Team Members

Lynda Goodwin

Posted By pwsadmin on Jun 16, 2020

Lynda Goodwin is the Director of Administrative and Operation for Cambridge Leadership Associates. She started her career in leadership development with the Nofsinger Group in 2014, after over 20 years of experience working with executives and boards of directors in the banking field. She plays a critical role in supporting our team and assisting with client projects. A Washington native, Lynda earned her BS from Central Washington...

Ron Heifetz

Posted By pwsadmin on Jun 15, 2020

CLA co-founder Ron Heifetz, is also the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is renowned worldwide for his seminal work on the practice and teaching of leadership; he speaks and consults extensively in the United States and abroad with leaders in business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Heifetz’s research at Harvard focuses on how to build adaptive capacity in societies,...

Marty Linsky

Posted By pwsadmin on Jun 14, 2020

Marty Linsky is Co-Founder of CLA and has taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School for over 25 years. He served as Chief Secretary and Counselor to Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld; Assistant Director, Harvard’s Institute of Politics; Executive Editor, The Advocates, PBS; Editorial Writer and Reporter, The Boston Globe; Editor, The Real Paper; Assistant Minority Leader, Massachusetts House of Representatives; and Massachusetts Assistant...

Max Martina

Posted By pwsadmin on Jun 12, 2020

Max is President of Cambridge Leadership Associates and has worked across sectors with leaders at Fortune 100 firms, in small, family-owned firms, and in large public organizations to build adaptive capacity. Max’s penchant for helping organizations navigate thorny challenges comes from a deeply held belief that humanity needs, more than ever, the fully engaged and effectively applied talents of change makers the world over. He brings...

Chrismon Nofsinger

Posted By pwsadmin on Jun 11, 2020

In his 25+ years in the field, Chrismon has become a trusted confidant and adviser to numerous CEOs and board members. He has worked with more than 1600 organizations, from public sector orgs to Fortune 100 companies, focusing on organizational change, individual and team development, and CEO coaching. Chrismon earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Claremont Graduate University, where he was a student of...

Ed O’Malley – Kansas Leadership Center

The Kansas Leadership Center is an investment in the people of Kansas…to foster civic leadership for healthier communities. CLA's multi-year engagement with KLC has helped lay a foundation in Kansas that enables KLC to reach more people in more corners of the state and more sectors of society with the best and most current thinking about civic leadership.

Ed O'Malley
President & CEO
Kansas Leadership Center

Allen I. Fagin – Proskauer Rose LLP

Developing consensus, a sense of shared vision and direction; a cohesiveness of purpose; a sense of commonality and shared values is always a challenge. It is against this backdrop that Marty Linsky and his team excel in fostering cohesion and a sense of shared enterprise - a tour de force for any professional services organization dedicated to improving its management culture.

Allen I. Fagin
Chairman
Proskauer Rose LLP

John Taylor – Delaware Public Policy Institute

CLA’s direct and powerful approach to bringing about effective and meaningful change made all the difference in our efforts to forge a coalition to establish the best public schools in Delaware. Those involved included warring interests, reluctant participants and skeptics of every stripe. But after CLA confronted and provoked us, inspired and cajoled us we focused on our common goal rather than our differences.

John Taylor
Executive Director
Delaware Public Policy Institute