Dominic Liechti

Mr. Dominic Liechti is a goal-driver leader with extensive international business, change management and digital education experience. In particular, he is known for excelling in change management and learning relation management. After earning a teaching credential from the College of Education in Bern, Switzerland, Liechti went on to earn a Master Degree in Education Management from the Zurich University of Education. Most recently, he received his MBA from the top-rated IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland focusing on "Business Strategy, Globalization, Leadership, Innovation and Execution." With this impressive educational background, it is hardly surprising that Liechti has worked as a teacher, principal, strategist, executive director and school board principal in the past sixteen years. In his current position as Executive Director and President of Khan Lab School in Mountain View, California, Dominic has led corporate and business strategy for the startup, which is associated with Khan Academy and already earned a reputation for itself as transforming the digital learning and education technology field. Among his varied duties, Liechti has been involved in visualizing and aggregating expansive data, developing digital portfolios, and testing various technology-based solutions, or EdTech, for personalized learning diagnostics that encompass productive failure. He also managed an impact of 300% scale between January of 2016 and 2018 and reached the startup’s break-even point shortly after that. However, Dominic Liechti has also had a notable impact on education on a global scale through his international speaker series, which has been featured at the ChangeNOW Summit Paris, the 2017 Global Education Summit, and the recent TechBBQ in Copenhagen; his multiple qualitative education research studies, which have been conducted since 2014 in collaboration with the Illuminate Consulting Group; and his Swiss nonprofit organization, Learn4Life, which has directly improved the educational outcomes of more than 2,000 economically disadvantaged students since its creation in 2004. Dominic speaks fluent English, German, Swiss, German, and intermediate French and Italian.As for long-term goals, Dominic Liechti plans to continue his work redesigning global education and ultimately aims to make a lasting impact on equitable education access.