Paula has worked 20 plus years in the education marketplace.   Over the past 6+ years she’s been President and CEO of BizEducation Consulting where her focus is to ensure businesses in the K-12 marketplace understand how to position their services to school district leaders across the country. Her experience spans multiple roles, from start-ups to Fortune 500’s, designing foundational and outreach sales strategies, developing marketing initiatives, building effective sales teams, professional development, executive leadership, creating thought leadership opportunities, and a voice for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.  She’s maintained high level relationships with administrators from urban, suburban and rural districts and keeps her ear to the ground for their demanding needs and desires to help teachers and students thrive.   She has served as a Chief Strategy Officer for Teachstone, a PreK company, VP of Sales for Mathspace and Ombudsman, as well as National Director of Education Partnerships at Discovery Education.  She is on the corporate board of Abre and Lightspeed Technologies, as well as the advisory board for the Institute of Education Innovation (IEI).  Her passion is in the success of children, mentoring, reading, genealogy, and traveling as NanaP.  She currently lives in Atlanta.