Organizational Structure and Staffing
The Institute of Discerning Leadership is a project housed within the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU), in direct collaboration with the General Curia Office of Discernment and Apostolic Planning, the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) and the Union of Superiors General (USG).
The teaching team consists of faculty from Jesuit Colleges and Universities and other qualified instructors.
Administrative Team
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Executive Director
Program Manager
Director of the Accompaniment Network
Board of advisors
Faculty Members
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
ESADE Business School
External Faculty
Doctor of Ministry graduate Sister Pat Murray, IBVM, exemplifies the quality of leadership needed in the global church today. She worked for many years in Education and peace building in Ireland. Later she was the founding executive director of Solidarity with South Sudan, fostering the collaboration of more than a hundred religious orders working to rebuild the educational, medical, agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the newly independent South Sudan.
For 16 years (2001-2017) has been in the General Government of his Institute, the Marist Brothers: 8 as member of the General Council and 8 as Superior General.
He has a Master in Television, Radio and Film from the Syracuse University, New York, and a STL in Moral Theology from the University of Toronto.
Fr. Garanzini SJ, currently serves as both secretary for the higher education of the Society of Jesus as well as chair of the board of directors for the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU)
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He also serves as professor of strategy and international business.
Robert J. Bies (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. In addition, Dr. Bies is a co-author of the book, Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge—And How to Stop It.
Professor Bies’s current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace.
Professor Turner is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program and holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the McDonough School of Business.
In addition to his roles as professor of management and area coordinator, Brooks Holtom serves as Georgetown McDonough’s senior associate dean for strategy, finance, and organization.
He currently is the coordinator of UNIJES (Network of Jesuit universities in Spain) and ESADE professor in the Department of General Management and Strategy. He was ESADE’s Director from 2000 until 2010. Previously worked in management positions at the Interamerican Development Bank and Generalitat de Catalunya.
He is/has been member of various governing bodies: Gas Natural Fenosa (Spain), SFL (France), and InnoEnergy (Netherlands); and in several Jesuit universities in Spain as Deusto, IQS and Loyola Andalucía.
Xavier is an Associate Professor in the Strategy and General Management department and the current director of the Observatory of Spanish Multinational Companies (OEME). He served as dean of ESADE Business School (2000-2008) and as deputy director general of ESADE (2008-2011).
Nathalie Becquart serves as Undersecretary of the Secretariat of the Synod of the Bishops since March 2021.