Leadership: Dr. William Coats, CEO; Patrick Lawrence, CFO

Website: leonagroup.com

What it does: Provides all-inclusive management services to public tuition–free charter schools in predominantly urban communities.

How it leads: TLG is one of the nation’s first education management companies and a pioneer in the charter school industry. TLG has been operating tuition–free nonprofit charter schools since 1996. TLG current operates about 60 school sites in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The organization strives to improve life changes for children, under the founding philosophy that they believe every child can and will learn regardless of ethnicity, economic or educational disadvantage.

Honor the 2017 Industry Leaders of Arizona at the awards ceremony and dinner on Feb. 23 at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn. Purchase tickets here.