I started in the classroom, and everything I've built since is in service of what happens there. That's where the magic happens. As Dean of Students at Excel Academy in Boston, the culture and operating systems I built carried the school's climb from 270th in Massachusetts to the #1 public school in the state, results that still hold today, and my old job there now belongs to a former student. Those early systems became DeansList, software I co-founded that now serves 1,000+ schools. Lift Consulting came next: fourteen years and 100+ multi-year engagements, with a client list that renewed at 91% year over year because the work was built to outlast me. The deepest partnerships turned into executive chapters, Chief Culture Officer at Collegiate Academies and Superintendent at Brooklyn LAB, before KIPP Foundation brought me in to help drive academic strategy for 50 high schools across 28 regions.

Different rooms, same discipline: find what actually works, build the system around it, train the people who will run it, and hand it off for good. That last part is the point.

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