Lifelong educator Kathy Minardi recently left Aidan Montessori School to begin Whole School Leadership, an educational consulting service based in the nation's capital. Kathy Minardi's work centers on providing advanced leadership training for school administrators and fostering healthy leaders. She is also a supporter of the Center for Ethical Leadership. The Center for Ethical Leadership is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing social change. It promotes community leadership at the grassroots level, and works to support the people and groups who push for positive change in their own communities. In order to facilitate constructive dialogue in a variety of settings, the Center for Ethical Leadership developed Gracious Space, a method for holding safe and productive conversations. Gracious Space focuses on welcoming strangers and learning in public. Welcoming the stranger means accepting differences and including people with perspectives outside one's own. Learning in public requires participants to let go of previously held notions to make room for the ideas and solutions offered by others. Gracious Space programming is free to use, and the Center for Ethical Leadership encourages its widespread distribution. To learn more about the program or how to become a Gracious Space facilitator, review the Gracious Space Toolkit online at: www.ethicalleadership.org/gracious-space-toolkit.html.
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A senior consultant with Whole School Leadership, LLC, in Washington, DC, Kathy Minardi has led training programs for North American Montessori Association’s Whole-School Management course. Kathy Minardi is also credentialed as a facilitator and trainer for Barry Oshry's Organization Workshop. Focused on organizational power and systems dynamics, the Organization Workshop provides participants with an immersive learning environment. Focusing on presenting a practical framework for examining the ingredients of effective leadership and moving beyond career roadblocks, the program offers exercises in which participants take on the roles of C-level executives, customers, and middle managers, interacting within fast-paced environments that replicate real-life decisions and consequences. The Organization Workshop is unique in bringing attention to systemic conditions that exist in any business. Professionals are given tools to quickly identify dysfunctional patterns as they emerge. This in turn enables them to address root issues proactively, rather than waiting for situations to emerge as full-blown crises. The workshop also offers insight into how successful partnerships benefit the entire organization. |
AuthorSince 1999, Kathy Minardi has served as the head of school at Aidan Montessori School in Washington, D.C. Utilizing her 37 years of experience in independent schools. Archives
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