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 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, teaching and coaching students K-12 on math @ school and/or for standardized test prep.
- Chris is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and has 20+ years of sales and marketing experience in technology research as the former EVP of Sales at AMR Research in Boston.
- Miller Academy now has two distinct initiatives:
- K-12, school-oriented coaching (further detail under Academic tab)
- "Empowerment" coaching, launched in the wake of the #MeToo Movement, creating a supportive "sisterhood" for girls and their moms. Since then, we've expanded in this realm, creating affinity spaces for boys via our "brotherhood" and a "neighborhood" that is gender-neutral and also focuses heavily on DEI initiatives.
- K-12, school-oriented coaching (further detail under Academic tab)