Ladies &amp Organization Profile: Alyse Victoria Maslonik

Founder &amp CEO
RedefinED Advisors LLC
redefiningeducation.org

Alyse Victoria Maslonik will loudly admit she does not match in the corporate globe. She struggles to preserve her guidelines and opinions to herself and does not like successfully-worn paths.

“I’m what I like to speak to a ‘strategic disruptor’ — suitable right here to adjust the status quo and do things differently,” she says.

Maslonik’s enterprise, RedefinED Advisors LLC, is carrying out its most helpful to be a disruptive force in the sector. Maslonik launched the firm at the finish of 2021 to help private schools raise funds for financial aid and scholarships by implies of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit technique. RedefinED started with 1 partnership and 1 service giving. In just a year, it has expanded to four options provided to 42 partners. The firm has raised far much more than $eight.5 million in scholarships for private schools in Pennsylvania, funds that will influence virtually ten,000 students. “And we are not organizing on stopping anytime speedily,” Maslonik says.

Subsequent on her list is assisting private schools in the Pittsburgh area. She sees a future with no limits. “I am a single hundred % mission driven, and my No. 1 target will continuously be to leave this globe enhanced than I identified it. I am really conscious that I create the vision, but I rely on my outstanding, fabulous, can not-do-this-with no-them group to implement that vision,” she says.

Maslonik’s motivation spawns from her hard childhood, by means of which she spent a period of time in a domestic abuse shelter. “Because of my upbringing, it will continuously be my mission to assure that no child—not one—will have to reside by implies of the things I have,” she says.

A portion of the earnings from RedefinED go toward supporting the communities the firm operates in. Maslonik has also created the Triumph Additional than Tragedy Scholarship Award to give much more aid to children who create up in difficult scenarios.

What’s Maslonik’s guidelines to other females in enterprise?

“Build a outstanding group filled with men and women that have distinctive strengths than you do, and listen to their input,” she says. “When constructing a startup especially, it is vital to have a group that is adaptable, giving the enterprise the flexibility to adhere to the mission, wherever it could properly lead.”

The most helpful guidelines she has ever received is: “Don’t go by implies of life browsing for motives why you do not matter, due to the truth life will show these to you. Continuously seem for the motives why you do.”

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