We all want to attain excellence – some of us are just more systematic and focused on how to get there. Today's guest, Dr. JoAnn Sternke cautions, “You'll never achieve excellence if you don't have purpose, focus and alignment.” In this episode, Janet and JoAnn discuss how to better align operational leaders and teams to realize their impacts in academic organizations. When we bring operational and department leaders together with school and classroom leaders, good things happen.