Johns Hopkins University Center for Leadership Education

Timothy Weihs

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Director

Timothy P. Weihs brings a unique combination of research, teaching and entrepreneurial experience to his dual roles as a professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and director of the Center for Leadership Education. Tim leveraged his research findings during a three-year hiatus from the university to co-found Reactive NanoTechnologies (RNT) and grow the company to the point of first commercial sales before returning to his teaching duties full-time. He remains active as a business consultant and draws on his industry experience to guide and grow CLE. Tim has been recognized with an NSF Career Award, a 3M Young Faculty Fellowship, an R&D 100 Award, and an Innovator of the Year Award.

Ph.D. Stanford University
M.E. Thayer School of Engineering
B.A. Dartmouth College

e-mail: weihs@jhu.edu

Lawrence Aronhime

Senior Lecturer
Associate Director, Entrepreneurship & Management Program

Lawrence Aronhime is a full time lecturer with the W.P. Carey Program and has been teaching with Johns Hopkins University since 1992. He teaches in the areas of accounting, entrepreneurship, and technology commercialization. He has successfully started several technology ventures and is actively involved in supporting university technology commercialization efforts through the formation of student teams and projects as well as coursework.

M.B.A. Loyola College
M.S. Johns Hopkins University
B.A. Johns Hopkins University

e-mail: aronhime@jhu.edu

Donna Crane

Senior Lecturer

Donna teaches both Marketing and Management and brings more than 30 years of practitioner experience to both disciplines. She has been an economist with National Economic Research Associates, a senior marketing executive with GE and a leadership consultant to Fortune 50 companies. Donna was previously on the faculty of Northern Kentucky University.

Donna has testified before Congress, is an occasional contributor for USA Today, has written a novel and has just completed writing a textbook in Marketing. Marketing: Principles, Perspective and Practice is scheduled for publication in September 2011.

M.A. American University
B.A. Pennsylvania State University

e-mail: donna.crane@jhu.edu

Leslie Kendrick

Senior Lecturer

Leslie Kendrick has 12 years of experience as a marketing practitioner. Starting in sales, she worked for Harper & Row Publishers, then moved into marketing management at Londontown Corporation and later Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Leslie has taught in our program since 2002 and developed the five core marketing courses and the PR/Media intersession course/NY trip. Active in the Baltimore Chapter of the American Marketing Association, Leslie uses her local network to connect JHU students to marketing and finance internships. She is the internship coordinator for the Center for Leadership Education and Advisor for the JHU Student AMA Chapter.

M.B.A. Loyola College
B.A. Pennsylvania State University

e-mail: kendrick@jhu.edu

Annette Leps

Senior Lecturer

Annette Leps has over 15 years of experience in the accounting and finance areas including time as a management consultant (providing planning and market feasibility counsel to clients) and as a member of senior-level management for two Fortune 500 companies. Now a full-time Senior Lecturer, Annette teaches accounting and financial statement analysis to JHU undergraduates and the Masters of Science in Engineering Management graduate students. Besides serving as a faculty advisor to the Salant Investment Team, Annette uses her professional and personal network to mentor students and match them with opportunities in consulting, accounting and banking.

M.B.A. St. Louis University
B.S. University of Missouri-Columbia
Certified Public Accountant

e-mail: aleps@jhu.edu

Keith Quesenberry

Lecturer

Keith Quesenberry brings 17 years communication experience as a creative director and copywriter on marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 corporations like Exxon Mobil, Delta Air Lines, Hershey and Washington Post. He has won advertising creative, public relations and digital marketing awards and been featured in trade publications like Advertising Age. Keith taught at Temple University and West Virginia University and is active in academic research. Recently, he chaired a pre-conference at the American Academy of Advertising national conference. He blogs about social media and marketing at Adding to the Noise, http://addingtonoise.wordpress.com.

M.S. West Virginia University
B.S. Temple University
Certificate: Copywriting

e-mail: kquesenberry@jhu.edu

Julie Reiser

Senior Lecturer

Julie Reiser is a senior lecturer for the Professional Communication Program where she teaches courses in technical writing, research writing, oral presentations, writer's block, and social media. Prior to joining Hopkins, Julie was a full-time lecturer at Towson University where she taught business writing, American literature, creative writing, and composition courses. She has also worked on Capitol Hill as a network administrator and freelanced as a technical writer/editor and manuscript consultant. Recently, she ghostwrote a trade business book that was represented by The CoveyLink Agency-the people behindThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Currently, she blogs about writer's block at Zen and the Art of Not Writing, http://zenofnotwriting.com.

