Our Mission Statement
Leadership Partners empowers educational leaders to transform their leadership practice through unique and impactful development, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and the ability to lead with intention. Our commitment to excellence drives us to provide highly personalized executive coaching and cutting-edge professional development in partnership with Rice University that elevates leaders to achieve extraordinary results.
What Do We Do
We provide systemic leadership development in partnership with Rice University, in under two semesters and with minimal travel and time, so education leaders can transform and optimize themselves to positively impact learning, achievement, and retain those they lead. We combine national faculty, world-class business training from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and our unique leadership programming, so our participants are optimized and transformed to meet the challenges they face in their varied leadership roles.
Why We Do This
Leadership Partners is deeply committed to empowering educational leaders to become the best versions of themselves. We recognize the immense pressures and challenges faced by campus and district leaders, and we know through intentional, systemic professional development, personalized executive coaching, and a supportive cohort model, we can help leaders not only survive but also thrive.
We also know that strong, resilient, balanced, and self-aware leaders are essential for creating positive, lasting change in schools and communities. By partnering with a Rice University’s best MBA professors, national experts, and employing unique strategies and methods, Leadership Partners is dedicated to equipping our leaders with the skills, insights, and confidence they need to lead with purpose, retain top talent, and ultimately improve educational outcomes.
Our mission is rooted in a belief that when leaders are fully supported and developed, they can lead themselves and others with fidelity, foster growth, and make a profound difference in the lives of those they lead. This commitment to making a meaningful impact on education drives our passion and purpose every day.
Improving schools
Leadership impacts achievement only second to teachers. Leadership Partners helps improve schools by offering campus and district leaders competencies and strategies not found in traditional preparation programs nor in typical professional development offerings. Research indicates principal preparation has remained static for decades and does not prepare leaders well enough to face the daunting and complex problems in our schools. Read more here.
In addition, Leadership Partners provides campus and district leaders with new mindsets, unique learning experiences, diagnosis and design tools , executive coaching and personalized support to help them improve their schools at both the system and school level. Ours is the platinum standard for leadership development.
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Leadership Partners provides campus and district leaders with new mindsets, unique learning, diagnosis and design tools , executive coaching and technical support to help them improve their schools at both the system and school level.
Developing the Whole Leader
Grow Your Leadership! We use a unique blend of programming, faculty and tools to help develop the “whole leader.”
Click Here to see our full Theory of Action for Developing the Whole Leader: lp-theory-of-action_v4-5.pdf
How We Live Our Mission
- We provide premium programming using professors from the Jones Graduate School of Business , ranked #8 in the nation.
- We utilize our national faculty to provide campus and district leaders with new learning to help improve their schools.
- We create cohorts of campus and district leaders who learn with and from each other during our programming.
- We focus on the “whole leader,” providing all participants with Executive Coaching from a board certified coach.
- We provide research based diagnosis and design tools to help leaders problem solve with precision.
- We provide personalized and tailored technical support for our campus and district leaders.
- We offer custom programming to meet the unique and specific needs for schools and districts.
- We are serving leaders in the Houston area and across all of Texas.
What We Believe
1. High quality education leaders should expand their skill sets to include problem solving methodology, organizational management and entrepreneurship.
2. Leadership development must address the “whole leader” (i.e. leader identity and self efficacy) in order to make the role more sustainable.
3. The school is the natural “unit of change” for the system. The role of the school leader is pivotal in the delivery of learning. All stakeholders in the system benefit from well-developed leadership.
4. The school leader does not operate in a vacuum. Context, autonomy and both internal and external support are important elements for maximizing campus outcomes, both academic and other.
5. District leaders and staff benefit from leadership development and collaboration with their campus counterparts. Shared frameworks and goals are imperative to improving learning environments for students.
6. The Rice University reputation for quality and the Jones Graduate School of Business contribute distinctiveness to the program offerings.
7. A diverse cohort model and resilient network with ongoing interaction deepens and extends the learning in the formal program.
8. A focus on diagnosis, structured problem solving, design and implementation allows partners to tailor their learning to specific context and need. The Four Paths of Leadership Model provides the best diagnosis and design tools for campus and district leaders.
9. Custom Services and technical support provide a level of personalization needed for campus and district leaders to improve their schools.
