Search Consultants
Mary Broderick, Ed.D
Senior Search Consultant
81 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109
Phone: 860-608-1763
email: mbroderick.cabesearch@cabe.org
Mary Broderick, Ed.D. is a known and respected educational leader, presenter, and facilitator. Mary comes to CABE Executive Searches with deep experience in board leadership.
A 22 year member of the East Lyme Board of Education (1989-2011), Mary served as President of the National School Boards Association from April 2011 to April 2012. She served on that association’s Board of Directors from 2005 to 2012, representing the Northeast Region from 2005 to 2009.
A past president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, Mary served as a committee member on the Connecticut State Department of Education on Universal Pre-kindergarten, working with the Governor and regional offices on preschool education and the achievement gap. She also served as a member of her congress member’s Education Roundtable. In addition, Mary represented the state association on a state-wide committee on teacher recruitment and retention, as well as the Connecticut Department of Education and Mental Health Task Force. From 1994-1999, she co-chaired a regional forum on the issue of quality and diversity in education. She also served as president of LEARN, her regional educational service center.
Mary has presented at a number of national conferences and workshops and has authored numerous articles in national publications, including on leadership and educational quality and diversity.
The mother of two grown children, Mary lives in East Lyme. In addition to supporting local and regional boards of education in executive searches and board development, Mary works with a number of communities on efforts to improve odds of early school success as an educational consultant with the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund and she fosters dialogue about educational issues as a consultant with Community Conversations. Mary has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Skidmore College, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Toronto, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Connecticut.
Associate Search Consultant
Dr. John F. Reynolds
Dr. John Reynolds, now a retired Superintendent of Schools, has served as a teacher of Biology and Chemistry at Holyoke (MA) High School, an internship as principal, then the director of a district-wide performance objectives program at Amherst-Pelham (MA) Regional School District, Educational Specialist in Innovation and Science Education and Educational Grants in the Massachusetts Department of Education, Director of Curriculum in Somers (CT), Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent of Schools in East Lyme (13 years) and Suffield (5 years). He has taught numerous graduate courses and provided many consultancies.
Jack has assisted with and taught parts of CABE’s Leadership Institute for over a decade. He is
particularly interested in the theory and practice of leadership, especially in educational
settings. Jack is fascinated by leadership theory, practice, and culture, and their resulting effects
on students, staff, the organization and the larger community. His focus has been on the
motivating effect of assessment and improvement of leadership skills. Jack’s major source of
professional pride has been the exercise of educational leadership with trust, integrity, clear and
firm values, commitment, and the importance of human relationships providing the core.
Jack has been a student, teacher, and administrator in a wide variety of educational settings and
recognizes the value of a variety of leadership capabilities as applied to varied institutions and
situations. His leadership focus is the creation of high performing organizations.
Jack lives in East Haddam and, seasonally, in Old Lyme with his wife, Ann, and spends invaluable
time with three sons, daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren.
Associate Search Consultant
Mr. George A. Coleman
George A. Coleman, was twice named Acting Commissioner of Education during his 24 year career in the Connecticut State Department of Education. He retired from the department in October, 2011. During his tenure at the SDE he also served as Deputy Commissioner of Education, Associate Commissioner of Education, Chief of the Bureau of Curriculum and Teaching, Chief of the Bureau of Early Childhood Education and Kindergarten Primary Grades Consultant. After retirement he joined the Cooperative Educational Services in Trumbull, Connecticut where he represented CES in co-founding the Partnership for Early Education Research (PEER) at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Mr. Coleman holds graduate degrees in early childhood education and curriculum and instruction from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Western Connecticut State University. He has served on many boards of non-profit agencies and state commissions including local United Ways (Danbury and Bridgeport), United Way of CT, CT Commission on Children, The Hord Foundation, Danbury NAACP, CT Child Health and Development Institute, and CT Birth to Three. He currently serves as vice-chair of the State Education Resource Center (SERC).