Jody Spiro, EdD, is director of education leadership at The Wallace Foundation. There she leads an interdisciplinary team that sponsors work across the country to learn lessons about how effective education leadership might lead to improved results for school districts, states, and students.

Her career has spanned work in education and change leadership with schools, districts, nonprofits, and governments in the United States and abroad. Prior to joining Wallace, Spiro held leadership positions at large organizations in the private, public, nonprofit, university, philanthropic, and international sectors. These included the Chancellor's Office at New York City Department of Education and senior level positions at the Soros Foundations, Long Island University, and Education Development Center, Inc. She has seen firsthand that the approaches in this book apply in all these venues. In all these positions she always has tried to walk the talk of the ideas presented in this book.

Spiro presents frequently on the topics of change leadership and education leadership at conferences held by organizations such as the American Association of School Administrators, The Council of Chief State School Officers, Learning Forward, and The Wallace Foundation. She is the author of Leading Change Step-by-Step: Tactics, Tools, and Tales (Jossey-Bass, 2011).