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. He has consulted with many major corporations in the areas of strategic planning, organizational change, career management, and innovative human resource strategies.   

Brad's teaching and research focuses on career management and work-life integration, mobilizing and leading organizational change, and contemporary workforce management strategies. 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).  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 Faculty Development Specialist at Tufts University, and they are the parents of three children, Maggie (15), Hannah (12), and Dillon (10).

Carroll School of Management
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