Judith Block McLaughlin

Senior Lecturer on Education
Educational Chair, Harvard Seminar for New Presidents

Profile

Judith Block McLaughlin's work focuses on leadership and governance in higher education. She serves as chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents and the Harvard Seminar on Presidential Leadership and is co-chair of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. In these programs, she has had the pleasure of working with over 1,700 college and university presidents since the inception of the Seminar for New Presidents in 1990. She has also served as faculty co-chair of HGSE’s Online Master's degree in Educational Leadership and the faculty director of the Higher Education Program the Field Experience Program.  She has written and consulted extensively on leadership transitions, presidential assessment, board-president relationships, senior staff functioning, and board governance. In 2007, she was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve as chair of the Massachusetts Public Education Nominating Council, the body that nominates trustees for the state's colleges and universities. Prior to Harvard, she was dean of student affairs at two colleges, executive director of the National Academy of Education, and a high school social studies teacher.

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