Joanne Murray Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

College | Career | LifeThe Murray Strategy Group provides advising to individuals that seek to become more purposeful and effective in their lives. We partner with you as solution-oriented consultants focusing on the future you want. Through identifying your priorities, proactively setting goals, and determining concrete steps, we help you achieve and accomplish the professional and personal future that you imagine.As your advocate, we help you identify the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. Then, with honesty, curiosity, and empathy, we help you address barriers and break patterns, while learning new skills and discovering options. Together, we help you imagine your largest goals, make effective decisions, and set you on your professional and personal trajectory.Put our deep expertise and broad network of resources to work for you. Have the impact you envision. Areas of Focus:• Starting Strong: Identifying and Applying to College• Defining your vision of a successful life: what truly drives you?• Creating a professional action plan for advancing in your career• Navigating an unwanted career or life transition: charting a course for redirection and action• Managing Up and Reaching Out: Focus on Leadership DevelopmentClients Include:• College applicants• First time career professionals• Career changers• Executives• Entrepreneurs Partnering with higher education institutions, we develop strategic solutions and action plans to address emerging priorities, advancing organizational effectiveness and accomplishing high-level goals. Areas of Strategic Direction:• Women’s Leadership Development• Preparing Students for Citizenship and Leadership in a Global Environment• Setting a Global Agenda and Action Plano Establishing International Partnershipso Developing a Global Internship Program• Transforming Workgroups: From Competition to Collaboration

The Albright Institute educates and inspires the next generation of global women leaders. At the vanguard of curricular and pedagogical innovation, the Albright Institute promotes global understanding, analysis, and action:• Advancing a multidisciplinary approach to liberal arts teaching and learning• Incorporating lectures from across the disciplines by faculty stewards of their professions• Integrating the contributions of the world’s leading decision-makers and policy leaders through personal interaction with students• Encouraging collaborative group problem-solving across academic disciplines and national cultures (students from 35+ nations)• Enlarging the world as a classroom through hands-on engagement, bold service, and courageous actionMajor Accomplishments:• Founded, developed and directed overall strategy and goals of the Institute, in concert with program’s Faculty Director, including curriculum development, assessment, high-profile public dialogues, and lecture programs. Major donor development.• Led cultivation of national and global-level decision makers in all sectors (academic, public/governmental, non-profit and private), to advance the mission and scope of the Institute. • Provided administrative and financial management of Institute, including oversight of annual operational expenditures of $500K dollars, $18M+ endowment, management of administrative staff. Raised funds, oversaw Board management, created and contracted print and online publications. • Developed global internships in 50 countries on five continents; interacted with senior leaders to identify and generate flagship opportunities at the world’s leading institutions ranging from hands-on service work to policy and research to bench lab international experiences. • Designed and directed partnerships and programs with London School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China, and Ashoka University, Delhi, India.

Created the Center for Work and Service as a leading college/university model of experiential education, service-learning, mission-driven internships, fellowships, career and graduate study preparation. A centerpiece of students’ education, the Center grew from funding a small number of internships to over 350 annually. Ninety-one percent of students engaged in an internship or study abroad.Major Accomplishments:• Managed 20+ staff, complex endowments and budgets; raised sustaining funds, interacted with faculty, alumnae and outside corporate and nonprofit recruiters. • Supervised major national fellowships programs: Rhodes, Marshall, Watson, Truman, Fulbright.• Co-chaired with the academic dean of the college, a multi-constituency task force that examined the relationship between traditional classroom learning and internships, service, and experiential education. Developed a strategic alliance with the dean that resulted in a decade of growth in the Center’s internships and service learning programs. • With dean of the college, co-founded The Tanner Conference, a day-long, fall semester event showcasing student learning that takes place off-campus, and promoting dialogue among all constituencies about the purpose, value and effect of such learning. • Expanded scope and geography of internships across the U.S. and to more than 50 countries throughout Europe, South and East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. o Established a faculty fellows program to incorporate academic departments in the internship process to ensure equity of opportunity, stipend allowance and curricular connections.o Created American Cities, a structured, immersive internship program offered in partnership with alumnae in key US cities.o Marketed programs to major donors for The Wellesley Campaign; raised $18.5 M in funds to increase number of stipends for student internships from 30 to over 300 internships annually.

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