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Our educators draw from a wide range of backgrounds and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our courses.
 Barbra Anderson
Barbra Anderson is Director of Global Corporate Responsibility and Executive Director of the Sabre Holdings Foundation at Sabre Holdings, the world’s leading travel technology company. Barbra leads Sabre’s pan-business, integrated corporate citizenship strategy, which globally aligns its social, environmental, and product and service initiatives with the company’s business objectives. With Sabre for 13 years, Barbra built Sabre’s award-winning corporate contributions, signature, employee volunteering and giving programs for their 10,000 employees in 60 countries. Prior to Sabre, Barbra held positions in operational, marketing and Human Resources at American Airlines, Budget Car Rental, and Hertz Rent a Car. She also co-authored a book on customer service and founded a market research firm. Barbra was appointed to the U.S. Department of State’s Stakeholder Advisory Board, a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. A Florida State University marketing graduate, Barbra has served on a number of non-profit boards and frequently speaks on best practices. |
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 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. |
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 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. 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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.
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 Richard F. Trabert
Dick is a consultant with extensive experience in corporate government and community relations at the state and local level. During his career at Merck & Co., Inc., he headed the public affairs function for the company’s global manufacturing division and introduced the “Neighbor of Choice” program to its facilities. He has lectured on public affairs topics in both the U.S. and overseas and managed a “training with industry” program at Merck for U.S. Army public affairs officers. Besides his corporate work, Trabert has directed election campaigns for municipal office and helped faith-based organizations develop an advocacy program on social issues, an area of personal professional interest. He has served on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations and was a long-time member of the Civilian Public Affairs Committee at the U.S. Military Academy. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Kean University in New Jersey.
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The Center’s educators are what make 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
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