Temporary Failure: What a Collapsed School Move Taught Her About Trusting Students with Dr. Marta Medved Krajnovic
Dr. Marta Medved Krajnovic came to her first headship convinced that anything was possible. As a board member of Stockholm International School, she pushed to relocate the school after two decades of failed attempts, only to watch the plan collapse when a real estate partner walked away, after the move had already been announced publicly. Marta traces what went wrong (a decision made without enough of the school's own people at the table) and what she built instead: a role dedicated to stakeh...
30 Jun 2026
The Stars You Hire: Talent, Courage, and the Long Game of School Change with John Gulla
John Gulla spent 14 years as head of The Blake School and came away with one answer when asked what he was most proud of: not the buildings, not the campaign, but the talent he attracted and retained. It was an instinct from his first divisional role at 25 that headship confirmed. As executive director of the EE Ford Foundation since 2013, Gulla has visited more than 780 independent schools across 43 states. What he sees at the foundation level confirms what he knew at the school level: the m...
24 Jun 2026
Hope as Infrastructure: Leading Through Crisis and Co-created Change with Dr. Nada Collins
Before a school can pursue transformation, it has to secure its foundation. Dr. Nada Collins calls it Maslow's hierarchy for institutions: until the buses run on time and people feel safe, change leadership doesn't have a floor to stand on. That insight drove her design work redesigning physical classroom spaces to enable collaborative, data-driven instruction. Then COVID hit. What emerged from that crisis wasn't what Dr. Collins planned. Facing an overwhelmed healthcare system, she reached o...
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