LesLee Bickford

Experience

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  The School District of Philadelphia

  Sept 2003 - Jun 2005

  Middle School Teacher

  Achieved dramatic academic gains with students: 92% of students achieved proficiency in state science standards and increased average student achievement in math by at least 2.5 grade levels within one academic school year based on national test results

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  Teach For America

  Aug 2005 - Dec 2018

  Led a team of 13 to develop Teach For America's first organization-wide Theory of Leadership and Theory of Leadership Development. Partnered with national and regional teams across the network to contextualize the shared theory to their local context. Envisioned and built a new team of 5 charged with providing leadership coaching and programmatic consulting to 35 regions across the country and developing our organization-wide point-of-view on coaching as our primary form of leadership development for all program participants. Managed a team of four to provide direct-to-field supports to 50+ regions across the country and served as an executive coach to senior program managers. Served in a variety of leadership roles within our sub-team and the broader organization. Managed a team of 8 to provide direct-to-the-field supports to 40+ regions across the country. Served in a variety of leadership roles within our sub-team and the broader organization Helped to launch and co-led alongside the regional Executive Director (ED) the programmatic teams of 4 new regional sites and one existing site across the country Managed a team of 15 through 2 layers to design and implement high quality programming for ~200 first and second year teachers Created the vision for and managed a team of 4 full-time staff members to design and execute the learning and development needs at all levels of a 150+ person team. Approach included full-team conferences, year-long reinforcement trainings, and individual coaching Managed a cohort of 20 full-time staff members through 2 layers to ambitious recruitment goals at schools across the country. Team structure required managing and obtaining results through 3 layers of managers Coached recruitment directors individually and in groups. All recruitment directors receiving cultivation coaching moved from the bottom 25th percentile to the top 75th Executed recruitment campaigns at 8 college campuses nationwide including the management of 16 part-time college student employees and one full-time recruitment fellow

  • Vice President, Leadership Develpment

    May 2017 - Dec 2018

  • Vice President, Coaching

    Apr 2016 - May 2017

  • Vice President, Regional Support & Development

    Jun 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Vice President, Teacher Support and Development - Execution

    Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

  • Senior Managing Director, New Sites

    Aug 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Senior Managing Director, Philadelphia

    Jun 2010 - Jul 2011

  • Managing Director, Recruitment Team Learning and Development

    Dec 2008 - Jun 2010

  • Managing Director of Recruitment

    Jun 2007 - Dec 2008

  • Director, Recruitment Learning and Development

    May 2006 - Jun 2007

  • Recruitment Director

    Aug 2005 - May 2006
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  EdFuel

  Aug 2017 - now

  Executive Coach

  I support amazing leaders in maximizing their talents and growing the leadership required to bring their vision to life.

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  Bright Morning Consulting Inc.

  Feb 2018 - now

  President

  Driving the strategy and building offerings to expand the reach of Elena Aguilar's Transformational Coaching method to build resilient communities and a just and equitable world.