Prof. Brad Harrington
Executive Director

Dr. Brad Harrington is the Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family (CWF) and an associate research professor in the Carroll School of Management. The Center for Work & Family is the country’s leading university-based research center focused on helping employers in their efforts to improve the lives of working people and their families. It has more than 100 corporate members including many of the world’s most progressive and well respected employers. 

Prior to his arrival at Boston College, Dr. Harrington 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 at HP included Global Director of Management and Organization Development, Chief Quality Officer and Member of the Executive Committee for HP's Medical Products Business and Quality Director for Hewlett-Packard United Kingdom, Ltd., as well as a number of division human resource management positions. Brad began his career in the public sector as a counselor in Department of Labor job training programs. 

Brad's teaching and research focuses on career management and work-life integration, the leadership of organizational change, contemporary workforce management strategies and the changing role of men and fathers. He is a frequent keynote speaker at professional conferences and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Along with Professor Douglas T. Hall of Boston University, he is the author of Career Management and Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers (Sage Publications, 2007).  He is also the lead author of The New Dad: Exploring Fathers in a Career Context (2010). His work has been cited by many major media outlets including the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and USA Today as well as the national newspapers of China, India and Brazil.  In addition to his work at the University, Brad also serves on the advisory board of the International Center of Work and Family at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr Harrington has consulted with many major employers in the areas of strategic planning, organizational change, career management, and innovative human resource strategies.  His clients have included IBM, Boston Scientific, Phillips Medical Systems, Dow, Levi-Strauss, Merck, Sodexo, and Johnson & Johnson. He has also conducted executive education programs in more than 20 countries. This summer, he will be conducting a weeklong series of executive education programs for the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore.  

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 Faculty Development Specialist at Tufts University, and they are the parents of three children, Maggie (16), Hannah (13), and Dillon (11).

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 is a regular contributor to Fox 25 News' Work-Life Wednesdays. 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.

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.  Since joining the Center for Work & Family, Danielle has been involved with 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 8) and Mia (age 3).

Catie Maillard
Member Relations Specialist

Catie is the Member Relations Specialist at the Center for Work & Family, supporting members of the Global Workforce Roundtable, National Work & Family Roundtable, and New England Work & Family Association (NEWFA). At the Center, Catie responds to member inquiries on a variety of work-life topics, including flexibility, diversity & inclusion, women’s advancement, global work-life, and many others. She also assists with the planning and execution of member meetings and teleconferences, as well as manages the Virtual Roundtable, an online community for Center members. Catie researches and analyzes work-life topics relevant to our corporate members and synthesizes the information for practical use in a corporate setting.

Catie received her B.A. in Child Development from Tufts University and is pursuing a Macro Masters of Social Work in policy and administration from Boston College.

Lauren Stiller Rikleen
Executive-In-Residence

Lauren Stiller Rikleen, a nationally recognized expert on developing a thriving, diverse and multi-generational workforce, is the Executive-In-Residence at the Boston College Center for Work & Family.

A former equity partner at Bowditch & Dewey, LLP, Lauren launched the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership to help businesses and other organizations create a culture where their professionals can advance and flourish. She brings to each engagement more than two decades of experience as a law firm partner, mediator, and professional and community leader. 

Lauren is the author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law (2006), which has been highly acclaimed for its thoughtful insights into the management of today’s law firms and the institutional impediments to the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession.  She is also the author of Success Strategies for Women Lawyers, published in the fall of 2010, and is currently writing a book on the Millennial generation in the workplace.

Lauren is a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors, and was the only non-New York lawyer appointed to the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession.  When she was President of the Boston Bar Association, Lauren established the Task-Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs which produced Facing the Grail – Confronting the Costs of Work/Family Imbalance, a report which received national attention for its in-depth analysis of the cost of attrition in law firms. She was also a founding member of the Massachusetts Equality Commission, which examined the link between the relative lack of women in leadership positions in the law, the growing rate of attrition, and the demands of law firm practice.  

Lauren is married to Sander A. Rikleen (BCLS ’76), a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP. They have two children, Alex (BC ’09) and Ilyse (BC ’12).

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.

Iyar Mazar

Graduate Assistant

At the Center for Work and Family, Iyar assists with organizing Center events and staff meetings, coordinating travel arrangements, compiling and distributing listserv responses, and updating the Center website, among other tasks. She has also been involved in many of the Center's research endeavors, from the recent publication, The New Dad: Caring, Committed, Conflicted, to other projects on financial wellness and millennials. Iyar received her B.A. in Sociology from Wheaton College in Norton, MA and is pursuing her M.A. in Sociology at Boston College.

Beth Humberd

Beth Kroner Humberd is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Organization Studies Department at Boston College, and she currently teaches Organizational Behavior to undergraduate students in the Carroll School of Management. 

Beth’s broad research interests focus on understanding how diverse individuals experience organizational life, with a focus on interpersonal relationships, issues of gender and race, and individual identities and meaning at work.  She has published in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, and her work recently received the Michael J. Driver Best Careers Paper award and an Outstanding Theoretical Paper award at the Eastern Academy of Management Conference. 

Beth holds a B.S. with honors from Babson College and an MBA with high distinction from Bentley University.  Prior to beginning the doctoral program at BC, Beth worked in various roles within Finance and Human Resources at a medical device company and a top accounting firm.

Matt Jago
Business Development

Matthew, who has just recently joined the staff, is involved with Business Development at the Center for Work & Family. He is responsible for contacting and securing current and future partners at the Center. Matthew is currently enrolled as a freshman at Boston College.