Organizational Directors & Officers
Here are the members of the Board of Directors and Officers of MyGrowthPlan.Org, Inc.
Karen Britt - Member, Board of Directors. Karen is cur
rently employed with the Gateway Council of the Girl Scout s in Jacksonville, Florida. Previously, she worked as the Director of Teen Programs at the James Weldon Johnson Family YMCA in Jacksonville where she directed the city-wide Black Achievers Program. And, for seven years Karen was as a Family Services Counselor for The Florida Department of Children and Families. A graduate of Florida A&M University with a bachelors degree in Broadcast Journalism, Karen has recently received her Masters degree in Public Administration at the University of North Florida. She loves sports, especially enjoys hanging out with her family including son Kelvin and daughter Kelley.
Dr. Patricia R. Hedberg - Member, Board of Directors
. Dr. Hedberg teaches and consults in the area of managingpeople and their performance. She is an associate professor in the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas (UST) where, since 1989, she has taught MBA courses in managem ent and organizational behavior. Her consulting and research activities include rest and work, emotional leadership, performance feedback systems, management/leadership issues, and group development. Prior to joining UST full-time, Pat worked with Honeywell as an internal human resource consultant and with National Computer Systems as marketing services director. Pat received a B.A. in psychology and in sociology from Ohio Northern University and a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota. For nearly a decade Pat was faculty coordinator of the course that inspired the growth planning process that now forms the basis of this organization and its website.
Paul O. Johnson - Chair, Board of Directors; Executive Committee Member. Paul is the retired Senior Vice Preside
nt and member of the Corporate Management Committee at H.B. Fuller Company. An attorney by training, prior to H.B. Fuller, Paul was General Counsel, VP for Administration, and member of the Management Committee at Green Giant Company. When not traveling the world, sail boating, skiing with his family in Colorado, or working in his southern Minnesota vineyard, Paul has found time to serve on two other nonprofit boards -- the Indianhead Boy Scout Council in St. Paul and the Self Help of Hard of Hearing based in Bethesda, MD.
Jerry K. Lee - Treasurer; Member, Board of Directors; Executive Committee Member. Jerry currently serves 
as President of Lee Financial Group, a financial services business. He is also an adjunct business professor at Northwestern College and a frequent seminar facilitator at the University of St. Thomas. As a team member at previous employers, Jerry has w orked as an auditor for an international public accounting firm, project management accountant, accounting manager, controller for publicly traded firms, and as a treasurer and chief financial officer. Jerry is a licensed pilot, and enjoys spending time with his wife at home or traveling. Sunday mornings he can usually be found teaching Sunday school for 4 & 5 year olds.
Phillip W. Miner - Vice President & Chief Partnership 
Officer. For 30 years Phillip has been helping high school youth and young adults realize their dreams through a variety of higher education positions at Pacific Lutheran University and Hamline University. His most recent position has been as the Director for Community Initiative at the Minnesota Private College Council. Phillip is a Board Member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater Minneapolis, Chair of the Advis ory Committee of the YMCA National Black Achievers Program, and serves on the boards of Pillsbury House Theater and the MN Minority Suppliers Development Council. Former service includes, Immediate Past Chair and member of the Multicultural Development Center Board of Directors. Among his many honors, he has been awarded the 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from Minneapolis Community & Technical College and the Educator of the Year 2000 Award from INROADS/Twin Cities.
Jon Pekel - President & Secretary; Member of the Board of Directors; Executive Committee Member. While in grad 
school, Jon developed a teen center on the northside of Chicago, and while serving as a clergyman on the southside of Chicago, he developed another teen center. Then, for 15 years Jon held public affairs posit ions at four Fortune 500 companies, followed by 12 years running his organizational strategy consulting company, The Fulcrum Group. And, for nearly 25 years on a part-time basis, Jon taught graduate level MBA students at the University of St. Thomas. Having run for U.S. Congress back in 1976 (unsucessfully), Jon now sees following politics as something of a hobby. But, his Growth Plan calls for learning to navigate Florida's Intracoastal Waterway to become his new "frivolous passion" by 2010.
Dr. Dwight C. Watson - Member, Board of Directors. Dr. Watson received his B.A. and M.Ed in elementary ed
ucation from the University of South Carolina and his Ph.D in curriculum and instruction from North Carolina State University. He has taught elementary and middle grades for ten years and has been been a central office administrator for a large, urban district. Dwight is the former associate professor of education and Chair of the Department of Education at Hamline University, and Interim Director of the Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching. Currently, he is Associate Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Dwight conducts numerous local, state, national, and international workshops in curriculum integration, and is a consultant to the Minnesota State Department of Education for the Basic Skills Standards and the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments. Dwight is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and the Association for Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education where he also serves as treasurer.