Leadership Team

Folio Collaborative was founded by a team of educators committed to the mission of developing the best possible system for enhancing faculty and staff growth and learning in schools. Our leadership team is ready to work with you to implement a comprehensive plan designed to meet your unique needs.

Meredith Monk Ford
Executive Director

Meredith Monk Ford

Meredith is the Executive Director of Folio Collaborative and guides the organization’s support for its 150+ member schools.

Meredith was an independent school classroom teacher and coach, first at the Bryn Mawr School (her alma mater) and then at McDonogh School, both in Baltimore. At McDonogh, Meredith was also a grade level administrator and chaired a task force to enhance professional growth opportunities for faculty. When McDonogh received a grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation to develop a professional growth and learning process that additional schools could use, Folio Collaborative was created and Meredith transitioned to become Executive Director.

Meredith’s passion for school leadership and managing the process of change in educational institutions shows through her Folio management. She visits and meets virtually with Folio members around the country to lead seminars, train administrators and teachers, and facilitate conversations around professional growth, leadership and feedback.

Meredith received her BA from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in Liberal Arts from the Johns Hopkins University. She earned a second master’s degree in School Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Contact Meredith: mford@foliocollaborative.org

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Sean Flaherty Director of Technology and Software Evolution

Lissa Caltrider

Sean leads the process of developing and enhancing myFolio, from initial design and speciﬁcation development to ﬁnal testing and deployment. He is the “go-to” person for myFolio users – consistently providing introduction, training and assistance about myFolio functionality. Through this, he identifies the additional features that members need and then guides their implementation.

Sean has more than 25 years of experience in all facets of the software development lifecycle across a broad range of environments. Well-versed in open-source web technologies, he most recently worked in the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Science from the George Washington University School of Business.

Contact Sean: sflaherty@foliocollaborative.org

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Liz Kornheiser
Vice President of Strategy and Operations

Sean Flaherty

Liz leads Folio’s E.E. Ford Foundation work, and manages the day-to-day operations of the Collaborative.

Liz initially joined Folio in 2018 as the project manager for the E.E. Ford Leadership Grant. She supported the design team of administrators and teachers from Folio member schools as they researched best practices around collaboration, prototyped updates for the myFolio platform, and developed the release of the new features.

In her previous position as Partner and Director of Consulting Services at Greenwich Leadership Partners, Liz consulted and coached school leaders and executives around strategic planning and organizational design, facilitation and professional development. Liz helped design and deliver GLP’s Strategic Planning Institute, an innovative program bringing together schools to create and implement strategic plans to drive institutional growth and develop high functioning leadership teams.

Liz is an Emmy Award winning producer of ESPN’s highest rated daily sports show, Pardon the Interruption. She left the world of television production in 2012 to pursue her passion for education and public sector work — she is no stranger to education as the daughter of a boarding school headmaster.

Liz graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received her BA in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, and a M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Contact Liz: liz@foliocollaborative.org

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