Dawn P. Dawson Email & Phone Number

Chico, Ca, Us

Chico, Ca, Us

Pasadena, California, United States

Culver City, Ca

Oversee development and production of content for eight publishing lines, several digital platforms, and the catalogs division. I report directly to the CEO/Owner and work closely with the National Sales Director, Director of Marketing, Director of Operations, and CFO. Our imprints include,• Nystrom Education: The country’s only manufacturer of markable classroom globes; the largest publisher of grade-specific maps, atlases, and globes; the imprint provides supplemental materials for classroom geography and core social studies curriculum for state and district adoptions.• Social Studies School Service: Engaging secondary social studies activity books and professional development studies. • Interact: Supplemental classroom activities that focus on simulations, role-playing, and project-based learning.• The Center for Learning: Values-based curriculum at the secondary level, covering social studies and ELA.• J. Weston Walch Publisher: Primary and secondary social studies programs that include daily warm-ups, struggling learner programs, primary source activities, and much more.• Good Year Books: Fun, supplemental activities generally for the primary grades; the titles cross all subject areas.• MindSparks: Secondary social studies lessons using primary sources and teaching critical thinking, deep analysis, DBQ strategies.• Storypath: Full-class simulations, in a variety of subject areas, that teach content through the students creating and becoming the story.• ActiveClassroom: A robust digital classroom platform containing more than 4000 activities for every level of student.• Statalogica: A digital world of interactive maps and globes.• The Idea of America: A digital secondary U.S. history program that looks at U.S. history through the lens of different value tensions.

Culver City, Ca

Design publishing systems, workflows, and tools to bring a unified vision and process to disparate imprints. Imprints include the Center for Learning, Good Year Books, Interact, Mindsparks, Storypath, and Social Studies School Service.Develop more than 100 titles per year across imprints.Strengthen company's position in the curriculum-support, K-12 educational market.Consult on issues of cross-division communications, general management, and operations.

Following departure of company’s owner and CEO, became the acting General Manager and COO: managed change from mid-sized independent to corporate culture. Worked with top corporate management to strategically integrate and implement new business practices/policies. Responsible for P&L, $7.1M budget, HR, IT and risk management. Efficiently re-aligned goals and engaged staff in new mission. Cut operating expenses by 9%.

Pasadena, Ca

Member of executive team; accountable for short- and long-term strategic, operational, and financial planning and new product development. Grew annual revenues from $750K to $10M and published pages from 2,000 to 30,000. Expanded product from text-only print volumes to online databases and eBooks. Oversaw all creative activities, from concept to production to warehouse. Consulted on sales and marketing campaigns. Managed WIP/COG and P&L and managed and developed personnel, resources and processes. Best Practices and quality standards. Served as Editor-in-Chief, 1996-2011.