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Mary Grassa O’Neill and Monique Burns Thompson: Colliding two worlds: Bringing Together the Best of Business and Education
Mary Grassa O’Neill Founding co-lead faculty for the HGSE/HBS Certificate in School Management and Leadership powered by HBS Online. HGSE Director of the Principals' Center and Managing Director of Programs in Professional Education First layperson Secretary of...
Judy Ulmas: The importance of grateful leadership
Judith W. Umlas is Sr. Vice President, author and trainer at International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), a global corporate training company. She wrote the ground-breaking books including: The Power of Acknowledgment, Grateful Leadership, Using the Power of...
Houston Kraft: Expressing Kindness in Education
Houston is a speaker, author, and kindness advocate who has spoken at over 600 schools or events internationally. In 2016, he co-founded CharacterStrong - curriculum and training that help teach social and emotional skills. To date, they have worked with over 2500...
Time Blocking Tips: My 6 Rules for an Ideal Week
One of my superpowers is being productive and helping leaders get more done as well. There are multiple layers to my framework, but a foundation is creating an ideal week and time blocking. An ideal week is the foundation of productivity. It asks a leader, “What would...
The Mastermind Mindset Scorecard™
I’ve been coaching school administrators since 2015 and have coached 100s from around the world. It has been both a privilege and an honor. After working with such a diverse group of educational leaders I reflected on what makes principals effective. So I created a...
Susie Harder: Promoting student voice
Susie Harder, M.A., CCC-SLP is an experienced clinician who devotes much of her passion to working with children, teens, and adults who stutter. She works in private practice and the school setting to help support children who stutter, trains speech-language...
10 Never Seen Before Educational Leadership Quotes
Here are 10 never seen before school leadership quotes. Why are they never seen before? Because I created them. They appear in my second book, due to release on September 28. If you enjoy the quotes and would like a friendly reminder when the book releases feel free...
2 second-order thinking tools that will improve the quality of your decisions today
“Second-order thinking is thinking farther ahead and thinking holistically. It requires us to not only consider our actions and their immediate consequences, but the subsequent effects of those actions as well.” - Shane Parrish. In a recent blog post on “How to make...
Dr. Mike Stacy: 1st generation college student becomes superintendent
Dr. Mike Stacy is currently the superintendent at Beechwood Independent Schools in northern Kentucky. (This is his sixth year in this position). During his educational career, he’s had the opportunity to be an administrator at the building level (elementary, middle...
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