Meet Rachel Endo
Soar. Transform. Thrive.
Rachel Endo is an award-winning and inter/nationally recognized Asian/American educator, leader, and scholar who proudly promotes equity and excellence in education.
Since July 2017, Endo has served as Founding Dean and a Professor in the School of Education at UW Tacoma, where she is also a member of the UW Doctoral and Graduate Faculty.
Significantly, Endo believes in the transformative power of education to democratize knowledge for a greater good, especially for historically underserved communities and individuals.
Learn more about Endo’s coaching, consulting, and professional development pathways. Invest in meaningful individual and team-based growth and impact.
About
Rachel Endo (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/SPHR-HRCI) is an award-winning Asian/American educator, leader, and scholar. She is inter/nationally recognized for advancing equity, excellence, and innovation in education. Endo holds x > 20 years of award-winning leadership experience, including as a multi-term academic dean, department chair, and program director.
Moreover, Endo specializes in equity-focused approaches for designing, implementing, and assessing evidence-based curricular, instructional, leadership, and policy frameworks. She has served as an external program evaluator and supports organizations seeking to prepare for respond to state, regional, and/or national accreditation reviews.
Endo supports organizations in assessing, launching, and revising equity-conscious initiatives focused on leadership and organizational development. Organizations regularly request her services for launching, assessing, and redesigning mentoring initiatives and programs that support the thriving of diverse employees and learners. In addition, she is in-demand to facilitate professional development workshops for educators and leaders who are seeking to positively transform their skills for their organization to thrive at scale.
Popular Services
Coaching
Rachel Endo offers both 1:1 and team-based coaching for educators, entrepreneurs, and leaders. She holds formal academic training or credentials and experience in equity-conscious HR/talent management and high-impact coaching.
Consulting
In addition, Endo has served as an expert consultant for colleges/universities, corporate partners, non-profits, and PK-12 schools. Popular services include crisis leadership (and risk management), curriculum mapping/revisions, effective mentoring programs, preparing for accreditation reviews, program reviews (she has served as an external evaluator), strategic planning, and more.
Book Talks & Speaking Engagements
Diverse audiences describe Endo as a dynamic, inspirational, and powerful presence in any space (in person or virtual).
Endo regularly keynotes and speaks at conferences, events, meetings, and organizational retreats. Specifically, she is known for actively engaging audience members in meta-level thinking, empowering people to elevate their ideas into inspired action.
More recently, Endo has facilitated workshops and keynoted on topics, such as crisis leadership/risk management, educational policy, equity-conscious leadership development, mentoring strategies for scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, and strategic planning for resource-constrained organization. She brings unique experiences and insights on leadership and success an Asian/American woman and first-generation college student who was educated and raised in the Midwest.
Contact
Finally, to inquire about Rachel Endo’s availability for book talks, coaching sessions (1:1 or team-based), keynotes, program evaluation/review, speaking, workshop, or other related requests, please include proposed date/time of event, short description/outcomes, name of co-sponsoring/sponsoring organization, projected attendance, and other details. At least 3 months of notice is appreciated for these types of requests, although she may be able to accommodate shorter notices, pending her availability.