Kayla Record

About Kayla Record

Kayla Tufares has nearly two decades of experience implementing strategic initiatives and assembling teams tasked with mission-critical agendas in the fields of higher education, non-profit management, and youth leadership development.Kayla is passionate about promoting human-centered design, a creative approach to problem-solving that starts with people and arrives at new solutions tailored to meet their lives. She finds joy in learning just about anything and is particularly interested in community collaboration, equity in education, and lifelong learning. She is naturally curious about people, their motivations and how they make decisions. Before joining S.E.E.D. Planning Group, LLC, as the Special Projects Coordinator, Kayla was a Vice President of Development with a Children’s Foundation in Pennsylvania. Her work has taken her across the united states, looking at ways in which families and students of underrepresented communities are navigating financial situations in the pursuit of academic achievement, empowerment and social engagement. These insights and explorations lead to identifying relevant new areas for community collaboration to play a meaningful role in the future so one can live life on their terms. Kayla has served as an appointed member of two Mayor’s commissions to combat poverty and policy action taskforces. She earned a BA degree in marketing and communications from Stevenson University and went to Harvard University, where she obtained a master’s certification in innovation and entrepreneurship and completed the Harvard Management in Leadership in Higher Education (MLE) graduate program. Committed to empowering people to reach their highest potential and leveraging community resources to reduce socioeconomic barriers, Kayla’s mantra has always been, ‘you can’t pay it back… so you have to pay it forward.’

Experience

1. Administration

   Trehab

   Mar 2025 — Present · US

Education

• Stevenson University

  Business Adminstration, Marketing

  2009 — 2011

• Carroll Community College

  General Studies, Secondary Education|Business Marketing

  2005 — 2008

• Harvard Graduate School of Education

  Management and Leadership in Higher Education

• Harvard University

  Graduate Certification, Innovation & Entrepreneurship