People often ask me what I like best about my job and my first answer is usually something about how I get to work with great people. Yes, I love schools, and yes, I am passionate about education, fascinated by leadership and and always thinking about how change happens, but most of all, I love these things when I can talk about them with great people and make amazing things happen.

Ten years ago, when I started consulting to schools on strategy and change management, one of the first things that I noticed was how little, if any, leadership development training or coaching was offered to teachers who were not on a clear path to administration. And even for those rising stars, formal and informal leadership development efforts were limited to their academic endeavors, an isolated training event or an organically grown mentoring relationship. Leadership as a practice was clearly distinguished from teaching as a practice.