PAUL H. WILEY

Paul H. Wiley attended Bowdoin College and received his Masters in Counseling from the University of Southern Connecticut. He received school administrator licensures in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Mr. Wiley has served as a teacher, program coordinator, guidance counselor and school principal. He has also served as a faculty facilitator and national level leadership coach for the National Institute for School Leadership. As a past associate educational consultant for the Massachusetts Elementary School Principals Association he has provided professional development and support for school leaders, school districts and aspiring principals earning licensures through CPAL (Certification Program for Administrative Licensure) and was a member of the National Elementary School Principals Association (NAESP). Mr. Wiley also served as the Interim Head of School for The Common School in Amherst, MA.

He is a past Vice President of the Amherst A Better Chance (ABC) Board of Directors and served on the National Board of Directors for the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR).

Mr. Wiley’s coaching interventions with currently serving and aspiring leaders are designed to help them develop the broad knowledge base and critical leadership skills needed for success.

Mr. Wiley’s work with professional educators includes:

• – Delivering effective instructional leadership practices,
• – Improving teacher supervision and evaluation procedures, and practices,
• – Building effective teams and professional learning communities,
• – Improving internal and external forms of communications,
• – Establishing effective time and task management strategies, and
• – Coaching for serving and aspiring school leaders.

DR. PAT ROMNEY

Patricia Romney received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York where she won the Bernard R. Ackerman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Graduate Psychology. She completed her internship in Consultation and Education at the Yale University School of Medicine and did post-graduate study at The College of Executive Coaching.

For twenty years she taught at the college level, achieving tenure at Hampshire College where she taught for 10 years. Subsequently she held a 10 year appointment as Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College. Courses taught included: The Psychology of Oppression, Psychology of Racism, and The Social Psychology of Organizations.

Dr. Romney has been named a “Massachusetts Commonwealth heroine” and has authored over 20 articles and papers. Her co-edited volume Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services was published in 2017 by NASW Press. Her book We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave of Feminism was published by Feminist Press in October 2021.

Dr. Romney is a lover of language and culture. She has traveled widely in Africa, Latin America, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean, and believes that the knowledge of cultures is a fundamental building block of intercultural communication. She has deep knowledge of Latine cultures and speaks Spanish at the advanced intermediate level.

For the past 30 years she has been engaged in dialogue work, large scale diversity initiatives, leadership development and team building, as well as professional coaching of individual faculty and administrators in academia.

After many decades working in the forefront of justice and DEI work, today Dr. Romney repositions her work. Her leadership coaching supports this generation’s leaders as they joyfully fulfill their destiny and purpose. Her dialogue facilitation serves to build connection and heal fractures, moving communities from an us/them focus to a focus on connection, community, and the common good.