Ms. Lockett is the CEO of LEAP-X, an education innovation lab that designs and creates solutions for the future of learning. Ms. Lockett is the Founder of LEAP Innovations, which connects schools and tech companies from across the nation to scale learning innovations in classrooms. Prior to her role with LEAP, she served as the founding CEO of New Schools for Chicago, a venture philanthropy that invested in the start-up of 80 new public schools. Ms. Lockett previously served as the executive director of Civic Consulting Alliance, a pro-bono consulting firm for government agencies, and led key projects that shaped the Chicago Transit Authority s $2.8 billion capital improvement program, and the Chicago Housing Authority s $1.5 billion Plan for Transformation. Ms. Lockett has held sales and marketing roles with IBM, Kraft Foods, and General Mills. Ms. Lockett serves as a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (Chairperson of the Operations and Technology committee). Ms. Lockett is an advisor with GSV Ventures and is Chairman of Noble Schools, the largest charter high school network in Illinois. She is also a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, Commercial Club of Chicago, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Ms. Lockett is a serial entrepreneur who has led transformation efforts in education, government and the civic arena. She founded LEAP Innovations, a national non-profit organization that works with educators and technology companies across the United States, to research, pilot and scale new instructional designs and technology solutions that advance student learning. Before starting LEAP, Ms. Lockett was a driving force behind Chicago's charter school movement. As founding president and CEO of New Schools for Chicago, she helped raise more than $70 million to support opening 80 new public schools, primarily charters. For nearly a decade, she focused on bringing quality public schools to communities of high need and advocating for school choice. Through her prior corporate experience she has gained experience in sales, marketing and business development.