Girls & Business enterprise Profile: Alyse Victoria Maslonik

Founder &amp CEO
RedefinED Advisors LLC
redefiningeducation.org

Alyse Victoria Maslonik will loudly admit she does not match in the corporate globe. She struggles to hold her concepts and opinions to herself and does not like properly-worn paths.

“I’m what I like to get in touch with a ‘strategic disruptor’ — right here to alter the status quo and do items differently,” she says.

Maslonik’s company, RedefinED Advisors LLC, is carrying out its ideal to be a disruptive force in the business. Maslonik launched the organization at the finish of 2021 to assistance private schools raise funds for economic help and scholarships by means of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit system. RedefinED began with one particular partnership and one particular service providing. In just a year, it has expanded to 4 solutions offered to 42 partners. The organization has raised additional than $eight.five million in scholarships for private schools in Pennsylvania, funds that will effect almost ten,000 students. “And we are not arranging on stopping anytime quickly,” Maslonik says.

Subsequent on her list is assisting private schools in the Pittsburgh location. She sees a future with no limits. “I am one hundred % mission driven, and my No. 1 purpose will often be to leave this globe superior than I discovered it. I am really conscious that I develop the vision, but I rely on my outstanding, fabulous, cannot-do-this-without the need of-them group to implement that vision,” she says.

Maslonik’s motivation spawns from her hard childhood, for the duration of which she spent a period of time in a domestic abuse shelter. “Because of my upbringing, it will often be my mission to make sure that no child—not one—will have to reside by means of the items I have,” she says.

A portion of the income from RedefinED go toward supporting the communities the organization performs in. Maslonik has also designed the Triumph More than Tragedy Scholarship Award to give added assistance to youngsters who develop up in complicated situations.

What’s Maslonik’s assistance to other girls in company?

“Build a fantastic group filled with persons that have diverse strengths than you do, and listen to their input,” she says. “When constructing a startup in particular, it is critical to have a group that is adaptable, providing the company the flexibility to stick to the mission, wherever it might lead.”

The ideal assistance she has ever received is: “Don’t go by means of life hunting for motives why you do not matter, for the reason that life will show these to you. Often appear for the motives why you do.”

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