Partners

About Us

Cultural Change

Imagine That Consulting is a change agency. As a full-service national consulting firm, we provide leadership development services to leaders and leader groups in non-profit organizations across the country.

Special Education

Transforming special education with empowerment, improvement & measurable results. Breaking the cycle of mediocrity in Special Education with technology-based solutions and expert consultants dedicated to improving outcomes for students with disabilities through coaching and system standardization.

School Turnaround

Transformation Leaders Network launched to support our nation’s diverse student population and our educational leaders. Our network specializes in school turnaround, equity leadership, and leadership coaching in K-12.

School Reform

Educational disparities and underperformance are hurdles every organization faces. True, sustainable success comes when academic insights meet tested techniques tailored to real world educational settings: from the immediacy of the classroom, to the administrative board, from the home, to the streets to the community.

At Urbane, we recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of each client. Beginning with our first meeting, we lay out a customizable operational plan that will suit your specific needs and meet your vision for success.

Dissertation Consultants

Steven Bourgeois, PhD

Founder & CEO

Ahart Solutions

Dissertation Pathway

Fort Worth, TX

Sharon Lee, PhD

Retired Professor of Education

Dallas Baptist University

Dallas, TX

Myrna Blanchard, PhD

Human Resources Director

Castleberry ISD

Fort Worth, TX

Kim Coppens, EdD

Doctoral Research Methodologist

Dallas Baptist University

Dallas, TX

Sandy Maddox, EdD

Former Deputy Executive Director

Region 10 ESC

Richardson, TX

Jana Melsheimer, EdD

Executive Director

Region 10 ESC

Richardson, TX

Michael Minyard, PhD

Principal

Plano ISD, TX

James Schofield, PhD

Lecturer in Philosophy

Plymouth State University

Bentley University

Boston, MA

The Ahart Index

System Integrity

Empowering Leadership

Peer Accountability
Follow Through
Process Clarity
Process Flexibility
Priority Stability

Empowering Leadership

Decision Trust
Voice Encouragement
Clear Expectations
Goal Alignment
Barrier Removal

Internal Service

Empowering Leadership

Collective Efficacy

Resource Provision
Work Usability
Workflow Continuity
Response Timeliness
Team Coordination

Collective Efficacy

Shared Belief
Problem Solving
Challenge Confidence
Outcome Impact
Collective Improvement

Autonomy

Collective Efficacy

Belonging

Decision Independence
Safe Voice
Decision Authority
Decision Input
Work Flexibility

Belonging

Collective Efficacy

Belonging

Connection
Understood
Authenticity
Valued
Positive Relationships

Work Satisfaction

Pay Satisfaction
Benefits Satisfaction
Work-Life Balance
Skill Utilization
Work Anticipation

Step 1: Leadership & Organizational Pulse

We begin where most systems never look: the central office. Through leadership pulse research, organizational condition analysis, and attrition intelligence, we establish a baseline understanding of district-wide functioning, alignment, and organizational health. Unlike traditional climate models focused only on campuses, the Ahart System examines the organizational conditions shaping performance across the entire system. We track voluntary attrition, involuntary attrition, internal movement, and total turnover to understand the full picture of organizational stability and change.

Step 2: The Four Stakeholder Indexes

We then administer the Ahart Index system across four stakeholder groups: Staff, Parent, Student, and Leader. All instruments are administered within a structured two-week research window using fully automated workflows and real-time dashboard integration. The result is a unified view of organizational conditions across the district and campus ecosystem.

Step 3: AI-Moderated Organizational Interviews

After identifying system-level patterns, we conduct targeted AI-moderated interviews to uncover the deeper organizational dynamics behind the data. These interviews provide scalable qualitative intelligence across leadership teams, departments, campuses, and strategic initiatives. The goal is not simply collecting voice, but understanding the organizational conditions driving outcomes.

Experience and Impact

Ahart is a research and analytics firm that helps mission-driven organizations understand the conditions shaping motivation, performance, and retention.

Founded in 2019, Ahart has enabled hundreds of organizations to collected more than 2.1 million anonymous responses across a wide range of organizations, including K–12 schools, universities, nonprofit networks, and multi-site enterprises. This work has produced a growing knowledge base focused on how organizational conditions drive commitment, performance, and long-term stability.

Organizations rely on Ahart to move beyond fragmented feedback and surface-level engagement data. Using a single, theory-aligned instrument, Ahart reveals what people are actually experiencing, what drives outcomes, and where alignment is breaking down.

Ahart works with organizations committed to education, service, and performance—helping leadership teams move beyond perception to a clear view of the forces shaping trust, effort, and retention.

About Ahart

For the past seven years, we have helped hundreds of schools transform stakeholder voice into meaningful organizational insight. Through rigorous research, extensive comparison data, AI-moderated interviews, real-time dashboards, and actionable reporting, we help educational leaders identify strengths, uncover opportunities for growth, and exceed their goals. Our mixed-methods approach combines quantitative precision with qualitative depth, giving leaders clear visibility into the organizational conditions shaping culture, retention, engagement, and long-term performance.

Data Security

Your data remains controlled, protected, and contained.

We collect only what is necessary to understand organizational conditions, and nothing more.

All data is handled with strict boundaries, minimal exposure, and full organizational control.

Core Principles

Responses are anonymous and cannot be traced to individuals
Data is aggregated to prevent identification at any level
Collection is limited to organizational conditions and outcomes
No integration with internal systems or external data sources
Access is restricted to authorized users within your organization

Security Standards

The platform operates with industry-aligned protections, including:

SOC 2–aligned infrastructure
ISO/IEC 27001 standards
GDPR and CCPA compliance
HIPAA-aligned safeguards where applicable

Control

Your organization retains full control of its data.

Ahart does not sell, share, or repurpose organizational data.

Community

The Ahart Community brings together educational leaders, researchers, and organizational partners through ongoing dialogue, comparative research, leadership inquiry, and institutional learning.

The Old School Podcast — Conversations on leadership, education, culture, and institutional life.
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Ahart Education — Courses, leadership inquiry, and organizational learning through the Ahart LMS.
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Organizational Partnerships — Districts, schools, universities, and organizations contributing to a growing comparative intelligence system grounded in lived institutional experience.

Partners

About Us

Cultural Change

Special Education

School Turnaround

School Reform

AI Interviews

Beyond Traditional Focus Groups

We don't just improve traditional focus groups . . . . .

Dissertation Consultants

Steven Bourgeois, PhD

Sharon Lee, PhD

Kim Coppens, EdD

Jana Melsheimer, EdD

Michael Minyard, PhD

Statistical Analysis

The Ahart Index

System Integrity

Empowering Leadership

Empowering Leadership

Empowering Leadership

Empowering Leadership

Empowering Leadership

Internal Service

Empowering Leadership

Collective Efficacy

Collective Efficacy

Collective Efficacy

Collective Efficacy

Autonomy

Collective Efficacy

Belonging

Belonging

Collective Efficacy

Belonging

Work Satisfaction

Work Satisfaction

Work Satisfaction

Step 1: Leadership & Organizational Pulse

Step 2: The Four Stakeholder Indexes

Step 3: AI-Moderated Organizational Interviews

Experience and Impact

About Ahart

Data Security

Community