Our Team

Julia Stuart Yilmaz

With a deep passion for education and over twenty years of experience in the K-12 sector, Julia has dedicated her career to empowering schools with the tools and expertise necessary to attract, develop, and retain top educational talent. She brings firsthand knowledge of the complex challenges that school and system leaders face and understands the difficulty of focusing long-term talent strategy when day-to-day demands persist.

Before founding Schoolhouse Consulting, she served as the Vice President of Staffing for Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, one of California's largest charter management organizations. As an educational talent consultant, both in her work with TNTP and as the founder of Schoolhouse Consulting, she has advised senior district, state, and charter management clients on a wide range of strategic human capital issues.

Julia holds a BA from UC Berkeley, a Master's in Teaching from Pace University, and an M.Ed. in Educational Policy and Management from Harvard University.