Facilitators
The workshop facilitators are experienced professionals in human resources, leadership training, teaching, and higher education administration, with successful presentations in many venues including academia. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes. These workshops are intended to provide professional training for women in academic chemistry as well as to provide a forum for networking with other women faculty.
Lee Warren, Ph.D 
Dr. Lee Warren is Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, where she has worked since 1988. Providing teaching support to faculty and graduate student teaching assistants, she works on issues of group process, consults with groups and individuals, leads workshops and seminars, and makes videotapes for training sessions. Her particular interests center around leadership, classroom diversity, and case teaching.
With a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford, she has taught at UMass/Boston and MIT. She was the Academic Dean of Merrimack Valley College, part of the University System of New Hampshire. She has worked as a writing consultant, writing about social issues for numerous private, state, and non-profit organizations in the Boston area. Currently she consults around the country, leading sessions on leadership and strategic performance.
Nancy Houfek, M.F.A. 
Nancy Houfek has served as a consultant to professional speakers throughout the United States since 1978. She has presented workshops for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard Medical School, and The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, as well as for many clients in the private sector. A film of her work with Harvard faculty, "The Act of Teaching," has been produced by the Bok Center for national distribution to faculty development centers.
With a B.A. from Stanford University, Nancy received her M.F.A. from A.C.T. where she remained as an actor, director and coach for nearly a decade. She has held faculty positions at the U. of Washington, S.M.U. and the U. of Minnesota where she headed the professional actor training program. As Head of Voice & Speech of Harvard's American Repertory Theatre, Ms. Houfek teaches the graduate level actors. coaches the professional actors of the company, and has created a new M.F.A. in voice training pedagogy.
Barbara Butterfield, Ph.D 
Barbara Butterfield has more than 35 years of service in higher education. She is executive consultant to the University of Michigan and senior consultant to the Segal Company. Dr. Butterfield is a consultant educator in the area of faculty development for both COACh and Advance Programs, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Her experience has been in higher education in public, land grant, private, and research Universities and in corporate education both in the United States and abroad. Dr. Butterfield holds a Ph.D. in education administration and is an alumna of The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Advanced Management Program. She is the author of three books and is a past president of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
Jane Tucker, Ph.D 
Jane Tucker has over twenty-five years of experience in higher education in both the administrative and teaching areas. She has taught negotiation skills in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke and is currently a consultant educator for COACh through the National Science Foundation. She has also taught ADVANCE program seminars in negotiations and is adjunct faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership, where she works with leaders from both non-profit organizations and corporations.
She directed three areas of Human Resources, doing teambuilding and organizational interventions for departments at Duke and teaching leadership skills and communication strategies to administrative leaders in the university. Most recently, she worked in the information technology area, leading the Change Management team on a major computer implementation. She is currently Principal of Jane Tucker & Associates, specializing in negotiation, leadership skills, and executive coaching.
Dr. Tucker holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from the University of North Carolina and is an alumna of Wellesley College. She has published papers on learning strategies and organizational development. Her current research interest is focused on early adopters in change processes.
Sandra L. Shullman Ph.D 
Dr. Shullman is a nationally known organizational consultant and has written and presented extensively on the topics of performance appraisal, performance management, strategic succession planning, career development, management of self-esteem and motivation, team building, diversity management, sexual harassment, AIDS, and the management of individual, organizational and systems change strategies. She is well known for her work related to executive assessment and development and co-authored Performance Appraisal on the Line. She is currently working on a book on executive coaching.
Dr. Shullman currently serves on the graduate faculty for the Diversity Management Program in the Psychology Department at Cleveland State University and is part of the Global Learning Resource Network for Duke Corporate Education.