62. Transition from Manager to CEO with Sara Schreiner

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you a school leader who wants to remove yourself from the day-to-day, and truly into the visionary CEO role? Do you want to hear the real, the raw, and the messy of what it takes to become such a school leader?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s episode is the first episode in my six-part series of what it takes to build and sustain a school of excellence. I get to interview school leaders from across the nation to share the real, the raw, and the messy.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in as I speak to Sara Schreiner, the owner of Sunshine Academy in Montana. Sara has a very unique upbringing from most entrepreneurs and owners that I've connected within this field - she was raised by a stay-at-home mom. Over the course of our relationship and working together, she has had a slow but powerful evolution into the leader that she is today. Sara talks about how her upbringing catapulted many of the decisions that she made in her own in her career, how she continues to navigate her leadership as she shifts from being a manager to being a leader, and the phases of grief that she needed to reflect on as she stepped out of the day to day operations.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through this series of Ordinary Moments, I hope that you will walk away with true insights into what it takes to lead an extraordinary center. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In a nutshell, we speak about:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Some of the big, audacious goals that Sara had for her company.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why Sara chose the path of becoming a school owner.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Sara defines the difference between manager and CEO.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font