Hoot Reading

"I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.' - Vladimir Nabokov

The education system is in crisis. Too many students are reaching grade 4 not able to proficiently read at level. This can't go on - children deserve to read and Hoot Reading is on a mission to help every child become a reader.

VP of Growth

HierSales

"We're all here to do what we're all here to do' - The Oracle, The Matrix

The better mousetrap fallacy refers to the mistaken notion that if a company produces a technically better solution, it will be successful in the marketplace. Building a better mousetrap means nothing if you can't sell it. HierSales helps SaaS companies in seed, growth, established, and expansion stage setup and execute scalable and repeatable sales programs to drive sales and revenue.

Founder + VP Sales

Trafalgar School for Girls

“Transform the education of tomorrow, today.”

Provide strategic direction for the Trafalgar-McGill CoLab: https://www.trafalgar.qc.ca/community/colab

Board Member

commonsku

“Systems streamline success; they eliminate the need to reinvent the wheel every time.” - J.R. Rim

commonsku is a SaaS platform that enables promotional products distributors to automate and streamline their processes in order to grow and scale their business, including their e-com.

Built entire sales team and sales processes from scratch and went on to Increase client base from 600 to 800 companies propelling transactional revenue from $1B to nearly $2B in 18 months.

VP of Sales

clevr

“An organization‘a ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” - Jack Welsh

Clevr helps school districts consolidate and centralize manual forms and workflows into one clevr platform.

Developed and executed go-to-market strategy for landing and expanding into the US K-12 market. Landed in 7 US states and expanded market share which resulted in 45% year-over-year growth as well as landing the biggest client in company's history.

Director of Sales

ThinkDox Inc.

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker

Driving efficiency and transformation while reducing the cost of compliance for public sector organizations by providing the Laserfiche Enterprise Content Management platform.

Introduced Laserfiche's digital transformation suite of solutions in new verticals including K12, NGOs and banks. Continued expansion into municipals, hotels and retail. Together, these resulted in a double of revenue year-over-year.

Director, Business Development

PowerSchool

“People buy from people they trust”

Help school districts increase student growth by better managing K12 talent through focused talent management software.

Landed and expanded new SaaS solutions into the Canadian K12 market while building out a dedicated sales team and process for Canada.

Account Executive - People Admin

“Systems thinking allows us to see the consequences of our decisions before we make them.”  - Peter Senge

Harnessing the power of research to inform data-driven hiring and increase student achievement. Hit President's Club year-over year as well as becoming the recipient of the Pinnacle Award for highest sales achievement and the Rainmaker award for closing the biggest deals in company history.

Sales Manager - TeacherMatch

“Putting the right people in the right seats is the first step to creating an effective system.” - Jim Collins

Strategically work with school districts from coast to coast to help minimize lost learning days by addressing teacher absenteeism and professional development through the SmartFindExpress software platform. Hit President's Club on my first year and subsequent years thereafter. Landed biggest deal in company history for Canada, locked up the Ontario market and landed and expanded into the Quebec market.

Regional Sales Manager (Canada) - eSchool Solutions

The Learning Box

“Building a business is about creating a system that can run and grow without you.” - Robert Kiyosaki

Founder and CEO of the Learning Box which was dedicated to ensuring school success for students in K-12.  Providing individualized instruction based on skill based learning for all core subjects. Went to oversee programs in over 32 schools, 3 learning centres and service thousands of students.

Educational Director and Founder

English Montreal School Board

“Great leaders understand the importance of developing systems that outlive them.” - John C. Maxwell

As an elementary school teacher for 12 years in this school board, I worked with students from K-6.  I was a lead teacher for school reform and a trained SmartBoard Instructor as well as First Steps Instructor.  My students consistently scored in the top percentile across the entire school board in both math and English language arts.

It's also where I learned many of the skills that made me an exeptional sales professional because teaching and sales are two sides of the same coin.

