My strengths lie in the ability to know how to make things happen, to build strong relationships that can hold a team together and make the team greater than the sum of its parts. Helping teams consider what could be while executing a disciplined plan in order to make good decisions is a result of my life's work of serving, inspiring and influencing leaders and teachers to meet the needs of their students. Through a shared leadership approach, my skills include the ability to employ the practical application of systems’ theory by way of creating quality tools needed to build and monitor a well-designed improvement plan within an organization. With a strong understanding of change and management concepts, my strengths lie in creating a 'bottom-up' approach to leadership based on transparency, inclusiveness and communication; a plan in which stakeholders together design and own what we we do, when we will do it, and what we will do if we do not achieve the results we are seeking.Debi Phillips