Engineer + Strategist + Dancer + Wellness Entrepreneur
Simone Pollard is a dynamic leader known for blending critical thinking, business acumen, creativity, and a people-centered approach to create meaningful impact
20+ Years of Impact
Education • EdTech • Assessment • Innovation • Global Growth
Strategy Development
Market Expansion
Program & Product Growth
Strategic Partnerships
Leadership
Market Expansion
Program & Product Growth
Strategic Partnerships
Leadership
Simone Pollard is a dynamic strategist, advisor, facilitator, and wellness entrepreneur who brings together critical thinking, business acumen, curiosity, and a lively spirit to create meaningful impact.
Her career has never followed a traditional path—and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
With a foundation in engineering, an MBA, leadership and consulting experience, and a lifelong connection to movement and wellness, Simone has built a multidisciplinary career rooted in both analytical rigor and human connection. Throughout her career, Simone has collaborated with executives, institutional leaders, program and product managers, marketers, and mission-driven organizations to evaluate initiatives, shape strategy, and position programs and products for sustainable growth and success.--particularly across education and edtech.
Over more than two decades, she has created and implemented strategy, developed business, expanded markets, and launched programs, products, and services nationally and globally across universities, assessment organizations, AI innovation labs, and teacher preparation organizations. Today, Simone leverages these experiences to support founders, investors, and leaders understand market dynamics, evolving consumer needs and emerging trends so they can make informed, high-impact decisions across education, edtech, and assessment spaces.
Grounded in an engineering mind, Simone naturally dissects challenges, identifies opportunities, and develops thoughtful solutions. But she also believes data and strategy alone are not enough. People matter. Relationships matter. Space matters.
Her career has never followed a traditional path—and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
With a foundation in engineering, an MBA, leadership and consulting experience, and a lifelong connection to movement and wellness, Simone has built a multidisciplinary career rooted in both analytical rigor and human connection. Throughout her career, Simone has collaborated with executives, institutional leaders, program and product managers, marketers, and mission-driven organizations to evaluate initiatives, shape strategy, and position programs and products for sustainable growth and success.--particularly across education and edtech.
Over more than two decades, she has created and implemented strategy, developed business, expanded markets, and launched programs, products, and services nationally and globally across universities, assessment organizations, AI innovation labs, and teacher preparation organizations. Today, Simone leverages these experiences to support founders, investors, and leaders understand market dynamics, evolving consumer needs and emerging trends so they can make informed, high-impact decisions across education, edtech, and assessment spaces.
Grounded in an engineering mind, Simone naturally dissects challenges, identifies opportunities, and develops thoughtful solutions. But she also believes data and strategy alone are not enough. People matter. Relationships matter. Space matters.
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And movement has always mattered too.
Simone's dance journey began at age three, when tiny ballet slippers were first placed on her feet. Since then, she has studied ballet, tap, jazz, pointe, West African dance, and more—sometimes with shoes and sometimes without. Dance became such a meaningful part of how she understood the world that she even completed a thesis inspired by movement, "An Analysis of Distributed Loads Experienced from Ballet and Gait", while completing her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at the University of Virginia''s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Later she served as Director of Choreography of a major, annual production while pursuing her MBA at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Left-brained and right-brained. Strategic and creative. Structured and joyful. Those intersections eventually inspired The Stretch Room® Reset Method, a framework designed to help individuals and organizations create intentional space to pause, reconnect, restore, and move forward with greater clarity and sustainability. Known for her warmth and affable nature, Simone naturally builds relationships and believes shared success grows from genuine connection. She also loves good food, homemade desserts, meaningful conversations, laughter that occasionally turns heads, and staying hydrated and moisturized. |
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