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Leadership Operating Model: Aligning Time, Energy, and Priorities for Impact

Monday, September 22, 2025
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM (EDT)

Zoom

Event Details

When daily demands crowd out long-term strategy, leaders need more than better time management. They need a clearer internal operating system. This workshop invites participants to upgrade their leadership operating model—the structure that defines how they focus, execute, and lead with purpose.

Grounded in McKinsey’s four key drivers—priorities, roles, time, and energy—the session combines reflection and practical tools to help leaders assess what work truly drives impact. A key feature of the workshop is the Strategic Refusal Matrix, a framework for making intentional trade-offs and protecting what matters most.

Whether you're navigating transition, scaling strategy, or avoiding burnout, this session helps leaders move from reactivity to intentionality and ultimately, lead with greater clarity, capacity, and confidence.

Series: Leadership

Who Should Attend: Academic Administrators, Division Heads, Department Chairs, Deans of Students, Finance/Operations, Assistant Heads, Heads 

Speakers: Workshop facilitated by Dr. Brett Jacobsen, SAIS president, and Peter Baron, founder, MoonshotOS 

Peter Baron, founder of MoonshotOS and Certified Top Coach™️ is a dedicated and seasoned advocate for independent schools. His journey began with a personal transformational experience as a boarding student, which profoundly shaped his future, setting him on a path of over 20 years of service to schools.

Peter founded MoonshotOS, a professional learning community that empowers school leaders to reimagine the independent school business model.

Through MoonshotOS’ School Operating System (SOS) framework based on the Top Coach methodology, Peter provides proven tools and strategies to build clarity, accountability, and momentum within school leadership teams.

With a career in association management, product development, sales, relationship development, marketing, entrepreneurship, and hosting more than 300 podcasts focused on leadership and independent school growth, Peter's success has been built on listening to schools' and families' needs — rooted in a deep commitment to the transformational experience that independent schools can have for students.