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Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here. Or if there is no hyperlink, go to peterstiepleman.com, you can order it there.

Imperfect Leaders! Today on an Imperfect Leader, Dr. Mike Redmond is my guest. Mike has been the Superintendent of Shakopee Public Schools, in Shakopee, Minnesota since 2018.

In our conversation, we talk about best practices when it comes to planning for a bond election In your district. In his After Action Review, Mike describes lessons learned when implementing district-wide change and the importance of making decisions with the people most impacted.

Thanks for listening!

BIO: Before becoming Shakopee's Superintendent, Mike served as the Superintendent for Goodhue Public Schools in Goodhue, Minnesota. He was an Executive Director of Secondary Education for Stillwater Area Public Schools, served as principal of John Glenn Middle School in Maplewood, Minnesota, and has been an assistant principal, a social studies teacher, a soccer coach and a basketball coach.

Mike is an active member of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators as well as the Association of Metropolitan School Districts. Dr. Redmond is also an adjunct professor for Winona State.

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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 www.human-centeredleaders.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.

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Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here. Or if there is no hyperlink, go to peterstiepleman.com and order it there.

Imperfect Leaders! This week on an Imperfect Leader, Dr. Vickie Murillo is my guest. Dr. Murillo has served as the Superintendent of the Council Bluffs Community School District in Council Bluffs, Iowa since July of 2017. 

As Superintendent, Dr. Murillo has charted a course to ensure all students are future ready. She has done this by championing Early College Academy located on the campus of Iowa Western Community College (allowing high school students to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree). She has proudly supported innovative programming like TradeWorks Academy, which is a certified pre-apprenticeship program for high school sophomores and juniors. 

In her After Action Review, she describes the creation of Diploma Plus One Pathways and for every good reason, she’s is so excited about one her district’s kid from Council Bluffs, Iowa who is a Quest Bridge Scholar. I’ve linked to Quest Bridge in the episode notes so you know what a BIG deal that is.

Her list of achievements and interests are really impressive. Thanks for listening!

Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here. Or if there is no hyperlink, go to peterstiepleman.com and order it there.

Imperfect Leaders! This week, Matt Hornbeck is my guest. He is the principal of Hampstead Hill Academy in Baltimore, Maryland. In our conversation, we talk about the importance of relationships in schools and we talk about restorative practices (he describes the process of fixing what has been broken so so well).

In his After Action Review, we talk about the early years of leadership and what can be learned when a leader focuses more on what they want as opposed to documenting what they don’t want. The topic is staff attendance. Thanks for tuning in!

BIO: Matt is an established leader in Baltimore, Maryland. Before becoming a principal at Hampstead Hill Academy, a Baltimore City charter school, he was an educational consultant with large urban districts on resource allocation and principal training. He holds a master’s degree in educational administration as well as a law degree.  

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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 www.human-centeredleaders.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.

Hello Imperfect Leaders! This week, Dr. Adam Swinyard is my guest. Adam is the superintendent of the Spokane Public Schools in Spokane, Washington.

The first part of our conversation is dedicated to Adam's dissertation research and how there is a correlation between principals who regularly assess school culture with the success of the children in that school. I found it to be really interesting. Adam's After Action Review is all about the pandemic. Adam is smart and inspiring. Thanks for tuning in!

BIO: The Spokane Public Schools board of directors named Dr. Adam Swinyard superintendent in the summer of 2020. Dr. Swinyard previously served as the district’s associate superintendent for teaching and learning and director of secondary schools. Prior to working in district administration, Dr. Swinyard was the principal at Sacajawea Middle School in Spokane from 2013 – 2016

AND, Dr. Swinyard was recently recognized as the 2023 Washington State Superintendent of the Year.

• Adam's Twitter handle is @SuptSwinyard
   

Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here. Or if there is no hyperlink, go to peterstiepleman.com and order it there.

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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 www.human-centeredleaders.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.

Hello Imperfect Leaders! In this episode of An Imperfect Leader, Dr. Tony Aylsworth is my guest. As many know, the aim of this podcast is to learn about how superintendents think, plan, lead, use systems, and learn lessons. In this episode, Tony tells us about his experience leading two school district in Iowa simultaneously and he tells us about what he learned from a bond election (and how EVERY vote counts). Thanks for tuning in!

