Nancy Archer-Martin is the founder
of Educational Management Network, an executive
search firm dedicated to serving the senior
leadership search needs of higher education and
not-for-profit institutions. She merged this firm
with Witt/Kieffer, a national search firm focusing on
searches in the health care industry, in 1998. Her
previous affiliations include serving as a search consultant with the Academy for
Educational Development and Peat, Marwick Mitchell.
She has been recognized nationally as one of the
leading search consultants in higher education. In
January of 2004, she resigned her position with
Witt/Kieffer and co-founded Nantucket Coaching
Network, a firm serving individuals and higher
education institutions with their career and human
resource development initiatives.
She is the co-author of Career Aspirations and Expeditions: Advancing your
Career in Higher Education Administration (Stipes Publishing, 2003). The book provides the
tools and strategies necessary for individuals to
successfully navigate the job search process and guide long-term career planning. It is the only book
of its kind available to senior administrators in
higher education at this time. (The book
will be available for purchase at he conference.)
Ms. Archer-Martin is a sought-after
workshop convener on the topics addressed in her
book and is known as the "Academic Executive
Coach." She served as a member of the Commission on Higher Education and the Middle
States Association of Colleges and Schools, and
volunteers her time in support of the American
Council on Education's leadership development
programs.
Ms. Archer-Martin has served on the
Nantucket School Committee and as a trustee of the Nantucket Historical Association,
and volunteered with various Nantucket
not-for-profit associations. Currently, she serves
as a trustee at Hampshire Country School in Rindge,
NH.
Ms. Archer-Martin is a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College, holds a master's degree from
New York University, and has studied at
the graduate level at Middlebury's School of Foreign Languages and Stanford University.
Registration will
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