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      <image:caption>If you work with Andrea, you can expect: Respect for you and your vision Willingness to “roll up my sleeves” Clear and direct feedback Follow-through Encouragement and help to systematize commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your work</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Andrea Stouder Home - “Andrea will listen to a complex issue, then quickly untangle the problem, break it into manageable chunks, and brainstorm solutions.”</image:title>
      <image:caption>– Alejandro Gibes de Gac, Founder &amp; CEO Springboard Collaborative</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Aasimah Navlakhi, CEO, BES</image:title>
      <image:caption>“As a new CEO—especially one coming in on the heels of a founder—I needed a coach who was not only a thought partner, but also actively helpful in setting goals, producing drafts, and engaging with the larger team. In our short time working together, Andrea has proven to be all of this and much more. She internalizes the strengths and challenges of the team(s) she works with, treats client success as personal success, and brings a wealth of experience in leadership, management, and fundraising. She makes me and BES feel like we're her only and most important client, which is a testament to her investment in the work. I would recommend her to any leader who is looking for thought partnership at the big picture level, combined with high-quality, detailed support with implementing and executing on the details.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Rukiya Ross, Vice President of Business Strategy, Springboard Collaborative</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea has been coaching me since January 2020. She quickly became a trusted and knowledgeable advisor. I lead a team consisting of Communications, HR, Finance, Operations, and Systems. Leading these varied functions at a rapidly growing organization presents a wide-array of challenges and Andrea is always readily available with advice and guidance. She has helped me improve my management skills through observations and feedback. She has helped me craft team strategy by empowering me to consider what I need, and then actually ask for those needs. She has shared resources and reviewed key policies and procedures. Andrea is adept at going narrow, and providing specific, tactical advice on challenges, and also going broad, helping connect the dots between best practices for my entire team. In the time since I began to work with Andrea, I received my best performance review, implemented feedback for team members that had a considerable impact on our work, and created equity-centered practices with her guidance and support among many, many other achievements.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Bex Ahuja, Managing Director, Rockwood Leadership Institute</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Being a leader in these times is so challenging. Andrea is not only a trusted advisor on nuanced and tricky executive challenges, but also holds me accountable to me being at my best, and is wildly competent at providing the hands-on support to get me to the finish line. I get more leadership WINS because of Andrea's coaching and support.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Kirk Johnson, Founder &amp; CEO, SOUNDS Academy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrea has been the guidance that I never knew I needed. She truly understands the pits and peaks of running an organization and communicates feedback in a passionate, supportive, and direct way. Her knowledge and expertise on organizational leadership have helped me to enhance my skills as a CEO, which has subsequently elevated the impact that SOUNDS Academy has had in the community. Additionally, her suggested changes have helped me improve and develop strategies regarding organizational and workforce development, fundraising, working with a Board of Directors, and understanding the importance of self-care and work-life balance as a leader. If you are looking for transformative solutions and sustainable success, Andrea may be the right coach for you!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Meghan Wagner, Director of Finance and Operations, Springfield Prep Charter School</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea worked with me to help determine how I could reorganize my work and my team’s work to ensure we had capacity to effectively support our growing organization. Working with Andrea provided the structure and accountability that I needed to effectively analyze our team and make important changes. It was particularly helpful because she really took the time to understand our team and our organization. We began with a calendar, team structure and responsibilities review. It was incredibly illuminating to dive into these with her to realize where we had some inefficiencies with our team structure and where we distinctly needed additional capacity. She helped to develop the hiring process for the new position and kept me accountable to continue on that path when I could have easily gotten too busy with other work to prioritize this. It was incredibly valuable to have the dedicated time set aside with her coaching to work through these much-needed changes.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - James Edmond Jr., Ph.D., Senior Director, Partner Engagement, Modern Classrooms Project</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrea Stouder has been a trusted thought partner and valuable resource for non-profit sales and sales leadership throughout my coaching sessions. She always thoughtfully plans ahead for our time together and includes resources to enrich our work. Andrea has also helped me navigate and anticipate the needs of the team I supervise, while nurturing my own professional needs as a senior leader in an organization.  Trust is very important in a coaching relationship — I wholeheartedly trust Andrea. Her professional background and her genuine personality are the perfect match for anyone wanting to grow and enhance their leadership skills.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Christine Barford, Vice President of Partnerships, Modern Classrooms Project</image:title>