BIO: Tony has been the Superintendent of the Pleasantville Community Schools, in Pleasantville, Iowa since 2014. Before that, he was a high school principal. Tony has been an adjunct instructor at multiple colleges and universities, including Iowa State University. He can be found on Twitter by following @Taylsworth.

Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here.

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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 www.human-centeredleaders.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.

In this episode of an Imperfect Leader, Nate Levenson is my guest. In our conversation, we talk about the budgeting process and the importance of engaging in high levels of collaboration. During his After Action Review, Nate describes his experience of eliminating the school's crossing guards, a decision he believed to be the right one based on the data. He learned a lot about the politics surrounding a decision. 

BIO: Nate is a former Massachusetts superintendent and is president of New Solutions K12. Nate is an author, most recently publishing Six Shifts to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions (by Harvard Education Press).

I met Nate a few years ago, at just the right time. I was making a transition in my leadership approach and was looking for ways to engage in distributed leadership when it came to budgeting. I read Smarter Budgets, Smarter Schools and asked Nate if he'd work with our organization to help us make better decisions. We went on to make better decisions - together.

Book Update! You can preorder my forthcoming book, An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action. Click on the link here.

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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 www.human-centeredleaders.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.

In this episode of An Imperfect Leader, Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez is my guest. Dr. Torres-Rodriguez is the Superintendent in Hartford, CT, a school district with about 17,000 students. Leslie cares so deeply for her district because her district is so personal to her - she graduated from the Hartford Public Schools and then returned to lead it.

In her After Action Review, she describes the process she used to make the recommendation to consolidate (close) schools in her school district. Thanks for tuning in!

BIO: Dr. Torres-Rodriguez was named the 2022 National Superintendent of the Year by the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS), received the 2019 Award for Educational Leadership from the Connecticut Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (CALAS) as well as the 2019 Prospanica National Brillante Award for Educational Excellence.

Dr. Torres-Rodriguez is a member of the Governor’s Workforce Council and serves on the Hartford Promise Board. She also co-chairs the Mayor’s Cabinet for Young Children in Hartford.

Jay juggles a lot of different roles in his life, from father of four to real estate investor to owner of a multi-location business. He discusses the principles that help him sort through the flood of options so he can choose well, from things that apply to all decisions to role-specific decision-making principles.
 

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Coming out of this crazy pandemic in 2021 we found out that we need to rely more on automation system station than ever. I call it automation systemization and it’s having every part of your business and organization run as an automated predictable system. We have learned that we need to make our life as streamlined as possible and that it has become the future of doing things like online booking platforms to your most applicable marketing systems all need to be on auto pilot. You may think that I have to be the one to answer the phone or a member of my staff when your customer client gives us a call,  No I want you to think about the last time you called down the street to a store to see if they had something in stock and run to pick it up. It’s not that that does not happen, but it’s going away day by day. When you need to purchase something you typically go online to companies like Amazon to get your product as quickly and as efficiently as possible, and the only time you don’t is when you need something right now. We have a local convenience store chain in the tri-state area called Wawa, if you live by one you definitely know about this place and one of the important parts of this chain is ordering food which you cannot go to the counter and ask for no matter even if they’re not busy, you have to go to a screen and put everything in. At this time robots are not making your food, people are however to order it a robot type device is required in order to keep everything streamlined and without flaw. In this podcast of Season 2/ episode 42 I discussed in great detail all the reasons to consider it and examples of how you can implement your service-based business. Take the words you’re hearing this podcast extremely important as they are and how much a business will be done in the future. It’s how they’re doing it many other industries and the service business is now implementing it more and more every day. We again want to than sotellus.com/Roblyon for sponsoring our podcast, they are an amazing business that we use ourselves with Newjerseysbest.com. Call they to try for free today!! In this podcast I talk about server also companies, here are the links to them fittlebug.com, service monster.net, markate.com, housecallpro.com, servicetitan.com, Sendjim. Io, morningtechmeeting.com