David Williams is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Valor Education, guiding the vision, culture, and operations of both Valor schools and the Valor Institute. The heart of his work is the promotion of education within authentic communities affirming the goodness of the world and the intrinsic value of every person.

Prior to starting Valor, Mr. Williams served as Executive Director of Great Hearts in San Antonio for three years. In this capacity, he oversaw the founding of two high-performing K-12 liberal arts charter schools. Prior to moving to San Antonio, Mr. Williams served for five years as the Headmaster of Glendale Preparatory Academy.

In addition to his roles in school and executive leadership, Mr. Williams enjoyed a distinguished teaching career, beginning in public high school in New Jersey. The heart of his teaching revolved around the creation of an integrated humanities program that brought the best of art, music, literature, and philosophy to his students. In recognition of his teaching achievement, the National Endowment for the Humanities named him New Jersey Teacher of the Year, and the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly passed a joint legislative resolution acclaiming his excellence in teaching. On the college level, Mr. Williams introduced and taught a course on the Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtlya at the University of Dallas where he studied philosophy as a doctoral student.

A graduate of Fairfield University, he holds Masters degrees in History, Liberal Arts, and Theology from the University of Notre Dame, St. John’s College, and the John Paul II Pontifical Institute. He has completed two years of postgraduate study in philosophy and theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. Mr. Williams also completed the Institute for Comparative Political and Economic Systems program at Georgetown University, studied at Oxford University through the Phoenix Institute, and is a CTI-trained professional coach. He has spoken widely, including lectures at Baylor University, Belmont Abbey College, the Napa Institute Summer Conference, and as a guest on the Anchored Podcast of the Classic Learning Test as well as the Counsel of Trent radio program.