Hadley Dorn

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Hadley Dorn is a Principal at the firm and joined Tyton Partners in December 2020 in the strategy consulting practice.

Prior to joining Tyton Partners, Hadley worked as a Consultant at Quadrant Strategies, a market research firm based in D.C. At Quadrant, she advised clients in the Technology, Entertainment, and Non-Profit sectors on their most pressing brand and reputational challenges. In particular, she worked with multiple Fortune 150 technology companies providing strategic recommendations on how to best position their B2B service offerings. Before Quadrant Strategies, Hadley held internships at DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as well as The Advance Group.

Hadley earned her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Amherst College. She is originally from Boulder, CO.

Insights from Hadley Dorn

11 Higher Ed Hot Takes for 2025

December 19, 2024 Blog

Higher education is at a tipping point. In 2025, institutions will navigate a landscape defined by rapid technological…

Spring 2024 Data on What’s Causing K-12 Teachers to Quit Schools and What Will Make Them Stay

July 10, 2024 Blog

K-12 districts are facing several notable headwinds as they transition into their new fiscal year this July. Chronic…

Choose to Learn 2024

June 21, 2024 Papers

Choose to Learn 2024

Insights from K-12 Superintendents on post-ESSER Investment Priorities

April 11, 2024 Blog

While pandemic-driven disruptions to classroom learning may feel like they are in the rear-view mirror, new and ongoing…

K-12 Trends to Track in 2024

February 9, 2024 Blog

As our consulting team engages with the K-12 community, we often notice the same themes – and questions…

Navigating the Maze: K-12 Executives Share Perspective on the 2023 Sales Cycle

November 20, 2023 Blog

The current state of K-12 district’s budgets can be characterized by one word: uncertainty. Pandemic learning loss persists…

Peering Past the Hype: K-12 Teacher and Administrator Perspectives on AI in the Classroom

June 15, 2023 Blog

Since ChatGPT’s launch in November, headlines have postulated about the potentially transformative and/or damaging implications of generative AI…

4 Strategies for Tackling Emerging Challenges in K-12 Education

April 20, 2023 Blog

Separating the signal from the noise in product development is always a challenge. One needs to only consider…

Looking Back to See Forward: Observations on K-12 Budgets and M&A in 2023

January 10, 2023 Blog

Current Federal budget and ESSER funding dynamics may mask rougher period ahead For those desperately trying to get…

Tyton’s Reflections for 2023 in K-12

December 22, 2022 Blog

One of the joys of our work at Tyton Partners is that we get to balance a specific…

Time for Class 2022: The State of Digital Learning and Courseware Adoption

July 11, 2022 Papers

Since 2014, Tyton Partners has monitored the dynamics of the higher education instructional materials and digital learning market…

Can Supplemental Academic Service Providers Bridge the Teacher Hiring Gap?

April 14, 2022 Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nationwide drops in K-12 academic benchmarks, with impacts on literacy rates perhaps being…

The Build Back Better Act Has the Potential to Make Universal Pre-K a Reality

December 8, 2021 Blog

Three years since the promise of universal pre-K became a key plank of many Democrats’ political platforms, Congress…