MIT | Harvard University | Stanford University | Accenture

Jenny is a trusted strategic partner to academic leaders navigating complexity, change, and growth. She works closely with institutions to assess organizational dynamics, develop leadership capacity, and build the conditions for sustainable transformation.

As founder and president of Academic Leadership Group, Jenny brings a rare combination of academic insider perspective and corporate rigor. She spent over a decade leading executive and professional education programs at MIT and Harvard, and 10 years as a global HR leader at Accenture, where she built and managed major corporate-university partnerships. That dual vantage point, deep in both academic culture and organizational performance, is central to how ALG works.

Jenny holds a PhD from Stanford University. She is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and is certified in Stakeholder-Centered Coaching.

Accenture | Boston University

Charles brings 30 years of experience in leadership development, organizational design, and learning innovation. He is known for translating complex organizational challenges into practical, high-impact solutions — helping clients navigate change, unlock leadership potential, and build the capability needed for sustained performance.

At Accenture, Charles led multimillion-dollar leadership capability programs for global audiences of 50,000+ professionals, earning multiple Brandon Hall Awards for excellence in learning and development. His work spanned strategy, design, and delivery across corporate and higher education contexts, with a distinctive ability to leverage data and technology to enhance learning effectiveness and demonstrate measurable results.

Charles brings that same discipline to ALG's higher education clients — helping institutions design and execute leadership and learning programs with the rigor and intentionality that complex change demands.

Charles holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with concentrations in Finance and Marketing, from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, where he graduated cum laude.

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | University of California, Berkeley

Steve brings a rare combination of executive education expertise and senior business leadership to his work with ALG's university partners. He specializes in translating institutional goals and complex organizational challenges into leadership development and coaching solutions that actually stick — grounded in how senior leaders learn, decide, and grow.

Steve spent a decade at the Wharton School's Executive Education division as a senior business development manager, designing and executing high-impact programs that equipped senior executives with the leadership, analytical, and management skills required for success at the top of their organizations. He developed deep fluency in what university clients need from external partners — and how to deliver it with rigor and precision.

Before Wharton, Steve built a three-decade career in international marketing and business development at Nokia, Oracle, and Apple, leading growth initiatives across both established firms and high-technology startups — experience that sharpens his ability to help institutions think strategically about their own positioning and growth.

Steve holds a BA in Political Economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Old Dominion University | Pennsylvania State University | University of South Carolina | National Science Foundation | Emory University | University of Denver | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Zaryab is a professor, academic leader, and executive coach with over two decades of experience in higher education — spanning faculty roles, academic administration, federal science leadership, and coaching. She partners with academic leaders to develop targeted approaches to achieving goals, building productivity, and navigating the complexity of institutional life. Her coaching portfolio spans dozens of universities across the United States.

Zaryab currently serves as a dean at Old Dominion University. She has held faculty and leadership roles at Pennsylvania State University and the University of South Carolina, and served as Program Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) — an experience that deepened her understanding of how higher education intersects with federal research priorities and institutional strategy.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from Emory University, an MA from the University of Denver, and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Harvard University | Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | University of Pennsylvania | Northwestern University

Sheila is a former Harvard dean and seasoned higher education leader with nearly three decades of experience spanning biomedical science, faculty mentorship, and senior academic administration. She brings scientific rigor and a deep commitment to equity and organizational excellence to her coaching and facilitation work — helping leaders navigate complexity, foster belonging, and align purpose with lasting institutional impact.

Sheila spent 14 years as a senior administrator at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she rose through a series of increasingly senior deanships. She served as Dean of Academic Programs, Dean of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and ultimately as Special Projects Advisor to the Dean — roles in which she led large-scale initiatives to build more inclusive, high-performing academic communities. That work required both structural change and the kind of sustained, relationship-centered leadership that drives real cultural shift.

Before moving fully into academic administration, Sheila spent nearly 25 years as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she ran a federally funded independent research program in cancer cell biology and mentored trainees at every stage — from undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows. She also taught and served as course director for graduate students. That scientific career shapes how she approaches coaching and facilitation: with intellectual rigor, comfort with complexity, and a commitment to solutions grounded in evidence.

