Leadership Book Club

Leadership Book Club: Join Our Monthly Online Meetings

February 5, 2024

We invite you to be a part of a leadership book club for staff and faculty across campus. The purpose of the leadership book club is to provide a monthly opportunity for staff and faculty across campus (including graduates of the Leadership Fellows Formation Program) to connect and to support each other in our leadership journeys through shared knowledge, understanding, critical analysis, experiences, and literature.

The Online Leadership Book Club for UP Faculty and Staff at UP will continue to meet this semester on the 2nd Wednesday of the month in February, March, April, and May at 11:30-12:30 p.m. on TEAMs. Instead of a book, we will follow a series of podcasts and articles for discussion.

February: Our first meeting will be held Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and will be led by Randy Hetherington. The meeting will feature the Dare to Lead Podcast with Brené Brown featuring Simon Sinek on Developing an Infinite Mindset.
March: Jon Down will lead our second meeting focused on Leadership and Politics. We will discuss: The Self-Aware Leader with Jason Rigby – Abraham Lincoln’s SECRET to Leadership: How He Saved America with Self-Awareness, (November 2, 2023—14 minutes) and Secrets of Great Political Leadership, S5E5 of the Duke Stanford Ways & Means podcast (October 15, 2020—16 minutes).
April: Scott Grainger will lead a discussion on #GenZ Podcast – Episode 34: Gen Z and Leadership
May: Kala Mayer will lead a discussion on David Brooks in Conversation with Jonathan Capehart on Capeheart’s newest book: How to Know a Person; The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.

All are welcome.

If you would like to attend any of the sessions this semester, please contact Dr. Kala Mayer at mayerk@up.edu to be added to the Leadership Book Club TEAMs page.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, presented “Rethinking the Human Person Beyond the Limits of Imago Dei: Insights from the Peripheral World.” A virtual lecture given to students at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Tuesday, October 28, 2024. Aihiokhai also presented: “The Theologian as a Voice of Sacramental Disruption: Embracing a Curious Imagination”; “Theology as a Sacramental Discipline of Disruption: Towards a Pedagogy for a Secular World”; “Holy Disruption: Black Bodies as Sacraments of Transformation.” Sankofa Institute Scholars Meet and Greet Event, Sankofa Institute/Oblate School of Theology. San Antonio, Texas. November 8, 2024.

Anna Myers, Education, presented “Precise Feedback Instruction During Reading Intervention for Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension.” Conference Session at the International Dyslexia Association. Dallas, TX. October, 2024.

Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, presented “‘A Woman So Perfect Keeping the Law’: The Crypto-Jewish Faith of Justa Méndez in Colonial Mexico.” The 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (presented virtually). October 27, 2024.

David Fuentes, Nursing and Health Innovations, presented “Bridging the Skills across Human and Artificial Intelligence Coaching Strategies to Boost Peer-Coaching & Self-Coaching Skills.” Co-presenter: Dave Houglum, PhD. Lightning Session of the Catholic Higher Education and AI Conference at University of Portland. The session briefly highlighted some of the innovations concerning the use of AI in leadership coaching, practice/training, and coaching ongoing developmental growth. October, 2024. Fuentes also presented: “Using Project Management Methodologies to Align General Education Assessment, Program Review, and Accreditation Simultaneously.”; “Systems-Thinking and Relationship Building to Address Accreditation and Institutional Efficiency.”; “Promoting Institutional Culture through Assessment Policy Development and Maximizing Stakeholder Engagement through Organizational Learning.” Co-presenters: S. Richards and JA Hughes. Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. October, 2024.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, presented nine, one-hour invited leadership presentations for the European Leadership Programme in Brussels, Belgium. Houglum also provided individual leadership coaching sessions to many of the programme’s Fellows and to the staff of the Jesuit European Social Center (JESC). The European Leadership Programme draws emerging leaders from across Europe to participate in a five-month leadership development programme. October 12-16, 2024.

Andrew Eshelman, Philosophy, published “Reflection and Ideal Reasons-Responsiveness.” Special issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy honoring the work of John Martin Fischer. October 8, 2024.

Jeffrey Gauthier, Philosophy, presented “Prostitution, Harm Reduction, and Male Entitlement” and “Comments on Virginia Moscetti, ‘Contracts and Sexual Promising: A Kantian Perspective.'” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College. November 2, 2024.