Jill Gaynor, M.A., M.Ed., Beyond Learning CEO, started teaching elementary school children in 1997. In 2001 Jill began working as an educational therapist in private practice and at an educational remediation and testing center in Los Angeles. She has also held teaching positions at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks and The Dalton School in New York City. In her spare time, Jill is an active fundraiser for Healthy Child Healthy World. Prior to her career in education, Jill worked at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York City. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds Master’s degrees from New York University in Art Dealership and Collecting and from Loyola Marymount University in Child and Adolescent Literacy.


Charm Carlin, Accounts Manager


Advisory Board

Jane Buckingham
President, The Intelligence Group and author of The Modern Girls Guide to Life and The Modern Girls Guide to Motherhood

Nancy Chuda
Co-Founder Healthy Child Healthy World

Amy Friedlander Hoffman
Senior Vice President Programming, SBC Operations

Robert Gaynor, Esq.
Managing Director, Spring Swings, LLC

Paula Kaplan
Executive Vice President, Nickelodeon

Dr. Harvey Karp
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine; author of "The Happiest Baby on the Block" and "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" (books and DVDs)

Nina Montee Karp
Entrepreneur

Andrew Kirsh. Esq.
Attorney, Goodwin Procter, LLC

Marco Petruzzi
President and COO, Green Dot Public Schools

Dr. Candace Poindexter
Professor and Program Chair, Child and Adolescent Literacy, Loyola Marymount University

Martin Schlossberg
President, Castle Hill Apparel

Kathy Smith
Entrepreneur, exercise and health specialist

Dr. Lisa Striar
Child psychologist/neuropsychologist; Board of Directors Ferkauf Graduate School