Executive Interview Intelligence™
Continue building the executive interview skills you've developed through your superintendent preparation program.
Practice authentic superintendent interview questions, receive research-based feedback, and better understand what your interview is communicating to a school board before the real interview begins.
For WMU Participants
“Most superintendent candidates prepare for interview questions. School boards are evaluating something else.”
Jonathan Royce
Superintendent · Onsted Community Schools
Preparing your best answers is important.
Understanding what they make visible about your executive leadership is what often separates candidates who advance from those who don’t.
The Superintendent Interview Operating System™
What are school boards actually evaluating?
Most candidates focus on describing what they did.
School boards are trying to understand how you think.
Executive Interview Intelligence™ helps make that thinking visible by revealing the sequence behind your leadership decisions.
Boards don't just evaluate whether you have experience. They evaluate whether they can see how you lead.
DECISION CHAIN
Constraint
What limits the choice.
Decision
What you choose to do.
Tradeoff
What you gave up.
Action
How it gets carried out.
Leadership Signal
What the board can see.
Every interview answer does one of two things: Reduces hiring uncertainty or leaves the board to fill in the gaps.
Safe answers describe experience.
Selected finalists make their decision-making visible.
The Superintendent Interview Operating System™ teaches candidates to reveal the decision chain, not just the outcome.
Get support from someone who has sat in your seat and now sits in the superintendent's chair.
School boards don't simply score interview answers.
They're evaluating how candidates think under pressure, weigh competing priorities, and whether they can picture that person leading their district.
As a graduate of Western Michigan University's Educational Specialist program and a sitting superintendent, I understand both the preparation required to earn your degree and the transition into the superintendent interview process.
Executive Interview Intelligence™ was created to help experienced education leaders make their executive decision-making visible before a school board makes its hiring decision.
That gap is what the Superintendent Interview Operating System™ is built to close.
Your interview experience includes:
Superintendent Interview Practice
Decision Chain™
Analysis
Decision Chain™
Visibility Report
Executive Leadership Feedback
Research-based Interview Insights
It either reduces hiring uncertainty
or leaves the board to fill in the gaps.
Safe answers describe experience.
Executive answers reveal leadership.
Every interview answer does one of two things.
Ready to begin?
Launch your Executive Interview Intelligence™ experience and discover what your interview is communicating before the board makes its hiring decision.