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Malachi Pancoast is President of The Breakthrough Coach, a management consulting
firm dedicated to working hands-on with school administrators at all levels. Malachi has been helping organizations produce breakthrough improvements in performance, productivity, and employee satisfaction for over twenty years. From 1986 through 1996, Malachi founded and ran his own business consulting firm. After working with Malachi, client companies typically reported a 200-300% increase in profitability in less than one year.

Malachi has been applying his Breakthrough Coach Management Methodology™ to his work with instructional leaders since 1998. His efforts in education have led to dramatic increases in employee satisfaction and retention, student achievement, and the productivity of administrative teams.

Malachi earned his B.A. from the College of Business and Economics, West Virginia
University. He has led seminars and workshops on transformational leadership
throughout the United States and internationally. He has been a guest speaker at
numerous professional conferences including the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Summer Principals' Institute, and the National Associations of Elementary and Secondary School Principals.

Jill Pancoast is Vice President and Managing Partner with The Breakthrough Coach.
Jill’s experience includes over fiftteen years in adult education, marketing and sales, five of which she spent running her own executive coaching firm. She is co-author and lead presenter of TBC’s coaching program for 2-Day Graduates, as well as TBC’s seminar programs for school administrators. Through her consulting and public speaking, Jill has worked with hundreds of school administrators to dramatically decrease their workloads while simultaneously causing breakthrough improvements in student achievement.

Jill holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her work with private organizations spans a variety of fields including real estate, retail, engineering, construction, high tech, manufacturing, and not-for-profit groups.


As a school secretary, I was initially
quite apprehensive about TBC training.
Well after the first two sessions I was sold!
In the 15 years that I have been a school
secretary, nothing has improved my job
as much as this new approach.
Thank you, thank you!

– Karen Mueller,
School Secretary,
Victor Elementary School District