Quiddity Consulting provides advisory services that build competent, unified, and perpetuating leadership teams around the essential elements of an organization’s distinctive vision, mission, and culture … its quiddity.

Quiddity refers to the inherent nature, essence, purpose and distinctive characteristics of something, or as Aristotle said, “the what it is to be (a given thing)” ... its whatness.

Our primary market consists of classical Christian schools, especially those utilizing a collaborative format that meaningfully integrates parents into the educational process.

OUR SERVICES

Aimed at classical Christian school heads and boards—along with their leadership teams—we offer advisory services to help school leaders:

  1. Pinpoint why their school exists … and why it deserves to continue existing;

  2. Focus on the parts of their purpose, identity, and character/culture that are most important to them and their community; and

  3. Collectively train and coach their leadership talent around that common vision, along the way gaining a deeper understanding of the structure of their organization as well as their own—and each other’s—unique leadership styles, strengths, and ambitions.

Services include group training and one-on-one coaching to senior school leaders; governance and strategic planning support to boards and heads of school; special project consulting for campus development, financing, or other growth opportunities; interim headship during times of transition; and facilitation of access to an established “lab” school to meet other classical Christian collaborative school leaders and see results in action.

  • Executive Coaching

    One-on-one collaboration and coaching with the Head of School and/or other senior executives and board chair (&/or board committee chairs).

  • Startup & Project Consulting

    Startup & strategic planning, capital sourcing, campus development, succession planning, board consulting, and many other areas of project support.

  • Interim Head of School

    Short-term provision of experienced executive leadership during sudden, unexpected, or prolonged periods of transition or crisis.

  • Leadership Training

    Development of cohesive teams of emergent leaders galvanized around their school’s mission and vision while deepening participants’ understanding of their organization and their roles within it, as well as their relationships with one another to create a “band of brothers.”

  • Lab School Visits

    Facilitation of access to one of the nation’s oldest and largest single-site classical Christian collaborative schools whose foundational pillars include a commitment to serve as a resource to similar schools.

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OUR STORY

Having co-founded and led a classical Christian collaborative school of almost 700 students for just under 20 years, Jef and Starrla Fowler possess a breadth and depth of experience in virtually every facet of starting and operating a high-growth school, including the acquisition and development of a 97-acre campus in Austin, Texas. 

That school, Veritas Academy, is one of the oldest and largest of its kind, having combined rigorous, classical, Christian curricula and pedagogy with a family-friendly format wherein parents are equipped and empowered with the time, training, and tools to genuinely and effectively participate in the educational process.

Today, both the school (via one of its foundational pillars of serving as a “resource” school to others) and the Fowlers continue their commitment to classical, Christian education—particularly with collaborative schools which respect the role of, and fully engage, the parents—by devoting their time and other resources to training and coaching senior and emerging leaders in classical Christian schools throughout the country.

OUR CONSULTANTS

JEF FOWLER
President & CEO

Jef served as the Head of School of Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas for 18 years until retiring in the summer of 2023 (though he continues to serve on the Veritas school and trustee boards) and launching Quiddity Consulting LLC… (more)

STARRLA FOWLER
COO

Since Veritas Academy’s inception in 2004, Starrla served in various capacities as the Academic Dean, Academic Team Chair, Grammar School Head, and School of Logic Head, in addition to her… (more)

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