James Maas, Ph.D., Chancellor of United Institute, World-Renowned Former Cornell University Professor
Dr. James B. Maas, Chancellor of United Institute, is a leading authority and international consultant on sleep and performance. He has been the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Professor and past Chairman of Psychology, as well as a professor in the graduate fields of Education and Communication at Cornell University. He has also served a professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar. Dr. Maas received his B.A. from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell. He holds the world’s record for university in-person teaching, having taught more than 65,000 students in his 48 years on the Cornell faculty.
Dr. Maas has held a Fulbright Senior Professorship to Sweden, has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and past-president of the American Psychological Association's Division on Teaching. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching at Cornell, is a four time winner of the Merrill Presidential Scholars Best Mentor Award, and is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Teaching Award for being one of the nation’s most outstanding educators.
Dr. Maas is a noted filmmaker who has produced nine national television specials for PBS in this country, for the BBC in England, the CBC in Canada, and for Dutch, Danish and Swedish National Television. His films for such organizations as the National Geographic Society, General Motors, Exxon, Upjohn, Metropolitan Life, the McArthur Foundation and the United States Department of Transportation have won 44 major film festivals.
Dr. Maas is one of the world’s most sought after corporate, medical, association, education and professional athletic team speakers. He has presented highly acclaimed programs for such organizations as IBM, Eastman Kodak, Apple Computers, Campbell’s Soups, Kraft Foods, Pepsi Cola, Google, CitiGroup, JP Morgan Chase, ING, USAA, The GAP, Young President's Organization (YPO), World Presidents' Organization (WPO), World Business Council (WBC), Mutual Life, Maytag, the Naval War College, US Navy, Beyer Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Steelcase, American College of Facial and Plastic Surgeons, American College of Rheumatology, American Urological Association, Urban Land Institute, United States Figure Skating Association, the National Basketball Association, NFL New York Jets, NFL Miami Dolphins, NHL Philadelphia Flyers, NHL Ottawa Senators, NHL Colorado Avalanche, NHL Nashville Predators, USA and Canadian Men’s Olympic hockey teams, Professional Hockey Trainers Association, S. C. Johnson, Equinox Fitness, Nestle, Simmons Company, Marriott, Starwood and Wyndham Hotels, Cunard, Crystal and Royal Cruise Lines, MCI/ Universal Studios and scores of prep schools, colleges and universities. He significantly changed student performance at schools such as Cornell, Deerfield, Andover, Hotchkiss, The Hill School, United States Military Academy (West Point), and the Chinese International School in Hong Kong. Dr. Maas’ book, Power Sleep, published by Random House and HarperCollins, is a New York Times business best-seller and published in 12 languages. His children’s venture, Remmy and the Brain Train, is an award-winning children’s bedtime story designed to help improve daytime alertness, mood and performance. Sleep for Success! co-authored with Rebecca Robbins is a book designed for business executives, students, parents, and seniors. His book on sleep for athletes, Sleep to Win! co-authored with Dr. Haley Davis, received rave reviews from athletes of all ages. There have been over 200 articles in the popular press about Dr. Maas' work on sleep and performance. He appears frequently on national television on programs, such as the TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The View, Regis & Kelly, and ABC’s 20/20. OPRAH devoted a major segment to Dr. Maas and his research on sleep and performance.
Dr. James B. Maas, Chancellor of United Institute, is a leading authority and international consultant on sleep and performance. He has been the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Professor and past Chairman of Psychology, as well as a professor in the graduate fields of Education and Communication at Cornell University. He has also served a professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar. Dr. Maas received his B.A. from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell. He holds the world’s record for university in-person teaching, having taught more than 65,000 students in his 48 years on the Cornell faculty.
Dr. Maas has held a Fulbright Senior Professorship to Sweden, has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and past-president of the American Psychological Association's Division on Teaching. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching at Cornell, is a four time winner of the Merrill Presidential Scholars Best Mentor Award, and is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Teaching Award for being one of the nation’s most outstanding educators.
