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This is Matt.
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Matt designs, leads and supports digital ecosystem transformations.
His insights drive strategies and he builds capacity by training and empowering others. Below are the communities Matt supports:
His insights drive strategies and he builds capacity by training and empowering others. Below are the communities Matt supports:
Explore. See. Make. Envision (ESME8.com).
An "autodidactic launchpad" to help preschoolers (and their parents) become independent digital learners |
Matt's business supporting organizations with uncommon actionable intelligence @ techno-social ecosystem design and integration.
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EdTech for Leadership: Matt's
book launch site geared specifically for school leaders @ dislodging paradigm paralysis, changing mindsets and demystifying IT. |
He's been integrating technology professionally for over 22 years.
An unbroken obsession with computing since the Atari 400.
An unbroken obsession with computing since the Atari 400.
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July 2017- 2019
Director of Digital Learning at Nishimachi International School
Optimized instructional technology platforms and strategies, training & smooth information flows for 75 staff and 500 hundred students and their families means a happy, savvy, connected community.
As an administrator on the school's leadership team, he helped contribute to unprecedented growth in communication, digital learning and data utilization to maximize learning and lead nine transformations of the school’s digital ecosystem in less than two years.
Optimized instructional technology platforms and strategies, training & smooth information flows for 75 staff and 500 hundred students and their families means a happy, savvy, connected community.
As an administrator on the school's leadership team, he helped contribute to unprecedented growth in communication, digital learning and data utilization to maximize learning and lead nine transformations of the school’s digital ecosystem in less than two years.
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Innovation is high touch, not high tech.
Insight: Visionary leadership, Strategy and Communications He shifts people’s beliefs about what is possible by fostering an environment of communication & collaboration where everyone works toward transformation. |
Design is Intelligence Made Visible
Integration: Ecosystem design, hardware and software He identifies and re-designs workflows and processes that are frittering away, in ten-second increments, hundreds of hours of the organization's most precious resource: human brain cycles/computation. |
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The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership
Transformation: Capacity building & resource development He builds capacity at every level, empowering others to be leaders, build excitement and catalyze further change. |
2014-2017
He led digital integration as the Technology Coach at Bonn International School
Improving student learning and staff support, leadership and communication and system integration & training inspired others to try new tools because their current systems were optimized and made to work first.
Improving student learning and staff support, leadership and communication and system integration & training inspired others to try new tools because their current systems were optimized and made to work first.
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Collaborative Instructional Leadership
He connected leaders across the organization to develop a vision and then integrated multiple legacy systems and new platforms and provided personalized coaching for a community of learners to carry it out. Digital Ecosystem Leadership
Published a book on technology integration leadership outlining his views on leading from influence versus authority and providing practical solutions that dislodge paradigm paralysis. |
Strategic Planning
Created and delivered on a “future-ready” digital ecosystem plan because we all want to be inspired; we all want to wake up in the morning thinking the future is going to be great and feel that we can influence what the future looks like. Support-Focused Service
Commitment to providing service and communication systems that enhance people’s sense of competence and control. |
2005-2013
Teacher and IT integrator
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1996-2007
Business Development/Executive Communications
He provided executive support to senior leadership at Fortune 500s and startups
Direct working relationships with top decision makers. Support at this level requires genuine caring about processes, superior technical skills in analytics and business intelligence, and forward facing leadership skills with everyone in the organization.
Direct working relationships with top decision makers. Support at this level requires genuine caring about processes, superior technical skills in analytics and business intelligence, and forward facing leadership skills with everyone in the organization.
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Selections of Writing and Media
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Book: Digital Ecosystem Leadership (Self-Published)
A blueprint for initiating and sustaining technological change from positions of influence only, outside of a school’s core leadership team. Parent education for Nishimachi International School
Workshop delivered on "Encouraging Digital Learning" for parents about facilitating digital learning at home. View the presentation or a 2 minute video clip of me explaining the NIS approach to digital learning. Technical whitepaper for LaserFiche FIRE division. Postcard mailer designed and written for Education market. |
"State of the Digital Ecosystem" briefing for an incoming School Director
Click here to view a PDF of the briefing document The Dow Chemical Company
A change I made to Dow's executive communication system, a web development guide I wrote for a Dow business unit (GCO) and a video excerpt of my global broadcast presenting my findings. Freelance writing
Tech article written about the future of smartphones where I discuss phones with BCIs (brain computer interfaces) as an eventuality. |
To get in touch, write to: mpbrady8@gmail.com. View my portfolio here.
