The Collaborative
Over the course of my career, I have had the good fortune to work with exceptional people—trusted colleagues who are experts in their fields, collaborative in their approach, and deeply committed to quality, integrity, and mission-centered work. They are also kind, caring people whose values align closely with mine.
The Koehler Consulting Collaborative brings together these respected higher education leaders and trusted thought partners, each with distinct expertise and a shared commitment to excellence, integrity, inclusion, collaboration, openness, learning, and authenticity.
Together, we help leaders grow and thrive, and we help colleges, universities, and other mission-centered organizations navigate complex challenges, advance strategic priorities, strengthen their effectiveness, and create healthier cultures. Our work is thoughtful, practical, informed by data, and grounded in each client’s goals, mission, and values.
I am thrilled to partner with these remarkable colleagues on Koehler Consulting projects—and equally pleased to help others connect with them when their expertise is the right fit for work beyond KC.
Marc Carraway
Expertise: Leadership learning | Developing and leading high-performance teams | Creative collaboration
Marc brings over 25 years of leadership and consulting experience to his work with executives from school systems, universities, businesses, nonprofits and federal, state and local governments. As a high school principal, he led Madison (Virginia) County High School from “non-accredited” status to full accreditation and to state-wide recognition for academic excellence. As Director of the Blue Ridge Virginia Governor’s School, a regional public high school for science and technology, he led the school from a sharply declining enrollment to an increase of over 250% in student numbers and developed robust college/high school partnerships with 2 and 4-year colleges and universities across Virginia.
Marc has taught educational leadership at the Federal Executive Institute, at the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Excellence at the University of Virginia, and for the University of Mary Washington’s Master’s Degree for Education Leadership program. His work largely focuses on strategies for leadership partnering, developing and leading high-functioning teams, strategic influence, and leading creative collaboration.
He holds a BA in History from the University of Virginia and a Master’s in Educational Leadership from George Mason University.
Website: marc-carraway.com/consulting
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/j-marc-carraway-74503617
Principal, Scuffletown Consulting LLC
Caroline Laguerre-Brown
Expertise: Institutional compliance and risk management | Workplace culture and leadership development | Board education and governance
Caroline Laguerre-Brown helps colleges, universities, associations, and corporations navigate compliance obligations, strengthen workplace culture, and manage institutional risk. An attorney by training, she brings a legal lens to the organizational challenges leaders face when policy, people, and reputation intersect.
At George Washington University, as Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement, Caroline directed a portfolio of offices serving more than 26,000 students, including Title IX and Sexual Assault Prevention, disability support, civic engagement, and multicultural student services, with a staff of 35 and a $6.5 million budget. At Johns Hopkins University, as Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Chief Diversity Officer, she oversaw university-wide diversity and inclusion efforts, built the university's first sexual harassment prevention training program, and redesigned faculty search protocols.
Caroline currently serves as an External Board Member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and previously chaired the Board of Directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, where she is on the faculty of the Standards of Professional Practice Institute. Caroline is an active member of the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted in New York and Maryland. She holds a B.A. from Binghamton University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/caroline-laguerre-brown
Website: designingequity.com
Principal and CEO, Designing Equity, LLC
Executive Leadership Coach & Founder, Jenni Raley Coaching, LLCJenni Raley
Expertise: Leadership transitions | Executive coaching | Leadership development | Team performance
Jenni Raley helps high-performing leaders successfully navigate critical leadership transitions, including stepping into a new leadership role, inheriting a new team, or taking on significantly greater responsibility. Her work helps leaders build trust, strengthen relationships, develop their teams, and accelerate their impact.
With more than 25 years of experience leading teams, developing leaders, and navigating organizational change across healthcare, clinical research, SaaS, and financial services, Jenni brings practical leadership experience to her coaching practice. She works with leaders who recognize that what made them successful in their previous role may not be enough to succeed in their next one.
As an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Jenni partners with leaders to build self-awareness, gain clarity, strengthen their leadership capabilities, and take purposeful action. Her approach combines thoughtful coaching with practical, real-world leadership experience.
Jenni is particularly passionate about helping leaders recognize that they don't have to figure it all out alone. With the right support, leaders can move through the uncertainty of transition, build credibility and trust, and create the conditions for their teams to thrive.
