Dr. Russell is the Director of the Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Programs for the Smith School EMBA programs located in College Park and in Beijing, China. She was also the Director of a similar program at The University of Tennessee. As the Director of all of these Coaching programs, she has provided executive coaching for hundreds of executives over the past decades as well as selected and trained numerous executive coaches.

She is a licensed Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and has over 25 years of experience consulting with both private and public sector organizations. Her expertise is primarily in the areas of leadership and management development, negotiation tactics, executive coaching, and career development. Some of her clients have included: National Institute of Health, Lockheed Martin, Marriott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Security Agency, Frito-Lay, Quaker Oats, M&M Mars, ALCOA, Entergy, Yodlee, Black & Decker, Boeing Corporation, Hughes Communications, McCormick, Sprint/Nextel, Tennessee Valley Authority, State of Tennessee, Bell-South, L.M. Berry & Company, MedChi, and Bryce Corporation.

Dr. Russell writes a weekly Career Coach column and a monthly online chat for The Washington Post and can often be seen on Maryland Public Television offering her insights on negotiations and leadership development. Prior to joining UM, she was a tenured full Professor in the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee. At UT, she received numerous teaching and research awards for her work with Executive MBAs, MBAs, doctoral students, and undergraduates. Some of them include: The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award, the College of Business Administration’s John B. Ross Award for Outstanding Teaching among senior, tenured professors, the Tennessee Organization of MBAs Outstanding Teaching Award, the UT Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Team Development and Team Teaching of the Integrated MBA Curriculum, and the College of Business William B. Stokely Research/Teaching Scholar Award.

Dr. Russell has published over 50 articles, books, or book chapters and has presented her research at national and regional conferences. She served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, and Performance Improvement Quarterly. She received her Ph.D and M.A. degrees in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron, Ohio and her B.A. degree in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland.

Dr. Wouters has successfully taught in Executive Development, MBA and undergraduate programs on Leadership, Human Capital Management and Leadership Development. She has been honored for being one of the Outstanding (Top 15%) teachers at the Smith School.

She has been actively involved and served as a coach in Smith’s Executive Education Programs. Additionally, she has provided consulting services in the area of training and development to both public- and private-sector organizations in the United States and Europe. Some of the organizations that she worked with include: Anne Arundel Medical Center, DPP, NIH, Lockheed Martin and SAIC.

Dr. Wouters has written articles in the areas of e-learning, vocational training, on-the-job learning and executive coaching, and has presented her research at national and international conferences. One of her articles was given the 2002 Highly Commended Award by Emerald Literati Club. In 2006 and 2008 she received the “Global Forum Best Paper” and the “Best Paper In Management Development” from the Academy of Management.

Prior to joining the Smith School, Suarez served under two administrations in the White House as the Director of Presidential Quality -- the first such post in the institution’s history. In this capacity, he initiated efforts to inculcate systems thinking and organizational redesign into the White House Communications Agency, the White House Military Office and the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He also served as Director of Customer Support and Organizational Development for the White House Military Office. Suarez traveled aboard Air Force One and Presidential helicopters in numerous missions worldwide. He received many Presidential awards and commendations for his work, including the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the White House Distinguished Service Award, the Commander-in-Chief Coin, and the White House Certificate for Meritorious Service.

Prior to his White House assignments, Suarez worked for the Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy’s Total Quality Leadership Office and for the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego, California. In these roles, he served as a researcher, instructor and consultant for both the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense (DoD).

Suarez has been active academically in both the United States and abroad. For ten years, he was a Visiting Professor at the Asturias Business School in Spain and was presented with the 49th Jovellanos Award in 2002 and the 4th Dali Original Sculpture Award in 2008 for his significant contributions to the advancement of social responsibility. At the National Graduate School of Quality Systems Management, he led the development of the institution's academic vision as the Chief Academic Officer, and was subsequently named Faculty Member of the Decade (1993-2003). Suarez has traveled to Shanghai and Tianjin, China as an educator and consultant, and in 2006 he designed and delivered an accelerated MBA train-the-trainer program to a select team of faculty members of the Islamic University of Gaza in Cairo, Egypt.

Suarez has produced several publications and instructional videotapes on teamwork, organizational redesign, and how to manage fear in the workplace. He collaborated with the late W. Edwards Deming and served as facilitator during his famous 4-day quality seminars. His publications and training strategies for educating the Defense workforce in quality management received DoD-wide distribution. His work has been showcased in international publications such as the Harvard Deusto Business Review as well as in national publications such as Quality Progress, the Journal for Quality and Participation and Executive Excellence. His research on “Fear in the Workplace” was featured on public television and showcased in the commercially available video series, "Better Management for a Changing World."

Suarez holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, and he has been certified as a Chief Information Officer by The National Defense University Information Resources Management College. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences. Currently he resides in Fairfax County, Virginia with his wife and three children.

Dr. Stevens has written over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters, and her work has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Public Personnel Management, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Journal. In 1999, she was recognized as one of the top 10 women scholars published in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the preceding 10 years. In addition, she holds memberships in and has presented her research at national conferences of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Stevens has taught in numerous corporate development programs, including: CSX’s Business Leadership Program, Black & Decker’s Technical Operations and Business Education (TOBE) Program, Force 3’s Leadership Program, Lockheed Martin’s Fundamentals of Leadership Program, McCormick’s Senior Leadership Development Program, Northrop Grumman’s IMPACT program, Anne Arundel Medical Center’s Leadership Institute, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration’s senior leadership development program, ARINC University (for director-level leadership development), Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive’s mid-management development program, Maryland State’s Government Executive Institute, and Millennium Resource’s Leading with Dignity™ program. She has also served as a coach to over 75 managers and executives, and consulted with organizations ranging in size from 15 to 35,000 employees. Her consulting work focused on using multi-rater assessments and coaching to improve leadership skills, strategic human resource management, designing and implementing effective performance management systems, and workforce diversity.

Dr. Stevens teaches MBA and Ph.D. seminars on negotiations, leadership development, managing difficult employees, decision making, and human resource management. She has also conducted training on topics including managing group processes, salary negotiation, performance review processes, interviewing skills, and employee development. She received the Smith School’s Krowe Award for outstanding teaching in 1992 and 1996, as well as the Phi Kappa Phi Mentor Award for outstanding teaching and a Teaching and Learning Quality Award for outstanding syllabus construction.

He is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has also served as Editor of Financial Management (1999-2005) and Associate Editor of Management Science.

Professor Triantis has consulted and provided executive training in the areas of corporate finance and valuation, including issues related to capital investment decision making, financing strategies, risk management, real options analysis, derivatives pricing, and project finance. Clients have included multinational corporations and organizations such as Accenture, Airbus Industrie, BHP Billiton, CSX, Dupont, Ernst & Young, Hyatt, Jefferies and Company, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, U.S. Dept. of Energy, and the World Bank. He is a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences and executive forums. He has received numerous awards and citations for teaching excellence, including being a two-time recipient of Smith School’s top award (Krowe Award), and being named by Business Week as an Outstanding Professor at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland.