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

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

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

Randy Barbour
(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 Kowalik
(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 Priest
(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].