Long before there were leadership seminars, there were campfires. The best leadership wisdom rarely arrives in a slide deck. It comes from a mentor who told you the truth at the right moment, a grandmother's story you didn't understand until years later, a colleague who said the thing nobody else would say. This panel traces how that knowledge actually moves: person to person, generation to generation, story by story. Join our panelists as they explore the origins of their recently-published book Trinity of Leadership: Learners, Thinkers, Tinkerers (Akers Follett Press, 2026) and what they reveal about the oldest way wisdom has ever traveled.
Panel Members
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Denise Nelson Nash, VP and Secretary of the Board, Scripps College; Partner, Akers Follett Press
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Trish Beck, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU; Partner, Akers Follett Press
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Michael Miller, Associate Dean, CUNY, The Spitzer School of Architecture
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Herminio L. Perez, Assistant Dean for Campus Life, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
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Lucas Welter, Chief Organization Development & Strategy Officer, AFS Intercultural Programs
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Sharon Counts, Assistant Professor, Parsons, The New School
Moderated by
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Erica McGibbon, Senior Director of Academic Affairs, NYU School of Professional Studies
