August 4, 5, and 6
Leading Change
A summer professional Development for school leaders
Step into the year as the leader ready to lead any change with strategy, protocols, and science-backed tools designed to help you succeed.
Leading Change
Curriculum Overview
In 3 virtual live sessions that are each 2.5 hours long, and 3 private coaching calls.
You’ll receive 15 contact hours of professional development credit and a completion certificate in Strategic School Leadership & Change Implementation.
Phase 1: Reflection and Discovery
1. Lay to rest the last school year, if you haven’t already
2. Understand exactly how you experience, respond to, and drive change as a leader
3. Decode patterns of behavior related to change at the individual, team, and organizational levels
Outcomes & Frameworks
Change Orientation Profile
Organizational Change Readiness Audit
Recognize patterns of behavior that predict how well your school and leadership team are prepared for change of any scale
Phase 2: Diagnosing Your Environment
1. Measure your school culture on an assertiveness scale of high, medium, or low, and then know exactly which change strategy has the highest likelihood of success.
2. See your whole stakeholder landscape at a glance: where you have alignment, where resistance is coming, where your social capital lives
3. Understand how change actually lands for individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole
Outcomes & Frameworks
School Culture Assertiveness Scale
Stakeholder Heat Map
A plan to move each stakeholder group toward alignment
Phase 3: Leading Change
1. Protect your energy and the energy of your team so talented people don’t burn out.
2. Know what kind of change your school is ready to take on for the year and where to anticipate resistance
3. Read change and lead it better than ever. You’ll view your leadership practice from a whole new perspective and gain a skill you’ll use your entire career.
Outcomes & Frameworks
Team Health & Vitality Index to keep yourself and your team healthy and steady
Frameworks to name, predict, and address resistance
A new perspective on change and coaching calls scheduled to make sure the start of the school year stays strong
The Gap Nobody Talks About
You Were Never Taught Change Management
The Gap Nobody Talks About
You were Hired to Lead Change, But Never Taught the Science of How
It is not your fault. Change management was never part of our preparation as school leaders, even though the science and strategy have existed for decades.
You can be a visionary, committed, talented leader and still watch initiatives stall, teams disengage, and your energy drain, not because of who you are but because of what you were never taught.
Promising changes stall, even if it was a great idea
You encounter significant resistance from stakeholders
Talented leaders and faculty burn out
You rely on instinct and relationships to make change happen
Let's change that now.
Dr. Anna Carello
Meet The Facilitator
Force Multiplier IQ brings that discipline directly to the context of school leadership. This program was developed by Dr. Anna Carello, founder of Force Multiplier IQ and a certified change management practitioner, with decades of real-world experience leading change at every scale:
20+ years
Teaching & leading in K–12 public & independent schools
50 to 13,000+ employees
Supported across schools and districts of all sizes
Oversight of $12M in funding
Managed across large-scale change initiatives
Experienced Change Leader
Tasked with leading change in public and independent schools at every level and scale. The obvious changes, like strategic plans, curriculum rollouts, and leadership transitions, and the subtle ones we navigate as school leaders every day: resistance to anything new, different, or more, and the comfort of the status quo.
Dr. Anna Carello
Meet The Facilitator
Force Multiplier IQ brings that discipline directly to the context of school leadership. This program was developed by Dr. Anna Carello, founder of Force Multiplier IQ and certified change management practitioner, with decades of real-world experience leading change at every scale:
Dr. Anna Carello
Summer Course Facilitator
Designed for School Leaders by a School Leader
Why This Program Is Different
Built for the realities of school leadership, this program is designed by a school leader using research-informed strategies proven across industries and adapted specifically for education.
Rest first, then strategize
Before any planning or strategy begins, we use evidence-based decompression techniques to ensure the weight of the past school year and has been laid down so you can do your best thinking.
Grounded in the Realities of School Leadership.
Designed by a school leader for school leaders. Intentionally scheduled in August to help shift your mindset into strategy-mode before the school year begins.
Centered on Your Real Work
You lead change every day. You’ll walk away with foundational knowledge of change management, as well as frameworks and assessments you’ll rely on for the rest of your career.
Executive-Level Development
Three live cohort sessions online. Three private coaching calls. The structure of a leadership development program paired with personalized support to transform your change leadership.
A Community of Practice
Intentionally small cohorts bringing together leaders from across the country. This PD is especially helpful when colleagues and teams learn together.
What You’ll Be Equipped to Do
Enter the 2026-2027 school year ready to
Use a structured Change Readiness Audit to assess your organization’s readiness for change and identify barriers to adoption.
