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 (http://edgilitysearch.com/) and 20-year veteran of executive search and nonprofit talent - and was co-created with Josh Czupryk, founder of Josh’s K12 Jobs Blast (https://www.k12jobsblast.org/).
The Ed Comes First: Ben Kornell on AI, Talent, and Who Gets to Build
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...
29 Sept 2026
The Playbook Nobody Reads: Arun Ramanathan on Mergers, Scale, and AI in Education
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...
15 Sept 2026
Succession, Scale, and What Young People Actually Want with Diane Tavenner
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...
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