97% in 144 Hours
Twice a week for six weeks, Ryan McFarland sat 6 feet apart from 10 of his colleagues at Tyson Foods Inc., in Portland. The maintenance supervisor of 13 years could…
Open Door Services ‘Redefines Typical’ providing healthcare for all, listening to neighbors’ hopes and needs
Suzanne Clem is in the business of listening. As director of Community Awareness at Open Door Health Services, Clem connects with neighbors about their needs related to healthcare and access.…
How Emery Peck’s Emergence experience is helping him improve the lives of Ivy Tech students – by fixing “camels”
Emery Peck thought he knew what his passion was. He enjoyed working with kids. As a teenager, it had made him a popular babysitter. As a preschool teacher at the…
How Shafer Leadership Academy helped Whitely Community Council curb “mission creep” and refocus
When the Whitely Community Council (WCC) transitioned from being a volunteer-led neighborhood association to an organization headed by an executive director and board, everyone braced for culture shock. Since 1966,…
Rebecca Parker learned from Shafer Leadership Academy that she’s got two options – “communicate or detonate”
You wake up in a room locked from inside and out. Beside you is a ticking bomb and a landline phone. You can’t get out. No one can get in.…
I’m Right and You’re Wrong
My name is Eleanor Cooper. I am a senior at Burris Laboratory School, and I am doing a fall internship with Shafer Leadership Academy. I am passionate about developing myself…
The 100 Year Lesson
My extended family recently gathered to wish my great grandmother a 100th birthday. Armed with masks, and instructed in very certain terms by my Great Aunt Sherry to socially distance…
Being Right vs Getting It Right
I like being right. I’ve always liked being right. In school I prided myself on reading all the books. I was the kid who kept asking teachers questions while everyone…
5 Tips to Strengthen Team Trust
Without doing a trust fall or other silly trust building activities The following is part of a series of guest posts by local leaders. This post is authored by Lauralee…
The Local Leader in Virtual Learning
When the world changed in mid-March, so did Shafer Leadership Academy. Two weeks after our board of directors made the necessary decision to halt in person classes, we launched our…