All change is fueled by
People
Imagine...
- You hire the perfect person to fill every open role.
- You finally have the team you need to get things moving — and done.
- Your processes are efficient and effective.
- Your talent practices and policies help ensure that your organization is equitable and inclusive.
- You launched all those talent initiatives that you’ve been talking about for years.
- You have a strategy that ensures your organization’s success and all the data you need to inform your decision-making along the way.
- Your team is more diverse than ever, which means more innovative ideas, better decisions and happier employees.
- And your organization is truly changing lives and entire communities — just like you’d always envisioned.
These are the daydreams we bring to life here at TalentED Advisors.
Who We Help
Nonprofits that support families and children
You need the whole package: someone with the skill to design effective processes and the capacity to implement them — along with the sociopolitical context and connections to boot. Luckily, we’re experts in both design AND implementation. We can also fill your important roles with the change makers you need.
Nonprofit and education professionals
You’re the person who cares the most about your future. So take control and make your career everything you want it to be. Are you a talent leader who is relatively new to your role? We can serve as a thought partner to provide expert guidance in planning and implementing talent initiatives. Are you a nonprofit or education professional who needs a new job? Check out our job postings or apply to our Candidate Pool.
Public schools (districts and charter schools)
You’ve got important roles to fill right now, either in schools or district offices. And you want to get processes in place so you’re attracting, evaluating, and retaining top talent in the long term. These are specialties of ours.
Equity = Opportunity
We believe that talent comes in all forms and is not incumbent upon any single narrative or lived experience. We use our understanding of talent management systems to provide greater access to opportunity for members of marginalized communities.
Recognizing the power dynamics that talent management systems typically perpetuate, we aim to disrupt that cycle by:
- building diverse candidate pools
- supporting organizations in building and executing equitable practices and policies
- providing coaching that builds skill and leadership capacity
TalentED Advisors Truths
We approach everything we do with hope in our hearts and fire in our bellies. There is no task too small because we know that how we do anything is how we do everything. Nor does the enormity of the task ever stop us from doing whatever we can.
Every day, we make conscious decisions that build and nurture inclusivity as the impact, not the initiative. We honor, value, and believe the stories, journeys, and humanity of those who have different lived experiences than our own. We consistently reflect on our own practices and policies to ensure that they evolve and shift with our own understanding of what equity can look, feel, and sound like in our firm.
We transform, expand, and awaken our hearts and minds and those of our clients. We believe that failure is not permanent; rather, it is a temporary condition, and we accept the discomfort and growth inherent to it. We are willing to fail, learn, and start again — and to do so with passion.
People matter, so we are good to one another for no other reason than that. We spread joy through our actions and our words. We celebrate loudly in moments of triumph, and we lift each other’s chins in moments of struggle.
“I do this work from a heart place.”
~Katherine Wieland, Founder
From my earliest days working in education, I saw the power of teachers to make real change in students’ lives — AND I soon realized that even the most skilled, dedicated teacher is just part of the solution.
In one school, I watched the lowest-performing students transform into high achievers through the care of my fantastic mentor teacher. And in another school, I saw a child miss out on years of services because she fell through the cracks, despite the caring teacher who advocated for her.
Once I moved out of the classroom, I saw the opportunities and the challenges first-hand while working in several districts — the NYC Department of Education, Newark Public Schools (NJ), Camden City School District (NJ) — and in the private sector at an education staffing company, Source4Teachers.
Over time, I realized that the entire system must be organized strategically so that all the people and processes work together to ensure that students are successful. That’s why I founded TalentED Advisors in 2012. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of helping all kinds of districts, networks, and nonprofit organizations get the right people and processes in place in order to make real, sustainable change for all students, not just the ones lucky enough to land in the right classroom or the right school.
