Dan Katzir
Senior Advisor
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
decades of experience in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations, including school districts, schools, national education nonprofits and businesses.
Early on in his career, Katzir worked as a consultant to Bain and Company, where he developed
and implemented business strategies for Fortune 500 companies. He later became the chief operating officer of Teach For America, where he managed what was then an organization with a $7.5 million budget, 15 offices, 70 full-time staff and 1,200 teachers.
He created Teach For America’s first financial planning and control system and trained its national leaders in strategic planning, budgeting and personnel management. Seeing the benefit of applying best practices in management and operations from across sectors to the education industry, Katzir went on to serve as the first executive director of the UCLA School Management Program, a joint venture of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and The Anderson Business School that provides executive management training to public school educators. In four years, Katzir grew the program from a start-up to a $5 million, 60-person organization with offices across the country that provided customized executive management programs for boards of education, senior school district management, principals and teachers in numerous large school districts.
Katzir also served as the regional director of Sylvan Learning Systems out in Los Angeles.
Katzir has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Professional experience:
• 12 years experience in current position
• 15 years experience in the company/organization
• 23 years experience in the industry
The Public Eye: Expert sees conflict in consultant's ties to Sacramento City superintendent - Education - The Sacramento Bee
The Public Eye: Expert sees conflict in consultant's ties to Sacramento City superintendent - Education - The Sacramento Bee:
The Public Eye: Expert sees conflict in consultant's ties to Sacramento City superintendent
Published: Sunday, Apr. 15, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B
Dan Katzir was at the table in a closed-door session in February when Sacramento City Unified School Superintendent Jonathan Raymond was evaluated by the school board.
The consultant had been paid $43,000, in part to develop a superintendent evaluation instrument and to facilitate the evaluation, according to a contract obtained from the district. He also has been paid $72,500 for various other consulting services.
When Katzir is not acting as an independent consultant, he is the senior adviser for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. In documents as recent as 2011, Katzir has been listed as the managing director of the foundation