Dr. John King served as the 10th U.S. Secretary of Education, under President Obama. Here’s why he says education saved his life — and why addressing “unfinished learning” is at the heard to the education, opportunity, and equity gaps.
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Sheila Ohlsson Walker, Ph.D.: How to Strive in Stressful Times
As protests, police brutality and the ongoing threat of COVID-19 upend notions of safety and unleash deep-seated fury and grief, stress and worry abound. I spoke with Dr. Sheila Ohlsson Walker about the steps we can take to be well and even thrive.
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Andrew McAfee: Why Capitalism & Technology Will Save the Planet
Is our best hope to stop global warming and save the planet the exact formula that created the mess in the first place? Andrew McAfee argues for capitalism & technology in “More From Less”
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James Poniewozik: How the Trump Show Happened
Poniewozik explains how “a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America’s most powerful medium to become our 45th president.” He also explains what happened to us – how, as TV & media changed over the last decades, so did we. And you might not like what we’ve become.
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Rebecca Traister: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
Rebecca Traister, author of a must-read new book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger joined me for a discussion on how the role
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership in Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership in Turbulent Times, joined me to discuss presidential leadership in the age of Donald Trump. Subscribe via iTunes or
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Steven Brill: Tailspin — America’s Fifty-Year Fall
Steven Brill, author of Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It, joined me to discuss what’s wrong with
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Jennifer Palmieri: Dear Madam President
Jennifer Palmieri, former Hillary Clinton communications director and author of Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, joined
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Chris Whittle: Reforming Education, Globally
It’s impossible to have followed Education for the last 40 years and not know Chris Whittle. He’s a serial education entrepreneur – a “reformer,” as he
Read moreConversation with Susie Orman Schnall on Work/Life Balance: The Balance Project
Working Capital Conversation: Leading thinkers, practitioners and experts discuss the ideas that drive global business. The challenge of work/life balance continues confound. Employees insist they want
Read moreWorking Capital Conversations: The CEO Reputation Premium with Leslie Gaines-Ross, Weber Shandwick
Working Capital Conversations: Leading thinkers, practitioners and experts discuss the ideas that drive global business. How should a CEO behave? Bold? Maybe. Decisive? Probably. But how
Read moreRetro Report’s Barbara Dury: “McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic”
Few stories were more disturbing. Systematic child molestation in our nation’s preschools. It started, of course, with the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, CA in
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