Website: jenniraley.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jenniraley
Forrest Maltzman
Expertise: Organization design and change | Budget model | Shared governance | Graduation and retention | Online programing
Forrest is a Professor of Political Science and previously served as Provost of George Washington University. In addition to these roles, he has served in numerous appointed and elected roles in GW’s system of shared governance.
As Provost, Forrest led the university in developing and implementing a transparent, incentive-based budget model, and deploying data-driven approaches to service design and delivery. This work achieved university enrollment objectives—including retention and graduation rates and net revenue—advanced school-based fundraising, and grew the university’s online presence. As Provost, he also oversaw 10 academic schools and units responsible for student affairs, enrollment, research, and libraries, as well as efforts to ensure that the GW community was an inclusive and equitable place.
As a member of the Koehler Consulting Collaborative, Forrest brings the perspective of a social scientist, senior academic leader, and highly strategic and innovative thinker. His strong quantitative orientation and extensive university leadership experience make him particularly well suited to projects involving institutional budget processes and reviews, enrollment management, organizational strategy, and data-informed decision-making. Drawing on his deep expertise in shared governance, he works effectively with faculty, provosts, presidents, and boards to build understanding, navigate competing interests, and move complex institutional priorities forward.
Professor of Political Science (and former Provost) at George Washington University
Dr. Melissa Curtis
Expertise: Higher education leadership | Change management | Strategic planning | Executive coaching | Enrollment management | Academic affairs | Student success
Melissa Curtis, Ph.D., is a higher education consultant and executive coach specializing in organizational change, strategic planning, enrollment management, and organizational health. She integrates executive and team coaching into her practice to help clients create meaningful, lasting change.
With more than 25 years of higher education experience, Dr. Curtis has held executive leadership roles in Maryland and Texas. At Austin Community College District, she led enrollment management and admissions across eleven campuses, unifying services under a “One College” model. At Howard Community College, she helped launch HCC Forward, a culture change initiative that reorganized academic divisions and introduced seven-week courses. She also created divisions focused on advising, retention, and student mental health.
A Certified Executive Coach and Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Dr. Curtis holds additional credentials in culture change, change leadership, perceptual shifts, and communication impact. Her approach combines evidence-based tools with empathy and support.
Dr. Curtis is a communication professor at Carroll Community College and teaches English for Southern New Hampshire University, reflecting her commitment to student success and the transformational value of higher education.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissa-r-curtis
Principal, Melissa Curtis Consulting, LLC
Associate, Koehler Consulting, LLCJustin Rummel
Expertise: Enrollment management | Net tuition revenue | Financial aid leveraging | Compliance | Communications and data strategies
Justin Rummel helps colleges and universities turn enrollment data into strategies that grow the institution and enhance culture while keeping it financially sound. He brings a rare combination of financial rigor, regulatory depth, and a genuine commitment to accessibility across the private, public, and for-profit sectors.
Justin has served as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Assistant Vice President for Student Financial Services at Susquehanna University and Director of the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships at Salisbury University. He held fiscal operations and internal audit leadership roles at Strayer University, supporting more than 40,000 working adult students across a national, multi-campus footprint. His career began at the intersection of politics and policy at the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA).
A first-generation college graduate with an MBA from Western Governors University and a B.A. from Millersville University, Justin helps institutions build a full picture around demand generation, pricing strategy, and compliance, grounded in a shared commitment to student success.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/justin-rummel-1387a123
John Chilkotowsky
Expertise: Executive and team coaching | Leadership development and change | Executive presence | Leader as Coach
John Chilkotowsky helps senior leaders and leadership teams increase their effectiveness, build stronger teams, and expand leadership capacity. An executive coach and strategic thought partner with more than 3,000 hours of coaching experience, he works with Directors, VPs, senior executives, and leadership teams across higher education and a range of industries and mission-driven organizations.
John specializes in helping successful leaders navigate increasing complexity and change: strengthening executive presence and influence, shifting from problem-solver to leader and coach, aligning people around shared priorities, and building teams that operate with greater trust, accountability, and independence. His team coaching work helps leadership teams move beyond silos and improve how they communicate, make decisions, collaborate, and lead change together.
An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Hogan-certified coach, John is a former nonprofit CEO and Accenture consultant who brings cross-sector leadership experience and a practical, challenging coaching approach. His clients have included leaders from the University of Vermont, Cornell University, Texas Tech University, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Deloitte, and Johnson & Johnson.
