Retention Starts Long Before Someone Decides to Leave
Give your school a powerful picture of your workplace culture. See what faculty say about their experience and whether your school’s actual value proposition aligns with what employees say matters most to them.
The SAIS Faculty Motivation & Engagement: Designed for Connection facilitated workshop guides your team through the results of your school’s Motivation and Engagement Survey, alongside SAIS’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) research, Designed to Last, and The First Years Matter, our research on early career educators.
What are the benefits of the SAIS Faculty Motivation & Engagement: Designed for Connection?
This workshop creates the conditions for honest, productive leadership conversations, connecting data to decisions and setting a clear direction for retaining and developing the people who make your school exceptional.
- Interpret faculty survey results across belonging, autonomy, leadership effectiveness, and recognition.
- Connect your results to SAIS’s EVP research to understand how your school’s lived culture aligns with what independent school employees value most.
- Identify strategic opportunities to strengthen faculty retention, professional satisfaction, and long-term commitment.
- Schools that deploy the student version of the survey may choose to include a review of student results alongside faculty data, creating an overall view of school culture from both perspectives.

How does Faculty Motivation & Engagement: Designed for Connection work?
This service is best suited for the leaders who shape faculty culture, set hiring strategy, and make decisions about professional development and retention. This may include the senior leadership team and other school leaders responsible for hiring, culture, and belonging.
Pricing
Available virtually, 1.5 hours.
$500 members
$699 non-members
Ready to turn your survey data
into a retention strategy?
Connect with us to schedule your Faculty Motivation & Engagement: Designed for Connection workshop, and start the conversations that matter.
Facilitators

Sheri Burkeen

Elizabeth Maglio

Ann Marsh Rutledge