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Dr. Desmond K. Blackburn began his career in education in 1996 as a High School Math Teacher. Since then, he has been an Assistant Principal, Principal, District Trainer, Director of School Improvement, and an Adjunct Professor. Dr. Blackburn currently serves as an Area Superintendent in a large urban school district. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from The University of Florida; an M.S. in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University; and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Florida Atlantic University.
As a part of his doctoral dissertation, he not only created Socio-Cultural Leadership, but developed a reliable and valid survey instrument designed to measure principals’ performance around Socio-Cultural Leadership’s traits. After 10 years as a proven educational leader in one of the largest urban school districts in the country, he founded D & G Leadership, Inc.
He and his wife, Kelli, have two sons, Dean and Grant.