Suzanne Carbonaro
Suzanne Carbonaro brings more than 25 years of experience translating complex academic and workforce data into practical, adoptable systems for institutions, employers, and government partners. As Vice President of Education Enablement at iQ4, she leads the design of Learning and Employment Record (LER) ecosystems that help learners identify skills gaps, map career pathways, and connect to gainful employment — while guiding academic and industry partners through governance practices, interoperability, and change management required to adopt these systems at scale.
Before iQ4, Suzanne served as Vice President of Postsecondary Education & Workforce Programs at 1EdTech, where she was part of the senior leadership team shaping strategy across the global PK–20 education sector. She led the organization's interoperability standards and AI-readiness work, facilitating the membership's application of interoperability and privacy standards to connect disparate solutions across institutional technology ecosystems, and fostering interoperable data pipelines that supported research into applied AI for adult learners in online education — work for which she served as 1EdTech's Principal Investigator on a $20 million NSF grant with the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also drove higher education's adoption of the TrustEd Apps Management Suite (TAMS), enabling institutional leaders to audit their technology footprint and make data-driven purchasing decisions for interoperable products.
Earlier, as Director of Academic Partnerships at AEFIS, Suzanne supported the company's acquisition by the larger data analytics platform HelioCampus, then stayed on to lead assessment, credentialing, and accreditation platform support and build relationships with more than 200 higher education institutions nationally — helping institutional leaders modernize their curriculum and assessment practices and launch LER initiatives.
Suzanne's foundation in higher education runs deep: at the University of the Sciences, she directed assessment operations that helped lift faculty confidence in data-informed decision-making from 59% to 94% while achieving full accreditation of the newly transformed competency-driven Doctor of Pharmacy program, and at Rider University, she directed curriculum and assessment across 18 academic programs while securing more than $1.1 million in federal and state education grants. She is a published researcher on the Comprehensive Learner Record, high-impact practices, strategic planning, and skills-based assessment, a multi-time finalist for the 1EdTech Learning Impact Award and SIIA CODIE Award, and holds a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from Rider University.
