Education systems builder · AI for education · Brooklyn, NY

I coach the people who run schools, and build the systems they run on.

Culture and academic systems for schools, networks, and the organizations that serve them. Built with the people who have to use them, so the work holds long after the engagement ends.

The education insider who actually builds with AI.15+ years inside schools, now building the AI that makes educators' work actually work, and shipping it.

15+ years. 100+ engagements across 15+ states. 91% of clients came back year after year.

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Christopher Habetler
Most recentlySenior Director, High School Advancement at KIPP Foundation

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Leadership coaching + AI

I build the AI that sharpens how school leaders practice.

For 15+ years the work has not changed: coach the leader and build the system that holds, so it sticks after I leave. What is new is the tool. I build AI that drives real school-leader practice, and I ship it into real schools, not slideware.

Coaching that compounds

Two hundred-plus school leaders coached through multi-year cohorts and 1:1. One principal I coached earned Louisiana Principal of the Year, then became a network CEO.

200+ leaders coached

An AI that coaches the leader

I built the Academic Health Coach, a live AI on Playlab that walks a school leader through the data and the next move. AI in service of practice, not a gadget.

Shipped · Live

Practice, at network scale

At KIPP, the AI data systems my team built turned network data into the answers leaders actually acted on, in the year the network posted its best academic quarter on record.

50 schools

None of this replaces the coach in the room. It sharpens what that coach can see and decide. That is the bet: AI that drives better school-leader practice, in the hands of someone who has spent 15+ years doing the coaching.

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How I can help

Fractional, interim, and advisory engagements. Three ways in, one underlying model: diagnose honestly, build the system, train the team, hand it off.

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Coaching & leadership development

Cohort-based development for new and rising leaders, plus 1:1 coaching for principals and their teams. When an organization is heading into a launch or a leadership transition, I step in as senior strategic capacity on a fractional or interim basis.

Leader cohorts · 1:1 principal coaching · fractional & interim

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Systems & operating design

The manuals, playbooks, and operating guides that turn decisions into daily practice. Then the review cycles that hold culture and academics from the fall launch through the long middle of the year.

Operating manuals · Strong Start & Arc of the Year · academic-health systems

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AI for education

The practical AI that serves the work, not the other way around. Content-generation pipelines and data-routing tools that give your team its thinking time back, built for your organization and handed off so it runs without me.

Content-generation pipelines · data routing · workflow automation

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The work with Chris deeply accelerated the trajectory of my school, and ultimately the network at large. It was nothing short of transformational, and I do not use that word lightly.
Jerel Bryant

Jerel Bryant · CEO, Collegiate Academies · Louisiana State Principal of the Year

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Let's talk about your year.

If you're heading into a launch, a leadership transition, or a stretch that has to go right, the first conversation is free and useful either way. Tell me what you're up against. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help, and what I'd do first.

Building an education or AI-in-education team? If you're hiring for someone who knows schools from the inside and can actually build, let's talk.
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