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Jay Newman
Partner at Culture By Choice
I have 36+ years of experience in Public Education, culminating as a County Superintendent of Schools in Michigan. I earned my Doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University in Education Leadership. I retired from Public Schools in 2006 and started a business consulting company in 2009.
Articles
Leadership Perspectives
What Got You Here Won’t Scale: Navigating the Crisis of Growing Organizations
<p class="mb-4">The moment growth starts working, it also starts breaking things.</p><p class="mb-4">What felt scrappy and aligned at 20 people begins...
July 1, 2026Read article
Leadership Perspectives
Unlocking the Power of Diverse Perspectives
<p class="mb-4">Imagine a city council meeting where discussions about a new public transportation project are heating up. The room buzzes with differ...
June 29, 2026Read article
Economic Development
Green by Design: Why the Next Economic Boom Will Be Sustainable
<p class="mb-4">You can feel it in the air of any city that is trying to reinvent itself. A construction site that used to promise another glass tower...
June 21, 2026Read article
Education
Are We Optimizing Learning- or Undermining It? A Closer Look at Ed-Tech Classrooms
<p class="mb-4">Imagine a classroom where every student is on a different screen, wearing headphones, moving at their own pace, and barely speaking to...
June 10, 2026Read article
Economic Development
Growth Without People Is Failure: The Case for Human-Centered Cities
<p class="mb-4">A city does not come alive because of its buildings or its balance sheets. It comes alive because of its people. The barista who remem...
June 10, 2026Read article
Hiring and Onboarding
Culture Starts Here: Why Onboarding Is Your Strongest Lever
<p class="mb-4">The first day on the job is not just a start date. It is a signal. It tells a new hire, often within hours, whether they are stepping ...
June 9, 2026Read article
Leadership Perspectives
Small Rooms, Big Impact: How Local Leadership Shapes Everything That Follows
<p class="mb-4">It usually starts small. A neighborhood meeting that runs late because people actually care. A resident who refuses to accept that a b...
June 8, 2026Read article
Work Life Balance
Meetings That Could’ve Been a Life: Escaping the “Always On” Olympics
<p class="mb-4">You do not need to “earn” a life outside of work. That myth is how people wake up at 38, clutching a laptop and a loyalty mug, wonderi...
June 2, 2026Read article
Youth ServicesPolicy & Politics
Voices That Matter: Elevating Youth in Policy and Decision-Making
<p class="mb-4">It starts quietly. A classroom where students wonder if what they are learning will matter in ten years. A teenager scrolling through ...
June 2, 2026Read article
Education
Chalkboards, Chat Rooms, And Change: Teaching Communication For A New Era
<p class="mb-4">Imagine a classroom where a heated debate breaks out over a controversial topic, yet no one raises their voice, no one rolls their eye...
May 31, 2026Read article
Health and Mental Wellness
Are You Dealing with Narcissism or Just Difficult Behavior at Work?
<p class="mb-4">You have likely felt it before. A meeting where one voice dominates. A conversation that somehow loops back to the same person every t...
May 28, 2026Read article
RetirementEducation
Experience Never Retires: How Veteran Educators Are Driving Education Reform
<p class="mb-4">Walk into any community meeting, school board forum, or neighborhood tutoring program and you’ll find them. Former teachers, principal...
May 27, 2026Read article
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