Taryn Waters

Taryn Waters is a strategic leader with a proven record of creating sustained value for mission-driven organizations that accelerate social impact. Taryn has worked in the K-12 and higher education space for the past ten years. Prior to that, she spent two years working in large scale innovation at the X Prize Foundation, collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the world (e.g., James Cameron, Elon Musk, Ratan Tata, Arianna Huffington) to help problem-solve some of humanity’s greatest unsolved challenges (e.g., global literacy, sustainable food sources, ocean plastics crisis).

A few of Taryn’s most notable professional accomplishments in the education field include: ideating and scaling the K-12 professional services division for Corwin Press; partnering with institutions of higher education to develop online personalized learning programs; and launching the largest evidence-based database in the world on what works best to improve teaching and learning (www.visiblelearningmetax.com).