Giving Compass' Take:

The Learning Accelerator is revamping it's company culture after strategically changing it's leadership team. In the first of many blog series, TLA will focus on how these changes will affect programming and company policies going forward.

Why is it effective for companies to re-evaluate where they are after changing leadership roles? How does this help with sustainability and transparency?

Read about The Learning Accelerator's work in blended and personalized learning models.


At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we focus every day on programmatic activities that help us achieve our mission and get a step closer to the world we have envisioned since our early days – a world in which every child in America receives an equitable education that is engaging and personalized. Over the last several years, we experienced a significant pivot in strategy and a change in leadership. We had to ensure we remained focused on our mission while adjusting to our new ways of working.

Changing from our sunset horizon to a perpetual programmatic organization was one of our main strategic changes, and led us to reflect on our organizational culture more deeply.

During our leadership and strategic pivots, we realized that many of our practices were known but not codified, and new team members only discovered some of our processes as they came face-to-face with them. This proved especially difficult as a remote-first organization since some of that knowledge was not shared until quite some time after new folks joined the team.

Since then, we have taken several steps to support our remote-first organization as we have grown in size and moved to a place of higher collaboration. This series of blogs will illustrate some of those steps and the resulting practices and structures we have adopted to strengthen our relationships as humans, improve the quality of our work, and allow us to live according to our values of fun and flexibility, as well as with urgency and blogs will focus on the following:

  • How to better make use of team time
  • Deeper Learning Week (our own version of a 10% project)
  • Team competencies
  • Some of the tools we use to strengthen our bonding
  • Our framework to support better team collaboration

Read the full article about the learning accelerator by Michela Marini at The Learning Accelerator