MASC Experience

• Field Director, February 1996 - Present
• Consultant on superintendent searches for Massachusetts school districts
• Workshop presenter: Workshop for New School Committee Members; School Committee/Superintendent Roles and Responsibilities; School Committee Self-Evaluation; Governing through Policy; Team Building; Conflict Resolution; Superintendent Evaluation; Goal Setting; Collective Bargaining; Effective Meetings; Multigenerational Community Engagement, School Budget and Finance; Having Difficult Conversations; Working with Difficult People, Why Teams Underachieve; Use of Data in Presentations; Open Meeting Law
• Adviser to School Committees on issues including: school district policy, team building, effective meetings, education reform, school building issues, governance
• Academy of School Leadership New Member Orientation program-Charting the Course
• District Governance Support Program

Memberships & Affiliations

• Division of Labor Relations Advisory Council-Governor Appointee, 2008-2016
• East Bridgewater Board of Selectmen 2000–2004
• East Bridgewater School Committee 1993–1999; Chair: 1995–1996; Vice Chair: 1993–95; Budget and Negotiations Subcommittees: 1993–1999
• East Bridgewater Middle School Building Addition Committee, Chair: 1989–2000
• MASC Division III, Treasurer 1994–1996
• MASC Task Force on Collective Bargaining Chair 1994–1996; Staff Representative 1996 – present
• National Affiliation of Superintendent Searchers, President 2004
• NSBA Federation of Member Trainers Chair 2003
• American Association of School Policy Services, 1996-present