Yanika S. Daniels, has a wide range of experience in project and talent management, and change management and coaching for private, non-profit and education organizations. Over the last seven years as a consultant, she has focused on helping clients enhance talent management strategies to better recruit and retain staff. Yanika has learned that talent placement requires not only the ability to analyze key organizational needs to find the right fit but also ensuring processes and policies are in place to retain great talent within the current organization. Investing in coaching and how an organization develops, supports, and promotes its talent leads to strong retention of staff and maximizing organizational goals.

Yanika began her career in education serving as the Director of Talent Management for the Fulton County Schools System in Atlanta, Georgia. Yanika facilitated the training of the Statewide Leader Keys performance management system at Fulton, training over 100 principals and district leaders on State required processes and changes. She also facilitated Fulton’s own Central Office performance management system by training over 500 district managers on key performance competencies and the new required staff evaluation processes. Yanika also worked closely with district leadership to facilitate and implement an inclusive school leader selection process for Fulton County Schools that led to the hiring of over 50 principals and 80 assistant principals over a two-year timeframe.

After Fulton County, Yanika served as the Managing Director at Teach for America (TFA). Yanika gained experience developing leaders as a coach for 12 Regional Heads of District Partnerships while at TFA, serving as a thought partner on district/charter relationships, district strategies, and implementing best practices for each region.

Prior to transitioning into education through The Broad Center, Yanika spent nine years working in the private sector in consulting at IBM and PWC. Yanika holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Supply Chain Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a graduate of The Broad Residency in Urban Education with a Master’s in Education Leadership and holds a certification from John Maxwell Certification program in coaching and speaking.