Nancy Greenspan,M.A.
Director

• Nancy Greenspan, MA., is an economist and writer. She has co-authored four books on child development with her husband Stanley Greenspan. She also authored The End of the Certain World, a biography of Nobel physicist and quantum theory pioneer Max Born. She has served as a board member and officer on a number of non-profit boards, most of which are either connected to children's or environmental issues. In her community in Maryland, she is active as an environmentalist and a political strategist.
  
  When the three Greenspan children were growing up, Nancy engaged them all in Floortime. They were the first Floortime babies and she, the first Floortime mother.

Richard Lodish.
Director

• Dr. Richard Lodish has been principal of Sidwell Friends Lower School since 1976 and associate headmaster since 1992.  Published widely on educational matters including articles in The Washington Post and the New York Times, he holds a doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  He previously taught in the Cleveland Public Schools, at Catholic and Tufts Universities, hosted a children's television program, and directed institutes for beginning teachers, as well as advanced leadership seminars for administrators.  He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, The World Bank, the State Department, and was an Education Policy Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership.  Having received a National Distinguished Principal Award from the U.S. Department of Education in 1993, he was a Fellow in Leadership Washington in 1994-95 and has been a consultant in Beijing, China, where he helped to establish a bilingual, intercultural school. He is the author of a recently-published book, A Child in the Principal's Office:  Laughing and Learning in the Schoolhouse.

Stuart Shanker
Director

• Stuart Shanker, D. Phil., is a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. Dr. Shanker is the Director of The Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, at the York University, Canada. Through this research initiative, he is involved in a number of different studies looking at the processes involved in the development of language and reflective consciousness in young infants; studies in evolutionary theory involving nonhuman primates; and clinical studies designed to significantly enhance the capacities of children with various types of impairment. In addition, Dr. Shanker is Director of the Cuba-Canada Research Initiative, an international, multi-disciplinary investigation into preventative mental health funded by the International Development Research Corporation of Canada. He also served as Director of the Council for Human Development for many years and is the Past President of the Council of Early Child Development.

Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Director & Co-Founder

Serena Wieder, Ph.D. is the founder and Associate Chair of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and Director of the DIR® Institute. She serves on the Board of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and is also on the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry. Recognized as a leader in developmental and infant mentality she consults and trains widely to national and international programs. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Developmental Processes and the author of many publications including the co-author of The Child with Special Needs, Engaging Autism and Infant and Child Mental Health with Dr. Greenspan.

 

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. (1941-2010)
Founder

Dr. Stanley Greenspan was the founder and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. He was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. As a foremost authority on clinical work with infants and young children Dr. Greenspan was a recipient of many national and international awards, including American Psychiatric Association's highest award for child psychiatry research. He is the author or editor of over forty books which have been translated into over a dozen languages.