Ann Klotz

Ann V. Klotz is a consultant, writer and longtime school leader. From 2004 to 2025 she was the tenth Head of School at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, where she also taught English in the Upper School and drama in the Primary School, founded Laurel's Center for Research on Girls and launched its Environmental Justice Semester. Before Laurel she taught for two years at Northfield Mount Hermon and spent twenty years at The Chapin School in Manhattan as an English teacher, drama department chair, grade-level dean and director of college guidance.

She earned a B.A. in English from Yale College, an M.A. from New York University's Gallatin School and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University. She chairs the board of The Heads' Network, teaches in its Leadership Seminar mentoring women toward independent school leadership, and serves on the boards of One Schoolhouse, The 1911 Group and The Agnes Irwin School. A founder and editor of Well-Schooled, a site for educator storytelling, she has written for Independent School magazine, the NAIS Independent Ideas blog, Yankee Magazine, the Huffington Post and the Brevity Blog. Today she leads Ann V. Klotz Consulting, advising and coaching school leaders.