Tim Fish
Founder and President
Tim Fish is the founder and president at Two Chairs Studio. Before forming Two Chairs in 2024, he was the Chief Innovation Officer at NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools).
Tim has worked closely with over 500 independent schools in the last 25 years. He has conducted board retreats at over 150 schools, given hundreds of presentations, and talked with thousands of school leaders about their challenges and opportunities. While at NAIS, Tim led internal innovation efforts and was a member of the Strategy Lab team. The team develops deep partnerships with member schools to co-create tools and frameworks that build capacity for designing and implementing strategy and innovation. Tim was also a member of the Jobs To Be Done research team and served as the host for the New View EDU podcast.
Tim has deep roots in the independent school community and a long history at McDonogh School (Maryland) where he served as the associate headmaster for many years. While at McDonogh, he oversaw the academic program, strategic planning, admissions, and campus planning, and served as the interim CFO.
Tim was also the founding president and CEO of the FolioCollaborative, a nonprofit community of more than 175 schools worldwide, focused on working together to build a flexible faculty/staff development process grounded in strong relationships and meaningful conversations.
Tim is the co-author of the book Leadership and Technology at Independent Schools. He started his career as a fourth-grade teacher and has been a founder, and consultant for various schools, organizations, and companies. He has served on several non-profit and corporate boards and recently completed his service on the board of Viewpoint School, a 1,200-student PreK-12 school in Los Angeles.
Tim has an undergraduate degree from St. Francis University and an M.Ed. from George Mason University. Tim is also the father of four children (The Four Fish Sticks). Tim and his wife, Diane, live outside Baltimore, Maryland.
Recent Articles
Designing a Better Student Experience
Independent School Magazine, Fall 2023.
How Vision and Real Strategy Can Help Schools Shape the Future
Independent School Magazine, Winter 2023
Diane Fish
Logistics Director
Diane is excited to join the Two Chairs team and bring her skills to a new endeavor. She has been a nurse for over 30 years working primarily on a labor and delivery unit. Diane loves caring for people. She functions as a charge nurse, has been a preceptor for many new nurses over the years and is the chair of the unit Practice Council as well as representing her unit on the hospital-wide Practice Council. In 2023, Diane was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s Excellence in Nursing award winners. She continues to practice nursing part-time.
Diane is also a volunteer driver for the Red Cross, delivering blood products around the region, she sings in the church choir, and is an avid reader. Diane is the proud mother of the four “Fish Sticks.”