Meet the Staff

	Prof. Brad Harrington Executive Director Brad Harrington is the Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family (CWF) and a research professor and faculty member in the Organization Studies department of the Carroll School of Management. In his role as the Center's Executive Director, he is responsible for the Center's research, corporate partnerships, and education strategy. Previous to his present role at the university, Brad served as Associate Director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship. Prior to arriving at Boston College, Brad was an executive with Hewlett-Packard Company for twenty years. He served in a wide range of leadership assignments in the US and Europe. His roles included Corporate Director of Global Management and Organization Development, Chief Quality Officer and Member of the Executive Committee for HP's Medical Products Business, Quality Director for HP United Kingdom, Ltd., Education Manager for European Operations, as well as a number of division human resource management positions in the US. Brad began his career in the public sector as a counselor in Department of Labor job training programs. He has consulted with many major corporations and healthcare organizations in the areas of strategic planning and organizational change. In his faculty role, Brad's teaching in the Graduate School of Management focuses on career management and work-life integration and the management of organizational change. His research interests are career management, mobilizing and leading organizational change, and contemporary workforce management strategies. He is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at professional conferences and business schools and has published a number of articles and book chapters. Along with Professor Douglas T. Hall of Boston University, he has recently completed Career Management and Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers (Sage Publications, 2007). In 2006, Brad was named as one of the "10 Most Influential Men in the Work-Life Field" by a national Work/Life publication. In addition to his work at the University, Brad also serves on the advisory board of the International Centre of Work and Family at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Brad holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Stonehill College, a Master's degree in Psychology from Boston College, and a Doctorate in Human Resource Development and Organization Development from Boston University. He is married to Dr. Anne Soisson, a Senior Learning and Teaching Specialist at Tufts University, and they are the parents of three children, Maggie (age 13), Hannah (10), and Dillon (8).

	Jacquelyn B. James, Ph.D. Director, Research Jacquelyn B. James received her Ph.D. in personality and developmental psychology at Boston University. Prior to coming to Boston College she was associate director of the Murray Research Center: A Center for the Study of Lives at Harvard University. Her research has focused on the meaning and experience of work in women's lives, gender roles, and adult development. She and her colleagues have published numerous articles, opinion pieces, and four edited books. The most recent volume (with co-author Dr. Paul Wink, professor of psychology at Wellesley College), The Crown of Life: Dynamics of the Early Postretirement Period, is about the opportunities and challenges inherent in the early retirement years for new generations of retirees. Currently, she is working with Dr. Jennifer Swanberg at the University of Kentucky to examine the elements of responsive workplaces for hourly workers, a study funded by the Ford Foundation. Both she and Dr. Swanberg are also working with the Center on Aging and Work at Boston College on two projects funded by the Sloan Foundation to study effective workplaces for older workers and intergenerational teams, the Workplace Culture and Flexible Work Arrangements Study, and the Age and Generations Study. Dr. James is past- president of the Society for the Study of Human Development and serves on the editorial board of the society’s flagship journal, Research in Human Development.

	Danielle Hartmann Director, Corporate Partnerships Danielle is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at the Center for Work & Family, managing corporate relations and programming for the National Work & Family Roundtable and the Global Workforce Roundtable. The National Work & Family Roundtable is a membership organization of employers committed to excellence in the area of work-life. This Roundtable's strategic focus areas include: Flexibility & Corporate Culture, The Aging Workforce, Diversity, and Health & Well-Being. The Global Workforce Roundtable consists of major multi-national companies interested in improving their approach to global workforce management practices. The key focus areas for this group include work-life initiatives in different countries and cultures, global diversity and inclusion strategies, and workforce engagement and development in global organizations. In the past year, Danielle has been involved with global work-life activities identifying flexible work arrangement best practices in the Asia Pacific region, describing factors affecting the work-life needs of employees in China, and recognizing the global trends of the multigenerational workforce. Prior to joining the Center for Work & Family, Danielle designed, developed, and led global training courses for US State Department officials and corporate business executives and spent 10 years in university administration, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Georgia State University, and Clark University. Danielle attained her BA from Brown University in Anthropology and Economics and a master's degree in International Communications from American University. Danielle and her husband Chris have two children, Cooper (age 7) and Mia (age 2).

	Jaclyn Fitzgerald Coordinator, Business and Operations Jaclyn is the Business and Operations Coordinator at the Center. Her primary responsibilities include managing the Center's accounting, human resources, and technology functions as well as providing communications and meeting support for the Center's three membership organizations: the National Work & Family Roundtable, the Global Workforce Roundtable, and the New England Work & Family Association (NEWFA). Jaclyn graduated from Boston College in 2007, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources and Accounting from BC's Carroll School of Management. She received the Edgar F. Huse Memorial Award for excellence in Organizational Studies and Human Resource Management. As an undergraduate, she worked as both a student employee in the Human Resources department as well as a control room operator for BC Athletics, where she displayed graphics on the jumbotron throughout the BC football, basketball, and hockey games. She is currently enrolled in the Masters of Science in Accounting (MSA) program at Boston College in hopes of receiving her Masters degree in May of 2009.

	Jennifer Fraone Assistant Director, Marketing and NEWFA At the Center for Work & Family, Jennifer directs the New England Work & Family Association (NEWFA) and manages all Center marketing. Jennifer received her BS in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University and her Master of Social Work and Master of Business Administration from Boston College. Jennifer worked for several years as a clinical social worker and then transitioned to roles in healthcare administration and marketing. Prior to joining the Center for Work & Family, Jennifer worked as a Consultant at Public Consulting Group in Boston and in Marketing at JJWild, a healthcare technology and consulting firm. Jennifer and her husband John have two children, Julia and Joseph.

	Fred Van Deusen Senior Research Associate Fred Van Deusen is a Senior Research Associate at the Center. He participates in and manages various research initiatives that the Center performs, with a special focus on member driven research. He also leads the Center's custom analyses work on the Standards of Excellence in Work/Life Integration. Fred has held a number of executive positions with the Hewlett-Packard Company, primarily as division Quality Manager for several different HP organizations. Prior to joining the Center, Fred was a Senior Vice President at NORC, the National Opinion Research Center. NORC performs large scale research studies primarily for the U.S. government. Fred holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Northeastern University, and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Boston College. His wife Alice has recently retired as a professor at Simmons College in Boston. They are parents of three children, Mark, Amy and Julie.

	Sharon P. McKechnie, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Sharon is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Economics Department of Emmanuel College in Boston. She began working as a research assistant at the Center for Work and Family while completing her doctorate in Organization Studies at the Carroll School of Management in Boston College. She has been involved in multiple projects for the center including an examination of job quality factors for older hourly and professional workers, the flexible work programs study, and understanding the relationship between the perceptions of older workers and their actual performance and experiences in the workplace. In addition to her Ph.D., Sharon also has an M.Sc. in Organizational Psychology from UMIST in Manchester, England. Her research interests focus on communication processes at the individual and group level and the effects of communication technology on the communication process. Before moving into academia Sharon held various managerial positions in both for- and not for profit organizations, as well as working for the British Civil Service as an Organizational Psychologist. Sharon and her husband Patrick have two children, David (4) and Jake (2).