Ellen Galinsky

Ellen Galinsky is the President of Families and Work Institute (FWI), an organization she co-founded in 1989. She also serves as senior science advisor to AASA, the School Superintendent Organization. Over her career, her research has focused on work-life, children’s development, youth voice, child-care, parent-professional relationship, and parental development. Galinsky is the author of Mind in the Making, a best-selling book on early learning that the New York Times called “an iconic parenting manual,” and Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour named “must reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st Century”. Her recently published book on adolescence, The Breakthrough Years, which involved nine-years of research, including three original studies. Adam Grant, author of Hidden Potential says that “it smashes common stereotypes of teens and tweens,” Dan Siegel, author of The Whole Brain Child calls it a “masterpiece;” Mitch Prinstein of the American Psychological Association says it is “a tour de force. She is also the author of 90 books/reports and 360 articles for books, academic journals, magazines, and the Web.