Complete a School Culture Assertiveness Scale to understand your school’s unique culture and determine the right strategy for approaching any change.
Apply a Stakeholder Heat Map to reveal how change lands differently across constituent groups, and how to predict resistance.
Recognize behavior patterns, at both the individual and organizational levels, that predict resistance. You’ll also identify where social capital lives within your school and why that is important to know before any change effort.
Use a Team Health Vitality Index throughout the year to ensure healthy team dynamics and protect talented people from burnout related to change.
Read change and lead it better than ever. You’ll view your leadership practice from an entirely new perspective and gain a skill you’ll use throughout your career.
Intentionally in August
Cohort Schedule
Intentionally scheduled in August to ease you into thinking about and preparing for the new school year.
All meetings are held virtually. Teams are encouraged to apply together.
Coaching calls are coordinated separately around your schedule.
Cohort A
Time
9:00 – 11:30 AM EST
Dates
August 4, 5, and 6
Cohort B
Time
12:00 – 2:30 PM EST
Dates
August 4, 5, and 6
Cohort C: Thursdays
Time
3:00 – 5:30 PM EST
Dates
August 4, 5, and 6
Standard Price
Early Enrollment Price
This experience is especially valuable for teams.
Questions? Email me directly: anna@forcemultiplieriq.com
Anna helped us understand the dynamics at play around what we were trying to accomplish. She named what others could not, translated tension into insight, and guided us toward constructive, sustainable change.
What impressed me most was Anna’s ability to steady both people and process simultaneously. She possesses a rare talent for understanding the psychology of teams and the pressure points of leadership, like those critical moments when the change and my team felt like they both were going to unravel. Through her coaching and facilitation, we learned to navigate organizational politics with integrity, communicate more intentionally, and rebuild trust across all levels of school.
MICHAEL B., New Berwick, ME
15 Contact Hours of PD Credit
Registration
Standard Price
$1,250
Early Enrollment Price
$950 – enroll before July 20
Final Enrollment Deadline
July 31 or until cohorts are full
Register Now - Cohorts Are Limited
Early Enrollment Ends
July 20
Final Registration Closes
July 31 or until cohorts are full.
Lead Change with Confidence
Ready to Lead Change Better Than Ever?
Complete the registration form to secure your spot in the program. Limited spots available in each cohort. Inquire about team registration by emailing me directly: anna@forcemultiplieriq.com
Professional Development Credit & Certificate
Many participants have their registration covered by school or district professional development budgets.
This program offers 15 contact hours of professional development and a completion certificate in Strategic School Leadership & Change Implementation. Credit eligibility is determined by individual schools and districts. Please confirm with your organization.
Professional Development Credit & Certificate
This program offers up to 15 contact hours of professional development and a certificate in Strategic School Leadership & Change Implementation. Credit eligibility is determined by individual schools and districts. Please confirm with your organization.
Many participants have their registration covered by school or district professional development budgets.
Built On Decades of Leadership Experience
More About the Facilitator
I’m Dr. Anna Carello, and I specialize in helping school leaders navigate complex change initiatives with strategy, dignity, and community engagement. With both public and independent school experience, I know both systems. I designed this summer professional development experience because I wish I had access to it when I was a school-based leader.
Change is something every school leader encounters every day, yet we rarely view our leadership through that lens. What if we did?
Change is one of the most complex human experiences, bringing out a range of emotional responses and systemic challenges. But we were never taught change management in our school leadership programs. That’s a shame, because it’s a standard discipline for our peers in nearly every other industry, and a skill schools will absolutely benefit from.
This summer workshop teaches you the foundational principles of change management so you can lead change better than ever, and with more buy-in than ever.
Dr. Anna Carello
FOUNDER, FORCE MULTIPLIER IQ
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CERTIFIED CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER
20+
Years in K–12 teaching & leadership
Public & independent schools
50–13,000+
Employees supported across schools &
districts of all sizes
Up to $12M
In large-scale initiative funding managed
Teacher evaluation & inter-rater reliability
Strategic plan implementation
Curriculum & instructional change
Leadership transitions
Master schedule & structural redesign
School-wide technology implementation
Race to the Top (federal scale)
Change Readiness Audit
School Culture Assertiveness Scale
Change Orientation Profile
Stakeholder Heat Map
Reading Resistance as Data
Team Health & Vitality Index
“I’ve sat where you’re sitting. I built this program so you don’t have to navigate change the way I did, by instinct, alone, and without a map.”
~Anna
FORCEMULTIPLIERIQ.COM
STRATEGIC SCHOOL LEADERSHIP & CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION
SUMMER 2026
