Sarah Dillard Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Kaleidoscope is building a 10x high school experience one class at a time. We offer workshops and course-length programming directly to students, as well as curriculum to schools. Our courses include Social Sciences for Social Problems, Practical Psychology, and Storytelling & Narrative. We’ve worked directly with students from 100+ countries, and our enrichment courses average a net promoter score of 80 with students.

Strategic advice for education clients, including:• America Achieves: Created landscape overview of education for employment and formed recommendations for philanthropic investments in this space.• BCG: Developed and secured unanimous support for all human capital policies in largest school district merger in U.S. history. • BVP: Provided education expertise to venture capital firm diligencing edtech investments.• EdFuel: Developed content for and facilitated workshops for emerging and experienced education leaders.• Flat World: Provided strategic advice, financial modeling, and business development support to close of first Tier 1 University client.• NerdWallet: Led adoption of learning management system and created instructional videos to scale internal learning around core company values and manager skills.• Student Social Support R&D Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School: Evaluated district demand for scaling up a very low-cost, high-impact attendance intervention.• Year Up: Created market landscape of career readiness space and relevant edtech innovators to help assess how to productize their current offering.

• Standardized approach to launching and managing college operations by identifying and defining core processes, developing dashboards to track their implementation, and creating playbooks to institutionalize knowledge.• Tripled number of students served by each student services advisor while maintaining 90%+ advising satisfaction.• Debuted real-time, company-wide reporting via Tableau.

• Led turnaround of marketing and admissions to deliver first paying class of students and prove out business viability. • Marketing: Brought administration of CRM, email, business automation, and creative in-house, increasing responsiveness and reducing costs.• Admissions: Oversaw turnaround of low-performing inside sales group, changing management, hiring new members, developing and conducting training, and establishing processes and goals, thereby increasing team productivity ~200%.• Increased applications 8x in first two months. Developed and led execution of yield strategy that achieved yield rate higher than Carnegie Mellon, Emory, USC.

• Created cross-functional structures needed to drive company-wide alignment, surface red flags, and improve collaborative problem solving. Developed and ran the ops meeting. Shaped a culture of hypothesis-testing, reflection, and improvement.• Developed student services vision and model that led to pilot graduation rates >90% vs. <30% national average.• Proposed, got approval for, and ran experiment to prove out value of phone-to-field marketing strategy now used as foundation of company’s marketing strategy.

Boston, Ma, Us

Research Associate for senior member of The Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Co-author of "Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship" with Tom Eisenmann and Eric Ries. This note is used as the foundation of the first year required HBS course in entrepreneurship. Co-author of "The Business Development Manager" with Tom Eisenmann, Jeff Bussgang, Katharine Nevins and Puja Ramani. Advised on sequencing and structure of required HBS entrepreneurship course.

Houston, Texas, Us

Recruited by CEO to launch NMSI, a non-profit that expands math and science education programs with proven impact. • As sole employee for first five months, independently scoped, structured, and managed all aspects of organization’s launch. • Supported raising $140 million, including largest-ever gift to math and science education. • Designed and drove grantee selection process that awarded 19 grants totaling $125 million. In first year, key impact metrics increased 50-100%, exceeding targets.

Washington, Dc, Us

Collaborated with the Assistant Secretary of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development to set, assign, and follow through on priorities. Regularly represented the AS in high profile meetings requiring immediate guidance. Youngest member of Secretary’s Policy Committee staff.• Drove launch of Doing What Works, the department's promising practices initiative. • Represented ED in creating the strategic plan for transforming the New Orleans Public School System after Hurricane Katrina.• Involved in all aspects of creating Academic Competitiveness Initiative, from State of the Union to regulation, including leading a cabinet-level review of all math and science education programs, resulting in standardized data collection cross agencies.

Boston, Ma, Us

Structured and performed strategic and operational analyses. Spent 11 months in private equity group. Worked in 10+ industries. • Began managing other AC’s a year ahead of class. • Team award for biggest client impact in Northeast.

Mba

Mpp, Public Policy

B.A., Economics

High School Diploma