Sadie Albertyn is Mission & Data’s senior organizational effectiveness strategist, combining her expertise in finance, education leadership and student-centered program design. Before moving into independent schools, Albertyn worked as an associate client advisor at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest institutional hedge fund. There she helped explain the firm’s complex portfolio strategies to employee-elected investment committees for municipal and state-level retirement systems.  Albertyn then worked for more than 15 years as an independent school teacher, department chair, dean and division head. She has experience in both day and boarding schools within the U.S. and abroad.  Sadie also serves on the board of trustees for a K-8 school for students with language-based learning differences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Barnard College and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts.