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Our Team
In the 21st Century, the most successful organizations will rely on strong collaborative partnerships to achieve extraordinary outcomes. To this end, the Callaway Group has a continually growing pool of collaborators and faculty working in industries and market segments around the world. They come from diverse backgrounds, geographies and life experiences. They bring their own expertise and backgrounds to our work.
Our Faculty
The primary requirement for any Callaway Leadership Institute faculty member is that they embody the leadership qualities and skills that Effective 21st Century Leadership™ cultivates. They are leaders in their own right, and "they walk their talk." While almost all members have formal academic teaching responsibilities in respected educational institutions, each professional is first a foremost practitioner in the art of effective leadership. We tailor the faculty of each program we offer, based on specific participant leadership and context.
Contact us directly to learn more about our faculty and the programs they support.
John Balkcom (Denver, Colorado, USA)
Consulting Experience
John has served as a management consultant and trusted advisor to CEOs, their leadership teams, and their Boards of Directors for over 25 years. During this time, John served as a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton and a principal at Sibson & Company.
John’s areas of expertise include: developing and deploying enterprise strategy; aligning the organization and leadership team to execute strategy; improving the quality and clarity of decision processes; defining performance expectations and measuring performance; aligning incentives with strategy; and strengthening corporate culture.
John's clients have included Mayo Clinic, Trizec Properties, May Department Stores, Sears Roebuck & Co., Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford Medical School, Winston & Strawn, Taubman Realty, Premark, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LaSalle Investment Management, Follett Corporation, Allstate Insurance, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Pillsbury, Ceridian Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.
Leadership Experience
John recently joined the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago. He also serves on the advisory board of privately held Behavioral Science Technology, Inc., in Ojai, California, and as senior advisor to its chairman. He also served as an independent director for MedDirect, Inc., a Michigan based patient information and payment solutions company recently acquired by MedData, a Baird Capital company. John served as Chairman of the Board of IMCO Recycling from April through December of 2004, and as a principal participant in negotiating and closing the merger of IMCO and Commonwealth Industries to create Aleris International Inc. For Aleris, he served on the Audit Committee and chaired the board’s Compensation Committee. In December of 2006, Texas Pacific Group bought Aleris and took it private.
From the fall of 2000 to the fall of 2003, John served as the president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, an institution noted for its classical curriculum and its Socratic method based on the skill of dialogue. Prior to becoming president, he served on the College’s board of visitors and governors for five years. He continues as President Emeritus.
Educational Backgroundd
John earned his MBA in finance and economics at the University of Chicago, as well as his AB cum laude in philosophy at Princeton University. More recently, John earned an MA in liberal arts at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mrs. Grace B. Boiwu (Monrovia, Liberia)
As part of our commitment to local human capacity development, wherever we work we add talented professionals who can carry our concepts, tools, and ideas into their own communities. Grace is our 1st African-based certified trainer of Effective 21st Century Leadership™. She has integrated our program into all of her professional projects, including in her church. She has given workshops and seminars throughout West Africa. Her ongoing effectiveness in cultivating women leaders has demonstrable impact.
Leadership Experience
Grace is the Coordinator for the Women’s Health and Development Programme at the Mother Patern College of Health Sciences (MPCHS), where she has worked for the past 14 years. Prior to the outbreak of civil war in Liberia, she worked in the Ministry of Health as Nurse/Midwife for ten consecutive years. She participated in the research that has documented violence and atrocities committed against women during the Liberian civil war. She has taught several workshops for women and girls’ groups in communities as well as her church, including a seminar on "Save Motherhood".
Educational Background
Grace has an Associates Degree in Social Works and more than 27 years of work experience.
Kerry A. Eaton, Senior Vice President & Chief Administrative Office for St. Vincent’s Medical Center, (Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA)
Leadership Experience
Kerry Eaton has always led her peers. When she graduated from nursing school, she received three awards for highest clinical and theoretical average attained. When she graduated with her Masters in Nursing Administration, she received an award for Excellence in Clinical Practice and Administration. As Head Nurse of the Emergency Department at Indian River Memorial Hospital in Vero Beach, Florida, she received the Employee Recognition Award for successfully organizing the country’s first Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course.
Since her early days as a staff nurse, one of her abiding passions has been improving patient care in the ER, ICU, OR and the bedside. In other words, wherever patients receive care. While Kerry’s first jobs were in direct patient care, early on, her capacity as a leader emerged. In her mid-twenties, she was promoted to head nurse of the ER. At St. Vincent’s since 1996, her commitment to quality improvement led her to accept jobs with more responsibility. Today she is the senior executive responsible for day-to-day hospital operations. A nationally recognized leader in patient safety, Kerry became an American Hospital Association HRET Patient Safety Leadership Fellow in 2006. She teaches Quality Improvement & Patient Safety in a Master's program at Yale School of Nursing. When not improving patient care, Kerry engages in another of her passions—painting.
Educational Background
RN – 1980 Ona M. Wilcox School of Nursing, Middletown, CT
BSN: Nursing -1990- Central Connecticut University, New Britain, CT
MS: Nursing -1995- University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Lawrence B. Mlotshwa, Managing Director of Mantuzela Management Services (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Leadership Experience
Mr. Lawrence B. Mlotshwa, is an accomplished Human Resource (HR) Executive and leader has worked for various local and multinational companies in South Africa. Lawrence began his professional career with Unilever, South Africa, where he quickly progressed up the corporate ladder; becoming the senior HR manager within three years. He joined Sun International, a leading company in the gaming industry, to become the Group Strategy HR Manager. From this position, Lawrence facilitated major cultural shifts within the company. He has held executive HR positions in Sun International, and Nedbank, ABSA and Barclays International banks. A visionary and innovator, Lawrence has implemented successfully company-wide human resource strategies, leadership programs, and HIV/AIDS training; long before others in his profession realized their significance to organizational success. He relishes helping others develop their capacities. He has coached numerous executives while, many young South Africans continue to treasure his mentorship. Currently, he on the board of an NGO serving orphaned children.
Educational Background
BA - Social Sciences -psychology and industrial sociology (HED), Fort Hare University, Forte Hare, South Africa
MBA - Henley Management College, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Executve Development Programme [EDP]- University of Cape Town, South Africa
Strategic HR Programme - Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Professional Support Team
In addition to our faculty, additional team members bring relevant special expertise to make our work better, stronger and accessible in multimedia formats.
Charles Riffenburg: Illustrator and MultiMedia Manager
When the Callaway Group expanded its product offerings in print and multimedia, it reached out to Charles as a multimedia graphic artist. Charles is primarily a storyteller, regardless of the medium he's working in. He runs the independent design firm Grab Bag Media and specilaizes in marketing and publicity for non-profit arts organizetion. He holds a BFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He also holds an MFA in Media and Performing Art from SCAD and has been a constantly-working actor in Chicago since 2005. Learn more about him and his work at www.GrabBagMedia.com.
Richard E. Schell, Esq.: Legal Advisor on Intellectual Property
In 2005, when we formed Lincoln Park Productions, LLC, we recognized the need for international publishing and intellectual property expertise to help us navigate our way through these uncharted waters. Rich provides his expertise in a field of law relating to traditional and new forms of publishing using the Internet as the information delivery mechanism. His website is www.WagnerUSLaw.com. Rich’s personal code is "It’s the Wild Wild West out there on the Internet. Stay informed and within the law."