Taryn Waters

Taryn Waters is a strategic leader with a proven record of creating sustained value for mission-driven organizations that accelerate social impact. Taryn has worked in the K-12 and higher education space for the past ten years. Prior to that, she spent two years working in large scale innovation at the X Prize Foundation, collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the world (e.g., James Cameron, Elon Musk, Ratan Tata, Arianna Huffington) to help problem-solve some of humanity’s greatest unsolved challenges (e.g., global literacy, sustainable food sources, ocean plastics crisis). 

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A few of Taryn’s most notable professional accomplishments in the education field include: ideating and scaling the K-12 professional services division for Corwin Press; partnering with institutions of higher education to develop online personalized learning programs; and launching the largest evidence-based database in the world on what works best to improve teaching and learning (www.visiblelearningmetax.com). 

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Over the course of her career, Taryn has developed comprehensive education strategies and solutions for hundreds of school systems and dozens of universities around the world. Taryn has a deep understanding of the education sector—including classroom practice, pedagogy, professional learning, education policy, state standards, and learning design—and is motivated by an innate desire to have a positive impact on the lives of learners across the globe.  

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Taryn has a Bachelor of Science degree in Behavioral Science. She graduated from the UCLA Anderson School of Management Creativity and Innovation Executive Education program, and is a Global Executive MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.