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Leadership Team

Our founding team has deep experience in addressing complex challenges and launching initiatives that have gone to scale. We have created and operated several systems-changing platforms (both within large organizations and as separate startups) in a wide variety of sectors including crowdfunding, feedback, enterprise technology, educational technology, publishing, and lifelong learning. Our team members have taught at the secondary school, university, and corporate levels, and one has been a dean and academic administrator, as well as having long experience in educational policy.

 

We bring extensive experience in design thinking, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, innovation, strategy, economics, law, public policy, creation of communities of practice, and technology. We have worked in the private sector, public sector, and nonprofit world.

 

We have since expanded beyond the five-person original principals to include staff members who can dedicate themselves entirely to the recruitment, implementation, and facilitation of C/Corps cohorts. They include designers, professors, as well as former associates who have returned to work with Normal Next. 

Donna Callejon

Donna Callejon

Board Chair

Focusing on opportunities ahead

Dennis Whittle

Dennis Whittle

Co-Founder, Board Director

Asking "What if?" and "Why not?"

Chip Storey

Chip Storey

Co-Founder, Principal

Planning and managing large-scale complex projects

Jennifer Vokoun

Jennifer Vokoun

Program Director

Trusting the process

Carlos Rodriguez

Carlos Rodriguez

Board Director

Diversifying STEM

Steve Ritchie

Steve Ritchie

Co-Founder, Principal

Operationalizing programs, processes, and products

Meg VanDeusen

Meg VanDeusen

Connect& Project Manager

Building for What's Next

Krissy Ferris

Krissy Ferris

Project Manager

Distilling complexity into actionable plans

Daphne Kwok

Daphne Kwok

Board Director

Building equitable and inspiring futures

Ernest Koe

Ernest Koe

Co-Founder, Principal

Architecting systems, software and innovative teams

Effiana Svarre

Effiana Svarre

Program Coordinator

Impacting the Public Through Policy

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