The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

Genein Letford is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity™. She is the founder of CAFFE Strategies, and has inspired and led many to reconnect to their creative abilities in order to produce innovative ideas for an inclusive workspace. Show Highlights   The 7-gems of intercultural creativity framework Redefining creativi...

Sasha Lipskaia helps her powerful clients get clarity on who they really are, become magnetic to what they desire, and embody their purpose by getting out of their minds and into the truth of their hearts so that they can feel aligned and worthy in their relationships, and their mission in the world. Over the past 20 years, Sasha's work has integrated a variety of healing modalities, mystical trad...

Jason Dropik is an educational leader serving diverse communities with his just cause in creating meaningful and lasting relationships. He has served both Public and Private Schools in and near Milwaukee Wisconsin for over 20 years. Mr. Dropik currently serves as the Head of School at the Indian Community School in Franklin, WI. Dropik believes in the power of diverse collaboration and is also ser...

Stanley S. Litow is Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he also served as Innovator in Residence and also teaches at Columbia University. He previously served as deputy chancellor of schools for New York City and as president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM. At IBM, he helped create Pathways in Technology Early College H...

Robyn Jackson teaches a simple 4 step process that helps you improve teacher will AND skill so that you can achieve your vision for your school with the people you already have. No more waiting for others to get on board before you can reach your goals. No more having your vision be held hostage by the resistant, but vocal few. With this 4-step process, you don't have to wait to achieve your visio...

Randy Weiner has worked in education, ed tech and consulting throughout his career. In 2012, He co- founded and served as the first Chairman of the Board at Urban Montessori Charter School ( UMCS ) in Oakland, CA—the nation's first public Montessori, Arts Integration and Design Thinking school. Randy is also a co-founder and the CEO at BrainQuake , a three- time U.S. Department of Education Small...

Dan Butler  serves as the principal of Epworth Elementary School in the Western Dubuque Community School District. Previously, he was the principal of Epworth and Farley Elementary Schools simultaneously for four years focusing on positive relationships with all members of the learning community, high impact instructional techniques, building leadership capacity in others, and establishing success...

Eric is an Associate Partner with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Prior to this, he was a teacher and the award-winning Principal at New Milford High School. Under his leadership, his school became a globally recognized model for innovative practices. Eric oversaw the successful implementation of several sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the lea...

Show Highlights   Build IT better with an engaged and flourishing staff.   Be a leader with an abundance of energy and give your staff a "good cold." Ask this important question with a high speed complaint session to achieve amazing results.  Live through challenges with perspective,  privilege and beauty.  Ruckus Makers can play BIGGER  in 2022 to Level Up Leadership.  Be intentional where you're...

George Guy Jr George Guy's "why" is empowerment through equity.  George works to create more access and greater opportunities within public PreK-12 spaces as an equity consultant with the Foundation for Educational Administration.   He is also principal of the Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.     Show Highlights Cast a wider scope of criteria currently in place for equi...

Clement Townsend is a former journalist who spent 17 years on TV and told more than 1,000 stories. He now teaches youth how to use their voice and video to tell impactful stories with authenticity and creativity. He has a proven record of teaching youth with a fun and robust program. In addition to learning journalism pa rticipants develop in demand skills that can benefit them in any career field...

Julie Warner is an education writer and national and international consultant with a specific focus on educational technology and teacher wellness. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University and worked as a secondary teacher and college professor before stints as an Education Policy Advisor in the U.S. Senate and the White House and later overseeing the teacher i...

Claire Yvonne Naisbitt  is a transition pro having changed her whole life in less than 2 years. She loves deep personal work so she can serve her clients powerfully and go wherever they need and want to go. ClaireYvonne thrives in the land of duality, where we can have humor and be serious, be artistic and scientists, introverted and extroverted, celebrating and integrating our unique wholeness. B...

Kayla Tucker is the owner of Kayla Elease Coaching Services, LLC, a company that helps female K-12 principals to effectively manage stress and prioritize health and well being without a dependency on time management hacks, exercise, or delegation. As a school psychologist by trade with years of experience in the online wellness space, Kayla is an expert on stress management for school leaders. Usi...

Michelle Goldschlag is the Co-founder and CEO of Cultured Kids (CK), a nonprofit organizationthat believes a student's sense of belonging is the primary catalyst for their success. Michelle's entrepreneurial spirit led to two other "failed" businesses before starting CK. Both endeavors, along with her dual degrees in Art & Spanish, strengthened CK's foundation. Aside from partnering with schools a...

Danny Bauer: Chief Ruckus Maker Show Highlights Remarkable Vision Formula. Three steps to creating a remarkable life or remarkable family in a remarkable school.  Write a vision for "those who read it can run."  Row a remarkable vision for alignment between teams. Vision is working towards something much bigger than ourselves. Create your Bollingen Tower to be in the midst of your true life. The o...

Dr. Khalil Graham is an experienced Education leader with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. A visionary leader that creates a safe and effective learning-focused environment for students to enrich their individual growth, enrichment, and goals of life-long learning, setting them up for success in their collegiate journey and life thereafter. Skilled in Nonprof...

Dre "All Day" Baldwin teaches what he learned to help people dominate their game in work and in life. How To Dominate Your Game At Work & In Life (And Avoid Feeling As If You've Wasted Your Talent And Opportunity). He was a hard-working athlete who had distant dreams of going pro, but he was coming from a small NCAA D3 school, and had no connections to the professional world. To add insult to inju...

Julie Jungalwala is a coach and advisor to school leaders, educational institutions, and foundations whose mission is to shape the future of K–12 education. She has over twenty years' experience building effective learning environments that unlock human potential and enable organizational culture to adapt and grow during times of change.   She is the founder and executive director of Institute for...

G. Richard Shell is a global thought leader and senior faculty member at one of the world's leading business schools, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Chair of Wharton's Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, the largest department of its kind in the world. His forthcoming book, The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career addresses an in...

David Bott is a sought-after speaker, author and education consultant who works with government organisations and some of the world's leading schools to help guide wellbeing vision and strategy. As an expert in applied wellbeing science, David has supported thousands of educators from hundreds of schools around the world in designing and implementing system-level approaches to wellbeing and cultur...

Vicki Philips is a former teacher. Life-long teacher champion. Avid reader. Lover of geography. Committed to empowering the next generation of solution-seekers, planetary stewards and changemakers. She is driven by a fierce determination to help all students realize their dreams. Over the past four decades, she has worked at all levels of education to champion students' rights to a high-quality ed...

Daniel Bauer is an unorthodox Ruckus Maker who has mentored thousands of school leaders through his Better Leaders Better Schools blog, books, podcasts, and powerful coaching experiences.  Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader is a book that reimagines what professional development for school administrators looks like in order to meet the needs of all school leaders who currently...

Daniel Bauer is an unorthodox Ruckus Maker who has mentored thousands of school leaders through his Better Leaders Better Schools blog, books, podcasts, and powerful coaching experiences.  Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader is a book that reimagines what professional development for school administrators looks like in order to meet the needs of all school leaders who currently...

Ryan Gottfredson , Ph. D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership. He is also a leadership professor at the Col...