Maya Woods-Cadiz, Ed.D. Candidate
About Company
Maya Woods-Cadiz is an education executive, academic leader, and strategic advisor with more than two decades of experience across public, charter, independent, district, and higher education settings. Her career reflects a consistent commitment to student success, strong governance, fiscal stewardship, organizational effectiveness, and meaningful community engagement. She has served in senior leadership roles as a superintendent, district transformation leader, principal, instructional leader, adjunct professor in teacher preparation, and consultant. Her professional preparation includes executive development through Harvard, Duke, Howard, and advanced Chief Business Officer and Human Resources certification training.
Throughout her career, Ms. Woods-Cadiz has led through a disciplined focus on strategic planning, continuous improvement, collaborative leadership, and results-oriented execution. She has led initiatives in school improvement, instructional alignment, literacy and intervention systems, organizational restructuring, and community partnership development, with a clear understanding that sustainable progress depends on aligning people, priorities, and resources around a shared vision.
Ms. Woods-Cadiz’s consulting interests are centered on helping boards, school systems, and educational organizations strengthen leadership capacity and improve institutional performance. Her areas of focus include strategic planning, executive coaching, board and superintendent relations, superintendent search and transition support, leadership development, teacher and leader pipeline development, organizational assessment, governance training, financial and human resources review, academic improvement planning, and community engagement strategy.
