UC Davis Executive Program
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Instructors
Wilton Agatstein
Wil Agatstein is visiting assistant professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he leads the International Study Program and teaches business development. He is also the executive director of the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship, where he helps scientists and engineers take their science out of the lab and into the world. Prior to joining UC Davis, he led Intel's innovation, specifically in and for the developing world. He is the father of the Intel-Powered ClassMate PC—the $200 Laptop. Agatstein leads the Innovation: Making Your Idea a Reality seminar.
Neil Bodine, J.D.
Neil Bodine is a partner with the Oakland and Sacramento law firm of Beeson, Tayer & Bodine. He has many years of experience negotiating and mediating successful agreements in dozens of high-profile disputes both in the United States and abroad. Bodine leads the Mental Models seminar.
Susan Carpenter, Ed.D.
Susan Carpenter is a mediator, trainer and writer. She has 35 years of experience developing and managing programs that help groups reach consensus and resolve controversies at the local, state and national levels. Carpenter was the founding director of the Program for Community Problem Solving in Washington, D.C., and currently works with organizations and groups to build capacity for collaborative leadership and conflict resolution. Carpenter leads the Collaborative Negotiation seminar.
Darrell Chambliss
Darrell Chambliss is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Waste Connections, Inc. His experience in a variety of executive positions has spanned more than two decades, including division manager of U.S.A. Waste Services, Inc., where he was responsible for the operations of 19 companies as well as supervision and integrating acquisitions. He also held various management positions with BFI. Chambliss leads the Case Study seminar.
Gene Crumley
Gene Crumley was the director for the UC Davis Executive Program for 10 years, from 1998-2008. Currently, he is chair of UC Davis Extension's Business & Leadership department. Prior to coming to UC Davis, Crumley spent 13 years with Habitat for Humanity International. He is a graduate of both UC Davis and the San Francisco Theological Seminary (Presbyterian). Crumley leads the Leadership Styles and Efficacy and Leading Change seminars with Michael Thomas.
Este Geraghty, M.S., M.P.H., M.D.
Este Geraghty is an assistant professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Division of General Medicine at UC Davis. Her interests include spatial epidemiology and geographic information systems (GIS) as methodologies for understanding the interplay between health and the environment. She teaches GIS for Health Applications as well as emotional intelligence, time management and public speaking. Geraghty earned her M.D. from UC Davis and also holds a Masters of Medical Informatics and a Masters in Public Health from UC Davis. She is a graduate of the UC Davis Primary Care Outcomes Research Fellowship, a certified Geographic Information Systems Professional and among the charter class of Certified in Public Health professionals. Geraghty leads the Self Mastery seminar.
Calvin Handy
Calvin Handy brings 30 years of experience and leadership in community policing, organizational change and emergency management. He served as chief of police and emergency director at UC Davis from 1993-2005 and concurrently as coordinator of police services for the UC system. He also led the system-wide evaluation of UC crime prevention and public safety programs in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. At UC Davis and as liaison to the UC Davis Health System, Handy established professional standards and incident command processes and procedures. Each year UC Davis awards the Calvin E. Handy Leadership Award in his honor, and in 2005 former UC Davis chancellor Larry Vanderhoef conferred upon him the title Chief of Police, Emeritus. Handy leads the Crisis Leadership seminar.
Miles O'Brien Riley, Ph.D.
Miles Riley has spent his entire professional life in communications and ethics. He earned a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, a doctorate in communications from UC Berkeley and a master's degree in marriage and family counseling from the University of San Francisco. He has given workshops throughout the United States and in 50 countries worldwide. For 30 years, he served as the director of communications for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and has had the longest running radio program in San Francisco Bay Area history, on KSFO called To Whom It May Concern. Riley leads the Ethical Leadership seminar.
Robert Smith, Ph.D.
Robert Smith is the president of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. For the past three years, the Chronicle of Higher Education has selected SRU as one of the "Best Colleges and Universities to Work For." He has more than 25 years of experience teaching in executive leadership programs at the University of Tennessee, Texas Christian University and the University of Kentucky, and has received two national awards for teaching excellence. He has also served as a consultant for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Smith leads the Leadership Through Innovation seminar.
Michael J. Thomas
Michael Thomas is the Deputy Executive Officer of the California Central Coast Water Board, which regulates a wide range of activities, including ecological restoration projects, agricultural and urban land use, wastewater treatment plants, landfills and major pollution cleanup. Thomas oversees the organization's engineers, geologists and environmental scientists, and leads efforts to create a more performance-based organization. He has also been an instructor with the UC Davis Executive Program for four years—through which he has learned that the greatest challenges are personal, and that true leadership is largely a personal journey. Thomas leads the Leading Change and Leadership Styles and Efficacy seminars with Gene Crumley.
