Shannon Blackwell Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

▪ Areas of ownership and responsibility include cross-platform data integrity, Texasstate compliance, culture and project management, daily operations, billing andscheduling for the North Texas region (14 campuses).▪ Ensure school teams have support and coaching for effective billing andcollection, optimized staff scheduling, efficient and fiscally responsible schoollevelprocesses, pristine online student and staff files, and passion for greatoperations driving an overall exemplary customer experience.

Texas, United States

▪ Build enrollment and community engagement excellence across thirteen school leadership teams in high-fidelity Montessori programs▪ Drive profitability by supporting the development of a surprise and delight parent experience that fosters a thriving school community▪ Develop new business opportunities through events, partnerships and thoughtful marketing initiatives

Texas, United States

▪ Support the opening of new Montessori campuses in North Texas▪ Facilitate implementation of new warehouse software through project management

Texas & Arizona, United States

▪ Provide strategy and leadership to support the mission, vision, and goals of eight schools as they transition from traditional childcare to classic Montessori. ▪ Curate and supervise a team of twelve direct reports and one hundred and fifty indirect reports. ▪ Liaison with off-shore team to optimize billing and student information systems, budgeting, and business operations restructuring.▪ Achieved Association Montessori Internationale USA (AMIUSA) Recognition at three locations in two years, with additional campuses on the pathway to AMIUSA recognition or American Montessori Society (AMS) Accreditation in 2023.▪ Authored and led COVID19 recovery roadmap to financial sustainability.

Texas & Arizona, United States

▪ Supported eight Montessori campuses in imagining, articulating, and transforming their community culture including complete rebranding from “Wonderland Montessori Academy” to “Wonderland Montessori”. ▪ Implemented a comprehensive communications application designed to simplify and maximize communication between parents, guides and administrators.

Plano, Tx

▪ Provide interim leadership after the acquisition of a 20-year-old private school program with accreditation through the International Montessori Council. ▪ Program achieved AMI Recognition in 2020 for 0-6 and is on target for 0-12 in 2022.

Bedford, Tx

▪ Oversee the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services that support the growth of a start-up program.▪ Negotiate real estate and design school layout within a newly launched space for children from 3-18.- Lead a staff of six in an AMI Montessori & Project Based Learning (High School) environment.

Colleyville, Tx

▪ Create strategic plans for fundraising, communications and admissions marketing in a mid-size independent private school resulting in 96% donor participation, 87% retention and an admissions waiting list within two years. ▪ Facilitated comprehensive rebranding from “The Barbara Gordon Montessori School” to “Waypoint Montessori”.▪ Handle tactical actions within scope of position, including annual giving, capital giving, special events, database management and volunteer management.

▪ Develop and execute start-up business for product launch of a natural childbirth education method for home, birth center or hospital as part of a six-person leadership team.▪ Build grassroots marketing initiatives through online affiliates, viral and social marketing to build broad brand evangelism within the greater birth community.▪ Train incoming instructors to market and develop their work-at-home business as part of a network of birth professionals.

Grand Prairie, Tx

▪ Create marketing materials for over 400 automotive reconditioning franchisees nationwide. ▪ Develop training materials and provide marketing training in a Texas State Certified Career School. ▪ Coordinated 7-10 external career and automotive trade shows each year and the annual franchisee conference.▪ Work with executive management to author and distribute new product training and track successful implementation

▪ Supervise in-house and freelance marketing team in the creation and distribution of marketing materials (print and web) for health savings programs with a combined membership of over 5 million participants.▪ Handle account management and implementation of private label business for clients including Citigroup, AGIA, AIG, and Aetna

▪ Manage marketing budget, advertising response and patron/donor retention events and fundraising campaigns in conjunction with the Executive Director. ▪ Produce marketing materials including season brochures, posters, press releases, email and web.