Hello everyone, today we are so excited to have with us one of the most caring and competent people I’ve ever met. I was fortunate enough to sit in Dr. John Paul Rollert’s Leadership class while pursuing my masters degree in business management. My classmates from this class and I still keep in touch and everyone is eagerly looking forward to this podcast, as well as part 2, which will go live next week. In about 10 minutes you’ll know what the excitement is all about. 

John Paul Rollert’s teaching is legendary at Harvard. I hope to give you a taste of why he is so respected and appreciated in these two podcast episodes, even though nothing can replace sitting in his actual class. Dr. Rollert is well respected in law, education, business, and ethics, and a quick google search will bring up articles he has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Yale Law Journal, to name a few. Look out for his upcoming book about his experience working on the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential Campaign.  A graduate from Harvard College, he earned his law degree at Yale and his PhD from the University of Chicago. Most of all, to me, he is an inspiring teacher, and I feel fortunate to count myself among the students he has taught both at Harvard and at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

In this first podcast, I will share the last few minutes of my conversation with Dr. Rollert, who prefers to go by John Paul. Next week, in part 2, you can hear about his experiences in high school leading up to being accepted to Harvard College, as well as his advice for teenagers today. You WON’T want to miss that. 

In this episode, I’m going to cut in to the point where I asked John Paul to share with us the concluding message from his Leadership class. I am not exaggerating to say that our class, as I’m sure so many others before us, spontaneously stood up for a standing ovation when he finished. Everyone was touched, as was evident by the number of people drying their eyes. Please enjoy this message from John Paul Rollert.

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