The Leadership Educator Podcast

Wrapping Up Season Six

In this episode, Dan and Lauren discuss critical takeaways from teaching in higher education guests this season. Both share their experiences teaching during the Spring 2022 semester, where they fell short with this season, and a big project on the horizon. This is the last episode of the teaching in higher education season.

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Integrating Your Leadership Learning Into Your Teaching Practice

In this mini-episode, Lauren shares three ways she integrates new learning into her teaching practice. She outlines the benefits of discussing ideas with fellow educators and what her CliftonStrengths talent themes taught her about brainstorming.

Teaching Unprepared Students with Dr. Kathleen Gabriel

In this episode, Dan and Lauren invite Dr. Kathleen Gabriel to share her work, helping others understand and develop high school and college students. During the discussion, Gabriel offers ideas for leadership educators seeking to connect and engage with students in the classroom. In addition, she explains the ideas and strategies she applied in teaching high school and college students.  Check out her books here!

Creating Significant Learning Experiences with Dr. Dee Fink

In this episode, Dr. Dee Fink shares insight and strategies from his work creating significant learning experiences in higher education. Dan and Lauren share elements of his work that have helped them teach leadership education courses. Dr. Fink makes recommendations for building trust in classrooms and learning the situational factors that his students brought to the classroom.

Some resources mentioned in this episode include:

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NDSL #172 Special Issue: Leadership Education through Complex Transitions (Part II) with Jessica Chung and Christie Navarro

In Part Two of a Two, Jessica Chung and Christie Navarro join Dan and Lauren for insight into leadership education during a complex time. Jessica and Christie discuss co-editing the special issue of New Directions for Student Leadership #172 using the Co-Inquiry process and their approaches to teaching and programming during multiple pandemics. 

NDSL #172 Special Issue: Leadership Education through Complex Transitions (Part I) with Dr. Darren Pierre and John Weng

In Part One of Two, Dr. Darren Pierre and John Weng join Dan and Lauren to explore the use of the co-Inquiry process in editing the Winter 2021 Issue #172 of New Directions for Student Leadership, "Leadership Education through Complex Transitions". Weng and Pierre highlight the personal and professional benefits of engaging in this process during a turbulent period in higher education.

Teaching Intentional Change through Developmental Experiences with Dr. Richard Boyatzis

In this episode, Dr. Richard Boyatzis, award-winning professor, researcher, and author shares his background in leadership education. He explains how his scientific background and love of music show up in his approach to teaching and learning and his research and teaching on social and emotional intelligence.

Discussion, Followership, and Critical Thinking in Leadership Education with Stephen Brookfield

In this episode, author, teacher, and consultant, Dr. Stephen Brookfield, provides his perspective on teaching and learning in higher education. He shares his most recent work, Becoming a White Antiracist, and his love for playing in a pop-punk rock-and-roll band.  Some resources mentioned in this episode include:

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What Can You Learn From Breaking Your Lectures with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt

In this episode, Dan and Lauren exchange strategies and stories for turning your lecture into an engaging educational session with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, faculty developer, facilitator, and host of The Lecture Breakers Podcast. Barbi relays strategies from past podcast guests and other teaching ideas from her practice as an educator. Dan and Lauren offer classroom activities from teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on group dynamics and leadership education.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

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Teaching in Higher Ed with Dr. Bonni Stachowiak

In this episode, Dr. Bonni Stachowiak, host of the popular Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast, highlights innovative strategies and resources to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular programs. Dan shares the connection to his teaching and research in leadership education, while Lauren details her experience applying some of Bonni's strategies to her leadership courses.

Welcome to Season Six of the The Leadership Educator Podcast!

Dan and Lauren return for season six of the podcast. This season, the duo talks to the people behind the most helpful and popular resources for teaching and learning. Listeners will learn more about the application of pedagogical frameworks to leadership education. As always, the hosts and guests will share resources and teaching activities to engage in the classroom that's still navigating multiple pandemics.

