Grovider Inc

Grovider is a hybrid SaaS/Professional services firm that designs and delivers innovative learning experiences, change management programs, and data-informed strategic initiatives to help both individuals and organizations facing performance-related challenges leverage knowledge for growth and success. The hallmark of our SaaS offering and forecasted revenue growth is the addition/integration of custom digital learning technology, which will allow our social media platform to function as a global classroom and add an ‘advertising revenue’ line to the P&L.
What problem are you solving? What is your solution? 

Organizations and individuals want to be more productive, agile, and competitive. The problem is that neither knows how and for organizations, this problem is expensive costing them over $500M in lost productivity annually as well as $1T in turnover. Knowledge is the answer, and Grovider helps organizations and individuals grow and succeed by facilitating the activation of their knowledge through community (social media), digital learning, data, and action.

Why is your team uniquely qualified to solve the problem that you're working on?
We begin with the fundamental belief that Grovider is more dynamic, innovative, and productive because our culture is driven by a diversity of identity, thought, and decision-making. We are 100% BIPOC, 92% women, 23% LGBTOIA, 11% Boomers, 33% GenX & Millennial, and 22% GenZ. We are passionate, intelligent, and insanely innovative professionals who are unapologetically excellent at what we do.
Our CEO, Candace Kenyatta, has led network learning initiatives and provided professional learning across the country, including training state agency leaders, coaching and supporting district superintendents, consulting on citywide talent initiatives for Philadelphia schools, and providing strategic support within IHE’s, nonprofits, and K-12 learning environments.  Her leadership success led to her appointment by then-governor Chris Christie to the position of Director of Intermediate and Secondary Education for the New Jersey Department of Education, where she managed the Common Core revision, facilitated the implementation of the NextGen Science Standards and the National Arts Standards, and served as the lead designer for the statewide model curriculum.
As an esteemed practitioner with two decades of experience as an educator, learning and development professional, change management leader, executive coach, researcher, and knowledge management consulting firm principal, Candace’s expertise has been sought locally by the likes of The United Way, Pew Charitable Trust, ImpactEd (University of Pennsylvania), the Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia as well as nationally by the state departments of education in both Ohio and Michigan.
Candace received her M.S. Ed in Education, Culture, and Society from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in English from Cornell University. She began her Ph.D. in Urban Education at Temple University, where she completed National Science Foundation research with Presidential award winner Dr. Jennifer Cromley and published her own work in the American Educational Research Association’s Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research.  As a member of the New Jersey State Committee on Professional Learning, she helped to design research-based professional learning structures to ensure high-quality teachers and leaders across the state. Because of her work, she was named a 2011 Apex Power 30 under 30 honoree.  In the last two years, Candace was recognized as a Philadelphia Business Journal “Forty under Forty” honoree, one of “Philadelphia’s Most Influential African Americans” by the Philadelphia Tribune, and was a Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Awards Finalist in the area of Social Justice. 

Traction (Qualitative & quantitative metrics)
$3M revenue since 2017 with an average of 51% YOY revenue growth with three service lines--learning & development (our foundation), research & analytics, and strategic implementation. We are developing a digital learning ecosystem that uses a moderated social media platform as a knowledge transfer medium, making Grovider the first and only knowledge management (L&D) firm with an advertising revenue stream.