Lisa Purdy Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida, United States

SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY-ESE/ESOL/Gifted Liaison & 504 CoordinatorI was excited to take on a new challenge and work collaboratively with parents, teachers, and administrators to help struggling students get the help they needed to be successful in school. Drawn to work here when I found out about the school philosophy toward looking at the whole child, responsive classroom approach, and putting each student’s social-emotional needs first. Making a positive impact on academic and social learning by qualifying them into the right programs. HIGHLIGHTSHelping grow school revenue to $1M+ while serving as the member of administrative team entrusted with making decisions on ESE admissions.Improving process of developing and continuously improving Individualized Education Programs (IEPs):Increasing productivity by consolidating, integrating, and streamlining multiple tasks and sub-processes; Writing IEPs after creating and sending teachers a new questionnaire and synthesizing report information from other professionals, such as school psychologist;Training new Exceptional Student Education (ESE) liaison on all processes and procedures; andLeading the annual meetings attended by teachers, parents, and administrators, which determines student eligibility, accommodations, and funding.Creating, measuring progress towards, and refined goals with proficiency and by advancing the skills of colleagues in use of SIS and ENRICH software.Chosen to attend district meetings to get and convey new State Dept. of Ed. funding and compliance information.Role required:Active Listening, Adaptive Planning, Agile & Growth Mindset, Collaboration, Communication, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Meeting Facilitation, Project Management, Relationship Building, Stakeholder Management, Team Building, Training

Loved the support from the school I received during my time here. Educators are the best group of people you can work with! When I started in this role, I hadn’t worked with this population for 10 years, and had to take many Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to re-learn the new speech and language qualifications for students. HIGHLIGHTSNavigating pandemic-driven implementation of distance learning for students and families.Earning praise for efficiency, dependability, and requiring minimal guidance for figuring out new processes.Role required:Active Listening, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Emotional Intelligence, Empathetic Leadership, Meeting Facilitation, Relationship Building, Team Building

Loved the support from the school I received during my time here. Educators are the best group of people you can work with! When I started in this role, I hadn’t worked with this population for 10 years, and had to take many Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to re-learn the new speech and language qualifications for students. HIGHLIGHTSNavigating pandemic-driven implementation of distance learning for students and families.Earning praise for efficiency, dependability, and requiring minimal guidance for figuring out new processes.Role required:Active Listening, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Emotional Intelligence, Empathetic Leadership, Meeting Facilitation, Relationship Building, Team Building

Until this point, I had never had the good fortune to work for a company that believed in me sooooo MUCH! To become a FEES Endoscopist, I had to undergo rigorous training that lasted months to learn the new equipment and technology. My rehab manager was the best boss I’ve ever had. She was a great leader that trusted her staff and gave me the authority to upgrade and/or downgrade diets without hesitation. If a patient had to have an alternate means of nutrition, or an NPO, she trusted in my diagnostic decision to make that call to the doctor to discuss the results.HIGHLIGHTSRecruiting staff, including by promoting benefits package, work schedule, productivity, and great work culture.Decreasing cost of swallow tests 66% by introducing in-house FEES vs. Modified Barium Swallow Study MBSS.Training and certifying colleagues on FEES, writing reports on findings, and making recommendations. Role required:Adaptive Planning, Agile & Growth Mindset, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Emotional Intelligence, Empathetic Leadership, Performance Management, Project Management, Relationship Building, Stakeholder Management, Team Building, Training

Great entrepreneurial experience! I had to learn to: Complete the paperwork to become a healthcare provider for numerous insurance companies. Purchase materials, negotiate a contract with two other providers, rent a building, hire an employee to help with the front desk and do the billing. Market our services!HIGHLIGHTSRecruiting, onboarding, and training new employees as part of establishing, marketing, and selling services of new business to local media outlets, community, and private schools.Becoming a member of the Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce and networking with private schools and daycares.Organizing grand opening, including catering services, raffles, and ribbon-cutting ceremony.Performing online individual and group therapy speech/language therapy via teletherapy.Role required:Agile & Growth Mindset, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Empathetic LeadershipMeeting Facilitation, Onboarding, Performance Management, Project Management, Recruiting, Relationship Building, Training

This was my first (but not my last) promotion. As a CFY supervisor, I mentored a masters program graduate for 9 months) and trained other SLPs on policies, procedures, and documentation software. HIGHLIGHTSBeing made the recruiting team lead in charge of: interviewing candidates; reviewing résumés; devising, determining the scoring of, and sharing questions; and facilitating decision making, offers, and onboarding.Establishing a new well-received rehab dining program for dysphagia patients and training the nursing staff on how to recognize the symptoms.Creating a dementia management program, which assessed and categorized all patients and provided group therapy aimed at encouraging cognitive-linguistic stimulation and tapping into long-term and episodic memory.Raising patient satisfaction – and saving considerable money – by training nursing staff and therapists implementing a Free-Water thin liquids protocol for patients at risk for aspiration. (The typically thickened liquids are way less-tolerable.) Writing winning appeal letters to insurance companies that denied services, proving medical necessity.Role required:Agile & Growth Mindset, Collaboration, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Documentation, Emotional Intelligence, Onboarding, Performance Management, Project Management, Recruiting, Relationship Building, Stakeholder Management, Team Building, Training

Bachelor'S Degree, Communicative Disorders

Master'S Degree, Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

Master'S Degree, Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist