Maureen Sullivan

Maureen Sullivan is a widely recognized leader and educator in the library profession. She is the immediate past president of the American Library Association. She is a member of the faculty in the Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions Ph.D. program at Simmons College and served as the Interim Dean of the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science for the 2013 Spring term. She is a past president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and of the Library Leadership and Management Association, two divisions of the American Library Association. Her career has included positions as the human resources administrator at two major research libraries, the University of Maryland and Yale University. The consulting practice she established in 1991 focuses on the design and delivery of a variety of organization development services including strategic planning, work redesign, organizational restructuring, leadership development, implementing large-scale organizational change and continuing education.