Jody Spiro
Adjunct Professor of Public Administration

Jody Spiro is the Director of Education Leadership for The Wallace Foundation. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Foundation’s senior education program officer since 2002. She works with leaders from throughout the country on improving their education leadership programs and systems. Her career-to-date as a senior educator and manager of education programs has spanned the private, public, non-profit, and international sectors. Her areas of specialization include leadership, facilitating active learning and organizational change processes. Previous positions have included: Director of Education Development Center’s New York Office of Global Learning; Executive Director of the Soros Foundations for the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union and the Baltic States; University Planning Officer and Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Long Island University; Senior Assistant to the New York City School’s Chancellor; Director of Principals’ Professional Development, New York City Board of Education; and Second Vice President for Professional Development of Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the past 19 years, Dr. Spiro has also served as adjunct professor at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaching courses in strategic management, the management of change, capstone, and international non-governmental organizations.

She holds her doctorate, in Adult and Higher Education, from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has a master’s degree in Public Administration from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College. She is the author of Leading Change Step-by-Step: Tactics, Tools and Tales (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and The Leading Change Handbook (The Wallace Foundation, 2009).











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jodspi@juno.com
(212) 251-9719
Office Hours: By appointment only
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