The Perkins Platform

“Recognized by Meetings and Conventions Magazine as one of the nation’s top business speakers.”, Kaplan Mobray is globally acclaimed as one of the world’s most dynamic and inspirational business speakers, and joins us to discuss his book, The 10Ks of Personal Branding: Create a Better You. Wharton educated, Kaplan has been featured on CNN, FOX, Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and shares his message to NFL players and fans annually at the Super Bowl. He continues to serve as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and an advisor to the nation’s top business schools, working with business leaders to elevate Performance Excellence, Branding, Leadership Effectiveness, Innovation, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Workforce Transformation. Kaplan has delivered presentations in 23 countries across 5 continents. All of his innovative presentations have been described as life-changing events. In his personal pursuits, Kaplan is a professional saxophone player. He resides in West Nyack, NY and is active in civic and charitable organizations.  Tune in for this broadcast on Wednesday, April 10 @ 6pm EST!

Join us on April 3@ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with world-renowned organizational psychologist and author, Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, to discuss his new book, Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings. Dr. Rogelberg holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He is an award-winning teacher, has over 200 publications, been cited well-over 10,000 times in the academic literature, and was recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research on meetings. Adam Grant has called Steven the “worlds leading expert on how to fix meetings”. He has been interviewed or featured on major TV broadcasts (e.g.  CBS This Morning, multiple times on CNN, BBC World), radio (e.g., NPR’s Morning Edition), leading podcasts, and in most major newspapers and magazines. His keynotes on meetings span the globe and occur at the world’s leading organizations including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Amazon, Pfizer, Cisco, Bank of America, PayPal, Dell, The United Nations, 3M, RAND, The Security Exchange Commission, Corning, Siemens, London Stock Exchange, TIAA, and Warner Brothers. He was the inaugural winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Humanitarian Award and just finished his term as President of SIOP, the largest professional organization in the world for organizational psychology.

Join us on Today, March 27 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, Nicholas Tampio, discussing his new introduction to the seminal text, Democracy and Education written by John Dewey (Columbia University Press 2024). Nicholas researches the history of political thought, contemporary political theory and education policy. He is the author of Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (Edward Elgar Publishing 2022) and has published books on teaching political theory, democracy and national education standards, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and the legacy of the Enlightenment in contemporary political theory. Nicholas serves as an editor of the journal Comparative Political Theory and faculty advisor to the Fordham Political Review and the Fordham Pi Sigma Alpha chapter. He often writes for public facing outlets such as the Boston Globe, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and his articles have been translated into Albanian, Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Join us on Wednesday, March 20 @ 6pm EST for an informative conversation with librarian, lecturer and educator, Lisa Manganello as she shares her thoughts about how to prepare students to be consumers of information. Lisa has been a librarian at South Brunswick High School for the past seventeen years, where she was recognized as Educator of the Year in 2015. An active member of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, Lisa presents regularly on information literacy. Recent presentations include Now What?: Information Literacy Lessons for the High School Library, Diverse Readers, Diverse Books: New Titles to Build a Culture of Reading, and Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Information Literacy with your Librarian.  In January 2024, she published an article titled “Information Literacy begins in your school library” in NJEA Review Magazine.

Partnering with Dr. Joyce Valenza, Professor of Information Science at Rutgers University, Lisa helped to develop the New Jersey Open Library Tour (NJOLT) to give pre-service and practicing librarians opportunities to visit and learn from their colleagues throughout the state. She is passionate about sharing her information literacy lessons with other educators and spotlighting the value of school librarians. Lisa’s work with media literacy has been featured in reports on NBC and CNN.

Join us on Wednesday, March 13 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with Managing Partner of Triad Consulting Group, Debbie Goldstein as she shares her work in conflict and communication. Debbie teaches negotiation as a faculty member at Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has also taught at Tufts University School of Medicine and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center for many years. Her work often takes her internationally: to Dubai, where she worked with government leaders; to Ethiopia, where she worked with the Members of Parliament; and to Cyprus, where she taught public policy students from across the globe. Her varied clients include Merck, Chanel, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Capital One, Barclay’s, Honda, Standard Bank, Shell, Boeing, General Mills, MetLife, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup, Prudential, and Proctor & Gamble. She coaches senior executives through difficult decision-making and managing critical relationships, and has helped mediate family business disputes. In the public sector, she founded and ran a free legal aid clinic called LINC (Legal Initiative for Children) for the patients at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea outpost. She is currently on the Board of Directors of WBUR and Income Research + Management. She has been a featured guest on NPR, and her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, the Management Information Exchange Journal, and the Harvard Business Review. Debbie is a graduate of Williams College and Boston College Law School. After college, Debbie lived in Chicago chasing (and catching) her dream of becoming a jazz vocalist. Debbie can be reached at [email protected].