      <image:caption>Working with Andrea has made a tremendous impact on our entire organization's ability to scale our impact. Andrea is not just a thoughtful and thorough thought partner and coach, she's been an extra hand for high-level projects that otherwise would have stalled. When I came to Andrea, I wanted help not just getting better at what needed to be done now but also someone to help me plan forward and strategically. In our busiest time of the year, Andrea allowed me to hire additional team members by drafting job descriptions, hiring exercises, and evaluation criteria. She has reviewed my 1 on 1s, helped me plan team meetings, and made me a better leader. I knew when looking for a coach that I needed a partner in the work. Working with Andrea is indeed having a partner, a cheerleader, and someone to hold you accountable to the important work you're doing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Responsive Coaching - Tatenda Blessing Muchiriri, Executive Director, Montessori on Wheels</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrea was instrumental in getting my organization, Montessori on Wheels, off the ground and guiding it into the growth phase. Her approach was not just about enhancing our operational effectiveness but also about grounding her coaching in a deep understanding of me as a leader—acknowledging both my professional ambitions and my life outside of work. This holistic perspective was crucial as it ensured the strategies we developed were not only effective but also sustainable, given my broader life context. From the outset, Andrea dove deep into understanding the unique challenges and opportunities of our startup. She meticulously helped me come up with our organizational structure, workflows, and responsibilities, shining a light on areas where we could operate  efficiently and where we needed to build capacity to support our growth. Her ability to listen and understand our team dynamics and the essence of Montessori on Wheels made her insights and guidance particularly impactful. The time I spent working with Andrea was transformative for Montessori on Wheels, driving us into a phase of stability and growth.What distinguishes Andrea from others is her coaching, marked by humanness and a comprehensive understanding of leadership, has left a lasting impact on me and my organization. I am deeply grateful for her support and guidance.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Full Service Hiring - Amanda Rodriguez, Director of People and Culture, Rockwood Leadership Institute</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrea is supportive and diligent in every interaction we’ve had. She creates timelines with my workflow, capacity, and team in mind. She helps craft excellent role descriptions, simulations and interview questions that are supportive to equitable hiring and the applicant's experiences. She holds a high bar for must-haves and the process to get us a quality candidate pool. She saves me time, offers skillful support, suggestions, and organized scope of work. All along the way I knew what to expect and I could always trust her guidance. All final applicants I spoke with hold her process in high regard with response time and process clarity. She’s brought in multiple amazing hires into our organization that have exceeded my expectations. Because of Andrea, I could focus on crafting the onboarding experience for a hire that I knew would be the right fit for our team!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Full Service Hiring - Sarah Demarest de Rivera, Associate Director of Program Operations, Rockwood Leadership Institute</image:title>
      <image:caption>Our team was understaffed and I lacked the capacity to run an equitable and thorough hiring process. Andrea swooped in and saved the day! She helped me build the process and find the best candidates for the role—all I had to do is share my candidate criteria and job description and show up for the final round of interviews. The candidates for my team were so great that I hired two! I have exactly the right people for the roles and I couldn’t have done it without Andrea Stouder.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-01-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Bill Spirer, Executive Director and Founder, Springfield Prep Charter School</image:title>
      <image:caption>“When we sought a consultant to help guide our capital campaign, we wanted someone who would actually do the work—not just advise on high level strategy and leave all the work to us. We wanted someone who would coach our team so that we could build fundraising expertise and capacity, and someone who would set ambitious goals and keep our team disciplined and driven towards them. To say Andrea delivered is an understatement. Andrea’s writing got the attention of funders and made our case in clear, compelling terms. She taught our team strategic fundraising skills through modeling, explaining her rationale, and providing thoughtful feedback during real-time coaching. And her extraordinary organization, discipline, and drive helped us surpass our campaign goal by more than $1 million. There’s no way we would have done this without her. If you have the chance to work with Andrea, do it.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Warren Chancellor, Managing Director of Strategy &amp; Operations Professional Education, Relay GSE</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea has been my executive coach for a little over a year now and during our time together, she has supported me with many writing projects. Andrea has played a critical role in creating agendas for upcoming meetings, crafting job descriptions for new roles on my team, writing plans for tasks that need to be delegated to direct (and indirect) reports, as well as writing performance reviews for direct reports and other peers/colleagues. The amount of time that Andrea saves me by interviewing me about the details of the specific writing project and then writing everything on my behalf (for me to review and provide edits) is simply a game changer. What makes Andrea so effective is her ability to consistently ask the right questions, offer advice when appropriate, and pick up on every detail that I’ve thought of (and even the details I’ve missed!).”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Candice Smith, Founder, Boss Generation</image:title>
