Foundation Board of Advisors
James Greenman; Bright Horizons
Mr. Greenman is currently Senior Vice President of Education and Program Development for Bright Horizons Family Solutions in Minneapolis, MN. He is responsible for the conceptualization and development of all curriculum and training strategies, vehicles, and resources. Mr. Greenman serves on the Executive Team and is Chairman of the Board of the Bright Horizons Foundation. His earlier professional work experiences have ranged from working with Fortune 500 companies to inner city, hospital, and university child care programs; early childhood and family education programs; Head Start, family child-care and public schools. Mr. Greenman has played a significant role in the design process for over 100 child-care projects. He has designed child care facilities working with nationally and internationally known architectural firms such as I.M. Pei and Partners (N.Y.), the Hillier Group (Princeton, NJ), Perkins and Will (Chicago), the Switzer Group (NY), Skidmore, Owings and Merril (NY), Earl Flansburg and Associates (Boston), as well as many smaller firms. Mr. Greenman has authored "What Happened to the World: Helping Children Cope in Turbulent Times"; "Places for Childhoods: Making Quality Happen in the Real World"; "Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments That Work" (Exchange Press); "Prime Times: A Handbook for Excellence in Infant and Toddler Care" (with Anne Stonehouse, Redleaf Press); "Making Day Care Better: Training, Evaluation, and the Process of Change" (Teachers College Press); co-author of the "Iowa Family Day Care Handbook". He has produced and written three videos: "Great Places for Children: Children's Environments that Work"; "My Kind of Place: Identifying Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers"; and "Best for My Baby: Low Income Parents and the Struggle to Do The Right Thing". Mr. Greenman has written numerous articles for magazines and journals, and presented keynote speeches, seminars and workshops throughout the United States, Australia, Europe, and Canada on a variety of early care and education topics. He teaches an annual institute on child-care design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mr. Greenman has extensive experience with all forms of child care and developed two major foundation funded quality improvement projects in Minnesota: "Project Organizational Quality", a McKnight Foundation funded effort to improve child care centers as businesses and effective organization and a Bush Foundation supported "Quality Care for Infants and Toddler Project" a Minnesota statewide consultation, training and child care recruitment project that included a family day care project for teenage parents in collaboration with the Minneapolis public schools. Earlier still, Mr. Greenman had been a teacher in Head Start, preschools, and child-care; a director, researcher, parent educator and a faculty member at Iowa State University. He holds an M.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, CA where he also completed additional advanced graduate studies, and a B.A. degree in education from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.