Our Team
We bring diverse experience across education, leadership, and organizational strategy — united by a shared belief that the right people, equipped with the right tools and frameworks, can transform any school community.
Dr. Tony Daloisio
Tony Daloisio, Ph.D., was trained as an organizational psychologist and has practiced in that field for over 30 years, serving hundreds of businesses, not-for-profit organizations, schools, hospitals, NGOs, and government agencies/military operations. His work with them has incorporated strategic planning and implementation, change management, team development, executive coaching, and executive education. He has been a professor in the MBA program at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, teaching leadership and organizational change. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in the field of Organizational Psychology and Counseling Psychology, where he received a fellowship for his research in leadership style and taught graduate courses in psychology.
In the mid-nineties he spent four years at McKinsey and Co. in NYC traveling worldwide working with the top Fortune 50 companies' most senior executives designing and consulting in change management. He was instrumental in developing McKinsey’s change In the early 2000s he forged a partnership with the late Stephen R. Covey, author of the blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and then his son, Stephen M. R. Covey to develop the consulting practice Principle Centered Leadership and teach The 7 Habits course around the world. He founded and has been the CEO of Charter Oak Consulting group for thirty years. In 2017 he co-authored a highly acclaimed business book with Kendall Lyman entitled, Change the Way You Change.
Tony enjoys his consulting practice with schools, NGOs, business startups, and a variety of mission-driven companies. With the publishing of The Journeyman Life, he will be conducting training programs for men to lead groups of men interested in applying the ideas and tools from the book.
Co-Founder & CEO
Barbara Edwards
“Schools are among the most complex systems I’ve ever worked in,” says Barbara (Barbs) Edwards. “Parents bring enormous hope for their children. Educators care deeply about their students and their craft. Leadership teams often work together for many years, and colleagues interact across many roles and settings every day. All of that makes schools powerful places for learning—and also uniquely complex environments to lead well.”
Barbara (Barbs) Edwards brings decades of experience working with leadership teams across government, nonprofits, and global organizations to her work with schools. She has coached many Heads of School and designed leadership and culture journeys for senior teams navigating periods of growth, conflict, and strategic change. Her work focuses on helping teams strengthen trust, surface difficult conversations productively, and develop the relational capacity needed to lead complex institutions together.
Barbs is a Senior Affiliate Advisor with Aberkyn, a McKinsey firm, where she works with top leadership teams on culture, collaboration, and large-scale transformation. She is also lead faculty for the Remarkable Women Program, a global development program for senior women executives. Earlier in her career, Barbs worked alongside leadership pioneer Stephen R. Covey as a senior consultant with FranklinCovey, delivering leadership programs and coaching executives around the world. That work shaped her commitment to helping leaders align values, behavior, and organizational purpose.
Her facilitation style is also influenced by dialogue-based and relational leadership traditions, including the work of Peter Block and Otto Scharmer. Barbs integrates these approaches with practices drawn from circle work and experiential group learning to help leadership teams slow down their thinking, listen more deeply, and work through complex issues together.
Through this combination of cross-sector leadership work and deep experience with group dialogue, Barbs helps school leaders step outside the sometimes insular dynamics that can develop within educational systems and access a broader set of leadership practices that strengthen collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
Based in Boulder, Colorado, Barbs is known for holding conversations with both deep care and clear accountability—helping leadership teams move forward together with greater trust, clarity, and shared purpose.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Alliance Partner & Leadership CoachSeth Low
Seth has over twenty years of experience working in and leading in independent schools. He currently serves as the Associate Head of School at The Frederick Gunn School. In that role, he has been deeply involved in strategic planning, operations, campus planning, and leadership development.
With The Association of Boarding Schools, Seth has presented or facilitated sessions on “Change the way you Change” (2022), “The Leadership Roundtable” (2024), and “Growing Leaders, Growing Culture” (2025).
Seth’s current work focuses on maximizing the potential of leaders - current and future - in his own school and across a broad range of other organizations and industries. He holds degrees from Williams College and Wesleyan University, and is currently being certified as a Professional and Leadership Coach through Brown University and the International Coaching Federation.
Managing PartnerTim Daloisio
Tim brings a rare combination of strategic business expertise and firsthand experience in education — a perspective that makes him a uniquely effective partner for school leadership teams navigating change.
Before joining Washington Leadership Partners, Tim served as an Educational Support Professional and Substitute Teacher in the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, work that gave him direct insight into the realities of classroom environments, the importance of adaptive communication, and the human dynamics that shape school culture from the ground up.
Tim's broader career spans more than a decade in digital strategy, marketing, and organizational consulting. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Boston University, he went on to lead strategic engagements at one of the world's top digital publishers before founding Boathouse Consulting, where he advised Fortune 100 companies and startups on marketing strategy and change management.
Tim lives in Southborough, MA with his wife, Jen, and two daughters, Ryan and Julia.