Board Professionals Leadership Group

The AGB Board Professionals Leadership Group (BP Leadership Group), endorsed by AGB, facilitates and encourages educational and professional services and opportunities for board professionals from AGB member institutions. As a successor to the BPS Planning Committee, the BP Leadership Group continues to provide leadership for the annual Workshop for Board Professionals, held in conjunction with AGB's National Conference on Trusteeship.

In addition, the BP Leadership Group shall periodically assess the professional development needs of board professionals and advise and work with AGB to address those needs through research, education, communication, and other programming.

The BP Leadership Group will also promote membership in AGB and participation by board professionals in AGB programs and services for board professionals, and through AGB ensure regular communication with board professionals at AGB member institutions.

There are four committees of the Leadership Group: Executive, Marketing and Membership, Professional Development, and Program.

Members of the BP Leadership Group and its committees convene each year during the Workshop for Board Professionals and hold an annual planning meeting during the summer. The next summer planning meeting of the BP Leadership Group will be hosted by Charlene Reed, chair, at Kent State University on July 28-30, 2013.

Officers and Executive Committee, 2012-13                            

Charlene Reed, Chair
Kent State University
creed2@kent.edu

Dusti Cermak, Vice Chair 
The University of Iowa Foundation
dusti-cermak@uiowa.edu

Beth Hilliard, Past Chair 
Kentucky Community & Technical College System
beth.hilliard@kctcs.edu

Steve Frieder, Secretary
Marquette University
steven.frieder@marquette.edu

Merrill Schwartz, AGB Liaison
Association of Governing Boards
merrills@agb.org

Committee Membership, 2012-2013

Marketing & Membership Committee

Anne Shaw, Chair 
University of California
anne.shaw@ucop.edu

Katie Herschede, Vice Chair
Northern Kentucky University
herschede@nku.edu

Kelly Brown
Abilene Christian University
klm00e@acu.edu

Steve Frieder, Exec. Comm. Liaison
Marquette University
steven.frieder@marquette.edu

Ellen Hallett
Wheaton College (MA)
hallett_ellen@wheatoncollege.edu

Mitzi Norton
Adler School of Professional Psychology
mnorton@adler.edu

Vivian Ortiz
Massachusetts Bay Community College
vortiz@massbay.edu

Akilah Rosado-McQueen
Bank Street College of Education
arosado@bankstreet.edu

Dale Tahtinen
Michigan Technological University
drtahtin@mtu.edu

Professional Development Committee

Julie Miller, Chair 
Wayne State University
Julie.H.Miller@wayne.edu

Loretta Martinez, Vice Chair
Metropolitan State College of Denver
lpmartin@mscd.edu

Louis Charpentier
University of Toronto
l.charpentier@utoronto.ca

Heather Fehn
The College of New Jersey
hfehn@tcnj.edu

Beth Hilliard, Exec. Comm. Liaison
Kentucky Community & Technical College System
beth.hilliard@kctcs.edu

Mary Kennard
American University
mekesq@american.edu

Kathryn Lake
Kenyon College
lakek@kenyon.edu

Brigham Timpson
Roosevelt University
btimpson@roosevelt.edu

Program Committee

Lorrie Kyle, Chair
Rollins College
lkyle@rollins.edu

Irene Birrell, Vice Chair
University of Western Ontario
ibirrell@uwo.ca

Dusti Cermak, Exec. Comm. Liaison
The University of Iowa Foundation
dusti-cermak@uiowa.edu

Tamaria Kai Davis
Spelman College
tkdavis@spelman.edu

Artis Hampshire-Cowan
Howard University
ahampshire-cowan@howard.edu

Heather Lane Gallenbeck
University of Minnesota Foundation
lanex039@umn.edu

Kelley Mills
Rhode Island School of Design
kmills@risd.edu

Richard Riddell
Duke University
richard.riddell@duke.edu

Merrill Schwartz
Association of Governing Boards
merrills@agb.org

Jamal Sowell
University of Florida
jsowell@ufl.edu

Oren Yagil
Webster University
orenyagil@webster.edu

Past Leaders of BPLG and Outstanding Board Professionals

Recipients of BPLG Special Recognition Award 

2012  Jeannie Phillips, University of Alaska

2010 Artis Hampshire-Cowan, Howard University 

2009 Linda Dixon, Tufts University 

2007 Leigh Trivette, University of California 

Chairs of the BPLG 

2012-2013  Charlene Reed, Kent State University

2011-2012 Beth Rice Hilliard, Kentucky Community and Technical College System 

2010-2011 Heather Fehn, The College of New Jersey 

2009-2010 Ann Cieslak, University of Minnesota 

2008-2009  Louis Charpentier, University of Toronto 

2007-2008 Richard Mersereau, Bowdoin College 

Secretaries of the BPLG 

2011-present Steve Frieder, Marquette University 

2007-2011 Anne Shaw, University of California