John Burrows is senior lecturer in leadership at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and an associate fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He also teaches healthcare leadership in a newly launched double masters degree program in health policy taught jointly by the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics & Political Science. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Before entering academia, John’s career spanned the public, private, and NGO sectors. He originally came to the USA from the UK to volunteer at the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Mississippi Capital Defense Resource Project. During college he interned with other anti-death penalty groups and also at the Cato Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. Later he joined Arthur Andersen’s Office of Government Service (OGS) and led engagements with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

John later switched into the private sector, where he was a partner with the consulting firm Accenture and held senior roles in sales and marketing at enterprise software companies including Siebel and Oracle. He negotiated, sold, managed, and implemented complex, multi-national, multi-million dollar projects around the globe, and gained experience building and growing operations in the UK, USA, and Japan, grappling with all that entails: BD, IJVs, M&A, etc. During his PhD studies John served as an advisor for Houses for Africa, a social enterprise firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

At the University of Chicago and Oxford, John teaches leadership, negotiations, strategy, decision-making, and organizational psychology to MPP, MBA, and MA students, and to senior executives in open enrollment and custom executive-education programs. Custom executive education clients of John's include AbbVie, Alfa, American College of Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, Aon, BBVA, Brainlab, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), Civil Service Bureau of Hong Kong, Edelman, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), Kiewit, Kuwait University College of Business Administration, Merrill Lynch, State Farm, Syngenta, Trelleborg, and Workiva.

For three years now, John has also taught each cohort of the University of Chicago's International Innovation Corp (IIC) Fellows Program. The IIC recruits top-performing graduates of leading host-country universities and US based institutions and organizes them into teams of up to 3-5 Project Associates. Project Associates train for 5 weeks in skills required to translate their academic and professional knowledge into on-the-ground contributions. The IIC embeds each team within a government, non-profit, or foundation office in India or Brazil to work on an innovative development project with a discrete, tractable scope for 1-3 year projects. Last year, John taught in the University of Chicago Data and Policy Summer Scholar Program which offers top global undergraduate students a 4-week experience with rigorous training on data analytics and public policy.

John is a sought-after speaker across industries but especially within healthcare. He has presented to the American College of Surgeons (ACS), including to their Board of Regents, and delivered a grand rounds lecture to the University of Chicago’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. John has also delivered keynote speeches for the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS).

John currently serves on the advisory board of Profitable Ideas Exchange (PIE), which builds communities of senior executive to tackle many of the world’s greatest challenges, and consults with clients across industries and geographies.

John received a Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and an A.B. from Vassar College.

Caroline Johnson, MBA, MA, BS was born and raised in Colorado Springs, CO. She attended the United States Naval Academy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 2009. Upon commissioning as a Naval Officer, she joined the elite, Naval Aviation community and began flight training in Pensacola, FL. In 2011, she was awarded her wings of gold and designated a Naval Flight Officer, more specifically an F/A-18 Weapons Systems Officer and she was awarded the Paul F. Lawrence award for top strike fighter graduate and was also recognized as the overall Top Graduate.

Caroline flew F/A-18 Super Hornets as a member of VFA-213, the World-Famous Fighting Blacklions, and she embarked aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, deploying for 9 months in 2014. On her historic deployment, Caroline and the Blacklions flew in support of operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Her squadron employed the first weapons on ISIS in Iraq, led the first ever strikes into Syria, and Caroline was the first woman to neutralize ISIS from an F/A-18. At the Blacklions, Caroline completed her SFWT level II, III, and IV qualifications, she earned her qualification as a Combat Mission Commander, and she also graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma with a Master of Arts in Administrative Leadership.

During her final tour on active duty, Caroline returned to the United States Naval Academy, where she was a Senior Leadership Instructor and Aviation Operations Officer. During her instructor tour, she developed a new leadership curriculum for 1100+ third year undergraduate students, piloted a Gender in Leadership NOLS course, sat on the Naval Academy Women's Network board, and was consistently ranked as one of the top leadership instructors in the 35+ member Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department. Currently in the Navy Reserves, Caroline continues her service as an advisor and liaison officer at European Command Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.

Transitioning to the private sector, Caroline published her memoir, JET GIRL, in November 2019 and was featured on the Today Show, Fox & Friends, MSNBC and currently she is a professional leadership speaker appearing at Google, Harvard, Merrill Lynch, United Bank of Switzerland, SAP, among others. Professionally she has worked for private sector companies like Point72 and Gartner, and has managed her sole proprietorship. In addition to speaking, Caroline is a Lecturer at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and recently completed her MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in their #1 ranked Executive MBA program.