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Leadership for the Long Run – Inspiring Leadership Development at Gilman School

The power of a good teacher is profound and goes beyond his or her ability to deliver material. A teacher…
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gcLibrary Book Review: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

In Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (Mariner Press, 2016), Drs. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool make a…
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Why am I Grateful for My Leadership Lab Experience?

Students write for a couple minutes with pen and paper in journals so that they may train their brain to…
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Storytelling: A Pathway to Leadership and Purpose

Being a speaker at the gcLi Symposium was a surreal experience for me because I barely passed high school and…
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Cultivating Public Purpose & Leadership Development at Rye Country Day School

While attending the gcLi Leadership Lab in June, I began to see leadership as the development of character with an…
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Benefitting From a Brilliant Partnership

I can thank the Gardner Carney Leadership Institute for many things, but perhaps the biggest impact gcLi had on my…
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Drinking From the Firehose at the gcLi Symposium

During the opening session of the gcLi Symposium on Building Cultures of Leadership, Dr. Ted Fish, Executive Director,  highlighted the…
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Reflecting on the gcLi Leadership Symposium II

In her seminar, Compassionate and Courageous Leaders, Dr. Brooke Lavelle of the Courage of Care Coalition projected pictures of people.…


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Emily Ihrke
Executive Editor, gcLi Leadership Blog
Director PK-12 Ethical Leadership Program
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee (WI)
eihrke@gclileadership.org