Dr. Kendra Ferguson has dedicated more than 30 years to advancing educational opportunities for all students as a teacher, principal, mentor, and school system leader. She is the Founder and Principal of Ferguson Brown Consulting Group, where she and her partners provide strategic, operational, and mindful organizational support to help leaders and teams achieve excellence.
Before launching her consulting practice, Kendra served as Chief Executive Officer of KIPP Memphis, a seven-school charter network with a 100 percent high school graduation rate and 87 percent college matriculation rate. Earlier, she was Chief People Officer and Chief of Schools at KIPP Bay Area Schools (now KIPP NorCal). During her five-year tenure, all of the network’s schools earned the national Blue Ribbon designation, student success indicators rose significantly, and teacher diversity increased. Kendra also held leadership roles at the KIPP Foundation, consulted for charter and traditional schools nationwide, and was a founding school leader with Aspire Public Schools.
Incorporating her practice as a Gestalt theorist, Kendra highlights the roles of interventions, resistance, awareness and presences as the client digs deep into their current condition. Kendra partners with organizations to clarify and design where they want and need to go. She is certified by the International Gestalt Organizational Leadership & Development Program.
A nationally recognized coach and mentor, Kendra continues to guide educational leaders across the country. She earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from National-Louis University, completing a dissertation on sponsorship as a pathway to executive success for African American women. She also holds a master’s degree in education policy analysis and administration from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington.
