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Senior Associates
Keith Merron
Keith Merron is a Senior Associate at Barbara Annis & Associates. As an organizational effectiveness and executive development specialist, he has more than 25 years of experience assisting executives and managers in business, government, and education. In partnership with his clients, he has successfully conducted over twenty-five large-system strategic, cultural and technical change efforts resulting in a measurable increase in organizational productivity, employee performance, and employee satisfaction.
Keith received his Doctorate from Harvard University in 1985, where his studies spanned the fields of human and organization development. He has conducted extensive research on the relationships between human development, managerial effectiveness and high performance, and has published numerous professional journal articles. He is also the author of three books on organizational change: Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization for Enduring Success, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1995; Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference, published by Berrett-Koehler, Inc. in 2005; and The Golden Flame: The Heart and Soul of Remarkable Leadership, published in 2010.
Clare Beckton
Clare Beckton has worked with Barbara Annis & Associates for the past
10 years on matters of gender and cultural equality and leadership. In
her work in both the public and private sectors, she has constructed key
partnerships with stakeholders and citizens across Canada to develop
public policies, laws and regulations, and to provide services and to
deliver programs in periods of significant change for Canadian society.
Clare received her LLB and her BA from the University of Saskatchewan
and spent an LLM year at the University of Illinois. She taught law at
Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1974 to 1984, and, in
that capacity, published a number of articles and several books. In
2005, as a Fulbright Scholar, she obtained an MPA with a focus on
leadership from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In
recognition of academic excellence and her exceptional contribution to
public service and leadership, Ms. Beckton was awarded the Littauer
Fellowship. In 2008, she was appointed to the Women's Leadership Board
of the Kennedy School of Government, received the Woman of the Year
Award from the Federated Press for "exceptional achievement and
outstanding leadership by a Canadian woman," and was selected by the
Women's Executive Network for a Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100
Award. She is also the recipient of a Canada 125 Medal.
Beginning in 1984, Clare held various positions in the Canadian
government, including within the Department of Justice, and most
recently as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada.
She is the author of Media and the Law as well as
numerous journal articles. She has extensive experience related to
equality rights, leadership through change, governance, gender,
diversity and Aboriginal policy issues . Ms. Beckton has served as a
presenter on diverse topics for domestic and international conferences
and symposia. She has been an active contributor to various executive
and community-based committees.
Jane Hewson
Jane Hewson is a Senior Associate at Barbara Annis & Associates. She
serves as our strategic advisor on Gender Intelligence, with a specific
focus on creating accelerated breakthrough results. Jane has counseled many of the world’s leading professional
services firms and corporations over the past 30 years in the areas of
management, client development, marketing and communications. In recent years, her
work has ranged from enterprise-wide projects building client teams and
establishing systems and techniques for penetrating targeted global
clients to executive coaching in business network development and public
profile enhancement, working with clients such as NYSE Euronext, Gibson
Dunn & Crutcher, and Weil Gotshal.
She has played a seminal role in the evolution of legal marketing,
crafting first-generation and subsequent iterations of marketing and
positioning strategies, as well as enduring brands and visual identities
associated with many of today’s AmLaw 100 firms, including firms such as
Cravath, Fish & Neave, Milbank, Paul Weiss, and Wachtell. Jane has also
served financial institutions in the development of marketing
communications and annual reports, including Deloitte, Elliott
Associates, Fiduciary Trust, Fitch, Fortis, Manulife Financial, Moody’s,
and US Trust.
A graduate of Princeton University, BA in Psychology, 1977, Jane serves
as a Trustee of the Down Town Association in New York, as a Board member
of the Princeton Club of New York, and a Board member of the Cap & Gown
Club of Princeton University.
Betsy Myers
Betsy Myers most recently served as a senior adviser and Chief Operating
Officer of Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign, as well as Chair, Women
for Obama. Prior to this appointment, Myers was the Executive Director
of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government. She came to CPL in 2003, with a track record of
strategically building and realigning organizations. Myers to her credit
focused the Center's teaching and research around personal leadership
and the fully integrated person. This culminated in a partnership with
CPL and The Hoffman Institute. She also increased the Center’s efforts
around women and leadership while working closely with the Harvard’s
Women’s Leadership Board (2000-2007).
A senior official in the Clinton Administration, she was the President's
senior adviser on women's issues. As Deputy Assistant to the President,
she launched and was the first Director of the White House Office for
Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. She played a critical role in
Clinton's re-election effort in 1996 and figured prominently in shaping
the Administration's legislative agenda on issues such as domestic
violence, reproductive choice, breast cancer, and women in business.
