Betsy Myers
Chair Women for Obama, Leadership Expert
Betsy Myers is one of the most provocative and challenging Leadership Development experts. Currently, Betsy is presenting and leading workshops around the world on the changing nature of Leadership and is finalizing her book on Leadership which is expected out September 2011.
Betsy Myers served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign as the Chief Operating Officer. She also represented the campaign as a senior adviser and as Chair, Women for Obama.
Prior to this appointment, Betsy Myers was the Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She came to Center for Public Leadership in 2003, with a track record of strategically building and realigning organizations.
A senior official in the Clinton Administration, she was the President's senior adviser on women's issues. As Deputy Assistant to the President, she launched and was the first Director of the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach.
Myers also served as the Associate Deputy Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development in the U.S. Small Business Administration. She implemented the SBA’s national requirements under President Clinton’s Welfare to Work Initiative and was responsible for the agency’s technical assistance, management, and distance learning programs. In a previous post, Myers was the Director of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA. She served as an advocate for the 7.8 million women entrepreneurs in the U.S.
A Public Service Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, she graduated with a M.P.A. in 2000, and then served as the School’s Director of Alumni Programs and External Relations before directing the Center for Public Leadership. Betsy Myers is married and has an 8 year‐old daughter.