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Lauren Leinweber

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Head of People and Places
California, United States

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  • Binti
    Director of People and Places
    Binti
    Sep 2026 - Current (2 months)
  • Binti
    Head of People and Places
    Binti
    Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    Head of People & Places for a 90-person startup, serving on the executive team and acting as a strategic partner to leadership across all areas of people, talent, and workplace operations.

    - Deeply hands-on, owning and executing the full employee lifecycle including HRBP support, performance management, employee relations, compensation, benefits, payroll, compliance, onboarding, and more.
    - Oversee talent acquisition and workplace operations, including office strategy, employee engagement, and company-wide offsites.
    - Operate as both a hands-on builder and organizational leader, scaling people infrastructure to support long-term company growth.
  • MILL
    Human Resources Business Partner
    MILL
    Mar 2024 - Apr 2025 (1 year 2 months)
    Leading HR for a company of 130, I served as a strategic partner to the leadership team, driving the growth of the business through people-focused programs and initiatives. I owned and executed across the breadth of HR functions, including:

    - Talent Management: Attracting, hiring, managing, and growing talent through recruitment, compensation strategy, performance management, learning and development, manager coaching, and employee relations.
    - HR Operations: Running a tight ship by owning payroll, compliance, onboarding and offboarding, headcount management, benefits, and more.
    - Employee Experience: Building connections for effective collaboration and a deep sense of belonging through inclusive company events, engagem
  • Everlaw
    People Projects & Programs Lead
    Everlaw
    Sep 2023 - Feb 2024 (6 months)
  • Everlaw
    Manager, DEI & People Experience
    Everlaw
    Jan 2023 - Jul 2023 (7 months)
    - Set the vision for, owned, and executed DEIB and employee experience programs to drive inclusion and belonging on a high-growth and high-performance team of ~530 employees across four offices and remote.
    - Key programs include Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Resource Groups, DEI training and metrics, social events, and employee recognition.
    - Successfully transitioned employees back to in-office hybrid experience post-COVID.
    - Managed a budget of ~$650k.
  • Everlaw
    Manager of People Operations/DEI & People Analytics
    Everlaw
    Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 3 months)
    - Owned DEIB strategy and drove forward related initiatives, including launching and supporting our first Employee Resource Group Program.
    - Developed new performance management system in partnership with CEO, Head of People, and expert consultants to reenvision, design, build, and train managers and employees on system including job leveling, linear and branch transitions, and scored and competency-based reviews.
    - Drove company-wide surveying and people analytics, running and reporting on retention/attrition, recruiting trends, manager feedback, and engagement/DEI sentiment and communicating findings and action items to company leadership and employees.
  • Everlaw
    Program Manager, DEI
    Everlaw
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (9 months)
    - Project managed annual DEIB assessment and roadmap development process, built out and trained managers on first structured, competency-based interview process, facilitated DEIB-based manager training, drove tool exploration, adoption, and implementation of our first performance management tool, and built from scratch company's first People Analytics Dashboard.
  • Everlaw
    Training and Development Specialist
    Everlaw
    May 2020 - Mar 2021 (11 months)
    - Facilitated DEIB trainings for all-company audience, people managers, interviewers, and hiring managers/recruiters.
    - Built and launched internal mentorship program, designed and facilitated development-themed Continuous Learning Jams, created content for internal website.
  • Everlaw
    Recruiting Coordinator
    Everlaw
    Oct 2019 - May 2020 (8 months)
    - Scheduled high volume of interviews for requisitions across all teams, including VP-level roles, championing excellent candidate experience through timely, clear, and responsive communication.
    - Developed and collaborated on recruitment processes designed to maintain excellence and support scaling of growing company.
    - Partnered with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to design interview plans and trained new employees on use of ATS and implementation of recruitment processes.
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    Faculty Leader
    Social Justice and Equity Committee Maya Lin School
    Jun 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years 1 month)
    - Partnering with parents, teachers, and school administrators, proactively addressed issues of race, identity, and bias in the school.
    - Developed programs and teacher education based on community feedback and assessment of student needs.
    - Facilitated social justice-themed collaboration meetings for full teaching staff with the goal of building an inclusive and equitable school community.
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    4th/5th Grade Teacher
    Alameda Unified School District
    Jul 2015 - Jun 2019 (4 years)
    I taught 4th and 5th grade, looping with the same students each year. Maya Lin School is a public school within the Alameda Unified School District, dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion through arts integration and inquiry-based learning. Over four years, I took over 120 hours of college-level instruction to earn the distinction of Integrated Learning Specialist.

