Dan Miller is a Senior Consultant with our Search & Consulting Group.

Dan brings more than three decades of experience in independent schools as a teacher, coach, Head of School, and trustee. From 2019 to 2026, Dan served as the Head of School at the Urban School of San Francisco, where he led all aspects of a progressive coeducational high school of 420 students and 100 employees. During his six-year tenure, he led the crafting of an ambitious strategic plan, built enrollment, deepened the school’s investment in financial assistance and salaries, and completed a successful capital campaign to fund the construction of a new performing arts center.

Before his time at Urban, Dan served as Interim Head of School at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California, arriving on the West Coast after a celebrated 14-year tenure at the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island – a Nursery-12th grade school with 850 students and 200 employees. While at Wheeler, Dan oversaw a dramatic increase in endowment, enrollment, financial aid, and faculty salaries, and a complete rejuvenation of the campus, including 4 major building projects. In earlier roles, Dan served as Assistant Head of School and Head of Upper School at Kent Denver School in Denver, Colorado, a Grade-Level Dean, history teacher, and coach at Riverdale Country School in New York, and as a history teacher and coach at the St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.

Dan earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and the History of American Civilization from Harvard University and his B.A. from Amherst College. He currently serves supporting fundraising initiatives at Crystal Springs Uplands School and as a trustee at the San Francisco Friends School. Dan and his wife, Joanna, an English teacher, live in San Francisco near Ocean Beach. They have two grown children and a dog, Otis, whom they dote on.