Real Women, Real Leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business World

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Kathleen Hurley formerly served as executive vice president, Education Alliances, for the Pearson Foundation, a position she held since 2009. She is a forty-year veteran of the education industry, based in Washington, D.C., where she works closely with education associations and serves on several industry and education advisory boards, including the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training, the Software and Information Industry Association, the Association of Educational Publishers, and the Consortium for School Networking. Kathy is the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious SIIA Ed Tech Impact Award, the first ever Outstanding Private Sector Achievement Award from the Consortium for School Networking, a citation from State of Massachusetts Representative Cory Atkins for her mentoring of leaders in education, and special recognition of her twenty-five years of service to the Software and Information Industry Association. In 2003, she was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers Hall of Fame for her service to the educational publishing industry. Kathy is a fellow from the Harvard Advance Leadership Initiative, which is designed to prepare experienced leaders to take on new challenges in the social sector, where they potentially can make an even greater societal impact than they did in their careers. In 2014, Kathy co-founded an international non-profit called Girls Thinking ...