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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 88: Shift Skills for Critical and Creative Thinking: An Interview with Maureen Breeze

Ep. 88 - Shift Skills for Critical and Creative Thinking: An Interview with Maureen Breeze In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Maureen Breeze, Senior Vice President of Lifebound, a social impact company that provides resources, coaching and training to drive learning and personal development with education institutions, non-profits, and businesses throughout the world. Maureen is also the co-author…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 86: Designing for Collaboration: An Interview with Alexandra Coso Strong

Ep. 86 - Designing for Collaboration: An Interview with Alexandra Coso Strong In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Alexandra Coso Strong, assistant professor of systems design and engineering at Olin College of Engineering. Alexandra is currently co-designing/co-teaching a brand new Educational Design Studio course this semester that integrates systems thinking with educational theory/research and design. Join Alexandra and…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 85: Inspiring Transformational Leaders: An Interview with Kate Ebner

Ep. 85 - Inspiring Transformational Leaders: An Interview with Kate Ebner In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Kate Ebner, renowned leadership coach, Founding Director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University, and Founder of The Nebo Company, a leadership consultancy based in Washington, D.C. Kate specializes not only in how to create, live and lead from…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 82: Exploring Service Science and Cognitive Systems: An Interview with Jim Spohrer

Ep. 82 - Exploring Service Science and Cognitive Systems: An Interview with Jim Spohrer In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Jim Spohrer, Director of Cognitive OpenTech, former Director of IBM Global University Programs and IBM’s Cognitive Systems Institute Group, and co-founder of IBM’s first Service Research group. Throughout his career, Jim has led the development of a new…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 81: 21st Century Liberal Arts: An Interview with Connecticut College President Katherine Bergeron

Ep. 81 - 21st Century Liberal Arts: An Interview with Connecticut College President Katherine Bergeron In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Katherine Bergeron, president of Connecticut College. Since taking up the presidency in January 2014, Katherine has initiated and carried through a massive college-wide curriculum overhaul designed to update the liberal arts for the complexities of the…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 80: Crafting Your Narrative: An Interview with Olin College’s Jonathan Adler

Ep. 80 - Crafting Your Narrative: An Interview with Olin College's Jonathan Adler In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Jonathan Adler, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Olin College of Engineering, who specializes in identity development in adulthood and the relationships between identity and psychological well-being. College is a period of immense identity development for many people and as…

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FREE WEBINAR March 29th: 4 Reasons Why “Everybody Needs a Coach”

Big Beacon presents a FREE WEBINAR 4 Reasons Why “Everybody Needs a Coach” Business leaders, Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates say that “everybody needs a coach", and the C-suite, (CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, etc.) increasingly hire leadership coaches to help them navigate difficult business problems. This practice is now spreading to other leaders, educational leaders, faculty members, and even students. This…

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Big Beacon Radio Ep. 77: A New Approach to Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Olin College’s Lawrence Neeley

Ep. 77 - A New Approach to Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Olin College's Lawrence Neeley In this episode, host Dave Goldberg is joined by Dr. Lawrence Neeley, Assistant Professor of Design and Entrepreneurship at Olin College. Join Lawrence and Dave to highlight the entrepreneurial approach of Olin's program, discuss how the course, Products and Markets, is structured differently than traditional entrepreneurship…

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What Does it Really Mean to be a STEM School?

Check out this piece written by Innovators Across Boundaries (IAB) member, Ann Kaiser of ProjectEngin. At ProjectEngin, we deal with schools, teachers, and classrooms in various stages of defining themselves as “STEM” or sometimes “STEAM”. It can range from one teacher “doing STEM” for 20-30 minutes per week to an entire school claiming to be “certified in STEM”.  Somehow the…

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