Dawson School in Lafayette, Colorado has selected Connor Associates for a 2025-2026 predictive modeling enrollment feasibility study and 2029 Forecasting and an external image audit. Connor has also been retained to prioritize and implement recommendations.
Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado has selected Connor Associates for a current predictive modeling enrollment feasibility study and 2028 Forecasting, as well as an internal and external Image Audit to enhance strategic marketing communications. Connor has also been retained to prioritize and implement recommendations.
“Michael and his team at Connor Associates delivered solid and actionable information with the Current-Year Enrollment Feasibility Study and a Five-Year Forecast. His expertise in various school markets assured my board that we all fulfilled our fiduciary responsibilities with aggressive research and commitment to a vision.”
“Connor Associates was the unanimous choice of our committee. What impressed us most was their commitment to see the projects delivered on time to the Board and their pledge to help us throughout the process and even beyond to see growth and better strategic insight into our long-term future.” Ken Jennings, President, Notre Dame High School (NJ)
Connor Associates is pleased to announce its work work Presentation High School,an independent, college preparatory girls school with a Catholic mission. Located in Silicon Valley, Presentation fosters a lifelong sisterhood and develops courageous and compassionate leaders ready for college and beyond.
Connor Associates is pleased to announce the completion of its work with Moorestown Friends School, a Preschool - Grade 12 community rooted in Quaker values and dedicated to the pursuit of educational excellence.
“Mike Connor, Thom Greenlaw, and the Connor Associates team have been outstanding partners as we embarked on our compensation benchmarking analysis. As a result, EBI is poised to make informed decisions that will enable us to retain and recruit top talent in an ever-changing market, while also prioritizing sustainable financial modeling for organizational resilience.”
It had been 10 years since we had done a compensation/benefit study. Connor Associates stood out by virtue of its combination of depth and experience as well as having real breadth in the field. It didn’t feel like anything would surprise them – they’ve seen a lot. At the same time, we needed deep expertise that relates to boarding schools. Connor Associates came highly recommended.
With a powerful school motto of “I will find a way or make one,” Holton-Arms School students are positioned to have the determination to make a difference in a complex and changing world.
Connor Associates is delighted to announce the work ahead with Montessori School of Denver, a PreK-8 school and a member of the Association of Colorado Independent Schools.
While many schools enter their summer break, Connor Associates’ President Mike Connor and his branding partners will be kicking off a branding and naming project for the French American International School (FAIS) in Portland, Oregon.
Connor Associates is pleased to announce its future work with The Park School of Baltimore on a comprehensive project that will provide research and advisory to launch Park to its next level of success. We are delighted to work with such an impressive team and School and look forward to the work ahead.
Connor Associates’ President Mike Connor is excited to announce a partnership with The Harvey School in Katonah, New York in its search for a new Director of Finance and Operations (DFO).
Connor Associates is pleased to announce its work with The Philadelphia School (PA) on Enrollment Feasibility & 5-year Forecasting and Pricing Elasticity & Financial Modeling. In combining our market research with a financial analysis and benchmarking study, the critical balance of value and price becomes clear.
UPDATE: In addition to our enrollment management, marketing, communication, and strategy work, Connor Associates' President Mike Connor is pleased to announce that New Canaan Country School in Connecticut has selected Connor Associates for the School’s business operations assessment and the search for its new position of Chief Financial and Operations Officer. LINK TO COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION INCLUDED in post.
“We chose to work with Connor Associates because of their impressive reputation, depth of knowledge of the independent school market, and data-driven approach. We know that their insights will support our strategic work and future success.” Molly Buttitta, Head of School, Havern School (CO)
President Mike Connor is pleased to announce that St. Anne’s Episcopal School (DE) has engaged Connor Associates in a comprehensive project that will position the School for its next level of success by honing its value, marketability, and sustainability. The work will conclude with a strategic session to bolster a successful transition from the research to real-world execution of the recommendations.
After a successful Business Office assessment and Leadership Search for Hackley School (New York), Connor Associates was selected again for its Leadership Services, this time for a CFO. Leading this work is Thom Greenlaw, a Connor Associates strategic partner.
Bixby School (Boulder, CO) has engaged Connor Associates to gather actionable input from their key constituencies about its current, past, and prospective families’ evolving social, educational, and economic concerns. According to Head of School Nina Lopez, “We are eager to take an honest look at our current environment. We know that Connor Associates is known for informing a school’s priorities by identifying key perceptions, trends, and proposing actionable strategies based on confidential perceptual studies.”
Our work with Wilmington Friends School will cover a wide range of services designed to strengthen the School’s financial resilience, grow enrollment of mission-appropriate families now and project where the best prospects will be five years into the future, produce demonstrable value and ROI, and monitor external perceptions that will be valuable to the School’s institutional planning and marketing.
Connor Associates is pleased to again support one of Hawaii’s most prestigious independent schools with an Image Audit. The 2021 study will detect differences since 2015 in perceptions of the School, shared in confidential interviews with a variety of critical constituent groups the School serves and seeks to serve.
Connor Associates' President Mike Connor is pleased to announce that the prestigious Hackley School in New York has selected Connor Associates for Hackley’s 2020-2021 business operations audit.
Expanding on its initial project with us in early 2020 to identify the top 2% of its current donor base, Aspen Academy is going deeper and wider into understanding the philanthropic capacity…
After researching several firms, we were pleased to retain Connor Associates for this important market research. They will help us identify mission-fit families for the near future and project where our best markets will be…
Connor Associates is pleased to announce an ongoing partnership with Villa Academy, a Catholic, independent, coed preschool through grade 8 in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
