Brittany Balandis | Source | Director at Lakeshore

Brittany is an accomplished marketing executive with more than a decade of experience within the early childhood & elementary education industries. She currently leads marketing efforts for Lakeshore Learning, a 3rd generation family-owned educational products store with 60+ retail locations nationwide. Lakeshore’s innovative educational toys, games and materials are created by teachers for teachers. All of Lakeshore’s product developers have hands-on teaching experience to apply real-world classroom and parenting know-how to every product developed. Lakeshore is all about making learning feel like play, which continues to be a hot topic as parents and teachers seek creative new ways to get kids excited about learning.

Brittany currently leads Lakeshore’s marketing and social media departments. Previously, she was the Director of Marketing & Communications for the Pittsburgh Zoo and has also held previous roles with the Walt Disney Company.