Summary
Profile
Goal-oriented Managing Partner with multi-national experience in various aspects of international education.
Successful in business management, team, skill and capacity building, and effective networking expansion.
Great at cultivating a positive and professional reputation and a robust public perception for sustainable business growth.
Downloadable version of CV here.
- Spearheaded the integration of Cambridge and IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) curricula, promoting a balanced, holistic educational approach.
- Designed and implemented a robust Special Education Program in collaboration with families, a special education coordinator, and a clinical psychologist, ensuring personalized support for diverse learners.
- Enhanced teaching quality and student outcomes through continuous professional development, coaching, and data-driven instructional practices.
- Fostered a culture of collaboration and inclusivity among educators, students, and families, promoting a positive and nurturing school environment.
- Strengthened school-community partnerships, including parent engagement initiatives, to support holistic student development.
- Championed strategic planning, aligning school goals with international education standards for continuous improvement.
Managing Partner, House of Stole; 2019 — Present
- Creating positive data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes, through data analytics.
- Heading internal and external communications; youth engagement and improving social media engagement by 70% in three months.
- Creating internal working systems and tracking multiple working streams.
- Increasing client base by approximately 50% through winning a regional vendor bid and pioneering Ambassador Program.
- Creating long term organizational growth strategies.
- Designing a management framework for leadership succession.
- Formulating a streamlined operational process, and a digital marketing strategy.
- Developing new channels for business, and a structured role development framework.
- Providing logistical support to co-founders.
- Providing personalized education planning and advising.
- Creating individualized college and graduate school admissions assistance and test prep with high client satisfaction rate.
- Designing skill development programs, career counseling and client specific educational programs to help clients achieve long term educational goals.
Alumni Relations Director,
SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College; 2017 — 2019
- Pioneered alumni office for 28 year old IB high school.
- Designed networking and fundraising programming.
- Created and implemented alumni office communication strategy: website, database, and alumni periodical.
- Established Alumni Advisory Board and spearheaded fundraising and development strategy.
Communications Director,
SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College; 2017 — 2019
- Developed all internal and external communications: periodicals, emails, websites, social media, etc.
- Designed and taught media literacy and analytical thinking courses.
- Pioneered reading programs to increase campus-wide reading by up to 25% within the first month, through formal and informal interventions.
- Created and administered unique curriculum to bridge aptitude gaps that I identified in students.
- Created communication and public engagement packet and planned annual Global Education and Skills Forum.
- Developed media strategy for Ugandan National Teacher Prize and Global Education and Skills Forum, 2017.
- First phase judging team member for 2017 Global Teacher Prize.
- Designed Teacher Ambassador Summit Toolkit for annual summit.
English Immersion Lead Teacher, Meysen Academy; 2010 — 2015
- Piloted, designed and trained elementary school teachers on a pioneer Global Awareness curriculum
- Conducted regular teacher evaluations and designed interventions to improve teachers’ teaching and learning practices.
- Taught 3rd, 4th grade, kindergarten and Middle School English, while providing guidance and teaching materials to entire grade teaching team.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2016
- Intellectual Contribution Award Finalist
- Phyllis Strimmling Award Nominee
Mount Holyoke College, 2009
- Harap Fund For Global Leadership Grant Winner
- Independent Study: Researching cross-cultural
concepts of globalization in kindergarten students.
Founding Educational Nonprofit
Creating cross-cultural international literacy project
Engaging in Japan Tsunami relief project
Creating Senegal WorldBank research project
Writing children’s books
Designing bespoke Reading Program
Rebranding Christ Preparatory School
Mentoring through Girls Inc.
Volunteering at Horizons for Homeless
Leading Harvard Africa Business Conference
Leading Harvard Africa Development Conference
Designing Harvard Campus-wide Sexual Assault Convening
Educational Leadership
Business Partnership Development
Employee Training
Public Relations and Communications
Strategic Planning
Recruitment and Hiring
Program Design and Management
Teaching and Learning
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Founder of The Pepper, a food services brand
Cooking (featured on Citi TV cooking show)
Creative Writing (Thought Catalog, Ayiba Magazine, Circumspecte)
Dancing
Painting
Travel
Harvard Africa Alumni
Harvard Club of Ghana