Website: northstar-coaching.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnchilkotowsky
Executive & Team Coach, Northstar Coaching
Henry Oddi
Expertise: Enrollment and revenue technology (Salesforce, Slate, Dynamics 365, marketing automation) | Full-funnel enrollment strategy and operations | AI adoption — process design, enablement and change
Henry Oddi helps universities and companies make their enrollment and revenue technology work for the people who run it. He brings a decade in higher education and two decades in technology consulting across the software and corporate sectors, applying a systems-level view that connects people, process and platform.
At Queens University of Charlotte, Henry was Director of Graduate Enrollment for Strategies & Systems, leading graduate enrollment systems and building a full-funnel recruitment ecosystem with EAB, Niche and Carnegie. As Senior Manager of Revenue Technology at Itential, he led CRM, marketing automation and sales enablement. At Berry College, he helped lead the alignment of recruitment and marketing strategy with CRM and marketing automation adoption, including the move to in-house student search. His higher education career began as an Admissions Officer at the University of Georgia.
Today his work is AI-oriented but people- and process-first: helping teams make sense of what's changing, adopt what fits, and build the technique to use it well. He has administered Technolutions Slate and Dynamics 365, and managed middleware including Informatica and Axiom. He is a Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Specialist, and holds a BBA from the University of Georgia with a minor in Mandarin Chinese.
Website: otherside.partners
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/henryoddi
Principal Consultant, Otherside Partners, LLC
Senior Associate, Koehler Consulting, LLCDavid Iselin
Expertise: Strategic planning | Financial and resource planning | Organizational design and operations | Project management
David Iselin helps colleges and universities translate strategy into actionable plans by aligning financial, staffing, operational, and organizational resources with institutional priorities. His work spans strategic planning, budgeting and financial analysis, organizational design, enrollment and student success, and complex project management.
David currently serves as Associate Dean of Finance and Administration at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he oversees finance, human resources, facilities, and operations. Previously, he held senior leadership roles at Ithaca College and the George Washington University, leading and supporting initiatives across enrollment management, advancement, student success, and operations.
David brings a disciplined, collaborative, and data-informed approach to complex institutional challenges. His work helps leaders turn ambitious ideas into practical, sustainable action. David holds a BA from Bucknell University and an MBA from George Washington University.
Beth McHale
Expertise: Operations & Workflow Design | Process Improvement | Project Management | Client Experience | Execution & Follow-Through
Beth McHale brings more than 30 years of experience across education, business operations, consulting, and project management. Her professional background includes service as a high school teacher, corporate analyst, business operations support within the real estate industry, and office manager for a construction management consulting firm. This breadth of experience provides her with a practical, solutions-oriented perspective on organizational effectiveness, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement.
A highly organized and collaborative professional, Beth supports consulting engagements through project management, process mapping, workflow documentation, and implementation coordination. She is known for bringing structure and clarity to complex initiatives while fostering strong relationships and keeping projects moving forward. In addition to her professional work, she has maintained a longstanding commitment to community service and civic engagement. Beth earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.
CMW Director of Operations & Client Success
Erin Davis
Expertise: Branding | Marketing and communications | Organizational development and change | Facilitation | Project Management
Erin Davis believes that the strongest brands are built from the inside out. She partners with colleges, universities, and mission-driven organizations to uncover what makes them distinctive and translate that into authentic brand and marketing strategies that resonate with the people they serve.
Erin led the development of Ithaca College's first comprehensive institution-wide brand platform and strategy, guiding a collaborative process that united voices from across the institution while leading an award-winning creative team. Her work reflects a deep appreciation for the human side of organizational change. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has completed graduate-level certification in Organizational Development and Change.
Clients appreciate Erin's ability to ask the questions that bring clarity to complexity. She combines deep curiosity with thoughtful listening, helping teams uncover new perspectives, navigate competing ideas, and build shared understanding. Equal parts strategist, facilitator, and collaborator, she creates environments where people feel heard, ideas flourish, and meaningful progress follows. Known for her warmth, loyalty, and playful spirit, Erin is committed to helping organizations tell authentic stories that inspire connection and advance their mission.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erin-a-davis
Director of Brand & Marketing Strategy, KC
Founder and Data Scientist, SightLineAshley Kern, M.S.
