Costs you can see.Risks you can weigh.Decisions you can stand behind.Impact you can validate.

Turn cost insights into measurable results.

We help large urban districts see what drives their costs, set clear accountability, and put improvements in place that can be measured.

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What we do

We bring cost-management disciplines of successful corporations to school districts – without losing sight of the district's responsibility to students, educators and taxpayers.

Our Promise

Find cost drivers
Strengthen financial controls
Improve operating efficiency

Our Commitment

Reduce total district spend 10% year-over-year
Help district leaders direct more resources toward their highest priorities

How it works

From financial insight to mitigated risk to sustained performance.

Discover

Your priorities, pressures and data.

Analyze

Spend, cost drivers, trends and benchmarks.

Prioritize

Impact, feasibility and total risk.

Implement

Work with your leaders to put changes in place.

Measure and sustain

Validate results and keep them.

Who we serve

Superintendents, chief financial and operations officers, and school boards in large urban districts.

Who we are

Six Sigma Certified. Cost management discipline. Public education purpose.

Corporate veterans who spent over 100 years taking costs out while protecting the business, now working with school districts.

Thomas Linton

Operations, cost structure and customer experience

Wharton MBA. Led marketing, sales and customer experience at GE, AT&T and BP. Has consulted and modeled on the facilities work order system for a major urban school district. Developed a custom application to forecast work orders and the technicians needed to fulfill them. Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Lisa Salley

Governance, strategy, risk, supplier management and process improvement

Former Philadelphia Board of Education member, current substitute teacher (four districts), repeat corporate division president, and prior senior officer at GE, Underwriters Laboratory and American Petroleum Institute. Author of the governance committee for a major urban school board and of the superintendent hiring and onboarding methodology for the same urban school board. 15-year Growth and Risk Management faculty and curriculum writer in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program. Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Product Management Expert.

Senta Taylor

Auditing, banking, compliance and procurement

Proud HBCU alum (NC A&T). Led global financial audits at GE during the Jack Welch era. Top procurement expert and buyer at GE and General Motors. Senior executive of back room operations and digital transformations at TD Bank and RBC. Black Belt.

Let's discuss your district's immediate cost-management needs.

Tell us about your upcoming structural deficit and cost pressures. We will use this information to prepare for an initial conversation with you and your team.

Please do not include student records or sensitive financial documents.

Public Sector Cost Advisors Results depend on each district's data, scope and ability to implement.