Mikel Royal

Senior Education Leadership Consultant

Mikel Royal is a Senior Education Leadership Consultant with over 25 years of experience in education, 12 of those years have been spent studying and contributing to education reform by designing and effectively implementing evidence-based tools, practices, and polices to develop, select, support, and retain highly effective principals. Royal is passionate about school leadership and believes deeply in the impact a successful leader has on all aspects of our educational system. Royal currently consults on multiple projects focused on districtwide improvements in school leader talent development in the areas of: leader standards, high- quality pre-service principal preparation, selective hiring and placement of principals, on-the job evaluation and support, principal supervision, leader tracking systems, and systems and capacity to support and sustain a principal pipelines.