S03E08 - Thought Leadership Power Hour | Juliana Finegan & Hayley Spira-Bauer

Build Momentum for Education - K-12 Superintendent Series

In this episode of Build Momentum, Sarah and Katie are joined by Juliana Finegan and Hayley Spira-Bauer. Juliana is the vice president of strategy and learning for the company Vivi. She is a passionate educator and leader with experience inside and outside the classroom and host of Vivi’s Educator Pineapple Podcast.
Hayley is the chief academic officer for iTutor.com, a member of the advisory board at Inspiring Educators, and an edtech mentor in StartEd. Hayley is an educator who specializes in elementary education and curriculum development. She hosts a podcast called Learning Can’t Wait.
Some Questions We Ask:

• Please introduce yourselves (1:00, 2:43)
• What were iTutor’s beginnings? (5:05)
• Hayley, how did you and your team bring out the academic perspective of iTutor and its message to the people? (7:04)
• Juliana, how did you and Vivi cultivate incredible relationships with clients and build partnerships? (10:10)
• Juliana, how did you identify partnerships and establish broad connections? (13:57)
• How did you both start in podcasts? (22:41, 26:24)
• Juliana and Hayley, how do you measure successful PR and thought leadership? (30:30)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• About Juliana and Hayley (1:12, 2:57)
• How iTutor started and its business processes (5:28)
• What it’s like to work together with team of brilliant folks with a background in education, get to know your stakeholders, and constantly talk about the organization’s core values (7:14)
• About building partnerships that genuinely help bring strong communities together (10:55)
• Ways of bringing people together, identifying commonalities for each individual, and having a common language for continued education (14:08)
• Hayley’s and Juliana’s podcast consistency and progress (23:13, 26:35)
• Using podcasts as a tool for communicating brilliant ideas, giving airtime to intelligence, and interacting with incredible leaders (30:55)

Quotes:

“I think, you see common threads from conversations to which also impact how you look at what you're doing, and you look at your product because I think that that's like it's not measurable.”
“I think common language is key to have those conversations and really fill those gaps strategically. And to build those partnerships and foster that, like continued engagement is like, let's make sure we're talking about the same thing.”
“Every person you meet in your life has something that brings value to your world, and it is your job to or to the world, excuse me, not your world, the world, it is your job to find out what that is.”
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Juliana Finegan LinkedIn | Vivi Website | Educator Pineapple Podcast
Hayley Spira-Bauer LinkedIn | iTutor Website | Learning Can't Wait Podcast

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