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We are here to illustrate that servant leadership comes in many variations and discuss how we can all help ourselves and other people on their path to becoming a servant leader so that ALL people from every walk of life can benefit. Studies show that people and organizations benefit from servant leadership, but too often people lack an understanding of what servant leadership truly looks like or they think it is only for niche groups. The goal of this podcast is to discuss servant leadership with servant leaders from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and leadership levels to help every person think more deeply about how they can become a servant leader and foster more servant leadership in their organization, communities, and social circles.
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Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
April Rice joins with me to illustrate how she has embraced the challenges that life throws at her to encourage greatness in those around her as she embraces the arena of life. For the past 10 years April was the Director of of a college access and persistence program for potential first-generation high school students at Tulane University in New Orleans. During her time with his program, whose participants live below poverty level, they consistently achieved a 100% college enrollment and a 73% college graduation rate, which is almost four times higher than the national average for students with socio-economic barriers.
April talks with us about the importance to meet people where they are while envisioning the potential each individual embodies, finding ways to look past the barriers in front of us, how to serve others, listen deeper, and really realize that the individuals all around us connect a web to create a master piece.
April Rice is an educator by profession, but a teacher by heart. She likes to say that teaching is in her DNA. Her passion and love for others has motivated her through the last 20 years in education. She has a deep love to help the individual achieve their unique path toward education and life, regardless of circumstances, has blessed hundreds of people she has worked with over the years.
April received her bachelors in Heath Science Education at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, and a Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration at Mississippi College along with certification in Life Coaching with an emphasis on trauma-induced coaching.
Her education career began in a Level 6 juvenile correctional facility in central Florida where she developed a love for marginalized and underserved students. Throughout her career, April has taught special education, science, STEM and engineering classes, developed dropout prevention programs, trained teachers, and served in administration capacities in the K-12 sector.
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Stanford University's Hoover Institution U.S. Coast Guard National Security Fellow, Captain Lushan Hannah explains why we have never arrived as a leader by helping us understand the importance of investing in ourselves, empowering others, and paying it forward to all those who will come after us. Captain Hannah shares a powerful story of when a mentor helped him recognize his own potential and invites us to help others recognize their own potential. He quotes Simon Sinek with "you can easily judge the character of a man by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him" and invites us all to be the change we want to see.
Captain Hannah’s 23-year Coast Guard career includes operational experience in Southern California, New Orleans, and throughout the Pacific Rim where he had the privilege to build partnerships with public and private sector teams to bolster maritime security, clean up pollution, conduct search and rescue, and respond to natural disasters. He was also the military aid to the Vice President of the U.S. He reports to the Hoover Institution following a tour as Commanding Officer of the Pacific Strike Team, responsible for mitigating hazardous material incidents for the Western United States, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories. He earned his commission from Officer Candidate School and holds a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Maryland - UC, a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Acronyms:
LDAC - Leadership Diversity Advisory Council
Pro Dev - professional development
OER - Officer Evaluation Report
You can find an article that Captain Hannah wrote in the book Profiles of character: Black Excellence and the Coast Guard - https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Character-Black-Excellence-Coast/dp/173579371X
The Coast Guard Learning the Ropes Guide Book - https://www.cglearningtheropes.com
CG Learning the Ropes Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1492767003
Resources:
Simon Sink - Leaders Eat Last https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16144853
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Leadership and life coach Lori Mage provides some great thoughts to help us overcoming the false summits we face and connects that to learning to recognize our life’s greatest calling by discovering our shadow mountains. Lori models and champions servant-leadership in the people she works with and has a business based on helping people achieve their best self. Lori proclaims “the solution to every problem we face is leadership, whatever challenge that’s happening in a family, whatever challenge that’s happening in an organization, whatever challenge that’s happening in the world occurs because of a breakdown in leadership and we need leadership now more than ever” Join us as we discuss how we begin to look at ways to be part of the solution to these problems.
You can connect with Lori at https://www.lorimage.com
Resources:
Steven Pressfield - The Art of War: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
David Brooks - The Second Mountain
Robert Greenleaf - The Power of Servant Leadership
Martin Seligman - Flourish
James Kouzes & Barry Posner - The Leadership Challenge
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership
Raymond Kethledge & Michael Erwin - Lead Yourself First
The Movie Invictus about the South African Rugby team