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NDSL #171 Special Issue: Advancing Racial Equity in Leadership Education: Centering Marginalized Institutional Contexts With Drs. Rich Whitney and Jasmine Collins

In this episode, we sit down with Drs. Rich Whitney and Jasmine Collins to discuss the process of proposing and editing the NDSL special issue on racial equity in leadership education. Both share how the issue impacted their teaching; all share resources used to teach leadership education to students from various backgrounds in the classroom and co-curricular programs.  Check out Issue 171 of New Directions for Student Leadership, "Advancing Racial Equity in Leadership Education: Centering Marginalized Institutional Contexts" here.

NDSL #170: Using Inventories and Assessments to Enhance Leadership Development with Drs. Marcy Levy Shankman and Ralph A. Gigliotti

Are you curious about the history and purpose of using instruments and assessments in leadership development courses and training? In this episode, Drs. Marcy Levy Shankman and Ralph A. Gigliotti share ideas on incorporating best practices from this special issue into teaching courses or planning training activities. The co-editors used a cross-sector lens to expand the application of the instruments and assessments to various industries.  Some of the resources in this episode include:

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Season 5 Wrap-Up

In the final episode of season 5, Dan and Lauren share takeaways from the international season.  From hearing experiences that leadership educators from leadership Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia, had to share, to trading classroom activity ideas, the duo reminisces about all they learned from Season 5 guests about leadership education, training, and development.

International Student Affairs Leader Damian Medina

In this episode, Damian Medina, Vice Provost for Student Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, joins Dan and Lauren to discuss international student affairs. Damian, who has traveled to over 60 countries and territories, explains how a volunteer role as an undergraduate launched career-building student engagement departments and programs outside of the United States. While based in Maine now, Damian led student affairs departments in China, Qatar, and Switzerland.

Finding Your Cause with Dr. Vincent Ogutu

In this episode, Dan and Lauren converse with Dr. Vincent Ogutu, Vice-Chancellor Designate at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. Vincent shares how his journey to teaching and researching workplace behavior started with a desire to help create future leaders. His purpose is to encourage young people to find a cause with their name on it. He shares stories of inspiring students to question and apply their learning and encouraging currently incarcerated adults to find a cause and a calling.

Teaching and Studying Leadership and Followership in Pakistan

In this episode, Wajeeha Ghias joins Dan and Lauren to discuss leadership education in Pakistan. She highlights her path to studying and teaching leadership and followership in Islamabad, including how her husband encouraged her to pursue leadership studies in her early 30s. We hear about Richard Daft's book The Leadership Experience and an assignment that led her to Ira Chaleff's resources and sparked her passion for followership. Ghias is a lecturer in Leadership and Management at the National Defense University and a Management Science doctoral student at NUML-University. 

Some of the resources mentioned in this episode include:

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Using UNESCO Sites for International Youth Leadership Programs

In this episode, Drs. Kelly Cerialo and Eric Holmlund discuss their innovative student-focused curriculum based on flexible experiential learning models that allow students to develop leadership skills, connect and contribute to the local community, question their own environmental, social, and economic impacts as a traveler, and self-reflect on their experience.

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How Curiosity Led to a Nutrition Leadership Program in Iran

In this episode, Dr. Azadeh Davari shares her education and experience with leadership programs and research in various countries. An executive leadership coach with a focus on using reflection to raise consciousness, Dr. Davari shares how her curiosity led to the creation of a nutrition leadership program in Iran. Currently, she's based in San Diego, but teaches and consults all over the world.

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The Growth of Leadership Education in Japan

In this episode, Dr. Mikinari Higano shares the spread of leadership education in Japan. After being hired as an Economics professor, he was asked to create a leadership education course for undergraduate students at Rikkyo University. Since then he's worked to grow leadership education in Japan, developing courses, conferences, and workshops to help the community grow from a military-only discipline to one that includes transformational leadership practices.