Making the Case for the Transformative Hire

A catalyst for a school's evolution from good to exceptional

The Brief Case 📚→💼→📈→📊

“As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.” ~John Collison

Based on our collective experience in many educational environments, every school needs at least a handful of transformative employees. Such employees (again, in our experience) possess most or all of the following traits: extraordinary relational skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, an understanding of systems, and an expansive vision for what is possible.

• Because they build deep relationships with students, colleagues, parents, trustees, and alumni, transformative hires work from a base of trust that makes real things happen in real schools.

• Because they inspire growth, drive innovation, and follow-through with rigor and grace, transformative hires amplify school missions in unique and impactful ways.

• Because they know — by intuition or long practice — how to build sustainable, repeatable offerings, transformative hires solve problems so that they stay solved (rather than just being pushed off to the next year).

• Because they ask “what if?” more than most, transformative hires keep the 4 Rs of good churn happening in schools: reinvention, remixing, reorganization, or retiring.

Simply put, transformative hires are catalysts for an institution's ongoing evolution from good to exceptional.