      <image:caption>“My coaching sessions with Andrea are extremely productive. She is skilled at setting objectives and getting things done. I appreciate the progress and productivity that happens in our sessions. Every leader needs this kind of support and accountability. She is an outstanding executive coach!”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Christine de Leon, Founder; and Kat Ling, CEO, Moonshot edVentures</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea is a long-time partner and supporter of Moonshot edVentures. We’ve worked with Andrea for the past few years (and hopefully many more!). She’s facilitated trainings for our fellows, mainly entrepreneurs of color, to support their development in people leadership, management, and hiring. In addition to those workshops, she’s worked individually with many of our fellows to ensure that they are set up for success in launching their ventures—this support spans the gamut, from helping them create project plans, to designing and supporting facilitation in virtual programming, to helping develop pricing models and marketing strategies to schools and districts, to helping them solve adaptive leadership challenges. We know that when Andrea works with one of our fellows, they will walk away with clear next steps, resources, and a supporter for life. She is a thoughtful, passionate, highly dependable, and brilliant partner; our fellows are truly ready to thrive in launching innovative schools and programs for students after working with her and we cannot recommend her enough!”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Alejandro Gibes de Gac, CEO and Founder, Springboard Collaborative</image:title>
      <image:caption>“As a coach, Andrea will patiently listen to a complex, thorny issue, then quickly untangle the problem, break it into manageable chunks, and brainstorm solutions. Not only that, but she'll swiftly send a follow-up message summarizing the conversation, highlighting next steps, and giving you a running start on your homework (e.g.: scripting comments for a difficult feedback conversation or drafting an email). Andrea does it all with a distinctively compassionate and reassuring manner. She offers an exceedingly rare combination of swift problem-solving with genuine warmth and care. I found Andrea’s coaching so helpful that I couldn’t keep her to myself! I invited Aubrey, Springboard’s President, to join in the experience. With Andrea’s steady guidance, we created a multi-year vision for scaling Springboard’s impact exponentially. Were it not for this plan, the COVID-19 pandemic would have delivered a crippling blow to our organization. Instead, we have the vision, systems, and processes in place to respond nimbly. Springboard is now serving three times as many students this summer than last, in no small part because of Andrea! Perhaps most importantly, Andrea’s coaching enabled Aubrey and I to clearly define our roles in relation to one another, and to establish working habits that have made the senior leadership team—and by extension, the whole organization—healthier than ever before. The time and money we invested in Andrea’s coaching is without question the highest-leverage investment Springboard has ever made. So we doubled down! More like quadrupled down... Aubrey and I asked Andrea to coach all four of Springboard's vice presidents, each of which leads a major department. As she did for Aubrey and me, Andrea has helped each of these executives grow into their leadership, improve their management, and turbocharge their results. As always, she does so with her trademark blend of management know-how and personal instincts. In these uncertain and volatile times, Andrea is exactly the person you want to have around.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Bre Donnelly, Founder, Joy as Resistance</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Working with Andrea was unlike any other executive coaching experience I have ever had. Not only was she kind, helpful, and always responsive but she was also ridiculously skilled at what she does. It was incredibly refreshing to work with someone who can not only guide/advise but will also do the work with/for you. Every time I came to a session with Andrea, I left feeling more competent and confident in my next steps and knew that she would give her all to the project as if it was her own. Andrea helped me with my hiring process (from start to finish) for some pretty unique positions. The entire process (and more) was developed within 4 sessions and I have received positive feedback from candidates about the professionalism and cadence of the process. As a new entrepreneur who has never hired anyone, this is a strong testament to Andrea's work. Andrea is also a wonderfully nice and patient person to interact with. I entered our sessions with 50 conflicting ideas and caveats and came out with one clear and accomplishable pathway to success. I felt the entire time that she deeply cared about me as a leader and about the work I am doing. 10/10 would recommend.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Akshai Patel, Former CEO, Phoenix Collegiate Academy</image:title>
      <image:caption>“I brought Andrea in to help coach me with internal and external communications while leading Phoenix Collegiate Academy, a preK-12 school network in South Phoenix. Andrea helped me to find the words to say what I meant, and in a way that emotionally connected with folks who didn’t already know me well. Thanks to her help I was able to transform culture every time I addressed staff about key organizational news. Andrea also supported me to craft external messaging that helped me to connect with donors who then invested in our school network at a significantly higher rate. These successes were driven by Andrea's keen ability to identify what I needed most, dig into the details to help me get things done, and scaffold supports so that I could learn while achieving and build on prior successes. Compared to other coaches who simply dispense advice and hope you can implement, Andrea was invested in me achieving my goals in a way only the best coaches are.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Marianna Lucero, Founder, In Lak'ech Denver Arts</image:title>
