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Athena matches clients with world-class executive partners enabling them to increase their impact through delegation in all aspects of their lives.I manage the team that matches clients with executive partners.

Athena matches clients with world-class executive partners enabling them to increase their impact through delegation in all aspects of their lives.I design assessments to ensure that we recruit and train high-quality executive partners.

On Deck is a global community where ambitious people come together to start or scale a company, accelerate their careers, or learn and build something new.I designed interactive learning experiences to help fellows achieve these goals.I created and managed internal documentation on the learning design process as well as project management databases to track work across the education team.

Worked alongside subject matter experts, and media producers to create online courses from the ground up including assessments and asynchronous active learning opportunities using a research-based narrative and autonomy-supportive design strategy.Created professional development materials to aid faculty in the course design process.Managed course development and launch timeline. and support courses during launch.Led faculty workshops and one-on-one consultations on best practices in online course design and technology use to support teaching and learning.Created and led professional development exercises for learning designers.Wrote blog on online teaching strategies, learning technology, and approaches to course and assessment design.

Consulted with graduate student instructors to identify strengths and areas for improvement in their classes by observing live instruction as well as collecting and analyzing data from their students.Facilitated workshops and practice teaching sessions for graduate student instructors.Provided feedback to graduate instructors on teaching philosophy statements, end of term evaluations, and course planning ideas.

Designed and administered surveys to collect data on student motivation and other psychological factors as well as student feedback on course quality.Analyzed self-report data and combine it with system log data, demographic data, and qualitative data to create a nuanced picture of students’ response to gameful pedagogy.Worked in an interdisciplinary team of research collaborators and instructors to present research findings and develop guidelines for the design of gameful pedagogy.

Developed course learning objectives and designed lesson plans to help students achieve those objectives.Designed grading systems, exam questions, and assignments to assess student learning.Coordinated course planning and grading with other members of the instructional team to maximize cohesion and create the clearest, most beneficial educational experience for students.

Managed logistics (e.g. purchasing, budget revisions, reporting) for multi-institutional, multimillion dollar research grants.Analyzed and reported on data (from multiple project sites) to stakeholders which included university faculty, post-doctoral scholars, grant agency project managers, and secondary school teachers and administrators.Designed and developed behavioral tasks using platforms such as Adobe Flash and Millisecond’s Inquisit for use in research studies.