Robert Hiller

Provide executive leadership for academic strategy, organizational improvement, leadership development, and innovation across a seven-school charter network serving more than 2,000 students, 300 employees, and a $50 million annual operating budgets

Strategic Leadership

• Serve as strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, helping shape the long-term vision and direction of the organization.
• Led development of the organization's five-year strategic plan, aligning academic excellence, organizational sustainability, and student success.
• Foster collaboration across executive leaders to strengthen organizational alignment and shared accountability.

Organizational Effectiveness

• Designed and implemented a network-wide continuous improvement framework that strengthened organizational coherence and execution.
• Built cross-functional systems that improved collaboration among academic, operations, finance, enrollment, technology, and data teams.
• Developed leadership practices that foster trust, accountability, and shared ownership across schools.

Leadership Development

• Coach and mentor seven principals and executive leaders to strengthen instructional leadership and organizational effectiveness.
• Design leadership development experiences that cultivate reflective, mission-driven school leaders.
• Develop succession planning systems that strengthen long-term organizational capacity.

Innovation

• Secured grant funding to launch the organization's enterprise AI strategy.
• Developed a comprehensive AI governance framework to support the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence across instructional and operational systems.
• Led the design and implementation of a network-wide Portrait of a Graduate framework, aligning curriculum, instruction, assessment, and authentic learning experiences across seven schools.
• Championed innovative practices that strengthened teaching and learning while preparing students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for success in college, career, and civic life.

Provided strategic, instructional, and operational leadership for a college preparatory high school, fostering a culture of academic excellence, belonging, and continuous improvement.

• Helped launch New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science as Founding Assistant Principal before serving nearly a decade as Principal.
• Sustained a 95% graduation rate across four consecutive graduating classes.
• Increased college credit attainment to 70% of graduates through expanded dual enrollment opportunities.
• Cultivated a school culture where strong relationships, high expectations, student voice, and belonging created the foundation for academic and personal growth.
• Designed and launched the Civic Impact Project as a graduation requirement, empowering students to apply their learning through authentic leadership, service, and community problem-solving.
• Led New York State's Seal of Civic Engagement pilot, embedding civic responsibility into the student experience.
• Established strategic partnerships with colleges, nonprofit organizations, and community organizations that expanded learning opportunities beyond the classroom.
• Created a work-based learning program that engaged 30% of seniors in real-world experiences aligned with their academic interests and future goals.
• Developed a distributed leadership model that empowered teachers and administrators to lead school improvement initiatives and strengthened organizational culture.
• Fostered a collaborative leadership culture through intentional coaching, mentorship, and leadership development