Peggy Pelonis
Peggy Pelonis
President
ACS Athens American Community Schools, Greece
Peggy Pelonis is President at the American Community Schools a K-12 International school in Athens Greece. She is an educational leadership trainer, a licensed Family Therapist, National Certified Psychologist and Educational Leadership facilitator. Her work and research in Educational Leadership looks at the complexities of professional development in international schools. She is devoted to facilitating positive change in people’s lives and has developed a ‘Process of Change’ Model to help individuals strengthen the skills needed to cope with life transitions, as well as developing psychological muscle in young people through Responsible Global Conscious Citizenship. Her combined work in educational leadership and mental health has led to the expansion of a “Personal Leadership Thread” model that considers the development of personal leadership based on numerous influences since childhood.
Dr. Pelonis has been on the faculty of the Master’s Psychology programs for the California State University of Fullerton, the University of LaVerne and has taught at the University of Malta. She is a transnational Psychotherapist and Educator currently on the staff of the International Committee of Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI). She works with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools as a Commissioner for school accreditation across the globe. She is on the Board of the European Collaborative for International Schools (ECIS). Her work in international education also includes speaking engagements for the United Nations (New York), The World Innovation Summit in education (WISE) and the Alliance for International Education (AIE), The Council of Europe and UNESCO as well as numerous conferences worldwide. She has been featured on the cover of Business Partners magazine for her Conscious Global Citizenship model and has received the Lifetime Leadership Award in 2022 from Ideagen Global. She is the author of numerous professional journal articles in education and of three books on change and resilience.