Professors

John A Schuster

Director (History of Listening)

John A. Schuster Ph.D. is a scholar well known in Australia and internationally in the history of science and intellectual history. Dr John strongly feels that in today’s fast changing world LISTENING TO HISTORY has now become very important to understand the society better, conditions of human being and inspiring us for betterment. Dr John […]

Jonathan Eliot Este Fisher

Director (Healthcare)

Dr. Jonathan Eliot Este Fisher, MD FACC is a Harvard-trained physician and practicing cardiologist with 20 years of clinical experience, Dr. Jonathan has a great passion for listening and believes effective listening is very important while doing medical practice for successful results . His leadership appointments at Novant Health include Regional Medical Director of the […]

Jonathan Foland

Associate Director

Jonathan Foland PhD (Pursuing) is a famous name in University of North Carolina because his passion for students development. Foland believes  student are the future of the country and world.  Jonathan earned his Master of Arts in Communication Studies in 2009 from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is presently developing his […]

Jonathan Westover

Director

Dr. Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D., MPA, SFHEA, Acad. FCIPD is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Ethics in the Woodbury School of Business, Director of Academic Service Learning (Office of Engaged Learning, Center for Social Impact), and previously the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics. He is also serves on […]

Juliann C. Scholl

Director (Health Communication)

GLOBAL LISTENING BOARD

Kamaljit Chirom

Associate Member (Strategy)

GLOBAL LISTENING BOARD

Karen A Schriver

Director

Dr. Karen Schriver is a passionate advocate for people-centered communications—a field in which listening is central. Schriver received her doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Document Design from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). Her thesis, “Teaching writers to anticipate readers’ needs: Empirically-based instruction,” focused on teaching professional writers to listen to the feedback of their […]

Karl Ekdahl

Director (HealthCare Listening)

Professor Karl Ekdahl is a  world renowned specialist in infectious diseases and medical doctor . Prof Karl is done his MD (Medicine)  in 1986 and PhD in 1995  from the Lund University, Sweden . Prince Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (DTM&H), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc). In 1999 he became Associate […]

Katherine Stuart Van Wormer

Director

Katherine Stuart van Wormer, MSSW, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. Her Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of Georgia. Uniquely in the 1960s, van Wormer participated in two civil rights movements—one in North Carolina and one in Northern Ireland, where she taught English for several years. In […]

Katie R. Place

Director (Academia)