The Collective

Smart people.
Exceptional work.

The name was never a flourish. The Greer Collective is a working bench of senior practitioners: chiefs, founders, and national facilitators who have built organizations from startup, led inside billion-dollar public systems, and delivered for state agencies. Convened and led by Jacqueline Greer, the Collective assembles precisely to each engagement. One accountable partner, a team sized to the work.

6Senior practitioners
130+Combined years of leadership
3Partner firms on the bench
DMVRooted here, national reach
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Roxanne White
Curriculum, Literacy & Performance Systems
Independent Educational Consultant

Co-founded Urban Teachers and led its curriculum for more than a decade, building the clinically based dual-certification program with Johns Hopkins and Lesley University. As Chief Academic Officer, her coaching systems helped a majority-teachers-of-color cohort reach 70 percent three-year retention.

  • Curriculum & literacy systems
  • Performance & evaluation frameworks
  • Early childhood programs
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Dionn Brown, Ed.D.
Coaching, Evaluation & Organizational Learning
Founder, Global Education for the Global Majority

Executive strategist and organizational learning expert who helps mission-driven organizations navigate complex human systems. At Urban Teachers, her training and evaluation systems achieved 100 percent rater reliability, precision in service of people.

  • Instructional & leadership coaching
  • Program evaluation
  • Talent strategy & culture change
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Kerry Whitacre, Ed.D.
Strategy & Organizational Transformation
Founder & CEO, BloomED Group

Three decades advising CEOs, boards, and executive teams across education, nonprofit, and public sectors, from the executive team of Urban Teachers to advising three CEOs of Baltimore's billion-dollar public school system. PMP-certified.

  • Strategic planning to implementation roadmaps
  • Organizational redesign & KPIs
  • Executive & board advising
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Johntel Greene
Policy, Data & Government Relations
Founder & CEO, Good Governance Consulting

Sixteen-plus years inside Maryland and DC policy: Chief of Staff in both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly, government relations strategist, and builder of data systems that turn raw numbers into executive decisions and dashboards leaders actually use.

  • Policy & government relations
  • Performance data & dashboards
  • Stakeholder alignment
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Annette O'Boyce
Facilitation & Systems Improvement
Former Senior National Facilitator, NCEE

Thirty years facilitating change for state agencies, districts, and national organizations. Convener of the Franklin County Early Childhood Partnership, bringing education, health, community, and government leaders together around a coordinated birth-to-age-8 system, and a deep practitioner of the science of reading.

  • Strategic facilitation & change management
  • Science of reading & literacy systems
  • Capacity-building with state leaders
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Amber Scott Woodruff
Workforce Strategy & Cohort Facilitation
Director of Strategy & Research, Greater Baltimore Committee

Education and workforce strategist who has designed and facilitated more than 500 hours of adult learning, from KIPP DC's early childhood teaching residency to cross-sector executive learning communities across the Baltimore region.

  • Workforce systems & career pathways
  • Cohort design & facilitation
  • Strategic planning & accreditation

"A bench, not a bureaucracy. Independent experts and partner firms who assemble under The Greer Collective for each engagement, matched to the work, and accountable to one standard."