🎙️Join us on An Imperfect Leader with trailblazing Marlon Styles!🎙️

This week on An Imperfect Leader: The Superintendents and Leadership Podcast, we get to feature Marlon Styles, former Superintendent of Middletown City School District (OH) and current Partner at the Learner Center Collaborative. 🏫💼

🏆 Named K12 Dive's Superintendent of the Year in 2020, Marlon is a fierce advocate for educational equity and a visionary leader in learner-centered education.

In this powerful conversation, Marlon shares lessons on leadership, innovation, and community engagement.

Here are 3️⃣ themes you won't want to miss:

🚀 Embracing Imperfect Leadership & Chasing Progress, Not Perfection: Marlon reminds us that great leadership means owning mistakes, elevating others, and staying grounded in humility.

✨ Championing Learner-Centered Education & The Power of Bragging: At Learner Center Collaborative, Marlon envisions systems where every learner thrives. He encourages leaders to "drown out the negative" by bragging about the amazing work happening in schools. 📸📢

💡 Strategic Innovation Through Capacity Building & Advocacy: Under his leadership, Middletown earned the ISTE Distinguished District Award 🏅 by building staff capacity and embracing innovation:

• 🕶️ VR art courses
• 🎮 eSports teams
• 🚀 Digital Leader Bootcamps  

Follow Guest Marlon Styles on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlonstylesjr/

Follow Host Peter Stiepleman on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-stiepleman-76004819a/
Website: https://imperfectleader.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animperfectleader/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@animperfectleader 

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An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action is supported by ILAA, LLC, a firm dedicated to supporting aspiring, new, and established leaders. For more information, please find them at https://imperfectleader.com/

Music for An Imperfect Leader was written and arranged by Ian Varley.

Sam Falbo created our artwork, a wood-print inspired daruma doll butterfly.