Samuel Wakefield Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

I partner with organizations and community leaders to envision, strategize, and implement bold initiatives. My consultancy specializes in designing and facilitating transformative learning experiences, strategic planning, and leadership coaching.

We specialize in visibilizing the patterns of inequity that exist across race/gender+, helping you build the muscle to withstand the transformational tension(TM) needed for systems change, andchart a path forward to materially shift conditions.We’re on a mission to transform workplaces by fostering equity and justice for Black and Brown employees. It is with deep conviction that we know a new way is possible.Key Responsibilities as Partner Include:Co-leads our strategic planning efforts as an organization, chairing partner meetings to drive discussion of matters important to firm operations, keeping discourse on-topic and moving at an efficient pace.Co-designs and facilitates organizational race, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts for fortune 500 companies (Google, Intel, etc) and nonprofits (Human Rights Watch, The Southern Poverty Law Center, etc, increasing the staff retention and job satisfaction of target demographics for our clientsCreates and manages our racial equity leadership coaching program, impacting managers, c-suite leaders, and functional leaders across the nonprofit and for-profit sector

Our Mission is to inspire all children to the highest levels of academic achievement through a rigorous curriculum that integrates the wonders of the natural world. As Board Chair, I steward our work to ensure strategic clarity for our school community, good governance for our board, and a strong partnership with our school leadership team.

Served as the interim Head of School for The Terra School while stabilizing staff culture, retention, and performance.

In my role, I serve as the visionary and strategist for ensuring parent leaders build their capabilities to effectively run nonprofits centered in strong advocacy work. I am responsible for developing, delivering and/or deploying team members to support parents’ development in self awareness, self management and identity-based leadership - and specifically those areas that accelerate the work leaders do to build movements and the infrastructure to support those movements. Key Accomplishments include: Co-design and ran an 18 month incubator, which recruited and trained executive directors across 4 cities (Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis, and San Antonio), to grow their organizations from idea to conception; with funding, strategy, and staffing in place.Coached executive directors in developing the necessary theory of change, prioritization, planning, and time management skills to successfully run their nonprofitsDesigned leadership courses to help develop new leaders within the context of building an educational movementConducted fundraising and grant management workshops, including grant application writing and budget management in order to train executive directors on proper financial stewardship

We facilitate experiences that enable teams and organizations to set a compelling vision and mission, determine ambitious goals, and create action plans to guide the work. We also assist teams who are exploring the collective impact model.Helped launch Sport for Good Atlanta, impacting approximately 55,000 residents on the Westside of Atlanta. Lead the strategic planning process for Gateway Center set to impact over 6,000 homeless clients across Metro Atlanta.

Served as a liaison between schools and the central office, responsible for supporting Principals and the School Governance Councils with ideas for implementing academic and organizational innovations, and providing support with school budget approval and overall school governance. Engaged in community organizing to build the capacity of parents and community members to engage in local school decision-making. Designed and facilitated curriculum to train council members on aspects of school decision making.Launched new campaign (#sharedgovernance) which led to 307% increase in community engagement via school governance elections.Increased strong governance through coaching and capacity building.

Created and implemented curriculum for several new leadership development programs leading to growth in our region’s leadership pipeline of alumni leading in public, private, and nonprofit sectors Established the organization’s first leadership development programing creating a pipeline of educational leaders that now include social entrepreneurs, elected officials, and principals

Atlanta

Lead the organization in recruiting and retaining the most diverse program team for 2 years. Lead a cohort of 6 teacher coaches (Managers of Teacher Leadership Development or MTLD) who were each responsible for about 30 new teachers, representing a cohort of about 185 teachers impacting over 11,000 students. Lead staff talent recruitment efforts and met or exceeded 100% of talent recruitment matriculation and diversity targets

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed and coached a group of 20 corps members towards efficacy, retention, and satisfaction goals along with one Manager of Teacher Leadership Development. Met or exceeded all corps member efficacy, retention, and satisfaction goals with both my cohort of corps members and the MTLD I managed

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed and coached a group of 35 first and second year teachers towards efficacy, retention, and satisfaction goals

Established a big goal and led students toward attainment of academic success through management of individual achievement plans, continual assessment, and strong backward planning/executing. Guided 100% of classroom students towards significant academic gains by growing on average 2 grade levels in reading and 1.5 grade levels in math.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Nonprofit Management And Leadership

Ba, Political Science And Economics