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Driving the strategy and building offerings to expand the reach of Elena Aguilar's Transformational Coaching method to build resilient communities and a just and equitable world.

I support amazing leaders in maximizing their talents and growing the leadership required to bring their vision to life.

Led a team of 13 to develop Teach For America's first organization-wide Theory of Leadership and Theory of Leadership Development. Partnered with national and regional teams across the network to contextualize the shared theory to their local context.

Envisioned and built a new team of 5 charged with providing leadership coaching and programmatic consulting to 35 regions across the country and developing our organization-wide point-of-view on coaching as our primary form of leadership development for all program participants.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed a team of four to provide direct-to-field supports to 50+ regions across the country and served as an executive coach to senior program managers. Served in a variety of leadership roles within our sub-team and the broader organization.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed a team of 8 to provide direct-to-the-field supports to 40+ regions across the country. Served in a variety of leadership roles within our sub-team and the broader organization

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Helped to launch and co-led alongside the regional Executive Director (ED) the programmatic teams of 4 new regional sites and one existing site across the country

Greater Philadelphia Area

Managed a team of 15 through 2 layers to design and implement high quality programming for ~200 first and second year teachers

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created the vision for and managed a team of 4 full-time staff members to design and execute the learning and development needs at all levels of a 150+ person team. Approach included full-team conferences, year-long reinforcement trainings, and individual coaching

Managed a cohort of 20 full-time staff members through 2 layers to ambitious recruitment goals at schools across the country. Team structure required managing and obtaining results through 3 layers of managers

Greater Philadelphia Area

Coached recruitment directors individually and in groups. All recruitment directors receiving cultivation coaching moved from the bottom 25th percentile to the top 75th

Greater Philadelphia Area

Executed recruitment campaigns at 8 college campuses nationwide including the management of 16 part-time college student employees and one full-time recruitment fellow

John P. Turner Middle School

Achieved dramatic academic gains with students: 92% of students achieved proficiency in state science standards and increased average student achievement in math by at least 2.5 grade levels within one academic school year based on national test results

Master Of Science (M.S.), Elementary Education And Teaching

Ba, Political Science