About Us

Elizabeth Reilinger, Ph.D. founded LeadWell Partners, a national consulting and advisory practice to support individuals and organizations to enhance the critical ingredients for success.  She is a seasoned, successful leader, with deep practical experience, a long history of providing coaching and advisory services, and the understanding of what it takes to manage change and to succeed in today’s rapidly shifting world.  She founded LeadWell Partners to work in partnership with nonprofit and public organizations, foundations, and emerging businesses to develop strategies and tools to improve performance and achieve demonstrable success.  

Prior to founding LeadWell Partners, Dr. Reilinger served as CEO of one of the nation's oldest nonprofit organizations, leading it through a major turnaround, expansion and engineering a successful merger with another institution. As faculty and researcher at Cornell University, she directed numerous studies and evaluations of national health and education policy initiatives, advised federal and state legislative and executive branches, and provided technical assistance around strategy development, operational management, and the effective use of data. She has served as a Dean at Boston University and on the faculty of Tufts University, Ithaca College and the State University of New York.

From 1996 to 2008, she chaired the Boston School Committee, driving the agenda for education reform. Under her leadership, the Boston School District won national acclaim for its documented improvements in student achievement, including the 2006 national Broad Award and the 2004 inaugural CUBE Award for outstanding school board governance. In 2007, Dr. Reilinger received the Richard R. Green Award, the nation's highest honor for leadership in urban education.
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Dr. Reilinger has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education and emerging businesses. She has been the recipient of many awards for fundraising acuity, for governance, for social innovation, and for leadership.  Dr. Reilinger received her Ph.D. from Cornell University.