About the team
President and Co-Founder
Jen Baker
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Jen Baker began her career in the Navy, serving as both a pilot and an engineer. Since the Navy, she has had experiences as an entrepreneur, in a Fortune 100 company, and in collegiate athletics. While completing her graduate work at Cornell University, she was a Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow.
Through these diverse experiences, Jen saw how developing leaders helped to ensure organizational success. She considers the athletics setting ideal for implementing a more focused leader development paradigm. She has designed several student-athlete leader development programs on multiple campuses, and consulted with many others on the topic both inside and outside of athletics.
Jen currently serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Director of Athletics & Recreation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a 2024 NACDA Athletics Director of the Year. She also is a Certified Measurement Specialist through the Doerr Institute for New Leaders (Rice University).
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CEO and Co-Founder
Evan Bruno
Evan Bruno, PhD in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (UVA), coached baseball at Cornell University and played DIII baseball at Amherst College. After college, Evan served in the Navy for four years and then joined the Big Red baseball coaching staff while also completing his MBA. At Cornell, he helped Jen implement multiple facets of the athletics leadership curriculum, and discovered how exciting it can be to work with undergraduates to develop leadership skills.
Before starting DAL, Evan taught leadership development and communication as an Assistant Professor of Management at James Madison University. He has published research on ethics, courage, and voice in journals including the Academy of Management Annals, MIT’s Sloan Management Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
He is also a Certified Measurement Specialist through the Doerr Institute for New Leaders (Rice University) and serves on the boards of several startups advising on leadership and strategy.
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Team Network Analysis Brains
Eric Gladstone
Eric Gladstone, PhD, is a Behavioral Scientist and organizational consultant. He has held senior Behavioral Scientist roles at Roku and Facebook, and academic positions at Cornell University, the University of Kentucky, and the Institute for Analytical Sociology. His research and publications focus on social and organizational networks. In addition to his professional pursuits, Eric enjoys science fiction, basketball, sailing, bikes, and spending time with his wife and cat, Boogie.
English Language Brawn
Christina Black
Christina Black, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School where she teaches persuasion, ethics, and intercultural communication. She has also taught at UVA and Cornell, published numerous leadership cases, and designed education materials with clients, including the leadership coaching platform BetterUp and the Warrior-Scholar Project. In addition to her work in academia, Christina enjoys reading, running, and watching any Philly sports team.
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