Chris Dragon

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ABOUT CHRIS DRAGON

Profit-focused, ROI-driven senior executive, innovator, entrepreneur and turnaround specialist with 20+ years of executive leadership experience. During my tenure at various leading Educational Technology companies, I have worked closely with senior executives to ensure these organizations remained on the leading edge by pioneering innovative programs, platforms, and strategies. Creating high-performance teams, driving financial goals, restructuring business models and constructing visionary solutions within rapidly changing markets.Accomplishments include:• Partnering with colleagues to strengthen the operational infrastructure, optimize resource utilization, leverage organizational synergies to dramatically reduce labor costs and drive significant growth in net operating income.• Pioneering innovative programs, platforms, and strategies that drive revenue and market share growth in a highly competitive market environment.• Developing revolutionary strategies to achieve renewed growth opportunity for the multi-disciplined K-12 product portfolio.• Resurrecting the digital intervention and supplemental portfolios by driving a strategic vision and renewed focus to reestablish the portfolio’s market dominance in domestic and key global markets.• Building high-performance teams through effective recruiting, training, development, and consistent and supportive leadership. Creating working environments to encourage continual innovation.• Developing successful strategic business plans, ensuring ROI through management of effective operations and budget oversight.• Developing strong and productive relationships across all functions within the business.• Managing change in competitive business environments. Leading teams through restructuring, as required, due to business mergers, integrations, acquisitions and turnarounds.