
Leading Without Hardening: Identity, Neurodivergence, and Education Leadership with Jameelah Stuckey
Education leader Jameelah Stuckey has built a career across finance, classroom teaching, school founding, and national education research, and she did it without losing the softness her father told he...
29 Apr 53min

Authenticity Is a Privilege: Identity, Gratitude, and Love as Strategy with Dr. Abiodun Durojaye
Dr. Abiodun Durojaye arrived in the United States at nine years old from Nigeria, and by fourth grade she had learned two things: she was Black in America, and the name her father gave her would not f...
22 Apr 1h 4min

From Special Education Teacher to Corporate Philanthropy: Why Relationships Are the Only Legacy That Matters with Nicholas Pascale
From a special education classroom in West Philadelphia to corporate philanthropy at Vanguard, Nicholas Pascale has spent two decades building his career the same way he builds everything: through rel...
15 Apr 58min

They Want Your Work but Not Your Voice: Ed Reform, Leadership, and Reclaiming Space with Dr. Maya M. Faison
Leadership coach and former statewide education CEO Dr. Maya M. Faison knows what it looks like when organizations want your brilliance but not your voice, and she is done staying quiet about it. In t...
8 Apr 58min

From Rupture to Aperture: Peace, Justice, and the Art of Community-Driven Education with Hector Calderón
Hector Calderón grew up watching the South Bronx burn, taught himself English through Gilligan's Island tapes, and went on to co-found the first Human Rights High School in the nation. In this episode...
1 Apr 1h 1min

Issues in Our Tissues: Mindfulness, Burnout, and Conscious Leadership with Amanda Muhammad
Mindfulness coach and professional development consultant Amanda Muhammad knows what burnout looks like from the inside, and she built a company to help organizations do something about it. In this ep...
25 Mar 1h 1min

Rethinking the Brain and Human Potential with Ellen Petry Leanse
From Silicon Valley innovator to neuroscience educator, Ellen Petry Leanse explores what happens when we stop separating creativity from analytical thinking and begin using the full capacity of the hu...
18 Mar 1h 6min

Faith, Mentorship, and Systems Change in Education with Dr. Natalie Neris
What does it take to lead real change inside systems that weren’t built for you? In this episode of Ronderings, Dr. Natalie Neris shares how mentorship, faith, and integrity shaped her journey from Ch...
11 Mar 1h 1min




















