Meet your lead guide

Heather Clayton Staker will serve as the lead guide on your Path of a Guide. She’s spent her career helping leaders and teachers be disruptive innovators to create happier, higher-performing K-12 schools. She’s coached educators in the Middle East, Canada, Russia, China, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Rwanda, the U.K., and the U.S.

She is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools (San Francisco: Wiley, 2015); The Blended Workbook (San Francisco, Wiley, 2017); and numerous research papers for the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.

As the founder of Guide School, Heather equips parents and guides to support their learners in Flex blended-learning environments. These environments combine in-person learning with personalized, adaptive software and high-quality coaching to accelerate student achievement.

Before this role, Heather was a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company. She served for one year as the California State Board of Education student member during Governor Pete Wilson’s administration, taught U.S. history as a teaching fellow at Harvard College, founded a co-op preschool, and marketed Oil of Olay for Proctor & Gamble. 

She holds a B.A. magna cum laude in government from Harvard University and an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. She is the mother of five children and lives in Austin, Texas.