In this interview from Yale's Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship course, Kendall Barbery, Director of Partnerships at the ocean farming nonprofit GreenWave, discusses what it takes to scale an organization's staff from a small startup team to a larger operation shaping an entire industry. Barbery shares practical lessons on hiring, team culture, and organizational growth drawn from GreenWave's work supporting regenerative ocean farmers. The conversation addresses the operational side of scaling a mission-driven nonprofit, a topic often overlooked in favor of program design or fundraising. Students gain insight into the people-management challenges that come with rapid growth, complementing the course's broader material on building organizations capable of sustaining and expanding their impact over time.