Teresa Chasteen
CEO and President
Worldwide Interactive Network
Dr. Teresa Chasteen is co-founder, CEO and President of Worldwide Interactive
Network. Teresa’s background includes a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction
and Psychology and 16 years of higher education teaching and administrative
experience. During her tenure in higher education, she taught graduate courses
in Measurement and Evaluation and Educational Statistics.
Teresa has served as Project Manager for the development and validation
of over 1,000 hours of courseware and test preparation. Under Teresa’s
leadership, WIN has implemented 28 statewide career readiness initiatives
and serves corporate clients with licenses for more than 10 million users,
as well as clients in all 50 states and 10 countries.
In a comprehensive education reform initiative in the summer of 2006, the
Florida Department of Education chose WIN to implement their Florida Ready
to Work program. In 2008, recognizing the critical role that education and
workforce development play in the economic development of a region, Dr.
Chasteen collaborated with Dr. Tim Alford and Ms. Katherine DeRosear to
publish “It’s the Educonomy, Stupid!, A Practitioner’s
Guide to Redefining America’s Workforce System”. This guide
outlines the key forces impacting the U.S. Workforce and makes the case
for reform of the workforce development system. Dr. Chasteen and her coauthors
suggest specific strategies for accomplishing this reform and explicitly
link these strategies to economic development.
Teresa currently focuses her efforts on partnering with State Offices of
Education, Economic Development and Workforce Development to leverage the
information available through the WIN Strategic Compass, a powerful tool
WIN developed for assessing and aligning workforce development with state
and regional economic data. The WIN Strategic Compass compiles and analyzes
information on job opportunities, job responsibilities, salary ranges, as
well as the educational, work experience and skills required to qualify
for each level of employment. From this analysis, educators, economic developers
and workforce practitioners can align education and workforce policies,
plans and programs to meet the current and forecasted workforce demands.