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OUR LEADERS
Jerry Goodman
Russian Jewish Experience: Sites and Sounds
Mark Saul, Ph. D
The methodology of teaching exact sciences to school age children
Dr Frances Johnston, Ph. D and Suzanne Rotondo
Women in Business
Jerry Goodman
Russian Jewish Experience: Sites and Sounds
Jerry Goodman is the principal of Phoenix Ventures, LLC, a strategic planning and consulting company, with extensive experience in communications and governance, government relations and labor-related issues. The company’s area specialization focuses on the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East, as well as the international labor movement.
Mr. Goodman holds a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from New York University, with training as a Mediator. He is the founder of the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, a project of the American Jewish Historical Society, and served as its Senior Advisor.
He was the founding Executive Director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), a nationwide coalition of 350 groups, and is currently a member of its Board of Directors. NCSJ’s mission was to improve conditions for Jews in the Soviet Union, end discrimination against their religious and cultural life, and to help achieve their right to leave.
Mr. Goodman was a consultant to the US Congress in creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the “Helsinki Commission”, and was a proponent of “Two Track Diplomacy”. He helped secure the passage of the landmark Jackson-Vanik Amendment linking US-Soviet trade to emigration. During his tenure the largest human rights national manifestation for Soviet Jews was organized, when 250,000 people came to Washington, D.C. for Mikhail Gorbachev’s summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan, in December 1987.
When Mr. Goodman left the NCSJ he became the Executive Director of the ad hoc International Committee for Sepharad ’92, a global project to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain, and to celebrate the rich history and cultural contributions of Sephardic Jews. Following the completion of its mandate, Mr. Goodman became the Executive Director of the National Committee for Labor Israel (NCLI).
NCLI helped Israel contend with the issues of national security, peace, and building the civil society. It supported a network of institutions that provided its citizens with the best possible education, health care, and vocational training, as well as other vital social services. The organization funded projects to improve Israel-Arab relations and strengthen peace efforts in the Middle East, while serving as a bridge between the labor movement and the State of Israel. It conducted a public education program, including international missions, a web site, and a publications program.
Mr. Goodman was chairman of the Dalton Council, a faculty-parent planning and advisory group for the Dalton School, N.Y. He is a consultant to the Gorbachev Foundation, and a board member of the Centre Bonastruc ca Porta, Girona, Spain. He is also a consultant to the State of the World Forum as well as to KREAB/Strategy XXI, a global strategic planning and communications company, and serves on the Advisory Council, American Society for Jewish History in Poland.
Mr. Goodman hosted the WPIX-TV series “Jewish Dimension” and the radio series, “Russia Reports”. As the Director of European Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, he specialized in issues relating to West and East Europe, notably Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union. He writes and lectures on political and social issues concerning the Former Soviet Union, Israel, and the Middle East, and advises not-for-profit organizations in strategic planning, organization and communications. top
Mark Saul, Ph.D
The methodology of teaching exact sciences to school age children
Mark Saul grew up in New York City (in the Bronx), got his BA from Columbia
University and Ph.D. from New York University. He then spent 35 years in
and around New York, teaching mathematics in classrooms from grades 3
through 12. He served as President of the American Regions Mathematics
League, mathematics field editor of Quantum (the English-language version of
the Russian journal Kvant), a board member of the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics, and a member of the Mathematical Sciences Education
Board for the National Research Council.
More recently, he served as a program director for the National Science
Foundation, where his portfolio included programs in mathematics curriculum,
in teacher professional development, and the Presidential Awards for
Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. He is a 1984 recipient of
that award, the nation's highest honor for work in the classroom.
Internationally, he initiated a student exchange program between Russian and
American students, has given talks and led workshops in 20 countries, and
has done consulting work in Taiwan, China, Bulgaria, Botswana, South Africa,
and India. His publications include several problem books and an elementary
text on trigonometry, co-authored with I.M. Gelfand. More recent work
includes curriculum development with the Educational Development Center and
the development of an internship program for high-ability students in
Shanghai. He is currently a Senior Scholar for the John Templeton
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Dr Frances Johnston, Ph. D and Suzanne Rotondo
Women in Business
 Fran Johnston is a thought leader in the fields of business and leadership and is a founder of Teleos Leadership Institute in Philadelphia. Her most recent book, published by Harvard Business Press in 2008, Becoming a Resonant Leader, has been used by organizations around the world as practical guide for leaders to tap into their passion and lead at a whole new level. She is a renowned executive coach and an expert on group and team dynamics. In close partnership with the UNDP, Fran has also led major efforts in Cambodia, South Africa and Swaziland to increase national capacity in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Fran serves on the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and teaches at the Aresty Institute at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton’s School of Business. Fran earned her PhD from Temple University. For more information visit www.teleosleaders.com.
Suzanne Rotondo is Executive Director of Teleos Leadership Institute. She works as an executive coach, develops high-performing teams, drives Teleos’s strategic initiatives, and publishes extensively on leadership development. Prior to joining Teleos, Suzanne was a senior editor at Harvard Business Press, as well as founding publisher of a weekly newspaper in Northern California. Suzanne holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where her expertise is in the cross-pollination of best practices between the private, not for profit and public sectors, as well as public campaign strategy. For more information visit www.teleosleaders.com. top
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