Claim OwnershipBreak Away: Leadership For A Sound Mind And Body
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This podcast offers ways to engage with the greater University of Michigan leadership community and a chance to break away from the new norms of our daily routines.
Presented by the MIchigan Leadership Collaborative, this anthology magnifies and reinforces the challenges that leaders face today in developing healthy habits that fuel the mind and body. Each episode will focus on various aspects of leadership from a diverse set of voices and perspectives while fostering both a sound mind and body, encouraging you to take a break and use the time to run, walk, roll, or get active as you listen
Presented by the MIchigan Leadership Collaborative, this anthology magnifies and reinforces the challenges that leaders face today in developing healthy habits that fuel the mind and body. Each episode will focus on various aspects of leadership from a diverse set of voices and perspectives while fostering both a sound mind and body, encouraging you to take a break and use the time to run, walk, roll, or get active as you listen
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Yiying Lee, MBA '23, and Larissa Almeida, MBA '23, share stories developed at Sanger Leadership Center's Story Lab. In the podcast, Yiying and Larissa speak to the challenge and importance of choosing authenticity, finding the right mentors, and pushing away naysayers when navigating career decisions.
DeAnthony Foster, an experienced construction management professional, discusses with Christine and Josh how his time in the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) at the University of Michigan shaped his understanding and approach to leadership in his career. He shares an invaluable perspective on how leadership skills evolve, adapt, and mature over time, shaped by real-world experiences. This is a must-listen for those interested in exploring the connections between one's college experiences and forging one's unique path post-graduation into the world as a leader committed to change.
In this episode, we have the second part of a conversation with current and former staff members of Camp Michigania. The family camp owned and operated by the alumni association of the University of Michigan for over sixty years. In this conversation, the second collection of staff members discuss how to lead your peers in an environment where you work and live for an entire summer.
In today's episode we have part one of a conversation with current and former staff members of Camp Michigania, the family camp owned and operated by the alumni association of the University of Michigan for over sixty years. In this conversation, the staff discuss leading your peers in an environment where you work and live for an entire summer.
Justin Stoddard, The CEO and Founder of "Climbing the Mountain", discusses how we can build resiliency and how to overcome adversity. Stoddard, a veteran and now a professor at the United States Air Force academy, discusses with three students Eyda Gu, Ananya Mangla, and Saniya Shahid how to lead through example and lift up others around you. Using individual and universal experiences, Stoddard breaks down exactly what it means to be an uplifting and inspiring leader and the importance of building relationships with those that uplift you.
Storytelling can connect, inform and inspire. Storytelling can increase confidence in recruiting, presenting, and motivating teams and organizations. Storytelling can humanize and personalize workplace cultures. At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. Powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, Story Lab focuses on teaching participants the art and architecture of story development and delivery as a means toward positive influence and impact. In this episode, Sanger Program Specialist Nick Viviano speaks with Story Lab participants John Regan and Josh T. Ferguson, who share stories about loss, connection and the power of reconnecting with parents in new and unexpected ways.
In this episode, two University of Michigan leadership educators, Fatema Haque and Danyelle Reynolds, talk about the differences between feminine and feminist leadership. While feminine leadership calls for inclusion but relies on traditional feminine traits and behaviors, feminist leadership that works to create equitable environments, upend sexist power structures, and expand limited understandings of leadership practice.
Danyelle and Fatema talk about the differences between these approaches to leadership, reflect on some of their experiences, and share how everyone, regardless of gender identity, can become a feminist leader.
What is the legacy of leadership? How do leaders consider their legacy? This episode celebrates the Diversity Peer Educator program's 50th anniversary and legacy of social justice, student empowerment, and campus leadership with two former student leaders, Robert Wilson and Simon Rivers. Together, Robert and Simon reflect on their time as a Diversity Peer Educator and Minority Peer Advisor, the legacy of their leadership, decades of campus causes, and the future of student activism and leadership at the University of Michigan.
Storytelling can connect, inform and inspire. Storytelling can increase confidence in recruiting, presenting, and motivating teams and organizations. Storytelling can humanize and personalize workplace cultures. At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. Powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, Story Lab focuses on teaching participants the art and architecture of story development and delivery as a means toward positive influence and impact. In this episode, Sanger Program Coordinator Nick Viviano speaks with Story Lab participants Noelle Powers (BBA ‘26) and Jackson Irwin (MBA ‘24) about their stories of perseverance and connection.
