See. Do. Love.

Our Core Values

 
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Compassion

Empathy and love guide our intentions to build community and amplify the power of operations teams. We are in the practice of listening deeply, designing intentionally, and cultivating deep connections across the StartOps community so that our schools have an increased capacity to build and sustain more equitable and inclusive school communities.

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Community

Power lies in community. We know there is boundless expertise and an abundance of gifts within operations teams. We hope to foster connections across schools and connect operations teams so that our schools can move towards greater equity and inclusion together.

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Collaboration

We believe that process is product and operations teams design and implement processes daily. In order for our schools to be more equitable, our own interpersonal experiences of collaboration and co-creation must embody the values of equity, diversity, and belonging.

 

The Ideas We Stand on

These books and articles have helped to shape our approach to cultivating community, our vision for co-creating our shared future, and helped us to define what compassion really means.

  • Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy)

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  • Margaret Wheatley, Who Do We Choose to Be

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  • Octavia Butler, Parables of The Sower

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  • Octavia Butler, Parables of The Talents

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  • Presence-based Coaching, Silsbee

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  • MARGARET (MEG) WHEATLEY, Ed.D.

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Our Expertise

  • Connect

    We are solving for isolation in operations roles by cultivating an online membership community and a program calendar of learning experiences across the year.

  • Build Capacity

    Through learning experiences and asynchronous access to tools, templates and content, StartOps builds the capacity of teams.

  • Coaching

    We provide individual and team coaching support to navigate the technical and adaptive complexities of school-based operations teams.

  • Lauren Bryant

    PRINCIPAL & FOUNDER

    Lauren Bryant is a catalytic connector, radical collaborator, and womanist working to operationalize spaces of belonging in order to ignite and sustain change. A native of Augusta, Georgia and Washingtonian for fifteen years, Lauren has spent the last decade cultivating community within the public education sector. Whether designing learning experiences for funders and philanthropists, leading day-to-day operations in charter schools, or supporting a national network of charter school leaders of color, her values of community, collaboration, and compassion have been centered.

  • Lâm Nguyễn

    COMMUNITY CULTIVATOR

    Lâm is an experienced designer of nonprofits and schools aimed to bridge gaps between opportunity and the brilliance of kids of color. A native of Saigon, Vietnam and product of South Jersey, Lam has spent the past 5 years in Washington, DC striving to maximize ways for children of color to win. From supporting the design of emerging, transformative education models with CityBridge Education to managing the day-to-day operations of Digital Pioneers Academy, Lam combines this design and operations experience with his values of family, integrity, and continuous improvement to grow StartOps’ programs and community.

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