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Join us on Wednesday, September 14 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Insights & Data North America, Jerry Kurtz, to discuss the 12 steps to effective leadership. As the Capgemini Insights & Data Managing Director for North America, Jerry heads up efforts to leverage the power of data, analytics, and AI across Capgemini's entire offering and client base in North America. Jerry has more than 30 years of management consulting experience at Capgemini, PwC Consulting, IBM Global Business Services, Infosys, and Bridgestone Software USA. Jerry has worked primarily in the manufacturing sector, and also has extensive cross-industry leadership experience in Data, Analytics, and AI. Jerry’s competency expertise includes Big Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Enterprise Transformation, SAP, Supply Chain Management, Shared Services, and Business Process Services.

Join us on Tuesday, September 6 @ 6pm EST for an important conversation with Dr. Linda Mendonça to talk about what U.S. schools are doing to prepare nurses and staff for a possible Monkeypox outbreak and what toll the past two years has had on the school nursing profession. Linda has been a registered nurse for 42 years practicing school nursing for 25 years, overseas and in five states as a military spouse. Her school nursing career includes experience with pre-K to high school students in many states. She has vast experience with current best practice and new initiatives in school health, including the need for data collection in school nursing practice to best meet the needs of students and facilitate their academic success. With the practice of school nursing in the arena of public health, Dr. Mendonça pursued education and certification in public health nursing. She earned her Master of Science in advanced public health nursing and her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Transformative Systems Leadership from Rush University in Chicago. She has served on school nursing organization boards on the state and national levels. Dr. Mendonça is President of the National Association of School Nurses (2021-2023) and a Fellow in the National Academy of School Nursing. Her current professional roles include being an Assistant Professor teaching community/public health nursing at Rhode Island College School of Nursing and providing consultation in school nursing for the Rhode Island Department of Health. One of her passions is environmental health and she was selected to participate in a year-long fellowship with the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment 2019-2020. Throughout her career, Dr. Mendonça made time to volunteer with the American Red Cross and disaster medical assistance teams with medical reserve corps.

Founding Partner of Qverity and former security specialist with the Central Intelligence Agency, Susan M. Carnicero, joins us for an informative conversation on deception, body language and lying. Susan has over 25 years of experience in interviewing, interrogation and polygraph examination, focused primarily on national security, employment and criminal issues. She is the developer of a behavioral screening program currently used within the federal government and in a variety of private industries, tapping experience gained through government service and the private sector. She is widely considered a leading authority on interviewing, detection of deception, and elicitation. Susan has extensive experience in conducting training for federal government agencies and the law enforcement community, as well as for financial services firms and other private-sector companies. Most recently, she has been involved in conducting high-level screening interviews within the U.S. government, and in providing consulting services for Forbes Top 10 families. Susan holds an M.A. in Forensic Psychology and an M.A. in Secondary Education/English from Marymount University in Arlington, Va.  Her undergraduate in communications is from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  Tune in on Wednesday, August 31 @ 6pm EST!

Founder of the Mentora Institute and award-winning Professor at Columbia Business School, Hitendra Wadhwa, joins us to share his thoughts regarding the five negative mindsets that can wreck your judgment. The Mentora Institute is at the forefront of creating a simple, inspiring, and personalized approach to developing leaders–clients include Accenture, Chevron, Ericsson, Kraft Heinz, Lululemon, Morgan Stanley, New York Times and more. Hitendra’s mission is to discover, codify and teach the laws of success in life and leadership. With an MBA and Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, he brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, and human potential. Hitendra’s work has been covered by leading media including Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and more. His lessons, says the BBC World Service, “are about how to become a master of yourself before trying to be a master of the universe.” Psychology Today states, “The award-winning professor promises not how to make a living, but how to live.”

Join us on Wednesday, August 17 @ 12pm EST for an enlightening conversation with Dr. Bruno Sauce as he shares his research on the impact of digital media on children's intelligence. Bruno is an Assistant Professor of Biological Psychology at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. He has worked on multiple different topics, including brain plasticity, cognitive interventions, and childhood development. Right now, his research focuses on the gene-environment interplay of cognitive abilities. He wants to know the impact of certain experiences on the way we think and learn, and how much this depends on our different genetic backgrounds. The experiences of growing up in wealth/poverty, playing video games, and going to primary school are all factors that he is currently studying. Bruno is originally from Brazil, where he earned a bachelor's in Biology and master's in Genetics and Evolution at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos. He later moved to the US and earned a master's in Psychology and a Ph.D in Neuroscience at Rutgers University, and then was a postdoc researcher in Sweden at Karolinska Institute.

