Our Founder

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

With nearly thirty years of experience in New Hampshire K-12 schools; Heather has been a teacher, a Title I project manager, a Title IX coordinator, and a principal. Hill, Bradford, Salisbury, Webster, Sunapee, Grantham, and Epping have all benefited from Heather’s leadership, expertise, and commitment to children.

In addition to her contributions to LTL Consulting, Heather is the Director of Professional Education at Bucknell University and a Certification Officer with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She secures, coordinates, and monitors field experiences, student teaching, service learning for all students within the education department at Bucknell. She also provides academic advising support and teaches various courses in education.

Prior to this transition, Heather spent a decade as the principal of the Grantham Village School and then Epping Elementary School. During this time she is credited with collaboratively developing and facilitating several initiatives, including but not limited to: a supervision and evaluation model, a preschool program, an afterschool program, an outdoor classroom and trail network, and a competency-based curriculum, instruction and assessment model. She also served as mentor to several new principals throughout this time.

Heather got her start as a 5th/6th grade teacher in Hill, NH. She holds a BS in Elementary Education from Keene State and a M.Ed and CAGS in Educational Leadership from Plymouth State University. Heather is certified as a Teacher, Library Media Specialist, Principal, Curriculum Supervisor, and Superintendent. She has served on the boards of Second Growth and Best Buddies International.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Michael has spent over forty years in the field of education in a career that has spanned the globe. He has served as a teacher, as an assistant principal, and as a principal in Islamabad, Jakarta, Santiago, New Delhi, Quito, and the list goes on… But New Hampshire has always been home to Michael. He spent a decade as an elementary school principal in the Granite State - in Warren and then West Lebanon - and a number of years in front offices across the river, in Vermont.

Michael has been an elementary school principal for the past two decades. During this period of time he served on various NEASC Accreditation Teams. Michael also studied at Harvard’s Principal Center in 2002 and the Institute for Social Change in Cambridge in 2003.

Before becoming a principal, Michael served in various other school administrative capacities - Assistant Principal, Director, etc. He also served on a number of SACS, MSA Accreditation Teams in South America and Asia and held the title of President of the Association of Principals in American International Schools from 1997-1998. Suffice to say Michael has seen and experienced the full gamut of educational institutions the world around.

Michael began his career as a 5th Grade teacher and is happy to report that his inner-5th-grade-self is still alive and well! Michael holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an M.S.Ed from Southern Connecticut State College, and has completed post graduate work at both the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Plymouth State College. Michael maintains his Administrators License in both New Hampshire and Vermont.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

For the last forty years, Paulette has supported students and teachers across the Granite State. She has a deep understanding and appreciation for adolescents, developed over the course of respectable tenures at multiple middle and high schools. Jaffrey, Penacook, Claremont, and Concord have all benefited from Paulette’s steadfast commitment. She has served as a Behavioral Specialist, a Special Education Coordinator, and a Principal.

Before joining LTL, Paulette was the Principal of Concord Middle School. Here Paulette placed emphasis on climate, culture, and systems. iReady and a WIN block were introduced to shift focus to data-based decision making and competency. PLCs were instituted as well, to aid in these transitions and to pave the way for distributed leadership. All of this was accomplished while overseeing 900 students and 135 staff persons.

Prior to her time in Concord, Paulette served as the Principal of the Claremont Middle School. In addition to shepherding the school through various changes to the schedule, organizational structure, and intervention practices; Paulette served on the district’s Curriculum Council, the Emergency Planning Committee, the Data Team, and the list goes on.

Paulette began her career as a 6th Grade Language Arts teacher at the Northwest Catholic School in Pascoag, RI. She earned her B.S. in Elementary and Special Education, with a concentration in Early Childhood, from Rhode Island College. She went on to secure her M.Ed. in Special Education and Post-Masters Certification in Educational Leadership from Keene State. Paulette is a licensed Elementary Educator, Special Educator, and Principal in NH.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Pat has devoted more than twenty-five years to 9-12 education in the state of New Hampshire. He has been a teacher, an athletic director, a dean of students, an assistant principal, and an admissions director. Pat has also served this same population as a coach and camp director throughout this period of time.

When not consulting with LTL, Pat is the Global Human Resources Director for Textiles Coated International, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-performance PTFE materials. Pat oversees all personnel issues and concerns for TCI, with over two hundred employees and $54 million in annual sales. Though manufacturing materials is a little different than molding minds, motivating people to work together - safely, efficiently and happily - has long been Pat’s core mission.

Prior to this full-time shift to human resources, Pat was an administrator at Trinity High School for over two decades. He served as the primary disciplinarian for four hundred students. His responsibilities included anything that affected the student experience. During this time he was also the lead administrator in the areas of student health, student activities, building safety and building maintenance. Additionally, for over a decade, Pat was responsible for Trinity’s admissions efforts - advertising, recruitment, and registration.

Born and raised in Manchester, and residing there today, Pat is a man of the Granite State through and through. He began his career as a high school Biology and Health teacher. He holds a BA in Biology from St. Anselm’s College and an M.Ed in School Leadership from the Upper Valley Educators Institute.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Tom has been a proud servant of public education in New Hampshire and Vermont for the past thirty years. He has been a classroom teacher, a principal, and a district administrator in six different communities across the Twin States. Hinsdale, Jaffrey, and Lempster were just a few of his stops along the way. (Tom also owns and operates a rescue farm in NH, that has been home to hundreds of unwanted animals, including yaks and water buffalos!)

Most recently Tom was the principal of the Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan, NH. Tom helped shepherd this school - and its five sending towns - through the Covid Pandemic. During this time he also brought a number of innovative programs to the building, including a school-wide advisory program and full integration with the Google suite.

Prior to this most recent post in NH, Tom spent a decade as a principal across the river. Tom made climate and culture a priority. This was particularly imperative and challenging in Whitingham, where he was charged with bringing the district's middle and high schools together under one roof. Tom also devoted a great deal of time and energy to establishing “walk-through” observation practices, inclusive of peer observation, and Proficiency-based Learning.

Tom got his start in education as a high school English teacher. He holds a BA in English from Nathaniel Hawthorne College and an M.Ed in Educational Leadership from Keene State. Tom also engaged in post-graduate work at Franklin Pierce University. Tom maintains his School (0003) and District (0005) Administrators License in New Hampshire.