Don St. Clair

Don St. Clair is vice president for marketing at Woodbury University, and is a faculty member in the organizational leadership department.

During more than twenty-three years in higher education, St. Clair has served in senior leadership posts at universities in Indiana, Illinois and California.  His career in higher education has included significant work in Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.  He holds a doctorate in education from Pepperdine University, a masters degree from Ball State University, and a bachelors degree from Manchester College.

St. Clair is deeply involved in the Los Angeles community, especially the San Fernando Valley.  He currently serves has board chairman of the Valley Economic Development Center and the Burbank Chamber of Commerce.  He is vice-president of the board of the Burbank Family YMCA and serves on the board of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association.

He, his wife Janet and their three children, Kendall, Payton, and Grant reside in Toluca Lake. 

Janet McIntyre

Janet McIntyre is a communications strategist, writer and editor, and facilitator/trainer. She supports organizations in change management projects and initiatives that are dependent upon internal and external communications. Janet is expert in defining communications strategies and implementing detailed, sustainable plans. 

She has written 15 books for the health care industry, conducting expert interviews and mastering large quantities of data to create publications that keep today’s global health care leaders and providers equipped to meet quality and safety challenges. Janet advises and supports organizations in communications issues and prepares executives for presentations and interviews with internal stakeholders as well as external influencers such as the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, USA Today, and the New York Times. She provides counsel on issues involving organizational image, crisis communications, and communicating complex issues.  She also serves as a spokesperson and writes position papers, key messages, executive speeches, statements, news releases, web content, and personal profiles. In addition, Janet develops case studies, newsletter articles, byline op-ed pieces, and technical resource aids. She was a 2010 San Fernando Valley Business Journal Women in Business nominee.

Janet’s clients include the Joint Commission, the national and international leader in health care accreditation and patient safety, along with its subsidiaries Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International, as well as Woodbury University and Cymetrix. She is an adjunct faculty member for Woodbury University’s Master of Organizational Leadership program and a facilitator and coach as part of Woodbury University’s Leadership Academies for the cities of Burbank and Glendale and for Leadership Burbank.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Janet was media relations manager for the Joint Commission, serving as chief spokesperson for the 5,000-employee organization, working with the executive team and board of trustees to cultivate relationships with national media, direct crisis communications, and pitch story ideas to the media. She has collaborated with public relations firms such as Edelman Worldwide and Hill and Knowlton along with leaders and media representatives at the American Medical Association, U.S. Health and Human Services, and Department of Defense. As a newspaper reporter, she covered education, criminal investigations, and politics, including the Republican National Convention. She won consecutive awards from the Hoosier State Press Association for excellence in newswriting. She also served as a copy editor for the Daily-Herald, the third largest newspaper in greater Chicago.  

Janet, who holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master of arts in organizational leadership, lives in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Toluca Lake with her husband and three children. 

Phyllis Cremer

Dr. Phyllis Cremer is the Associate Vice President of Student Development at Woodbury University and adjunct professor in the Organizational Leadership program.  She has been employed at Woodbury for thirteen years.  Phyllis earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of LaVerne in 1999 and her Masters in Counseling from the University of San Diego in 1992. Phyllis has two beautiful daughters, Isabel and Samantha, and is married to Dr. Douglas Cremer, who is the Dean of the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies at Woodbury.  She credits her acquisition of facilitation skills early on as a young adult as having a significant impact on how she leads, manages, and teaches today.   