Dr. Maas is a noted filmmaker who has produced nine national television specials for PBS in this country, for the BBC in England, the CBC in Canada, and for Dutch, Danish and Swedish National Television. His films for such organizations as the National Geographic Society, General Motors, Exxon, Upjohn, Metropolitan Life, the McArthur Foundation and the United States Department of Transportation have won 44 major film festivals.
Dr. Maas is one of the world’s most sought after corporate, medical, association, education and professional athletic team speakers. He has presented highly acclaimed programs for such organizations as IBM, Eastman Kodak, Apple Computers, Campbell’s Soups, Kraft Foods, Pepsi Cola, Google, CitiGroup, JP Morgan Chase, ING, USAA, The GAP, Young President's Organization (YPO), World Presidents' Organization (WPO), World Business Council (WBC), Mutual Life, Maytag, the Naval War College, US Navy, Beyer Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Steelcase, American College of Facial and Plastic Surgeons, American College of Rheumatology, American Urological Association, Urban Land Institute, United States Figure Skating Association, the National Basketball Association, NFL New York Jets, NFL Miami Dolphins, NHL Philadelphia Flyers, NHL Ottawa Senators, NHL Colorado Avalanche, NHL Nashville Predators, USA and Canadian Men’s Olympic hockey teams, Professional Hockey Trainers Association, S. C. Johnson, Equinox Fitness, Nestle, Simmons Company, Marriott, Starwood and Wyndham Hotels, Cunard, Crystal and Royal Cruise Lines, MCI/ Universal Studios and scores of prep schools, colleges and universities. He significantly changed student performance at schools such as Cornell, Deerfield, Andover, Hotchkiss, The Hill School, United States Military Academy (West Point), and the Chinese International School in Hong Kong. Dr. Maas’ book, Power Sleep, published by Random House and HarperCollins, is a New York Times business best-seller and published in 12 languages. His children’s venture, Remmy and the Brain Train, is an award-winning children’s bedtime story designed to help improve daytime alertness, mood and performance. Sleep for Success! co-authored with Rebecca Robbins is a book designed for business executives, students, parents, and seniors. His book on sleep for athletes, Sleep to Win! co-authored with Dr. Haley Davis, received rave reviews from athletes of all ages. There have been over 200 articles in the popular press about Dr. Maas' work on sleep and performance. He appears frequently on national television on programs, such as the TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The View, Regis & Kelly, and ABC’s 20/20. OPRAH devoted a major segment to Dr. Maas and his research on sleep and performance.
B.A., Central Michigan University Concentration: Speech/Language Pathology, Elementary Education; M.A., University of Wisconsin/Steven’s Point Concentration: Speech/Language Pathology; Pre-Primary Impaired Certification, Oakland University; Concentration: Special Education Early Childhood
Member: American Speech/Language/Hearing Association (ASHA), International Society of Augmentative/Alternative Communication (ISAAC), United States Society of Augmentative/Alternative Communication (USSAAC)
Distinctions:
Program Designer: Augmentative/Alternative Communication Classroom for students with Complex Communication Needs; Awarded Program of the Year by Michigan Speech/Language Hearing Association; Language Based early childhood classrooms for students with severe speech/language impairments; Assistive Technology Center for large metropolitan school district; Participant in National AAC Collaborative Classroom Project with Bridge School, CA; Contributing Author: “Augmentative Communication News, Apraxia Issue”; Speaker: International, National, State level conferences in AAC and Assistive Technology; Guest Lecturer at Eastern MI University and Wayne State University for students studying Speech/Language Pathology; Participant with Special Education Administrators to Cuba with “People to People International”; Cast Member on children’s TV Show, “Double Dip Sunday”.
“I have known from a very young age that I was called to intervene for individuals who struggle with challenges. I believe that ‘Communication is the Essence of Human Life.’ I have spent my professional career designing and implementing programs and services for students with complex communication needs, their families and educational teams. I am passionately committed to provide opportunities to all individuals to enable them to become competent communicators, thus sharing who they are and what they believe with the world.”
