Elizabeth DiRenzo Ezzi Senior Director, Product Management

Elizabeth DiRenzo Ezzi

Senior Director, Product Management

Elizabeth DiRenzo Ezzi is a Senior Director of Product Management at Instructure, leading the Canvas and Mastery portfolios. She brings more than 15 years of experience across K–12, higher education, and workforce learning, with expertise in building and scaling SaaS products. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has launched new products from the ground up, led global product teams, and driven product strategy for platforms used by millions of educators and learners. She is passionate about creating technology that improves teaching and learning while helping organizations grow through thoughtful product leadership. 

More From Elizabeth DiRenzo Ezzi

Jul 27, 2026
The K-12 LMS Migration Checklist: What Has to Happen Before Go-live
  An August LMS go-live is really a project that should be in ramp-up mode by February. Here’s why: on rollout day one, the first breaks are going to show up at the operational layer the platform is built on, like gradebook columns that didn't carry over, parent observer accounts that were never provisioned, principals who can't see their own staff. These issues aren’t going to pop up during a demo, but they all trace back to work that should have started months earlier. After deciding on Read More...
Jul 24, 2026
How to Get Teacher and Staff Buy-In Before Rolling Out a New LMS
  Calcasieu Parish School Board serves more than 28,000 students across 60 school sites in and around Lake Charles, Louisiana. By 2021, the district faced a problem most K-12 leaders will recognize. Teachers were juggling a stack of disconnected edtech tools, and a run of COVID and hurricane-related closures had pushed the old learning management system past its limit. A committee of stakeholders evaluated the options and chose Canvas by Instructure. Choosing the platform was the Read More...
Jul 15, 2026
How to Pilot a New LMS Before Your District Commits
  A district is three weeks into vendor evaluation, deep in feature matrices, pricing, and reference calls, when the assistant superintendent for instruction asks the question none of those things is really answering: will this actually work in our buildings, on our network, with our teachers and our students? Every reference district she called says it works for them. But none of them run her network, teach her kids, or hand devices to her staff, so hers is the only district where the Read More...