Who we are

About Studiously

A consulting firm of former superintendents, principals, deans, HR directors, and finance leaders. We help organizations secure the funding and build the strategies they need to thrive.

Schedule a Studiously Session Meet the Team

Consultants who have held the seat they advise on

500+

Combined years of leadership experience

Our story

Think Differently. Live Studiously.

Studiously started because too many good organizations were losing funding and stalling on strategy for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of their work. They had the mission and the people. What they did not have was the eight uninterrupted hours a competitive proposal takes, or a plan with a mechanism underneath it.

Our founder, Dr. Amy Davis, ran the grants, research, and development office for a Title I district before starting the firm. She built Studiously to be the partner she had needed: a team that has done the job, not just studied it.

Today that team spans K-12 districts, colleges and universities, nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses, with more than 500 combined years of leadership experience behind it. We are a woman-owned small business based in Raleigh, North Carolina, working with clients in 18 states and approved in 29.

The words Live Studiously written in wet sand at the water’s edge

Think differently. Live studiously. The name is the whole idea: work smarter, keep the human part, and leave room for a life outside it.

How we work

Three Things That Shape Every Engagement

We have held the seat

Almost everyone here has run the thing they now advise on. Superintendents, principals, deans, HR directors, a founding CFO. That changes the conversation from theory to experience.

One size fits nobody

We do not arrive with a binder. Every engagement starts with what is actually in the way, and the plan gets built from there.

We stay for the hard part

Strategy is the easy half. We build the routines, the calendar, and the accountability structure that turn a plan into weekly practice, and we stay while it takes hold.

Leadership

Who You Will Be Working With

The three officers who shape the work and stay close to it.

Amy E. Davis, Ed.D.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Amy is the chief architect of the firm’s approach to leadership and system transformation. Her 30-year career spans K-12, corporate, nonprofit, and government, including district turnaround work where the strategy she designed helped a major district reach its highest ever graduation cohort rate and exit low-performing status.

Strategic & organizational planning
Executive coaching & mentoring
Securing external resources and grant strategy

Teena W. Rembach, MSE

Chief Strategy Officer

Teena has over 30 years driving strategic innovation and organizational development across education, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. A former administrator and instructional leader, she leads cross-sector work that fuses data, design, and strategy into measurable outcomes.

Instructional leadership
Data-driven program & instructional design
School improvement planning & design

Stacey F. Weddle, M.Ed.

Chief Learning Officer

A retired school administrator with 32 years in the Wake County Public School System, Stacey has served as principal, senior administrator for special education services, and assistant principal, after beginning as a special education teacher.

Data-driven decision making
Instructional practices for diverse learners
Special education legal & compliance

The bench

Fifteen Specialists, Matched to the Work

We staff each engagement with the people whose experience fits it, rather than whoever is free.

Angela H. Bain, PhD, MBA, SPHR

Senior Human Resources Consultant

Executive search, HR policy, employee relations, compensation studies. Gallup Strengths coach.

Emily Stepp Bauer

ESL & MLL Instructional Consultant

Multilingual learner outcomes, literacy instruction, standards-aligned curriculum design.

Jennifer Garrett, PhD

Senior Data & Evaluation Consultant

Data analysis, evaluation studies, survey design, research reports and white papers.

Barrett Goldberg

Senior Finance & Operations Consultant

Finance systems, operational efficiency, business operations. Founding CFO of a communications agency.

Gwendolyn Jackson-Taylor, M.Ed.

Secondary Mathematics Consultant

Math literacy and instruction, multi-tiered systems of support, differentiated instruction.

Fay Jones, Ed.D.

Senior Elementary Consultant

Instructional leadership, executive coaching, professional development. Opened an 800-student school.

Carla Joyner, Ed.D.

Senior Mathematics Consultant

Math literacy, curriculum sequencing and pacing, teacher professional development.

Joann Keder

Senior Fine Arts Consultant

Creative writing, keynote speaking, storytelling and writing workshops. USA Bestselling author.

Jim Key, MSA

K-12 Leadership Consultant

Executive coaching, district turnaround, organizational development. North Carolina Principal of the Year.

Cam J. Lopes, MSA

Senior Special Education Consultant

Case management support, special education law and compliance, instructional and behavioral support.

Alisa McLean, Ed.D.

K-12 Leadership Consultant

Executive coaching, turnaround support, strategic planning. Retired superintendent.

Marlene Miranda, M.Ed.

Senior ESL & MLL Consultant

English language development, WIDA and ACCESS data analysis, SIOP instructional practices.

Kim Short, MSA

Special Education Consultant

Inclusion practice, special education programming, instructional leadership and coaching.

Robin Vincent, M.Ed.

Literacy Consultant

K-12 literacy instruction, teacher preparation, student engagement. Teacher educator.

Sharon Watford, M.Ed.

Elementary Literacy & Mathematics Consultant

Math and literacy instruction, multi-tiered support, gifted and talented education.

Our reach

Where We Are Approved to Work

We are an approved vendor in 34 states, with named engagements in 13 of them plus Washington DC, from Hawaii to New York. Four of our clients are state education agencies.

13 states with named client organizations, plus Washington DC

21 more states where we are an approved vendor

Purchasable nationwide through TIPS Our TIPS contracts 240804 and 260601 let member agencies in any state buy directly, with no separate solicitation.

Let’s Find the Right People for Your Work

Half an hour, no cost, no pitch deck. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you who on this team would take it on.

Schedule a Studiously Session hello@livestudiously.com · (919) 349-9743