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
M.A. University of Utah
B.A. University of Utah

e-mail: julie.reiser@gmail.com

Eric Rice

Senior Lecturer
Director, Engineering Management Program
Associate Director, Professional Communication Program

Eric Rice has been operating his consulting practice and teaching communication skills for over twenty-five years. During that time, not only has he developed programs and authored scores of papers, training materials/videos and monographs for clients, but also, and perhaps more important, students in the classes he has taught have performed dozens of projects for organizations that have helped the organizations grow and students find jobs. Eric has a Master's degree in Education Psychology and a Ph.D. in Educational Sociology, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ph.D University of North Carolina
M.E.d. University of North Carolina

e-mail: ericmrice@gmail.com

Pamela Sheff

Senior Lecturer

Pam Sheff is an award-winning writer and marketing communications consultant, with a wealth of experience developing marketing, public relations and communications strategies for clients ranging from start-ups to large corporate, institutional and government organizations. Now a full-time lecturer in CLE, Pam has taught business communications for private companies and directed the Writing Program at Goucher College. She is also a founder and current Board member of the Prison Education Partnership, an organization devoted to providing college education to incarcerated men and women.

Ph.D. HarvardUniversity
A.M. Harvard University

e-mail: pamsheff@gmail.com

Michael Agronin

Lecturer

Mike Agronin is a product developer and the inventor of Black & Decker's award-winning Thermal Leak Detector. He has mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and the University of Texas, and an M.B.A. from Loyola University, Maryland, where he has taught M.B.A. students for the last five years. Mike pioneered product development processes that led to a series of highly-successful consumer products for Black & Decker. He is currently Director of R&D for Direct Dimensions, Inc., where he is developing a hand-held device that scans objects to create dimensionally-accurate 3D computer models.

M.B.A. Loyola University Maryland
M.S.M.E. University of Texas
B.S.M.E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

e-mail: magroni1@jhu.edu

Laura Davis

Lecturer

Laura G. Davis earned a B.S. in English from Towson University and a M.A. in TESOL from George Washington University. Having taught ESL in a wide variety of organizations such as Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Baltimore County Public Schools, the Community College of Baltimore County, the College of Notre Dame, and the University of Baltimore, Ms. Davis brings more than 11 years of experience teaching and tutoring Baltimore international students. Ms. Davis leads writing workshops, teaches composition classes, tutors writing students, and teaches all aspects of communicating in an American English culture.

M.A. George Washington University
B.S. Towson University

e-mail: edyowen@aol.com

Marci De Vries

Lecturer

Marci De Vries has 20 years of marketing and business development experience. She was president of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and named one of the Top 40 local business leaders under 40 by both the Baltimore Business Journal and Baltimore Magazine. During her career, she has performed marketing campaigns for National Public Radio, Choice Hotels International, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, The Home Depot, Structural Group, Fiberon/Weatherbest, and PHH Arval. Her total client roster is over 150 companies strong.

M.A. American University
B.A. Western Michigan University

e-mail: marci@mdvinteractive.com

Kevin Dungey

Senior Lecturer

KevinDungey has over 35 years of experience teaching communications skills in universities and consulting with federal and state agencies and in private business. He has worked at the Government Accountability Office since 1986 where, among other duties, he has taught executives how to prepare to give congressional testimony. He has headed up undergraduate writing programs at the University of Maryland College Park and St. John's College-Annapolis. He is co-owner and Director of Quality Communications Group, Inc.

Ph.D. Stanford University
A.B. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

e-mail: dungey@erols.com

David Fisher

Lecturer

David Fisher teaches Business Law I and Business Law II with the W.P. Carey Program. He previously worked as a business and political consultant, as an attorney in private practice (concentrating in business, landlord-tenant, contract and debtor-creditor law), and in theLitigation and Prosecution Unit of Maryland's Office of Unemployment Insurance. He currently serves as a hearing examiner, adjudicating unemployment benefit appeals. Before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2000, he taught journalism, ethics and law courses at several area colleges and universities.

J.D. University of Baltimore School of Law
B.A. Cornell University

e-mail: dafprof@msn.com

Mark Franceschini

Senior Lecturer

Mark C.Franceschini has been a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University since 1999 and teaches Business Law, Internet Law, and Case Studies in Business Ethics with the W.P. Carey Program.He is an attorney with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, where he is an appeals hearing officer and presides over unemployment hearings. He also has his own practice handling cases in family law, general litigation, criminal law and collections.He is a member of the Maryland Bar.

J.D. University of Baltimore School of Law
B.A. Rutgers University

e-mail: markcf2@gmail.com

Nora Frenkiel

Lecturer

Nora Frenkiel, an attorney and writer, has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, where she was a feature writer. She also teaches courses in journalism and magazine writing at Loyola University of Maryland. As an attorney specializing in public interest law, she represented children and young adults in juvenile court for the Legal Aid Bureau in Baltimore City, and worked with organizations focused on legal advocacy to improve educational and disability services for children. She has also provided pro bono representation through the American Bar Association's Immigration Project.

J.D. University of Maryland School of Law
B.A. New York University

e-mail: nfrenki2@jhu.edu

Jason Heiserman

Lecturer

Jason Heiserman has a dual role at Johns Hopkins University, serving as a Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations and as an Adjunct Faculty member teaching in the Professional Communication Program. Jason has taught a variety of speech communication courses at local colleges and universities. In his alumni relations role, Jason manages the university's regional alumni communities across the nation and throughout the world. Jason has presented over 25 educational workshops at national conferences on topics such as leadership development and event planning, and he has authored a variety of articles for Programming magazine. Jason is currently pursuing his PhD in Higher Education Administration at nearby Morgan State University. Beyond the work world, Jason is a huge sports fan, enjoys hip hop music, and loves spending time with his wife and two young children.

