Injy Sullivan

Injy Sullivan, Executive Coach and Consultant

Injy Sullivan is the founder and principal consultant of Pearl Potential LLC. She has nearly two decades of experience in the education sector with a background in school and district leadership. Injy holds coaching certifications from the International Coaching Federation (ICF-ACC) and The Noble Story Group (Emotional Intelligence Coaching).

I bring curiosity, care, and challenge into all of my partnerships to help leaders move work forward in a way that honors their values, organizational priorities and the communities they serve.

Injy’s Leadership Experience

  • Superintendent

    Injy previously served as a superintendent for a high-performing charter school where she initiated a multi-year curriculum redesign plan. Top priorities included incorporating disciplinary thinking skills into each subject, integrating discourse into all classes, and auditing the curriculum for procedural structures that encouraged dependent learning. As both a coach of people and program, Injy was responsible for developing the curriculum team to be able to produce rigorous, culturally and historically responsive unit plans. She owned multiple aspects of teacher development including training leaders on the teacher evaluation system and designing and delivering academic summer training for over 600 teachers.

  • Principal

    Prior to her district leadership experience, Injy led an elementary school turnaround by focusing on cultivating a warm and rigorous environment in which children and adults would thrive, resulting in staff retention rates rising to the highest levels in the school’s history. With the shifts in the learning environment and increasing teacher longevity, academic results progressively became stronger each year; proficiency on state exams grew 30-45 percentage points in all grades and subjects over the course of her tenure as principal, surpassing host district, city and state averages.

  • Coach

    Injy’s coaching training experiences have been diverse, spanning from directive coaching programs such as Relay’s National Principal Supervisor Academy to more transformational coaching programs such as Bright Morning and the Noble Story Group (Emotional Intelligence based leadership development). She has been coaching since 2010, partnering with teachers, principals, superintendents and C-level officers.

    View Injy’s full work and education experience on Linkedin.

“Coaching with Injy always left me feeling connected, cared for as a principal and person, and re-grounded in my beliefs and values as a leader. In the midst of the whirlwind that can be life as a school leader, having a coach that supported me to lead with clarity and from my values felt like a calm within the storm. I’ll always be thankful to have had Injy as a coach during this key time in my leadership.”

— Principal, New York City