Luke Center

A speakers bureau service is provided by the Luke Center placing faculty, alumni and others in speaking engagements designed to meet the needs and expectations of its clients. This service can provide a particular requested speaker for an event, or can recommend and provide a speaker that can best meet a client’s needs when no specific speaker is requested. This service has placed speakers at conferences and conventions, national events, agency workshops, and other venues. For 13 years, we have attracted the best and most committed trainers and speakers. Most have been with us for many years, adding credibility and stability to the Program.

Available Speakers

Dr. Arthur L. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He is a frequent consultant and faculty member nationally and internationally for several non-profit organizations and businesses: Columbia University, General Electric and IBM. He has authored Divided We Stand, a sociological study of what divides and unifies the American people, and is presently working on a five-country study of the globalization of values in an international economy.

John M. Bryson is a Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford University and is a national trainer for the Legislative State Management Institute and the Executive Leadership Institute. John Bryson specializes in strategic management, public leadership and policy change. He also authored the best-selling book Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations.

Don Coyhis is a member of the Mohican Nation from the Stockbridge Munsee Reservation in Wisconsin and a founder of White Bison, a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving sobriety among Native American youth. His upbringing on the reservation and his 15 years of experience in corporate America have given him a unique perspective on leadership. His expertise focuses on empowering people, developing high performance, and self-directed work teams. Don Coyhis has developed leadership and diversity seminars for Digital Equipment Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Among Pacific Program Alumni, his presentations "touch the soul."  Just awarded the 2009 Purpose Prize!

Michael D. Galvin, Ph.D, is a clinical and consulting psychologist and executive coach on the adjunct staffs of the Colorado School of Professional Psychology and the Center for Creative Leadership. He is a specialist in conflict management and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in organizational training and consultation. He assesses leadership behaviors and develops individualized action plans, trains management groups, and consults in team building.

Dr. Peter A. Glaser is President of Glaser & Associates, a leadership training and organizational development firm that specializes in team building, collaborative problem solving, conflict and communication. Dr. Glaser conducts seminars and retreats nationally and internationally and is currently on the faculty for the Oregon Executive MBA program.

Dr. Susan R. Glaser is a Senior Consultant with Glaser & Associates and Professor in the College of Business at the University of Oregon. Dr. Glaser is internationally recognized for her research in organizational culture and teamwork and is the author of Toward Communication Competency. She is the recipient of the University of Oregon's prestigious Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Industrial Relations Teacher of the Year.

David Landis is a Nebraska State Senator who currently chairs the Banking, Commerce and insurance Committee. He has forged nearly 200 "consensus-building" bills through the legislature and brokered agreements between labor and management and other seemingly intractable foes. He holds a law degree and masters degree in public administration. David Landis has participated in training seminars at Harvard and MIT and currently teaches at the University of Nebraska College of Law and Department of Public Administration. Pacific Program alumni refer to him as the "trainer-extraordinaire!"

John Nance is a writer, photographer and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. He has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to research and conduct workshops on a variety of social concernsand environmental projects. His current passion is a book about the Tasaday people in the Philippine rain forest. John Nance was recently a James Thurber Journalist-in-Residence at Ohio State University. He has appeared on the The Today Show, Good Morning America, and 20/20.

Sheila Sheinberg is President of the Center for Life Cycle Sciences in Port Orchard, Washington. Dr. Sheinberg is a member of the American Sociological Association, a Fellow in the Texas Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Speakers Association. She writes extensively about "change" and has developed numerous programs, seminars and workshops for educators, professional groups and business organizations. To Pacific Program alumni, she is the trainer "who speaks at the speed of sound!"