• Strategic Plans
  • Leadership Training
    • Board Development & Staffing
      • Organization Assessment
        • Mentorship
          • Human Resource Management

These are just some of the ways that NESC’s Education Consulting Group has been helping more than 100 elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities and other academic and instructional institutions in the Tristate area.

Examples:

1. For a growing suburban school district, NESC conducted a complete administrative operations review to increase efficiencies and reduce costs throughout the district.
2. For a New Jersey preschool facility, NESC developed and then launched a mentoring program for the Executive Director to improve administrative and operational skills.
3. For a New York City group of charter schools, NESC helped develop Strategic Plans and recommended ways to expand and empower the Board of Directors.
4. For a large Connecticut School District, NESC assessed central office operations and reviewed staff functions, leading to increased output and efficiencies.

The NESC Method

Initial Meeting & Proposal
At initial exploratory discussions with NESC, the prospective client describes the challenges or problems or opportunities it faces. From this, NESC crafts, at no fee, a detailed Proposal outlining how NESC can help solve those problems and exploit those opportunities.

The NESC Team
If the client decides to retain NESC for the project, NESC Senior Vice President and Education Sector Director Stephen Koller recruits the Consultant Team.

These senior executives and seasoned professionals contribute their time and experience and share the client’s commitment to education. Many have been working with schools and educational groups and institutions for years and have mastered the ways that these groups cost-effectively can address a vastly wide array of problems and issues.

Interviews, Digging & Assessment
NESC Consultants meet with the client’s officers, Board members and appropriate staff and stakeholders. They burrow into the organization, coming to understand its vision and mission, observing and analyzing its operations and assessing the broad environment in which the client functions and the competition it faces.

The NESC Report
From its research, the NESC Team produces a Report, which will evolve through much iteration as it is revised to reflect Client comments and suggestions. The Report includes an assessment of the problem and opportunities and an analysis of the Client’s resources. Most importantly, it prescribes very detailed pragmatic, reasonable and affordable ways to address the matter. This includes specific Action Items, resources needed, a TimeLine and an Accountability Process to ensure that the Report actually spurs action and does not sit on the client’s shelf.

The NESC Fee
The scope of the project and the client’s budget determine NESC’s fee. Whatever the fee, it is always a small fraction of that charged by commercial for-profit consulting firms.

An expert in management and organization, NESC Senior Vice President Stephen Koller heads the NESC Education Consulting Group.

In senior posts at GlaxoSmithKline, Sterling Drug and Block Drug, both within the U.S. and internationally, and as a private consultant to a wide range of life sciences firms and organizations, he has acquired considerable experience in organization assessment and development, supply chain management, operations management and design, performance improvement and strategic planning.

And in his stint as Director in the New York State Department of Economic Development, he gained valuable background in economic development management.

He earned his MA in International Relations at Creighton University and his MBA at the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird).