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A former sports journalist turned business executive, Todd serves as VP of Product Marketing & Sales Enablement at Spiideo, where he bridges product innovation into commercial success. 

He focuses on building scalable systems across product marketing, sales enablement, training, positioning, and storytelling: partnering with commercial and product teams to deliver leading sports video solutions to leagues, federations, conferences, media companies, universities, clubs, and teams worldwide.

Alongside his professional work, Todd is now learning to become an educator, drawing on his background in journalism, communication, and leadership to explore effective teaching practices, literacy, and learning design. He is particularly interested in how storytelling, technology, and critical thinking can support meaningful learning in the classroom.

Cultural Frames Reflection M4 - U4:

My understanding of equity, diversity, access, power, human rights, and social issues has been shaped by my career as a journalist, business executive, and student in the Human Rights Law Sector. As a reporter, I covered government, politics, and sports; this allowed me to look for who story was being told and more importantly whose was being left out. These experiences are at the core of how I'll teach social studies: not just as a transmission of facts, but how to think critically and deliberately about the impact this information has had on the world today. 

As an immigrant to Sweden, I have had to interrogate my assumptions about the roles of individualism in America, the role of institutions, and what it means to participate in society. This added experience to my life will shape how I approach a classroom at international schools - where many students are entering new paradigms. Questions like: How does the government in Sweden differ from your home country? What are the tradeoffs and how does history impact the current status of our lived experience? Comparative lessons can be some of the greatest experiences students learn from. 

Engaging with resources outside of the traditional texts is something I will push for within the limits of my institution. Whether that's a podcast such as the Rest is History or more formal texts. How I will work in the classroom will be greatly shaped by my views on equity, human rights, and social justice - while leaving room for interpretation and arguments that may not be my lived experience.