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 shall continue 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.

Officers and Executive Committee, 2011-12                            

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

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

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

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

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

Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs, 2011-2012

Marketing & Membership Committee

Lynne Fullerton-Baham, Chair
Oregon State University Foundation
lynne.fullerton-baham@oregonstate.edu

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

Nancy Asin
University of Michigan
nasin@umich.edu

Kelly Brown
Abilene Christian University
klm00e@acu.edu

Steve Frieder
Marquette University
steven.frieder@marquette.edu

Kathryn Lake
Kenyon College
lakek@kenyon.edu

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

Professional Development Committee

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

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

Paula Ammerman
Penn State University
pra4@psu.edu

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

Ann Cieslak
University of Minnesota
cieslak@umn.edu

Katie Herschede
Northern Kentucky University
herschede@nku.edu

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

Program Committee

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

Adriel Hilton, Vice Chair
Upper Iowa University
hiltona@uiu.edu

Philip Bakerman
Association of Governing Boards
philipb@agb.org

Irene Birrell
University of Western Ontario
ibirrell@uwo.ca

Aristide Collins
The George Washington University
aristide@gwu.edu

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

Lorrie Kyle
Rollins College
lkyle@rollins.edu

Jeannie Phillips
University of Alaska System
jdphillips@alaska.edu

Charlene Reed
Kent State University
creed2@kent.edu

Lil O'Rourke
Syracuse University
eorourke@syr.edu

Merrill Schwartz
Association of Governing Boards
merrills@agb.org

Gail Steele
University of the Virgin Islands
gsteele@uvi.edu

Dale Tahtinen
Michigan Technological University
drtahtin@mtu.edu

Elizabeth "Buff" Wright
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
buff_wright@kgi.edu

Past Leaders of BPLG and Outstanding Board Professionals

Recipients of BPLG Special Recognition Award 

2010 Artis Hampshire-Cowan, Howard University 

2009 Linda Dixon, Tufts University 

2007 Leigh Trivette, University of California 

Chairs of the BPLG 

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