Our mission is to help elite education leaders be elevated outside of the education community.

This program is all about helping education leaders, whether they are aspiring principals, seasoned principals, vice principals, administrators, or coaches, perfect their education leadership brand model. Let’s break it down.

Every quarter we get together, alternating between strategically positioned locations for a one day Innovation workshop.

Because you will have learned the methodology as part of the preparation (see below), we don’t need to teach the basics again. These workshops are all about implementation and mastery. We will develop your skills around thinking, branding, and delivery, and we will go to work implementing your game plan.

Each workshop will be focused on the following:

• Reviews - Look at what worked and what didn’t over the last 90 days and share our learnings and successes.
• Thinking - We’ll spend some time creating your intellectual property, reviewing it, and mentoring you on how to make it game changing.
• Communication - We’ll go to work on creating the conversations that you need to hit your communication targets over the next 90 days.
• Delivery - We’ll work on how you are going to deliver your next program and what you need to make it outstanding.
• Celebration - Each quarter we'll celebrate the different breakthroughs you’ve achieved. This creates a culture of success, and gives us space to share our victories with each other.
• Learning - Each workshop will feature a world class presenter whose message will help accelerate your journey. We’ll also teach some of the finer distinctions and nuances of the methodology.
• Planning - We'll spend some time creating the detailed plan for the next 90 days so that when you leave you know exactly what you need to do.
• Mentoring - There is space for open mentoring at the front of the room through hot-seats and one-on-one sessions with the faculty.
• Connecting - There are lots of informal opportunities to connect socially with other leaders, the faculty, and the presenters.

These workshops are the cornerstone of the program, and over 12 months you will bond with and share your journey with a group of peers on the same path.

Currently the educational sector is undergoing a revolution in the way that learning environments are structured. Lead most famously by the Khan Academy, the new paradigm of education almost completely flips the concept of teaching and homework.

Teaching now happens online, in video segments which are watched by the students on their own time, at their own pace. The classroom then becomes a workshop where the teacher can work with each student on the particular challenges they face. As a result, productivity soars as the students receive immediate help and feedback.

This revolution has inspired the structure of the Education Leaders' Business School.

We’ve created an online platform that teaches the EL methodology, featuring a variety of videos that were created to show you how to capture, package and deliver your ideas. This will help you to move from simply leading into visionary leadership and beyond.

There are also over 50 resources available to accelerate your use of this methodology. These include templates of the critical collateral needed to launch innovation, publishing, training, mentoring, facilitating, and growing of your brand both inside and outside of the education arena.

The first homework assignment must be completed prior to the first workshop, which means you show up already understanding the methodology, and ready to begin implementing it in your practice.

A member of the Education Leaders' Business School faculty will give you step-by-step navigation throughout the program. Each month between the workshops you will have a scheduled "compass call" to make sure you're heading in the right direction.

Your team will also receive your dashboard, and see your actions and results bi weekly. The faculty members are successful visionary leaders in their own rights. They have also been credited in helping others through this process. Having a team of this caliber is an invaluable part of the program.

Every month you can get a dose of innovation through our monthly Educate to Innovate webinars. It’s a great opportunity to connect with the founder of Education Leaders and the team.

You’ll have the chance to ask questions, share any challenges, and clear anything blocking your path to success.

Between the quarterly workshops, the mentoring webinars will help you to maintain clarity, boost motivation, and remind yourself to stay in action.

Bonus: Virtual Support!
We believe every education leader should have an awesome virtual assistant. We’ll provide you with access to our staff for any question or concerns that you may have with regard to the program.

Ok – lets keep it simple: this program is about doing the work. Doing great work, worthy work, and the right work, but none the less its work. And there is some stuff you'll need to deliver over the 12 months.

Throughout the year you will do the following:

• Create a Branding Board: This is a visionary-minded forecast of your future fleshed-out ideas using the Intellectual Property Snapshot. If you’re going to call yourself an education leader, the first step is to educate yourself. We’ll show the methodology to do this, and track the results.
• Launch four clusters: The program is broken into 90 day blocks, punctuated by the workshops. Every 90 days you will take a new cluster, a new education innovation, to the community. A big chunk of each workshop is preparing everything you need to effectively promote and deliver that cluster. This will provide at least two exposures to new audiences.
• Become Published: By the end of the 12 months you’ll have been published in a trade journal or main stream publication, with features approximately 25,000 to 60,000 words. This includes blogging, self-publishing, interviews, or even a book.
• Keep score: Your job in your education leadership position is to innovate, empower, and deliver. We’re going to measure all three. Each week your status will be tracked by how many IP Snapshots you submitted, your projects, and your delivery on your dashboard, all of which will be submitted to the team. It’s amazing the difference that weekly attention to these three measures makes.

Accountability is a key component of the program. There’s a lot of evidence out there that shows how it helps, why it reduces the amount of will-power needed to get something done, and how it increases the chances of a project’s success.

There are four levels of accountability – personal, peer, positional, and public – and we use all four in the EL Business School.

Of course it wouldn’t be Education Leaders if we didn’t have a model, so you can see the four levels and their escalating consequences (from Demetrius on Implementation – Measure what matters).

And of course everything is better when its simplified, so we’ve created a simple accountability process. As part of the program you commit to filling in your dashboard weekly, updating your scoreboard and identifying the most important actions to take, as well as taking your three mission critical “above the line” actions each week.

Any week where you don’t submit your dashboard by the following Monday, or you haven’t completed your three mission critical above the line actions, you will pay a fine of $100 which will go to your charity of choice. How's that for motivation?

The humbling thing that we’ve learned from delivering this program is that the most valuable part of it has nothing to do with us. The element of the program that is truly priceless is being in a community of likeminded education leaders with the same objective.

There is a lot of cool science that demonstrates the impacts of social norms and how powerful the group dynamic is. We are hard-wired from tens of thousands of years as tribal animals to want to fit in. For most of our evolution as a species our survival depended on it.

The best way to take advantage of this trait is to find a cult that thinks the way you want to think, that behaves how you want to behave, and that is producing the results that you want to produce.

Over the course of the year, what’s normal gets redefined in your sub-conscious. It will become normal to be abnormal by a doing a deep self-analysis and making a commitment to change your life.

It will become normal to be known as a visionary leader inside and outside the education community.

It will become normal to think about how to find time to speak or share with those who now seek your insight on education leadership.

This change in mindset is what makes everything not just possible, but inevitable. The vision brings us together at the quarterly workshops, on the online hub, and through informal local meet-ups.

Our Guarantee:

If in the first 30 days you complete the onboarding process and are not completely convinced that this methodology will work for you, and that you will add value to yourself and those that you serve, we’ll give you a full refund, no questions asked. We won’t even charge you for the insight and onboarding process.

Give us a call : 202-808-8290