Your Board of Trustees' primary charge is to ensure the long-term viability of your school, while striving to achieve its mission. Your Board today should be working on the school for your current students' children and grandchildren to attend. To do that successfully, your Board must think, plan, and act strategically.

ISM Consultants are powerful partners who can guide your Trustees on a productive, appropriate path for sustainability. Working on-site with private-independent school Boards every year, our Consultants ask the right questions, get to the heart of issues, and provide you with solutions and action steps before leaving your school.

ISM Consultants have key tools that when put into action, will provide a roadmap to fulfilling your school's mission. We tailor our Consultant's visit to your needs, in one or more of the following areas:

• Strategic Performance Analysis
  
• Strategic Planning/Strategic Financial Planning
  
• Board Workshop/Retreat
  
• Diversity Planning
  
• Strategic Board Evaluation
  
• Long Range Planning
  

“Post Oak has been using ISM for 15 years. This has included a number of services including the annual Board orientation and planning retreat. It has been incredibly important for us to have the consistency of advice from a single source. It has almost entirely eliminated the tendency for Boards to drift into current events because they remind each other that those are not Board issues, but rather administrative issues. It has also given firm and consistent guidance to the Board in making long-term strategic financial decisions. In my estimation, the benefits of ISM’s advice have been repaid at least a thousand-fold.”

John Long, Head of School
The Post Oak School, TX