Her Story
About Roseann
Roseann Luongo serves as Senior Consulting Director at Huron Consulting Group. With seven and a half years in consulting, she focuses on research administration, management, operations, and compliance for higher education and research institutions. Luongo earned a bachelor's degree in public policy analysis from Northeastern University in 2002 and a master's degree from Harvard in 2009. Before entering consulting, she worked at Harvard for 17 years in roles involving finance, grants administration, compliance, and audit support. She maintains professional affiliations with the Society for Research Administrators, the National Council for University Research Administration, and the Association of College and University Auditors. Luongo is a Certified Research Administrator and draws on her experience to support clients navigating regulatory changes and operational challenges in research institutions.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Roseann
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think a few different things. I think, one, you know, both of my parents and my grandparents, of course, incredibly hard-working people, so I think they instilled an incredible work ethic in me that I think continues to serve me. And I think at this point, having my three boys, I know that I have to keep working to continue to support them and to be able to help to launch them into this world and give them the strongest foundation that I can.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I'd ever received, it was early on in my career, and I had this incredible mentor, and what she encouraged me to do is always think about the people, think about those relationships first, and think about those individuals as people, and let the business follow second. And really just underscoring the importance of establishing relationships so that you can help to be able to reinforce and make the business flow easier.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Don't be afraid to take the chance. Don't be afraid to work a little bit outside of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid to make the change. ... to always to continue to be building your network, building your village, because you never know at one point when you might need to lean on that village.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think the biggest challenge right now in our field is that it's really the uncertainty of how the federal government's partnership with universities and research institutions are at this point in time. This relationship has been going on for decades, 50 plus years, and within the last, I would say, 18 to 24 months, that relationship has shifted a little. There's a bit of regulatory changes that have occurred as well.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I would say the values that are most important to me are really empathy first and foremost, and I think that helps me to better serve clients and better serve my team as I sort of understand where they're coming from, what their key needs are, and their feelings as we think about how we're going to approach the work. ... I think another thing is perseverance, and it's, you know, the work's going to get tough. It's inevitably going to be difficult at some point. But really being able to sort of dig deep and continue to work towards what our goals are.
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