CONSULTING SERVICES

Deeper partnership for more inclusive and welcoming school communities.

CalWest Educators has West Coast roots, national reach, and a global focus that has served a broad range of private and independent schools for more than 20 years. We’ve built a consulting team of dedicated private school professionals, including former and current heads of school, educators, and administrators as well as those from nonprofit and business backgrounds.

We’re dedicated to cultivating an in-depth understanding of each client school’s distinct culture and the students, faculty, staff, and families who create it. Through our DEEP approach, we provide schools with tailored solutions and timely insights as they grow and evolve into the next generation of welcoming and inclusive schools.

Deeper partnership for more inclusive and welcoming school communities.

CalWest Educators has West Coast roots, national reach, and a global focus that has served a broad range of private and independent schools for over 20 years. Our search and placement services have always been conducted through an equity lens, resulting in our 30% diverse candidate placement.

With our Consulting services, CalWest cultivates an in-depth understanding of each client school’s distinct culture and the students, faculty, staff, and families who create it. Through our DEEP approach, we provide schools with tailored solutions and timely insights as they grow and evolve into the next generation of welcoming and inclusive schools.

Our consulting team include the best in our industry – dedicated private school professionals, including former and current heads of school, educators, and administrators as well as those from nonprofit and business backgrounds.

Are you ready to move from Culture Reflection to ACTION?

Here is what CalWest do for YOU:

  • Align insights and best practices to create solutions tailored to your school
  • Empower your school to continue growing its cultural competencies
  • Grow an even more welcoming and inclusive learning community

DEEP Consulting Offerings

Hiring and Retention Through an Equity Lens

  • Candidate Profile Development
  • Limiting Bias in Resume Review 
  • Scenario-Based Interviewing
  • Measuring Representation Through Data
  • Developing Equitable Interview Rubrics

Igniting Culture Transformation

  • Exploring Formal and Informal Cultural Practices 
  • Inclusive & Equitable Curriculum Review
  • Moving from Awareness to Accountability
  • Leadership & Executive Coaching
  • Inclusion-Focused Communications and Marketing Strategy

Customized Consulting Engagements

Our consulting team can create a consulting plan tailored to your school community’s unique landscape. Customized consulting is designed to assess how your school’s hiring and retention strategies can better build capacity for inclusion and equity.

DEEP Consulting Offerings

Hiring and Retention Through an Equity Lens

  • Candidate Profile Development
  • Limiting Bias in Resume Review 
  • Scenario-Based Interviewing
  • Measuring Representation Through Data
  • Developing Equitable Interview Rubrics

Igniting Culture Transformation

  • Exploring Formal and Informal Cultural Practices 
  • Inclusive & Equitable Curriculum Review
  • Moving from Awareness to Accountability
  • Leadership & Executive Coaching
  • Inclusion-Focused Communications and Marketing Strategy

Customized Consulting Engagements

Our consulting team can create a consulting plan tailored to your school community’s unique landscape. Customized consulting is designed to assess how your school’s hiring and retention strategies can better build capacity for inclusion and equity.

 

OUR CONSULTING TEAM

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Betsy Kelly

Consultant
Executive Coaching, Curriculum Assessment; Strategic Planning; Building Equitable & Inclusive Communities
Mariah Deans Harmon

Mariah Deans Harmon

Consultant
Curriculum Assessment; Equitable & Inclusive Hiring; Administrator & Teacher Searches
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Erin Ash Sullivan

Senior Consultant
Administrator & Teacher Searches; Marketing & Strategic Communications; K-8 School Accreditations
Shoshanna Lurie

Shoshanna Lurie

Senior Consultant
Administrator & Teacher Searches; Foreign Language Curriculum Design
Ed.D, Pepperdine University
M.A., Educational Administration and Supervision, California State University
B.A., Spanish and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Certificate, Educational Therapy, Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement, University of California

Jacqueline Olivier ED.D.

Senior Consultant
Head of School, Senior Leaders & Highly Specialized Searches, Including Inaugural Senior Administrators