select Center publications. Mirvis is a research fellow of the Work/Family Roundtable, a board member of the Citizens Development Corps, and has served on the boards of the Foundation for Community Encouragement and Society for Organization Learning. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Boston University and the University of Michigan and served as visiting faculty at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and the London Business School.

Celina Pagani-Tousignant
Formerly a Global Health and Quality of Life consultant at Levi Strauss & Co., Celina consults with companies in the U.S. and Latin America on work/life, corporate community involvement, and workforce diversity. She has provided coaching and guidance on change management to hundreds of corporate executives, and has been involved with the design and delivery of diversity training at corporate settings such as PG&E and Levi Strauss. Her teaching experience includes diversity training, team building and transition management for corporate employees and for students at John F. Kennedy University. A native of Uruguay, she teaches in both English and Spanish.

Christopher Pinney
Chris Pinney is the chief architect of the Center’s Corporate Citizenship Management Framework and the Center’s corporate citizenship management curriculum and certificate program. An authority on corporate citizenship and community involvement, he was the Director of Imagine Canada’s national program to promote corporate citizenship from 1994 to 2001 and vice president of the Canadian Center for Philanthropy. Working with over 600 member companies, Chris was instrumental in moving the Imagine Program from a philanthropy-focused approach to one that embraces the full spectrum of corporate responsibility and citizenship.

Ann Pomykal
Ann Pomykal was formerly director of the TI Foundation and Corporate Giving for Texas Instruments and now serves as Director of the TI Foundation. Ann’s past civic activities include five terms in public office, including Mayor for the city of Lewisville, and City Council.  She served two years as President of the Greater Lewisville United Way and two years as Campaign Chairperson. She served on the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas board for nine years and led the TI UW campaign for many years, establishing it as the largest corporate campaign in Dallas. Ann is a graduate of Leadership Texas and was selected Citizen of the Year. Ann presently serves on the advisory board of the Junior League of Dallas, is President of Friends of Fair Park, and an executive board member for the North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts. She also served on the board of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship for over ten years. Ann's focus has been in assisting corporations in developing social responsibility into their business models, and has been a driving force for internal branding and retention of employee programs tied to social responsibility.
 

Richard Pringle
Richard Pringle is co-president of GrantStream, a consulting and technology firm in the field of corporate citizenship and community involvement. He has worked with leading companies in the development of award-winning corporate signature programs in the fields of hospice palliative care, front line health care and active living. At Glaxo Wellcome Canada, he was responsible for the corporate foundation and the company’s industry-leading stakeholder relations initiatives. His experience includes brand and sales management, corporate communications and stakeholder relations.

Susan L. Santos, Ph.D.
Susan is an internationally recognized expert in risk communication and risk assessment. She brings extensive hands-on technical experience with years of research and implementation aiding clients with strategic design, comprehensive implementation, and expert evaluation of health, safety and environmental issue-oriented risk communication programs. Currently, she is executing intervention strategies for communicating hazardous waste cleanup programs, food product safety issues, military deployment related risks, and decommissioning a nuclear reactor facility, and is engaged in developing crisis communication and evaluation programs.

Jason Saul
Jason Saul is a leading expert in measuring performance in the social sector. He has advised some of the world’s leading corporations and nonprofits, including McDonald’s, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss & Co., OfficeMax, Easter Seals, American Red Cross, the Humane Society of the U.S. and the Smithsonian. Jason is the Founder and CEO of Mission Measurement, LLC, a strategy consulting firm focused on the social sector. Prior to founding Mission Measurement, Jason co-founded the Center for What Works, a national nonprofit organization. Jason began his career as an attorney, most recently at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago where he represented government and nonprofit clients in public finance transactions. Jason teaches performance measurement at the Center for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and is the author of Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Manage, Measure and Improve Performance. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Government and French Literature from Cornell University. He was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for leadership and public service and was selected as a Leadership Greater Chicago fellow. In 2008, Jason was recognized as one of Crain’s Chicago Business “40 under 40” business leaders.

Neil Smith
Neil Smith is co-founder and managing partner at SmithOBrien, where he leads the firm’s corporate responsibility auditing and financial measurement practice and Shareholder Resolution Advisory Service. Neil has extensive experience in helping corporate managers and employees operationalize the organization’s core values and code of practice as the foundation for culture change and growth. He is also a founding partner of innovation, measurement 21st Century (im21), which specializes in the use of network analysis and mapping to facilitate inclusive collaboration and communication, resulting in accelerated innovation, continuous improvements, and problem-solving. Neil is an adjunct faculty member at Boston’s College’s Carroll School of Management and has been a guest lecturer on corporate responsibility at the Harvard University School of Public Health. He participated on the Verification Working Group of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He is former co-publisher and executive editor of ExecutiveCitizen, a newsletter on corporate responsibility for senior managers, and has authored journal articles and books, including “Shopping for Safer Boat Care” (International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 1997), an analysis and rating scheme of the environmental and health effects of 100 marine products.

Richard F. Trabert
Richard F. Trabert is a consultant specializing in the development of public affairs strategies for companies and not-for-profit organizations. Previously, as the head of public affairs for the Merck Manufacturing Division, he counseled division executives on the public affairs aspects of their business activities. His responsibilities included government, community and media relations and employee communications. He introduced the Neighbor of Choice program to Merck manufacturing facilities in the United States and Europe. Trabert has lectured on community and government relations topics.

John Weiser
John Weiser is a partner in the firm of Brody Weiser Burns. He specializes in working with organizations that seek to use business strategies to achieve social goals. John co-founded Brody Weiser Burns in 1984 to pursue his vision of business as a force for social change, after two years with the Boston Consulting Group. Since then he has helped businesses, nonprofits, foundations and public sector agencies create, build consensus around, and implement a broad range of corporate-community partnership strategies. From 1994 to 2003 John was the managing consultant for the Ford Foundation Corporate Involvement Initiative, which developed a number of promising new models for corporate engagement, created a database of best practices, and produced a wide range of seminars, conferences and marketing materials aimed at broadening awareness and interest in these new approaches. He is a co-author of the award-winning book Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets, which provides practical, tested tools companies can use to engage consumers, workers, and suppliers to address the needs of both the corporation and the community. He also is a co-author of Conversations with Disbelievers, which provides the quantitative evidence showing when and how corporate citizenship is good business.

Eric P. Young
For over 25 years, Eric Young has been at the vanguard of social marketing, a discipline focused on the development of strategies and campaigns to promote social change. He is the founder and president of E.Y.E., an agency that works with leading government, corporate and voluntary organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society. Young has been the architect of numerous campaigns for change and social innovation projects in areas ranging from health, environmental sustainability and ethics in sport to citizen engagement, corporate social responsibility, community development and global humanitarian relief. He has written and lectured extensively throughout North America on the challenge of change, and the remaking of community in the 21st century. He currently serves on the board of Ecotrust Canada, the Canadian Advisory Board of Right To Play, the editorial advisory board of the Social Marketing Quarterly, and the Corporate Citizenship subcommittee of Imagine Canada.

The Center’s faculty is what makes the difference. They combine great teaching and presentation skills with real-world knowledge in an increasingly complex field. Through their insights and practical experiences, they bring classes alive and help to provide applicable skills and tools that have been of much use to us at JPMorgan Chase.
John M. Imperiale, Senior Vice President and Director of JPMorgan Chase Community Relations