Harold Williams is the Senior Fellow of The Rensselaerville Institute, an internationally respected educational center known as The Think Tank with Muddy Boots. The Institute develops and applies outcome tools for a variety of critical social problems.
In October of 2008, Hal retired as President after 38 years of guiding and growing the Institute through its formative years and was named the Senior Fellow to consult and write in the field of outcomes. As President, Hal designed programs that have enabled over 500 small towns and neighborhoods throughout the United States to use local initiative to build infrastructure, create jobs, and achieve remarkable gains in education and health. These projects build on “sparkplug” leaders and have been featured in such media as Parade Magazine (a cover story), The New York Times, and CBS Television.
Hal also led The Institute into a series of projects to spark innovation in government, foundations, and nonprofit as well as corporate settings. The Institute, for example, was chosen by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for help with a major new initiative on school readiness. Hal was the founder and editor of INNOVATING, the quarterly journal and is lead author of Outcome Funding: A New Approach to Targeted Grantmaking, now in its 4th edition. He also co-founded, with his daughter Gillian, a new national program called School Turnaround.
Hal served as lead consultant to a U.S. Presidential Commission and consults directly with governors, corporate CEO’s, foundation directors, and other leaders. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he founded that school's FM radio station and served as West Coast Director of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System.
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