Judith Albino

Judith Albino, PhD, is President Emerita and Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado and a Senior Consultant with the AAL Group. In these roles, she provides leadership and professional skills training, as well as executive coaching, and a broad range of organizational consulting services. Her coaching practice utilizes strengths-based approaches, emphasizes cognitive-behavioral strategies for change, and draws on standardized assessment instruments, as well as expert interviewing and observational techniques. Current coaching clients include leaders in medical, dental, and other health care organizations, and individuals at the highest levels of university and health care administration. She coaches both individuals and teams and is successful in helping professional groups to work through complex issues of communication and disciplinary or cultural conflicts that can impede teamwork and decrease productivity. She also has provided team-building support for hospital-based health care teams.

At the University of Colorado, Dr. Albino has been involved in leadership training and coaching through the Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NCATS). For ten years, she directed the year-long Leadership for Innovative Team Science (LITeS) program at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. More than 200 “graduates” of the LITeS program have included deans and department chairs on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, as well as senior hospital division heads, academic administrators, and senior faculty directing major training programs, laboratories, or clinical services. She currently co-directs a similar program, Northern LITeS, at the University of Minnesota.

Trained in psychological science and communications at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Albino has held appointments in Psychology, Psychiatry, Dentistry, and Public Health. She began her career as a faculty member in the health sciences at the University at Buffalo, where she later served as Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School. She was recruited to the University of Colorado as Vice President and in 1990 was named President of the University. She was president of Alliant International University in California from 1997 until 2004, and subsequently returned to Colorado, where she served as Interim Dean of the Colorado School of Public Health and for ten years directed an NIH-funded clinical research program focused on behavioral strategies for improving oral health. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and was scientific editor for a 20-year NIH assessment of the status of Oral Health. In 2013, she was named Distinguished Psychologist in Management by the Society of Psychologists in Management. She has served on corporate and non-profit boards, and in 2012, was appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper to the Board of Caring for Colorado, a grant-making foundation that she chaired for two years. For her outstanding contributions to the State, she was recently inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. Today, Dr. Albino focuses most of her time on organizational consulting, leadership training, and coaching.