Glen Harvey's Email & Phone

Glen H. Harvey has served as WestEd's Chief Executive Officer since June 1997. In that capacity she has led a transformation of WestEd to become more mission-driven and quality-focused. The agency's emphasis is now on performing the highest quality work to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. A key to Harvey's leadership philosophy is her dedication that WestEd produce significant and positive impact, especially for those children and their families in greatest need. She also emphasizes the importance to the agency of continuous growth so that WestEd has the capacity to meet the increased needs of its clients, in this country and internationally. During her tenure as CEO, WestEd has grown from $28.2 million in annual revenues in FY1997 to $112.9 million in FY2008. With 10 offices in 1997, the agency now has 17 offices, during which time the number of staff has doubled. WestEd has received consistent recognition as among the best in its class in its work in research, development, and direct service. WestEd's products have won numerous national awards during Harvey's tenure. A critical priority for Harvey at WestEd has been creating an internal atmosphere that fosters staff productivity and creativity. Resulting from these efforts have been consistently, highly positive employee ratings by staff in surveys conducted by an independent research firm. The San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has recognized WestEd as one of the Bay Area's "50 Best Places to Work" based on the agency's benefits, policies, and practicesand how its employees rate them. Her commitment to assuring equal opportunity at the agency has resulted in WestEd receiving special recognition from the Office of Federal Contracts Compliance, Pacific Region. Glen Harvey's job includes overseeing an extensive range of exemplary education research, developmental, and service programs focused in such content areas as: teaching and learning, professional development, instructional technology, math/science education, student assessment, education accountability, language and cultural diversity, education policy, teacher preparation and retention, education leadership, early childhood education, alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, and at-risk youth. Before taking the reins at WestEd, Harvey served as Executive Director of Learning Innovations and of The Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands. She also held positions with The NETWORK, Inc., the National Institute of Education, and several other education agencies. She received a BA in psychology and sociology and an MA in social and philosophical foundations of education from the University of Kentucky, and an AM in philosophy and a PhD in philosophy of education from Stanford University.