Alicia Carpenter didn’t plan on becoming a tutor, let alone an executive at a tutoring firm, but when she realized her passion and skill for helping students excel, along with the chance to shake up the industry, she never looked back.  

“You don’t always end up where you think you will, and even when you do, it doesn’t always turn out the way that you think,” Carpenter says. “So if you make the most of each opportunity you’re given, you’ll probably end up where you need to go. I feel like that’s been a real theme in my life and choices.” 

Starting out as a tutor in undergrad, Carpenter quickly realized that she had a gift for creating the kind of targeted coaching her clients needed to improve their academic and testing skills. After getting a Master’s degree in theater and moving with her husband to New York City to pursue a career performing arts, she ended up applying for leadership positions with tutoring organizations instead, eventually landing a director’s role at a newly-opened NYC branch of a nationwide company. But her eyes were quickly opened to a side of the industry that she was not happy to be a part of.

“The exploitative structure was making it really difficult for me to do my job — traditional tutoring companies will usually pay their employees 20-30% of what they’re charging families,” she says. “So not only was I not able to sufficiently recruit and retain talent for my own company, but as director I was only getting paid 50% of my own hours as my salary.

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