The Root Cause

🎙️Unscripted Intelligence | Proudly partnering with HeyBodhi

Guest: Dr. Jim Masters, Neesha Nanda + Samantha Gleason

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

The Root Cause | Culture, Burnout, and What Actually Fixes Education

Nobody fixed a broken culture with a new program.

In this episode of Unscripted Intelligence, we sit down with Dr. Jim Masters, Neesha Nanda, and Samantha Gleason to dig into what's actually at the root of the burnout crisis, the culture crisis, and the retention crisis in education.

And it's not what most people think.

Dr. Masters took a district from 124th to 19th in climate rankings. Not with an initiative. With relationships. With three questions. With the radical act of actually listening.

Neesha and Sam built HeyBodhi because they kept watching AI get used to make a broken system run faster, when what educators needed was something that helped them show up human.

Regulated. Connected. Whole.

When teachers thrive, students thrive. The data proves it. The heart already knows it.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament | Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross | Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠| Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Marketing + Operations for the Human Intelligence Movement.

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🔗Go Deeper with HeyBodhi:

HeyBodi is running a Superintendent Leadership Cohort, bringing ten district leaders together to do the hard work of leadership with AI coaching that builds capacity, not dependency. Columbia Teachers College is measuring the impact. Each district gets access to the Teacher's Edition too, so the support reaches every level of the building.

Eight districts are in. Two spots remain.

Learn more: https://www.heybodhi.ai/leadershipedition