Leadership Profile
Vern Hazard II
Vern Hazard II
Senior Vice President of Solutions
Vern Hazard truly has a passion for life, for service, and for relationships. He brings over 30 years’ experience in education, advertising, and coaching and has spent the last 21 years serving and empowering superintendents, boards, and upper-level cabinets with Flippen Group processes. Vern’s greatest desire is to ultimately serve kids by helping school administrators create a safe and loving learning environment for every child that walks through the door. His position as a senior vice president of solutions affords Vern the opportunity to build relational capacity in order to challenge and grow leaders to be the best they can be. Vern considers it a joy and honor to serve, and he loves that relationships last a lifetime!
Vern graduated from Olivet College in Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and a triple minor in speech, communications, and theater. He received the prestigious Walter B. Sprandel Award for the outstanding senior male in the areas of athletics, academics, and leadership and in 2018 was inducted into the Olivet College Hall of Fame for football and baseball.
Upon completing college, Vern lived in Europe, Australia, and Japan for eight years while working in advertising. When he returned to the United States, he began teaching and coaching at Deer Park High School, located southeast of Houston, Texas. He taught theater and LeadWorthy (formerly Teen Leadership), along with coaching varsity football and baseball. It was LeadWorthy that brought him to the Flippen Group, and he now travels all over the United States serving schools.
Vern lives with his daughter, Alexandria, in College Station, Texas.
Vern Hazard II
Senior Vice President of Solutions
Vern Hazard truly has a passion for life, for service, and for relationships. He brings over 30 years’ experience in education, advertising, and coaching and has spent the last 21 years serving and empowering superintendents, boards, and upper-level cabinets with Flippen Group processes. Vern’s greatest desire is to ultimately serve kids by helping school administrators create a safe and loving learning environment for every child that walks through the door. His position as a senior vice president of solutions affords Vern the opportunity to build relational capacity in order to challenge and grow leaders to be the best they can be. Vern considers it a joy and honor to serve, and he loves that relationships last a lifetime!
Vern graduated from Olivet College in Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and a triple minor in speech, communications, and theater. He received the prestigious Walter B. Sprandel Award for the outstanding senior male in the areas of athletics, academics, and leadership and in 2018 was inducted into the Olivet College Hall of Fame for football and baseball.
Upon completing college, Vern lived in Europe, Australia, and Japan for eight years while working in advertising. When he returned to the United States, he began teaching and coaching at Deer Park High School, located southeast of Houston, Texas. He taught theater and LeadWorthy (formerly Teen Leadership), along with coaching varsity football and baseball. It was LeadWorthy that brought him to the Flippen Group, and he now travels all over the United States serving schools.
Vern lives with his daughter, Alexandria, in College Station, Texas.