How We Work
We are an experienced team of independent school partners who are excited to leverage our distinct domains of expertise to collaboratively help school leadership teams overcome your key challenges both strategically and comprehensively.
While the rapid pace of school life and the sheer volume of dilemmas that school leaders face every day encourage segmentation, we will stand alongside you to catalyze integration, system-wide connection, and transformative collaboration.
Our multidisciplinary team of content experts works together closely and intentionally with each other, and with you, to ensure your systems and processes will propel you towards your strategic priorities and mission fulfillment.
Our Core Values
At the heart of every independent school community are people - a faculty, staff, and leadership team who engage with students, families, and community members to bring the mission of the school to life each day. As partners with you, we will never lose sight of the fact that people are at the heart of our work, and we will model empathy and resilience as we lean into the opportunities and challenges inherent in growth. We know that change can be uncomfortable, AND we know how to help people successfully navigate the process of growth and transformation.
People-Centered Process
Capacity Building Approach
Our human-centered design means that our commitment to you extends beyond delivering high-value products and refined systems for your school. We will partner with you in a way that will build your capacity to thrive and advance your work long after our initial engagement. The enduring value of our developmental approach is the cultivation of mindsets and skillsets that have the power to transform the way individuals, teams, and school communities approach challenges and opportunities in the future.
A Commitment to Culture
We understand that culture eats strategy and good intentions for breakfast (while we prefer crispy bacon). Thus, we are always attentive to the dimensions of school culture that are essential to nourish and sustain any envisioned change. As such, our work with you is not limited to innovative approaches to optimizing systems and processes, but is deeply attuned to the powerful influence of your culture.
Holistic Perspective
Schools are complex networks of interdependent systems. Growth, or a need, in any one area, has implications for the whole. While it’s tempting to tinker with an individual system in isolation, decades of research on the benefits of systems thinking have informed our holistic approach to support your sustainable progress and organization-wide flourishing.
Mission Anchored Progress
With so many points of light and so much noise in the modern world, it is sometimes difficult to see our north star or hear the homing beacons that help us chart our (stay on) course and give direction and meaning to our activity. Every bit of our analysis and inquiry, each form of data collection and listening, all the resources we leverage, and the insights we uncover are all for the unified purpose of helping you as a school community deeply and intentionally connect your greatest asset and engine (your human capital) to the mission of your school. Every system we help you refine and process we help you perfect will be oriented to ensuring you are able to develop the culture, cultivate the workforce, and attain the strategic priorities essential for every member of your school community to fully experience the value of living out your mission to its fullest.