Michael Ambriz Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Our mission is to empower social justice organizations to solve their most pressing problems so they can focus on their most important work—the communities they serve.We build capacity and enable leaders to hone their vision of excellence and bring it to life in order to lead organizations and schools that thrive.What We Do:▪ Leadership Coaching▪ Executive Team Cohesion▪ Strategic Planning▪ Business Process Improvement▪ Project Planning & Management▪ Professional Development & Training

The Futurity Fellowship is designed to develop the next generation of senior operations leaders in education by equipping them with the essential skills and mindsets necessary to lead systems of schools.The Fellowship is committed to diversifying the C-suite and developing leaders who can connect across difference and lead equitable organizations.Choose to lead.

All Over, Us

▪ Provide executive coaching to new-to-sector COOs and CFOs, including on-the-ground observations, feedback and development.▪ Design and facilitate virtual professional development sessions on key skills for leading at the executive level.▪ As an advisory board member, contribute to and design enhancements to the fellowship curriculum and program design.

Virtual, Us

Moderate text-based dialogue with a focus on values identity, tension, and activation with cohorts of leaders who are transforming the education sector.

New York, Ny, Us

Founded new role charged with strengthening and aligning school, regional, and home office operations serving 21,000 students across 55 schools in 6 cities. ▪ Led the planning and implementation of the organization’s COVID response plan to transition to remote-learning in 4 days in Spring 2020. Spearheaded organizational remote realignment, including planning for school reopening, staff culture and wellness, PD and training.▪ Partner with Uncommon President to operationalize our DEI priorities with a focus on an inclusive adult culture and strong organizational health.▪ Launched home office transformation to improve staff culture and service to schools. Drove the development of a new home office vision, co-created with input of 150+ staff members; launched a new home office senior leadership team. Among home office senior directors, staff morale improved by 43% and staff retention improved by 6% in one year (2018 vs. 2019)▪ Led organizational restructure to improve regional operations and service to schools, achieve efficiency and stronger alignment across key functions. Changes resulted in operational school leader satisfaction increasing 13% and attrition decreasing 50% in first year of implementation▪ Responsible for the design and implementation of home office ERP implementation for finance, recruitment, and HR functions.

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded the successful launch and expansion of Uncommon’s newest region in Camden in 2014: led state and district application process, managed all functions including community engagement, student recruitment, finance, facilities, operations and compliance. ▪ Built and engrained regional culture of high expectations, one-school-one-mission, and students' first; built partnership with Newark region to seed knowledge, mindsets, & behaviors ▪ After 6 years, Camden serves ~750 of students across 3 schools and is the highest performing school network in Camden

New York, Ny, Us

Founding regional COO for Uncommon Schools. Developed overall strategy for operations infrastructure, ensuring the removal of all barriers to instructional focus on students and teaching. ▪ Managed operational strategy and execution to support regional growth of Uncommon’s highest performing region: Newark expanded from 4 to 13 schools to increase number of students served from 700 to 5,500 (> 10% city)▪ Launched the development of a leadership pipeline program to prepare future school operations leaders in all aspects of school management and non-instructional leadership. Program was eventually replicated to serve all regions across Uncommon

New York, Ny, Us

Developed overall vision, strategy, and measures of success for operations at 6 national summer training institutes that prepared over 4,000 novice teachers. Invested program team in vision for operational excellence and built plan for team to achieve.

New York, Ny, Us

Created new role to align key operational roles for national implementation. Provided peer coaching and support for 10 operations staff: defined operational & support roles, facilitated professional development, coordinated cross-collaboration and centralized all staffing operations.

New York, Ny, Us

Inaugural team member to found and oversee all operational aspects of first summer training institute in Philadelphia for ~1,000 corps members and staff (largest in history). Participated in DEI program team to develop and revise corps member curriculum. Achieved a 400% increase in corps member satisfaction data, surpassing all historical data.

New York, Ny, Us

Provided administrative support to year-round staff of four, and 90 summer staff. Created hiring systems for summer staff; managed operations at 10 summer school sites.

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Aspen Institute Facilitation Training

Certificate Of Business Excellence, Senior Leaders Program