About Aspen Leadership Seminars

Our Moderators

Aspen moderators are expert facilitators who guide rich, respectful dialogue—helping participants stretch their thinking and uncover deeper insight through dialogue.

Our seminars are collaborative investigations into the enduring questions of leadership and what makes a good leader, lead by highly-trained moderators.

Under their expert guidance, seminar participants engage in intellectual and personal explorations of what we owe ourselves, our organizations, and our communities as leaders.

Meet Our Moderator Core

Most of our moderators do not work full-time for the Aspen Institute. Instead, they have high-powered everyday jobs, choosing to take time away from their work to moderate our seminars because they believe in the experience.

All of our moderators have been with us for 10+ years and at one time were participants in the seminar themselves.

Ann Marie Stieritz

President & CEO of Liberty Fellowship

Ayanna Thompson

Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University

Carol Gluck

George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University

Danielle R. Holley

President of Mount Holyoke College

Hildegard Vasquez

Founder of Hache Uve

Jay Marshall

Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer at AlixPartners, LLP

Jerry Howe, Jr

Lawyer and business executive in the aerospace, defense, intelligence, and government services sectors

Kalissa Hendrickson, PhD

Managing Director of Aspen Leadership Seminars Department

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Lynn Utter

Operating Partner at Atlas Holdings, LLC

Lynne Waldera

Founder & CEO of InMomentum

Maria Blair

Associate Partner at ghSMART

Michael K. Powell

President & CEO of NCTA

Paul Gaffney

Principal of Gaffney Consulting; former CTO for Home Depot, DICKs Sporting Goods, Kohl’s

Sejal Shah Gulati

Chief Growth Officer for NOW

Stace Lindsay

Senior Advisor for Leadership Initiatives at the Aspen Institute

Todd Breyfogle, PhD

Senior Advisor for Humanistic Studies and Practices at the Aspen Institute

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From Aspen to around the world, our seminars convene leaders across sectors and continents. Whether you’re exploring an opportunity for yourself or your organization, we’d love to hear from you.

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