Shweta Gandhi Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

As the Associate Director for Innovation and Personalized Learning, I manage the curriculum for 90 minutes of each student's day across 20 schools, 10K+ students. For this block, we have built a centers model where student's rotate through various activities based on their individual needs. Activities range from Tier 2 level interventions on literacy, legos & lego robotics, strategy and sportsmanship, library, mindfulness via social emotional learnings, and online learning. Every student also rotates between project based learning, art, and science throughout the year. I have also spearheaded the full build of an online platform that integrates data from student applications, and provides a tracker for students, parents and staff collating progress towards, weekly, monthly and yearly mastery goals. This platform uses algorithms to personalize goals towards individual student needs and ensure transparency and accountability on work needed.

Karmany attracts, filters, and aims to convert qualified global talent for the social enterprise market with a focus on education. We have connected thousands of social development professionals to over 200 organizations globally – and are one of the strongest communities of practice for this sector. Visitors find a variety of content organized into verticals (e.g.: health, water): reshared journalistic accounts, to short blog posts covering successes and challenges, in-depth reports, curated discussions, and job opportunities. All of this content is open to user question, comment, and discussion, and an upvoting model to ensure that content most valued by users is most frequently viewed and searchable.Our platform boasts a 50% higher acceptance rate for job interviews in the social sector over the industry average. We began our work in India and are now expanding across the US rapidly creating a truly global virtual ecosystem of change makers.

Unplugged Design is a digital development shop agency that crafts beautiful, unique and inspiring design to help organizations visually express themselves. In 4 years we have worked with clients across a large variety of industries including, nonprofits, education, medical, retail, food, and personal fitness. Our partner agency has marketed our finished products across the globe and was recently named the top digital marketing agency in Chicago.As a partner in the organization, I developed the initial M&Ps, managed the P&L, and worked with the design and development team as the key client liaison for a majority of the projects.

Vidya Grants is an educational non-profit working to provide children access to high quality education – with a focus on 8th and 9th grade. We’ve worked with over 10,000 students across the slums of India to generate a baseline of their knowledge. We then worked with the top 10% of students to bridge their gap in education to transition them to an affordable private school. Vidya covered the students’ tuition for two years and provided support for supplies, books, etc. In an interview with our recent graduates, most did not expect to pass 7th grade – 89% of them are now going into 10th. I worked to create the initial organizational strategy, led an operational team based in Chicago, and managed an on-the-ground team in Delhi, India. In addition, I led the website development, worked with the fundraising team, executed key community events, and developed core partnerships key to our mission.

Dallas, Tx, Us

I served as the financial lead to operationalize a $100m+ cost savings project consulting my team on the various initiatives to drive this number within a two year period. I was responsible for forecasting and tracking savings resulting from offshoring initiatives and productivity improvements. I also managed the P&L, investment dollars and funding requests through my organization. During this time, I also gained significant experience driving negotiations with outsourcing partners globally.

Chicago, Il, Us

I drove strategic direction and overall management of the largest Midwest Startup Conferences bringing together 1500+ attendees from the startup entrepreneurship space, investor industry and subject matter experts. In this role, I worked to advise various early-stage startups in their pitch, operational strategy, and financial planning. I continue to consult various ventures from my involvement with the conference.

Dallas, Tx, Us

I managed a team of 50+ account managers delivering voice services to multimillion-dollar organizations globally. Among many other accomplishments, I led her team to have the highest productivity achieving 22% profitability across four clients versus a 16% historical benchmark. I was responsible for hiring, training, and launching a brand new team with a $500m dollar voice contract. I led the negotiations for a successful 4-year renewal of an existing contract, including more competitive pricing, increased responsibility, and more than $2m in incremental services. I also established and led the Professional Employee Improvement program targeted at high potential employees and graduated 17 employees as “promotion ready.”

Dallas, Tx, Us

I played a key role in the marketing and launch of a key AT&T cable product in a new market. I gathered sales data from direct and indirect retail sales teams for senior leaders, managed a team of 4 sales managers, and represented the company at community events. I also trained employees on products including: pitches, sales techniques, and usage of sales tools for increased efficiency. Her key project involved working with the internal IT team to lead the development of an automated tool capable of distributing sales leads and monitoring viability of territories based on agent dispositions with scalability for nationwide deployment. This tool had the capacity to save company thousands of dollars in manual labor.

Dallas, Tx, Us

I managed 15 union technicians in monitoring/restoring network services across a 5-state Midwest region. I ensured attendance, performance management and team training needs were met in compliance with union contract and organizational needs. I placed a emphasis on productivity improvement initiatives granting me recognition across my leadership team.

Ba, Finance/Sales

Finance, Sales