Arizona State University

State University of New York at Brockport

Education Evangelist at Google

Autotelic Innovations is an organization focused on helping you unleash the extraordinary and untapped potential hidden within your organization and its people. We are firm believers in the infinite possibilities and awe-inspiring talents that live within every person. 

Through approaches that emphasize and focus on intrinsic motivation and enjoyment of work, we can help you create and foster a culture of continuous learning and development, where everyone finds their work inherently rewarding and fulfilling.  

I am launching this company based on the 25 years of experience I have working in a variety of fields, including the 15 years I was the Chief Education Evangelist at Google, during the pinnacle of the company's existence, when it was the number one place to work for nine years, including seven years in a row, and in the top five an additional three times. I experienced the innovative culture firsthand and know why it was so successful. I know what organizational and cultural principles and policies gave it that edge.  I experienced Google's culture from the perspective of someone who spent seven years at Accenture as an organizational and culture consultant before joining Google. During my time at Accenture, I worked in all industries - high-tech, finance, health care, government, utilities, etc. My experience at Accenture is why I took a pay cut to work at this new tech company, Google in 2006. It wasn't the pay or stock options. It was the culture. Google was a "yes, or, why not" culture. 

We are dedicated to helping organizations, leaders, teams, and individuals unlock their full potential by cultivating a sense of purpose, passion, and joy in their work and lives. Our approach focuses on helping you create a culture and environment where employees find their work inherently rewarding and fulfilling by launching and implementing customized programs. 

If you want to learn more, reach out at www.AutotelicInnovations.com or send me a msg!

Autotelic Innovations

Founder and Chief Intrinsic Motivator

Provide strategic advice to the Founder and CEO of Gift of College.  

The Gift of College gifting platform is the foundation of it's mission to create innovations to increase awareness, use, and growth of 529 college savings and ABLE plans while also supporting students and families who are paying down student loan debt.  

In 2016, the Gift of College physical gift card, a first-of-its-kind, launched at retailers nationwide. The gift card has become a welcomed gift for a wide range of special occasions throughout the year. 

And with the most recent enhancement, that enables employers to facilitate and match payroll deductions into any 529 college savings, ABLE plan, and any student loan account, Gift of College's gifting platform is leading the way in the support of students and their families.

GiftofCollege

Strategic Advisor

I have served on the board of Inquiry Schools since 2015, becoming Chairman in 2020. 

Inquiry Schools works with educators, parents and students to create and support inquiry-driven, project-based schools with a focus on using modern tools. Inquiry Schools believes that we must marry the best educational ideas of the past with the tools of the world we live in today and a vision for the future to create schools that are authentic, vigorous and empowering for all members of the community.

As Chairman, I am responsible for leading the board of directors, ensuring effective collaboration, and guiding the board's decision-making processes.

I also serves as a mentor and advisor (and the reverse is also true) to the executive director, providing guidance, support, and oversight of the organization's operations.

My areas of responsibilities include: Strategic Planning, Financial Oversight, Risk Management, and Business Development.

INQUIRY SCHOOLS

Chairman of the Board

Active board member of Indigo Education Company, an organization focused  on working with students, educators, parents, and communities to catalyze student-centered learning. Their assessments are user-friendly and customizable tools designed to help individuals of all ages and backgrounds discover their unique personality, motivators, and potential.

The organization focuses on: college and career readiness, social-emotional learning, and professional development.

To learn more, and take their website listed below.

Indigo Education Company

Member Board of Directors

Provided strategic guidance, feedback, and insights to various organization leaders and their teams on matters related to organization design, organization culture, leadership development, strategic planning, team building, talent development, workshop design, development, and execution, marketing and awareness campaigns, and brand development and storytelling.

Organizations include:

Arizona State University
Edmentum
Grand Valley State University
The American Montessori Society

Various organizations

Senior Strategic Advisor and Consultant

Provided strategic guidance, feedback, and insights to the GEMS Leadership team in designing a new digital education platform, leading to the establishment of a new internal organization and the creation of a comprehensive education system.

GEMS Education

Strategic Advisor to the President and CEO

As a Coplex Mentor, I work directly with Industry Expert founders, providing them with insights and direction as they create the framework and strategy for their tech company.

Coplex focuses exclusively on helping industry experts start, launch, fund, and excel in the next wave of high growth tech companies. Between their lean startup methodologies paired with the founder’s deep industry knowledge, Coplex de-risks while optimizing the chances at success.

Coplex is innovating extraordinary. With 280 companies (and counting) created, $1.5B in VC raised by their startups, and an aggregate market value of over $4.5B, Coplex amplifies ideas and sets founders up for success.

Coplex

Venture Mentor

I teach 10th grade students communication and presentation skills

Phoenix Coding Academy

10th Grade Communication Skills Educator (in addition to still working at Google)

The following are highlights in my role as Google's Chief Education Evangelist:

After seeing an internal demo of the Chromebook prototype, I developed a business plan for bringing Chromebooks into the education market and presented it to the Chrome Leadership Team, led by Sundar Pichai. Despite some apprehension and resistance, the leadership team approved a six-month test phase. 

Teaming up with a Marketing Manager, the two of us created and implemented a six-month road show strategy to introduce the Chromebooks to education administrators and tech directors.

The road show and awareness campaign resulted in several districts pivoting their tech strategy to buy iPads and instead to review a Chromebook implementation, including the first medium-sized district to cancel and replace a 6000 iPad order with Chromebooks. 

Once we established the market, strategy, and team, I took the lead in growing the Google Chromebook effort, when Apple “owned 95% of the Education Market and were not worried about the Chromebook” (stated by Tim Cook, 2011 on a finance call).

