Leadership Hacks

Join us to learn from fourth year Leadership Psychology doctoral candidate Aprille Young about her research on post traumatic growth. Aprille is in the process of creating a check point system between deploying and reintegrating US military personnel. This system would be a single segment of a much larger intervention strategy dedicated to the psychological health, empowerment, stability, and reintegration of men and women in the military. It’s often assumed that all members of the military come away with Post Traumatic Stress. Research shows this is not the case and is an example of how we negatively stigmatize our veterans. In this podcast, Aprille will discuss the findings that many service people exposed to adversity experience the opposite of PTST, Post Traumatic Growth. Aprille’s doctoral work delves into how the awareness of Post Traumatic Growth can change the stigmatization of those who have experienced trauma.

A key challenge for any leader is how to navigate the unwritten rules of organizational life. Nonprofit leaders also have to understand the implicit rules of the communities they serve and how to collaborate with them in order to be successful. Tune in to hear Dr. Tuesday Cooper’s take on the key things all nonprofit leaders need to know. Dr. Cooper has been working with leaders to build their skills for 15 years. Many of the leaders she has trained have gone on to create and/or lead successful small non profit, community based, grassroots and social innovator organizations. Dr. Cooper is also the Director of our Leading Nonprofits and Nongovernmental Organizations concentration in our Leadership Psychology doctoral degree here at William James College.

John D’Auria is the President of Teachers 21, a nonprofit professional development organization that supports educators so that they can better serve the needs of all students. His career has spanned four decades starting as a math teacher, guidance counselor, principal and superintendent. Dr. D’Auria has worked with hundreds of school leaders around sharpening the academic focus of school teams, developing a vibrant school culture, and managing conflict in the workplace. Dr. D’Auria’s research focuses on the ways in which the assumptions that people hold about intelligence significantly influence their learning. This summer he is collaborating with me to do a three day workshop on using leadership and and organizational psychology to develop leaders of school systems. The challenges these leaders and systems face require a new type of leadership and school culture that vastly differs from what has been acceptable for decades. He is here to share his unique perspective with us today.

Kirsten Moss is the Director of Admissions at Stanford’s graduate school of business and is completing her doctoral degree in Leadership Psychology from William James this month. Kirsten was Harvard Business School’s Director of Admissions for 10 years and has worked in executive assessment at Egon Zender and she coaches CEOs. For her doctoral project she conducted a mix methods study to explore transformational leadership qualities of top graduate school candidates through structured interviews. She then compared the qualities found in the interviews to see how they matched up with a popular Transformational Leadership 360 assessment called the The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire or MLQ which had never been vetted in this manner before. The results of her study are compelling! Learn more here: http://www.hindustantimes.com/education/leaders-can-t-work-alone-management-lessons-from-stanford-gsb-s-assistant-dean/story-qfqYzVbnxq5Ux5cBAnmbML.html

This month we are here with Dr. Bob Hill, co-founder of Match Beyond (http://www.matchbeyond.org/) is on the forefront of leveling out systemic inquities inherent in higher education. Bob works with non traditional and low Socio economic status students as a coach to help them complete their undergraduate degrees using a competency based experiential learning model.

This month we are here with Margaret Hannah, Executive Director of the Freedmen Center, Executive Coach and Professor. Margaret, I am delighted you are on the podcast today. You have built two successful startups and have been leading and developing people for over thirty years. When I asked you about this you told me that as a leader it’s your job to facilitate growth of your people and the organization. You said that the most important job you have as a leader is to know how to navigate several lanes of action that exist in the organization.

This month I am here with Dr. Lisa Wyatt. Lisa recently graduated from our Graduate Certificate of Executive Coaching program. Her PhD is in Higher Education Administration. Today she is here to discuss looking at the temperament of leaders and how that impacts the culture of their organization.