25 years building what Montessori needs.

Hannah Richardson is a Montessori leader, strategist, and systems-builder with nearly 25 years of experience across independent, public, charter, and justice-centered Montessori communities.

She has worked across almost every layer of Montessori leadership and practice — as a guide, coach, coordinator, consultant, director of curriculum and instruction, and Head of School — supporting programs from infancy through middle school. Her experience spans schools as small as 90 students and as large as nearly 800, giving her an unusually broad view of what Montessori schools need to thrive across different structures, scales, and communities.

Hannah’s work is grounded in one core belief: Montessori only works fully when everything works together — people, practice, systems, and purpose. She helps schools translate vision into structures by strengthening leadership, stabilizing adult culture, improving hiring and retention, building practical systems, and designing conditions that support children without relying on burnout from the adults around them.

She is the founder of Montessori Makers Group and its connected ecosystem, including Montessori Makers Learning, MatchHub, Montessori Makers Alignment Map, and related initiatives designed to strengthen Montessori practice across leadership, literacy, hiring, operations, and public presence.

Hannah is trained in anti-bias, anti-racist practice and brings equity, belonging, and social responsibility into every level of her work. She has completed doctoral coursework in Early Childhood Education (PhD studies completed, ABD) and serves on the boards of Indigo Montessori and The Peace Rebellion. Her work reflects a justice-centered commitment to the future of Montessori — one that asks not only whether a school is Montessori in method, but whether it is prepared to live its values in practice.