Staff

Dr. Lois Zachary

Dr. Zachary is president of Leadership Development Services, LLC, a Phoenix-based consulting firm providing leadership development, coaching, education, and training for corporate and nonprofit organizations.

Zachary is an internationally recognized expert in mentoring and leadership. She was named one of the“100 Best Minds” in the nation in the field of organizational leadership by Leadership Excellence: The Magazine of Leadership Development, Managerial Effectiveness, and Organizational Productivity. Her clients include multinationals, Fortune 100 companies, national associations, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies.

She is author of The Mentor’s Guide (Jossey-Bass, 2000), a best-selling book that has become the primary resource for organizations interested in promoting mentoring for leadership and learning. Her second book on mentoring, Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization’s Guide, provides a comprehensive resource for promoting organizational mentoring sustainability. Her newest book, The Mentee’s Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You, is due out in July 2009.  She has published extensively, writing articles, columns, monographs about mentoring, leadership and board development, staff development, consulting and adult development and learning. She co-edited The Adult Educator as Consultant (Jossey-Bass, 1993) and co-authored Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Partnerships (2002).

Zachary received her doctorate in Adult and Continuing Education from Columbia University. She holds a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Master of Science degree in Education from Southern Illinois University.

She is the immediate past chair of the Phoenix Athena PowerLink™ Governing Board, a program sponsored by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, which helps women-owned businesses expand profitably through the use of its advisory panels. She was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of Arizona State University’s School of Global Management and Leadership and holds leadership positions on other community and national boards. She served as a member of the Mentor National Team of the Chicago Public Schools.

Among the clients she is serving or has served are:

• Albright Knox Art Gallery
• American Association of Museums
• American Red Cross
• Arizona State University
• Best & Co. Professional Imaging Consultants
• Brown-Forman Corporation
• Center for Creative Leadership
• Central New York Coalition for Adult & Continuing Education
• Central New York Staff Development Consortium
• Columbia University: Teachers College
• Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
• Council of Jewish Federations
• Covenant Foundation
• Hospice of Central New York
• Loretto Geriatric Center
• Maricopa Community Colleges
• Metropolitan School Study Council
• Mutual of New York
• National Institute for Leadership Development
• National University Research Institute
• National-Louis University
• Nortel Networks
• Nova Southeastern University
• Onondaga County Child Care Council
• Onondaga County Public Library
• Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
• RLS Career Center
• School of Business and Entrepreneurship-Nova University
• Syracuse/Onondaga County Youth Bureau
• Tri-State Professional Development Program
• Union Theological Seminary
• Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
• United Way Nonprofit Management Institute
• University of Louisville
• U S WEST Communications
• Watson Wyatt & Company
• Women's Forum of Colorado
• Workplace Learning Institute

Her publications include articles, monographs and books about adult development and learning, mentoring, leadership and board development, staff development, and the basics of establishing and maintaining a consulting practice. She is author of The Mentors Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000). Her column, "Board Room" is a regular feature in Arizona Corridors Magazine.