
Leilani Brown
Senior Vice President
K12
Santa Fe, NM USA
“You don’t have to have everything figured out end-to-end. Give yourself some room for experimentation, failure, and risk-taking. There are a lot of different ways to have a good life.”
K12
Santa Fe, NM USA
“You don’t have to have everything figured out end-to-end. Give yourself some room for experimentation, failure, and risk-taking. There are a lot of different ways to have a good life.”
Senior Vice President
I lead K12’s expanding development of public and private-sector partnerships.
I'm in charge of strategic partnerships and external engagement, so my days involve a lot of meetings, partnership pitches, and communications. I manage whatever strategic initiatives we have going on, which also involves a lot of communications through email, phone calls, meetings, and the like. I may also be working on an upcoming motivational speech or scheduling a public speaking event.
Here's the first step for high school students
Dispense with the notion of the dream school and start thinking about the dream experience. If you think about it that way, then you can't fail. Not getting into a particular program is no longer a failure. You've actually opened up a broader set of options for yourself that way.
"You have to do things a certain way and there's no room for risk."