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Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano

Newton Chair in Leadership • Senior Executive Director
Chancellor Phil DiStefano has spent his entire professional career as a leader within the CU Boulder community, serving as an educator, dean, provost and chancellor. A first-generation college graduate, DiStefano joined the campus in 1974 as an assistant professor in the School of Education. In addition to his role as chancellor, he serves as the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership, overseeing CU Boulder’s prestigious leadership programs...
Dr. Stefanie Johnson

Dr. Stefanie Johnson

Director, Center for Leadership • Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics
Leeds School of Business
Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is the Director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Leadership and an Associate Professor in the Leeds School of Business. She brings evidence based leader development programming to students, executives, and universities across the country. Her teaching, service, and research all focus on the intersection of leadership and inclusion. She is a fellow in the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the American...
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Seth Webb

Director of Experiential Education
Seth Webb serves as the Director of Experiential Education in the Center for Leadership. He loves working with students and is passionate about experiential learning and developing leaders who can help organizations, communities and nature thrive. Prior to joining CU Boulder in the summer of 2022, Seth was the Director of Colorado State University’s Mountain Campus, a remote, high elevation (9,000 ft.) site for undergraduate natural resource, forestry, biology and...
Jessi Follett

Jessi Follett

Program Manager
Jessi was born and raised in Colorado and earned her Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from Colorado State University. Currently, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership at CU Boulder. Throughout her career, Jessi has held various event planning positions, primarily in higher education institutions such as Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, and CU Boulder. Presently, she is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Leadership...
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Emily Savitz

Student Social Media Specialist
Emily is originally from Baltimore Maryland and is now a senior at CU Boulder studying Journalism. She has been helping grow and strategize CFL’s social media platforms. Emily’s minors in media along with her 2023 summer internship at Verve Magazine in Auckland, New Zealand have contributed to her passion for social media creation. Emily is looking forward to helping CFL connect with an even greater audience through social media engagement!
Ryan Slocum

Ryan Slocum

Student Data Analyst
Ryan is a senior studying Computer Science at CU Boulder, and is currently working on collecting data on the Center for Leadership’s affiliate programs. He is involved with the Presidents Leadership Class and Engineering Leadership Program, as well as robotics research on campus. He enjoys running, backpacking, climbing, and juggling, and plans to continue his studies in computer science after graduating from CU.
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Colonel Bradley L. Spears

Communications Coordinator
Col. Bradley Spears earned his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in June 1994. He has held various positions at the squadron, group, wing, numbered air force, major command, and joint command levels to include squadron and wing command. His staff assignments include Plans Officer, NATO Combined Air Operations Center Uedem, Germany; Chief, Commander’s Action Group, Headquarters Air; and Chief, Operational and Adaptive Plans, Headquarters United States Air...