AUTHOR & FACILITATOR

KAWAI

LAI

Insight from Tom Northrup

“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.  If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.”

Insight from Tom Northrup

“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.  If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.”

About Kawai

Kawai Lai is a designer, facilitator, and strategy consultant helping organizations make the abstract more concrete.

She is also a cofounder of VizLit, an organization with the mission to unlock the visual minds of students and educators.

Formerly, she served as vice president of innovation at the National Association of Independent Schools, a nonprofit serving more than 1,800 schools and 730,000 students across the country and abroad. Inher role, she helped schools reimagine education, build capacity to innovate, and share stories of authentic progress.

Kawai was a founding team member of Education Elements, an ed tech startup working with the most forward-thinking public school districts and charters across the country to personalize learning. Prior to a career in education, Kawai spent a decade in consulting and technology, implementing large- scale technology systems with Deloitte, working in different industries, including health care, biotech, and aerospace.

She has a master of business administration degree from Haas, UC Berkeley, and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University.

Connect with Kawai

You can follow her on @kawai_lai and #teamhabits

You can also subscribe to her vizlit newsletter for great resources.

Publications

Kawai’s work has appeared in the NEW School Rules, in the Personalized Learning Playbook & in collaborations with organizations around the country.

 

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