Lisa P. Katz Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top down.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Lead a team of UX, Program, and Product researchers, data scientists, analytics engineers, and analysts who develop insights and execute research for all Discovery Education products and services, domestically and internationally. Our team is responsible for producing customer, market, and product research and insights as well as analytics and reporting suites for internal working teams and customers.• Leads a team of data analysts, analytics engineers, data scientists, and researchers to generate models and research, and identify and apply research findings and insights to support products, programs, and services globally.• Leverages advanced data analytics cross-functionally, focusing on core direct-to-consumer competencies and product roadmap guidance. • Provides consistent, ongoing focus on establishing consistent data structures, taxonomy, and infrastructure that lays the foundational work for adaptive learning and machine learning operationsg.• Spearheaded a transformative project aimed at surfacing personalized recommendations to teachers and students based on their profile information, leveraging machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs)• Identified the need to “democratize” data and make it accessible for decision-making, particularly in the post-COVID ed-tech space, which transformed the onboarding flow and marketing methods.• Serves as an executive for ongoing projects and has produced notable results, e.g., 61% of the treatment group teachers returned to use more resources within seven days, with 55% returning to explore the homepage further.• Collaborates with instructional leaders across the organization to use learning science and best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment to develop program management tools.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Developed data governance task force, identifying the company's pain points, needs, and opportunities. • Addressed the company’s foundational disparate data issues, establishing standard governance, definitions, and metrics across the business. • Prepared the company to be pitched and sold to a PE firm by refining the customers and product story; developed a comprehensive understanding of the company’s market landscape and ideas to win market share.• Explored existing data warehousing systems, pinpointing issues such as data provenance and maintenance challenges like stale data and developing a cohesive narrative about product usage, renewal, and cross-sell analyses. • Developed an internal process to deliver reporting dashboards, insights, analytics, and data-driven operational assets to drive value to the organization.• Achieved executive buy-in for the acquisition phase, which involved building a more extensive research and analytics team to support business goals and customers.• Collaborated with the Chief Product Officer to establish a long-term vision and roadmap for analytics and data science development and applications in alignment with the organization’s growth goals.• Developed a digital library of learning science literature supporting division instructional goals and provided training across the division focused on research-based instructional trends.

Folsom, Ca, Us

• Guided the development of digital marketing and learning strategy, training, and thought leadership with executive leadership; provided coaching and training to coaches and social media resources. • Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of digital marketing efforts to identify emerging digital trends and patterns and ensure that the company maintained an effective digital marketing presence.• Collaborated with internal design, creative, and sales operations teams to create solid, effective marketing strategies and integrated campaigns.

As a member of the CAST UDL Professional Learning Cadre, my work is focused on assisting CAST in scaling and supporting UDL implementation at the state, district, school and classroom levels.

Clients: AP Ventures, Columbia, MDASI Government, Arlington, VACecil County Public Schools, Harve deGrace, MDCharles County Public Schools, LaPlata, MD Charlotte Mecklenberg Public Schools, Charlotte, NCCenter for Applied Special Technologies (CAST), MA The Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Washington D.C.Denver Public Schools, Denver CO Dorchester County Public Schools, Cambridge, MDEducation Closet, Westminster, MDFlint Community Schools, Flint, MI Maryland Public Television, Towson, MD Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore, MDNEA Foundation, Washington D.C.North East Independent School District, San Antonio, TXPrince George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, MDQueen Anne's County Public Schools, Centreville, MDSpring Lake School District, Spring Lake NJTalbot County Public Schools, Easton, MDWested, San Francisco, CAWorcester County Public Schools, Newark, MD UCSF Medical School, San Francisco, CAConsulting work focuses on these specialties:• Project Management Planning, Coaching & Implementation• Digital Learning Evaluation• Design Thinking Coaching and Facilitation• Strategic Planning and Continuous Improvement• Digital Content Development and Next Generation Curriculum Design• Teaching and Learning Professional Development• Recruitment and Team Development

Ellicott City, Us

In this role, I helped to guide the development of digital learning strategy and learning needs analysis, next generation curriculum and leadership development and assessment, digital assets and technology applications to engage learners.

Ellicott City, Us

Led multi-million dollar high profile U.S. Department of Education Ed Tech ARRA grant ccr.mdonlinegrants.org, created multiple on-ramps for educators to take online courses, become certified online instructors, offered hybrid online and offline supplemental course materials.

College Park, Md, Us

Faculty Lecturer and Program Coordinator - Teacher Education College of Education Brought on to redeisgn secondary teacher education program, which was out of probation with the national accreditation body, CAPE (formerly NCATE) and with the state, and at risk of not being able to certify new teachers.

Developed policy and provided high-quality professional development focused on aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment to best practices in K-12 instruction. In this role, I also led the development of assessment items for standardized administration in Maryland schools.

Ellicott City, Us

Secondary Social Studies Teacher - Wilde Lake High School & River Hill High School

Mls, Information Management

Ba, History Education