Championship Culture: Leadership Cohort Program

Registration Closes January 10th

Kick-Off Session - Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, 2025, at Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, Tennessee
Monthly Synchronous Cohort Development Sessions - One Monday each month via Zoom (3:30-5:00pm CT)
February 3, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2

Target Audience: School Leaders

Overview: A "championship culture" is an organizational environment emphasizing excellence, perpetual improvement, collaboration, and sustained success. Fundamental traits of such a culture include shared vision and goals, high standards, positive feedback, open communication, relentless learning and improvement, collaboration, teamwork, accountability, implementation planning, success celebration, and leadership.

Such a culture leads to individual flourishing and measurable gains in team performance and student outcomes, but a championship culture doesn’t emerge by chance or hope. This year-long program equips leaders ready to build a championship culture with the frameworks and tools they need to deliberately cultivate the conditions for high-performing teams, faculty groups, and school-wide. 

Program Format: The Championship Culture Leadership Cohort will engage 12-24 school leaders in a semester-long journey of professional learning, personal growth and skill development, and community connection and support. The program includes four core components:

• Monthly training and development sessions via Zoom from February to June. Each 90-minute session is focused on essential elements of building and sustaining a championship culture.
• Online modules with rich, targeted content alongside application exercises, discussions, and reflection.
• An in-person deep dive workshop experience. Participants will connect, learn, and dig in together for a full-day in-person Championship Culture workshop with an in-person kick-off weekend in January.
• (Optional) Personal one-on-one monthly strategy sessions for tailored support and deeper exploration of topics.

About the Facilitators

Lauren Evans
Lauren Evans stands at the forefront of educational innovation, particularly renowned for her dedication to transforming learning environments into spaces where equity, empathy, and leadership flourish. As the lower and middle school division head at Carolina Day School, Lauren has spearheaded pivotal curriculum reforms that have significantly enriched academic and social-emotional learning landscapes. Her unwavering commitment to professional and community development has instigated profound, transformative changes in educational methodologies and practices.

With a deeply rooted background in special education and school administration, Lauren offers invaluable perspectives on crafting inclusive, student-centered educational experiences. Her approach integrates mindfulness, empathetic leadership, and a staunch commitment to social justice.

Lauren's LinkedIn here.

Meera​ Shah
As an independent school educator and academic leader for over two decades, Meera has mentored teachers, overseen the professional growth of faculty at the department and all-school level, run leadership teams, and shepherded curricular and programmatic change in schools.

Meera founded Trey Education to help independent school leaders move their faculty and programs forward.

As a consultant, she's provided one-on-one thought partnership and mentorship for academic leaders, facilitated custom all-school leadership development programming for department chairs, coached teachers and developed teacher mentorship programs, facilitated team retreats, partnered with regional associations for professional learning, supported schools and leaders with program visioning and development, optimized schedules, conducted senior administrative searches; and more. In short, Meera provides strategic school leaders with added capacity, expertise, and third-party perspectives and facilitation.
Meera partners with schools and leaders with the belief that change, growth, and empowerment are intertwined, and thus prioritizes authentic relationships, responsive design, and collaboration in her work.

Meera's LinkedIn here.