Lindsey Padrino

About Lindsey Padrino

I am obsessed with unlocking people\'s potential.My career has combined my passions for education, strategy, and execution to transform organizations and build new systems that unlock people\'s potential. I do this work both from the strategy side, setting growth goals and linking them to talent systems, as well as from from the product and operations side. Most recently, as Chief Strategy Office and head of Biz Ops, I\'ve led a reset of our strategy and the follow-on execution to reorganize the company to deliver on growth goals - especially delivering a new set of talent development solutions to the market. I\'ve put in place our companies AI Transformation Strategy. I\'ve set up partnerships to merge our internal AI work and external products.Prior to Skillsoft, I launched and scaled McKinsey\'s Growth Academy, which delivered scalable, global talent programs to build and sustain world-class commercial capabilities that drive growth. And, prior to launching Growth Academy, I helped lead McKinsey’s mid-market Private Equity and Fast Growth Technology practices, managing teams and advising clients on growth strategy projects to strengthen portfolio companies.From these experiences, I bring a range of expertise: growth strategy, business operations and execution, strategic planning, product strategy launch and development, go-to-market strategy and scaling, corporate adult learning and behavior change, enterprise talent needs and buying patterns, and due diligence.Education has always been a passion. Prior to joining McKinsey, I helped lead public education reform efforts in the New York City school system, including a $5B funding reform to improve the transparency and equity of school funding, and co-founding a national research-to-action education non-profit.

Experience

1. Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Interactive Designer Business

   Skillsoft

   Jan 2023 — Present · US

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Political Science and Economics (PPE) and History

  1998 — 2002

• The Wharton School

  MBA

  2009 — 2011