LIOS Faculty

George Callan, Ph.D., LMFT-George is a depth psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist whose clinical and academic interests include systems counseling, archetypal psychotherapy, dream work, and initiatory processes as they relate to the individual, communal and global psyche. She practices psychotherapy and mentorship in Seattle where she works with individuals, couples and families and supervises therapists and interns in the fields of clinical and depth psychology.

Carol Jakus, MA, MSW, LICSW is currently a fall faculty with a SC specialization after 10 years experience as a LIOS Systems Consultant. She also has taught in the Health Psychology Department at Bastyr University. Her experience as a psychotherapist covers 30+ years. She is the founder of The Northwest Center for Mindful Living, offering psychotherapy, clinical consultation, leadership support and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) classes and workshops to the private and public sector.
Carol’s clinical approach weaves together the gifts of Self-relations work, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Narrative training, brief therapy, trauma resolution, cognitive restructuring, interpersonal neurobiology and contemplative practices. She has completed The University of Massachusetts’s Medical School’s, Center for Mindfulness' basic and advanced training programs in MBSR. She holds the foundations of Mindfulness, including acceptance and gratitude, as the heart from which all her clinical work, supervision and teaching arises. Her approach is to weave together thoughts, feelings and body sensations under the open sky of spiritual practice. Carol draws from both Western and Eastern practices, particularly Buddhism, to support the healing process. She has studied a variety of body-based practices including yoga, qi gong, tai chi, Continuum and mindful movement, which she integrates into her work. Her intention as an educator & clinician is to facilitate, witness and guide others toward internal or interpersonal peace, well-being and integrity.

MARK R. JONES, Chair — Leadership & Org. Dev. Dept — LIOS Graduate College (Saybrook University)
As Department Chair, Mr. Jones has led his department’s WASC reaccreditation process; led College-wide curricula redesign and process improvement initiatives; and served as a strategic thinking partner to the President of LIOS Graduate College. Mr. Jones also teaches in both the “Core Curriculum” and “Leadership and Organization Development” (LOD) programs. He has taught the following courses: “Epistemology”, “Leading Change”, and “Integrative Group Learning” — which included curricula on “Compassionate Leadership” (H-S-L Practice) and “Sustainability”. He has co-taught the following courses: “Foundations of Leadership”, “Systems Theory in Applied Behavioral Systems”, “Intercultural Intelligence”, “Group Membership Theory”, “Coaching Skills”, “Creating Healthy Social Systems”, “Action Research”, and “Organization Membership”.

MARK R. JONES, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) — The Sunyata Group
Mr. Jones is a professional leader, manager, innovator, and consultant, and has over twenty-five years of fulltime professional experience, including five years of fulltime experience serving at a senior executive level — CEO / Executive VP / Corporate VP / CIO / CTO / CTA — in organizations with annual budgets of $100M or greater, and in non-profit and elected and/or appointed positions. He has an additional ten years experience doing pro bono and/or small business and small non-profit work in an executive capacity. He has performed, coached, and consulted multi-national corporations and the U.S. Government — including ALCOA, Boeing, DoC, DoD, DoE, DoI, Treasury, and NASA. Mr. Jones has over ten years of experience doing international work — including one year of international residency through travel assignments.

Mr. Jones is the developer of the integrated Process Improvement and Personal & Organizational Development (“PI+POD”) approach that he uses to address extinction-level and critical issues (“wicked problems”). Using “PI+POD”, he has achieved over a billion dollars in cost savings, cost avoidance, and/or revenue generation over the course of his professional career. He is known for his compassionate, effective and innovative, leadership practices; and skillfully applying wisdom, and business, technical, cultural, and political savvy.

As an educator, Mr. Jones has delivered business management lectures on social-emotional-cultural intelligences and skills, leadership development, and change management to: Antioch University — Seattle, Seika University, Morris-Brown College, and at numerous conferences. He has delivered technical lectures on data resource management, information resource management, database technology, object-oriented systems, business intelligence, and/or enterprise management & integration to: Univ. of Washington, Boeing, ACM, ANSI, APEC, DAMA, DRMA, OMG, IEEE, ISO, PDES/STEP, SME, and others.

Mr. Jones objective is: To live, work, and play in the inquiry: “What becomes possible, or can be done more efficiently and effectively together — than can be accomplished separately?” His gift is that he has trained himself to integrate: social, emotional, cultural, leadership, and process — wisdom, methods, tools, technologies and skillfulness. This results in high levels of individual and organizational innovation, effectiveness, efficiency, and joy.

Mr. Jones has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Systems Analysis from Western Washington University, and a Masters of Science degree in Management from Antioch University – Seattle.

What Mr. Jones brings to table is that he is an innovator with a breadth of lived-in and refined experience and teaching in the areas of: leadership; leadership development; personal development; and organization development, optimization, and operations. He has large-scale experience and small-scale experience. He has “line management” experience and “consulting” experience. He has organizational development experience and operations experience. He has non-management, management, senior management, executive, and Board experience. He has technical, non-technical, and artistic experience. He has for-profit, non-profit, and government experience. He has elected, appointed, hourly, salaried, and contract work experience. And he has over forty-two years of personal development training and practice — including over thirty years teaching.
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Dan Leahy is an innovative leadership development specialist. With 16 years of leadership education experience and another 16 years experience as a clinical therapist he brings a unique blend of interpersonal and organizational perspectives to his work. His professional experience includes serving as President of the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS, Inc.) from 2001 to 2007, and Dean of the School of Applied Behavioral Science at Bastyr University from 1997-2006.

