Administrative Team
 Sara McGowan – Bilingual Literacy Director |
 Brian Crites – Lead Administrator / US Non-profit Director |
 Kerry McClennen – IB Coordinator |
 David Dodge – Scholarship Coordinator |
 Abel McClennen – School Director |
Individual leaders of “wild dog” type organizations have a strong sense of self-mastery coupled with humility. They seek enlivened spirits in the workplace, guiding the organization to a co-created vision. – From Leading Peak Performance: Lessons from the Wild Dogs of Africa: How to create pack leadership and produce transformative results – Marvin Washington and Stephen Hacker
- A shared vision – with a focus on one prey and a hunt for the same prey.
- Shared leadership – there is opportunistic leadership; whichever animal is closest to the prey becomes the leader of the pack.
- A high degree of individual skill. There’s no ‘I’ in the team, rather lots of ‘I’s in these teams. Great teams are made up of many great performers, but it’s the shared leadership part that makes them work well together.
- Tenacity – continuing the hunt for hours rather than giving up after a short while.
The La Paz Leadership Vision: Leadership in 21st century business has demanded an increasingly dynamic and diverse set of skills due to the rapid pace transformations in and globalization of the business world. As a grass roots organization that includes local Costa Rican members mixed with members from over 20 countries around the world, the La Paz founding educators and board of directors recognized that a progressive leadership vision would have to be created. With guidance from experts in the fields of human resources and business leadership the school chose to modify the administrative roles as follows to embrace the “wild dog approach to leadership”. While the school maintains two full time salaried administrative positions, the responsibilities demanded by these positions are shared by six members of the “wild dog pack”, a development officer, and an administrative assistant. The results of this innovative approach have spoken for themselves as the non-profit school has doubled in size since its inception nearly three years ago and continues to run a sustainable budget while offering an affordable rigorous bilingual k-9 program with highly qualified educators from Costa Rica and beyond.