Practice? Podcast

This conversation is with Marketing Analyst Estanfania Maya who is still early in her career in a major insurance company. She is enjoying collaborating in her team to discover patterns in multiple data sets; then translating these into visual and narrative stories the sea of numbers tell. Consequential decisions are made with what she does each day.  

In this conversation, Dave talks with a fellow professor devoted to understanding and advancing leadership practices in many forms and settings.  Associate Professor of Civic Leadership at the Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University, Brandon Kliewer organizes his own teaching and research practices within the sphere of Civic life. Tune in.  

In this episode, Dave reunites with a former student who has been an HR practitioner in various corporate roles over ensuing years. It is in the last six years that Christine Fusciello found her niche building a leadership development program for technologists for her major corporation.  Heady work for a level headed professional.  

This episode is a conversation with Dave's former student Zhihui, who serves admirably on an IT team in a major lighting company, but whose devotion to Emma and Ellie as their Mama (Chinese for Mama) can be heard in the warm tone of her voice. Peter Vaill said in one of our early episodes that being a mother is also a practice, perhaps the most essential to mankind. We are each her finest results, are we not?   

In this episode Dave explores his discovery that his former student and longtime aerospace practitioner is also in a new selling practice. Jessie engages social media to create a community of clients benefiting from plant-based MONAT hair and skin products. She records conversational videos about her own product use and what she is learning from her client community. Having an 'Also Practice' to grow and to grow oneself and one's income is trend emerging from the pandemic.       

In this conversation, Dave (aka Doc) finds another of his former students still growing and changing after 14 years. Why? He uses all his multiple capabilities to determine bonding worthiness of general contractors of major construction projects.  From crunching the numbers (which he was working late to do after the recording) to assuring the character of his company's clients, Cesar's working-learning days are full. 

In this unusual episode, Dave learns architect Antonia's not so secret to growth.  Antonia rescues four baby pigs and they teach her how to be an even better human.  This is expressed in her designs for school learning environments.  Meet the creator of the Underdog Animal Sanctuary.  

In this episode, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Laura Harris, PhD talks with Dave just ten days into her altogether new practice setting.  It is a start-up called NeuroX1 where her curiosity and creative research will have a fuller range of motion than her previous academic posts.  She is in it for the growth (and new medicines).    

In this episode, Dave once again reconnects with a former CCSU student from 12 years ago to find that Semir Alihodzic(Team Lead- Enterprise Data & Analytics at Travelers) loves the pace of rapid change in how DATA (so far) can be tamed for multiple uses.  Listen and learn why.    

This brief interlude in our Practice? Podcast series marks the second anniversary of Peter Vaill's death.  Dave ponders how and why his 'practice of Practice' has kept him satisfyingly busy these last two years.  Since March 2020, there have been 127 more episodes.  The digital-first book that Peter could not finish, Practice as a Way of Being, is now ready for preview or purchase at https://www.mylibrary.world/. Dave carries on the work started and inspired by his 'favorite teacher' Peter B. Vaill.