Elementary Teacher

VP Sales | 🚀 Propelling SaaS Companies to New Growth | Lifelong Sales Mentor and Teacher

“Without a system, you are just hoping for results.” - Michael Gerber

💎 Rare breed. I pivoted from public education to EdTech. Went on to introduce 14 SaaS solutions in OMS, EDRMS, EdTech, Fintech, RegTech and E-com. As a teacher, I learned how to bring out the best in people and discovered that sales and teaching are two sides of the same coin.

➡️ My passion is going from zero to one - I have a reputation for landing and expanding SaaS solutions in new territory while building sales teams and sales programs from scratch.

➡️ Thanks to my teaching background, I have strong coaching and mentoring skills that enable me to build cohesive, collaborative and high performing sales teams.

➡️ Landed and expanded SaaS solutions in the US, Canada, the UK, France and Australia.

➡️ M&A | Integrations | Change management - Played key roles in several VC acquisitions and investments.

I'm currently on a mission to change children's lives through literacy. If you're ready to take the reading strategy at your district to a new level, send me a DM.

Karim Kuperhause

The biggest barrier to fixing education isn’t outdated curriculum, low test scores, or teacher shortages.

It’s the belief that better instruction will save a broken model.**

People keep saying Bloom’s Taxonomy is outdated.
They’re right — it is.

But that’s not the real problem.

The real problem is the mindset that made Bloom’s Taxonomy popular in the first place:

If we tweak instruction, we fix learning.

That mindset still runs the show:

✅ “High-quality instructional materials”
✅ “Learning intentions & success criteria”
✅ “Aligned targets”
✅ “Coaching cycles”
✅ “Depth of knowledge charts”
✅ Small-group rotations
✅ Pacing guides

Every initiative is just a new flavor of the same old idea:
optimize the teaching minute.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

You can’t patch a factory-model classroom into delivering mastery.
The model itself is the bottleneck.

Benjamin Bloom showed this decades ago with his 2-Sigma finding:

When students receive
✅ individualized tutoring
✅ mastery-based progression
✅ rapid feedback loops

…the average kid performs at the 98th percentile.

That wasn’t an instructional tweak.
It was a model transformation.

And that’s exactly why 2-Sigma never scaled in districts:

It doesn’t ask teachers to teach “better.”
It requires the system to be redesigned — structurally, philosophically, operationally.

Once you accept 2-Sigma is achievable, you have to confront:
	•	Age-based cohorts don’t work
	•	Standard pacing creates predictable gaps
	•	MTSS becomes a remediation machine, not a prevention system
	•	Tier 2 and Tier 3 aren’t surprises — they’re baked into the design
	•	Time-based progression caps student potential
	•	Teachers need to spend less time delivering content and more time mentoring kids

And now — for the first time ever — we actually can scale the 2-Sigma model:

AI tutors
Continuous assessment
Mastery pathways
Instant feedback
Teachers as mentors and coaches
Students advancing based on learning, not birthdays

This isn’t about Bloom’s Taxonomy anymore.

It’s about the worldview the system refuses to abandon.

Because the future of education won’t be built by improving instruction.
It will be built by reinventing the model just like Studient is doing.

And the sooner we shift from tweaking the old system
to designing the new one,
the sooner we stop talking about gaps —
and start talking about breakthroughs.

From ABC to ARR | K12 Education Top Voice | Outcomes. Or. Nothing.

Joel Brody

Ethical Recruitment Leader | Mid to executive-level placement | Helping Qualified Candidates Grow Their Careers by Matching Them with Thriving Companies

Six months. That’s how long a construction firm searched for their next Director of Operations.

Hundreds of resumes. Dozens of interviews. Zero results.

When the CEO finally called me, he was exhausted. The business was growing, but without the right leader in place, he was stuck in the weeds, running operations himself instead of focusing on scaling the company.

