Margaret A. Searle is the president of Searle Enterprises, Inc., an education consulting firm she's been running for over 30 years. She specializes in the areas of social-emotional learning, executive function development, differentiated instruction, inclusive education, and leadership team development, as well as in training teams to implement response to intervention and multitiered systems of support.

Her teaching experience includes preschool through 8th grade in both a general and special education capacity. Her administrative experience has been as a K–12 supervisor, a middle school principal, and an elementary school principal. She is an author and served as an advisor to President George H. W. Bush on elementary and secondary education issues.

Marilyn Swartz is a national and international speaker. She is a consultant with Searle Enterprises working with school districts on response to intervention and multitiered systems of support implementation, research-based instruction that supports students of trauma, executive function, inclusive practices, differentiated instruction, co-teaching, and teacher collaboration. She also trains mentors for the Ohio Department of Education's Resident Educator Program and is an adjunct professor at Ashland University.

Her expertise on solving academic and behavior problems stems from many years teaching special education and general education students at multiple grade levels. She also spent years as a curriculum director and consultant for a special education resource center.