How are senior leaders perceived at Spear Education?

Spear used to be a great company to work for under previous leadership. Since the new CEO joined it has completely changed for the worse. EVERY leader in the organization has been let go and replaced. No one seems to be safe in their role. There has been nothing but turnover for the last 2 years. We have had 3 different leaders over our sales organization in just 4 years and now we are not even hiring anyone to replace the one who most recently quit. Nothing but red flags here. There are so many great people that work here but unfortunately with all of the new leadership the culture has completely changed and the level of uncertainty is at an all time high every day.

The CEO and CFO along with the culture they have instilled since joining the organization. They present a lot of fluff in the company wide meetings and then never show up to any of the onsite events/activities with employees. All leadership talks about is engagement and building culture but then none of them attend when we have onsite events like Wellness Day, onsite lunches, etc.

Some of the people there were really great to work with

When I was there, executives were being emotionally abused by the former CEO. Though never an excuse, I could imagine it was frustrating as it was clear leadership was not aligned, and they had no idea how to save the quickly sinking company. Lots of layoffs occurred as a result of repeated poor decisions by leadership. Too much male ego got the best of them, and the hard-working teams below paid the price.

Spear used to be a great company to work for under previous leadership. Since the new CEO joined it has completely changed for the worse. EVERY leader in the organization has been let go and replaced. No one seems to be safe in their role. There has been nothing but turnover for the last 2 years. We have had 3 different leaders over our sales organization in just 4 years and now we are not even hiring anyone to replace the one who most recently quit. Nothing but red flags here. There are so many great people that work here but unfortunately with all of the new leadership the culture has completely changed and the level of uncertainty is at an all time high every day.

The CEO and CFO along with the culture they have instilled since joining the organization. They present a lot of fluff in the company wide meetings and then never show up to any of the onsite events/activities with employees. All leadership talks about is engagement and building culture but then none of them attend when we have onsite events like Wellness Day, onsite lunches, etc.

- good benefits - kind HR team. - wellness days - volunteering collaboratives - decent team members

- the CEO is very hands off, or tends to use such heavy uptalk that he doesn't really say anything at all. - organization is 100% focused on profit, despite illusion of company values. lower & mid tier employees care about customers, but upper management doesn't - heavy focus on catering to high dollar clients instead of broadening their user base. this means chaotic deadlines - teams are very fractured. there's very little agreement between departments when it comes to new projects, which leads to more chaos - some employees are very shady - not very tech oriented

Good dental insurance Remote work option

Upper management has no idea Online product is overwhelming Product is expensive and hard to sell

Unlimited PTO, great team members.

They completely disbanded the contract operations team, which towards the end was just one person who had just won an award for most recognition in the quarter. We all depended on her so much for all things account related. They outsourced the department to a third party company, based in Mexico and it just hasn’t been the same. I heard they wouldn’t give the employee her severance unless she trained the group of people taking over her role, which was an eye-opening experience to see how Spear “values” their employees. Ever since the new CEO was named, the whole organization has been in shambles. Unrealistic sales expectations, no support anymore, all these new initiatives, but completely broken (and way too many) systems and processes to successfully implement them. Return to office/hybrid mandate was a bad move too.

I made some good friends while working here

Everything else! Leaders have no idea how to lead and therefore become dictators Leaders can’t come up with strategies so they ask front line employees to do it If you question authority you’re fired even if what leaders are saying is immoral Extremely high turnover but they only replace leaders who still don’t know what they’re doing They sold to a private equity firm that were not aligned to company values and leadership went from bad to worse Overstressed, overworked, and underpaid

- good benefits - kind HR team. - wellness days - volunteering collaboratives - decent team members

- the CEO is very hands off, or tends to use such heavy uptalk that he doesn't really say anything at all. - organization is 100% focused on profit, despite illusion of company values. lower & mid tier employees care about customers, but upper management doesn't - heavy focus on catering to high dollar clients instead of broadening their user base. this means chaotic deadlines - teams are very fractured. there's very little agreement between departments when it comes to new projects, which leads to more chaos - some employees are very shady - not very tech oriented

Spear used to be a great company to work for under previous leadership. Since the new CEO joined it has completely changed for the worse. EVERY leader in the organization has been let go and replaced. No one seems to be safe in their role. There has been nothing but turnover for the last 2 years. We have had 3 different leaders over our sales organization in just 4 years and now we are not even hiring anyone to replace the one who most recently quit. Nothing but red flags here. There are so many great people that work here but unfortunately with all of the new leadership the culture has completely changed and the level of uncertainty is at an all time high every day.

The CEO and CFO along with the culture they have instilled since joining the organization. They present a lot of fluff in the company wide meetings and then never show up to any of the onsite events/activities with employees. All leadership talks about is engagement and building culture but then none of them attend when we have onsite events like Wellness Day, onsite lunches, etc.

Great benefits/ flexible time off

Poor leadership Unethical behavior from the top No direction on products and no market research before launching new products Disorganized Poorly managed