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Caissa K12 and the Campaign for the Empty Desk
Public schools once waited for families to arrive. Caissa K12 treats every empty desk like an undecided voter - and only gets paid when the student comes back.
The Firm Built on the Idea Everyone Else Called a Fantasy
Two firms said an education-only communications practice would never work. Twenty-five years, 500-plus convenings, and work in every state later, Collaborative has made specialization look less like a constraint than a cheat code.
Solution Tree
Solution Tree built a sizable education business around a deceptively ordinary ritual: teachers meeting together. Its edge is turning that meeting into a system schools can buy, practice, measure and repeat.
Tina Sheng
Tina Sheng is the CEO of PalmDrive USA, the North American arm of PalmDrive, an international education and mentorship company. A Stanford-trained educator who grew up in Beijing, she built her career inside Bay Area high schools as an admissions officer, teacher, and college counselor before founding PalmDrive's undergraduate department in 2015. Under her leadership the team has guided hundreds of students into top-20 universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, and helped grow PalmDrive into a venture-backed company serving thousands of students annually.
Khadeejah Nauman
Khadeejah Nauman is a Karachi-based education professional working as an Executive Associate at ExxelTNR, a higher education consultancy that guides Pakistani students through studying abroad - from admissions and visas to landing in a new country. Trained as a psychologist at Istanbul Bilgi University, she pairs a counselor's read of people with the logistics of moving lives across borders.