Leadership Positions:
Consultant for Augmentative/Alternative Communication, (AAC) Oakland Schools
Oakland County, Michigan; Designed, implemented and coordinated the Utica AAC Program and AT Center; Speech/Language Pathologist, Early Childhood Special Educator, Utica Community Schools; Founding Treasurer of “Obadiah Ministries”, a 501 c 3 organization; Leader of the Women’s Ministry, Christ the King Church.
Ms. Jordan-Rigsby became the sixth board member of the Institute. A federal commissioner, her leadership and service on the board will have a broad impact. She has distinguished herself in the region as a seasoned mediator and as an advocate for change. Her professional work as a commissioner benefits the Nation and its people, from Pennsylvania to Michigan and beyond.
M.D., University of Panama School of Medicine, Panama City, Panama
Concentration: Medicine
Graduated from OB/GYN residency programs at the University of Paris, Paris, France and at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Distinctions: One Univesity of the Americas Chancellor, UnitedUniversity.org; Fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Diplomat, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Beaumont Health, Farmington Hills Campus Immediate Past Premier OB/GYN, and Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine Faculty 2015 to 2022; past Co-Executive Chief Resident overseeing then 2nd largest U.S. university 44-OB/GYN-resident program; Vincent Award for Excellence in Obstetrical Care presented by Wayne State University School of Medicine following 4 years of service with Hutzel Women's Hospital housing the Midwest USA's only branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Perinatology Research Branch; the Republic of Panama University School of Medicine Scholarship (6 years); former National Student Speech Champion of Panama. Delivered more than 1,000 including at the hospital campus closest to where Rosa Parks was eulogized; published research performed at France's National Center for Scientific Investigation and at Wayne State University; named one of the first two female physicians to care for Caribbean San Blas Island Indian women of Panama; served as a featured speaker to many congregations and thousands of youth, women, and families, and to many hundreds of learners in Cuba during U.S.-licensed humanitarian missions, and presentations to audiences as large as 10,000; honored at Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History by federal clinic presentation of Sophie Womack, M.D., M.B.A. Trailblazer Award, for delivering excellent care to patients in the spirit and with the character of the former Chief Medical Officer of the Detroit Medical Center.
Other leadership positions held:
Served as one of two executive chief residents responsible for sharing administrative oversight of forty-four (44) university OB/GYN resident physicians at the Detroit Medical Center’s Hutzel Women’s Hospital (site of the Midwest’s only branch of the National Institutes of Health); coordinated two medical relief efforts for two international humanitarian mission teams; directed an international congregation’s missions programs, hosting a Spanish language radio program to increase involvement of professionals in a congregation serving the Panama City region of the Republic of Panama.
B.A., Oral Roberts University (Summa Cum Laude); Concentration: Government and German Culture
J.D., American University Washington College of Law; Served High-Level Officials (SCOTUS, Senate, USAID)
Distinctions: NICEATECH Chancellor, NiceaTech.org; Oxford University Fulbright Scholarship; State Bar of Michigan Champion of Justice Award; Represented Educational and Technology Intellectual Property Clientele in 30 Nations; National Christian Higher Education Month Honoree; National ORU Alumnus of the Year (Distinguished Service to the Community); Goldman Sachs Scholarship for Summer Session in Law, Tel Aviv, Israel; Southfield School Salutatorian. Led the nation’s only legal advocacy, education, and housing program of its kind to benefit thousands of people in more than 50 Detroit area schools and communities; filed the nation’s first successful test case under a state drug dealer liability act; major media interviews; produced Metro Detroit Beat the Odds Scholarship Awards Program honoring more than 50 remarkable FOX 2 Superstar graduating students; selected with 60 executives, nonprofit leaders, and a future U.S. Energy Secretary for the Leadership Detroit XIX training program; serving as one of four (4) Judicial Interns in the office of the late U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger; 5-time President, Somerset North Homeowners; oversaw more than 7 C-Level Executives simultaneously; produced podcast and forums; immediate past Fulbright Association Michigan/NW Ohio Chapter President. President, Jeffrey G. Nutt & Associates, PLLC; One University of the Americas Founding Dean, American Academic Accreditation Commission President.
