Judy Touchton

Judy Touchton, Ph.D., C.M.C. (certified mentor coach), president of Touchton Partners and founder of Women Leaders Move™, a resource for academic women administrators, has been identifying, promoting, and helping women leaders advance for over 30 years. She is an executive coach, candidate consultant, and a nationally recognized expert on women in academic leadership. As Deputy Director of the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education and Director of its hallmark National Network for Women Leaders, she helped countless women move up the career ladder to deans, vice-presidents and presidents of colleges and universities. While at ACE she also chaired its Roundtable of Executive Search Firms and served as director of the ACE Senior Executive Leadership Service.