LARRY GOODMAN, Ph.D.

Having served on the Board of Directors of Cleveland Ballet for eight years, Larry Goodman was uniquely positioned to lead the regional ballet company as its president and chief executive officer.

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Since Larry took the helm in January 2024, Cleveland Ballet has solidified both its strategic and artistic posture in Cleveland’s vibrant arts landscape. In 2024, Larry was named to the Crain’s Cleveland Business “Power 150,” a representation of Northeast Ohio’s most influential organizations and their leadership moving them forward.

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Before joining Cleveland Ballet, Larry was an education consultant, drawing on his 30-year career in educational leadership. Through this time, Larry held administrative positions first in Chicago at the Latin School of Chicago as freshman dean and humanities coordinator and then in Northeast Ohio. In particular, he was the upper school director and director of strategic programming at Laurel School, head of school at The Ratner School, and then head of school at Andrews Osborne Academy.

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A life-long baseball fan, as well as a lover of opera and classical music, Larry believes Cleveland is the perfect place to live. He and his wife Anne (who he refers to as his "much more famous wife" due to her notoriety as the former head of the Cleveland Food Bank for 15 years and then the St. Luke's Foundation for six years) raised their two children here - before they moved off to professional lives of their own with Abby in Washington, D.C. and Andrew teaching English in Thailand.

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Larry has lived in Northeast Ohio since 1999. After growing up in Baltimore, Md., Larry received an undergraduate degree in English from Bucknell University in 1987 and a Masters in Arts (1989) followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in English Language and Literature (1995) from University of Chicago.