Student Center for the Public Trust

Linda Galindo is a founding board member of NASBA’s Center for the Public Trust. She has spoken to thousands of students, teachers, business executives and board members across most major industries  including, finance, energy, academia, healthcare, and manufacturing. She has authored 3 books and hundreds of articles on a practical, no-nonsense, no excuse approach to personal accountability.  Linda’s keynotes, executive coaching and  proprietary Accountability Assessment make a difference in the lives of individuals every single day. 

Alfonzo Alexander serves as chief ethics and diversity officer of NASBA and president of NASBA’s Center for the Public Trust (CPT). As chief ethics and diversity officer, he oversees strategic diversity initiatives and ethics compliance for the organization, while facilitating a number of special projects working with the CEO. In his role as president of CPT, Mr. Alexander oversees the day-to-day operations and the growing number of CPT programs, including the Student Center for the Public Trust, the Ethics Certification program, the Being a Difference Award program and a professional membership network, all of which position the organization to accomplish its mission to champion public trust. Prior to joining NASBA in 2006 as a staff director and vice president of the CPT and later chief relationship officer for NASBA, Mr. Alexander served as regional manager and managing director for the Southeast region of INROADS, Inc., where he led operations and business development in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Before joining INROADS, Mr. Alexander held several leadership positions in operations management and human resources at the Quaker Oats Company. He holds a B.S. degree in business administration with an emphasis on human resources management from Tennessee Tech University, and an M.B.A. degree from Lipscomb University.

Dr. Brian Griffith is an adjunct professor, author and former director of the Human and Organizational Development Program at Vanderbilt University. He joined Vanderbilt in 1998 and wrote two academic textbooks on teams and team leadership during his tenure. He received both the Peabody Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching and the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Vanderbilt. Since 2013, he has worked extensively in the field of 360 degree assessments and is the CEO and founder of G360 Talent Development. He earned a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina and has trained over a thousand counselors and coaches.