Jessie Shipman's Linkedin Analytics

I am a teacher. This isn’t a designation of title, but rather a statement of my very self. It’s my default. When I consider new information, I process it in a way that can be taught. For me, this is inserting information into a context of action and consequence. When I was a high school history teacher, I wasn’t so much concerned with whether my students could identify all of the major players in the civil war, but whether they could identify a current societal situation and trace that back to the civil war itself. I wanted them to be able to understand that the decisions that they make have long lasting consequences and that we can see evidence of that all throughout our history. When I moved into systems administration, I didn’t stop being a teacher. I didn’t stop inserting information into my action/consequence paradigm. But now, I was a teacher of teachers. When I became a Mac systems administrator, I had to teach them that if they were provided with the right tools, the right enablement, and the right motivation that they could unlock their creativity and innovation, and help their students to learn in new and powerful ways. Later, when I moved to work in the MDM space I became a teacher of systems administrators. I was given an opportunity to help them to understand that the actions that they take behind an MDM console empower and enable their users to do their life’s best work. The next chapter of my career story involves being a teacher to customers and to partners at Apple. I spent 3 years teaching K12 Systems Administrators how Apple devices can unlock their teachers creativity and passion, and how to accomplish that with the Apple Ecosystem. I shifted into Strategic Partner Enablement, and there I found my passion, MY life’s best work. I learned how to find the right relationships within an organization, I learned how to ask the right questions, I learned how to establish a symbiotic relationship. I learned how to leverage internal resources in order to make good on that relationship. I learned how to listen, to strategize around my partner’s needs, and then to build a plan to execute on how best to enable our partners to go to market together. I became a teacher of partners. Next I’m looking to expand this passion. To build a team and a program and teach others how to execute on partner enablement strategy. I want to be a leader that builds diverse teams and empowers them to be the next generation of tech leaders.