Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Pace University

Haverford College

IES Abroad

Hackley School

Leadership Development at Box - The Content Cloud

As Chief ECOSYSTEM Officer, I'm evaluating context, making connections, and facilitating sustainable growth for my customers, suppliers, community, and TL team (right now, just me :))

Timeless Leader

I'm building a new leadership model and approaches to leadership development. 

I write the "Timeless Leadership" Substack and am building a community around the ideas it highlights. 

I also do select client work that integrates growth of business and people. Some of my clients include Alpine Investors and Graydin Coaching.

Founder and Principal Consultant

Led marketing, partnerships, and GTM operations. 
➡️ Represented Slate at industry trade-shows (Transform, HRMI) and led event strategy. 
➡️ Refined outbound GTM motion to focus on target accounts and high intent personas.
➡️ Led partnerships with major HRTech vendors, including co-marketing, co-sell, and referrals.
➡️ Initiated CRM migration from Zoho -> HubSpot.
➡️ Led procurement and onboarding efforts for new marketing agency services.

Slate

Head of Growth

I led functions, programs, and projects that supported the doubling of Box's revenue at scale (to $1B), while achieving GAAP profitability, and preserving and evolving an award winning culture. Across each of these roles, I aligned cross-functional stakeholders and global teams to a common vision and enabled them to execute in the service of business growth and transformation, often in the face of intense macro pressures. 

🚀 As Senior Manager of Employee Growth and Experience (2021-2023) I led and executed global leadership development and manager enablement for 500+ stakeholders. 
🚀As Senior Manager of Growth and Strategy (2019-2021) I led and executed the strategy and program management function for the global professional services organization (100+ team members, $XXM revenue)
🚀As Manager of Marketing & Customer Success Strategy (2017-2019) I led strategic projects to launch a new product (Relay), a new team (Technical Account Management), and a new operating model (customer engagement).

Efficient Growth & Transformation

Supported board governance, growth strategy, core operations, and business development. Through creative media and corporate partnerships helped sell over $100M of luxury real estate in the NYC area.

Apostrophe 3

Board Member

I developed strategic plans and key assets for Model Diplomacy, an online learning simulation (part of CFR's Global Literacy Initiative).

Council on Foreign Relations

Learning and Development Consultant

I played a key role in expanding Democracy Prep from one to six high schools.

Democracy Prep Public Schools

Curriculum & Assessment; Scaling Organizations

I recruited cofounders, built the team, set the vision, and drove execution across all functions. In two years we built three products and several service offerings that we sold into schools across the country. With a small addressable market we struggled to fundraise, and with limited capital struggled to realize the product vision. After 2+ years full-time, my co-founders and I decided to dissolve the venture to pursue other opportunities.

Civic Games

Co-Founder & CEO

I taught 10th and 11th grade world history and led students to significant gains in writing & year-over-year improvements on Regents scores. I launched an initiative to take students on trips aboard, and led a trip of twenty-two students and nine faculty to seven cities in Spain.

BRONX PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

World History Teacher

"Selected from approximately 20,000 applicants nationwide to join national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools. ." --From TFA

I taught 9th grade global history at the New Explorer's High School in the Bronx. I served as a founding member of the data inquiry team and pioneered the use of data in the classroom.

Joe Ballou