Lisa’s purpose and passion is rooted in the desire to address inequities in education which she has translated into a career leveraging competency-based approaches to ensure equitable outcomes, drive high-quality learning experiences, and lead to economic and social mobility. While Lisa started her leadership in learning innovation as a high school English teacher and principal, she has experience across K-12, workforce, government, higher education, ed tech, and non-traditional learning providers.
Prior to joining C-BEN, Lisa was Vice President of Learning Innovation at Guild where she led strategy and operations to ensure that high-quality workplace learning counts toward a degree and provides a pathway to mobility. She also led Guild’s Learning Center of Excellence, focused on improving learning outcomes for working adults. She also served as Senior Advisor at Entangled Solutions and Vice President of Partner Strategy and Innovation at Pathstream, a non-traditional learning provider embedding industry certificates into academic and workplace pathways. Prior to these system approaches, Lisa was the Executive Director of Learning Innovation at Laureate Education and Walden University’s founding Dean of Competency-Based Education responsible for developing and scaling the university’s direct-assessment offering. As a scholar, Lisa’s research has been published by the Clayton Christensen Institute and is featured in several peer-reviewed journals.