Hamilton Beazley is chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group and former associate professor of organizational sciences at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received his BA degree in psychology from Yale University, his MBA degree in accounting from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and his PhD degree in organizational behavior from The George Washington University.
Prior to his academic career, he served in various financial and strategic planning positions in the American oil industry, as a founding member of the board of directors of DyChem International (U.K.), Ltd., as founding chairman of the Oxy Houston Credit Union, and as former president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., New York. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Educational Advancement Foundation, a member of the advisory board of the Discovery Learning Project at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former member of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation.
He is coauthor (with the Episcopal Bishop of Texas) of Reclaiming the Great Commission: A Practical Model for Transforming Denominations and Congregations, a case study of organizational transformation under a visionary leader (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000); author of the forthcoming Quantum Leading: Servant-Leadership in the Century of Hyper-Change, a study of servant-leadership and how it is practiced in leading American companies (John Wiley & Sons, 2003); and author of the forthcoming Letting Go of Regret: A Spiritual Approach to Reclaiming the Present, a spiritual and psychological program for overcoming burdensome regrets (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). He is cocreator of Secrets Out, a television series that aired on the BBC, London, during the 1984 to 1987 seasons. His simulation with John Lobuts Jr., CommSpan: Content and Process in Multi-Cultural Communication, was selected as one of the top 20 multicultural management training games in the world in 1999.
His areas of expertise are servant-leadership, spirituality in organizational settings, and maintaining knowledge continuity between employee generations. He has been interviewed on NBC, CNN, CNBC, and a variety of radio programs. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Fortune, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals, and he has testified before committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as an expert witness. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International Society of Simulation and Gaming, the Academy of Management, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.
Jeremiah S. Boenisch is an officer in the U.S. Air Force whose specialty is communications and information. He received his BS degree in environmental science and his BS degree in political science with minors in environmental health and aeronautical science from Oregon State University and his MA degree in organizational management from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
He is a standout officer with experience in Air Force combat communications systems and in metropolitan, wide-area, and local-area networks and has served in a variety of leadership and technical positions. His areas of expertise are team building, leadership, and continuity management.
He has led combat communicators overseas on deployment to Kuwait; has commanded 80-person teams; and has controlled sizable budgets. He is a former chief of both networks and mission systems, Holloman AFB, New Mexico; a test director within the National Missile Defense Program, Colorado Springs, Colorado; an acquisition analyst within the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Command Control Communications and Intelligence, Pentagon, Washington D.C.; and an information systems project manager at Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon, Washington D.C.
David B. Harden is an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He earned his BS degree in electrical engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy and his MA degree in organizational management at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. A C-17 pilot with over 1,600 flight hours, including combat time in Bosnia and Kosovo, he has served in Washington, D.C., on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a political-military planner for Baltic affairs and NATO, at the Pentagon on the Air Force staff developing personnel policy for more than 20,000 pilots and navigators, and at North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, implementing systems and policy in counterdrug operations. His areas of expertise are leadership, team building, personnel policy, and continuity management.