Tepper Reads

SHIFT Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, dissect this spring's book, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half. They talk about the cinematic qualities of the book, community and place in the book, Bennett's clear and accessible writing style, its classic fictional style, and how well it works to build empathy in readers (Hint: it works really well!).

For the first podcast of Spring 2021 we talk with one very recent Tepper MBA alum, Jillian McCarthy, one current MBA student, Cynthia Mills, and one May 2020 alum, Adeel Rind, about their experience with Tepper Reads. If you're not sure if Tepper Reads is for you, give it a listen. We think you'll be surprised about the impact a book club at Tepper can have on students. And if you're already all-in, this will be a good opportunity to hear from some of your past and present friends at Tepper.

In the final podcast of the Tepper Reads Fall 2020 project, we talk with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Leanne talks about how she ended up at Tepper, hope and pragmatism, empathy vs. sympathy, having an Elwood and Turner on each shoulder, chains of inspiration, and surrounding yourself with what inspires you.

Dr. Rich Purcell is an Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Director of the Literary and Cultural Studies Program. In this episode we talk about a day in the life of an English faculty member, post-Civil War Reconstruction in the U.S., voting rights, changing the pop culture narrative, inclusive, democratic leadership, and confronting our past and the literal and figurative bones beneath our feet.

The third installment of the Fall 2020 Tepper Reads podcast series features Associate Director of Tepper Graduate Student Services, Kevin Dietrick. We talk about the banality of evil, growing up in a multicultural family, and what to do after you vote, all through the lens of The Nickel Boys.

In episode two of the Fall 2020 Tepper Reads podcast series, we talk with Chief Operating Officer of the Tepper School, Rhonda Fischer, about the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., her experience of raising Black boys in 21st century America, and the capacity for loving one's enemies. This is a powerful episode, you don't want to miss it.

In the first podcast for the Tepper Reads Fall 2020 project, SHIFT Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss reading like a writer, and reading for empathy, when reading Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys.

In our final podcast of the Tepper Reads 2020 project, SHIFT co-managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about reading like a writer, the collision of everyday experiences and the dramatic, magical realism lite, aging ourselves, showing vs. telling, and how people are people, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they believe, and we're all equal.

Jarred Lazear, Leadership Coach in the Accelerate Leadership Center, talks about the "inside-out" approach to coaching, how both coaching and reading helps to grow our individual worlds, context dependent memory (and how Pittsburghers love it), how everyone is fighting a battle, always, and what it's like to be a manager of an employee who's relocated, and to be the employee as well.

Lauren Miller, Leadership Coach in the Accelerate Leadership Center, talks about the excitement and loss of relocation, what a big move can do to a couple, finding the right balance of togetherness and autonomy in relationships, how you can live anywhere for a year, and how open, honest communication is needed when a couple decides to relocate.