The Enrollment Spectrum Podcast

Please join us for a conversation with Brandi Eppolito. Brandi is the Vice President of Marketing at SchoolAdmin, which is now a part of FinalSite, providing admission and enrollment solutions to independent schools. Prior to joining SchoolAdmin, Brandi was involved with marketing and content development for several for-profit organizations in Texas and was in recruitment, marketing and admission...

Join us for a conversation with Ann Snyder and Jennifer Hillen. Ann is the Director of Independent and International Schools at The Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Prior to joining CASE, she was the Director of Enrollment and External Affairs at Stuart Hall School. Prior to Stuart Hall, she was in corporate marketing. Jennifer is the Chief Learning Officer at the National Busines...

Join us for a conversation with Jeff Selingo. Jeff has written about higher education for two decades. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a contributor to The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and a special advisor at Arizona State University. Jeff has been a keynote speaker at our annual conference and has been on the show twice before! Jeff's latest book Who Gets In & Why: A Yea...

Please join s for a conversation with Chuck English. Chuck is the driving force behind English Marketing Works where he has successfully worked with dozens of schools, helping them achieve strategic goals through effective branding, messaging, marketing, and creative initiatives. Chuck has written numerous e-books, reports, and journal articles on independent school marketing. In fact, he wrote EM...

Join us for a conversation with John Gulla and Grant Lichtman. John is the Executive Director of the Edward E. Ford Foundation which seeks to improve secondary education by supporting U.S. independent schools and encouraging promising practices. Grant is an internationally recognized thought leader on the transformation of K-12 education. He works with school teams to develop a comfort and capacit...

We asked our 2020 podcast guests to send us a short voicemail with their predictions for 2021 and the response was overwhelming! In fact, we have so much content we're doing a two-part episode on predictions for 2021. In this episode, you'll hear from Susan Emery, Suzanne Walker Buck, Nicole Oakes, Tim Fish, Kelly Page, and David Willows. What are your predictions for 2021? Send us a voice memo at...

We asked our 2020 podcast guests to send us a short voicemail with their predictions for 2021 and the response was overwhelming! In fact, we have so much content we're doing a two-part episode on predictions for 2021. In this episode, you'll hear from Greg Martin, John Barrengos, Kevin Plummer, Kristen Mariotti, Ari Betof, and Kevin Folan! What are your predictions for 2021? Send us a voice memo a...

Join us for a conversation with John Katzman. John is the founder and CEO of Noodle Partners which is transforming the way prospective students find and learn about degree programs. Before founding Noodle Partners, John founded and was CEO of 2U, which helps colleges and universities build and run high-quality online degree programs. Prior to 2U, Katzman founded and ran The Princeton Review , whic...

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Rebecca Zwick. Rebecca is a researcher at ETS where she holds the title of Distinguished Presidential Appointee. She earned her doctorate in Quantitative Methods in Education at UC Berkeley and her postdoctoral fellowship was at the Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her recent work has focused on test validity and fairne...

Please join us for a conversation with Brian Hargrove and Grant Gonzalez from Northfield Mount Hermon School. Over the past two decades, Brian has successfully held leadership roles both in education and in the private sector and has been the Head of School at NMH since 2019. Grant is the Assistant Dean of Faculty, a Social Entrepreneurship Teacher, and Director of the NMH Lab program which is the...

Dr. Derrick Gay is an internationally recognized diversity and inclusion strategist and has worked with over 500 organizations around the world. Dr. Gay began his career teaching and serving as a senior administrator in a number of independent schools across the country.  His work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, 60 minutes, El Tiempo Latino, and The Washington Post, to name a few. An...

Join us for a conversation with Julie Wadland. Julie is the Associate Director of Admission at Concord Academy in Concord, MA. Prior to joining Concord Academy Julie was at Loomis Chaffee, UC Berkeley, an executive search firm in San Francisco, and Phillips Academy where she was also a student. In this episode, Julie will talk about how a group of enrollment leaders came together to better serve f...

