Beth Beard Email & Phone Number

Wayland, Ma, Us

Medford, Ma

Pixie Dust Gourmet personal chef service is the brainchild of Chef Beth Beard, who blends her passion for cooking fabulous gluten-free creations with her love of bringing people together around food. Serving the Boston area, I offer upscale gluten-free, healthy and delicious meals prepared in your own home. I customize my service to meet your individual tastes and dietary needs and take care of everything from menu planning and shopping to meal prep, cooking and clean-up, so you can enjoy delicious, organic cuisine all week long!

Greater Boston Area

Put MA Kids First Coalition A group of 45+ organizations focused on improving outcomes for children by stabilizing and strengthening the early education and care and out-of-school time (EEC-OST) workforce. SUMMARY Create and manage a public service campaign that includes print and electronic media, grassroots, business and higher education mobilization, social media and public relations. • COMMUNICATIONS and PUBLIC RELATIONS Maintain the website and blog, conducting original research, adding/writing news articles, new member information and coalition materials. Draft and secure placement of articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor throughout the state. Build and maintain a media list and develop new press contacts.• SOCIAL MEDIA Build and coordinate social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+) with Coalition partners and supporters to heighten awareness about the importance of EEC-OST in Massachusetts.

Natick, Ma

SUMMARY Managed school’s internal and external marketing, communications, advertising and public relations. • COMMUNICATIONS Designed and launched first weekly e-newsletter, Around the Bend. Grew audience from staff, board members, donors and families to include prospective families, partners and alumni. Write weekly articles and blogs on education topics, school events and accomplishments, letters from the Board Chair and Head of School, and alumni, student and faculty profiles. Weekly open (55%) and click rates (25%) average 20 times industry norms. • WRITING, EDITING, DESIGN and PHOTOGRAPHY Wrote, designed and produced print, online, direct mail, collateral, signage and advertising products. Created/updated admissions brochures and guides. Served as the principle photographer for the school on all communications. Managed external design and printing contractors.• WEBSITE and SOCIAL MEDIA Upgraded/enhanced website architecture, adding multiple content areas and functional capabilities. Created over 50 pages of new content. Created marketing campaign to drive website traffic and increase SEO, resulting in 30%-120% gains in monthly visits year over year. Re-vamped Facebook page, growing followers by 100% and engagement levels by over 200% in just over 7 months. • RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT Co-designed and launched parent satisfaction and communications survey to drive planning efforts. Analyzed results across functional areas and wrote report. Conducted peer and competitor market research and analysis. Managed resulting RFP process for re-branding and positioning effort. Conducted first ever analysis on student standardized testing results and wrote findings document shared by Head of School.

Built the communications department from the ground up managing budget, strategic planning, hiring and supervision of staff and contractors. Senior leadership member overseeing communications, public education, PR, marketing, and outreach for BFS and network of 15 medical center partners in the US, India, Iran and Japan.

Impact Brokers is a cooperative of consultant, nonprofits, investors, and community partners working to improve our collective capacity to tackle complex social challenges through individual and shared development and peer learning. I am the founder and co-director with Janice Epstein of JME Consulting. *Provide organizational development with teams of consultants for: Youth Enrichment Services, Building Impact, Brookview House and the Latino After School Initiative. *Facilitate peer learning community, develop collaborative partner networks and co-design shared capacity building projects.*Other independent consulting clients include: Learning for a Small Planet, City of Cambridge Agenda for Children, Strong Women Strong Girls, AFC Mentoring, US Tennis Association, US Rowing Association, Third Sector New England, Project Joy, SpeakOut Boston, and the Massachusetts Special Commision on After School and Out-of-School Time.

*Knowledge projects manager for a 3-year $8 million dollar Wallace Foundation initiative to support struggling students in 15 Boston Public Schools (BPS). Conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of 120 schools with over 50,000 students to map complex support systems, identify supply-demand gaps and create synthesis reports. Advised Market Street Research on the design of a phone survey of 600 BPS parents. *Worked with a team of diverse stakeholders to design knowledge strategies and tools for Boston Beyond initiatives. Reviewed empirical research, applied standards of evidence and synthesized knowledge around a broad set of topics to advise change theories, evaluation plans, and research designs. Collected prevailing practices and codified and disseminated learnings. Compiled data from published sources, surveys and interviews; conducted due diligence and drafted results in a clear and compelling way. Managed work of junior staff and consultants.

• Played a leading role in strategic planning, project design and leadership, assessment, organizational development (OD), knowledge management (KM), and communication work. Created and implemented a portfolio of tools, initiatives, and opportunities to build adaptive network and organizational capacity. • Worked with a knowledge management team of diverse stakeholders and partners to design knowledge strategy, tools and processes for all Boston Beyond initiatives. • Reviewed empirical research, applied standards of evidence, and synthesized knowledge around a broad set of topics. Collected prevailing practices and codified, tested, and disseminated learnings. Compiled data from published and on-line sources, surveys and interviews; conducted due diligence and drafted results in a clear and compelling way. Facilitated internal and external knowledge communication and managed work of junior staff and consultants.

*Conducted in-depth policy analyses, developed public education campaigns and advised national education litigators and scholars on testing reform. Created multiple reports, fact sheets and articles on standardized testing, assessment and evaluation including GMAT and the MBA Pipeline for Women and the MAT Fact Sheet. *Organized and facilitated a FairTest two-day strategy conference for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Disability Law Foundation, the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund, and the Ford Foundation. Focus areas included: equity, access and diversity; K-12 testing impact; public policy, affirmative action and case law.*Increased listings in annual high-volume publication of “test optional colleges” by over 300 colleges -fifteen times the average increase of 20 schools per year- by creating and utilizing new research methods and guidelines.

*Designed strategic change, leadership, global cultural competencies, and professional development products and conducted market research for multiple international consulting engagements. Sample publications include: K-12 Classrooms and the Enneagram and Time Management and the Enneagram.*Designed and managed Actions for Results’ 4-day international leadership conference for 50 American and Finnish leaders. Facilitated cross-cultural program on innovation using multiple frameworks to assess and improve capacity. US participants/speakers included the Dept of Public Health, Northeastern University and Harvard University.

ActivitiesManaged after school and intensive home-based Department of Mental Health programs for high-risk adolescents, teens and families. Provided clinical therapy, crisis intervention, staff supervision and training, grant writing and program administration.

M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Marriage And Family Therapy

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B.A., Philosophy And Psychology

Activities and Societies: CoFounder, Students United for Racial Equality (SURE)Graduated Suma Cum Laude

Philosophy And Psychology

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