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Advisory Board

The Bright Horizons advisory board is comprised of an impressive group of leaders in the education industry.

Dr. Paula Jorde Bloom

Paula holds a joint appointment as director of the Center for Early Childhood Leadership and professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education at National-Louis University. Paula has taught preschool and kindergarten, designed and directed a child care center, and served as an administrator of a campus laboratory school. She is a frequent keynote speaker at state, national, and international early childhood conferences and serves as a consultant to professional organizations and state agencies. Paula is the author of numerous journal articles and several widely read books on early childhood leadership and management issues.

Dr. Bettye Caldwell

Dwayne Crompton

Dwayne has been executive director of KCMC Child Development for 23 years. Under his leadership, KCMC has grown from a small, struggling program to include Head Start, child and adult care food programs, Early Head Start, and private-public sector child care partnerships.

Dwayne serves as president of the governing board of the Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition and on the advisory committee of the National Black Child Development Institute. Dwayne has previously served as president of the Housing and Economic Development Financial Corporation of Kansas City, president of the Board of Curators of Lincoln University, and a board member of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Dwayne has published several articles on issues affecting children and families and is frequently called to give testimony on child care legislation pending before local, state, and federal government bodies.

Dr. Josu' Cruz, Jr.

Josu' is currently at the University of South Florida, where he serves as a professor of childhood education and assistant to the president. A former kindergarten teacher, center director, and Fulbright Scholar, he has held tenured faculty positions in early education at the University of Virginia and The Ohio State University. In August 2002, Josu' assumed the position of dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and technical reports and has served the profession in a variety of capacities. Josu' is currently vice president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and a member of the executive board of National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. He is frequently sought by government and nongovernmental agencies to serve on review panels and boards addressing the educational needs of children and families in the U.S. and abroad.

Diane Trister Dodge

Diane is founder and president of Teaching Strategies, Inc., a company that seeks to improve the quality of early childhood programs by offering comprehensive, practical curriculum materials, training programs, parenting resources, and staff development services. She is the author of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool and The Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers that are in use in thousands of programs in the United States and around the world. She has authored numerous other widely read publications and is a frequent keynote speaker at state, national, and international early childhood conferences. She served on the governing board of National Association for the Education of Young Children (1990-1994) and is currently on the board of the Center for the Child Care Workforce.

Dr. Dana Friedman

Dana recently served as a senior advisor to Bright Horizons Family Solutions, where she helped organize the Client Conference, edit the Solutions newsletter, and consult with clients on work/life issues. Dana previously led the company's work/life consulting practice, assessing employees' needs for a variety of organizations, and designing and evaluating unique solutions.

Prior to joining Bright Horizons, Dana was the co-founder and co-president of the Families and Work Institute (FWI), a nonprofit research firm, where she focused on business, government, and community efforts to help families care for their dependents. Prior to the seven years at FWI, Dana was a senior research associate at the Conference Board, a nonprofit business think tank, where she created the Work and Family Information Center in 1983.

Dr. Stewart D. Friedman

Stewart is the director of the Wharton Leadership Program and directs the Wharton Life Interests Project, which both conducts a longitudinal study of the work and personal life interests of the Wharton community and is home to the Wharton Work/Life Roundtable, an academic-business partnership dedicated to creating change in the area of work/life integration. Stewart, selected by Working Mother magazine as one of the top 25 men who have made it easier for working parents to raise and nurture children, has consulted with a wide variety of public and private sector organizations and served individual clients as an executive coach. Stewart worked for five years as a clinical psychologist and health care manager before earning his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. His books and articles have focused on leadership development, work/life integration, work teams, and the dynamics of individual and organizational change.

Dr. Bradley Googins

Dr. Googins is the founder and director of the Boston University Center on Work and Family, the only academic center that focuses on research and policy issues related to the intersection of family life, work/life and community life. Dr. Googins is also an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston University and a former National Kellogg Fellow (1989-1992). He has published extensively on work/family issues, employee assistance programs and workplace substance abuse. His work includes: Balancing Job and Homelife: Changes Over Time in a Corporation, 1994, Boston University; Work/Family Conflicts: Private Lives-Public Responses, 1991, Greenwood Press; and Linking the Worlds of Family and Work: Family Dependent Care and Workers' Performance, 1990, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Bart Harvey

Mr. Harvey is chairman and CEO of The Enterprise Foundation, which is building a national system of housing for low-income families. Enterprise works with 1,500 community based non-profits in 550 locations and has helped produce over 100,000 homes for low income people and placed over 30,000 "hard-to-employ" people in entry level jobs. Prior to The Enterprise Foundation, Mr. Harvey worked at the Dean Witter Reynolds Investment Firm for 10 years. Mr. Harvey is a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust, the National Housing Trust and the National Housing Conference.

Dr. Alice Honig

Dr. Honig is a leader in the development and evaluation of infant/toddler programs and a professor emerita of child development at Syracuse University. Her publications include hundreds of articles and book chapters, and she is the author of several books, including Infant Caregiving, Talking with Your Baby: Family as First Teacher, Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education and Secure Relationships: Nurturing Attachment in Early Care Settings. She conducts an Annual Seminar in Quality Infant/Toddler caregiving. Dr. Honig is a frequent keynote speaker at state, national, and international early childhood conferences.

