Elizabeth Kagan Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Client: Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship (PIA)Ms. Kagan provides technical assistance and project management support for PIA, a Department of Labor initiative to drive engagement and advance awareness, policy, and practices to increase apprenticeship opportunities for people with disabilities. This includes supporting stakeholder outreach to amplify PIA products to a broader audience through podcasts and other resources. Ms. Kagan acts as main point of contact with the contracting officer’s representative, manages all direct cost (ODC) spending requests, maintains the work plan and works with the PIA team to ensure all deliverable deadlines are met, coordinating with the team to develop monthly and quarterly reports, managing field vendor and subcontractor invoices, and coordinating conference attendance and travel requests.Client: Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT) Ms. Kagan provides day-to-day project management support for PEAT, a Department of Labor initiative to promote and foster collaborations that make emerging technologies accessible for people with disabilities. PEAT promotes the employment and retention of people with disabilities in the workforce and works on increasing the number of people in the workforce who have accessible technology skills. This includes supporting stakeholder outreach to amplify PEAT products to a broader audience through podcasts and other resources. Ms. Kagan acts as the main point of contact with the contracting officer’s representative, manages all direct cost (ODC) spending requests, maintains the work plan and works with the PEAT team to ensure all deliverable deadlines are met, coordinating with the team to develop monthly and quarterly reports, managing field vendor and subcontractor invoices, and coordinating conference attendance and travel requests.

Silver Spring, Md

Ms. Kagan serves as Operations Director for Perform-Link, LLC, a consulting firm focused on improving organizational and individual excellence through talent development, instructional system design and human performance management. Ms. Kagan is recognized for improving operational efficiencies and business development efforts for the Perform-Link consulting team, resulting in increased revenue and business opportunities. Ms. Kagan manages Perform-Link’s timekeeping and invoicing, conference and meeting scheduling and coordination, business registrations and renewals, and coordination of project resources. In addition, she supports individual and team development opportunities for Perform-Link consultants.Ms. Kagan has supported Perform-Link as a consultant on several engagements, including the conversion of documents for a U.S. Federal Agency to ensure accessible technology compliance mandated by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. She adjusted conversion methodology documentation appropriately to ensure compliance and to meet the client’s stated needs. She also supported Perform-Link’s development of role-based profiles for a large corporate customer undergoing an entity-wide organizational change effort. In addition, she supported the Perform-Link instructional design team in its development of material for a Federal agency’s customized training needs.

Ms. Kagan is an experienced project manager and has supported multiple Wheelhouse clients. Wheelhouse was acquired by Cadmus Group in November 2022. Support of the PIA and PEAT initiatives will continue under the Cadmus Group. Partnership for Inclusive Apprenticeships (PIA) October 2020 – November 2022Ms. Kagan provides technical assistance support for PIA, a Department of Labor initiative to drive broad engagement to advance awareness, policy and practices to increase apprenticeship opportunities for people with disabilities, with specific efforts to advance high growth, high demand apprenticeships models. This includes supporting stakeholder outreach to amplify PIA products to a broader audience through podcasts and other resources.Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT) January 2019 – November 2022Ms. Kagan supports PEAT, a Department of Labor initiative to promote and foster collaborations that make emerging technologies accessible for people with disabilities, so that everyone can succeed in their careers. She provides day-to-day project management support to promote the employment and retention of people with disabilities in the workforce and to work on increasing the number of people in the workforce who have accessible technology skills. This has included supporting the planning and implementation of monthly PEAT Talks webinars featuring a different guest each month from industry, academia, or advocacy group and tracking social media metrics.Apprenticeship Inclusion Models November 2019 – January 2020Ms. Kagan provided project management and communications support for the Apprenticeship Inclusion Models (AIM) initiative, sponsored by the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to research, develop, test, and evaluate innovative strategies in existing apprenticeship programs that provide skills training to people with disabilities to expand pathways for people with disabilities into high-demand, well-paying careers.

