Heads Up Educational Consulting provides consultancy services in several arenas, some requiring multiple days of service, others single-day in-service trainings.
SERVICES WE PROVIDE
Management
- Evaluating school data in terms of financial sustainability, student outcomes, school climate, mission match, and/or operational efficiency (in preparation for the accreditation process and/or strategic planning process)
- Auditing operational efficiency: financial, facility, program and personnel
- Reviewing hiring practices and maximizing staff utilization
- Managing board/head relations
- Facilitating school and/or programmatic mergers
- Managing school closing
- Managing international partnerships
- Maximizing student retention
- Managing admissions expectations
- Managing parent expectations
- Developing student service boundaries
- Managing school leadership transitions
- Undertaking executive search services for heads & senior staff
Vision
- Expanding non-tuition revenues
- Designing “Schools of the Future”
- Cultivating educational, business & community partnerships
- Recruiting a new brand of teacher
- Growing your boarding school population
- Planning facility facelifts
- Staying on top of technology
- Guiding parent expectations for college placement
- Improving design in health and food services
- Retooling curriculum
- Repurposing town/gown relations
- Developing niche market school programs
Personnel
- Training of board members in Governance 101-301.
- Selecting constituent surveys & advising on results
- Coaching services for senior administrators
- Training & internships for aspiring leaders
- Managing leadership retirement or unexpected departure
- Transitioning faculty/staff in and out of the country
- Teaching students and staff a system of ethical frameworks for decision making
Schools and other organizations may choose any one or more of the topics above, each representing a commitment of one or more days. By combining ten of the “days” together, for example, the Heads Up consultancy would oversee the full strategic planning process from data gathering through consensus building, to the final creation of a written and approved multi-year plan. Likewise, Heads Up Consulting would manage and oversee an executive search process by an organization’s commitment of 10 – 20 days, depending on the extent to which a school wanted to do some portions itself or outsource the entire process to Heads Up. A 20-day commitment would result in a successfully completed search, at half or less the price of other firms. Typically, longer commitments of several days entail a retainer for a 6- to 12-month period, allocating and reserving specific agreed-upon dates in 2 – 3 day clusters, to maximize focus and efficiencies and to minimize travel costs. Multiple day commitments can be spread over a short period of time (two months) or a longer period of time (up to 12 months) as suits the client and as fits our firm’s schedule of other commitments. By committing to the ten-day engagement (for strategic planning) or longer (for a Head of School search), schools can assure themselves of a sustained time commitment and relationship with Heads Up Educational Consulting.
We invite interested parties to contact us by email or phone to discuss the specific needs and interests of your organization; once the topics/days from the above list are identified, we will send to clients a description of the content of the day(s) including the including the prior prep work required by the school (data gathering, surveying, etc.), the deliverable outcomes from Heads Up, and, in the case of multiple topics/days, a recommended sequence. We invite you to peruse some sample descriptions of the various “days of engagement” we offer HERE.