Recent experience with client schools has affirmed my thinking that, while foundational principles of governance are applicable in all contexts, differentiation in applying these principles is required to ensure optimal governance efficiency and effectiveness in each school’s unique context.
What are the principles of governance applicable in every school context?​

• ​Use our vantage point gained by constantly building on expertise and experience and applying contextually attuned best practices to provide wise counsel to schools and their leaders. (This counsel includes consultation, mentorship, assessment, training, and delivery of other services.)    
• Strategically develop a cadre of affiliated Consultants and Partners in Excellence with divergent expertise and perspective, ensuring the provision of world-class services in response to challenges and opportunities faced by any school.
• Expand the locations, reach, and experience of the Group geographically and culturally, forming a team of Consultants and Partners with the access, awareness, and understanding necessary to serve diverse and divergent client schools around the globe.
• To build and leverage the synergy between and among Consultants and Partners for collaborative project design and delivery, maximizing return on investment for client schools.
  

The GLOBAL School Consulting Group and our twenty-four Consultants and six Partners in Excellence accept the challenge to provide world-class services in response to any need from any school in any region of the world!

by Dr. David A.Wells

​Use your cell phone and take a picture of your children before you head out to the mall or the store on shopping trips before school starts.

As a Consultant, I’m challenged to invest time and effort in projects through which I’ll have influence and impact schools and organizations that are positioned to, in turn, influence and impact students and their families and communities in positive and lasting ways. Recently I’ve read a few articles that have prompted me to recognize a framework that I’ve utilized without previously trying to articulate its components, that provides clarity and consistency in my thinking and for my counsel to consultants and school leaders about career and personal goals and aspirations. The framework has four components aligned with the Japanese psychological concept of “Ikigai.”1 ​

by Dr. David A. Wells
A school’s Purpose is expressed through its Mission. I work with many schools founded by visionary entrepreneurs with an end in mind about which they are passionate – a difference they want to make in the lives of children and young people, in families, communities, countries, and even the world. Many times, the initial motivation was as singular as creating the school they envision as ideal for their children. I don’t recall interacting with any school founders who had the vision simply to start a school, build a business, or create a place to go to work. Rather, they all founded schools to make a difference at some level and in some way.