Myers also served as the Associate Deputy Administrator for
Entrepreneurial Development in the U.S. Small Business Administration.
She implemented the SBA’s national requirements under President
Clinton’s Welfare to Work Initiative and was responsible for the
agency’s technical assistance, management, and distance learning
programs. In a previous post, Myers was the Director of the Office of
Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA. She served as an advocate for the
7.8 million women entrepreneurs in our country.
A Public Service Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, she graduated with
a M.P.A. in 2000, and then served as the School’s Director of Alumni
Programs and External Relations before directing the Center for Public
Leadership.
Hubert Saint-Onge
Hubert Saint-Onge is a Senior Associate at Barbara Annis & Associates, with special focus areas in leadership development, talent management, and post-M&A strategies. Over the past 25 years, he has held senior management positions in leading companies and subsequently has provided corporate clients with innovative coaching in business strategy, leadership and people management.
Recognized by Harvard University for his thought leadership in the field, Hubert was Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2005-2006, where his main areas of focus were organizational learning, knowledge management and leadership development. He has given presentations globally on organizational learning, leadership development and knowledge value creation, and since 2002 has co-authored two leading-edge books in the field. Following a book he co-authored on communities of practice, his second book, The Conductive Organization, provides a blueprint for creating knowledge-based cultures in organizations to achieve breakthrough performance. His most recent book, Beyond the Deal, published by McGraw Hill in 2009, focuses on how an organization can best integrate newly acquired businesses.
Holly Taylor Sargent
Holly Taylor Sargent is the Founding Director of Harvard's Women’s
Leadership Board and is the Chief Strategist and Advisor for external
relations to the Rhodes Trust of Oxford University. She has also founded
her own consulting firm, which provides creative and entrepreneurial
ideas to non-profit organizations and individual philanthropists.
After serving for 15 years at KSG, Dean Sargent was promoted to Senior
Associate Dean for Advancement and Senior Director for women’s
initiatives for the entire University. In this capacity she created
several university-wide fellowships and was responsible for expanding
support for programs related to women.
In addition, Holly has been instrumental in launching and supporting
institutions which support women. In addition to developing the Women’s
Leadership Board at Harvard, Sargent was the Founding Director of The
Council of Women World Leaders, the organization of female leaders of
state and government. She also served on the Women Leaders Initiative of
the World Economic Forum.
Sargent is an advisory board member of Maine Bank & Trust, a board member of Right To Play,
and is on the international advisory board for the Cherie Blair Women’s Foundation.
She
also serves as board member and vice chair of the development committee for the Gulf of
Maine Research Institute.
Kate Sweetman
Kate Sweetman has been a leadership consultant for almost 20 years,
working across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia with a broad
range of clients, including Goldman Sachs, Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority, Novartis, Verizon, Nokia, Qatar Petroleum, Saudi Aramco,
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, Omnicom, and DHL. She is also
currently working with the American Democracy Institute to help develop
high potential young women for leadership positions in public service in
the government.
Kate is also co-author of The Leadership Code: 5 Rules to Lead
By, and author or co-author of many articles about leadership
and related topics in publications including Harvard Business Review,
Sloan Management Review, and The Economic Times of India. Kate is a
former editor at Harvard Business Review, where she acquired and edited
leadership articles. Currently an instructor at MIT’s Legatum Center for
Development and Entrepreneurship, she collaborates with gifted young
entrepreneurs from emerging and developing countries including India,
Rwanda, Colombia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and North Africa.
Ellen Wingard
Ellen Wingard has over 20 years of experience as an executive coach
and organizational consultant, working with senior leaders and their
teams in financial services, academic medicine, pharmaceuticals,
telecommunications, publishing and higher education. As a pioneer in the
field of executive coaching, Ellen has been working with leaders since
1982 to achieve business results, build collaborative teams and foster
innovation while promoting resilience and renewal. Since 1990, Ellen has
been a key contributor to the design and delivery of corporate coaching
programs linked to strategic business objectives at several Fortune 500
companies.
In 1996, Ellen partnered with Linkage, Inc., an international corporate
education firm, to launch their executive coaching practice. She
contributed to the original design of the annual Global Leadership
Development Conference chaired by Warren Bennis, the Women in Leadership
Conference, the Executive Coaching Forum and the first International
Coaching & Mentoring Conference, London, England. In 1999, Ellen
received recognition from the Women's Financial Association for
contributions to advancing women leaders in the financial services
industry. Ellen was an original contributor to the Executive Coaching
Handbook, Boston, Massachusetts, a publication cited as one of the most
comprehensive white papers on the ethics and standards of creating
coaching partnerships within organizations.
