High-level strategic advisory services, grounded in real-world results.
Bringing a rare blend of expertise to shape the future of education and inspire audiences across industries.
Unique takes and insights for news segments, podcasts and interviews.
High-level strategic advisory services to organizations, grounded in real-world results.
Erika Donalds is a nationally recognized education entrepreneur, policy strategist, and business leader committed to transforming American education through freedom, innovation, and excellence. She is the Founder and CEO of OptimaEd, the world’s first virtual reality school and curriculum, and the Founder and CEO of the Education Freedom Foundation, a national nonprofit dedicated to expanding school choice and empowering families.
Erika partners with innovators and policymakers to advance values-centered, accountable, and parent-empowered models of education that embrace free-market principles, promote transparency, and drive measurable student success.
“When parents are free to choose, students are free to thrive. Every family deserves real options—and the power to pursue the education their children deserve.” – Erika Donalds
With experience spanning business leadership, education innovation, and public policy, Erika Donalds is a nationally recognized voice for school choice and education reform. She brings a rare blend of financial expertise, policy insight, and visionary leadership to help shape the future of education and inspire audiences across industries.
Championing policies that expand family access to high-quality education options and restore parents’ right to choose the best path for their children.
Bringing two decades of financial and governance expertise to help states, schools, and policymakers design transparent, results-driven education systems that prioritize student achievement.
Reviving timeless principles of knowledge, virtue, and civic literacy through classical education models that prepare students for lives of purpose and leadership.
Pioneering technology-driven solutions like artificial intelligence and virtual reality to reimagine how students learn, teachers teach, and families engage in education.
Inspiring and equipping business and policy leaders to lead with vision, integrity, and purpose—while empowering the next generation of women executives to do the same.
Advocating for the foundational principles that strengthen families, communities, and the moral fabric of education in America.
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“Thank you for sharing your knowledge & power.”
“WHAT A NIGHT! Thank you Erika Donalds.”
“An incredible conversation on school choice”
“Powerful message about needed education reforms”
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So grateful to have had the incredible @erikadonalds on my 10X Ladies stage today. Thank you for sharing your knowledge & power with my ladies, and for being the powerful force that you are. 💙
Elena Cardone Grant Cardone Enterprises