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Sacramento, California, United States

Sacramento, California, United States

• Spearheaded special projects across 19-person department, including migration of all digital files to the cloud; adoption of MS SharePoint and Teams for cross-department collaboration; and process mapping and tracking.
• Led superintendents, board members, and cabinet leaders at 36 school districts in complete review and update of their board policy manual, ensuring district policies were current and compliant with all laws
• Revamped process for supporting districts to overhaul their policy manuals, reducing average start-to-end time by 64% (14 months to 5 months) and increasing percentage completed within 12 months from 38% to 91%.
• Designed, piloted, and executed first-ever virtual policy workshops in response to Covid-19 crisis

Flexible

• Worked on consulting projects with education-based and corporate clients, including San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Cisco, Intuit, Stanford University, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, and Puerto Rico.
• Wrote white papers on innovation initiatives for a Fortune 100 technology company
• Created mentor guide and workshop manual for a grade 6-12 youth development program
• Evaluated the effectiveness of a coaching program for first-generation college students
• Facilitated internal strategic planning conversations for an educational nonprofit
• Developed a year-long grant writing strategy for an early-stage nonprofit organizationReferences and work samples available upon request.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for executing all workstreams of UniteSF, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s initiative to bring business and education leaders in San Francisco together to improve workforce development.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Net Impact is a global organization of 300 chapters and 100,000 members that empowers a new generation to create social and environmental change in the workplace and the world.
• Responsible for the success of Net Impact’s programs executed with external partners. Coordinated directly with 15 corporate, foundation, and government partners per year, including SAP, Toyota, PG&E, Unilever, Bank of.
• Achieved the following results over two fiscal years: ✔ 138 percent increase in revenue ✔ Met or exceeded 90 percent of all program KPIs ✔ 83 percent increase in team productivity (revenue supported per FTE) ✔.
• Led and supported team of eight FTEs to design, execute, and evaluate partner programs. Improved team effectiveness and focus by defining partnership parameters, certifying internal facilitators, streamlining outreach.
• Developed organization’s four new flagship programs (focusing on racial equity, transportation, climate change, and food systems) from scratch, gaining approval of executive team and guiding direct reports in designing.

Oakland, CA

• Co-developed new content and strategy for re-launch of The Broad Superintendents Academy, resulting in an experience more focused on action, innovation, and application of key skills.
• Directly managed two content leads and coached them to ensure success of revamped Academy was sustained beyond my transition to a new organization.
• [Continued responsibilities and achievements as listed in the following Deputy Director section.]

Oakland, CA

• Co-designed and developed content for The Broad Fellowship for Education Leaders, a pilot leadership development program designed to fast-track high-performing leaders to be the next generation of K–12 change agents.
• Transitioned Superintendents Academy from all-paper to all-digital delivery using iPads and online learning management system in two months, saving hundreds of hours of staff time per year.
• Directly managed operations leads to ensure operations and logistics run smoothly for both programs.

Oakland, CA

• Drove annual strategic planning process for revising Academy program, including comprehensive analysis of quantitative and qualitative program data and coordination of input from senior advisors and faculty.
• Built and managed relationships with four faculty members, two consultants, and over 40 internal and external speakers per year to successfully execute executive training sessions; each year 87 to 92 percent of content.
• Aligned standards, assessments, curriculum, and instruction to achieve consistently high ratings from participants on how well training sessions met objectives (average 4.5 on a 1–5 scale).
• Continually overhauled and refined curriculum to meet increasingly rigorous benchmarks for interactivity (from 40 to 65 percent), alignment with objectives, innovation, and focus on CEO-level work.

Oakland, CA

• Created strategic curriculum plan for The Broad Residency in Urban Education, bringing alignment and cohesion to two-year training program for emerging leaders new to K–12 education and increasing ability of Residents.
• Selected, developed, and facilitated curriculum modules for Broad Superintendents Academy and Broad Residency in Urban Education, leading participants to describe programs as “best formal learning experience” in their.
• Developed core assignments for second-year Broad Residents to ensure that they succeeded in a major organizational change effort and were poised to advance in their organizations and careers.
• Facilitated content, introductory, and debrief segments of executive training sessions.

Stanford, CA

• Conceived, developed, and wrote six curriculum units that converted pedagogical research into interactive, innovative lessons; contributed to 12 more units now used in high schools throughout the U.S. and abroad..
• Led 26 consistently highly-rated presentations at national and international conferences and teacher workshops, introducing participants to best-practice pedagogy.

Lima, Peru

• Managed project progress and evaluation data for five community development projects (ranging from $250,000 to $750,000 each), enabling IFC executives, funders, and clients to track project success.
• Transformed qualitative and quantitative evaluation data from six completed community development projects into reports on “lessons learned” that guided future project design.

Ba, International Relations

Ma, Latin American Studies

Received Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for year study abroad. Organized 2nd edition of Rotary Open Tennis Tournament to raise money for.

Coursework For Master Of Education, Educational Technology