A graduate of Boston University, B.A, 1974, and Antioch College, M.Ed.,
1980, Ellen has extensive post-graduate training in systems thinking,
team development, mediation and executive assessment. As a former
student then staff member at the acclaimed University of Massachusetts
Stress Reduction Clinic with Jon Kabat-Zinn from 1986 to 1994, Ellen was
trained in behavioral medicine tools that are the basis for "emotional
intelligence" research applying mindfulness practice to leadership
effectiveness. She is the co-author of Strengthening Leadership
Skills Through Coaching in Culture Shift (AHA, 1997) and the
co-editor of Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the
Practice of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2005).
Associates
Barbara Annis & Associates maintains a global array of Associates, including:
| Associate | Location |
| Susan Aaronson | Boston |
| Lesley Abdela | London |
| Kenchiro Akiyama | Tokyo |
| Farah Bhakshay | India |
| Robert Bowen | San Diego |
| Etienne Couture | France |
| Judy Dahm | Toronto |
| Maria Flannigan | Los Angeles |
| Maureen Gaffney | Ireland |
| Barb Galyen | San Francisco |
| Christie Hardwick | San Francisco |
| Delton Hebling | Brazil |
| Lisa Hirsh | Boston |
| Irene Hughes | San Francisco |
| Benedikte Jacobs | Italy |
| Marcia Jimenez | Costa Rica |
| Charles Jones | New York |
| Marty Kaplan | San Francisco |
| Akihiro Kodaira | Tokyo |
| Anita Krishnaswamy | India |
| Jane Lavelle | London |
| Maria Lerose | Vancouver |
| Annelisa MacBean | San Francisco |
| Jerry Manas | New York |
| Ranjini Manian | India |
| Elvio Martini | Italy |
| Marguerite Mcleod-Fleming | Toronto |
| Catherine Mullally | New York/Los Angeles |
| Shobha Naidu | India |
| Jill Nyren | Toronto |
| Heather Price | New Zealand |
| Shanti Puducheri | India |
| Susan Reimer-Torn | New York |
| Marcia Ruben | San Francisco |
| Eiko Saito | Tokyo |
| Daniela Schulz | Germany |
| Tim Shea | New York |
| Rochelle Sherlock | San Francisco |
| Duncan Smith | Australia |
| Ruchika Srivastava | India |
| Terry St. Pierre | Belgium |
| Sue Stockdale | London |
| Susan Sussman | Boston |
| Patrizio Timentel | Mexico |
| Cindy Tortorici | Portland/Seattle |
| Carolyn Turner | Ottawa |
| Mark Voorsanger | San Francisco |
Scientific Partners
Dr. Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher, Ph.D. is a Research Professor and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. From 1984 to 1994 she was Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at The American Museum of Natural History. She received her PhD in Physical Anthropology at the University of Colorado with a dissertation on the evolution of human female sexuality and the origin of the nuclear family. Dr. Fisher has lectured internationally since l983 discussing the evolution of human sexuality, romantic love, marriage and divorce, gender differences in the brain and behavior, temperament and mate choice, and the future of men and women in business and family life.
Dr. Ruben Gur
Ruben Gur, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gur received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1970 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from Michigan State University in 1971 and 1973, respectively. He did Postdoctoral training with E.R. Hilgard at Stanford University and came to Penn as Assistant Professor in 1974. His research has been in the study of brain and behavior in healthy people and patients with brain disorders, with a special emphasis on exploiting neuroimaging as experimental probes. His work has documented sex differences, aging effects, and abnormalities in regional brain function associated with schizophrenia, affective disorders, stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders and dementia.
Dr. Marianne Legato
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P. is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer and specialist in women's health. She is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Founder and Director of the Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University. She is a practicing internist in New York City. Dr. Legato founded the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University in 1997. It is the first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focussed solely on gender-specific medicine: the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. Dr. Legato is also the founder and editor of The Journal of Gender Specific Medicine, and is founder and editor of Gender and Health.
Dr. Sandra Witelson
Sandra F. Witelson, M.Sc., Ph.D., FRSC is Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada. Sandra researches the Neurobiological Basis of Cognition in Health & Disease in Men & Women: focusing on hemispheric functional specialization and language and spatial cognition; postmortem anatomy and in vivo MR Imaging; structure-function relationships in the human brain; developmental neurobiology, microscopic neuroanatomy and immunocytochemistry; sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to behavior and lateralization; neurobiological basis of sexual orientation; neuroanatomical and neuropsychological aspects of congenital cognitive disorders; and human brain banks. Sandra is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.