Dr. Sheri L. Miller

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Sheri L. Miller is a visionary education and business professional with outstanding qualifications in educational leadership, leadership development, and business operations in both education and business markets. Sheri is an influential leader with an intrinsic talent for conceptualizing and communicating vision, developing consensus and cohesion building for achievement of common goals. A passionate educator who is committed to revolutionizing the way we deliver education in our schools, Sheri brings extensive experience as a former teacher, elementary and middle school principal, and senior executive in districts across the country. She also has extensive experience leading school turnaround and transformation in many of the country’s largest urban epi-centers. Sheri’s work is guided by an unyielding commitment to level the educational landscape for black and brown children and that of equipping leaders with the skills and knowledge necessary to change the academic and social emotional trajectory for students who reside in their schools.

Sheri brings to the consulting space extensive experience in urban education arenas inclusive of her most recent work as Executive Director for the Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls in St. Louis, Missouri where she is leading the transformation of the only all-girls school in the State of Missouri. Sheri also served as Superintendent and Regional Vice President for Lighthouse Academies where she led radical turnaround of historically underperforming charter schools in Chicago, Illinois, Gary Indiana and East Chicago, Indiana. She also served as Deputy Chief of Schools/Leadership and Teacher Professional Learning & High Schools for thirty-six schools in Chicago Public Schools, the third largest district in the country. As Executive Director of the first-of-its kind non-profit education management organization in the country, Sheri also led the design and launch of United Providence, a labor-management collaborative in Providence, Rhode Island. A native Houstonian, Sheri believes in giving back to communities that served her well. She was responsible for the 2008 launch of the Regional Principal Leadership Academy for Houston A+ Challenge. Her four-year tenure as Director of Leadership/School Performance included the strategic leadership, design, and execution of six leadership academies for aspiring principals, seated principals and executive leaders for seven school districts in the Greater Houston area. Serving as Vice President of Educational Services for Edison Schools, Sheri also led a very ambitious school reform model across an eight-state territory through district partnerships and a charter school model inclusive of launching a K-8 charter school in New Orleans post Katrina. Her primary focus was to increase student achievement levels in underperforming schools.

Sheri also served as Vice President of Achievement and Vice President of Development while at Edison Schools. She held responsibility for professional development, achievement support systems, site-based capacity building, skill training, and accelerating and sustaining achievement gains through district partnerships. Sheri began her career as an elementary school teacher where her leadership, administrative skills, and commitment to educational excellence quickly elevated her to the role of school principal and instructional leader of three schools inclusive of both traditional district and charter. Prior to her role as a school leader, Sheri’s early work experience includes that of elementary school teacher, Gifted and Talented Coordinator, 21st Century Community Learning Center Coordinator, District Reading Trainer, and Director of Academic Services in districts in the Greater Houston area. Sheri received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from Dillard University, a Masters of School Administration and Mid-Management from Prairie View A&M University, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Leadership with a concentration in the Urban Superintendency. She holds a number of teaching and leader certificates, and has received numerous professional awards. Sheri has a laser-like focus on leading turn-around and transformation efforts in urban, high-poverty schools. She is equally as intentional about sharing her expertise and gifts with campus leaders in the most challenging schools; recognizing that in the absence of strong leadership these schools will falter.