The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness is a dynamic curriculum designed by Harvard University faculty and tailored to the challenges business, government and nonprofit leaders face.

Faculty

Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D. is founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Kennedy School of Government, developed in collaboration with leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House Homeland Security Council, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. In recent years, Dr. Marcus's research, teaching, and consultation have played a key role in national and international terrorism preparedness and emergency response. He has pioneered development of the conceptual and pragmatic basis for "meta-leadership" – "overarching leadership that strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of government," and "connectivity" – the coordination of "people, organizations, resources and information to best catch, contain and control a terrorist or other threat to the public's health and well-being."

Recent research activities have taken him to the center of leadership dilemmas facing emergency preparedness and response, from direct observation and in-the-moment interviews of central leadership during the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast to the frontlines of the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006. His article, "Meta-Leadership and National Emergency Preparedness: A Model to Build Government Connectivity" has garnered significant attention. He is leading a five-year CDC project at Harvard and a three-year project with the CDC Foundation to take meta-leadership training to 50 locations throughout the country. At the invitation of the President’s Advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, he recently lectured at the White House on meta-leadership.

Prior to being recruited by the federal government following 9⁄11, Dr. Marcus worked in health care negotiation and conflict resolution. Dr. Marcus is founding director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at HSPH. He is lead author of the primary text in the field, Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, selected as co-recipient of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution 1995 "Book Prize Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution." In 1994, he co-authored Mediating Bioethical Disputes: A Practical Guide.

Dr. Marcus completed his doctoral studies at The Heller School of Brandeis University. He was selected as a Fellow for the Kellogg National Leadership Program from 1986-1989.

Barry C. Dorn, M.D. is associate director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine, has held the position of interim president and CEO of Winchester Hospital, and has a private orthopedic practice in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Dr. Dorn is among the leaders in the development of the negotiation and conflict resolution field. He is a member of the original faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. He is a past national co-chair of the Health Sector for the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Dr. Dorn is a contributing author of the 1995 book Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, winner of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution Annual Book Prize Award and the Book of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Nursing Association.

As a partner of Health Care Negotiation Associates, Dr. Dorn has trained many groups, including the President’s Forum of the American Medical Association (AMA), leadership of the American Urological Association, participants at the AMA National Leadership Conference and the executive leadership of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He has consulted to health systems and physician practices across the country on acquisitions, mergers, strategic planning and interdepartmental facilitation. He has been able to bring together groups with diverse interests and to build collaboration among the parties, especially in the field of terrorism preparedness.

Dr. Dorn received his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He interned at Boston City Hospital and received training in general surgery at Temple University and the University Hospital in Boston. His orthopedic training took place at University Hospital (now Boston Medical Center) with affiliations at the Lahey Clinic, the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children and the New England Baptist Hospital. Dr. Dorn received his master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and served on active duty in the United States Army.