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Mike
Hadaway
Education Intelligence Lead, Public Consulting Group
Solving the education data headache by turning numbers into knowledge.
Mike Hadaway leads Education Intelligence work that brings data governance, analytics, interoperability, modernization, and applied artificial intelligence together for public education. Across more than twenty-five years he has sat on nearly every side of this table: vendor and agency, product and delivery, architecture and policy. The view is different from each chair, and the chairs rarely talk to each other.
25+years in enterprise data
7statewide education data systems delivered
250+district implementations
20+state and regional education agencies advised
The perspective
The technology is only half the assignment.
Mike’s work is translation. Enterprise capability into something an agency can actually staff and keep running. Architecture into a decision a leader can defend in a public meeting. The daily reality of educators into systems that stop pretending their work is simpler than it is.
He has built products and sold them, led delivery and answered for it, negotiated the partnerships that made products possible, and sat on the agency side of the table watching it all arrive. That range provides a practical view of what technology can accomplish and what organizations must do for it to succeed.
The goal is not impressive technology. It is useful capability that public education can trust.
The work now
Education Intelligence
Mike guides the Education Intelligence team for the Education practice at Public Consulting Group. The work strengthens the data foundations beneath reporting, analytics, modernization, and artificial intelligence.
Data foundations
Definitions, ownership, and plumbing. The unglamorous layer everything else is standing on.
Decision support
Reporting built around the person who has to act on it, not the person who requested it.
Responsible AI
Bounded uses, a named owner, review that matches the consequence, and a stop button that works.
Public-sector fit
Capability sized for the budget and the staffing an agency actually has, not the one in the brochure.
Views expressed here are my own.
In my own words
Most agencies already have data. That is not the same as having knowledge.
The headache begins when information is scattered across systems, definitions do not agree, ownership is unclear, and people cannot tell which answer to trust. Adding another tool may make the diagram more impressive. It does not make the problem disappear.
Useful data work combines technology with governance, shared meaning, and clear responsibility. The same is true for artificial intelligence. AI can move quickly, but speed increases the value of trusted sources, expert review, and a person who remains accountable for the result.
I want education professionals to spend less time reconciling reports, searching fragmented systems, and rebuilding the same answer. The goal is to return useful knowledge, better tools, and time to the people serving students.
Experience and credentials
The standards work happens in rooms nobody writes about.
Interoperability, shared definitions, and data governance get settled in working groups, not in product launches. That participation is listed below. The Journey holds the complete organizational record.
A4L/SIFCCSSO Community of InnovationCCSSO EIMACEd-FiCertified Knowledge Management Professional
Professional record
The Journey
The organizations, roles, systems, partnerships, standards work, education, and credentials.
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