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➤ Successfully founding and expanding a consulting firm, with 90% of clients returning after 1 semester of coaching and over 70% client return rate for a second year, resulting in staying financially positive without loans.➤ Immediately pivoting all students to virtual coaching starting March 2020 due to COVID-19 retaining all clients but 1, as well as creating a new online curriculum and virtual student folders.➤ Recruiting, hiring, and training 11 employees over 2 years, including 1 Administrative team member, and personally guided the Coaches in effectively utilizing the curriculum, problem-solving, and increasing efficiencies.➤ Helping Coaches resolve student motivation, behavior, study habit, and life habit issues, impacting student success, as well as coaching on effective parent feedback through student session summaries.➤ Decreasing no-shows and last-minute cancellations by over 50% due to text message reminders, while decreasing time invested by Coaches in session summaries by over 50% through creation of online formats, improving data collection.➤ Marketing the company by creating the website, logo, and tag line, speaking at local events, handling social marketing on FB and Google, developing local signage, advertising in local magazines, and utilizing a marketing CR service.➤ Consistently improving growth rate, with 16 students the first year, 35 by the second, and 38 students the third year, a 118% and 8.5% increase, respectively, while adding 9 coaches in the second year before simplifying to just 2 total.➤ Generating 98% of new clients from referrals from high school counselors, teachers, parents, and students to other clients, as well as obtaining 15 5-Star Google reviews in 1 year, and an addition 20 with help from Signpost.➤ Receiving 96.6% parent feedback at 5/5 for satisfaction with impact of services, obtaining feedback through surveys, meetings, notes, and reviews, utilizing McLaughlins, Collins, and Gautiers 4/5.

Revolutionizing student academic planning, resource optimization, and transfer pathway. Enabling institutions to act on their guided pathways and completion initiatives, and to streamline their transfer process.

➤ Creating at least 5 new business opportunities per quarter through networking, including engaging with 7 CEOs and 4 business connectors during a 3-month period.➤ Focusing business on entrepreneurs and VCs, including consulting clients on scientific strategies for engineering teams that maximize performance, while providing workplace analytics and training to build high performance cultures.➤ Aligning employees and managers on vision, career development, and direction, including facilitating hiring/onboarding through assessments, as well as coaching executives and managers on emotional intelligence.➤ Exploring, understanding, and enhancing the interaction between people and process in order to develop ways to improve team morale and reduce toxicity, while improving efficiency and delivery for business.➤ Successfully equipping individuals and teams with the EQ and leadership skills they need in order to create strong, welcoming corporate cultures.➤ Utilizing a holistic approach to coaching executives, focusing on the individual leader and their surrounding support system, while starting out by diagnosing target behavioral habits that need changing or improvement.➤ Forging a path to growth that involves the feedback and input of key stakeholders who provide ongoing accountability and support, resulting in long-term, measurable change in behaviors that make client organizations stronger.➤ Improving the judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, or organizations, applying principles of psychology to business and analytic processes, while developing plans to get teams working smart and healthy.➤ Measuring how teams are performing on the back end to make sure the strategy is working and clients are getting the results they want, while providing ongoing personal support to drive satisfaction and loyalty.

➤ Researched and implemented innovative classroom design, as well as initiated/instituted environmental and communication changes to enhance student learning and retention based on new brain and learning science.➤ Instituted student-inclusive parent meetings, allowing students a ‘seat at the table' to evaluate their challenges and behavior, connect their actions to their outcomes, and help them create their own plans for success moving forward.➤ Engaged a greater breadth of students' motivators to gain quality engagement in class and out, as well as implemented accountability elements, goal markers, and reflection points to determine student progress.➤ Proactively created math seminars for parents and created effective change within the classroom.➤ Expanded students’ capacity to learn by minimizing fear of math and avoiding undue emphasis on grades.

Independent Education CEO – Hopeland Academy – 1998 to 2017 Co-Founder – R.E.A.C.H. Math & Science Academy – 2010 to 2012 Tutor – Numbersense Math Tutoring – 2013 to 2015