Robert Evans is a clinical and organizational psychologist and the Executive Director of The Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a former high school and pre-school teacher and for many years a child and family therapist. He has served in schools for more than 30 years and now speaks widely at educational conferences and consults to schools throughout the U.S. and internationally, working with teachers, administrators, and boards. He also works with human service agencies and corporations.

Dr. Evans is a graduate of the Germantown Friends School and received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his doctorate from Harvard. His interests have focussed on change and resistance to it in schools and organizations, and on the challenges of leading innovation. He is currently concentrating on the changes in American families and their impact on schools.

He is the author of many articles and two books, The Human Side of School Change, and Family Matters: How Schools Can Cope with The Crisis in Childrearing.