Team
Management | Center Scholars & Executives | COLE Leadership Fellows
| Sim B. Sitkin | Faculty Director | Tejumade Ajasa | Program Manager |
| Sanyin Siang | Managing Director | Danielle Kowalczuk | Program Assistant |
| Jim Emery | Research Director | Krista Bofill | Associate Director of Major Gifts |
Sim B. Sitkin,
Faculty Director
Sim Sitkin is a professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, where he is the founding Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE), is Director of the Center for Organizational Research, and formerly directed the Health Sector Management Program. Sim was previously Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education and on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.
Sim’s research focuses on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of formal and informal organizational control systems and leadership on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning, M&A processes, and innovation. He has published over 40 books, book chapters, and academic and practitioner journal articles. Sim is currently working on two book projects, one focusing on leadership, and a second focusing on the development and use of organizational control systems.
Sim currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, as Senior Editor of Organization Science and Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and has served on numerous editorial and review panels and organizational boards in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. Sim has worked as a consultant and executive educator with many large and small corporations, non-profit and government organizations worldwide, including ABB, Alcoa, American Airlines, Carolina Power & Light, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, Glaxo, IBM, La Quinta, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat Software, Siemens, Xerox.
Sim received his PhD from Stanford University, his EdM from Harvard
University, and his BA from Clark University.
Sanyin Siang, Managing Director and Sr. Research Associate
Sanyin Siang is managing director and sr. research associate of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. The center is committed to influencing the way that scholars and executives think about and practice ethical leadership in the 21^st century. It does so by facilitating the exchange of best practices among leaders and engages scholars in cutting-edge research.
Sanyin has a mix of experiences in management, ethics, policy, and journalism. She has served as the Deputy Editor the /Professional Ethics Report of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies)/, and was also the Associate Online Editor for the American Bar Association's Science & Technology Law Section Newsletter. She also was also an editorial board member and ethics expert for the journal, Clinical Researcher, and also as contributing editor and writer to several publications including IEEE Spectrum, Science Magazine, Elvesier's HMS Beagle, and PINK Magazine. She was a co-editor for the special issue of the Leader to Leader Journal (published by the Leader to Leader Institute and Wiley & Sons).
She has spoken on leadership, ethics, and science policy to different groups including MIT Sloan School of Business, The Opt-In Project, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Center for Creative Leadership, Kent School of Law, Claremont College , and Trinity College . She was an ethics mentor with West Point's 2006 National Conference on Ethics in America . In 2004, she was nominated and selected to be a civilian member of the US Army War College's National Security Seminar. She also serves as a leadership coach to executives in private industry and public agencies.
Sanyin received her MBA and BSE from Duke University . She received Duke's Angier B Duke Scholarship (full academic scholarship) in her undergraduate years.
Jim Emery, Research Director 
James (Jim) Emery holds a PhD in Business (Management) from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University . He also holds an M.B.A. from Fuqua and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Jim's research interests in leadership and learning emerged from years of management consulting work with health care organizations. His dissertation examined how personal loyalty emerges in leader-follower relationships and how loyalty affects subsequent follower behavior, including approaches to dissent. Currently, he is also working on research projects exploring inspirational leadership and the role of vision in leadership.
Jim is the Research Director at the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) and an Instructor at Fuqua where he has taught the Power and Politics elective course in the daytime M.B.A. program and a business principles course to graduate students in Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. He has also been a leadership coach to executives in private industry and public agencies over the past four years.
Tejumade Ajasa,
Program Manager
Tejumade Ajasa comes to the Center with a solid background in program planning and logistics management. She has been at Fuqua since August 2000, working with many faculty in the Management area. In additional to providing programmatic support at the Center, she manages the Center’s website and also serves as the Program manager for for Fuqua’s Integrative Leadership Experience (ILE1), a required course for all incoming Fuqua Daytime MBA students, and one of COLE’s curriculum responsibilities. Prior to this she has worked in various offices in London and Nigeria, in positions dealing with office management and customer relations.
She is certified Adminstrative Professional and presently the President of the Duke Toastmasters Club (2006).
Ajasa holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and is a professional member of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) and Toastmasters International.
Daniell
e Kowalczuk, Program Assistant
Danielle Kowalczuk comes to the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication with a concentration in Public Relations.
She has been at Fuqua since August, 2007. She works on a variety of projects within COLE's growing portfolio of programs, including: leadership workshops for students and alumni, a national case study development competition, a national Ph.D. dissertation competition, Women in Leadership initiative, leadership research initiatives, including supporting grants and academic workshops, coordination of the student and staff volunteers for the FSB & Coach K Leadership Conference and center communications including press releases, a newsletter and a new Web site.
Kowalczuk is currently working with the Jaycee Burn Center at UNC to develop leadership workshops for burned children. Prior to COLE, she worked as a public relations intern at a nonprofit organization. She also worked at a gymnastics academy, both as a public relations practitioner and a coach, where her team won state champions.
Living in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, Kowalczuk participated in hurricane volunteer work, including inviting victims into her home. She was a member of the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Course at LSU (2002-2004), and is currently a Professional Member of the United States Association of Gymnastics.
Krista Bofill, Associate Director of Major Gifts
Contact the Center
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Email: colecenter@duke.edu
Phone: 919-660-7992
Fax: 919-681-6244
Mailing address
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The Fuqua School of Business
1 Towerview Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0120
USA