Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Faculty co-Director of the MIT Leadership Center. Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. This research directly led to the concept of X-Teams as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations. Ancona’s work also focuses on the concept of distributed leadership and on the development of research-based tools, practices, and teaching/coaching models that enable organizations to foster creative leadership at every level. She is the author of the book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press, June 2007) and the related article, “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader” (Harvard Business Review, Feb. 2007). Ancona has served as a consultant on leadership and innovation to companies such as AT&T, BP, Credit Suisse First Boston, Hewlett-Packard, Merrill Lynch, News Corporation, Li & Fung, and Vale. Ancona holds a BA and an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University.

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is the Founding Director of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Born into a Hindu Brahmin family in Vaishali, India, he chose his own path at the age of ten, entering a Buddhist monastery in Rajgir. His unique upbringing combined a modern secular education with traditional Buddhist training and ordination by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laudeas an Integral Honors scholar and completed his graduate studies in Comparative Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University in 2003.
Venerable Tenzin also serves as the President of the Prajnopaya Foundation, a worldwide humanitarian organization developing innovative health, education and social welfare programs. He serves on the board of several academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations, and teaches Buddhist philosophy and practice through the Prajnopaya Institute.

Don Morrison is on the Board of Directors of The Center at MIT. He recently retired as the Chief Operating Officer of Research In Motion. Don oversaw all domestic and international operations focusing on the development and execution of a world-class, customer-driven organization to support the BlackBerry wireless solution. Before joining RIM in 2000, Don undertook a number of senior leadership positions in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East with AT&T and Bell Canada. Don is the founder of the Golden Thread Charitable Foundation and the Morrison Centre for Peace and Conflict Research. He is on the board of HealthyKids International and is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for SickKids Hospital Foundation. Don holds an MBA and BA from the University of Toronto and also participated in the Executive Program at the University of Virginia, Darden Business School

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is the Founding Director of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Born into a Hindu Brahmin family in Vaishali, India, he chose his own path at the age of ten, entering a Buddhist monastery in Rajgir. His unique upbringing combined a modern secular education with traditional Buddhist training and ordination by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude as an Integral Honors scholar and completed his graduate studies in Comparative Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University in 2003.
Venerable Tenzin also serves as the President of the Prajnopaya Foundation, a worldwide humanitarian organization developing innovative health, education and social welfare programs.

Pat Christen leads HopeLab by cultivating an environment of curiosity, candor, integrity, and play in which individuals are able to do their best work and are supported in living whole-heartedly. As President and CEO, she is responsible for oversight of HopeLab operations and the development of an organizational culture that delivers on HopeLab’s mission.
Pat has more than 25 years experience in the management of nonprofit organizations, including strategic planning, program development, business and fund development, board governance and leadership development. She is committed to finding practical and innovative solutions to complex problems. At HopeLab, she guides a multi-faceted team focused on developing effective solutions that will measurably improve the lives of young people with chronic illness.
Pat also served as president of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, establishing AIDS clinics and playing an active role in AIDS-planning efforts globally. As president of Pangaea, she was responsible for the construction of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, a state-of-the-art AIDS clinic, research, and training center which opened its doors in August of 2004. Pat has written, studied, and lectured on social and health issues both in the U.S. and abroad. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa from 1982–1985. She is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and is a graduate of Stanford University, where she studied biology and political science.

Mike Halsall is Senior Network and Information Security Analyst at MIT, and currently sits on a number of steering committees for various Information Sharing and Analysis Centers. He has 18 years working in both corporate and academic environments, having held positions at IBM, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Vermont Technical College and Middlebury College. As a fellow for The Center, he will be exploring various frameworks for making ethical decisions in the domain of computer security. Because one can’t discuss computer security without discussing privacy, privacy implications will be a dominant theme in the exploration of ethical decision making frameworks in the computer security field.