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Harvard Business Review: Why Diverse Groups Feel uncomfortable and perform better…

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Kathleen McNamara Head's Up!

Why Diverse Teams Perform Better… This is a food for thought as we navigate our ever increasingly diverse world and create leadership for the 21st Century.        

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This is an inspirational speech…

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Kathleen McNamara Head's Up!

This speech, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s commencement ceremony last week leaves me enticed and thrilled about what is possible in education. This speech also reminds of Between the World and Me, Ta’Nehisi Coates , amazing text, made all the … Continue reading →

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Everything I thought I knew about school was validated at Harvard… and there were a few surprises!

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Kathleen McNamara Head's Up!

Listening to Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot present The Third Chapter and hear how it applies to our work in schools? Priceless. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/04/i-have-always-been-temperamentally-wired-to-carry-on/

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