Dr. Donna Housman is CEO and founder of Housman Learning, a national leader in early childhood education and emotional intelligence. For three decades, she worked as a clinical psychologist specializing in troubled children from age 3 through early adulthood, work that revealed a critical pattern: the common thread linking all struggling kids was an inability to manage big emotions.
That insight led her to develop ECSEL (Emotional, Cognitive, and Social Early Learning), an evidence-based program serving children from 3 months to kindergarten. Her longitudinal research proves that intentional emotional intelligence development in early childhood produces significant, measurable improvements in emotional competence, self-regulation, empathy, executive functioning, and academic achievement.
Now recognised nationally as the leading voice on emotional intelligence in early childhood education, she is the advocate challenging the entire sector to close the preparation gap, not just the achievement gap.
