Check out a sampling of my work. If you’re interested in discussing how to implement any of these programs, assessments, or tools in your own business, please get in touch!
Dawn’s Portfolio
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👩🏻💻 Program Design & Evaluation
Analyzed applicant pool for a virtual accelerator in order to determine the effectiveness of recruitment efforts and efficacy of the review process
Leadership team & program staff
👩🏻💻 Program Design & Evaluation
Designed guide to application review process to enable 40+ volunteer reviewers to fairly and equitably review 3,000+ applications for a virtual accelerator
Program staff, Board members, and alumnae serving on volunteer review team
👩🏻💻 Program Design & Evaluation
Conducted analysis of virtual event registration vs. attendance throughout week-long conference to analyze attendee behavior and inform future event planning
Leadership team & program staff
👩🏻💻 Program Design & Evaluation
Led volunteer Board of Directors to create 3-month mentorship curriculum to build community amongst women in technology via shared professional challenges
Early- and mid-career women in tech
🧗🏻♀️ Learning Experience Design
Developed facilitation guides to “train the trainers” and support Program Advisors (Teaching Assistants) in facilitating interactive, virtual, small-group skill building sessions
Program Advisors (Teaching Assistants)
🧗🏻♀️ Learning Experience Design
Designed monthly learning modules (learning objectives, curated pre-reads, applied assignments, and interaction small group Peer Sessions) built around live webinar content delivered by subject matter experts
200 women entrepreneurs at various stages of business growth
🧗🏻♀️ Learning Experience Design
Planned and facilitated virtual brainstorming session with remote team to innovate on virtual conference session design
Leadership team
📈 Impact Assessment
Collected and assessed annual feedback from alumnae to understand long-term program impact on business and personal growth and inform future programmatic design
Leadership team, program staff & external stakeholders
📈 Impact Assessment
Led the analysis of business and skill growth of a cohort of 200 women entrepreneurs over the course of a 12-month accelerator experience to understand immediate program impact
Leadership team, program staff & external stakeholders
🧩 Organizational Growth & Capacity Building
Led research initiative to understand the competitive landscape within which our program operates in order to determine effective partnership strategies for future recruitment efforts
Leadership team & program staff
🧩 Organizational Growth & Capacity Building
Researched and designed strategic compensation plan to increase staff retention and strengthen new staff recruitment
Board of Trustees
🧩 Organizational Growth & Capacity Building
Developed and facilitated virtual workshop with remote team to codify and strengthen organizational culture
Leadership team
👥 People Ops/Learning & Development
Designed and implemented SMART Goal setting process and quarterly self-assessment for staff and program participants to strengthen alignment between individual goals, organizational objectives, and daily operations
Program staff & 200 women entrepreneurs
👥 People Ops/Learning & Development
Created a Hiring Guide to design and codify the hiring process for all teachers and administrators at Codman Academy during period of rapid growth
Leadership team and department heads/hiring managers
👥 People Ops/Learning & Development
Designed and facilitated workshop to empower women entrepreneurs to strategically approach difficult conversations
200 women entrepreneurs at various stages of business growth
🌎 Community Building
Built and led matching process to connect early-career and mid-career women in tech throughout Greater Boston for 3-month mentorship engagement
Board of Directors
🌎 Community Building
Designed and delivered virtual Jeopardy activity to facilitate networking and relationship building in a social setting for cohort members
200 women entrepreneurs at various stages of business growth
🌎 Community Building
Designed and executed customized “Escape the Room” experience to train staff on organizational culture and processes
Full staff across all departments
