Ann Cunningham-Morris is an independent consultant and ASCD Faculty member who has served educators for over 40 years. During her career, she has been a director of professional learning for a non-profit education organization, district-level instructional administrator, school-based administrator, teacher leader, and classroom teacher. Cunningham-Morris regularly facilitates webinars, coaching, and professional learning throughout the world in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning, system and program audits, curriculum development, designing effective professional learning programs, instructional leadership, instructional coaching, teacher leadership, formative assessment, instructional best practices, and equity best practices. She has written articles, blogs, and provided expert interviews on these topics for a variety of professional publications, including ASCD Inservice, District Administrator, Curriculum Administrator, and the Journal of Staff Development.

Cunningham-Morris is also co-author of the book The Principal Influence: A Framework for Developing Leadership Capacity in Principals (ASCD, 2016). She has presented sessions at many national conferences, including ASCD, ESEA, AASA, NASSP, NAESP, and Learning Forward. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Georgia State University. She has completed the Certificate of Advanced Studies program and post-graduate work in educational leadership at Illinois State University, the nonprofit executive leadership program at Georgetown University, and most recently, a certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace from the University of South Florida MUMA College of Business.