Continuously Growing People

We want to see people grow to become the best version of themselves. This is what animates and motivates us each and every day.

iAspire was created in 2012 by an educator frustrated with how difficult it was to provide immediate feedback during observations. Paper and pen weren’t cutting it, and free options were far too limiting to be effective.

Since then, we have expanded to think about the entire teacher experience, from onboarding to off-boarding and everything in between.

Being an educator is extremely hard, and teachers need to feel heard, supported, and valued for them to remain in education. To that end, we’ve grown to include professional development through asynchronous micro-coaching, pulse and stay surveys, monthly recognition, and more.

This journey has also brought us into the business sector where we have honed our craft of creating amazing employee experiences. We have the unique experience to take the best from the business world and apply that into education, and vice versa. However, the teacher experience is our primary focus at iAspire.

Our team is made up of experts in organization health, strategy, and operations, along with software design, development, and delivery. We're passionate about great leadership, employee experiences, and "invisible technology."

We love school administrators and understand they are pulled in a million directions each day. We know they just don’t have time to do everything they wish they could do. That’s why we’re here to help with the teacher experience.

We’re here to help you increase teacher retention by helping your teachers feel better heard, supported, and valued.

Scott Himes

Head of Employee Experience and Learning & Design

Eric Hiler

CEO, co-founder

Jason Cochran

School and Organizational Psychologist, Co-founder

Akram Mnif

VP Product and Development

Eric Bransteter

Former School Administrator, Co-founder

Michael Cloran

Strategy and Systems

Darye Henry

Systems Architect

Adam Yale

Product Design Strategist

Our Core Values:

Build relationships: We build relationships because people matter most to us.

Pursue stewardship: We pursue stewardship because our employees, customers, and all other stake-holders deserve nothing less than our best care for their investments of time and treasure.

In the event we must choose how to think or behave in a situation where our core values are competing with each other, they are listed in order on purpose. We will choose relationships first.

Why only 2 core values?

True core values are actually rare. They must be genuine and already exist in an organization. They don't change over time, and we must be willing to lose money and/or people over them. Plus, it's really important that they are not confused with other types of values.

We certainly value integrity, character, and respect for other people, but honestly... who doesn't? These values don't differentiate us. They are more like table-stakes. Without them, you wouldn't trust us enough to hire us to help your organization.

Additionally, we want to grow and improve ourselves and our organization. To that end, we greatly value Clarity. Right now, Clarity is a value we aspire to authentically have at the core of who we are, and we're working on it every day.

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