Three Michigan alumna share their stories of success and how they have navigated Michigan and beyond as women in high ranking positions.
Part 2: Ram Mahalingam talks with Rebecca Irby who shares her background on how she discovered her life’s passion and purpose and then used her North Star to found and lead an international NGO that received Special Consultative Status with the United Nations. She offers guidance on how to help you find your North Star and learn how to use that as your guide throughout the rest of your time in school and, most importantly, moving forward in an integrated, fulfilled way. Subtle shifts in our mindset can lead to significant transformation. We hope you walk away from these episodes and the supporting materials with a greater sense of yourself, the world, and how to navigate it.
To be an effective leader — at work, in the community, or in your personal life — you must be able to communicate with impact. Often this means telling stories that are meaningful to you and others, and doing so in the rich language and expressive style of a seasoned storyteller. At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. Offered by the Sanger Leadership Center at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Story Lab focuses on teaching participants the art and architecture of story development and delivery as a means toward positive influence and impact. At the end of each semester, Story Lab hosts a public showcase inviting some of its workshop participants to take the stage and tell their stories. In this episode, Sanger Program Coordinator Ben Applebaum-Bauch speaks with MBA student Jessica Liang about her story of advocacy in the face of adversity and the ways her leadership skills have developed since participating in Story Lab.
Ram Mahalingam talks with Rebecca Irby who shares her background on how she discovered her life’s passion and purpose and then used her North Star to found and lead an international NGO that received Special Consultative Status with the United Nations. She offers guidance on how to help you find your North Star and learn how to use that as your guide throughout the rest of your time in school and, most importantly, moving forward in an integrated, fulfilled way. Subtle shifts in our mindset can lead to significant transformation. We hope you walk away from these episodes and the supporting materials with a greater sense of yourself, the world, and how to navigate it.
Based on a counseling tool called "motivational interviewing", Emily Giovanili, Marsha Benz, and Christina Gerazounis discuss how to have productive and compassionate conversations. They share skills and techniques that you can use individually or with your team. "If you've been interested in building dynamic and thoughtful conversations within the organizations you join, with your friends, other team members, then this might be for you!"
Brooke Tayler, Solomon Lucy, and Alexxus Lige take us through a journey of the ins and outs of student leadership at the University of Michigan. The panelists explore how to become a leader on campus and everything that goes with that new responsibility. Under a lens of DEI, the three show exactly how to navigate student life, personal well being, and the national climate.
On this collaborative episode between Break Away and Strength in the Midst of Change, features Ram Mahalingam, Barger Leadership Institute Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Barger Leadership Institute, and Doreen Murasky, Interim Associate Director of CEW+. Doreen and Ram talk about the core principles of mindfulness, and how these can be incorporated into your everyday life, work, and relationships to cultivate interconnectedness. Make sure to listen to the end to hear them talk about the importance of being kind to yourself and your imperfections, and extending that same kindness to those around you.
In this episode of Break Way, former Rackham Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion participants Dr. Kristal McGreggor, Dr. Steven Karamihas, and Charlie Groen join Academic Program Specialist Askari Rushing in a conversation around DEI and leadership. Join us in a conversation about the challenges and wins of participating in DEI efforts and how to take care of yourself while engaging in emotionally taxing work.
In this episode of Break Away, students Emily Welch, Tejal Patel, and Soumya Kulkarni explore the importance of service leadership in the wider context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each plays a vital role in their respective service organizations. They share lessons, stories, and techniques on how to build a better team and to be a more understanding and effective leader.
In this episode of “Break Away”, Jacque Young, a senior on the University of Michigan’s women's golf team, interviews Vic Strecher, a visionary leader and expert in the fields of behavior change, digital communication, and wellbeing. He’s Founder & CEO of Kumanu, a next-generation wellbeing company, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, renowned speaker, and author. The two explore how to find one’s own purpose and how to find meaning in life through the guidance of purpose.
In part two of this episode from the Athletics Leadership Development Team, hear from Head Women’s Soccer Coach Jennifer Klein and two student-athletes- Jacque Young of the Women’s Golf team and Adam Wooten of the Men’s Gymnastics team- on their perspectives and wisdom related to a number of leadership topics in relation to building a championship culture.
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