Instructors
Dr. Richard (Rick) J. Goossen is a meaning-driven entrepreneurial leader. He serves an extensive network of entrepreneurs and family/business owners built over decades of client contributions, collaboration, research, public speaking, and volunteering, impacting approximately 100,000 leaders annually.
Brendan W. Case, Th.D., serves as Associate Director for Research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. He works to develop research strategies that draw together explorations of human flourishing from across the social sciences and humanities, and to disseminate the Program's work through external partnerships and public events.
Steve French is the Founder of Lˣ Partners & the Global Ambassador for Lifework Leadership. Lˣ Partners’ influence and serve both church and corporate communities. Steve was shaped by Biola University, LaMirada, CA; The King’s College, New York City (BA degree); and Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL (MA degree). The King’s College honored him as their Alumnus of the Year for his work in leadership development.
Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Dr. Hicks was Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She worked extensively on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and as a member of the third party in numerous unofficial diplomatic efforts.
Christina Hinton, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program and the Founder and CEO of Research Schools International. At Harvard, Dr. Hinton leads the Human Flourishing Program's work in education, researching character skills (e.g., kindness, gratitude, seeing the good in others) that support loving relationships and flourishing in schools internationally. She also co-leads our Flourishing Network, spearheading its education and entrepreneurship initiatives.
Matthew T. Lee, Ph.D., is a Research Associate and Director of the Human Flourishing Program's Flourishing Network. He is Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University and and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology at Stony Brook University’s Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics.
Eileen McNeely, PhD, MS, RNC, is Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Netpositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is an instructor in the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program at Harvard. At SHINE, her team conducts research on the impact of work and business operations on individual, organizational, and societal well-being and works with companies across all sectors
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University.