Areas of Expertise: instructional and leadership coaching, systems-level change thinking, classroom teaching experience

“It’s important to me that the company that I work for is invested in systemic change while putting students at the center – at KnowledgeWorks, we’re moving the needle on change in education.”

Since 1999, Laura Hilger has spent her entire career devoted to learning communities and systemic change, working as a classroom teacher, a dean of students and an assistant principal, as well as an instructional coach in nine states. Her vision is to help activate personalized competency-based education systems across the country so that every learner has equity and agency to thrive in life. She is driven by those who are asking the right questions and have the courage to step into the arena.