    I grew in my role since 2015, strengthening my management skills, coaching students to develop necessary skills and inspiring them to follow their personal passions. I have extensive instructional design skills, writing, teaching, and iterating on curriculum and long-term projects. My operations skills got daily exercise as I planned for instruction across
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    Co-Teacher
    Aspire Public Schools East Palo Alto Charter School
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)
    - Worked alongside cooperating teacher in fifth-grade classroom for approximately 20 hours per week.
    - Collaborated with fifth-grade team to plan instruction and reflect on implementation.
    - Planned, designed, and implemented lessons and units across subjects (Reader's and Writer's Workshop, Math Investigations, shared reading, history, social-emotional learning and the arts).
    - Assessed student work daily in order to pull small groups and shape instruction in the moment. Used data to inform the next lesson.
    - Instructed at the whole class-level, in small groups, and individually.
    - Worked with classroom teacher to engage students in culturally relevant instruction.
  • Ravenswood City School District
    Co-Teacher
    Ravenswood City School District
    Aug 2014 - Dec 2014 (5 months)
    - Worked alongside cooperating teacher in a first grade classroom for approximately 20 hours per week.
    - Collaborated with cooperating teacher and grade-level team to organize curriculum, plan lessons, troubleshoot classroom management concerns, and regularly conduct formative assessment.
    Independently designed and implemented full-class lessons, discussions, and activities.
    - Directly involved in classroom management, discipline, and engagement with students throughout the day.
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    Student Teacher
    Sunnyvale School District
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 (2 months)
    - Worked as a student teacher in a rising first grade classroom during a four-week summer school program.
    - Assisted the cooperating teacher in planning lessons, community-building, assessing students, and implementing activities.
    - Independently designed and implemented full and small-group lessons, assessments, and activities.
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  • University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
    Business for Arts, Sciences and Engineering
    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
    BASE (Business for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering) is an intensive six-week business education program. Taught at the prestigious Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, BASE exposes non-business, undergraduate students in arts, sciences, and engineering to the fundamentals of business.

    The program builds upon students’ foundations in liberal arts, sciences or engineering, providing students with the additional knowledge and skills essential for careers in a variety of fields, including marketing, management consulting, banking and financial services. Students earn academic credit by attending three Haas classes while networking with local businesses, preparing several group projects and participating
  • Stanford University
    Master's Degree, Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP Elementary)
    Stanford University
    STEP Elementary students participate in an intensive year of academic classes and school placements after which they earn a Master of Arts in Education and a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.

    From the STEP Mission Statement:
    The Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) of the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE) aims to cultivate teacher leaders who share a set of core values that includes a commitment to social justice, an understanding of the strengths and needs of a diverse student population, and a dedication to equity and excellence for all students. The program takes an approach to teaching and learning that is sensitive to the family, community, and political contexts of education; focused
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Bachelor's Degree, Social Welfare, Ethnic Studies
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
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    NEH Teacher Institute Scholar
    Jul 2018
    Selected to participate in "Voices from the Misty Mountains: Appalachian Culture and the Power of Storytelling", a 3-week summer institute held at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    Along with a cohort of 25 teachers from across the country, read and discussed the work of Appalachian poets, scholars, and novelists, analyzed Appalachian theater works, learned the history behind the Appalachian territories and West Virginia labor movements, and created and presented a final project at a conference open to the community. My project, a year-long integrated arts curriculum for the 5th grade, was called, "This Is What It's Like to be Me: The Power of Perspecti
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    Graduated from UC Berkeley with Highest Distinction
    Issued by UC Berkeley
    Roughly equivalent to Summa Cum Laude, Highest Distinction is awarded to students with the highest overall GPAs in the university.
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    Nominated for Teacher of the Year
    Issued by Alameda Unified School District
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    Cal Alumni Association Leadership Award
    Jan
    Established in 1934, the Leadership Award is one of the most prestigious merit-based scholarships at UC Berkeley (alumni.berkeley.edu).
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    James Midgley Undergraduate Award for Academic Achievement
    Issued by UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
    This award is annually given to the undergraduate student that demonstrates the highest level of academic achievement within the Social Welfare major's graduating class. It is accompanied by a stipend.
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    Cal Band Baton Award
    Issued by University of California Marching Band
    The Baton Award honors the Cal Band student(s) that has earned the highest GPA within the organization for the past academic year.
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    High Honors, Social Welfare Honors Thesis Program
    Issued by School of Social Welfare UC Berkeley
    As a Social Welfare honors students, I was selected to complete an honors thesis during my senior year.

    My 46-page paper was an assessment and critique of the field of environmental social work as well as an exploration into the theory behind society's problematic instrumental relationship with the environment. It is titled "Environmental Social Work: Beyond Humanism".

    This thesis was awarded the rare distinction of High Honors.
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