Dorothy Zolandz provides coaching and thought partnership to help experts become better leaders. She helps clients focus on how they think, communicate and act to bridge the gap when technical logic or positional authority aren’t enough to move teams or create alignment.

Dorothy’s coaching is informed by her 30 years of experience at the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. As an SME-turned-senior executive, she served as a thought partner to C-suite leaders and as coach to senior SMEs on strategy, leadership, managing up, and effective influence.

She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Boys Town, a nonprofit serving over 250,000 youth throughout the US annually with health care and behavioral health services. She chairs its Health Care committee with oversight of the Boys Town National Research Hospital and its translational research, speech and language research and neuroscience research centers.

Dorothy has a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard, did postdoctoral research at Caltech, and holds certificates in Senior Executive Leadership, and Organizational Development and Change Consulting Leadership from Georgetown.