Stacey Ryan
COO at School of Rock, the global music school franchise operating in 19 countries. Known for crisis leadership during COVID and building a community-driven model that goes beyond music education.
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About Stacey Ryan
Stacey Ryan is COO at School of Rock, the performance-based music school franchise that operates across 19 countries. The brand predates the 2003 Jack Black film of the same name by five years and has no formal connection to it. Ryan oversees operations for a network of schools where families entrust the company with their children and their tuition dollars, a responsibility she treats as the central operating principle of the business.
She is known for leading School of Rock through the COVID pandemic, when an in-person model built on shared rehearsal spaces had to be reinvented in weeks. Ryan and her team pivoted the franchise to remote lessons, navigated different country-level restrictions across the global footprint, and held the line on health and safety as the non-negotiable input to every decision. She talks publicly about the mental health role the schools play for students and instructors, and treats community as a core part of the product.
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