Elevate your organization with our expertise.

Here’s how we transform leadership and performance:

  • Comprehensive Situation Assessment: We interview key stakeholders to understand your organization’s challenges, propose solutions, and assist in implementing them effectively.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Integration: We weave DEI and belonging principles into your leadership practices and organizational systems.

  • Vision and Goal Alignment: We collaborate with leadership teams to consolidate diverse visions into a clear, actionable path with specific goals and benchmarks.

  • Organizational Learning Systems: We establish and implement systems for continuous organizational learning, enhancing your team’s effectiveness.

  • Educational Improvement Planning: We support school leaders in assessing and improving teaching and learning practices within their schools or districts.

  • Value-Driven Leadership: We help leadership teams uphold their values, implement effective processes, and achieve their goals.

  • Strategic Issue Resolution: We help you resolve those key pain points to address organizational challenges, developing and executing plans to drive progress.

  • Initiative Planning and Scaling: We build strategic visions for new initiatives, engage stakeholders, and plan for successful implementation and scaling.

  • Confidential Leadership Support: We offer a confidential sounding board for tackling complex challenges in organizational management and improvement.

Project Highlight: The Path Forward

One of the most exciting projects for IPsquared has been our partnership with the Literacy Academy Collective (LAC) in leading The Path Forward initiative in New York, a project we began in 2023. IPsquared’s role in supporting The Path Forward was to serve as facilitator of the NYS Path Forward Steering Committee and coordinate with LAC the efforts of SUNY, CUNY and CICU to raise $6M to support the work. I’m proud to share that the result of our work is a detailed, actionable 3-year plan. This plan lays out clear steps for the government in New York State, for educator preparation programs, and for partnerships with K-12 systems across the state. Click here for the Summary Brief and here for the full Action Plan.

  • The goal of the Path Forward is to support consistent and comprehensive integration of culturally responsive, evidence-based practices for teaching literacy into EPPs that are grounded in the Science of Reading, emphasize the importance of structured literacy, and develop the six core competencies— within NYSED’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework—across coursework, assessments, and clinical experiences in five program areas: early childhood education (birth-grade 2), childhood education(grades 1-6), literacy, students with disabilities, and English to speakers of other languages. Read more about the goals of the Path Forward in the above Summary Brief, p. 2.

  • As part of The Path Forward, New York State is delivering on its commitments to integrate the Science of Reading into educator preparation:

    Over the course of 2025-2026, IPsquared will continue to support Literacy Academy Collective

    • Facilitating The Path Forward Steering Committee meetings

    • Launching the pilots in at least 10 educator preparation programs

    • Beginning the statewide knowledge sharing work

    • Building the energy and support for this work for years to come.

  • "Josh is definitely not a consultant who swoops in and out with solutions - Josh is consistently at the table to tackle both the day to day issues and the larger strategic questions. He is always thoughtfully prepared, flexible, and has become a true partner in thinking through all aspects of launching an organization. And equally as important he is kind, empathetic, and just really fun to work with."

    - Ruth Genn, Literacy Academy Collective

    “The ability to read proficiently impacts a student’s entire educational experience, and it can radically impact the ability of an adult to reach their fullest potential. The first step is to ensure that all curriculum and instruction is rooted in the science of reading, and that’s reflected in the Action Plan.”

    - Chancellor Lester Young, NYS Board of Regents