Jonathan Lister

Jonathan leads revenue growth at Teaching Strategies, overseeing Public Sales, Private Child Care, International, and Partner Success.

Central to that work is ensuring customers, educators and the children they serve achieve the best outcomes possible.

A growth-oriented go-to-market executive, Jonathan has more than 25 years of experience building, scaling, and creating value for some of the most successful software businesses in the world across the US, UK, and Canada.

At LinkedIn, he spent nearly twelve years in a series of increasingly senior global roles, helping to build multiple billion-dollar SaaS and media businesses and establishing digital B2B selling as a mainstream discipline. He has also held senior executive roles at Google and AOL, including country leadership positions in Canada and pan-European operational leadership in the UK. Most recently, Jonathan served as COO of Vidyard, an AI-powered video platform.

Jonathan comes from a family of educators, began his career selling for educational publishers, and spent a year prior to university teaching English to children in Eastern Europe. The experience of helping families achieve economic opportunity through the power of learning has motivated him ever since.

Jonathan holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto where he graduated with Distinction, and currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board. He is also a Founding Volunteer at the Ted Rogers Sales Leadership Program at Toronto Metropolitan University.