Jody Spiro is director of education at the Wallace Foundation, which funds a number of efforts to promote effective school leadership. Her previous positions include service as director of education at the 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 schools chancellor; director of principals' professional development at the New York City Board of Education; and second vice president for professional development at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Spiro, an adjunct professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, is the author of High Payoff Strategies: How Education Leaders Get Results, the Leading Change Handbook and Leading Change Step-by-Step: Tactics, Tools, and Tales. She holds a doctorate in adult and higher education from Teachers College at Columbia University and a master's degree in public administration from New York University.