We are celebrating 10 years with a special video simulcast episode, Forum on Educational Leadership, broadcasted live from New York City at Teachers College Columbia University. Leaders and aspiring leaders will talk about concerns, challenges and opportunities in public education. Listeners have the opportunity to watch this episode via Youtube LIVE! Tune in on Friday, August 12 @ 2pm EST!

Join us on Thursday, August 11 @ 6pm EST for an informative discussion with a panel of current school leaders from all over the United States on What’s Changed in School Leadership. They will share their experiences and thoughts on what aspiring leaders need to know about the principalship in a "post" COVID world. Our panel of educators includes Kilsys Batista, Keisha McCoy-Dailey and Seung Yu.

Dr. Keisha McCoy-Dailey is a District 75 (K-8) principal at P396K- The Sid Miller Academy located in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She has been a principal for 6 years and believes all students are capable of learning, just not at the same pace. Once educators understand students' learning style, success is possible!

Seung Yu has served as the principal at Stuyvesant High School, the largest specialized high school in Manhattan, since August 2020. Throughout his career in the New York City Department of Education, he has held both school and district leadership roles. Seung has participated in several leadership and mentor programs, including the NYC Chancellor’s Fellowship, the Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI), Wallace Leadership Fellows Mentor Principal, and Model Principal.

Bestselling author, journalist, and historian, Eric Alterman, joins us for an exciting conversation discussing his book, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse. Eric is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. From 1995-2020, he was The Nation’s “Liberal Media" columnist and is now a contributing writer to the magazine and also to The American Prospect, where he writes the weekly “Altercation” newsletter. He has been named a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Schusterman Foundation Fellow at Brandeis University, a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Alterman is the author of the national bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, as well eleven other books, including We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel, to be published in November, 2022 by Basic Books. He is also the winner of the George Orwell Prize, the Stephen Crane Literary Award and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice). He holds a Ph.D in US history from Stanford minoring in Jewish Studies, an M.A. in international relations at Yale and a B.A. from Cornell. He lives in Manhattan and tweets at @eric_alterman and has an open Facebook Page.

Join us on Tuesday, August 9 @ 6pm EST for a special 1-hour broadcast with the founder of Culture7coaching, Michael Eatman, and the creator of Optimal Wellness Community LLC (OWC), Victor Ferguson, to talk about the benefits and challenges of the view of Black masculinity and strength.

Michael Eatman is a Certified Diversity Professional, Executive Coach, Advanced EQ, and Mindful Facilitation Practitioner and the Founder of Culture7coaching. As an educator celebrating 28 years spanning Prek - 20 learning environments, Michael has created the Leadership Edge, a framework that incorporates Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Cultural Competence, and Conflict Engagement to support educational leaders in leading successful organizations. 

Victor Ferguson is the creator of Optimal Wellness Community LLC (OWC), which focuses on optimizing all aspects of wellness including physical, nutritional, spiritual, economic, mental, emotional & more. He grew up in Augusta, Georgia with a mother that survived 4 heart attacks. He graduated Morehouse in 2006 with a BA of Business Administration and later found employment with the YMCA as a Wellness Coach and there, he fell in love with the concept of community wellness. he has a Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy.

Dr. Dennis Chambers has worked in the Conflict Resolution/Mediation field for the past 20+ years. His extensive experience has afforded him the ability to serve in varied settings, utilizing a holistic approach to problem solving and conflict management.  Dr. Chambers has infused this holistic approach into trainings conducted nationally and locally for parents, families, school-aged children, public schools, and community/corporate organizations. In addition to facilitating these opportunities, he has spearheaded numerous community mediations that have served as an extension to his leadership roles in the social change and equity field over the years.

Join us on Monday, August 8 @ 6pm EST for an informative conversation with author Alina Adams as she shares her thoughts on when grades and test scores don’t match. Alina is a New York Times and Amazon best-selling author of "Getting Into NYC Kindergarten" and "Getting Into NYC High School," as well as the producer of NYCSchoolSecrets.com, focused on parents helping parents. She has written about education for New York School Talk, the 74, Education Post, The NY Daily News and the NY Post. She lives in NYC with her husband and their three children.