National AP Training and Incentives Program Director

Gregg Fleisher is the National AP* Training and Incentives Program Director of NMSI. Gregg started his career as an auditor and actuary with Coopers & Lybrand but later decided to make a major career change to pursue his passion. In 1986, he began teaching math to high school students in the Dallas ISD. While teaching, he had one of the highest percentages of students pass the Advanced Placement Program calculus exam/per school enrollment of any public high school in the country. In 1993, Gregg was awarded the Advanced Placement Special Recognition Award by the Southwest Region of the College Board. In 1995, he became the lead math teacher in the new AP Incentive Program.

During his five years as the lead math teacher, he had a strong record in helping minority students excel in AP courses. As much as 3.3 percent of the country’s minorities who passed AP Math Exams were from Gregg’s schools. In 1996, he formed his own consulting company with the goal of improving the PSAT prep program and increasing the number of National Merit Scholars in Dallas ISD. After one year, the number of National Merit Scholars doubled, and after four years, the number of students participating in the program more than tripled. In 2000, Gregg was asked by Dallas philanthropist, Peter O’Donnell, to head up Advanced Placement Strategies (APS) that manages AP Incentive programs for districts in the state of Texas. In seven years, the fledgling company grew from four to 60 employees, and had programs in hundreds of schools in the state. AP results increased significantly in each and every incentive program managed by APS, This increase was especially significant for minority students. The success of APS gave ExxonMobil cause to commit their largest grant ever to NMSI, in part to replicate APS in other states.