Announcing a Leadership Transition at Ednovate
Oliver Sicat and Katie Hart at USC Hybrid’s Ribbon Cutting (2019)
This Spring is bringing big transitions to Ednovate. As we prepare for graduation season, our 12th graders will not be the only ones leaving Ednovate to go out into the world and make a change. After 13 years as CEO, our co-founder Oliver Sicat will be stepping down this summer to take on a new role at a new organization.
He will be joining City Fund, a national philanthropy that funds education work, as a Partner. There he will lead strategy on AI integration and the next generation of school innovation across the country. While the whole team at Ednovate is excited for Oliver, we are of course very sad to see him leave.
Looking to the Future
As our CEO, Oliver always inspired us all to reach higher. Under his leadership, Ednovate grew into a leading network of high-performing public charter high schools focused on college and career success. Our results are as exceptional as the young people we serve. Academically, our students are outperforming their peers at the city, district and state level. In life, our alumni are more likely than their peers to be accepted to college and to secure jobs that allow them to feel financially secure.
That is what Positive Multigenerational Change looks like.
And it is because of Oliver’s strong leadership that this network will continue to thrive. The team at Ednovate is ready for this moment. We will carry forward the important work that we built with Oliver and the families who have entrusted their students to us. The vision and mission we built together is stronger than any one person, even our co-founder.
For this reason, we look to the future with excitement. On a national platform Oliver will be able to scale the important work he began at Ednovate, so many more students, families and communities will be able to benefit from the innovations we have built and implemented here at Ednovate.
The board of directors has selected Katie Hart, who has served as Ednovate’s Chief Operating Officer for the past nine years, to assume the role of Interim CEO while the organization conducts a national search for its next permanent leader.
Like our 12th graders who are preparing for graduation, Oliver is likely excited about what comes next but also sad to leave a place that he loves. We can’t wait to see the even greater impact he will make.
