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Tenacre Country Day School Relies on the Leadership of Will Crissman


Matthew Hamory serves as managing director in the Boston office of AlixPartners, a firm dedicated to helping clients from a wide range of industries navigate business challenges. Away from his professional responsibilities, Matthew Hamory engages with his community through his support of nonprofits and his involvement with Tenacre Country Day School.

Located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Tenacre Country Day School provides a nurturing yet challenging educational environment to children in pre-kindergarten through grade six. Since July 2018, the independent coeducational school has been under the leadership of Head of School Will Crissman.

Over the course of his career, Will Crissman has consistently demonstrated a commitment to education. He previously spent more than a decade at Milton Academy, where be began as a math teacher before assuming roles as class dean and middle school principal. In the latter capacity, he worked to preserve Milton’s two-century-old traditions while repositioning the school to provide a modern-day education. Although busy with his responsibilities as an administrator, Mr. Crissman continued to interact on a daily basis with Milton students by maintaining his original position as a math teacher.

Mr. Crissman began his career teaching math and science at Cambridge’s Shady Hill School. A married father of three, he holds a master of education from Lesley University and bachelor of arts in economics and mathematics from Bowdoin College.

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