ERIC ISSELHARDT, PhD

Dr. Isselhardt is a senior executive with over 35 years of leadership experience in both non-profit and for-profit education venues. His interests focus on narrowing the opportunity gap, building distributed leadership organization cultures, creating strategic and tactical plans leading to effective implementation, facilitating meaningful board and executive transition and evaluation, and creating systemic reform. His outcomes-centric leadership philosophy is based on teamwork, consensus building, and accountability, balanced by the ability to translate a shared core mission into tactical action. Dr. Isselhardt has a practitioner’s business financial perspective that he applies in all of his leadership work. The use of creative approaches to problem solving, effective strategic planning processes, collaborative management, and a drive for excellence leading to innovative and entrepreneurial mission-derived programs all characterize his transformational work.

“My core competencies include innovation, strategic/tactical development, and organizations, which I apply to translate strategic planning to tactical operation, derived from research-based foundations, and use data-driven approaches. Using those competencies, I have led an experiential education non-profit reaching thousands of students, redesigned a small African country’s elementary school system, developed and initiated systemic reform in a large urban school systems, helped transform a Chinese immersion school system into a leading force in the New York City elementary education landscape, and developed and implemented an international virtual and analog blended learning public virtual charter and home schooling K-12 system. I am driven by a personal love of learning, a passion for education innovation that focuses on students, and a commitment to accountable excellence.”