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Billund Municipality, Region Of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Led exploration on key strategic topics applying across all LEGO Education product portfolios in order to ensure future relevance and growth for the business.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

- Business owner for a portfolio of educational solutions for young learners (ages 18mo-5y) with global reach.- Established a new product strategy for Early Learning at LEGO Education focused on target markets and segments of highest reach potential. - Achieved 22% YOY growth for portfolio, working with markets to develop approach and execute repositioning.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

- Ensure consistent learning objectives, principles, and design across all products in the portfolio, driving implementation of global content strategy that ensures strong teacher and learner outcomes, customer value, and global scalability.- Continuously analyze content requirements from markets and users for implementation at scale, sharing perspective.

• Developed new professional development services of coaching and competency-based professional development courses from concept to launch.
• Codified and implemented new business models for professional development in the US.
• Created globally disseminated resources to support teachers and trainers changing practices in response to COVID-19: Online Training Playbook; teacher guides for effective remote instruction.
• Managed national corps of professional development consultants to consistently deliver high quality product training experiences for teachers, raising customer training satisfaction metrics by 7% in first three months.
• Established recruitment/admissions process and criteria to grow LEGO Certified Trainer network by 50% in the US within 3 months. Redesigned certification programming for rigor and practice-based approach, leading to.

Billund, Denmark

Led an agile experimentation program team comprised of innovation marketeers and market researchers to derisk go-to-market strategy for an innovative play proposition.

Certified in the Reinvention Method - teaching CHAISE Reinvention, CHAISE Reinvention PLUS, CHAISE Cardio, and CHAISE Bands classes - as well as Pilates Reformer.

National

• Managed Director, STEM and Director, Computer Science (CS), and led a team of part-time designers to ensure national program design and execution is at the vanguard of teaching and learning by translating academic.
• Drove development of a new research-based framework of Teaching Practices from concept to launch, leveraging user-centered design principles/processes. Led vision, strategy, execution, and internal/external.
• Set vision for and managed execution of national STEM initiatives, including federal, corporate, and foundation grants supporting CS education, totaling investments of over $1 million. Served as Principal Investigator.
• Sourced/executed formal partnerships with highly respected national organizations (Smithsonian Science Education Center; American Modeling Teachers Association) and cultivated informal partnerships with over 40 leading.

United States

Curated the organizational point of view on science/engineering and math pedagogy and science and math teacher training/leadership development. Established and maintained partnerships with leaders in K-12 science/engineering and math education at a national scale. Supported programmatic teams at both regional and national levels in design and execution of.

New York, NY

• Managed a team of 3 teacher leadership development coaches, responsible for >100 teachers, relationship management with portfolio of >40 school leaders, and a reach of >5,000 PK-12 students.
• Led design and execution of regional STEM initiatives, including implementation of a pilot program with results that laid the foundation to secure a multi-year $1 million research grant from the National Science.
• Inaugural Fellow in the 100Kin10 Fellowship, designing a new program promoting engineering education. Sourced and led a cross-institutional team (Bay Area Discovery Museum and Relay Graduate School of Education) to.

New York, NY

• Inspired, coached, and developed >60 1st and 2nd year teachers and managed relationships with >20 school leaders, with a reach of >4,000 K-12 students.o Of these teachers, 1 was a finalist (selectivity 4/750) and 3.
• Developed and executed a scope and sequence of professional development for approximately 100 1st and 2nd year science teachers.

New York, NY

Hired, trained, and consulted on planning and execution of site operations for a team of of 13 staff members responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing summer school systems/procedures and for creating an on-brand, welcoming environment for 650 corps members, 90 staff members, and thousands of students.

• Developed and implemented rigorous, inquiry-based curricula for 7th, 8th grade science and Regents Biology for 360 students, increasing average content mastery scores by more than 33% in one year.
• Annually planned, communicated logistics, trained and managed 20-member testing and scoring committee to administer New York State written and performance exams in science for 150 eighth-grade students. Designed.

United States

Provided annual and specialized leadership, strategy, and management consulting for collegiate chapters and alumnae advisory boards in a portfolio of campuses, primarily in the Great Lakes, Plains, and Mountains region.

B.S. With Distinction, Chemistry, Biology, Visual Studies

M.S., Teaching, Secondary Education And Teaching