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Boarding School
Placement Specialists

D & P work with middle and high school-aged students and their families who are exploring the following placements:

• traditional boarding schools, day schools, special interest schools, summer programs
• boarding schools for students with learning differences and attentional disorders
• emotional growth or therapeutic boarding schools

School Leadership
Services

D & P work with schools and administators offering the following services:

• helping a school or parish become a truly mission-driven organization
• conducting Personnel Searches for school leaders or (in the case of a Head of School) trustees
• talent brokering

If we can’t do it ourselves, then we’ll find the expert required.

Are You Really Mission Driven?

Chip's specialty is to help the leadership teams of schools and other organizations to do the preparatory work which makes a good strategic plan possible. The best strategic planning cannot be done until the organization's leadership is utterly dedicated to the mission. Using various instruments he's developed over the years, including insights and criteria derived from Jim Collin's Good to Great (2000), Chip can help your leadership group do the difficult work of "digging up the fallow ground" in order to gain a true and clear picture of the first purpose—or mission—of the organization.

Dudley & Prehn Consultants is delighted to announce the addition of Mr. Werk Cook to our team.

Werk Cook

Consulting Associate for: College Placement, Post-Graduate Year, Gap Year, Summer School/Enrichment, and Therapeutic Boarding Schools

A veteran educator of forty-one years, Werk has served at all levels in public and private K-12 schools. In addition to college advising, PG year placement, Gap Year guidance, and therapeutic boarding school placement, Werk will help our client families find summer enrichment programs and internships. Werk’s background is enriched by his experience as both a lower school head and a director of admission. He has been an elementary school counselor, middle school math teacher, middle school counselor, and department chair. He has done high school counseling and crisis counseling in many different situations. Werk loves working with students of all ages and with their parents. He goes out of his way to help students achieve happiness and success, both personally and academically. To this end, Werk helps students know and understand themselves, that each may make decisions which help him or her reach desired goals. He has helped families choose great summer programs and assisted families through the increasingly challenging college admission process. Over the years, Werk’s clients have matriculated into some of the most competitive colleges in America, but his number-one objective with any single student is to find the right fit. It is just this commitment that makes Werk a good fit for Dudley & Prehn.

An Episcopal priest, Chip Prehn has been involved at all levels of independent schools including Head of School, chaplain, coach and teacher. As Head, he had the rare ability to be both visionary and mission driven. A boarding school graduate himself, Chip understands boarding culture. He has served on the boards of four independent schools. Chip holds a BA degree from Texas A&M, a Master in Divinity from Nashotah House and a PhD in History of Education from the University of Virginia. Chip and Brooke have been friends and colleagues for close to 30 years.

Brooke has formally retired but continues to consult with Chip on clients. He brings a wealth of experience, insight, and knowledge to families seeking educational consulting services. He has been helping families find schools and programs for their children for more than 40 years.

A veteran educational consultant and a national leader in the field, Brooke has assisted literally thousands of families in finding the appropriate program, school, or intervention for their child. His expertise includes a deep working knowledge of more than 400 programs and schools nationally and internationally.