Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes reviews

This company values its customers over its employees. Completely uncompetitive salary. I do think this depends on the location - I live in an urban area with a high cost of living but the same position in a different state paid almost the same and would have been almost competitive. I spent a year at this company and always felt like they were going to start offering me something worth my effort but they never did. They promoted me to mentor and Learning Center Assistant, they acknowledged I had a great handle on the curriculum and was a skilled teacher, I was the person responsible for the office when our Office Manager took frequent vacations, or when our Center Director worked from home (three days a week). And yet I was making a salary that hardly put me above the poverty line in my state. I know I was valuable to the company but was not paid as if I was because upper management grossly mishandles their money and is in the red despite charging students' parents $200/hour for instruction.

There is a cult like reverence for the the CEO, Nanci Bell. She will propose ridiculous ideas like buying a robot for every learning center that essentially performs the same function as a laptop on wheels or switching from digital record keeping to paper record keeping in 2023. No matter how ridiculous or short sighted her ideas are, everyone just fawns over her and tells her how brilliant she is. Then when her lack of foresight puts the company in dire financial stress, instead of showing integrity and cutting her own salary and the salaries of corporate leadership, she goes on a firing spree and lets go of talented high performing leaders who are low on the seniority list. I worked for Lindamood-Bell for two years and my two years of leadership were some of the most successful in my learning center's history. I was let go as part of a financial restructuring but they tried to claim it was a performance based termination, even though I had never received any notice that my performance was lacking. My team and the parents I served were shocked, as was I by this decision. Under my leadership our parents were satisfied, our students were making incredible gains, and my learning center was financially successful. When I pushed to understand why I was let go, I was given meaningless terms like "leadership" and "owning processes". What's worse is that amongst all of the leaders in the company who knew that I was a high performing employee and that it was a mistake to let me go, none of them had the guts to stand up to Nanci and say so. I gave them my best for two years, and they treated me like garbage with no concern for the impact on my career, my family or my mental health. Terrible company!