      <image:caption>“I am new to the world of nonprofit and Andrea’s coaching services were absolutely perfect for me. Within the 5 months that I have been working with her, she has helped me get fiscal sponsorship by guiding me through the difficult and sometimes very confusing application process. During our work time together, she has helped me continue growing skills in fundraising, grant writing, and is currently supporting me in writing a letter of inquiry for my organization! Andrea is not only an expert in her field, but she also incredibly kind and supportive to her clients. I am grateful to have her as my coach!”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Matt Kramer, CEO, The Wildflower Foundation; Former co-CEO, Teach for America</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea is an extraordinary leader, a great visionary with the gift of bringing visions to life in the real world like few people I've ever encountered. In addition to this, she's also an extraordinary coach, whether as a manager or a consultant. She is a wonderful listener, and she's immensely persuasive. During my time working with Andrea at Teach For America, she designed and executed dozens of new events and initiatives—such as career-related gatherings for educators, social entrepreneurs and school leaders; identity-connected events for the TFA Indigenous community and school leaders of color; TFA's 25th anniversary event for more than 15,000 people; and fellowship programs for school system leaders and rural school leaders. Each was a beautiful and powerful expression of the essential qualities of a group and Andrea's deep and abiding commitment to make equitable educational opportunities available to all children.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Sally Fuller, Board Member and Capital Campaign Chair, Springfield Prep Charter School</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andrea was exceptional at supporting the building of our fundraising team, beginning with her enthusiasm and ability to listen and understand our vision and mission, which resulted in a powerful case statement. Together we looked at the local, regional and statewide funding landscape. A quick study, she researched national funding opportunities and wrote successful grants which emphasized the academic and cultural successes that are facilitating the closing of the achievement gap for our urban scholars. Our capital campaign has exceeded our goal by $1.2 million. No mean feat in a region where funding is not prolific. Ours is truly a story of a successful collaboration and shared success.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Kate Farrar, Senior Director, Regional Impact, Leadership for Educational Equity</image:title>
      <image:caption>“I sought out Andrea’s leadership expertise at a moment when I faced a unique combination of challenges due to staffing, strategic organizational initiatives, and the change management needed related to the global pandemic. The strategies that had worked for 17+ years of management were insufficient for this particular point in time. I needed a trusted, thoughtful partner to help me reflect on the options through which I could modify my practices both as an individual contributor and manager. Over the course of 4 sessions during a 1-month period, Andrea was able to help me clearly identify specific opportunities and begin to implement them in ways that demonstrated immediate outcomes. Andrea’s extraordinary skills were a unique gift that has paid dividends in all the months since our collaboration.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Of all the people I’ve ever worked with, Andrea may be the most compelling and creative. She is equally prolific in generating ideas and converting those ideas into powerful, convincing products – whether it be a vision for an event, a case statement, a written speech, an intricate program design, or anything in between. As a client, there is nothing more reassuring than having the total confidence and peace-of-mind that a truly outstanding product will be delivered to you. And that payoff multiplies when your high expectations are consistently exceeded. That is exactly what we’ve gotten every time we’ve worked with Andrea. Her dedication, care, passion, integrity, and brilliance are truly second to none. Work with Andrea and you will get more than you pay for – quality of the highest order, true lift of time and capacity, total dedication, personal attention, and joy in the process. I can’t overstate my belief in and recommendation of Andrea.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Trisha Leon-Guerrero, Founder + Chief Experience Officer, Experiences On Demand</image:title>
      <image:caption>"As a solo entrepreneur for a fast growing business, I needed a coach who could provide strategic guidance and serve as a trusted thought-partner. Andrea was one of the first people to come to mind when I started my search for a coach and it’s been wonderful working with her over the last year. One of our coaching goals and a top priority for me was to share my story authentically with others in a new industry and Andrea has been instrumental in helping me find compelling ways to do this. What I truly appreciate about her process is the care she takes in fully understanding the messages I’m trying to convey and how she will build my capacity by interviewing me, sending me drafts that match my voice, and being adaptable to meet my planning timelines. In our time together, we have collaborated on four writing projects, one of which is now becoming a podcast. None of this would have been possible without her support and guidance. I’m incredibly grateful for her partnership and her investment in my growth as a woman-owned business."</image:caption>
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