What do you hope your team says about your leadership at year's end? This is the kind of question that reminds us what leadership is really about. If you’re looking to start the year with purpose, presence, and principle, we’d love to walk beside you. The Leader Network offers coaching, roundtables, retreats, and growth assessments that help school leaders grow—and grow strong teams in the process.

Four ways to use July with purpose—and step into the year ahead with clarity, confidence, and intention:

Summer’s almost here. For school leaders, it’s a season of sandals and strategy, slower mornings and long-range planning. It’s also one of the few natural moments we get to pause—to step back and ask: What’s next?

How can one critical comment outweigh five pieces of praise? And what can we do about it? Here are 3 things TLN shares with leaders.

The most effective leadership teams are built on trust, shared purpose, and the courage to have the right conversations—together. Too often, we picture leadership as a solo act—visionary, driven, maybe even heroic. But when we work closely with independent schools around the world, a different truth emerges: sustainable leadership is always a team sport.

What if three simple questions could significantly strengthen your partnership with your Board Chair?

In the school year. when even the strongest leaders feel their energy dipping, TLN provides three tips to energize leaders.

Often, when I work with school leaders, they already have a vision—they just don’t recognize it as such.

This month, The Leader Network's Roundtables focused on the art of managing different levels of performance within our schools.