Marty Linsky
Martin A. Linsky is a professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a co-founder with Ronald A. Heifetz of Cambridge Leadership Associates. He served as Chief Secretary/Counselor to Massachusetts Governor William Weld from 1992 to 1995 and has published extensively on leadership, management, politics, and education. Career. He graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School, and served as an assistant state attorney general and was the state representative from Brookline, Massachusetts from 1969 to 1973. Linsky was Francis Sargent's choice for Lieutenant Governor in 1970, however two weeks before the Republican  convention, Linsky dropped out of the race after it was revealed that police officers had once stopped his car and informed him that the woman was traveling with was a prostitute. In 1972, Linsky was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, but lost to incumbent Robert Drinan.