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In this episode of the Tepper Reads podcast, Accelerate Leadership Center Academic Program Managers Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner discuss the character of Mark in Weike Wang's Joan is Okay. Topics covered include: how exposure to diversity and different cultures increases self-awareness and helps you grow as a person, the Golden Rule v. the Platinum Rule, and more.

In the first of two podcasts this fall about Weike Wang's Joan is Okay, Academic Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss how people don't always lead or influence in the same way, learning to empathize with characters you don't like, and the paradox of what makes an American.

In the final podcast of the Spring 2022 Tepper Reads project, Academic Program Managers in Tepper's Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, continue their conversation about Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers. In this episode they talk about history and the importance of knowing where you come from, whose stories are told and whose are erased and why, and the first rule of leadership: "It's not about you."

Our discussion of Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers continues in the second podcast of the Spring 2022 season. Academic Program Managers in the Tepper School of Business' Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about metonymy, how it's different from metaphor, and how it helps us make sense of the world around us. Also discussed is America's penchant for quantity over quality, how gold functions in the novel and in real life, and different ways of being.

In the first episode of the spring 2022 podcast season, academic program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss why Gold Diggers is the Tepper Reads pick for this spring. In the discusssion they touch upon how the novel helps one understand the motivations of others, relatability vs. empathy, upending stereotypes, the joy of reading the novel, and much more.

In this episode, Accelerate lead for Tepper Reads, Matthew Stewart, speaks with CMU School of English professor, Jane McCafferty about being seen vs. being unseen, the roles we play in families and society, the costs associated with changing your identity, imposter syndrome, and what all of this has to do with The Vanishing Half.

SHIFT Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, dissect this spring's book, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half. They talk about the cinematic qualities of the book, community and place in the book, Bennett's clear and accessible writing style, its classic fictional style, and how well it works to build empathy in readers (Hint: it works really well!).

Dr. Rich Purcell is an Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Director of the Literary and Cultural Studies Program. In this episode we talk about a day in the life of an English faculty member, post-Civil War Reconstruction in the U.S., voting rights, changing the pop culture narrative, inclusive, democratic leadership, and confronting our past and the literal and figurative bones beneath our feet.

The third installment of the Fall 2020 Tepper Reads podcast series features Associate Director of Tepper Graduate Student Services, Kevin Dietrick. We talk about the banality of evil, growing up in a multicultural family, and what to do after you vote, all through the lens of The Nickel Boys.

Leslie Odom Jr. walks through his journey toward success—from discovery, through many rejections, to his first experience on Broadway and the Hamilton phenomenon.

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I recorded this podcast with Ari Lightman while attending Dell World 2015. Ari is a Professor and Director at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he teaches classes on IT transformation, marketing, social media and mobile content. Ari is a major contributor to the Social Business Journal that we published with Dell. He also participated on a social selling panel with me at Dell World.

Ari's work is intriguing. I enjoyed learning how his students at Carnegie Mellon University conduct research on behalf of large brands.

Researchers in the classroom have access to a variety of different software programs and tools used during their learning experience. When they come to the workforce, they expect to have access to those tools with which they're already familiar.

In this episode, you'll discover a few ways to ask questions when problem solving and how young researchers expect open access to the tools they need. You'll also learn how Ari's students at CMU created an opportunity for one company to generate an extra million dollars in revenue from their research findings and recommendations.

View the show notes page: http://www.socialbusinessengine.com/podcasts/expectations-graduate-student-when-they-enter-workforce