M.Ed. James Madison University
B.S. James Madison University

e-mail: jheiserman@jhu.edu

Illysa Izenberg

Lecturer

Illysa Izenberg is a part time lecturer, teaching Engineering Business & Management and Principles of Management. She also teaches Masters candidates in the Whiting School's Engineering for Professionals Program and UMBC’s Engineering Management Program. As a business consultant, Illysa helps leaders and managers communicate effectively, coach employees for sustained superior performance, work productively in face-to-face and virtual teams, overcome conflict, and manage projects. She has helped working professionals in corporations, not-for-profits, and government agencies for 17 years. Previously she held profit & loss and staff positions at a Fortune 500 company.

M.B.A. Harvard Graduate School of Business
B.A. Brandeis University

e-mail: izenberg@jhu.edu

Theresa Jones

Lecturer

Theresa D. Jones teaches “Principles of Marketing” and “Branding: Shaping the Way Consumers View Products.” She is a passionate business leader with more than 15 years of marketing and sales experience. She spent 12 years working for Procter & Gamble (P&G) in a variety of consumer and shopper marketing assignments. Her experience includes leading the marketing strategy and plans for the Delhaize group and launching Pantene Relaxed & Natural – the company’s first African-American targeted brand. She has lectured at the graduate and undergraduate levels and has extensive experience in training and development in the areas of marketing, strategy and leadership.

M.B.A. Duke University
B.S. American University

e-mail: theresadjones@verizon.net

Andy Kulanko

Senior Lecturer

Andy Kulanko has taught oral presentations courses to Johns Hopkins students since 2000. He has spent many years providing training to and developing the communication skills of managers and staff in business, government, and academia. He is the executive producer and host of the cable access television program "SpeakEasy" and has had a long affiliation with the Toastmasters International communication and leadership program. His humor, experience, and encouragement help students gain the skills and confidence needed to meet the challenge of speaking before an audience.

M.S. George Washington University
B.S. St. Joseph’s University

e-mail: akulanko@aol.com

Aida Lebbos

Lecturer

Aida M. Lebbos is a business attorney advising clients on general corporate, transactional and intellectual property issues. Currently, Ms. Lebbos is an Assistant General Counsel with a government contractor. She has also practiced law with Venable LLP and Saul Ewing LLP, handled compliance and licensing issues for the UMB Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property team and represented the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) as an attorney with the Maryland Attorney General's Office. She has written several articles including “Intellectual Property Rights and Sec. 337 Investigations”, "IP Representations in Business Transactions", and "Helping Your Client Manage a Newly Acquired Intellectual Property Portfolio". Ms. Lebbos teaches Business Law and Intellectual Property Law.

J.D. University of Baltimore School of Law
B.A. Duke University

e-mail: alebbos1@jhu.edu

Denise Link-Farajali

Lecturer

Having previously taught at JHU for 5 years, Denise Link-Farajali is happy to return! With over 30 years experience in English as a Second Language (ESL) education, she has also taught graduate courses in TESOL and directed many business and cultural programs as well as the English Language Institute at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Medical interest from her Rochester days facilitated her tutoring numerous area professionals to pass tests mandated by their medical boards. A born teacher, Denise infuses her classroom with music and drama from Eastman study and a sense of humor, creating a safe harbor for students to open up and express themselves.

M.Ed. SUNY at Buffalo
B.A. University of Rochester

e-mail: farajali@comcast.net

Donald McNeilly

Lecturer

Donald P. McNeilly received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Maryland under the direction of Distinguished Professor Ira Berlin. In addition to teaching history and economics, he has taught a wide array of courses in rhetoric and writing—Technical Writing, Business Writing, Research Writing (a graduate course to assist graduate students learn strategies for writing dissertations), Academic Writing, and Honors Writing for the Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland, and for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Leadership Education. McNeilly has also worked in the private sector as an editor/writer for numerous companies and corporations.

Ph.D. University of Maryland
M.A. California State University at San Jose
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz

e-mail: donpmcn@aol.com

Charlotte O'Donnell

Lecturer

Charlotte O'Donnell is a freelance writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the East Providence Post, the Swansea News, and the Greensboro Review, among other publications. She has worked as a reporter, as a news photographer, and as a manager of a graphic design department at a book publishing company.

M.F.A. Johns Hopkins University
B.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis

e-mail: cod@charlotteodonnell.net

Josianne Pennington

Lecturer

Josianne Pennington’s career includes working as a corporate Chief Marketing Officer, division head of an international publishing company, and communications director for two non-profits. Her experience includes strategic planning, brand management, public relations and advertising, social media, crisis management and marketing and communications. Today, she is a published author, consultant and facilitator providing for-profit and non-profit clients with innovative and creative solutions for achieving their organization’s goals. She also served two years as President of the Board of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Maryland and sits on several non-profit advisory boards.

M.L.A. Johns Hopkins University
B.A. University of Delaware

e-mail: pennassoc@comcast.net
phone: 410-790-0027