Joel Wright
Joel is a leadership architect, social entrepreneur, innovator, and facilitator of leadership and organizational development focused on the question, what would the world look like if all people had access to leadership development? This question began incubating while he worked in Sri Lanka where he witnessed how leadership training empowered people to respond to the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Upon returning to the US, Joel spent twelve years with the Center for Creative Leadership innovating ways to democratize leadership development. He and his team pioneered a new line of business creating new products, leadership development approaches, and frameworks. Joel’s experience enables him to span Board rooms to camp “classrooms” cultivating collaborations that cut across many socioeconomic and cultural barriers. With over twenty years of experience, Joel writes, presents, and facilitates about the importance of Expanding the Leadership Equation to include leadership development for everyone; he holds a BA in History from Wittenberg University and a Masters of Educational Innovation from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Chris Rehm
Through various leadership and consulting roles, Chris developed deep experience with project creation and management while working with varying constituents to achieve lasting change. Specifically, he has extensive experience with curricular and organizational alignment, intentional learning outcome design, strategic planning, program evaluation, and technology implementation. Chris consults at the intersection of education, technology, and leadership development. He is passionate about training leaders from an early age to increase access to the future leadership pipeline. Chris and his family live in Asia where he spearheads the global work while serving in school administration and scaling leader development across an international school network.
He began his career working in the back-room of a school IT department performing software upgrades and hardware repairs while teaching technology classes. Subsequently, he stayed involved in education, mainly in independent schools as an administrator, eventually becoming a Head of School.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic Leadership Studies from James Madison University, an interdisciplinary program that combines the core of an MBA with coursework in leadership theory, organizational behavior, advanced statistics, research methodology, and human development. Prior to this, he earned his M.Ed. from the University of Virginia and dual degrees in History and Operations and Information Technology from the College of William and Mary.