About Classy Leader

For more than twenty years, I worked in the corporate world leading teams, developing people, and building cultures grounded in trust, accountability, and service. Leadership was never about authority — it was about empowering others to succeed.

When I stepped into a classroom for the first time, I had no formal teaching background. No classroom management training. No education playbook.

But something became clear almost immediately.

The same leadership principles I used to lead adults in business worked in the classroom — the people were just smaller.

Instead of managing behavior, I focused on building relationships.
Instead of enforcing rules, I established trust.
Instead of controlling outcomes, I led students toward ownership of their learning.

Today, as an educator, I aim help educators reframe their role from classroom manager to classroom leader. I bring servant leadership principles from the corporate world into education — not as theory, but as lived experience.

Classy Leader exists because students don’t need more control — they need better leadership.

When teachers lead with empathy, clarity, and purpose, students rise.
And when educators change their mindset, outcomes change.

 My mission is to challenge the way we think about classroom management and replace it with leadership rooted in empathy, purpose, and service—because students don’t need to be managed, they need to be led. 

 I hope to change the narrative in education—from managing students to leading learners—so classrooms become places of ownership, growth, and purpose.