Jan 11, 2022
Julia Storberg-Walker is Chair of the Human and Organizational Learning Department, Program Director of the Organizational Leadership and Learning Program, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Learning in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
After serving in various leadership capacities at Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte Consulting (1985-1999), she shifted to the non-profit sector and received her PhD in Work, Community, and Family Education from the University of Minnesota in 2004. She has been recognized for her critically-informed teaching, research, and activism/service as the recipient of multiple awards including the R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award by the Academy of Human Resource Development (2019), the Laura Bierema Critical HRD Award (also from the Academy of Human Resource Development) in 2017; and the Outstanding Research Award from the International Leadership Association (2015).
Julia was inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension by North Carolina State University—during her tenure there, she was the recipient of over $1.2 million dollars in grants, and submitted almost $7 million dollars in grant proposals. She is a former Vice President and Board member of the Academy of Human Resource Development, former Editor-in-Chief of JCI and SCOPUS-ranked Human Resource Development Review, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group of the Academy of Management.
Currently, Julia’s activist/scholar work is generative and aims to develop equitable and compassionate frameworks, models, and processes for the purpose of catalyzing whole planet interdependence and flourishing. This work is transdisciplinary and grounded in contemporary philosophical perspectives including posthumanism, new materialism, quantum field theory, and wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures and historical moments.
As one of the originators of the concept of sustainable value,
Chris Laszlo, PhD, reframes sustainability as a business
opportunity, turning environmental and social risks into drivers of
innovation, greater employee engagement, and a new, inimitable
source of competitive advantage.
Laszlo is the author of six books, including Quantum Leadership:
New Consciousness in Business (2019), Flourishing Enterprise: The
New Spirit of Business (2014), Embedded Sustainability: The Next
Big Competitive Advantage (2011), and Sustainable Value: How the
World's Leading Companies are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), all
from Stanford University Press. An earlier book, The Sustainable
Company (2003, paperback 2005), was published by Island Press. He
has numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the general
editor of The Business of Sustainability, the second volume of the
Encyclopedia of Sustainability (2010). Professionally, Laszlo was
elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. His
book Flourishing Enterprise was chosen as one of the top
sustainability books by Sustainable Brands. In 2012 he was selected
by his peers to be a “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy
Business Behavior” by Trust Across America™. In 2018 he was elected
incoming chair of the AOM MSR Interest Group executive
committee.
As a co-founder and managing partner of Sustainable Value Partners
LLC, he provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the
world’s largest companies. Laszlo has led hundreds of seminars and
spoken widely on sustainability for strategic advantage both at
companies and at leading business schools such as INSEAD, Darden
School of Business, Cornell University, and Kenan-Flagler Business
School.
In addition to his academic experience and consulting work, Laszlo
spent nearly 10 years as an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in
building materials; he held positions as head of strategy, general
manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of
business development. Prior to that, he spent five years with
Deloitte Touche, where he consulted on strategy to global industry
leaders.
Laszlo received his doctorate with distinction in economics and
management science from the University of Paris. He holds a MPhil
in economics and a master’s degree in international affairs from
Columbia University, and a BA with honors from Swarthmore
College.