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Chief Impact Officer, uAspire on how the Alliance helps keep leaders close to the work

CEO, uAspire on What Makes the Alliance Unique

Founder & CEO, Surge Institute on Scarcity Mindset in the Nonprofit Sector

Chief Impact Officer, uAspire on Delusions of Uniqueness

Chief Growth Officer, Bottom Line on the Alliance as a Space for Less Competition in Fundraising

Chief Executive Officer, College Advising Corps on the Responsibility of Leadership in this Moment

Chief Program Officer, The Opportunity Network, on the Alliance as a Space for all Leadership Styles

Chief Growth Officer, Bottom Line on Alliance Org Collaboration Across Issue Areas

Founder & CEO, Surge Institute on the Alliance Community’s multiplier effect

CEO, uAspire on coming together as a team

Interim CEO, One Million Degrees on vulnerability and candor among peers

Chief Strategy Officer, DREAM, on driving coordinated, courageous change in the sector

CEO, College Possible on the Alliance’s unique vantage point as a convener of 150+ orgs

CEO, Bottom Line, on overcoming competition to support student outcomes

CEO, We Will All Rise on giving and receiving support

Chief Knowledge Officer, Beyond 12 on how structured collaboration leads to impact

Founder & CEO, COOP Careers on creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts

Sadiq Ali, Vice President, Alliance Community on the intentionality behind our programming and member experience

Interim CEO, One Million Degrees on role-specific support as an Interim CEO

CEO, Peer Health Exchange on finding community and affirmation as a first-time CEO

CEO, Let's Get Ready on tackling structural and systemic barriers

President & CEO, Search Institute on changing the narrative about young people

Managing Director of Development, Let's Get Ready on tackling big questions together

CEO, PENCIL on seeing individual leaders evolve into new roles

Chief Knowledge Officer, Beyond 12 on shared resources and responsive support

Chief Marketing Officer, NPower on building community in the Alliance

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CEO, Bottom Line on thinking broadly in service of improving student outcomes

Chief Knowledge Officer, Beyond 12 on breaking out of silos to center the needs of students

VP of Research & Technology, NAF on the power of “open sourcing” solutions

New Classrooms on how APA is sustaining collaboration among orgs

Former EVP, Strategic Communications, Forum for Youth Investment on finding safety, encouragement, and candor in Leadership Cohorts

EVP, The Forum for Youth Investment on creating a “for us, by us” community

President, Pencil on building toward sustained, systemic impact

Nithi Thomas, Vice President, Alliance Programming on harnessing the hard-earned wisdom across our Community to drive impact

Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar, Vice President, Community Impact, on how program tracks provide member orgs with tangible implementation plans to support org improvement

Sean Flanagan, Vice President, Research and Evaluation

Mike O’Brien, CEO, on Teacher Certification Multi-Org Collaboration initaitive.