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Profile: Elizabeth Dow, President, Leadership Philadelphia Elizabeth Dow is President and CEO of LEADERSHIP Philadelphia. Called “Philadelphia’s #1 Connector” by Malcolm Gladwell, she works behind the scenes to help individuals and organizations to extend their reach and improve their performance. Dow is committed to encouraging greater civic engagement in Philadelphia and to creating innovative ways to mobilize people to serve. The Connector Project is the most recent example of how Dow turned an idea into a tangible outcome that will begin a new conversation about leaders and leadership in Philadelphia. Dow has been the president of LEADERSHIP Philadelphia since 1993. Prior to this appointment, Liz served as senior vice president with FirstUSA (now JPMorgan). She earned an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from Cornell University. She served as a Wharton Public Policy Fellow at the White House. She currently serves on several boards and has won numerous civic awards for harnessing the power of the private sector to the public good. Dow is the mother of two children. This year, her daughter, Scottie McQuilkin was named senior class president of Cornell University. Her son, Geoffrey Dow McQuilkin, was elected senior class president of Episcopal Academy in Merion, PA.
Karen Stephenson, Ph.D. is president of NetForm, Inc, recognized as one of the top 100 leading innovation companies by CIO in 2001. She is internationally recognized for her pioneering work in detecting, diagnosing and designing human networks to solve a variety of complex problems: (1) engineering tipping points in open markets and communities of practice (CoP), (2) remediating acquired organizational deficiencies within large-scale public and private organizations and, (3) developing novel techniques for building trust and collaboration in public-private partnerships (United Kingdom), inter-agency cooperation in the U.S. government and civic awareness in regional economies (Philadelphia). She has been featured in the media and press,
most notably, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The
New Yorker, The Financial Times, The Guardian,
Strategy+Business, CIO, Fast Company and Wired.
She has taught at several universities including but not limited to
the MIT Sloan School of Management, UCLA School of Management, Imperial
College and most recently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Harvard University, an M.A.
in Anthropology at the University of Utah, and B.A. in Art & Chemistry
at Austin College, TX. You can reach her at karen.stephenson@netform.com
and you can Google her or read about her work and her company at www.netform.com
and www.drkaren.us and www.drkaren.co.uk
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