Founder &amp CEO
RedefinED Advisors LLC
redefiningeducation.org

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

“I’m what I like to contact a ‘strategic disruptor’ — right here to alter the status quo and do items differently,” she says.

Maslonik’s small business, RedefinED Advisors LLC, is performing its very best to be a disruptive force in the business. Maslonik launched the enterprise at the finish of 2021 to aid private schools raise funds for monetary help and scholarships via the Educational Improvement Tax Credit system. RedefinED began with one particular partnership and one particular service supplying. In just a year, it has expanded to 4 solutions offered to 42 partners. The enterprise has raised much more than $eight.five million in scholarships for private schools in Pennsylvania, funds that will influence practically ten,000 students. “And we are not organizing on stopping anytime quickly,” Maslonik says.

Subsequent on her list is assisting private schools in the Pittsburgh region. She sees a future with no limits. “I am one hundred % mission driven, and my No. 1 objective will usually be to leave this planet improved than I identified it. I am pretty conscious that I build the vision, but I rely on my remarkable, fabulous, cannot-do-this-without having-them group to implement that vision,” she says.

Maslonik’s motivation spawns from her challenging childhood, in the course of which she spent a period of time in a domestic abuse shelter. “Because of my upbringing, it will usually be my mission to assure that no child—not one—will have to reside via the items I have,” she says.

A portion of the income from RedefinED go toward supporting the communities the enterprise performs in. Maslonik has also developed the Triumph More than Tragedy Scholarship Award to give more assistance to young children who develop up in complicated situations.

What’s Maslonik’s tips to other girls in small business?

“Build a excellent group filled with folks that have various strengths than you do, and listen to their input,” she says. “When creating a startup particularly, it is significant to have a group that is adaptable, providing the small business the flexibility to stick to the mission, wherever it might lead.”

The very best tips she has ever received is: “Don’t go via life searching for factors why you do not matter, mainly because life will show these to you. Generally appear for the factors why you do.”

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