Sarah Mushlin
Livermore,CA
Summary
Visionary education leader with 15+ years' experience building and scaling innovative programs, forging strategic partnerships and leading cross-functional teams. Strong expertise in product-partner strategy, business development, and organizational transformation. Thrive in emerging spaces with an entrepreneurial mindset, translating complex educational needs into scalable, equity centered solutions.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Program Officer
FuelEd Schools
09.2016 - 11.2024
- Built and led teams across product innovation, instructional design, R&D, and direct services to scale national adoption of FuelEd programs.
- Digitized and adapted professional learning offerings from scratch into scalable, tech-enabled small-group services.
- Partnered with educators, creative firms, and consultants; applied continuous improvement cycles to achieve a successful launch and market alignment.
- Introduced the organization’s first product lifecycle and roadmap framework, identifying market gaps and shepherding new program innovations from idea to adoption.
- Led organizational change management processes, building adaptive teams and nurturing a collaborative, equity-centered culture..
Director of District and School Partnerships
FuelEd Schools
09.2016 - 11.2024
- Expanded earned revenue nationally, setting organizational sales records ($700K in a single year, 1.4M overall) through strategic partnerships with school districts
- Codified sales and client operations
- Represented FuelEd to external partners, including clients, funders, non-profit and for-profit organizations
- Drove alignment between organizational mission and partner needs
- Co-created and nurtured a deeply relational work culture based in trust, equity, autonomous decision-making, and wholeness
Self-Employed, Consultant
EVALution Resources
2010 - 2015
- Partnered with education leaders to design evaluation strategies, conduct
- applied research, and support strategic planning through data-driven insights.
- Clients included Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Collaborative Classroom, and Houston ISD.
- Delivered program evaluation services from instrument design to analysis and reporting; developed logic models for organizational decision-making.
- Facilitated trainings on theory of change, program evaluation, and continuous improvement for education leaders.
Program Evaluation Manager
Rockman et al
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Managed multiple high-performing teams conducting evaluations of educationalprograms and emerging EdTech products.
- Conducted qualitative market research on new and existing EdTech tools, informing strategy and adoption.
- Oversaw budgets of $20K–$200K; managed client relationships and presented findings to district leaders and funders
Education
Master of Arts - Education Leadership and Policy
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD01-2005
B.A. - Anthropology; Journalism Minor
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA01-2000
Skills
- Product Lifecycle & Roadmap Development
- Strategic Partnership Management
- Business Development
- Cross-function collaboration
- Organizational Transformation
- Change Management
- People-Centered Leadership & Team Building
- Market Research
- Program and Product Evaluation
- Strategic Communications & Storytelling
- Leadership Coaching and Organizational Capacity Building (IPEC trained)
Certification
- TESOL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certified
- IPEC Leadership Training
- Pragmatic Institute, PMC Level 1
- Certificate of Evaluation Practices, Evaluator's Institute
Timeline
Chief Program Officer
FuelEd Schools
09.2016 - 11.2024
Director of District and School Partnerships
FuelEd Schools
09.2016 - 11.2024
Program Evaluation Manager
Rockman et al
01.2008 - 01.2010
Self-Employed, Consultant
EVALution Resources
2010 - 2015
Master of Arts - Education Leadership and Policy
University of Maryland, College Park
B.A. - Anthropology; Journalism Minor
Brandeis University