Sheila holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Pennsylvania and attended Northwestern University. She is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.

US Naval Community College | National Defense University | Georgetown University | George Washington University | US Army | United States Military Academy at West Point | University of North Carolina

Chuck is a consultant, coach, and academic leader with a career spanning military service, senior academic administration, and leadership development across civilian and defense-focused higher education. He brings an unusually broad vantage point to his work — having led programs and institutions at the intersection of higher education, national security, and public policy — and is known for helping academic teams navigate complex organizational challenges, build interdisciplinary capacity, and develop leaders who perform in high-stakes environments.

Chuck currently serves as Dean of Academic Programs at the U.S. Naval Community College, where he helped launch the institution — designing 15 new academic programs in partnership with eight colleges and universities and supporting the college's initial accreditation efforts. Before that, he spent six years at National Defense University, serving as Dean of the College of International Security Affairs and then as Associate Provost. He has also held senior fellow and faculty director roles at Georgetown's Government Affairs Institute and George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, where he directed master's programs in Legislative Affairs and Political Management and designed multiple graduate certificates and degree programs.

Earlier in his career, Chuck served as an Armor Officer in the U.S. Army for nearly a decade, including assignments in Germany, Fort Knox, and the Department of Social Sciences at West Point — an experience that shaped his leadership philosophy and his understanding of how people perform under pressure and ambiguity.

Chuck holds a BS in International Relations from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a member of the Speech and Debate Team, and an MA and PhD in American Politics from the University of North Carolina. He is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.

Dartmouth College | Rutgers University | Boston University Questrom School of Business | Hunter College | Stony Brook University | Stanford University

Maria helps institutions bring clarity to complex challenges, align priorities, and modernize operations for measurable impact. She specializes in large-scale organizational transformation in higher education — spanning finance, HR, IT, facilities, and academic governance — and is known for turning high-stakes change initiatives into coherent, executable strategies.

Maria most recently served as the inaugural Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Dartmouth's newly established School of Arts & Sciences — a $600M enterprise encompassing 40+ departments, 1,400 faculty, and 600 staff — designing its budget model, data infrastructure, and administrative framework from the ground up. As Dartmouth's prior CFOO, she architected the operational foundation that made the transformation possible, partnering with the Provost, Dean of Faculty, and College CFO on governance design and change management.

Before Dartmouth, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, overseeing all administrative and financial functions — finance, HR, IT, research administration, facilities, and executive education — across a $250M enterprise. She also served as Faculty-in-Residence at Questrom's Bloom Family Leadership Academy. Earlier, she was Vice Dean for Administration at Rutgers' School of Arts & Sciences ($550M enterprise), steering post-pandemic transformation as chief strategist to the Executive Dean; Assistant Dean at Hunter College's School of Arts & Sciences, the largest academic unit in the CUNY system; and Assistant Provost and Chief of Staff to the Provost at Stony Brook University, where she also reduced academic judiciary resolution time by 75%.

Maria holds a BA in Economics and an MA in History from Stanford University, and an MS in Management & Policy and a PhD in Sociology from Stony Brook University.

Accenture | Luther Seminary | Florida State University

Dan is an executive coach, facilitator, and organizational designer with a gift for convening conversations that lead to deep and meaningful change. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, culture, and organizational design — helping individuals and teams grow into their roles, navigate disruption, and build the conditions for lasting change.

Dan spent 25 years at Accenture equipping leaders at all levels to grow and thrive, with a particular focus on organizational culture transformation. He has worked across corporate and non-profit environments, and brings to higher education the rigor of large-scale organizational change and the human-centered perspective of a trained facilitator and coach. He is passionate about what it means to lead with integrity in complex, evolving institutions.

Dan holds a Master's in Instructional Systems Design from Florida State University and a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary. He is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.

