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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 of a legacy product portfolio. - Led a cross-functional team through discovery, new business opportunity evaluation, and concept development phases of product lifecycle.

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 on potential learning and commercial value of content investments to drive the product roadmap.- Collaborate with design and engineering teams to co-develop the student and teacher experience with LEGO Education products with accountability toward learning impact.- Sit on the LEGO Education global product leadership team.- Interim leadership (9 months) of Learning Content team driving instructional design, content development and content production.

•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 to hit 2019 target.•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 high quality outcomes on certified trainers' first training assignments.

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 research into illustrative, explanatory, and actionable products for teachers and teacher coaches across more than 55 program teams.•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 communication for product development/launch.o Assembled a cross-functional working group to advance the initiative vision and go-to-market strategy across 55 regional program teams; members expressed average satisfaction of 4.8/5 across multiple measures of internal partnership health. o Sourced, developed and executed consulting partnership agreements with four regional program teams leading to 100% adoption of product.•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 for National Science Foundation grant.•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 organizations in STEM education at the national and local level.o Represented the national organization on cross-institutional working groups to share promising practices, drive change and create products to support system-wide impact on STEM education at national and global scales. o Partners surveyed expressed satisfaction on average of 4.55/5 across multiple measures of partnership health.

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 science and math teacher training and support programs in alignment to culturally responsive pedagogy as educational excellence. Fostered a learning network between programmatic teams at regional and national levels with regard to science/engineering and math education program and partnerships.

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 Foundation at the national level.•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 research, user test, and design/implement a new program. Secured and managed funding of over $350,000, and institutionalized the program in the graduate syllabus for all future Teach For America – NY participants.

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 were regional semi-finalists (selectivity 8/750) for the national Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching.•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 professional development and advised 10 science department faculty members in assessment, lab, and lesson design.

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