Here’s what happened next: I clarified the role, tapped into my hidden network, and within six weeks placed the leader they’d been chasing for half a year. That hire streamlined operations, stabilized the team, and gave the CEO his time back.

This is what I do.
I help mid-market and growth-stage businesses—in construction, real estate, healthcare, and e-commerce—find the executives and senior managers who can turn chaos into clarity and growth into something sustainable.

Not by flooding inboxes with résumés.
Not by recycling candidates who happen to be “looking.”
But through our Right-Fit Recruiting Method™️: deep discovery, targeted headhunting, and cultural alignment that ensures leaders don’t just stick, they scale with you.

Here’s why clients come back:

8 years recruiting across industries that don’t tolerate mistakes

92% retention rate at the 12-month mark for senior hires

A reputation as a trusted advisor to CEOs and founders who are serious about growth

One client put it best:
“Joel didn’t just send resumes, he delivered the leader we’d been searching for. His process saved us months of wasted time and gave us the confidence to scale.”

At the end of the day, I’m not just a recruiter. I’m a headhunter.
I don’t stop until the right leader is in the seat.
I don’t just fill roles, I help companies build futures.

Outside of work, you’ll find me with my family and involved in my community. That same people-first mindset drives everything I do: relationships first, results always.

Looking to make your next senior hire the right one? Let’s talk about how we can find your perfect fit.

Executive Level Recruiter

I once worked with a company that was thriving.
Tight-knit team. Clear values. Energy you could feel when you walked in.

Then they made one bad hire.

On paper? Brilliant.
In practice? Toxic.
Dismissive in meetings. Cutting corners. Making “me” matter more than “we.”

It only took a few weeks for the atmosphere to shift.
The energy drained.
The team stopped speaking up.
People who used to love their work started quietly checking out.

That’s how fast culture can change.

Because when you hire, you’re not just adding skills.
You’re adding someone’s habits.
Their values.
Their definition of what “good work” looks like.

The wrong hire weakens a culture in weeks.
The right one strengthens it for years.

Skills can be taught.
Culture is contagious.

—
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭

Decision-making used to drain me.
I’d overthink every move.
Circle the same options for weeks.
Talk to five experts, read ten articles — and still feel stuck.

My inner loop sounded like this:
→ “What if I fail?”
→ “What if it’s the wrong call?”
→ “What will people think?”

But after years of watching leaders, founders, and candidates wrestle with the same thing, I realized something simple:

Clarity doesn’t come before action. It comes from it.
You don’t think your way into certainty. You act your way into it.

Here’s what’s helped me (and the best leaders I know) decide faster and lead with confidence:

1️⃣ Default to movement.
You’ll never think your way into momentum — you have to move.

2️⃣ Cut the options.
Too much choice kills clarity. Limit the noise, focus on progress.

3️⃣ Set decision deadlines.
Small → 30 seconds.
Medium → 30 minutes.
Big → 30 hours.
Done is better than delayed.

4️⃣ Count to five and move.
When instinct hits, act before fear starts negotiating.

5️⃣ Follow the 70% rule.
Waiting for 100% certainty is waiting forever.

Overthinking is disguised fear.
But action? That’s leadership in motion.

Because once you take the first step, the path always starts to appear.

🔥 Question for you:
Are you chasing perfect decisions — or making progress?

—
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭?
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A founder once told me:
“We need to move faster. Candidates are slipping away.”

I asked him to walk me through the role.

Ten minutes in, it was obvious:
The job wasn’t clear.
The process wasn’t clear.
Even the decision-makers weren’t clear.

And that’s why the search was dragging.
Not because of speed.
Because of ambiguity.

Here’s the truth:
When the role is defined… candidates lean in.
When the process is explained… they stay engaged.
When the decision criteria are clear… offers don’t stall.

That’s when hiring moves fast.

The fix isn’t to push harder.
It’s to get sharper.

Clarity beats speed. Every time.

—
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭?
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