Join us for a conversation with Nicole Oakes. Nicole is the Director of the International Student Program at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, CA. We've invited Nicole to speak with us as a part of our ongoing series about how schools are reopening to hear how she has re-invented her work with international students and their families.

Join us for a conversation with Dallas Joseph. Dallas is the Chief Operation Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Baylor School in Chattanooga, TN. Dallas arrived at Baylor in 2000 from Fisk University in Nashville, TN. Before Fisk University, Dallas was the Vice President for Finance of Sumi College (on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), and for seven years prior to that position, he worked as a...

Please join us for a conversation with Kevin Folan. Kevin is the Head of School at The Providence Country Day School in Providence, Rhode Island. Kevin has spent the past fifteen years in education. He started at the Hyde School and was the head of Hilltop Country Day School in New Jersey before moving to Providence Country Day. We'll discuss Providence Country Day's recently announced initiative...

Join us for a conversation with Trisha Ross Anderson and Brennan Barnard. Trisha is the College Admissions Program Director for Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Trisha has spent over a decade supporting a wide variety of schools and non-profits. Her work centers around social and emotional learning and character development, the promotion of positive sch...

Join us for a special live conversation with Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson from EMA's AC20! Homa's work has addressed themes of culture, innovation, leadership, global citizenship and global competence, and deep diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion. She connects timely topics of the moment with the timeless desire to work with purpose and make a difference – whatever one's circumstances...

Join us for a conversation with Ozan Varol. Ozan is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he learned English as a second language and moved to the United States by himself at 17 to attend Cornell University and major in astrophysics. While there, he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project that sent two rovers–...

Join us for a conversation with Jeff Selingo. Jeff has written about higher education for two decades. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a contributor to The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and a special advisor at Arizona State University. Jeff was a keynote speaker at our annual conference last fall and was a guest on the podcast back in episode 59. Jeff's new book Who Gets I...

Join us for a conversation with Matt Lai and Dave Buckwald from Avenues: The World School. Matt is the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at Avenues Silicon Valley (CA). Prior to joining Avenues, Matt spent 14 years at Woodside Priory School (CA) in a number of capacities, including Director of Admissions & Financial Aid, Dean of Students, Dean of Residential Life, and a teacher and...

Join us for a conversation with Kristen Mariotti. Kristen is the Assistant Head of School for Enrollment at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Massachusetts and has nearly 20 years of experience in admissions and enrollment management at independent schools, colleges, and universities. We invited Kristen to speak with us on the podcast as a part of our ongoing series exploring how schools are planning t...

Join us for a conversation with Kevin Plummer. Kevin became the seventh Head of Tampa Preparatory School in July 2007. Kevin is deeply committed to independent schools and serves as Vice President of the Florida Council of Independent Schools, is a member of the Bay Area Association of Independent Schools, and served as their President in 2009-2010, and of course as board chair of EMA's Board of T...

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kelly Page. Kelly is the director of Bennett Labs at Bennett Day School in Chicago. She is a social and digital innovator, entrepreneur, educator, and learning consultant with a Ph. D. in the Psychology of Web Knowledge and an obsession with social digital storytelling. She has over 18 years of experience working at the intersection of social innovation, and soc...

Join us for a conversation with Brigadier General Retired David Wesley. Dave served as an active-duty officer in the Air Force for 26 years before retiring in 2014. For the last five years, he's been the president of Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. We've invited Dave to speak with us today as a part of our new series exploring how schools are planning to reopen in the fall.

Join us for a conversation with Mark McKee and Laurel Baker Tew. Mark is the Head of School at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California where Laurel is the Assistant Head of School for Enrollment Management. Mark and Laurel are deeply committed to independent schools and the field of enrollment management. In fact just last week Laurel spoke last at our online Heads Institute where Mark was also...