David Braemer assumed the role of head of school at Kent Denver School in 2022, following a ten-year tenure as head of school at Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, he served as upper school head at Greenhill School in Dallas and was dean of Students at Durham Academy in North Carolina. A teacher at heart, Braemer taught history and social studies at Greenhill, Culver Academies in Indiana, Blair Academy in New Jersey and at public schools in Boston and Lawrence, Massachusetts. Braemer holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, where he was a varsity football and lacrosse player, and a master’s degree in education from Boston College. He also participated in the Klingenstein Institute for Independent School Leadership at Columbia University’s Teachers College, as well as cross-cultural learning through the Fulbright Memorial Scholar program in Japan.
Understand the independent school business model and learn to be a good steward of your school's financial resources to work more collaboratively around financial issues.
Discover the most common as well as emerging benefits programs and structures, best practices to stay in compliance and cultural considerations for implementation.
Learn to engage with employees in an empathetic manner while still clearly conveying important information and safeguarding your school from liability.
Explore the many responsibilities of business office professionals— from day-to-day finance, operation, and risk management to strategic leadership — and managing key relationships with the greater school community.
Calculate your school's Composite Financial Index (CFI) score — a tool trusted in higher education for decades — and learn how you can use the score and its 4 underlying ratios to think strategically about your school's financial strengths and weaknesses.
Learn best practices related to gift reporting, compliance and donor stewardship, as well as how to develop a successful and strategic partnership between the financial and development functions at your school.
Learn tactical best practices related to the financial aid process to enhance the strategic partnership between the business and admissions offices and ensure long-term success.
Creating a collaborative affiliation with vendors and managing risk through contracting contribute to the success of your school's mission. Identify guidelines and best practices to create a list of tasks that contribute to these goals.
Join NBOA and NAIS for a webinar to learn more about this new rule, explore implementation strategies to get your school ready for summer, and an overall refresher on the importance of wage and hour compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Generative AI tools are being used whether there are policies in place to manage them or not. Join us for a town hall with legal and business operations professionals to discuss your questions about deploying AI.
With special events come implicit legal issues that require specific insurance coverage. Learn how to manage those details and how to create best practices to ensure minimal risk.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a game- changer for organizations investing in clean energy technologies. Federal tax credits were created under the IRA. Combined with the underlying base credits, these benefits can result in credit rates over 50%.
