Executive Education Program

Instruction Team

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor and Associate Dean, Academics

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Co-author of Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Negotiations, and leader in facilitating stakeholder alignment; past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

Dennis Dabney

Senior Vice President (retired), lead management negotiator and co-lead for a labor-management partnership spanning over 100,000 workers and over two-dozen unions; past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

Tom Kochan

MIT's Sloan School. Co-author of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations and past president, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

Kim Leary

Senior Vice President of the Urban Institute and leader of equity and gender initiatives in the federal government; expert on large-scale systems change.

Wilma Liebman

Leader in advancing new forms of worker representations in society; former NLRB member and chair, and former deputy director FMCS; past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).
Lisa Lynch, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy and director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity

Lisa Lynch

Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and former chair of the conference of chairs of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank; leading expert on workforce development in society; past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).
Alexandra Pineros-Shields, PhD'07

Alexandra Piñeros-Shields

Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Executive Director, Essex County Community Organization. A leader on immigrant rights and interfaith racial justice initiatives.

Kris Rondeau

Co-lead organizer of the Harvard Clerical and Technical Union, the SHARE union, and others; Director of AFSCME, New England; past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

Søren Viemose

Mediator and trainer for labor-management, and civic negotiations in Denmark. Author of Constructive Negotiations.