John Stevens, Ed.D.
Dr. Stevens has more than thirty years of higher education experience in strategic planning, institutional organization and governance, process redesign, financial planning, information system selection and implementation, collective bargaining and executive search. He has provided consulting service to more than seventy independent and public institutions from our nation's largest universities to its smallest colleges and schools, specializing in small to mid-sized institutions and the process of strategic change within them.
In 2003, after 16 years at another higher education consulting firm, Dr. Stevens began Stevens Strategy, an independent consulting practice specializing in the development of strategy for colleges, universities and schools. At his previous firm, he served as its Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and the head of its Strategy Consulting Practice. He has served as Assistant to the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Vice President for Administration of Rhode Island School of Design, and Assistant to the President of Boston University and President and Chairman of the Board of Little Red Schoolhouse, Inc. He has also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New England College, a small residential, liberal arts college in Henniker, New Hampshire. He served there as interim president on a pro bono basis, as well.
Dr. Stevens is currently a member of the New England College Board of Trustees and the New School Jazz Program Board of Governors. He also serves as a mentor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a member of an international Board of Advisors to the Shala Valley Project, an effort to trace the origins and evolution of settlement in Northern Albania from the earliest times to the present. He holds the B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Ed.M. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard University.