Realize a more effective and impactful institution
Creating a vision of success for your educational institution is crucial for continuing to serve your students and your communities.
Effective school improvement strategies can help you address your talent, process and procedures so that you can continue to impact the future of your institution and students. But gaining a holistic view of your institution can feel impossible when staff are already burdened by ever-increasing daily pressures and change.
Wipfli can help you see the full picture at your institution so that you can pinpoint challenges and drive real improvement.
Why Wipfli?
We know your challenges because we’ve experienced them.
Members of our team have served in or for educational institutions, positioning us to provide you with tailored solutions for enhancing school effectiveness. We’re ready to help your educational institution build a plan and adopt solutions to help you realize your vision.
Our organizational performance services for education include:
Strategy and operations
Wipfli’s strategy and operations team uses our education sector experience to help your institution adopt the strategies and processes needed to improve performance. Our flexible services work with your timeline so that initiatives and changes are enacted in a way that meets the needs of your staff and academic year.
Leadership development services
Wipfli offers a wide range of leadership development services and talent assessment support to help you address staff challenges at all levels of your institution. We help you build leaders capable of transforming your staff, increasing retention and supporting institution wide change.
Wipfli’s Prime Growth System
Take a holistic look at school improvement with Wipfli’s Prime Growth System. We help you build a sustainable foundation for your institution’s health with research-backed approaches to helping you improve performance and achieve better outcomes.
Our team
Daniel Bashore, Ph.D.
Daniel Bashore is an organizational performance consultant on Wipfli’s change management team. With a strong background in organizational development principles, he works closely with clients to understand their needs and develop solutions to help them successfully implement change within their teams and organizations. Daniel is passionate about helping organizations use data and theory-driven insights to improve performance, redesign processes and drive team engagement.
Deron J. Kling
Deron Kling is an experienced consultant and leader focused on helping Wipfli’s clients plan for the future and reach their goals. His background includes over 20 years as an organizational leader and management consultant.
Barbara Low, SPHR, RODC
Barbara Low is a manager on the organizational performance team with over 25 years of experience in human resources and organizational development. Clients appreciate her genuine interest and investment in their organizations. Barbara understands the dynamics of successful organizations and assists clients in being more effective and efficient.
Marcie Bomberg-Montoya, OCI, OEI
Marcie Bomberg-Montoya brings over 25 years of experience in executive leadership roles in both financial institutions and private enterprise to her engagements. She has developed a high level of proficiency, leading a myriad of complex enterprise-wide endeavors such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic analysis and plan implementation, growth and transformation strategies, as well as innovative product and service development.
Steve Hopkins
Steve Hopkins is a leader on the organizational performance consulting and client experience team that supports the transformation of clients through the development of their people, their culture and, ultimately, their organizations.
Tony Smith, CPC, PI, EQ-I
Tony Smith is a certified executive coach, team facilitator and expert in the Predictive Index assessment toolkit, using skills honed through his role as a leader in the telecommunications, advertising and consulting markets over the past 30 years. At Wipfli, Tony works closely with CEOs and senior leaders as a personal leadership coach. He also helps organizations develop high-functioning teams and build cultures that value leadership as the primary transformer of business results.
