Laura Kline Email & Phone Number

Laura Kline is a Product Leader @ The White House at United States Digital Service. She possess expertise in nonprofits, public policy, community outreach, education, policy analysis and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "In over two decades working in technology, I have never come across someone as talented and versatile as Laura. She raises the performance of everyone around her, and within my team was the X-factor that led to many of our most significant accomplishments. Within Amazon Technical Academy, she was the catalyst who helped transform a rough idea into a proof of concept, and a proof of concept into a design that could be scaled globally with an impact more than 100x greater than the initial solution. Laura epitomizes the entrepreneurial spirit. No task is beneath her, and no assignment is too complex. As her manager I would often challenge her to take on responsibilities in areas where she had little to no prior experience. No matter the task, she would always deliver and often exceed expectations. I credit much of this to her sense of ownership, passion for her customers, and willingness and ability to quickly learn new skills. On a regular basis, I would see her in the office late at night working through online coursework in software engineering just to better understand her peers and customers. Laura also demonstrated time and time again that she can influence and earn the trust of individuals across all levels. While at Amazon, I sat through multiple meetings where she engaged directly with C-level leadership to align on the strategic vision for our program. Perhaps most critical of all, Laura is someone who truly connects with and cares about her peers. She is loyal to her teammates and goes out of her way to support them in anyway she can. In short, Laura was a pleasure to work with and someone I would not hesitate to hire in the future.", "Laura is the kind of the program manager that makes things happen. She is an expert at scaling programs and finding ways to automate processes. At the same time, she is excellent at managing large networks of partners and connecting individually with hundreds of people. She ran the international Hour of Code campaign reaching over 100 million students around the world with hundreds of partners in the US and abroad. And, she managed a network of computer science facilitators across the country bringing computer science workshops to 10's of thousands of teachers year round. She is one of the most organized people I have worked with and when she left our team she provided months of advance notice and meticulously documented every workstream and partner relationship to make sure her successors could continue the programs seamlessly. Laura is a self-starter - she proactively identifies issues that are being dropped and steps in to drive them whether or not they are technically in her area. I spent very little time supporting Laura in my role as her manager - she ran her programs independently and consistently grew their impact. I would definitely recommend Laura for jobs running or scaling large programs.", and "Laura was my first hire at Code.org. In our first 3 years, she led our 2 most successful campaigns: she scaled the Hour of Code to reach 500 partners, 200,000 classrooms, and 100 million students. And she scaled our grades K-5 teacher-training operations to reach 200 trainers who have trained 30,000 teachers in in-person workshops, and we're now at a run-rate of training over 30,000 teachers per year. These numbers are unprecedented for anything in education, and Laura deserves a ton of the credit for what we pulled off. Laura's a self-starter, self-managing, and incredibly hard-working. I say "self-managing" because on many of the above programs we simply left her alone and she just decided what needed to get done, found the people to get it done, and saw it through to completion, with at most a light approval process to green-light her recommendations. She's one of the "secret weapons" to Code.org's success."

Listed skills include Nonprofits, Public Policy, Community Outreach, Education, and 18 others.