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Denver, Co, Us

We help funders of social causes accelerate their impact by developing and implementing education, workforce development, and talent solutions that close opportunity gaps.

Serving as a project lead and workstream owner to accelerate impact across a portfolio of clients spanning education, workforce development, and digital well-being.▹ Successfully developed and executed a comprehensive Marketing & Communications, Customer Service, and Technical Assistance strategy for Opportunity Now, an $85 million grant program driving workforce development partnerships in Colorado. ▹ Serving as Project Lead to facilitate an engaging activation strategy with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop – driving stakeholder adoption of the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) digital well-being framework.

New York, Ny, Us

Coach teachers and principals in 1:1 sessions to deliver a research-based, positive psychology program that trains educators to manage the psychological state of burnout and grow its opposite – a burn-in mindset.▹ Facilitate and develop impactful group training and programming for school teams, resulting in measurable improvements in performance.▹ Provide expert strategic support and positive psychology-informed consulting to Burn-in Mindset founder and clients, driving program quality and intentional growth.

Empowering individuals and organizations to thrive through change. ▹ Services: Consulting | Coaching | Thought Leadership | Original Research▹ Specialities: Change Management | Organizational Effectiveness | Employee Well-being & Engagement | Internal Communications | Leadership Development

Denver, Co, Us

Strategic partner to executives and key stakeholders, managing the strategy and execution of internal communications, employee engagement initiatives, and organizational change management for 800+ employees across Guild’s Technology, Product, Marketplace Operations & Payments, and Member Experience teams. ▹ Developed and scaled a communication vision for synchronous and asynchronous modalities to effectively engage over 800+ employees, across a broad range of platform and operation teams, in a hybrid workforce.▹ Facilitated the execution and optimization of key business initiatives such as bi-weekly leadership meetings, OKR process, and Quarterly Business Reviews.▹ Optimized and executed scalable change management, aligning the communication processes to optimize stakeholder engagement across change management and organization restructuring initiatives.▹ Led the process and execution of strategic employee engagement initiatives focused on employee recognition and communication in partnership with People Business Partners, cross-functional working groups, and executive leaders - resulting in an average increase of 5% QoQ.

Denver, Co, Us

Scaling impact from leading communications in one function to supporting multiple strategic partnerships with senior executives, impacting 800+ employees across Guild’s Technology, Product, Marketplace Operations & Payments, and Member Experience teams.▹ Led the communication and change management plan for an organizational restructure impacting 500+ employees.▹ Improved employee engagement metrics focused on communication across the business unit. Most notably, the function with prioritized support demonstrated employee engagement gains of 12% across two quarters of dedicated support.

Denver, Co, Us

Leading internal communication to support employee engagement across Guild’s Member Experience team.▹ Designed and executed communication frameworks to support 300+ employees as they navigated the shift to remote work - resulting in protocols for synchronous and asynchronous communication, structure and feedback process for employee all-hands meetings, and the management of an internal communication editorial calendar.

Denver, Co, Us

Provided 1:1 coaching to support the growth and development of working adults to successfully pursue and complete higher education pathways.▹ Engaged students in authentic and meaningful coaching as evidenced by student satisfaction and engagement measures across a caseload of 400+ students located throughout the United States.▹ Supported the growth and development of cohesive team culture - developed a data analysis process to identify team-centered goals and aligned strategies to increase student engagement outcomes, and initiated team feedback protocols to support the growth and development of individual team members.▹ Developed training and onboarding materials to support the development and growth of the Student Success department.

Denver, Co, Us

Brought back to reopen the former Henry World School in a shared campus setting after it was closed by DPS. Tasked with leading a turnaround initiative focused on developing leaders and teachers through values-based competencies/skill development, investing community stakeholders in a shared vision, recruiting students and families, and hiring/developing world-class faculty. ▹ Improved performance rating from red (Failing) to green (Meeting Expectations) in two years.▹ Scaled program 3x over 3 years. Grew enrollment from 0 to 270+ and staff from 0 to 40+ while building the school’s program into a full 6th through 8th-grade model.

Denver, Co, Us

Recruited to lead one of the top-performing middle schools in the Denver Public Schools organization. Charged with improving already-excellent school performance, demand projections, teacher retention, and attendance figures as measured by Denver Public Schools’ School Performance Framework and School of Choice process. ▹ Accelerated school rating from Green (Meeting Expectations) to Blue (Distinguished) in one year. Additionally transitioned from the classroom into leadership in less than 2 months after being asked to help facilitate this transformation.▹ Increased YOY teacher retention from ~60% to 90% while reducing attrition >15.

Denver, Co, Us

Held several progressive roles at Green Valley Ranch Middle School, including: Associate School Director • Special Education Coordinator • Department Chair, Special Education/Intervention Team • Instructional Leadership Team • School Assessment Leader • Grade Level Chair, 6th Grade • Accountability Committee Representative ▹ Significantly increased students’ performance by leading and coaching the 6th grade faculty and the Special Education department for 2 years as a peer, including one-on-one mentoring of new instructors.

Denver, Co, Us

Taught inclusion and resource classes averaging 15 students with mild to moderate needs. Served as advocate and case manager for students. Actively participated in the school community and continuing professional development opportunities. ▹ Empowered individual students to meet their growth goals in math and reading each year of tenure.

Master Of Applied Positive Psychology (Mapp)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Rehabilitation Psychology