Join us on Wednesday, March 6 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with Jana L. Carlisle, EdD, discussing her new book, Women Navigating Educational Leadership (Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives). Dr. Carlisle has spent more than 30 years working to transform public education outcomes through leadership positions in the not-for-profit, public, private, and philanthropic sectors. Her roles have placed her in settings from urban districts to those focused on education advocacy, philanthropy, leadership, evaluation, and reform. She currently serves as Lead Consultant for Education Support Consulting, which provides strategy, planning, framework, and implementation support to clients. Dr. Carlisle studied political science and international relations as an undergraduate at Michigan State University’s James Madison College, Public Policy Analysis with a focus on education when earning her Masters of Science at the University of Rochester, and educational leadership for her doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania’s Mid- Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership.

Dr. Carlisle designed her new book to deliver—in an accessible manner and in one volume—new and existing knowledge, insights, interrelationships, and practices about women in educational leadership. Women Navigating includes a comprehensive equation for women pursuing and serving as educational leaders. The book will appeal to practitioners who wish to gain understanding as well as those who teach in graduate schools of education. Women Navigating presents a view of what it takes for future leaders envisioning their own journeys as well as insights into what it has taken for women to serve as educational leaders.

International keynote speaker, research scientist, and author of the The Happiness Track (HarperOne, 2016), Emma Seppälä, Ph.D., joins us to share her work on harnessing the mind and success. She is currently a Lecturer at the Yale School of Management and Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management's Women's Leadership Program. She is also the Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Seppälä’s expertise is positive leadership, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and social connection. Her research has been published in top academic journals and featured in major news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and CBSNews. Seppälä speaks and consults internationally for Fortune 500 companies like Google and Facebook and contributes to Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and TIME among others. She has also spoken at several TEDx events. A repeat guest on Good Morning America, her research on breathing for military veterans with trauma was highlighted in the documentary Free the Mind. She is also featured in documentaries like The Altruism Revolution, What You Do Matters, and Bullied. She graduated from Yale (BA), Columbia (MA), and Stanford (Ph.D.). Originally from Paris, France, she is a native speaker of French, English, and German and conversant in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. Tune in for this broadcast on Wednesday, February 28 @ 6pm EST!

Join us on Wednesday, February 21 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) discussing his work on how people learn and his latest book. Jared is a neuroscientist, educator, best-selling author, and creator of the award-winning program The Learning Blueprint. He has conducted research and lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Melbourne, and over 750 schools internationally. Jared has published 6 books, over 50 research articles, and his work has been featured in numerous popular publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, and PBS’s NOVA. He currently serves as Director of LME Global: a team dedicated to bringing the latest brain and behavioral research to teachers, students, and parents alike.

Distinguished leader, educator, journalist and author, Arnold E. Holtberg joins us to share his opinions on how to teach the truth even when it's challenging. Arnold is the strategic advisor of The Compass School of Texas, a start-up private school for students age 4 through grade 3, and a contributing columnist for The Dallas Morning News and The Arkansas Democrat Gazette. He is also an accomplished author with his latest releases, "Second Down and Life to Go" (Spring 2024) and "Game On! One Boy’s Odyssey" (2023). He previously served as the Headmaster of St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas for over 20 years, Dean of Students and teacher of Social Studies in numerous other U.S. private and public schools, as well as the principal of the Hong Kong International School. His experiences on the Board of Directors of non-profit organizations and private schools, as well as a Regional Panelist for the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, has informed his leadership strategies and skills to improve education systems. Arnold holds an M.A.R. in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Lutheran Theological Seminary and an A.B. in Sociology, Cum Laude, from Princeton University, showcasing excellence in academics and athletics. Tune in for this broadcast on Wednesday, February 14 @ 6pm EST!

Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, Edwidge Danticat joins us to discuss her work and particularly the design and intent in her course, "Writing in the Presence of Ancestors.” Edwidge received her B.A. in French Literature from Barnard College and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University. She is the author of seventeen books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories, The Dew Breaker, Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, After the Dance, and a collection of essays, Create Dangerously. Edwidge is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 winner of the Neustadt Prize, a 2019 winner of the Saint Louis Literary Award, a 2020 United States Artist Fellow, a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize, and a 2023 winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her story collection, Everything Inside, was a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize. Her essay collection We're Alone is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in Fall 2024, and a novel, The Once and Future Dead, from Knopf in 2025. Tune in for this special broadcast on Wednesday, February 7 @ 6pm EST!