Grant Lichtman

Internationally Recognized Thought Leader, K-12 Education

Grant Lichtman is an author, speaker, and thought leader focused on civic engagement, community building, and the future of American culture. He is the author of Wisdom Road, Thrive, Moving the Rock, #EdJourney, and The Falconer. His recent work explores the future of K–12 education and how we can dramatically transform learning for all students despite the forces of inertia that have trapped schools in the past.

For fifteen years Grant was a senior administrator at one of the largest and oldest K–12 independent schools in California with responsibilities that included business, finance, operations, technology, development, campus construction, and global studies. Before working in education, he directed business ventures in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet Union, South America, and the US Gulf Coast. He worked close to center stage in the economic and political transformation of the USSR, the end of the Cold War, and the historic transformation of that communist-dominate economy to the outside world.

Grant graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in geology in 1980 and studied the deep ocean basins of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Bering Sea. He and his wife, Julie, live in Poway, California.