About Us
Schools designed to thrive.
Strategic and operational consulting for private schools and microschools. We work alongside founders, leadership teams, and boards to design, launch, strengthen, and sustain independent educational institutions built for long-term impact.
Built for the independent school reality
Our focus is intentional. Private schools and microschools carry a different set of demands than traditional public systems — leaner teams, tighter budgets, faster decision cycles, and a founder who is often wearing every hat at once.
We built Legacy Ed Advisors specifically for that reality. Every service we offer is designed for the independent school operator who needs expert-level guidance without the overhead of a full internal team.
We bring more than a decade and a half of experience across classroom instruction, education consulting, and nonprofit and institutional leadership. That experience shows up in the way we work: grounded in what actually happens inside a school building, not just what looks good in a strategic plan.
Our Approach
Intention. Structure. People equipped to carry it forward.
A strong school is built the same way a strong legacy is built. That means we don't hand you a binder and walk away.
- We stay close to implementation.
- We build systems your team can actually run without us.
- We measure success by whether your school is stronger a year after we've left the room than the day we walked in.
Who We Work With
Partners in independent education
Independent private school founders and leadership teams
Microschool founders and operators
School boards and governing bodies
Education nonprofits supporting private and microschool networks
Leadership
Nicole Stewart
Chief Strategist
Nicole Stewart founded Legacy Ed Advisors with a clear belief: schools thrive when excellence meets joy. She brings more than a decade and a half of experience across classroom instruction, education consulting, and nonprofit and institutional leadership — and uses it to help independent school founders, leaders, and boards build schools that last.
Her work is grounded in what actually happens inside a school building, and her measure of success is simple: students and staff who are genuinely excited to walk in the door.
