Reframing Academic Leadership

Joan V. Gallos is an award-winning educator, author, scholar, and academic leader. She is currently Professor of Leadership Emerita at Wheelock College of Education & Human Development at Boston University, where she also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs. Gallos is also a core faculty member in the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (LIAL) at Harvard, and a sought-after consultant and keynote speaker in the academic library world. Gallos holds a bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Princeton and master's and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.


Lee G. Bolman is an author, scholar, consultant and speaker who is Professor of Leadership and holds the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Lee consults and lectures worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities and schools. He holds a B.A. in History and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University. His administrative roles at UMKC have included Interim Dean of the Bloch School of Management and chair of the department of Organizations, Leadership and Marketing. At Harvard he served as director and principal investigator for the National Center for Educational Leadership and for the Harvard School Leadership Academy.