Whitney Allgood is an educator, c-suite leader, founder and PhD with 25 years’ experience in organizational leadership, program design and delivery, and performance management in public and private education and social impact organizations. Her work in the K-12 education sector has spanned public, non-public and alternative school systems and afforded her the opportunity to develop subject matter expertise and strategic acumen in a wide range of areas such as school improvement, equity and excellence; performance measurement and reporting; school climate and safety; social and emotional competence and behavioral health; youth development and engagement; stakeholder dialogue facilitation; and program development, replication, scaling and evaluation. She brings a unique combination of rigorous research training, natural business acumen, and a deep understanding of and appreciation for how people and organizations learn. Her driving purpose is to help leaders and their teams develop the mindsets, practices, structures and systems that drive short term value and long-term impact while building a positive workplace culture.
Her last non-profit roles were Chief Impact Officer at Frameworks of Tampa Bay, CEO of the National School Climate Center, National Director of Teen Programs at Step Up, and Chief of Staff at The News Literacy Project.
Prior to joining the non-profit sector, Whitney served as Director of Assessment and Accountability for D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education, where she was instrumental in their performance measurement and compensation reform achievements. As an inaugural Fellow with the Strategic Data Project at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, Whitney worked in the Office of Accountability at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools to launch their human capital diagnostics series and teacher compensation reform initiative while contributing to the District Strategic Planning activities and facilitating community review discussion meetings. She previously held research posts with The School Finance Redesign Project and The Economic Policy Institute, where her focus was on analyzing the inputs and costs of school practices associated with equitable and excellent student outcomes.
Whitney maintains her private consulting practice, Avenue E Advisors and is also a Senior Advisor with Aceum Advisors, providing strategic planning and executive and leadership team coaching services to healthcare, social impact and non-profit organizations. Most recently, Whitney’s projects have included working with a regional public agency on the design and implementation of an executive succession and team transition plan, including coaching outgoing and incoming leaders; a national non-profit to conduct an HR and operational assessment, facilitate a four-day executive retreat, develop a strategic plan and theory of change, and coach the leadership team through strategic plan implementation; two international education service providers to help them understand the K-12 landscape and key trends in social and emotional learning, school climate, and behavioral and mental health; and a charter school system seeking to develop their infrastructure and systems for supporting school climate improvement while preparing for the transition of a founding leader and new superintendent.
Whitney has also held non-profit, research and policy advisory posts with Vital Voices Global Partnership; Mission Measurement’s K12 Impact Genome Project; The Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development; the National Governor’s Association Advisory Group on Improving Workforce Readiness Through Social and Emotional Skills and School Climate; and the Walton Family Foundation’s Portfolio Design Working Group.
Whitney holds a PhD in Leadership, Policy and Organizations from Vanderbilt University. She is a graduate of University of Florida (BA ’91) and Rollins College (MAT ’94). She began her career as a public-school teacher of students attending a Title 1 school in Orange County, Florida and then with students placed in emergency and transitional settings across Middle Tennessee.
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