DAVIS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder of the David Michael Consulting
• Strategic Partner

David Michael is founder of the David Michael Consulting group and has served as a business services consultant for the past eight years in a variety of organizations and industries, including law firms, manufacturing, and the technology and public sectors. He specializes in the analysis of organizational systems and develops and/or streamlines processes and procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, he has special expertise in the areas of finance and accounting systems and has been effective in helping companies bridge gaps between departments, processes and technology in a strategic, goals-focused way. David has had a varied and interesting career. While in school he worked in the automotive and construction industries and worked in various fields of the entertainment industry both in the United States and Japan. He is also fluent in Russian.

Job Titles:

• Coach
• Executive
• Owner
• President
• Retired Founder and President of the Davis Group

James W. Davis is the retired founder and President of The Davis Group Ltd., an international consulting firm specializing in leadership development and executive coaching. Mr. Davis has nearly 40 years of experience in the public and private sectors. He also serves as a speaker and consultant to organizations on a variety of leadership related issues. Mr. Davis has been recognized by the California State Senate and Assembly, the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, the Westchester/LAX and La Cañada Chambers of Commerce, the Los Angeles Unified School District and numerous other professional, parent and civic organizations. He is the recipient of the 2009/2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Graduate School of Education at California State University, Los Angeles. Mr. Davis is also the co-founder of the Institute for Educational Advancement, a non-profit institute dedicated to serving our nation's brightest youth. He currently serves as senior advisor. Mr. Davis is the author of Sacred Leadership: Leading for the Greatest Good and the founder of Sacred Leadership.org, with a mission to improve leadership in the public, non-profit and service sectors. Mr. Davis served as the Superintendent of the La Cañada Unified School District in California for five years. During his tenure as Superintendent, La Cañada was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue-Ribbon school district and was ranked by Newsweek in the top 20 of over 15,000 school districts nationally. Prior to being promoted to Superintendent, Mr. Davis served as Principal and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction. Before coming to La Cañada, Mr. Davis served nearly 20 years as a teacher and administrator in the Los Angeles Unified School District at the middle and high school levels. He has extensive experience working with ethnically diverse inner-city youth. He held positions as teacher, Dean, Assistant Principal and High School Principal. Mr. Davis has also worked for Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and has served as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles-Extension, California State University, Fullerton and as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Southern California. Mr. Davis was a Fellow in the Leadership in Conflict Initiative, Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The program offered strategic leadership development opportunities for leaders from the public and private sector. He is a Certified MBTI® Practitioner (Myers Briggs Type Indicator), a Certified Trainer of Trainer for the DiSC® Facilitation System and holds a Certificate in Strategic Foresight. Mr. Davis is married to sculptor Judeth S. Davis and has three children and four grandchildren.

Job Titles:

• Founder and CEO of Diamond6 Leadership
• Senior Fellow at the Clarke Forum
• Strategic Partner

Dr. Jeff McCausland is the Founder and CEO of Diamond6 Leadership and Strategy, LLC (http://diamondsixleadership.com/). For the past seven years Diamond6 has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations across the United States. Participants have included the leadership teams for national education associations and large urban school districts representing hundreds of thousands of students throughout America. He is also a Visiting Professor of International Security at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Prior to these appointments he was a Visiting Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the US Army and completed his active duty service in the United States Army in 2002 culminating his career as Dean of Academics, United States Army War College. Upon retirement Dr. McCausland accepted the Class of 1961 Chair of Leadership at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland and served there from January 2002 to July 2004. He continues to hold a position as a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the Naval Academy. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1972 and was commissioned in field artillery. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army airborne and ranger schools as well as the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe. This included Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council Staff during the Kosovo crisis. He also worked on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) as a member of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, US Army Staff, the Pentagon. Following this assignment he assumed command of a field artillery battalion stationed in Europe and deployed his unit to Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990 and 1991. Dr. McCausland has both published and lectured broadly on military affairs, European security issues, the Gulf War, and leadership throughout the United States and over sixteen countries. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Conflict Studies Research Center, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Stiftung Wissenshaft und Politk, Ebenhausen, Germany; George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany; and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He has also served as a member of numerous panels on leadership and character development. These include the Chief of Staff Army's Blue Ribbon Panel on Training and Leader Development; the Character Review Panel for the Superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy; as well as providing advice and assistance to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force's Aerospace Leader Development Panel. Dr. McCausland is a senior fellow at the Clarke Forum at Dickinson College and a Senior Associate at the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. He is also an adjunct fellow at both CSIS as well as the RAND Corporation in Washington. He serves on the Board of Advisers to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York, the Hourglass Initiative, and the Dreyfuss Initiative. He has been a national security consultant for CBS television and radio. In this capacity he has travelled frequently to Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Consequently, he has been a frequent commentator on the ongoing conflicts in both countries for CBS since 2003. Dr. McCausland has also appeared on MSNBC, CSPAN, CNN, Al Jazeera, the CBS Morning Show, Up To the Minute, as well as the CBS Evening News. He is frequently interviewed by the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe. He is married to the former Marianne Schiessl, and they have three children - Tanya, Nicholas, and Phillip.

Job Titles:

• Founder and Owner of Hands on Studio
• Strategic Partner

Judeth Davis is founder and owner of Hands On Studio. She is a nationally recognized sculptor. Ms. Davis is self-taught. She studied in Italy and has also worked has a "hands on" foundry worker. Her studio is currently located in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle. Ms. Davis sculpture has been featured at the Allied Artists and National Sculpture Society shows in New York. She has also shown at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino California, as well as exhibitions throughout Southern and the Central Coast regions of California. She is a member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Association of Women Artists, the National Portrait Society, the California Art Club and is past-president of the Pasadena Society of Artists. In his book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink makes the case that "right brain" thinkers will rule the future. Judeth brings the "right brain" to our consulting practice! Ms. Davis has 25 years of experience facilitating groups. Using art and music, she leads groups through exercises that provide freer access to "right brain thinking", thereby enhancing their innovative planning process. Participants experience the art of "letting go and letting come" as their thinking and creative processes move from the "left brain" linear world of symbolic language, to the free flowing creative space of ideas and vision. In addition, Judeth utilizes her sculpture to capture group dynamics and outcomes, developing sculptural icons as a form of three dimensional graphic recording. Unlike most traditional two-dimensional graphic recordings, Judeth's work captures not only the ideas, but also the relationships and emotions of the group process, keeping participants connected to the process long after they return to their day-to-day activities. Judeth is married to executive coach, James Davis, and has three children and seven grandchildren. You can see her work at www.judethdavis.com.