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Shaun McAlmont Highlight
If you can envision where you want to be, work backwards from that goal and focus on all of the little things you need to do to get there.
About Shaun
- Raised in Toronto, Canada, by parents who emigrated from the Caribbean looking for a better life.
- I knew from a very young age that I didn’t want to be a teacher, but I wanted to be involved in education in some way.
- I was a star track and field athlete throughout high school.
- Attended Brigham Young University (BYU) on an athletic scholarship and received my bachelor’s degree in psychology.
- Earned my master’s degree in education from the University of San Francisco—began working in student affairs and as an academic advisor at Stanford University and at my alma mater, BYU.
- Received my doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
- I then began taking more leadership roles within education, acting as president and CEO of Lincoln Tech, then later as president and CEO of Neumont College of Computer Science.
- I'm now the president of career readiness education at K12, where I'm leading the direction of the company’s Destinations Career Academies and programs on a national level.
