Bill Melsheimer is a former public school principal and private school head/superintendent with 37 years of administrative experience in Hinsdale and Wilmette, IL. During his career, he led award-winning schools that were recognized nationally as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, by the National Endowment for the Arts, and NASSP’s Council on Middle Level Education. His schools were also acknowledged regionally by the Chicago and North Shore magazines and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Currently, Mr. Melsheimer is founder and president of WM Consulting, Inc., that focuses on leadership coaching and development as it relates to relationship building, instructional and transformational leadership, strategic visioning, change management, group facilitation, and team building. His consulting services have centered on studies of school culture and climate; school, central office, and district reorganization; and middle school review, revision, and refinement.
Bill is the former Co-Director for the Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) C.L.A.S.S. Leadership Coaching Program. Mr. Melsheimer was also a CEC C.L.A.S.S. leadership coach working with district administrators and elementary, middle, and high school principals, assistant principals, and principal interns in suburban, urban, and downstate settings. He holds the designation of Professional Coach (PC) as a result of his training, professional development, and over 1,000 hours of leadership coaching experience.
Bill Melsheimer serves on the Midwest Principals’ Center’s (MPC) Advisory Board and has been a member of the Board since its inception in 1985. Bill has been a regional facilitator for MPC serving as a professional developer of principals. And currently, he is the facilitator for the EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY that focuses on “Developing the Next Generation of School Leaders,” in partnership with MPC.
Mr. Melsheimer is presently an associate for the administrative search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates and has conducted searches for public and charter school superinten-dents, central office administrators, and principals, as well as for private school heads. He was a senior associate with The ECRA Group and was the lead consultant for Strategic Planning.
Bill is a former adjunct professor, associate professor, and clinical faculty member, of Educational Leadership for Northeastern Illinois University, National Louis University, and the Center for Urban Education Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively.