WRITER: I help leaders tell compelling stories about their findings, innovations, and achievements.COACH: I coach people confronting problems, building new ventures, and making change.Writing: I help organizations tell the stories they most want to share, working with teams to analyze data, glean key insights, and develop a narrative. Papers I’ve written have focused a city’s philanthropic and civic leadership on dropout prevention and youth development, shared cutting edge data science on skills gaps in the US economy, celebrated the leadership of family day care providers in advancing their profession, and profiled the work of youth and LGBTQ+ organizers in Black communities and communities of color who are leading grassroots electoral efforts, and building local and statewide power. As leaders in their fields, the people I support know a lot more than I do. What I bring is a passion for storytelling, an ability to learn fast, a facility with analytical and persuasive language, and a keen ear for ideas, themes, and messages that can engage the intended reader.Coaching: I help leaders increase the impact of their work by listening hard and asking questions that can sometimes take a bit of work to unpack. The work helps people to clarify what matters most, tackle key problems and opportunities in ways they can build on over time, and increase the efficacy of their effort.My work is often guided by the experiences and voices of people who are affected by economic, racial, and gender injustice -- often my clients are leaders in efforts to redress these issues. I am privileged to work with people whose life experience and working wisdom make them knowledgeable in ways I cannot be. My teachers are children, youth, parents, elders, immigrants, educators, organizers, social workers, team leaders, writers, union members, students, data scientists, researchers, donors, advocates, executives, artists, agitators. They inform my practice at every turn.

I co-founded Community Matters with Elaine "Lainy" Fersh in 2001. As partners, we helped leaders and teams across a broad spectrum of issues affecting children, youth, and working families to build organizational and collaborative capacity, achieve major goals, and share their successes and innovations with others.CM’s clients led efforts in education, community power-building, government, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector. With our deepest roots in Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and New England, we supported leaders and teams across the country.A partial list of CM clients includes The Barr Foundation; The Boston Foundation; Boston Medical Center; Boston Private Industry Council; Boston Public Schools; Burning Glass Institute; City of Boston, Office of the Mayor; Commonwealth Corporation; Harvard University Office of Government and Community Affairs; Jobs for the Future; Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; Massachusetts Education Partnership; MassINC; National Education Association; National League of Cities; Providence, Rhode Island, Office of the Mayor; Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy; Rhode Island Kids Count; Service Employees International Union; SEIU Education and Support Fund; Smart from the Start; Teachers21; Tribal/Classroom Measures; Vital Village Network.

The District Capacity Project (DCP) built the capacity of Massachusetts’ school districts to drive improvements in student achievement. Teams in over a dozen school systems across the state learned and mastered effective labor-management collaboration and teaming practices. Each DCP team included the superintendent, the teachers union president, a senior school committee member, and other teachers and administrators. DCP helped these teams to:-- Co-design and implement initiatives to advance student learning and success;-- Increase teacher engagement in leadership of school and district innovation efforts;-- Improve problem solving, decision making, and fidelity of implementation;-- Develop skills, structures, and policies to sustain collaborative practice over time.In 2012 my Community Matters business partner Lainy Fersh and I worked with colleagues at the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, and leaders from the education, labor, management, and research communities of Massachusetts, to co-create the Massachusetts Education Partnership (MEP). The District Capacity Project was MEP's first initiative, supported by a public-private cohort of labor, corporate, philanthropic and public sector institutions that included the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the NEA Foundation and the Massachusetts Teachers Association. I wrote multiple major grants, co-designed program and curricula, and led the DCP in a variety of roles.

Bundy & Associates offered independent consulting to public school districts, community-based organizations, foundations, unions and non-profit intermediaries supporting public school improvement, child welfare innovation and reform, and more equitable, collaborative and cohesive communities.In a decade of work, Bundy & Associates:-- Researched and wrote a segment of Every Child a Winner, the pivotal MA Business Alliance for Education research document that helped to spark Massachusetts' 1993 education reform legislation-- With the leadership of Boston Children's Services, co-designed, raised funding for, and supported Project Excel, infusing mental health, after school, parent education and educator leadership development resources in a succession of Boston Public Schools, from 1991-2000-- Working with Parents United for Child Care, supported the development of the Opening Doors to Schools and MOST (Making the Most of Out of School Time) Initiatives, critical early programming that helped to lay the foundation for Boston's emergence as a national leader in OST-- Assisted Dr. Donald Pemberton of the the College of Education at the University of Florida to launch and sustain the Lastinger Center for Learning-- Documented the labor-management-community collaboration efforts of public school educators, district administrators, labor leaders and business partners in Pinellas County, Florida-- With multiple City of Boston, community, higher education and Boston Public School colleagues, co-founded the Full-service Schools Roundtable, to advocate for community school expansion-- Supported the expansion and program efforts of local education foundations in California, Florida, and Massachusetts-- Assisted the community affairs leaders of Harvard University by researching out-of-school time programming conditions and opportunities in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston

Over six years, I helped this small, dynamic non-profit "invent" the now common role of the local education foundation, working in concert with a few peer organizations across the country. Brokering dozens of relationships with local and national foundations and hundreds of individual donors, the development team I led grew steadily. Led by our exceptional ED, Glady Thacher, we enabled "The Ed Fund" to bridge the gap between public school teachers and the individuals, businesses, and philanthropic institutions of the city. Together we doubled our annual budget, generated an endowment, and forged a series of school-community collaborations in the arts, math & science, humanities, and youth leadership. Most important, the Ed Fund supported hundreds of teachers and principals to become innovators and leaders of school improvement ventures. Together, they provided tens of thousands of students with increased opportunities for learning and healthy development. What the Ed Fund achieved, most of all, was to help propel San Francisco's education and civic institutions on a course of public-private partnership and collaboration that has only grown stronger in the decades following.