Expertise: Enrollment and financial aid strategy | Market position benchmarking | Predictive analytics
Ashley Kern helps colleges and universities turn data into strategy. She dives into the specific enrollment, financial aid, and student success challenges an institution faces, using data to identify root causes and build a strategic path forward rather than applying a generic playbook. Her work includes financial aid optimization, enrollment forecasting and strategy, and helping institutions understand where they stand competitively within the market to develop a cohesive pricing, awarding, and enrollment strategy.
Ashley founded SightLine, a higher education data science practice now part of MeetYourClass, where she serves as Chief Strategy Officer. She has led financial aid optimization, enrollment strategy, and pricing and market positioning projects for a range of public and private institutions of all sizes, including Grand Valley State University, University of Mary Washington, and Greenville University.
Ashley holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics and an M.S. in Data Science, both from Michigan Technological University. Her approach pairs technical rigor with a practical, campus-tested understanding of how enrollment strategy actually gets made and executed.
Joe Bellavance
Expertise: Enrollment Marketing | Student Search Strategy | Predictive Modeling | Parent Engagement | Recruitment Strategy
Joe Bellavance is an enrollment marketing and student search strategist with more than three decades of experience in higher education enrollment leadership and national enrollment marketing initiatives. Through JBellavance Consulting, he partners with colleges and universities to strengthen prospective student pipelines through targeted search strategy, predictive modeling, parent engagement initiatives, and data-informed recruitment marketing.
Prior to launching his consulting practice, Joe held senior leadership roles at the College Board, where he oversaw national strategy and operations for the organization’s Student Search Service, one of the largest prospective student search programs in higher education. In that role, he worked with institutions across the country to develop data-informed outreach strategies that connect colleges with prospective students and families at key stages of the college search process.
Earlier in his career, Joe served in senior enrollment leadership roles at several institutions, including Lyndon State College, Nichols College, and Regis College, where he led admissions, financial aid, registrar, and marketing functions. His work focuses on helping institutions better understand their target audiences and align messaging, outreach channels, and search strategies to reach the right prospective students at the right time.
Website: jbellavance.com
Founder and Principal, JBellavance Consulting
Henry Oddi
Expertise: Financial Strategy & Sustainability | Strategic Planning & Budgeting | Finance & Operations | Institutional Effectiveness | Organizational Transformation
Maisha Williams is the Founder of MKW Advising and a seasoned finance and operations executive with more than two decades of experience advancing financial sustainability and strategic transformation within higher education and nonprofit organizations. She has served as Chief Operating Officer at Carnegie Science and as Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Marymount Manhattan College, where she led institutional financial strategy, budget planning, and operational initiatives during a period of significant sector disruption.
Earlier in her career, Maisha held leadership roles at George Washington University and Howard University and began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A trusted advisor to presidents, provosts, and senior leadership teams, she specializes in aligning financial strategy, operational processes, and institutional priorities to support long-term mission success.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Syracuse University and an MBA from George Washington University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Website: mkwadvising.com
Principal Consultant, Otherside Partners, LLC
Vice President, The PICTOR Group | Founder, Ripple Impact Coaching & ConsultingTanya Vogel
Expertise: Athletics administration and executive leadership | Organizational culture and team development | Culture reviews | Strategic planning | Executive coaching / facilitation
Tanya Vogel is a collegiate athletics executive, executive coach, and organizational culture advisor with more than 30 years of leadership experience in intercollegiate athletics. She is founder of Ripple Impact Coaching and Consulting, a practice built around helping individuals and teams find the courage to become stronger versions of themselves in pursuit of fulfillment, and Vice President with The PICTOR Group, advising athletics programs nationwide on strategic planning and leadership transitions.
She currently serves as a co-facilitator and coach with Bloombase's W.E. Are Next program, working with leaders across and adjacent to professional and amateur sports to develop the next generation of women executives. Her recent fractional executive work includes serving as Interim Chief Operating Officer for UC San Diego Athletics and returning to Northern Arizona University, where she began her administrative career, as Interim Director of Athletics.
A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a graduate of Georgetown's Transformational Leadership Coaching program, Tanya is trained in the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, DiSC, and Hogan Assessments, and is a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator. She holds a B.S. in Exercise Science, an M.S. in Exercise Science, and an MBA, all from George Washington University.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tanya-vogel-1559481