Jay Dillon Email & Phone Number

358 Roswell Street, Suite 1200, Marietta, Ga 30060

Education Planners is an educational consulting firm helping schools districts across the Southeast handle organizational challenges and operate more efficiently. The Education Planners team represents more than 200 years of combined professional experience in educational leadership. As a consortium of recognized educational leaders and senior associates, Education Planners specializes in helping K-12 school systems succeed in overall performance by evaluating and making recommendations for the personnel, systems, and processes already in place. Education Planners has solutions for the wide range of challenges that impact all school systems.Services include:• Bond and Tax Referendum Preparation (establishment of SPLOST)• Community Engagement & Stakeholder Communications• Efficiency and Effectiveness Reviews• Charter School Start-Up and Management• Facility Management• Financial Evaluation and Management, including Accounting, Reporting, and Audits• Institutional Assessments• Leadership Training & Coaching• Local Board Governance Training• Personnel Department Oversight and Management• Personnel Reviews, Evaluations, and Investigations• Plant Services and Facility Assessment• School Construction Oversight and Project Development• Teaching and Learning• Technology IntegrationA trusted advisor to some of the nation’s largest school systems, Education Planners partners with school leaders to help them reach their goals and increase operational efficiency and effectiveness. Since every school system’s challenges are different, Education Planners selects a specialized team of professionals based on an institution’s unique needs. Whatever the challenge, Education Planners' experts have been there before and have the experience to know what works – and the ability to identify and implement an appropriate solution.

Marietta, Ga.

Director of Communications: Manage communications staff and oversee internal/external communications and strategic communications planning for 109,000-student, 14,500-employee school system, including:• District-wide publications: Press releases; Annual Report; employee newsletter; et. al.• Media relations: Spokesman for school district; media contact/coordinator; crisis communications.• Writer: Speeches, briefings, letters, newspaper columns for Superintendent and Board of Education.• Consultant/Advisor: Member of Superintendent’s Executive Cabinet.• Multi-media presentations: Develop and produce professional presentations for Superintendent, executive staff and central office departments.• COBB ed-TV: Oversee the school district’s cable access television station that broadcasts 24/7 to 150,000 Cobb County Comcast, Charter and UVerse viewers.• Web Site: Oversee development, design and content for award-winning school district web site, internal Intranet site for employees, and 114 individual school web sites.• Planning: Develop and implement strategic Communications Outreach Plan, and assist with development of district-wide strategic plan.• Training: Host on-site communications training and develop PR training material for school-based staff.• Technology: Developed successful communications strategies to reach large employee and community stakeholder bases utilizing video, e-mail, text, social media, the Internet, and an automated telephone calling system.• Public Referenda: Led four successful communications campaigns to pass countywide 1 percent sales tax for school construction (SPLOST).Professional activities:• Chairman, Cobb-Douglas Board of Health MAPP Steering Committee – Community Health Improvement Plan (2011 to current)• Board of Directors E. Dillon & Company, Swords Creek, Va. (current)• Leadership Cobb, Class of 2003• National School Public Relations Association• Georgia School Public Relations Association