Rutgers University | Temple University

Susan is a leadership coach with deep expertise in the challenges facing women faculty in higher education — particularly in STEM fields. She works with faculty navigating tenure, promotion, work-life integration, and leadership transitions, helping them build the confidence, clarity, and skills to advance on their own terms.

Susan has coached faculty at many academic institutions across the country, including Harvard University. Her coaching draws on deep knowledge of personal and professional development within the distinct culture of academic institutions — where the unwritten rules, relationship dynamics, and competing demands can be as consequential as formal processes. Clients appreciate her ability to hold both the immediate challenge and the longer arc of a career in view.

Susan is an alumna of Rutgers University and holds a Master's in Education from Temple University. She is a Certified Co-Active Professional Coach (CPCC) through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), a Certified Associate Coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF), and MBTI-certified.

Accenture | Boston University

Rosie brings 35 years of experience at Accenture designing and scaling learning and leadership development programs for global organizations. She specializes in building the people strategies, talent systems, and development programs that equip individuals and institutions to perform at their best — and has done so at a scale few practitioners can match.

As Learning & Leadership Development Director at Accenture, Rosie drove learning strategy for Accenture's Corporate Functions professionals worldwide and led innovation in core professional skills development for more than 700,000 employees globally. Her work spanned the full talent lifecycle — from management consulting through research and thought leadership, global learning strategy, talent supply, and corporate citizenship. She was selected for a 12-member global HR cohort charged with solving Accenture's most strategic talent supply challenges, and led learning programs supporting Accenture's sales, value, and account leadership growth objectives worldwide.

Earlier in her career, Rosie conducted research and developed thought leadership for Accenture's Finance & Performance Management practice, and spent 15 years as a management consultant — experience that grounds her development work in real organizational dynamics and business outcomes.

Rosie holds an MBA from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and a BA in Psychology from the College of the Holy Cross.

Harvard Extension School | UC Berkeley Extension | Walmart

Raakin is a product leader, educator, and consultant with deep expertise in talent development technology, HR platforms, and workforce innovation. He works at the intersection of education, technology, and organizational capability — helping clients navigate complexity and achieve sustainable performance outcomes.

At Walmart, he led initiatives supporting more than two million associates, building tools that advance internal mobility, skills development, and career growth at scale.

He also brings over a decade of teaching experience at Harvard Extension School and UC Berkeley Extension, where he teaches organizational behavior and project management.

Jen Zaslow — Operations

MIT Libraries | Harvard Business Publishing | Eduventures | Boston University | Smith College

Jen is an operations leader and consultant with deep expertise in organizational effectiveness, program management, and digital transformation in higher education and corporate learning. She specializes in building the systems, processes, and teams that help complex organizations run better — from financial operations to service delivery to cross-functional change.

Jen currently leads the Finance unit for MIT Libraries, where she oversees budgeting and resource allocation, develops AI-driven analytics workflows, and drives operational improvements across the team. Alongside that role, she runs Bright Sky Solutions, an independent consulting practice focused on program management, operational strategy, and customer experience design.

Before MIT, Jen spent a decade at Harvard Business Publishing, rising to Senior Director of Operational Excellence. There she led a multidisciplinary team spanning project management, service innovation, learning technologies, and product support — and oversaw the development of an entirely new fulfillment model for HBP's global corporate learning clients. She built HBP's Delivery Operations function from the ground up as it scaled from $13M to $30M in annual revenue, growing its team from 30 to 100 professionals globally, and was recognized with the FinancialForce Services Innovation Award (2018).

Earlier in her career, Jen spent nearly seven years at Eduventures, a research and consulting firm serving higher education, where she designed and sold custom consulting solutions for university Development, Enrollment, and Academic Affairs leaders — earning the President's Award twice. Before Eduventures, Jen served as Assistant Director of the Human Resources Policy Institute at Boston University, managing all operations of a university research center serving top-level HR executives — programming, communications, budget, and logistics. She co-authored a chapter in America at Work (2006) and developed a case study on consumer-driven health plans for executive education and MBA curriculum.

She holds an MBA from Boston University and a BA from Smith College.