Keynoted hundreds of conferences around the world, sharing my vision for the future of education, the role technology can have to open up the world, and the human skills students will need to thrive in a digitalized future.

As the Google for Education Team grew to over 200, I turned my focus to working with education reform organizations around the world to ensure the use and role of technology in education was safe, impactful, and effective. I also focused on how education institutions could leverage technology to help students build the human skills needed for the future, close the digital divide, level the access to information and intelligence, and bring equity in education. This multiyear effort resulted in recognition by important organizations in education and led to some significant shifts in how we implement education.

Google

Chief Education Evangelist

Instrumental in establishing a deep relationship with Arizona State University, resulting in the first major launch of Google Apps for Education into the higher University space. 

After the global reaction to ASU's deployment of Google Apps, decided I wanted to focus on this  new emerging field - the role of technology in education, resulting in the unique transition of moving from Google Engineering to Google Enterprise to partner with a Business Development Manager, and together we launched the two person Google for Education Team.

Served as a Business Development Manager on the Google for Education Team, building relationships with many colleges and universities, resulting in partnerships with dozens of key universities, saving them hundreds of millions of dollars in tech costs.

Besides the number of colleges and universities I created partnerships with, I signed up the entire state of Arizona’s college and university system including, ASU, University of Arizona, Northern AZ University, Pima Community College, and the Maricopa Community College System, saving the state millions of dollars in tech costs.

Created and executed the strategy to launch Google Apps for EDU into K12, winning the Google Enterprise Innovation Award for my work and resulting in hundreds of schools around the world joining the Google for Education platform.

Signed the state of Oregon to the first statewide Google for Education deployment effort. In addition, developed and partnered with several other states in deploying Google Apps for Education, including the state of New York, Iowa, Missouri, and Rhode Island.

Provided insight and feedback to the creation of Google Classroom, the first industry specific tool Google Engineering ever created.

Helped grow the Google for Edu Team from 2 people to over 20, as we added millions of educators and students to the Google for Edu platform. When I left in 2020, we had over 130M educators and students around the world using Google tools..

Business Development Manager

Highlights from my two years as a ENG PM at Google:

Reported directly to Google's CIO.

One of the three leads that helped establish and manage the Google Office in Phoenix from 2006 to 2008, resulting in an on budget and on time deployment of the Google Office in Phoenix, and the hiring of 100 employees and contractors to work there.

Managed Google's community engagement and partnerships, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars being distributed to worthy causes in the state of Arizona.

I was the PR point of contact, managing all media requests and engagements, resulting in a postive view of Google in the community.

Managed all government engagements and relationships, including with the Governor, the mayors of all the major cities, and other community leaders, resulting in a number of programs and partnerships between governments and Google, including the launch of Google Fiber and the establishment of Waymo in the community. 

Managed a nine person Engineering Team for nine months, guiding them to completion of a new internal billing system.

Managed the Google relationship with Arizona State University, leading to several innovative research projects and program collaborations between the two organizations.

My relationship with ASU lead to the first major deployment of Google Apps for Education in 2007.

Google PM Engineer 

Accomplishments include: 

Created and implemented an employee development strategy for the CIO and Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations, resulting in the identification and closure of gaps and the creation of development opportunities for the organization’s top performer.  

Participated as the only non-officer on Schwab’s Human Resource Redesign Team, a team charged with streamlining and reengineering the HR function, resulting in annualized savings of more than $5 million and head count reduction of 20%.  

Asked by the HR Executive Vice President to join the Talent Management and Development Team to build a Change Management capability for Schwab’s HR Generalist population, resulting in the development and training rollout of these competencies.

Charles Schwab

Human Resources/Organizational Development

Assisted a number of small business and non-profits with the creation of process improvement strategies and technology implementation plans, resulting in clear actionable project plans.

Facilitated a number of organizational leadership sessions, resulting in the creation of a shared vision and key priorities.  

Provided onsite consultation to Newmont Mining Corporation’s Community Relations, Communications, and Human Resources Department in Denver, helping develop and implement a number of critical programs and projects.

Assisted Newmont create a global HR transformation strategy, resulting in the implementation and roll out of improved HR policies, procedures, and new global programs.

Created Newmont’s internal communication infrastructure and templates (translated in four languages), focused on tools and templates management used to facilitate internal communications across the global organization.

Wrote Newmont’s annual sustainable development report, focused on best sustainability practices across the global company.

Newmont Mining Corporation

Independent Consultant

Developed and implemented technology, human performance, organizational development solutions for clients including, American Express, US Postal Service, Bank of America, United Health Group, Seagate Technology, Motorola, Boeing, KANA, Sun Micro Systems, and Accenture (examples below).

Part of team that created new credit card infrastructure system for American Express, resulting in the reduction in credit card launch cycles from two years to four months.

Part of team that reengineered and automated Seagate’s three separate global human resource functions, resulting in one global HR function, with new processes, new technology systems, and a trained HR team.

Assisted in the development and implementation of Accenture’s new Business Development Methodology, resulting in a consistent consulting methodology for 60,000 consultants around the world (our team won the Gartner "Best New Internal Program Rollout" award).

Part of team that reengineered and automated United Heath Group’s administration processes, resulting in a savings of 15% from overall costs.

Part of team that reengineered the United States Postal Service Business Reply Mail process, resulting in a streamlined organization and faster process that lead to a 20% recoup in lost revenue.

Part of team that created the Accenture employee retention program focused on all 70,000 employees, resulting in a reengineered performance management process that saved thousands of FTE hours and a new compensation model focused on retaining top performers.

Led Phoenix Accenture diversity team, resulting in a diversity awareness campaign, diversity communication program, and a minority retention program replicated across several Accenture offices.

Jaime Casap