THIRD FLOOR RESEARCH
Meet Our Researchers
Third Floor Research is an applied research partnership between the Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas State University’s Staley School of Leadership Studies. Our global program includes researchers and practitioners from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Chile, Israel and Colorado, Kansas and Wisconsin.

Elisa AdriasolaÂ
(Santiago, Chile)
Assistant professor, Business School, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Claudia AmaroÂ
(Wichita, KS)
Marketing and outreach director, AB&C Bilingual Resources, LLC

Mary BanwartÂ
(Lawrence, KS)
Associate professor, Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, University of Kansas

Randy BarbourÂ
(Huntsville, AL)
Executive assistant to the director, North Alabama Center for Educational Excellence

David Chrislip
(Boulder, CO)
Skillful Means, Founder & KLC Senior Fellow, Boulder, CO

Tamara Hernandez (Santiago, Chile)
Doctoral student, Management, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Tamas KowalikÂ
(Manhattan, KS)
Doctoral student, Leadership Communication, Kansas State University

Roberta Maldonado-Franzen
(Manhattan, KS)
Postdoctoral research fellow, Leadership Communication, Kansas State University

Kiley Moody
(Manhattan, KS)
Doctoral student, Leadership Communication, Kansas State University

Tim O’Brien
(Boston, MA)
Lecturer, Adaptive Leadership, Harvard University

Elnaz Parviz
 (Lawrence, KS)
Doctoral student, Communication Studies, University of Kansas

Kerry PriestÂ
(Manhattan, KS)
Associate professor, Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University

Tim Steffensmeier
(Manhattan, KS)
Director of Research, Kansas Leadership Center;
Professor of communication and Director of Leadership Communication program,
Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University
To learn more about how you, or your organization, can partner with KLC’s Third Floor Research, contact Tim Steffensmeier at [email protected].