Each Cambridge Hill partner and associate has decades of experience helping leaders and organizations to reshape, develop, grow, and succeed in a world of constant change. We are a small firm by design, which enables every client to engage exclusively with a team of experienced experts.
Debra DeMeis, Senior Fellow
Drawing on nearly four decades of experience in higher education, Debra helps clients create strategies to move their organizations forward and turn those plans into action. She works with clients to identify and analyze key data, ask critical questions, explore options, and create viable action plans. Her work focuses on empowering organizations to build the skills and knowledge that support inclusive communities and long-term growth. Grounded in deep experience in organizational learning, she helps leadership teams make decisions that reflect their institutions’ values while accommodating their evolving needs.
Jennifer Desjarlais, Principal
Jennifer partners with governing boards, executives, and senior leaders to make the case for and navigate strategic change. With deep expertise in organizational assessment and executive coaching, she helps institutions identify strengths and gaps in structures, processes, and leadership effectiveness. Jenn works with individual leaders and teams to develop confidence, skills, and vision to support sustainable change and long-term success. She is particularly skilled in coaching leadership teams through complex change initiatives, aligning strategy with organizational culture, and fostering adaptive leadership in dynamic environments—while engendering the trust among diverse stakeholders that is essential to a successful process.
Debra DeMeis, Senior Associate
Debra DeMeis brings nearly 40 years experience in higher education to her clients at Cambridge Hill Partners. Prior to Cambridge Hill, for over 25 years, Debra served in senior administrative positions as Dean of Students at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Wellesley College. As dean, her focus was on fostering women’s development and building strong, inclusive communities that were supportive and welcoming places for students to live and learn. Her goals were to break down silos that divided groups and to create a shared interest in and obligation to creating an inclusive campus climate.
Jennifer Desjarlais, Principal
Jennifer Desjarlais brings more than 30 years of senior management and executive search experience in higher education to the Cambridge Hill team. She previously served as Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Wellesley College where, as a member of the president’s staff, she advised on matters of policy and strategy and led organizational change efforts.
Mary Grace Duffy, Founding Partner
Mary Grace works with governing boards, executives, and senior leadership teams to lead complex change and improve organizational effectiveness, particularly in fast-moving or high-stakes environments. She brings deep experience navigating turnaround situations, designing leadership development strategies, and aligning structures with strategic goals. Her consulting practice spans higher education, healthcare, cultural institutions, and nonprofits, with a particular focus on strengthening the performance and management capacity of CEOs and senior leaders. Clients value her ability to synthesize disparate objectives, data, and organizational dynamics and to help teams move from complexity to clarity—and from insight to action.
Wilbur Herrington, Senior Associate
With more than twenty years of experience consulting in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Wilbur works with organizations to develop and integrate equitable practices across all levels of leadership and operations. He conducts large-scale initiatives designed to catalyze systemic change and align organizational strategy with the needs and interests of various stakeholder groups. His approach to institutional change is founded in the belief that personal insight—self-awareness and the willingness to examine one’s assumptions—is the most powerful lever for growth. His strengths include designing and facilitating workshops that support effective dialogue across stakeholder groups.
Mary Grace Duffy, Partner
A skilled, experienced manager and consultant, Mary Grace specializes in working within changing, complex environments and in managing “turn-around” situations. At Cambridge Hill, she has worked with CEOs, presidents, boards of directors, deans, and senior managers to help them identify and achieve strategic goals.
Wilbur Herrington, Senior Associate
For more than 20 years, Wilbur Herrington has been consulting to organizations with a focus on designing and facilitating diversity-related workshops. Working with senior managers in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, his organizational development consulting focuses on the integration of diversity and inclusion practices into all aspects of an organization.
Ed Hudner, Founding Partner
Ed partners with senior leaders and leadership teams to uncover and shape the case for change in ways that align with their strategic priorities. He helps leaders make the most of their organization’s own data—both the numbers and the narratives—while bringing in fresh external perspectives to spark broader thinking. Together with his clients, he co-creates practical, high-impact approaches to forge shared understanding and commitment, move the work forward, and deliver meaningful results.
Evelyne Martial, Senior Associate
Evelyne works with organizations to build capacity for meaningful dialogue and sustainable progress around race, ethnicity, and class. Drawing on her background as an attorney and certified mediator, she supports clients in navigating complex issues with clarity, accountability, and care. Evelyne’s consulting and facilitation work spans nonprofits, government agencies, and schools, with a focus on developing inclusive practices, addressing structural barriers, and fostering collaborative, forward-looking solutions.
Ed Hudner, Partner
Ed Hudner has extensive experience working with colleges, universities, schools, and nonprofit organizations to develop strategic directions that enable them to reshape, grow, and create the momentum needed to succeed. In this work, he establishes trusted partnerships with leaders and senior managers to build the capacity for strategic change and how to execute that strategy so clients achieve their goals.
Evelyne Martial, Senior Associate
Building on her experience as an attorney, Evelyne Martial brings experience and expertise in helping organizations engage in dialogues around race, ethnicity, and class. She has worked with nonprofits, government agencies, and schools on diversity and equity issues.
Salome Raheim, Senior Associate
Salome partners with leaders to assess and advance institutional effectiveness for all stakeholders through strategic planning, leadership development, and culture change. With more than forty years of experience in higher education, she works with senior leaders to help them take meaningful action and build systems that truly reflect their organizations’ core values. Drawing on a career that bridges academic leadership and organizational strategy, Salome brings a systems-level perspective and a deep commitment to social and economic justice.
Jane Tuohy, Founding Partner
Jane partners with institutions to advance equity and build cultures of belonging. She collaborates with leaders to design inclusive planning processes and integrate equity into strategy and culture, laying the groundwork for lasting systemic change. A certified executive coach with more than 20 years of experience in organizational development, Jane also supports senior leaders as they step into expanded roles and strive to achieve greater impact. She excels at helping clients cut through organizational noise and connect with their core values, creating a strong foundation for clarity and authentic leadership.
Salome Raheim, Senior Associate
Salome Raheim brings more than 40 years of experience in higher education to the Cambridge Hill team. She served in senior administrative positions as Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and Senior Associate to the President at The University of Iowa (UI), as well as Director of the UI School of Social Work.
Jane Tuohy, Partner
Jane Tuohy has led the firm’s practice in diversity and inclusion since its founding. Jane and her team partner with diverse and complex institutions helping them map a course towards a more inclusive and equitable organization.