Sue Georgino

Susan Georgino has 35 years of leadership experience in local government and community action. Over the course of her local government career, she has held progressively more high-ranking positions in two premier municipal organizations. Prior to her retirement in June of 2009, Ms. Georgino directed the efforts of the City of Burbank’s Community Development Department. In that role which she held from January of 2001 until her retirement, she was responsible for all aspects of current and future development for the City of Burbank. During her tenure, her direct reports managed planning, building, business license, code enforcement, economic development, and redevelopment. In addition to traditional affordable housing efforts, Ms. Georgino directed the department’s affordable housing efforts which resulted in the development of five (5) focus neighborhoods; involving affordable housing development and preservation, neighborhood achievement centers, family resources centers, numerous community events and creation of a Neighborhood Leadership Program modeled after Burbank’s successful Leadership Burbank Program. In addition to working with major corporations such as Warner Brothers, The Walt Disney Company, and NBC Universal; Ms. Georgino worked directly with homeowners and small businesses as well as many of the city’s non-profit institutions such as: Burbank Temporary Aid, Burbank Family Service Agency, and the Burbank Housing Corporation.

Prior to Ms. Georgino’s work as Community Development Director for the City of Burbank; she led the redevelopment efforts of the City of Brea from 1989 through 2000. During her tenure in this North Orange County community, she directed the efforts of Brea Redevelopment Agency and was instrumental in the redevelopment of the award winning Downtown Brea Project. The Downtown Brea Master Plan that included an over 40 acre redevelopment effort began with a community driven visioning process known as Brea by Design: a Community Charette. The entire Downtown revitalization was completed in roughly ten (10) years and included a nationally recognized horizontal and vertical mixed use project. Ms. Georgino was also responsible for a very aggressive affordable housing program which included ongoing city-funded rental assistance, mortgage assistance programs, land right downs for select affordable and mixed income projects, and neighborhood preservation projects.

Ms. Georgino’s educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Sociology, a Master’s of Political Science in Public Administration, and an additional Master’s in Religious Studies. Ms. Georgino has been invited to guest lecturer on various topics for courses at University of Southern California’s Schools of Business and Law; University of California at Irvine and Mount St. Mary’s College. Ms. Georgino has also facilitated leadership workshops for the Catholic Communities of St. Finbar, and St. Robert Bellarmine and is an active lecter in her parish of St. Robert Bellarmine as well as a member of RCIA team. Ms. Georgino has been a featured speaker, on the topic of leadership and community building, at many notable conferences including: the California Redevelopment Association; the International Council of Shopping Centers, California Assembly Select Committee on Environmental Justice, and Lambda Alpha. Currently Ms. Georgino is an adjunct professor at Woodbury University working with the University’s Organizational Leadership Program.

Ms. Georgino currently serves as Chair of the Board of Regents at Providence High School and is a member of Providence Health and Services Community Ministry Board. Her work has been recognized with numerous personal and public honors including: the 2009 San Fernando Valley 

Mary Alvord

Mary Alvord is currently working as an Adjunct Professor for Woodbury University, teaching in the Organizational Leadership Department.

Prior to teaching at Woodbury and as a member of the Leadership Burbank facilitation team, she completed a career with the City of Burbank that spanned 38 years.

Ms. Alvord retired as the City Manager of the City of Burbank in February 2009. She was appointed as City Manager by the Burbank City Council in March 2003. Prior to being appointed City Manager, she served as Assistant City Manager from 2000-2003. Before this position, she was Park and Recreation Director from 1991-2000. In her early years with the City, she held numerous other positions within the Park and Recreation Department.

Ms. Alvord received her Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from California State University, Northridge in June 1972. In 1973, she also earned an Elementary School Teaching Credential. In 2008, she successfully completed her Master of Arts Degree in Organizational Leadership from Woodbury University.

 In recognition of her public service and her commitment to the Burbank community, Ms. Alvord received the Boys and Girls Club Golden Achievement Award in May 2003, was named Woman of the Year by Senator Jack Scott in February 2004, received the Burbank Temporary Aid Center’s Top Award for Citizenship in June 2005 and was honored by Woodbury University with the Movers and Shapers  Award in September 2005. Most recently, in 2007, she was honored by the Zonta Club as their Woman of the Year and by the Family Service Agency with their Woman of Vision Award.

Ms. Alvord is a lifelong resident of the City of Burbank.  Her daughter Jenny, son-in-law Brady and two grandchildren, Lauren and Colin also live in Burbank.