Board of Directors

Brooke Sanders is our Administrative Director, who was first introduced to the work of Virginia Satir during her studies to become a Marriage and Family Therapist at Mercer University. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to her at office@satirglobal.org”

Lea Wells is retired from a career in librarianship, and lives in Chapel Hill, NC.

Her career focused on facilitation, communication, strategic planning, human resources, and faculty and staff development.

Most recently she co-partnered in Jordan Wells Associates, which conducted workshops with library staffs in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, and St. Petersburg, Russia and consulted with a number of university libraries including those at New York University, Duke University, East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Koç University in Istanbul, and participated in trainings in Cairo and at Zayed University in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Virginia Satir’s work entered her life through Conjoint Family Therapy in 1966/67 and has continued to influence her philosophy and career in facilitation, training, consulting, and parenting. In 1995 she encountered Sharon Loeschen and her publications of Virginia Satir’s teachings and she has used those works continually since then. She is challenged by working with people of all cultures and if elected, she will do her best to facilitate the sharing of ideas and successes.

Gina Adams Gephart, currently serving as the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at CAPSTONE University, offers a wealth of experience in nonprofit leadership, governance, policy management, and compliance. With doctoral degrees in psychotherapy and education, Gina has over two decades of expertise in higher education and digital learning. Her unwavering commitment revolves around improving education quality for all learners, and she actively collaborates to integrate Satir’s transformative teachings into CAPSTONE University courses. Beyond her academic role, Gina is a Certified Life and Trauma Recovery Coach and co-founder of SCORES™, a relational model fostering safety and connection within educational and family contexts. In these roles, she nurtures emerging leaders dedicated to carrying forward Virginia Satir’s legacy of promoting healthy relationships and personal growth, embodying Satir’s philosophy of “Peace within, peace between, and peace among.”

My name is Robert E. Williams, and I am a US Army veteran, startup founder, author and serial entrepreneur. I am a graduate of The University of Wales Trinity St David where I attained my MBA in global business management. In 2015 I launched my startup Athcorp Inc. and built XZEVN, a multi-modal mental health analysis platform. In 2018 Athcorp partnered with the National Security Administration Office of Research and Technology (ORTA) and Bowie State University research laboratory to study how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to improve telehealth outcomes. In 2017 Mr. Karl Ginter, my technology adviser at the time, introduced me to Jean McLendon of the UNC Department of Social Work Satir Program. Jean introduced me to the work of Virginia Satir when I participated in two Satir summer intensive courses conducted at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Social Work Summer Satir Program. Today, I serve as a strategic advisor to businesses seeking help with planning, designing, and standing up mobile and web applications. My connection to Satir is rooted in my training in the Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) method. Through my connections training, I learned to not focus on the chaos in life but to navigate that chaos by tapping into my internal resources. I now integrate Satir’s teachings into not only my personal life but also as a foundational framework of my business culture.

Michael Hardin, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC-S, CFLE

Dr. Michael Argumaniz-Hardin began his employment at Fuller Theological Seminary in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy in July 2020. He was instrumental in starting a 10-month master level Virginia Satir practicum for students where they spent 7 hours a week seeing clients using the Satir model while getting live supervision. He also created a doctoral level Satir consultation course. Before working for Fuller, Dr. Argumaniz-Hardin was a professor at Lubbock Christian University. He served as the Chair over the Department of Psychology & Counseling for 13 years. Dr. Argumaniz-Hardin has been in private practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist for 23 years and is the host of the Virginia Satir podcast https://www.liveconnectedtherapy.com/podcast.

Eileen Strider is a retired information technology (IT) executive and consultant. Beginning in 1969, her 30 year IT career included programmer, manager, and director of engineering & scientific programming for a large aerospace company, IT vice president for an insurance company and interim CIO for The Ohio State University. She began studying Virginia Satir’s work when she realized that technical problems were often primarily people problems. With Wayne Strider, she introduced Satir Process of Change workshops in 1989 into her aerospace IT organization.

Eileen and Wayne founded Strider & Cline, Inc., an IT management consulting firm to use their Satir skills. Their work included clients in the following industries: aerospace, higher education, biotechnology, insurance, non-profits, accounting, gaming, veterinary medicine and software development. Eileen previously served as Satir Global Board Treasurer for 6 years and received a Living Treasure award in 2012. She has volunteered her time in various roles including as Virginia’s 100th Birthday GoFundMe campaign organizer, Satir Global and IHLRN website redesign project manager, Satir Summer Intensive administrator and IHLRN Board member. She has published numerous articles including “Re-Sculpting an organization: A Different Kind of Family” published in the Satir Journal of Counselling and Family Therapy, Vol. I, 2013. Having seen how valuable and effective Satir’s model was in organizations, Eileen is committed to seeing Virginia’s work continue to be taught, used and recognized.

Natalie has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and is an integrative therapist and founder of the Bangkok Psychological Services and the Satir Institute of Thailand (Bangkok). She is also a master-trainer in the Satir Coaching and Mentoring program and has a passion for spreading the teachings of Virginia Satir.