Whit Sweet

Innovative leader with 15+ years of experience blending education, marketing, and design - to drive engagement, growth, and satisfaction across learning-focused organizations. Proven success in conceptualization, content development, professional development, and strategic development. Adept at leading teams, scaling programs, and building partnerships that result in measurable outcomes.

National Literacy Consultant - West Region US at BENCHMARK EDUCATION (2025-06 – Present)

• Collaborate with leaders to design and implement capacity-building workshops, forums, event planning & webinars to foster professional development across multiple states.
• Drive K–12 literacy success across the West Region by delivering high-impact professional development, optimism coaching, new content, demos and data analysis solutions that elevate instruction, student outcomes meeting state requirements.
• Leverage data-driven insights and recommendations to strengthen academic standards while significantly improving engagement & overall partnership success.

Director at THE WILDERNESS SCHOOL (2024-04 – 2025-05)

• Drove significant improvements in client satisfaction through a framework of community engagement- thought leadership, e-newsletters, training curriculum, establishing lasting relationships that boosted repeat business.

Corporate Resort Sales & Marketing at VAIL RESORTS (2023-01 – 2024-12)

• Build and maintain client communications to build relationships with key stakeholders, drive growth, increasing opportunities for improvement, enhance accounting, sales initiatives & loyalty.

Faculty & Supervisor - Teaching, Learning, Policy & Leadership Dept at UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (2015-01 – 2022-01)

• Fostered collaboration among educators with a passion for content develpoment alignment in best practices, instructional strategies, integration of educational technologies & student engagement and learning outcomes across a diverse portfolio - both in-person and using multimedia virtual.
• Developed, implemented collaborative curriculum modules for higher education curating learning for diverse learners & global systems.
• Designed innovative training content aligned with trusted high-quality practices for teacher development fostering a collaborative learning environment, monitoring team structure & success.
• Collaborated & coordinated with a team as a trusted advisors to produce high-quality curriculum for coaching and developing- leveraging work to ensure alignment with adult learning principles, resulting in a significant increase in satisfaction.

Marketing Project Manager at CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF GREATER WASHINGTON (2015-01 – 2022-01)

• Collaboratively partnered with prestigious cultural institutions—including the Smithsonian Museums, the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center across the DC metro area to build awareness.
• Optimized engagement tracking systems through streamlined high-visibility campaigns - positioning strong prioritization skills to drive decisions.

Professor & Faculty & Supervisor - Dual Gen Ed and Special Education - Full-time at UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

• Cultivated strong relationships with students and educators, enhancing multilingual communication, coaching and developing, which led to a measurable improvement across socioeconomics.
• Facilitated the creation of hands-on high quality training resources & assets collaborating with contractors providing ongoing support to the team performance, which significantly improved the overall effectiveness of course delivery across multiple platforms.

Marketing Project Manager at IMAGINATION STAGE

Consultant at AACTE

Design Specialist at SMITHSONIAN NPG

KC National Alliance for Arts Associate at THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER

Master Of Arts in Educational Leadership – College Of Charleston

Bachelor Of Arts in Art History & Design – University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

– Teacher's College Columbia University

Global Education & Learning in Global Education & Learning – British Institute

World History – Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici