There Is No Box: A Practical Guide for the Relatable Leader

About Marisa ClevelandSimon Cleveland

With more than two decades in the education and publishing industries Dr. Marisa Cleveland is adamant about supporting efforts toward the betterment of the human condition. Cleveland is the executive director for The Seymour Agency a Hodges University Board of Trustees member and a New York Times bestselling author. In 2021 Cleveland was honored with a Distinguished Online Teaching nomination for Southern New Hampshire University where she is an adjunct professor. Gulfshore Business and DLatinos magazines honored Cleveland with the Arts and Culture 2015 FACE Award and in 2014 Gulfshore Business selected her as a 40 Under Forty honoree. Cleveland holds an EdD in Organizational Leadership from Northeastern University and an MA in Educational Administration and a BS in Speech Communication from George Mason University. Dr. Simon Cleveland lectures at the Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University. He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of corporate and government leadership higher education administration project management information systems and technology management having worked in various leadership roles for organizations such as MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Homeland Security NASA Accenture America Online Georgetown University and City University of Seattle. Dr. Cleveland holds a PhD in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University an MS in Project Management from The George Washington University an MA in Leadership from City University of Seattle and a BS in Management and Marketing from George Mason University. He is certified as a project management professional (PMP) Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) expert and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). Dr. Cleveland is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications is a Tropaia Award recipient for Outstanding Faculty at Georgetown University and was honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins University.