Welcome charter school board members, leaders, authorizers, attorneys, and associations to my one-page (i.e., simple-to-navigate) website!

If you're looking for board training, risk management expertise, leadership coaching & evaluation, conference presentations, or a school performance audit, I’ve been specializing in them for 19 years.

I invite you to schedule a call in which we’ll figure out if I'm the best person to help. (If I don’t think I am, I will try to refer you to someone who might be.)

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Services I offer

  • Customized board retreats

  • Conference presentations

  • Risk management assessments

  • School leader performance assessments

  • Management company performance evaluations

  • Board chair/school leader coaching

  • Consulting with attorneys

  • Performance audits

  • School fraud investigations

  • Help with internal controls

To learn more or request a proposal, please schedule a call using my calendar.

My Books

Interested in learning more about charter school governance, strategic planning, and systematic risk management? Why not learn directly from the guy who wrote the most widely used books in the charter school space?

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Coming soon: Follow the Money! It’s Not Charter School Financial Oversight If the Board Isn’t Watching

How About a Free Monograph You Can Use to Train Your Board?

In 2018, I published an eight-page monograph titled, “Seven Things School Leaders Wish Their Boards Knew” which I’ve used for conferences and webinars. It has become one of my most popular little publications. It’s yours free of charge.

Bonus: Coming soon, a new free monograph for every subscriber! “What’s Wrong When Nothing Seems Right in a Charter School?” Join my subscribers today to receive the announcement when I publish.

Check Out My YouTube Channel

I began publishing occasional training videos on YouTube in June 2022. If you’re looking for micro-training content to use in board meetings, these are perfect because they’re short, free, and highly relevant. And, each video has its own high quality handout.

About Me

When I dropped out of high school in 1977 and joined the Marine Corps, neither I nor any of my friends and family could have imagined that my life’s trajectory would ultimately take a 180. In retrospect, it does indeed seem an unlikely path that I eventually became a school leader (of both private and charter schools), and later a board member, earned a PhD, and became a certified fraud examiner.

For 19 years, I’ve been using my experiences and credentials to help other charter school leaders and board members build sustainable schools that prepare kids to be successful, both as individuals and as citizens of a free society.