Advisory Board

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board also acts as a public face, helping to engage leaders and disseminate findings across the country. Please note that listed organizations are for identification purposes only, and are not an endorsement of our work.

• Robert H. Dugger, Chair, ReadyNation Advisory Board; Hanover Provident Capital, Virginia

• Steve W. Barnett, Ph.D., National Institute for Early Education Research, New Jersey

• Timothy J. Bartik, Ph.D., W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Michigan

• Roy Bostock, Vice Chair, Delta Air Lines (ret.); former Chairman of Yahoo!; retired director of Morgan Stanley; Former Chairman, Northwest Airlines, Connecticut

• Billy Canary, Business Council of Alabama

• JD Chesloff, Massachusetts Business Roundtable

• Maxine K. Clark, CEO, Clark-Fox Family Foundation; Founder, Build-A-Bear Workshop; INspirator, The Delmar DivINe; Managing Partner, Prosper Women’s Capital; Executive in Residence, Washington University in St. Louis- John M. Olin School of Business

• Barry Downing, President & CEO, Northrock, Inc.

• Tom Fitch, Harold O’Shea Builders, Illinois

• James J. Heckman, Ph.D., University of Chicago; 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics University of Chicago

• Gloria Higgins, Executives Partnering to Invest in Children, Colorado

• Sonia Lindell, The Business Council of New York State, Inc.

• Joan Lombardi Ph.D., Early Opportunities LLC, Washington, D.C.

• Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, Mid-Atlantic Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

• Bill Millett, Scope View Strategic Advantage, North Carolina

• Nancy Moody, DTE Energy, Michigan

• John Pepper, Procter & Gamble (ret.), Ohio

• Pat Potts, OKCEO and the Potts Family Foundation, Oklahoma

• Richard Rhoda, Tennessee Higher Education Commission

• Arthur Rolnick, University of Minnesota

• Jim Spurlino, President, Spurlino Materials

• Sara Watson, Global Director, ReadyNation