VPD Panelist Biography – Linda Head

Linda Head

Associate Vice Chancellor of Workforce Education and Corporate Sponsorship, Lone Star College

Her responsibilities in Houston cover related activities at the six LSC campuses and in partnership with 100’s of corporate and healthcare business partners. Lone Star College serves over 90,000 students, 6,000 employees and 5,500,000 square feet of physical space.

Linda has spent her community college career developing a trained workforce for businesses and industry by developing a highly trained talent pool. Under her leadership and direction, Lone Star College embraces a comprehensive, transparent, collaborative approach to develop competency-based workforce programs designed through a strong partnership of industry advisors and fellow educators, validated by labor market intelligence. This insures that LSC delivers the associate degrees and certificate programs that prepare citizens in the Houston area for today’s careers providing the opportunity for a career pathway from entry-level to leadership roles in healthcare, emergency services, oil and gas, manufacturing, IT and others. In addition to AAS and certificate career program development, she leads over 9,000 non-credit students and instructors at 14 locations, student job placement, adult basic education, English as a Second Language, the Lone Star Corporate College, and the development of workforce international projects. Three years ago she & her team led the master planning for over $3M in workforce training facilities, marketing workforce programs, and the workforce student advising team.

Her professional career began in Houston in 1980 working as a college recruiter, office automation specialist then corporate trainer for Tenneco Oil. Her career with LSC started in 1986 as a college professor where she was promoted to a variety of administrative positions to include department chair and academic dean and has been in her current role for nine years.