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].