Bio - Ainsley B. Rose
Ainsley has over 49 years as an award-winning educator. He began as a high school teacher and progressed to be an Elementary and Secondary Principal, finally a Director of Education in Quebec, Canada. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for Demonstrating Outstanding Leadership in Education by the Association of Administrators of English Schools of Quebec.
He has served as chair of most of the provincial educational committees in Quebec and named to be on the Advisory Board for English Education by the Minister of Education in Quebec.
Now he is an author consultant, Keynote presenter, and facilitator of an extensive range of professional learning topics. He is President of Thistle Educational Development Inc. and professional development consultant with Solution Tree, Marzano Research, The Core Collaborative, Inspired Education. He is a contributing author for several educational publications and is currently working on his first book on the topic of Influence. A second book is also on the way co-authored with two colleagues.
Ainsley is married with three adult children and six grandchildren all living in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Bio - Matthew McDaniel
Matthew McDaniel, PhD is a PK-4 school principal in Caldwell, ID, USA. Dr. McDaniel has well over a decade of educational leadership experience, holding administrative positions in both the charter and traditional public education sectors spanning all grades PK-12. Prior to becoming a school leader, Dr. McDaniel was an exemplary classroom educator, teaching secondary music and Spanish, including dual-credit course offerings of undergraduate coursework for high school students. Ensembles performing under his baton regularly received superior performance ratings and invitations to exclusive performance opportunities. Dr. McDaniel is fluent in Spanish. In 2017, Dr. McDaniel was recognized by the Idaho Business Review as a recipient of the “Accomplished Under 40” award. He is a graduate of the College of Idaho (BA, Secondary Vocal Music Education) and the University of Idaho (M.Ed., Ph.D., Educational Leadership). Besides his work as a school administrator, Dr. McDaniel teaches graduate courses to aspiring educators and educational leaders. Areas of research interest include shared governance, authentic leadership, and entrepreneurial thinking in education. He maintains a regular presence as a presenter of professional development at the local, state, national, and international levels. Outside of the professional arena, McDaniel is highly involved in the local community, serving on two different nonprofit boards of directors, co-directing a local semi-professional choir, and engaging in a variety of other philanthropic efforts. He lives in Caldwell with his wife and three children.
Bio - Dean Shareski
Dean Shareski is a Senior Partnership Consultant for Advanced Learning Partnerships. After a successful tenure as a classroom teacher and district technology coordinator, he began helping build community and supporting schools and school districts across North America for the past 12 years. For the last 18 months, he's been focusing on helping school boards in the use of Generative AI. A seasoned speaker and author, he blends humour, joy, and curiosity to help educators explore the risks and possibilities of AI in schools.
Bio - Joanne Henrico
Joanne Henrico has worn many hats in her career. With over 30 years of experience in education, Joanne has worked at every level of the public education system in Quebec and in many roles. Known for her caring and compassionate leadership style, Joanne’s always been the go-to person for getting things done and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
During her time at Ormstown Elementary School, Joanne wasn’t just a principal; she was a visible, approachable, and hands-on leader who made it a point to engage staff and students in strengthening their community and creating an environment where people wanted to work and learn. From working on big-picture projects to solving day-to-day challenges, she made sure that everyone’s voice was heard and that the school ran like a well-oiled machine.
Recently, Joanne’s been sharing her expertise with John Abbott College, where she’s been developing workshops and leadership programs that support leaders in education, healthcare, and business. Her work focuses on helping individuals and teams grow their skills, improve their collaborative efforts, and communicate effectively.
Joanne has been trying to get Ainsley Rose to hire her for 30 years and it was a no brainer for her to accept the invitation to work with engaged educational leaders through the LCEEQ Leadership for School Improvement Program!
Bio - Kristin Anderson
Dr. Kristin Anderson is an educator, researcher, founder, and CEO of The Brilliance Project. Through her research and consultancy over her 20-plus-year career, Kristin has helped thousands of educators, leaders and aspiring world-changers transform their potential and unleash their personal power through the lens of education.
Kristin’s early career was spent working with students from marginalized and disadvantaged backgrounds, often outcast from mainstream school systems. This formative experience exposed the duality of education in both its capacity to fortify and lift the human spirit, as well as isolating the oppositional factors that actively disable it. These insights invoke the redemptive themes of her current-day work, such as building trust, hope, and belief through personal efficacy, and a specialized focus on adult learning that embraces the lifecycle of the whole educator along with their wellbeing.
Kristin has worked within instructional and leadership roles across a diverse range of K-12 settings. She has developed professional learning programs for Edison Schools, The Leadership and Learning Center, and Corwin, and is known as the person who brought Visible Learning to North America. In parallel, she has completed advanced degrees from Sterling College, the University of Denver, the University of Colorado, and Vanderbilt University.
In recent years, Kristin has collaborated with global leaders to design, implement, and evaluate professional learning frameworks, and has led large-scale development initiatives for sustainable impact through education. Kristin’s approach is anchored in her understanding of behavioral and decision science, balanced with her practical and humanizing implementation of research in real-world settings. She has delivered keynotes, workshops, and extensive professional learning on various topics in teaching, learning, and leadership across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.
Kristin is the author of Data Teams Success Stories Volume 1, Real Time Decisions, Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design, and a soon to be published book on Educator Wellbeing. She currently resides in Thousand Oaks, California with her family.