Dr. Jeanne Esler, PhD

President & CEO, Esler Family Foundation

Jeanne Esler, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with specialization in behavioral medicine, anxiety, depression and eating disorders and lives west of Boston, MA near the city of Worcester, MA.

She went to Northwestern University in Chicago for her BA, received her doctoral degree from SUNY Albany (in NY), and completed her Internship and Post-Doc Fellowship at Brown University Medical School.  In 2021, she completed the one-year Advanced Leadership Initiative program at Harvard University.

Jeanne is also the President and Co-Founder of the Esler Family Foundation, a philanthropy that has been involved with mental health programs, youth leadership, educational and economic opportunities through the lens of racial and gender equity.  Their foundation has been involved with the global nonprofit World Vision on economic development projects in Malawi, and with the nonprofit StrongMinds on mental health treatment for women suffering from depression in Uganda and Zambia.  Jeanne currently serves on the Mental Health Advisory panel and Strong Minds America advisory panel for StrongMinds, as well as the Board of Trustees.  Locally, she serves on the boards of Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll), the Worcester Education Collaborative, and is involved in projects with the Nativity School of Worcester.  In May 2022, she and her husband John were honored by receiving the Alexis deTocqueville Award from the United Way.  Also in May 2022, she and John were chosen to be part of the Worcester Business Journal’s “Power 50: Most Influential People” for their philanthropic efforts.