Colliding two worlds: Bringing Together the Best of Business and Education

<p><strong>Mary Grassa O’Neill</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Founding co-lead faculty for the HGSE/HBS Certificate in School Management and Leadership powered by HBS Online. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">HGSE Director of the Principals' Center and Managing Director of Programs in Professional Education</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">First layperson Secretary of Education and Superintendent of Schools in the Archdiocese of Boston (led second-largest school district in Massachusetts - 120 schools and 42,000 students) </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Superintendent of Milton, MA Public Schools for 10 years</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Earned national recognition as the entrepreneurial turnaround principal of the James P. Timilty Middle School (Roxbury, MA)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Founding member of Massachusetts School Building Authority Board</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Monique Burns Thompson:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Co-founder and President of Teach Plus, a national nonprofit that trains excellent, experienced teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues (30,000+ teacher leaders trained) - https://teachplus.org/</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Co-founder, President, Chief Curriculum Officer of New Leaders for New Schools, the largest recruiter and trainer of school leaders in the United States. - https://www.newleaders.org/</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Consultant with The McKenzie Group (Washington, D.C.)</span></li> <li style="font-w