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.

Brooke Dudley 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.

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.