I help others maximize their potential.

My name is John Hendron and this website covers my professional experience plus writing on education and technology, and my other creative pursuits.

My professional experience has focused in areas diverse as professional learning, organizational development, strategic planning, marketing and nonprofit public relations, and instructional design and delivery for both school-age children and adults. In my work I have championed values-based leadership and have taken great pride in helping others maximize their potential.

I currently working for Educators Rising as Principal Story Architect, leading communications and marketing. We help schools and their communities solve the national teacher crisis by inspiring today’s students to consider roles in education via our career and technical student organization.

My current research interests focus on the impact gamification can play in advancing professional learning.

Opinions shared on this site are my own.

John Hendron leading an FBLA meeting at Avon Lake High School, 1991.
John leads a Future Business Leaders of America meeting at Avon Lake High School’s typing lab in 1991, serving as president of our chapter. I was presumably keeping track of what I needed to say on my fingers.

I attended Avon Lake High School—Ohio, the University of Rochester—New York, Case Western Reserve University—Cleveland, Ohio, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University—Blacksburg, Virginia, and Virgina Commonwealth University—Richmond, Virginia. In my life outside of work, I’m probably best described as a connoisseur of baroque and early-classical music, with a special love for the music of J.S. Bach. I regularly review recordings as an indulgent hobby.