Biographies

Team Members

Louis W. (Jody) Fry

Jody Fry has a Ph.D. in Organization Theory and Behavior from The Ohio State University, an MBA from American University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Southern Methodist University.  In addition to spending 8 years in private enterprise, he has been a faculty member at Texas A & M University and The University of Washington.  Currently, Dr. Fry is a professor at Texas A & M University-Central Texas where he is the coordinator of their MS Management and Leadership Program and teaches the following courses: organizational change and development, organizational design, organizational behavior, ethics and leadership, managerial statistics, and business research methods. Jody has published in numerous scholarly journals including The Leadership Quarterly, The Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, The Academy of Management Journal, and The Academy of Management Review and has served on numerous editorial review boards. Presently, he is a member of the editorial review board of The Leadership Quarterly, a Co-editor of The Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion, and the editor for Information Age Publishing for a book series, Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application. His teaching, research, consulting and executive development interests are focused on maximizing the triple bottom line through the spiritual leadership balanced scorecard business model.

Melissa S. Nisiewicz
Melissa Sadler Nisiewicz is a consultant for the International Institute for Spiritual Leadership. Her work has been focused around the research and development of the effects of leadership to intrinsically motivate employees through organizational design and transformation, strategic scorecards, and performance excellence. Previous to working with IISL, Melissa served as a consultant to several fortune 500 corporations through the capacity of strategic planning and merger consolidations. Most notable were her contributions as a project manager for the ConocoPhilips and Aetna (NYLCare, divesting of NYLCare to BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, and Prudential) mergers along with being a project lead for the ExxonMobil merger. The majority of her strategic planning work has been with oil, gas, and energy organizations; she has however worked with financial institutes, insurance agencies, and call centers. Currently she is working as a business strategy analyst/consultant for NATO in Mons, Belgium