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Hire Ground is the essential podcast for K12 school and nonprofit leaders who are serious about hiring, retaining and developing high performing teams. This podcast brings together thought leaders, executives, and board members for honest conversations about leadership, hiring, governance, and what it really takes to build a thriving organization from the ground up. Hire Ground is hosted by Christina Greenberg - founder and CEO of Edgility Search and 20-year veteran of executive search and nonprofit talent - and was co-created with Josh Czupryk, founder of Josh’s K12 Jobs Blast.
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Former co-host Josh Czupryk returns to Hire Ground to check in on the education hiring market. He compared October job postings from 2024, 2025, and 2026, then asked chief people officers what was behind the numbers. Here’s what he found. There are fewer open principal roles, which is good news for schools, though some of that drop comes from networks switching to pooled listings. Talent and development staff are staying in their roles longer. Operations and finance vacancies are rising as pr...
Ben Kornell has been a teacher, school leader, school board member, edtech CEO, and investor. He calls it a “lily pad journey” instead of a career ladder. He co-founded Edtech Insiders and invests through the Common Sense Growth Fund, so he talks with more education founders and operators than almost anyone. Ben and Christina cover where AI is ready for schools today. Ben gives it a green light for operations, yellow for teacher tools, and red for anything student-facing. They also get into w...
Most nonprofit mergers happen because one organization is failing. Dr. Arun Ramanathan has led the other kind: strategic mergers between financially strong organizations looking to scale their impact. Arun is CEO of PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit reimagining how kids learn math. He previously led Pivot Learning through its merger with CORE and later UnboundEd, served as executive director of Education Trust–West, and was Chief Student Services Officer at San Diego Unified. He's also st...
Diane Tavenner has done the thing most founders talk about and few do well: she built something, grew it, and handed it off cleanly. Then she started over. Diane co-founded Summit Public Schools, scaled it from one high school into a network across California and Washington, transitioned it to a successor, and is now CEO of Futre, a platform helping young people figure out what comes next. She joins Christina for a conversation that moves across all three chapters — leaving well, scaling we...
"Either you hired the wrong CEO, or you need to take a step back as a board." Irene Shih has sat on both sides of the governance table, as Board Member and CEO, and she's direct about what each one owes the other. She's the Founding CEO of Pave HER Way, a new nonprofit empowering women and girls facing systemic barriers. Before that, she built Minds Matter Bay Area from the founding up so she's just lived both halves of the founder story: the leaving and the starting again. What we get into: ...
Season 1 Finale: Lessons from the Hiring Season — and What's Next for Hire Ground Season 1 of Hire Ground started last August and ran the full length of the hiring season. In this finale, Christina Greenberg and Josh Czupryk close it out with the takeaways that actually stuck. It's also a transition episode. Josh is stepping back as a regular host to finish his dissertation, handing day-to-day hosting to Christina and the Edgility Search team. He'll be back as a guest whenever he can pull him...
The Education System has a consistency problem. In this episode of Hire Ground, Christina Greenberg and Josh Czupryk sit down with a true titan of the field: Michael Moore. With a career spanning 52 years—from the classroom to the superintendent’s office to national leadership strategy—Moore has seen every initiative, reform movement, and pendulum swing the industry has produced. What emerges from this conversation isn't a simple trip down memory lane. Instead, it is a clear-eyed interrogatio...
Brent Bushey has visited enough schools to know the difference between one that's working and one that isn't — and he says you can feel it before you see it. In this conversation, he shares what that feeling is made of, why the way we talk about teacher burnout may actually be making things worse, and what school leaders can do right now, inside whatever constraints they're working in, to build something worth staying for.
Hire Ground is the essential podcast for K12 school and nonprofit leaders who are serious about hiring, retaining and developing high performing teams. This podcast brings together thought leaders, executives, and board members for honest conversations about leadership, hiring, governance, and what it really takes to build a thriving organization from the ground up. Hire Ground is hosted by Christina Greenberg - founder and CEO of Edgility Search and 20-year veteran of executive search and nonprofit talent - and was co-created with Josh Czupryk, founder of Josh’s K12 Jobs Blast.
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