People

Hauser Center Researchers and Staff

Tiziana Dearing
Executive Director

 
As Executive Director of the Hauser Center , Tiziana manages the organizations operations, as well as writing, speaking and doing research on nonprofit organizations and civil society.  Her research areas of interest include humanitarian relief and operations; the nature of public obligation; and the functioning and governance of the Catholic Church as a nonprofit organization.  She has also written on just war theory.

For a decade before joining the Hauser Center, Tiziana consulted to senior managers in nonprofits and corporations. In 1997, she started her own consultancy, working with nonprofits and specializing in strategy development and implementation, executive decision making and coaching, and large and small group facilitation. Her clients represented organizations local and international, academic and nonprofit, and with budgets ranging from one to several hundred million dollars. Prior to launching her business, Tiziana worked with a management consulting firm specializing in knowledge management, process development and Balanced Scorecard services to Fortune 500 companies. While there, she wrote one of the early knowledge management methodologies. Tiziana came to consulting after working for Womens Self-Employment Project, a nonprofit micro-lending organization in Chicago.

Tiziana has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government, with concentrations in International Security Policy and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.  She had a merit-based scholarship as a Kennedy School Fellow.  Her Bachelors Degree is from the University of Michigan .  In addition to her work, Tiziana remains active in the community, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society and working on affordable housing.  She has published and provided commentary for media outlets such as WBUR/NPR radio, The Boston Globe MSNBC, BBC Radio and the Battle Creek Enquirer.  She lives in Bedford , Massachusetts with her husband, one daughter and one son.