The work
Where the work has been, the numbers it moved, and the things I've shipped.
15+
years building
school systems
100+
multi-year
engagements
91%
year-over-year
client renewal
200+
leaders trained
and coached
1,000+
schools on DeansList
today
What the work produces
Things I've shipped
A book in classrooms, software in a thousand schools, a live AI app, and a working group that did not exist before I started it. The throughline is simple: I finish, and I hand it off.
An AI coach that walks leaders through academic-health routing: what the data says, what to do, who owns the next step. Built and published by me.
Open the appSchool-culture software built from the systems we first ran on paper. I co-founded it; it now serves more than a thousand schools nationwide.
See DeansListA working group I founded for K-12 educators putting AI to real use, drawing members from KIPP, Uncommon, Brooklyn Prospect, Google, and beyond.
Ask me about itPortfolio · Published work
When schools came back from COVID, every leader faced the same question: how do you rebuild trust and put the joy back into a community that has been through it? In 2021, while leading Brooklyn LAB, I served as editor-in-chief of Building Culture Back Better, a 124-page practitioner volume on exactly that, written with seven contributing authors from networks across the sector. It is the playbook we wished we had, with frameworks a school could run the next morning.
Free, full 124-page volume. No email gate.
What people say
“Our school leaders name his coaching and support as having very high impact, and they push hard to get as many ‘Chris days' at their schools as possible. I would highly recommend Chris to any school, CMO, or district looking to make dramatic improvements.”
Doug McCurry
Co-Founder, Achievement First
“We built an organization culture that aligned to our mission by working with Chris. He built the capacity of our leadership team, created the systems and tools, and showed us what REAL change management looks like.”
Kinnari Patel-Smyth
President, KIPP Foundation
“Chris spent two days with us, but his impression has left a mark for years. In minutes he could identify the root causes of culture breakdowns, and equally important, tools and strategies to dramatically and immediately change them. He is always there for us, to talk, share, empathize and then help me make tough decisions.”
Rachel Yanof
Founder · ASU Prep South Phoenix
“Chris's monthly visits were a catalyst for dramatic growth. On our network's evaluation system, we went from the lowest-performing middle school to the highest-performing in the history of our network. Truly, Chris was no small part of that.”
Tom Kaiser
Founder, Authentic Leaders · former Principal, Achievement First Endeavor MS
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