He is committed to leadership development. Since he believes that leadership is fundamentally a dance between the leader, the followers and the organizational mission, his approach focuses on helping the individual develop the ability to both take a stand and stay connected with others in service of the desired results. Given his work in adult education his approach is one that emphasizes inquiry and directed reflection tailored to the individual's circumstances.

He holds Bachelors Degrees in Communication Arts and Sociology from Washington State University and a Master of Arts in Applied Behavioral Science from Whitworth College. His postgraduate training includes the Art & Practice of Leadership Development program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Peter Bloch's Regional School for Managing, Leadership Eastside, and Pacific Integral's two-year Generating Transformational Change program. He is a board member for the Center for Ethical Leadership Board and is Co-Vice Chair for Curriculum and Programs on the Board of Leadership Eastside.

Jeff McAuliffe has spent the last 25 years consulting with organizations, from small community based non-profits to major corporations. His practice is focused on the integration of organization development, performance improvement, and leadership development to enhance organizational outcomes (quality, cost, delivery and safety), leadership/management capability, and employee morale. His passion is coaching leaders, mentoring change agents and supporting teams to create breakthrough levels of improvement.
Jeff has spent the majority of his consulting career as both an internal consultant and a manager of internal consultants. He has held numerous positions with major Northwest companies such as Swedish Medical Center and Boeing. He co-designed and implemented an integrated "People Plan" as part of the world's largest re-engineering project at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. Jeff also successfully integrated action learning and Toyota Production System improvement methods at Swedish Medical Center to increase management bench strength, effectively engage employees, enhance cross-functional collaboration, and improve patient and business outcomes. He currently has an external consulting practice with a focus on the healthcare industry.
Jeff is a family man with a working spouse and three teenagers. He enjoys most outdoor activities, playing music, and "putzing" around the house.

Dr. K. Alexandra Onno has been a member of the LIOS Graduate College Faculty since 2005. Alex received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The Evergreen State College, followed by a Master of Arts degree at Leadership Institute of Seattle. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Alex has a background in mythology, story and theater, and her dissertation is entitled "Out of Ashes: A Return to the Creative Feminine."

As a therapist in private practice, Alex combines traditional and depth psychology and transformative approaches to therapy, including systemic and family-of-origin work along with archetypal and creative therapies. She maintains a practice that complements her ongoing creative work and role as a consultant and an educator.

Diane Schachter is the Fall Program Leader and a member of the LIOS faculty since 1995. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy with a private practice in Bellevue, WA. Her training as a therapist includes a three-year post master's internship in Couple and Sex Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania; training and supervision at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy in New York, New York; and training in Narrative Therapy with Michael White in Adelaide, Australia. She also has an interest in mindfulness, the wisdom of the body and Emotionally Focused Couples' Therapy.
She extends her 20+ years of experience as a therapist to the business community as well. In her work as a leadership coach and consultant, she strives to create greater health in the workplace. As the primary instructor for "InterAct: Quality Workplace Relations," she helps business clients incorporate the signature LIOS skills into the complexities of the contemporary workplace.

Dr. Weber has been faculty and the SC specialization lead at Leadership Institute of Seattle for over 17 years. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Bellevue, Washington. Dr. Weber specializes in couple and family therapy, working with children, adolescents, and adults. His primary writing and clinical focus is family of origin therapy. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Weber trains and supervises mental health providers and offers leadership training and consultation to executives and businesses.
Dr. Weber completed a postdoctoral residency in family therapy at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York, and was awarded the Wilson Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Family Therapy with Dr. Lyman Wynne at the University of Rochester Medical School in New York. He served as faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and was the Coordinator of Family Therapy Training. He has practiced as a Clinical Psychologist in New York, Colorado, and Washington. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and is an Approved Supervisor with The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
With Dr. Lyman Wynne and Dr. Susan McDaniel, Dr. Weber co-authored the book Systems Consultation: A New Perspective for Family Therapy (Guilford, 1986). With Dr. James Framo and Dr. Felise Levine, he most recently co-authored the book Coming Home Again: A Family of Origin Consultation (Brunner-Routledge, 2003). Dr. Weber has also authored book chapters used in the training of therapists, including "Engaging the Family: An Integrative Approach" in the book Integrating Family Therapy (American Psychological Association, 1995) and "Widening the Lens: Engaging a Family in Transition" in the book Case Studies in Integrating Family Therapy (American Psychological Association, 2001).
Dr. Weber has also authored and co-authored numerous articles in journals such as Family Process, Family Systems Medicine, Psychotherapy, The Gerontologist, Journal of Pastoral Care, Journal of Psychology and Theology, Currents in Theology and Mission, the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, and the Lutheran Standard. Current research and writing projects are focused on family of origin consultation and therapy, couples' therapy, a systemic understanding of "relational integrity," chronic disease, genetics, and systemic implications, and on dealing with difficult differences. Dr. Weber is also focusing on themes related to the integration of "spirit" in everyday life.