Business Chief Americas April 2020

they don’t necessarily work from the
needs of the educators,” he explains,
“This is where our team differs. We
see what our educators would like to
achieve in the next five years and we
work backwards from there to provide
the best processes and needs in
order to become aligned.”
To really articulate the scope of this
transformation, Phillips details the
conditions of the classrooms when he
first started in his role in 2019. “One of
my first initiatives was to ensure the
implementation of iReady, however
the elementary schools in the district
had exceptionally poor technology.
Joe Phillips
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Before entering Educational Technology, Joe served as both an
enlisted soldier and an Army Officer. During his tenure, Joe
served in numerous positions including 10 years as a Chief
Human Resources Officer and later as a Chief Information
Officer. In both roles, Joe’s specialty was building new, and
turning around poorly performing, organisations and
departments for the Army. Joe retired from the Army in 2015
and joined the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO as
the Manager of Technology Support Services. In 2018, Joe
accepted the position of Director of Technology for the
Kansas City Public Schools District and has spent the past
two years completely transforming the department. Joe
has numerous technology certifications, a Bachelor’s in
Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri,
a Master’s Degree in Business and Organisational
Security Management from Webster
University, and is currently a doctoral
candidate in Liberty University’s Ed.D
in Educational Leadership programme.
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