Senior Consultant, Carney Sandoe & Associates; AMP Associates Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, CA (Feb.1999 - current) Head search and strategic consulting services for Independent schools in the U.S. and abroad. Work is primarily with Search Committees & Boards of Trustees.

Consultant, The Education Group; Founding Director, Southwest Institute
Dallas, Texas & Santa Fe, NM (1992-1999) Strategic planning, board/teacher training
workshops, seminars and searches for school heads and administrators, consultant for K-12 public and private schools, Charter Schools, national and regional associations.

Founding Head of School, The Bosque School
Albuquerque, New Mexico (1994 - 1998) independent, college-preparatory day school
serving grades 6-12. Accredited by NCA, hired teachers, worked with trustees, parents
and students to establish a new school, now in its 10th year with over 200 students; assisted
Board in developing strategies for selecting new Headmaster and building new campus.

Interim Headmaster, The Hun School
Princeton, New Jersey (1993-1994) 6-12 day/boarding school, 450 students; helped to create vision for the future and assisted in transition of leadership and training of faculty; worked with board and parents to re-establish new models for programs and policies.

Consultant, Research & Professional Development, Milton Hershey School, Hershey, Pennsylvania (1992-1993) K-12 residential, 1000 at-risk students; evaluated needs of students and staff; facilitated change through experimentation and training; supported administration in designs for change and assisted acting president with special projects, including search for new President.

Headmaster, The Shipley School
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1985-1992) K-12 school, 600 students, 129 employees;
Long range plan begun in 1988 leading to capital campaign and building of new middle school; campus of 33 acres and 15 buildings, 7 key administrators.

Department Head, Chaplain, Teacher & Counselor, Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, Connecticut (1979-1985) 9-12 boarding/day school; college prep; school chaplain and counselor to students and staff, teachers; department head of Psychology, Philosophy & Religion, including nursery school and child development and parenting courses.

Psychotherapist and Teaching Supervisor
Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1972-1979) private practice; adjunct professor in hospital and university settings; founder of Pastoral Counseling center; supervisor of graduate students and teacher of graduate courses at Penn State University, Lancaster Theological Seminary and Lancaster General Hospital.

Graduate Program and Instructor, College of Human Development
Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (1969-1972) graduate study leading to Master's and Doctorate degrees in Child Development and Family Studies; assistant teacher in Family Consultation Center; worked with young children and their parents in play therapy and training graduate students in counseling programs.

Teacher, Grosse Pointe University School
Grosse Pointe, Michigan (1966-1969)

Associate Pastor, Presbyterian Churches
Metuchen, NJ and Grosse Pointe, Michigan (1962-1969)

Education

B.A. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 1959
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary 1962
M.S. Child Development and Family Relations 1971
Ph.D. Human Development and Family Studies 1973
The Pennsylvania State University

Community Activities (former and current)

Boards of Directors and Trustee for Franklin Settlement House, Detroit; Northwest Child Guidance Clinic, Detroit; Grosse Pointe Family Life Education Council; Grosse Pointe Human Relations Council; Lancaster Country Day School; Lancaster County Pastoral Counseling Center; Citizens for Better Education, State College, Pennsylvania; Institute for Development of Emotional and Life Skills, University Park, Pennsylvania. Recently, founding director of Southwest Institute for Educational Research and Professional Teacher Development, and Board member of NM Foundation for Education Excellence; Advisory Board member of CANEC, California Network of Educational Charters; Founding Board Chair of Monte del Sol Charter School and Professional Development Center, Santa Fe, NM. Currently serve on Boards of Southwest Institute, Global Education Fund and Durango Institute.

Publications/Presentations (selected)

"Critical Issues for Schools of the Future"
"Pressures on the American Family" US Senate Sub Committee
"The Search for Belief and Values" Independent School Magazine
"External vs. Internal Motivation and Controls" NMSA & NCA
"What is Sacred?" The Shipley Bulletin
Understanding and Enjoying Adolescence Longman, 1988
"The Benefits and Burdens of Parental Involvement in Schools"
"Governance of and for Schools"
"Why We Teach" Southwest Institute for Professional Teacher Development
"A Myriad of Governance Issues" University of Wisconsin
" Starting a New School or Revitalizing an Existing One"

Endorsements

....."imaginative, global, positive and supportive, wise, dignified and fun."
President, Choate Rosemary Hall, CT

..... "guided the school successfully from its deep roots...in one century to the promise and imperatives of the next century. A remarkable catalyst for change...." Board Chair, The Shipley School, PA

........ "a person of experience, ability and integrity...all of us came to rely upon and trust his judgment and advice on every aspect of the school experience."
Former Chairman and Acting President, Milton Hershey School, PA

……." you have been incredibly helpful, always with appropriate
information, always with tact and sensitivity, and good insights at
every turn." Trustee charged with head of school transition, WA

……."insightful about assessing my experience and personality and enormously
helpful in my search for a new position." Head of School candidate, 2003 MA