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Joan V. Gallos, Ed. D. is an award-winning educator, author, academic leader, and consultant as well as a sought-after keynote speaker and consultant for leadership development and organizational change projects in the U.S. and abroad. She is currently Senior Adviser on Leadership and Education to the Council for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL), a core faculty member at Harvard’s Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (LIAL), and Professor of Leadership Emerita at the former Wheelock College, where she also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs. Prior to Wheelock, Gallos was tenured Professor of Leadership, University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of the Executive MBA Program at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she had also served as Dean of Education, Director of the Higher Education Graduate Programs, Coordinator of University Accreditation, and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Strategic Planning. Gallos has also held academic or administrative appointments at the Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Babson College, and Princeton University; and has taught in executive programs at a wide variety of institutions such as Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Babson, Notre Dame, the University of Missouri system, the University of Michigan, and the University of British Columbia.

Gallos holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English from Princeton and a master’s and a doctoral degree in organizational behavior and professional education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gallos has six published books (Business Leadership; Organization Development; Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart (with V. Jean Ramsey); and Reframing Academic Leadership (first and second editions) and Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work (both with Lee G. Bolman), and numerous articles, chapters, and sets of curricular and training materials for the organizational and management sciences.