John Stevens has more than thirty-five 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 one hundred 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 Chairman of the Board of Little Red Schoolhouse, Inc., a member of the New School Jazz Program Board of Governors, the University of Massachusetts Political Science Advisory Board, the International Board of Advisors to the Shala Valley Project, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New England College. He served their as interim president on a pro bono basis, as well. He also serves as a member of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Board of Directors and periodically as a mentor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He holds the B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Ed.M. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard University.