John J-H Kim
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
As founder and CEO of DMGroup, John is responsible for ensuring that DMGroup brings the best management and leadership practices to its national network of public school district leaders and administrators. Working closely with superintendents to develop and implement system-wide efforts that improve student achievement, streamline operations, and reduce costs, John leverages his extensive background in education, business, management, and academia.
Alongside his role at DMGroup, John has been a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 2011. He is the Co-Chair of the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint initiative between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School that works to strengthen leadership competencies of the largest U.S. urban school districts.
Prior to starting DMGroup, John was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. He was also a founding CEO of a school management company that grew to serve more than 20,000 students and a founding president of Kaplan Learning Services, the institutional division of Kaplan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.