Dr. Sharon Lynn Kagan

Dr. Kagan, senior associate at Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, is recognized nationally and internationally for her work related to the care and education of young children and their families. A frequent consultant to the White House, Congress, the National Governors' Association, the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and numerous national foundations, corporations, and professional associations, Dr. Kagan plays a leadership role in the early childhood field. She is a governing board member of NAEYC, the president-elect of the Family Resource Coalition and vice president of the Institute for Responsive Education. Dr. Kagan's current writings and work explore the preparation and assessment of young children for school, the facilitation of home-school transitions for children and families, and the preparation of teachers and schools for the effective involvement of young children and their parents.

Donna Klein

As Vice President of Diversity & Workplace Effectiveness at Marriott International, Inc., Washington, D.C., Ms. Klein guides the strategic formation, planning, development, implementation, and management of corporate-wide diversity and work-life initiatives for Marriott. In 1999, she initiated Marriott's Women's Leadership Initiative with a focus on the development and retention of minority and women talent. She is also a nationally known authority on work/life issues and has been the catalyst for many employer-based collaborative projects addressing the complex needs of the lower-income worker. Currently, Ms. Klein is leading breakthrough work to launch Corporate Voices for Working Families, a coalition focused on organizing the voices of the private sector. Corporate Voices for Working Families will convene, communicate and educate policy makers around policy support needed for working families.

At a national level, Ms. Klein is Chair of The Conference Board's WorkLife Leadership Council, a member of The Conference Board's Diversity Council, and a member of Boston College's Work and Family Roundtable. She is also a founder and current Co-chair of The Employer Group, a partnership of employers engaged in identifying quality of life solutions for hourly workers. She is a frequent speaker at local and national business conferences and spoke at the Ten Downing Street Summit on Women in the New Economy.

Candice P. Lange

As Director of Workforce Partnering, Candice Lange is responsible for the strategic development of Lilly's work/life agenda, the company's diversity and education strategies, and the extension of the Lilly corporate brand into its human resource practices. Under her leadership in this role, Lilly has achieved national recognition on a number of annual lists including the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work For in America," the Fortune "Best Companies for Minorities," and the Working Mother "Ten Best Companies for Working Mothers." Prior to this assignment, she held management positions in medical and discovery research at Lilly.

Ms. Lange is a co-chair of the Indiana Child Care Fund Advisory Board, a public/private partnership with the objective to improve the quality and availability of early childhood education statewide. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Center on Families at Purdue University, and the Conference Board Work/Life Leadership Council. She is also a member of the Steering Committees for the Boston College Work and Family Roundtable, and the Purdue University Midwest Work/Family Association. Ms. Lange holds an MBA from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Purdue University.

Dr. James Levine

Dr. Levine, director of The Fatherhood Project at the Families and Work Institute in New York City, has been creating innovative services for parents and children throughout his career. He has been a preschool teacher in East Oakland, California; founding director of a comprehensive child care program in Massachusetts' second largest public housing project; founding director of the National School-Age Child Care Project; and vice president of the Bank Street College of Education in NYC, where he originally founded The Fatherhood Project in 1981.

Jim is the author of seven books and more than 100 articles, and produced the PBS Documentary, “Fatherhood USA.” In 1997, Working Mother magazine named him as one of the “top 25 men in America who make a difference in the lives of working mothers.” In 1998, ABC's 20/20 profiled his work, and The Wall Street Journal selected his most recent book, Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family, as one of the top ten work/life books of the year.

Dr. Jerome T. Murphy

Dr. Murphy is the Harold Howe II Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has written numerous articles and books about the politics of education, policy implementation, accountability, qualitative methodology, and leadership. He has broad experience as a school teacher, policy maker, researcher, businessman and administrator. He led the Graduate School of Education as Dean between 1992 and 2001 and during his tenure, the school's endowment more than tripled, The Askwith Education Forum was established, the ED.M programs were reformed, the faculty grew substantially in size, and early childhood education was added as a priority.

Roger Neugebauer

Mr. Neugebauer is editor and publisher of The Child Care Information Exchange, widely viewed as the most useful resource for child care providers. He is the author of numerous articles and books and widely known as a keynote speaker at state, national, and international early childhood conferences. He and his wife Bonnie are the founders of an annual international world forum on child care. In 1997, Working Mother magazine named him as one of the “top 25 men in America who make a difference in the lives of working mothers”.

Michelle Seligson

Dr. Edward Zigler

Dr. Zigler is the Sterling Professor of Psychology, head of the psychology section of the Child Study Center, and Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. He is the founder of the School of the 21st Century, which has been adopted by more than 600 schools nationwide. Dr. Zigler regularly testifies as an expert witness before congressional committees and has served as a consultant to a number of cabinet-rank officers. He was one of the planners of Project Head Start. From 1970 to 1972, Dr. Zigler was the first director of the U.S. Office of Child Development (now the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families) and Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau. Dr. Zigler is currently serving as the Honorary Chair of the National Advisory Panel for the Head Start 2010 Project.