Leadership positions held:
Jeffrey G Nutt & Associates, PLLC President & CEO; Fulbright Association Michigan Chapter; Somerset North association President; immediate past Neighborhood Legal Services Michigan Executive Director; Leadership Detroit XIX Graduate; State Bar of Michigan Open Justice Commission Member; World Harvest Mission Secretary and General Counsel; Marathon Mission Secretary; Oral Roberts University Honor Society President; Model United Nations Secretary General; Homeless Action Network of Detroit Immediate Past Treasurer; Oxford University Union Society Lifetime Member
Candidate for B.S., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Concentration: Nursing
Distinctions: Received a civil justice award resulting from a Detroit adoption petition that was the first of its kind in Michigan. Training two daughters, Kelli Bailey and Gabrielle Bailey, in Detroit, MI and Troy, MI, to be responsible young women; providing decent, safe, affordable permanent housing for City of Detroit residents over the span of my career with GraWin Corporation; serving as a Women’s Instructor and Mentor. Mrs. Bailey states, “I believe in educating vaurnrable yet gifted students of ANY race, ethnicity, culture, region, creed, gender, color, or national origin.”
Other leadership positions held:
Successfully worked as Vice President, GraWin Corporation for more than 20 consecutive years; elected as the founding Treasurer of World Harvest Mission; served as founding Treasurer of One University of the Americas Fund; held various in-kind supervisory or teaching positions for the benefit youth, collegiates, and women in Detroit, MI and Sterling Heights, MI.
Nisha is currently a partner in Doshi & Associates, CPA PLLC, specializing in the areas of Business Consulting, Financial Planning and Taxation. As a graduate from The University of Michigan, Nisha brings industry experience working for corporate giants PricewaterhouseCoopers, BDO Seidman, and Arthur Anderson. Nisha is currently a partner in Doshi & Associates, CPA PLLC, specializing in the areas of Financial & Business Planning, Accounting, and Taxation.
Nisha’s passion is to assist clients in their effort’s to achieve financial success by increasing the value of their hard earned assets, reducing their personal and business taxes, and showing clients how to effectively leverage their financial wealth. The focus of the firm is to provide investment advise to individuals and businesses with retirement planning, estate planning and wealth management with the expertise of a qualified Tax professional. She is pleased to offer many new exciting options and to create a comprehensive financial firm for clients with a small company & friendly feel.
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Juan M. Gonzalez-Velez, M.D., M.S.
Juan is currently the University of California at San Francisco Maternal Fetal Medicine Division Director. He is also American Board of OB/GYN Diplomat and the One University of the Americas Honorary Chancellor, UnitedUniversity.org.
Juan is currently the University of California at San Francisco Maternal Fetal Medicine Division Director. He is also American Board of OB/GYN Diplomat and the One University of the Americas Honorary Chancellor, UnitedUniversity.org.
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David M. Rayner
NFL Players Association, Grandson of Mary Sherman of the family of US Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and US “Connecticut Compromise” Founder who conceived of the bicameral form of the Legislative Branch of the US Government.
NFL Players Association, Grandson of Mary Sherman of the family of US Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and US “Connecticut Compromise” Founder who conceived of the bicameral form of the Legislative Branch of the US Government.
Jim Stovall
Jim Stovall is the founder of Narrative Television Network. Olympian, actor, Emmy award winner, nationally known speaker, author of 30 books, he writes and produces major films seen worldwide. He overcame blindness and became a self-made multi-millionaire with a dream team of mentors from Ted Turner and Steve Forbes to a U.S. President.
Jim Stovall is the founder of Narrative Television Network. Olympian, actor, Emmy award winner, nationally known speaker, author of 30 books, he writes and produces major films seen worldwide. He overcame blindness and became a self-made multi-millionaire with a dream team of mentors from Ted Turner and Steve Forbes to a U.S. President.
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