Professional Biography
As a Senior Innovation Consultant, Sujata Bhatt brings over twenty years’ experience in strategy, design, and K18 teaching to help organizations define, build, and pilot new paths at the crossroads of equity and innovation, history and the 4th Industrial Revolution economy. As Senior Fellow at Transcend, a national nonprofit that supports community-based school redesign, she has helped define spreading and scaling strategy, including piloting programming for system leaders, redefining comms during COVID-19, and building partnerships with leading organizations in the field. At the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, she is the Capstone Director for the world’s first Education Entrepreneurship Program, where students from 15 time zones define and develop ventures in edtech, K-Grey learning, and social justice. She also serves on the board of the Mastery Transcript Consortium and Red Bridge, and is a frequent contributor to national publications and conferences.
Previously, she served as Managing Partner of Innovation for the Boston Public Schools, where she developed and implemented innovation strategy for the nation's oldest school district. Her work included fostering a district- and ecosystem-wide culture of innovation, empowering innovation networks, launching a secondary schools innovation incubator, school redesign and personalized learning pilots, new school/program models, and connecting BPS with national innovation communities in academia, education, and tech. She also founded The Incubator School, which, during its four-year tenure, was one of the most diverse, high performing schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. A middle-high school focused on equity and entrepreneurship, The Incubator School model centered on real world impact projects—including launching startups in 8th grade—supported by blended and social emotional learning. Her work draws upon her 14 years' teaching experience, including National Board certification, and 23 years’ parenting experience. She has advised numerous edtech companies including TenMarks (acquired by Amazon), as well as been on the founding teams of two. In addition, she has served on the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Games and Learning Publishing Council.
She received her B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Medieval History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
