Laura Spencer, Ed.D.

Chief Academic Officer of Elite Academic Academy

Laura K. Spencer, Ed.D., is a speaker, writer, and Chief Academic Officer at Elite Academic Academy. Across 26 years in education, from the classroom to IT Director to the executive team, she has led through failed rollouts, accountability problems that were never performance problems, and technology that was going to change everything. Her work, Read the Terrain: Leadership Under Real Conditions, is built on a single discipline: diagnose before you direct. She helps leaders read what is actually in front of them, then decide, whether the terrain is an AI adoption, a culture, or a team.