About School Leadership Alliance
OUR MISSION
To assist state, county, and district school superintendents and other organizations with achieving the vision of a strong and effective leader in every building.
OUR VISION
A strong and effective leader in every building.
Meet the Founders
Jim Quigley
Jim Quigley, co-founder and CEO of the School Leadership Alliance foundation, seeks to assist superintendents with their huge responsibility of developing leaders in their districts.
Jim is a CEO Emeritus of Deloitte Global. Throughout his 38 years with Deloitte, Jim has held numerous key leadership roles. He began and continues to assist in the development of the Courageous Principals program: an award-winning, global leadership development program for K-12 school leaders.
Jim serves as Chairman of the Board for HESS Corporation and Advisory Board Member of The Olayan Group. In addition, Jim is a member of the National Advisory Committee for BYU and the University of Utah.
"The reason I am so passionate about leadership is I think it can be learned… Leadership is not position, leadership is action."
Jim has a history of involvement in various business and community groups in the United States, including The Economic Club of New York, The Council on Competitiveness, The Japan Society, Catalyst, The Center for Audit Quality, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Financial Accounting Foundation, the U.S. Council for International Business, the Business Round table, the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, and numerous committees of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Junior Achievement of New York City, including serving as the U.S. co-chairman of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD); member of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Center of Leadership and Ethics– Duke Fuqua Business School.
Jim earned his Bachelor of Science degree and an honorary Doctorate of Business from Utah State University and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from Bentley College.
Jim is the co-author of As One: Individual Action, Collective Power (2011), a best-selling book that addresses the leadership challenge of creating environments that inspire large groups to work together toward a common goal.
Lawrence Lee
In July 2020, Lawrence Lee joined Jim Quigley in co-founding School Leadership Alliance, a non-profit social venture focused on improving the education system through empowering K-12 leaders.
Lawrence is also a Board Advisor for Wildsparq and a facilitator at Deloitte’s Courageous Principals program. Lawrence’s previous work experience includes executive work in early-stage start-ups, eSherpa, and ZooShoo, Inc. He worked in a variety of leadership positions during his 6 years in banking with Wells Fargo, Union Bank, and U.S. Bank. Afterward, he received the Presidential Scholarship from BYU to get his Masters in Business Administration. He was a Director for the student-run venture capital firm, Cougar Capital, a consultant for the student-run consulting firm, Cougar Strategy Group, the Chief Officer of Culture & Inclusion for the MBA Association, and Lead Finance Mentor for the mentorship program. He also worked for Amazon and AllegisCyber Capital before graduating as a Hawes Scholar.
Lawrence enjoys spending time with his wife Ashley and two kids, eating out, traveling, and a variety of team sports.
How It Works
Becoming a Client District
Our mission is to assist state, county, and district school superintendents and other organizations with achieving the vision of a strong and effective leader in every building. We do this through creating and implementing powerful leadership development plans and programs. As a client district, we partner with you to better understand the leadership development needs of your leaders and identify or create the solutions that will have the greatest impact. Since our ambition is not financial, we operate with an at-cost model to sustain our work. We are limited as to the number of partner districts we can take at one time so please reach out today if you are interested in working with us!
Apply to be a client district by clicking HERE.
Consultative Approach
The way great leadership development looks for each district is unique to its culture and leaders. To achieve best results, we follow these steps.
Experiential Learning
To highlight one of the many frameworks we use, McCall, Lombardo, and Eichinger’s 70-20-10 model holds that individuals obtain 70% of their knowledge from job-related experiences, 20% from interactions with others, and 10% from coursework and reading. We attempt to integrate this model in our work as much as we can.
Partnerships
Our core purpose is to cultivate a culture of leadership development in districts and schools by harnessing the power of the many. To do this, we partner with
Other Leadership Development Organizations
Educational Partners (e.g. State & National)
Charitable Foundations
Businesses
Resource Library
We are constantly searching for the best leadership development content to share with you. Please take some time to share your best leadership development resources through our Contact Us portal at the bottom of the page so that as a community we can all benefit from that which has impacted and inspired you.