Ms. Kagan provided day-to-day project management support for Teach Access, a previous PEAT partner, whose mission is to infuse accessibility education into college curricula throughout the U.S. with the long-term goal of making technology “born accessible.” Ms. Kagan’s responsibilities included establishing Teach Access as a 501(c)(3) organization, supporting talent acquisition and development of an employee benefits program, Teach Access membership management, meeting scheduling and agenda development, support of a faculty grants program that disseminates grant funding to faculty seeking to incorporate teaching accessibility in their curricula, updating the Teach Access website and effectively using social media avenues to promote the Teach Access agenda.

Client: GAAD Foundation 04/2021-08/2021As a Wheelhouse Group consultant, Ms. Kagan served as project manager for the launch of the GAAD Foundation, an initiative founded to disrupt the culture of technology and digital product development into one that has accessibility as a core requirement, ensuring accessibility is built into the product development lifecycle for technology and digital products. Ms. Kagan’s responsibilities included: - Creating a 9-month project plan and roadmap for establishing the GAAD Foundation as a 501(c)(3) -- - Managing all related work streams and monitoring activities according to the project plan - Leading biweekly meetings with the cofounders and the executive team - Successfully pursuing 501(c)(3) status, to include determining and obtaining nonprofit incorporation status at the state level, developing articles of incorporation and bylaws, and drafting and filing required 501(c)(3) paperwork with the IRS. - Supporting the development of governance structure and processes, including the creation of a board of directors to support 501(c)(3) requirements. - Supporting the development of a fundraising model. - Identifying and documenting requirements for the new foundation to be recognized internationally and thereby accept funding from outside the U.S.

Bethesda, Md

Ms. Kagan provided administrative, marketing and conference planning support to Rafael’s 5-person marketing team responsible for U.S. sales. In this role, she drafted and edited correspondence and marketing materials to ensure communication was targeted and effective. She negotiated contracts for meeting space, including audio-visual and internet services, hotel accommodations and food service for 3-4 industry seminars and trade shows annually. She co-managed the meeting schedules on-site and communicated program and schedule changes to internal and external stakeholders. Ms. Kagan coordinated marketing visits and associated travel, ensuring compliance to budget, for office staff as well as for visiting Israeli business development and engineering professionals. She planned the Chairman’s dinner for 50 Rafael staff and Rafael consultants, including evaluation and recommendation of venue choices and menu options, and managed the event program on site.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Ms. Kagan identified and formed relationships with community partners to promote awareness of Barrie in the broader community, resulting in increased admissions inquiries and visits. In addition, she contacted prospective and newly enrolled families to assess satisfaction with the recruitment/enrollment process and served as the liaison between parents and administration/faculty as necessary to promote effective and continuing communication between the school and enrolled families.

Silver Spring, Md

Ms. Kagan co-founded York Street Partners in 1991. York Street provided boutique investment banking and consulting services with a primary focus on middle market media companies. At the time of the company’s inception, Ms. Kagan developed and distributed marketing material, resulting in the successful introduction of York Street Partners’ area of expertise and capabilities to the middle market media and communications business community. Her day-to-day operations responsibilities included bookkeeping for the three York Street business entities, the compilation of payroll, tax and financial data and submission of necessary state and federal monthly and quarterly tax filings, as well as all invoicing and disbursements and the management of banking relationships. In addition, Ms. Kagan managed the employee retirement and health plan benefits and negotiated the renewal of the York Street health contract annually.

New York, New York

Throughout her tenure with Bankers Trust, Ms. Kagan held several progressively more responsible positions in line management, budgeting & administration and client relationship management. Specific initiatives included the assessment of the Pension Service Group’s income potential and the subsequent development of budgets and financial forecasts for the department. She also managed a unit of 10 people responsible for bank-wide profitability reporting and customer billing and determined and coordinated staff training and development needs and administered personnel policies.

Bachelor'S Degree, History

Education record

Developmental Psychology/Human Development - Summer 2015 Statistics - Fall 2015