95 Percent Group Expands Executive Team With Two New Leadership Positions

Lincolnshire, Ill. – February 5, 2025 –  95 Percent Group LLC , the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, is expanding its executive team with two new leaders who will support the company’s digital innovation and ongoing growth. Amy Goldie has joined 95 Percent Group as its Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Kevin Stehr as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

“The education landscape is evolving rapidly, and digital demand is surging as a crucial method for enhancing teacher-directed instruction. Teachers want faster data insights, administrators want more flexible purchasing models, and students thrive when learning with personalized, interactive content. Adding these two edtech leaders to 95 Percent Group’s executive team will accelerate our progress toward digital innovation that supports our mission of making high quality literacy education accessible to all children,” said Brad Lindaas, CEO, 95 Percent Group. “Amy’s experience and leadership skills will allow her to focus on operational excellence to ensure teachers and districts can count on us for prompt, top-tier support, and resources. Kevin brings the experience necessary for helping us cultivate stronger, more strategic relationships with districts that rely on our literacy ecosystem as the go-to source for print and digital solutions to unlock literacy and the joy of it for every student.”

In her newly created position as COO, Goldie plays a vital role in advancing 95 Percent Group’s digital innovation, partnering across teams to optimize business processes, streamline systems, and support the integration of print and digital solutions that develop strong literacy skills for students and align with the company’s strategic priorities. She joined 95 Percent Group from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), where she most recently served as senior vice president, customer fulfillment services – supply chain. With 26 years at HMH, Goldie has extensive experience in customer fulfillment; supply chain operations, including physical, digital, and professional development services; process architecture; training; and business system management, including Salesforce and NetSuite.

As 95 Percent Group’s CRO, Stehr leads a team of professionals who work with teachers and school leaders to advance literacy development gains through evidence-based solutions supported by a world-class ecosystem aligned with the science of reading. For more than 20 years, he has held multiple sales, strategy, and marketing leadership roles in education technology. Before joining the company, Stehr was CRO at Teaching Strategies. He has also served as vice president of sales at Blackbaud, ProQuest, and LexisNexis, where he managed sales teams that delivered technology solutions in the education and professional services markets. Prior to his move into edtech, Stehr served in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant Commander Judge Advocate General and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.

Founded nearly two decades ago, 95 Percent Group is a leader in providing thousands of schools with the expertise and resources for putting the science of reading into practice and accelerating the development of strong literacy skills for young learners. In 2021, the company secured a significant investment from Leeds Equity Partners to further develop its literacy curriculum and invest in new digital solutions to grow its One95 Literacy Ecosystem™. During the past four years, 95 Percent Group has acquired and relaunched several trusted and proven literacy solutions, including Morpheme Magic™, 95 RAP™, Top 10 Tools™ by 95 Percent Group and Sortegories™ by 95 Percent Group. The company has also developed innovative new products, such as the award-winning 95 Literacy Intervention System™, the company’s digital system for powering evaluation and intervention within a classroom, grade, or school; 95 Phonics Lesson Library™ 2.0; 95 Decodable Duo™ Books and 95 Readables™.

About 95 Percent Group

95 Percent Group is an education company whose mission is to build on science to empower teachers—supplying the knowledge, resources, and support they need—to develop strong readers. Using an approach that is based in structured literacy, the company’s One95 Literacy Ecosystem™ integrates professional learning and evidence-based literacy products into one cohesive system that supports consistent instructional routines across tiers and is proven and trusted to help students close skill gaps and read fluently. 95 Percent Group is also committed to advancing research, best practices, and thought leadership on the science of reading more broadly. For more information, visit www.95percentgroup.com.

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