In 2001 and 2002, he worked as a research scientist and operations manager at NASA, where he was formally recognized for his leadership. After NASA, he joined McKinsey & Company, a business strategy firm. He was the first person ever to be offered a job at McKinsey while still a student at the University of Arkansas. At McKinsey, he worked alongside Fortune 500 executives in multiple industries, a state superintendent of education, and supported mayors of two of Americas largest cities during the Great Recession.
For the last six years, Henderson’s career has focused on public education. As an executive director and senior vice president of a national non-profit, he had responsibility for more than 1,500 teachers and 150 employees. He says this work has cemented his belief that all students can learn and achieve if provided with equitable opportunities – and that great educators should be counted among the most important and talented professionals in our society.
For two years, Henderson served as managing director of ForwARd Arkansas, working alongside dozens of Arkansans to develop a statewide vision for the future of public education. The vision and more than 90 supporting recommendations were approved unanimously by the State Board of Education in 2015.
Over the last three years, Henderson says he has assumed his most important and fulfilling jobs of his life as husband to Dr. Melanie Prince and father to a baby boy, Duke. Today, they live in Little Rock where they own and operate a medical practice.
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