Even the best frameworks, methods, and systems can stall when they meet human capacity, day-to-day realities, and the lived experience of those involved.
Any strategic initiative can be an opportunity to make powerful, lasting improvement if you commit to an approach that is strategic, stays grounded in humanity, builds trust, and addresses root causes rather than surface problems.
My work supports you as you navigate change. Engagements may include:
School and district leaders navigating strategic planning or organizational change while staying grounded in daily practice and capacity.
Executive teams building shared purpose, relational trust, and clarity around how their work creates meaningful impact.
Organizations and nonprofits reimagining programs, policies, or services to better serve their communities and align with long-term goals.
Leadership creating alignment between vision, strategy, data, and real-world implementation to strengthen impact across an organization.
New or evolving teams establishing ways of working together that support collaboration, learning, and sustainable progress.
Emerging initiatives and pilot programs testing new ideas or approaches, with support to learn quickly, adjust, and scale what works.
Whether you're looking for strategic planning, program implementation, or shifts in your organizational culture, my services adapt to the specific context, challenges, and aspirations of your school, district, or organization, including:
Thought partnership and personal support to support leaders in driving meaningful, lasting change in one-on-one coaching sessions.
Defining the mission and vision, building relational trust, and establishing processes, practices, and norms for working together on a team or across a whole organization.
Intensively building collective skill and will around topics important for the work of your organization.
Focus groups, interviews, literature review, and landscape analysis to better understand your organization, your constituents, and your field.
Bringing coherence to our shared understanding of how our work brings about the ultimate impact we seek to accomplish - and the data analysis necessary to chart our progress and adjust our practice.
I come from a long line of educators, and I’ve been in deep partnership with teachers and leaders. I’ve seen how public education can transform young lives and how exhausting, dehumanizing, and disheartening it can feel when initiatives are imposed without regard for the people making them work.
I believe improvement works best when it’s strategic, grounded in humanity, builds trust, and addresses root causes rather than surface problems. I have spent twenty years working at the intersection of the research, data, and practice work that fueled a revolution in educational attainment in Chicago.
I have also worked directly with schools, districts, and nonprofit organizations from Texas to Oregon, from Connecticut to California - and so many places in between.
With extensive expertise in continuous improvement, research communication, transformational coaching, professional learning, and data strategy, I help partners navigate education's thorniest problems and organize their people to drive transformational and sustainable improvement.
Here are a few research publications I have contributed to.
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Practice-Driven Development helps leaders and teams in mission-driven organizations become powerful agents of change by building internal and external capacity that is grounded in real practice, informed by evidence, and responsive to organizational context.
