Dr. Lorien Parker, on founding SciencePlay Kids
Lorien is the founder of SciencePlay Kids, a company she founded 9 years ago for ALL BRAINS and ALL learners type to engage with Science and learn. And she did so with zero prior experience in business or education but she jumped right in the deep end and followed her passion for science to help neurodivergent learners and she knows all about it because she has ADHD and is autistic herself and the mother of neurodivergent kids.
Lorien is the one of many women who left academia after having kids because academia just is not designed to accommodate for parents and she did not want to choose being her work and her family. No one should really!
If you have come to the hard realisation that academia is never going to work for you, and need a little help to transition out of academia, you can talk to Belinda Di Bartolo who is dedicated to help you do just that and step into your next era https://linktr.ee/belinda.dibartolo
Anyway, Lorien takes us through her first step, the business model she thought she would follow which turned out to be her unicorn model but not sustainable but listen up for Lorien as she nailed the business pivot! Best pivot ever which now allows Lorien to be her best self, empower students and schools with a Win Win model funded by corporates!
Tune in for Lorien's founder story which come with the blessing of embracing her way of working, surrounding herself with the people who can bridge her gaps. Great lessons on tweaking your business model as hers really evolved to an offering she could not have thought of before being buried into delivery of her initial model first.
You can learn more about Lorien and SciencePlay kids on her website and social medias
https://www.scienceplaykids.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorien-parker-ba7b6a36
https://www.facebook.com/SciencePlayKids
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Released on 13 February 2024
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