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Leadership Presence authors and Ariel Group founders
Kathy Lubar (L) & Belle Linda Halpern (R)

BELLE LINDA HALPERN

Co-founder of The Ariel Group, Belle brings the skills of a professional consultant, speaker, educator, and singer, and actress to her work. Belle has developed and delivered leadership programs for clients in the U.S., Europe, and Asia for the past ten years, including Boston Consulting Group, General Electric, the Federal Reserve, and Merrill Lynch. She has been featured in Fast Company, The Boston Globe, Harvard Management Communication Letter, and on CNBC. Belle has spoken at national conferences including the American Society for Training and Development, and the Women in Leadership Summit. She has designed and delivered workshops at the Executive Education programs of Columbia Business School and the Kellogg School of Management.

As a cabaret singer, Belle has performed in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Paris, Munich, and the hill towns of Northern Italy for eighteen years. She co-created several cabaret theater pieces that she regularly performs in theater festivals and performance series across the United States. Belle has designed an innovative methodology for teaching singing to non-singers and has worked with students at Harvard University, Longy School of Music and the Roy Hart Theatre in France. She currently teaches singing each summer at the Tuscany Project in Italy. Combining her singing talent with her work in leadership, she has delivered combination cabaret/lectures on leadership at the annual meetings for Instructional Services Association and for companies such as Ericsson and Capital One. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

Belle lives in Boston with her husband, Mitch, and her children, Aviva and Lev.


KATHY LUBAR

President and cofounder of The Ariel Group, Kathy offers her clients the experiences of a consultant, teacher, leader, and actress. She has developed and delivered a range of programs for some of the top names in professional services and industry, such as Deloitte & Touche, Société Générale, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Capital One. As an educator, Kathy has worked with a wide variety of students, including business professionals, lawyers, teachers, actors, and women prisoners. She has taught workshops at the Executive Education programs of Columbia Business School and the Kellogg School of Management as well as the Leadership Institute at Harvard Business School.

Kathy has spoken at conferences in the United States and Europe, including the Performance Theater Leadership Conference in London, Linkage's Leadership Conference in San Francisco, and the United States Department of Labor's Senior Executive Service Forum Series. She has been featured in Fast Company, Investor's Business Daily, Boston Magazine, and Harvard Management Communication Letter, and on CNBC. A graduate of Stanford University, Kathy acted professionally for fifteen years, performing in New York and Boston, and playing leading roles in a number of national tours. She co-founded Boston's New Repertory Theatre in 1984.

Kathy lives in Massachusetts and Hawaii with her husband, George.

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