Tag: Guest Post
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Empathetic Leadership in Post-COVID Times: Navigating Change and Fostering Resilience
But how do we apply empathy in the post-COVID workplace? Remote work has disrupted the personal dynamics we once relied on, making it more challenging to understand the individual needs of employees. As empathetic leaders, it is essential to actively seek connections, master communication tools, and organize engaging virtual gatherings to support flexibility and recognize…
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How My Study of the Humanities Has Influenced (and Inspired) My Career Journey
When I think about my career journey thus far, I often find myself reflecting on the humanities and the important role this field of study has played within it – because the two are so closely interwoven.
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We are All Artists – and Scientists
Today, we segregate ourselves and our work force into “science people” and “artsy people,” as if there cannot be any useful overlap. In a world of increasing political and social polarization, we need overlap. Our medical system is in desperate need of ethics and humanist values. Our political system needs more objectivity and less emotional…
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Mental Health and Classroom Leadership
Addressing mental health in my classroom sets the foundation for a safe and inclusive learning environment where they can grow, empathize, and practice leadership.
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How the ICDL Found Me
Here is the real treat: enjoying the endless forms in which democracy and leadership relate to our everyday life, our passions, fears, revolutions, and routines. Leadership is performative art, entropy and order, jazz, dance, tragedy, laughter, trial, conflict, consensus, death, and rebirth. It is learning from the global assemblies or from your grandparents’ cozy tea…
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What Democratic Leadership Looks Like to a Postsecondary Educator
From work study positions in college (where I developed my love of learning and writing centers) to classrooms, and fabrication floors, my postsecondary learners will understand the importance of how their work and training makes the community better and our democracy stronger. This is my pledge to each of you.
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Reflections on Finland’s Prime Minister, Sanna Marin
I swooned over the election of Prime Minister Sanna Marin the same year the library opened. She is an avowed feminist and environmentalist. At 34-years-old, she was among the youngest world leaders ever elected. She is composed and always well-prepared.
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“A Woman Writing Thinks Back Through her Mothers”: Christine de Pizan and Virginia Woolf
Communal qualities of leadership that are often gendered female can lead to innovative acts–powered by planning, goal-setting and forward thinking–and the empowerment of others–created through relationship building and providing opportunities and support.
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Leading Through Disappointment with Agape: On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a model of democratic leadership, Rev. King shows us how to practice agape even in the face of disappointment.