Dr. Sheila M. Kearney 

Dr. Kearney brings more than 40 years of professional experience as a life-span education leader, diversity-inclusion-belonging researcher, lecturer, and consultant and personal coach.  During her employment tenure at Gallup, she led as executive director of the International Positive Psychology Institute, Vice President of Social Audits (on topics such as Black-White Race Relations, Have and Have Nots, Drug Use and Abuse, Gambling, Child Discipline, etc.), and management consultant and leadership coach for academic, corporate, and federal agency clients.

At Gallup, she led research to develop a workplace inclusiveness audit and consulting practice. Prior to Gallup, Dr. Kearney was director of the Executive Leadership Council Foundation (an association of Fortune 200 executive-level corporate African-Americans), Education Program Officer at the Prudential Foundation, consultant for the National Medical Association, Research Associate for the Harvard University Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the Council for Graduate Management Education (a cooperative of top-tier ivy-league graduate business schools at Harvard) to promote minority student recruitment, and a project coordinator on research for a peer-led social inoculation intervention to prevent smoking and drug use in adolescents at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She began her professional career as a Boston Public Schools special education teacher, and promotion to high school administrator.

Dr. Kearney received her Doctorate and Master’s degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy, a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from Boston College, attended Hampton University, graduating from Northeastern University with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.