Miller Academy Coaching | Background
VISION
- As a (tiny) coaching company, Miller Academy is intentionally a for-profit (LLC) that does business to do good.
- At the core of Miller Academy's coaching lies an unwavering vision: to "engage, enlighten and empower"
- @ School: students K-12, educators and staff
- @ Home: children and parents
- @ Work: employers and employees
- @ Play: kids K-12 at their "after school" activities
- Miller Academy Coaching was founded by Gretchen Miller while teaching at Milton Academy in 1996.
- Gretchen is a graduate of BC's School of Ed, Harvard Grad School of Ed (and in 2021, she rejoined Milton's faculty)
- While building Miller Academy Coaching, Gretchen spent 30+ years as a tutor and a biz gal, working in local media from the Boston Garden to Boston Magazine from Inc. Magazine to MC Communications from Plum TV to styleboston TV
- In 2013, Gretchen's husband Chris Johnson helped to reorganize and scale the practice. He also became head of math tutoring and genuinely became immersed in teaching and coaching students K-12.
- Chris is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and has 20+ years of sales and marketing experience in technology consulting as the former EVP of Sales at AMR Research in Boston. He is also a wikid cool "math geek" and his students really connect with him.
- Miller Academy now has two distinct initiatives: one is more academic in nature, briefly detailed above, with more detail under the Academic tab above
- In addition, we launched an Empowerment coaching initiative in the wake of the #MeToo Movement, creating a supportive "sisterhood" for girls and their moms -- and now we're branching out further under our "social coaching' group -- creating affinity spaces for boys via our "brotherhood" -- along with a "neighborhood" space to honor, invite and celebrate all genders -- while also carving out specific initiatives for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Identity and Action. And we will continue to build on this Neighborhood effort -- which may be our most significant program of all in that it is truly inclusive and welcoming to everyone, striving to make the world a better place.
- Forge "influencer partnerships" with schools, families and companies to spread the word about our free (thoughtfully sponsored) coaching (with priority given to those from marginalized populations)
- Build a sponsorship salesforce of single parents, energetic elderly, college kids and teens (earning 25% of sales)
- Offer schools an opportunity to partner (50/50) with Miller Academy by:
- Inviting alumni of partner schools to sponsor our coaching
- Partner schools will receive 25% of sponsorship sales for capital campaign
- Plus an additional 25% will be allocated toward a free coaching fund for both academic and empowerment provided by Miller Academy tutors and coaches
- Inviting alumni of partner schools to sponsor our coaching
- Attain Certified B Corporation status as a company "using businesses as a force for good."
- Build a merchandise arm, from which 50% of profits will be allocated to free coaching for partner schools
- Expand coaching beyond Massachusetts: to all New England states, to major US markets, to major global markets.