Doctoral Student Whitney Breer Releases Leadership Starts With You

2023-07-19T11:36:46-07:00

Leaders have a new resource to add to their libraries and daily lives.  Whitney Breer Published through Fielding University Press, the business novel Leadership Starts with You: A Leader's Quest for Leadership Excellence, penned by international executive coach, motivational speaker, and current Fielding Human Development doctoral student Whitney Breer, highlights modern leadership. It encapsulates the theory of leadership excellence in a compelling story about a fictional character named Kathleen Battlefield.   Kathleen is in line to take over the family-owned business, but her father pulls the rug out from under her just before she is handed the reins. Angry [...]

Doctoral Student Whitney Breer Releases Leadership Starts With You2023-07-19T11:36:46-07:00

50 Actions for Global Social/Ecological Justice Service Year: Social Impact Day

2023-08-18T08:23:26-07:00

[Editor's note: This story is part of Fielding’s Global Ecological and Social Justice Service Year in 2023, as designated by the President’s Sustainability Advisory Council. Learn more here.] Social Impact Day on Jan. 13, 2023, was a one-day, hands-on collaboration of eight Fielding Organizational Development and Leadership program students, alums, and faculty members. The group worked with Ventura County Community Foundation (VCCF), a local nonprofit organization, on a strategic project.   This Fielding group of emerging and seasoned OD professionals learned to apply their knowledge to new situations, projects, and contexts. They helped the VCCF with a direct scholarship program that [...]

50 Actions for Global Social/Ecological Justice Service Year: Social Impact Day2023-08-18T08:23:26-07:00

Jean-Pierre Isbouts, D. Litt., releases new book, wins Gold Telly Award

2023-07-13T09:19:11-07:00

We recently sat down with Jean-Pierre Isbouts, D. Litt., Fielding University Press editor and Faculty Emerit of the School of Leadership Studies, to discuss two achievements.  Dr. Jean-PIerre Isbouts near the location of Vincent's “Yellow House” in Arles, France His recent publication, The Fractured Kingdom, is an attempt to bridge the gulf between conservative and progressive Christians by returning to the essential tenets of the Historical Jesus: social justice, compassion, and faith. Additionally, Dr. Isbouts, in partnership with The Great Courses and Wondrium, earned a Gold Telly Award for “In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh.”   What inspired [...]

Jean-Pierre Isbouts, D. Litt., releases new book, wins Gold Telly Award2023-07-13T09:19:11-07:00

Fielding Graduate University Launches New Online Merchandise Store

2024-05-14T08:32:37-07:00

Fielding Graduate University has officially launched its new online merchandise store. Fielding family and fans can purchase various apparel items, including hats, quarter zips, mugs, polos, and much more! To celebrate the grand opening, the store is offering a 20% discount on all items through the month of July. Hilary S. Lyn, M.S., M.A. The creation of the store was directed by Hilary Lyn, Director of Alumni Relations at Fielding Graduate University. The following is an interview with Director Lyn regarding the new Fielding Store. Q. What inspired you to take on this project? When our in-person sessions were [...]

Fielding Graduate University Launches New Online Merchandise Store2024-05-14T08:32:37-07:00

Fielding Alum Wins an Emmy Award for Ruth Weiss Beat Goddess Documentary

2023-06-20T12:57:15-07:00

Fielding alum Dr. Elisabeth Montgomery and Melody C. Miller won an Emmy Award for their documentary, Ruth Weiss, the beat goddess. by Dr. Elisabeth Montgomery Dr. Elisabeth Montgomery and Melody C. Miller We accepted the Emmy Award last Saturday in San Francisco for our film ruth weiss: The Beat Goddess. It’s an honor and dream to achieve this level of recognition from all the Northern California judges. I started my film training in 1985 at the Chicago Community Film Workshop, a boot camp set up to help accelerate more women and minorities into the once-exclusive field of [...]

Fielding Alum Wins an Emmy Award for Ruth Weiss Beat Goddess Documentary2023-06-20T12:57:15-07:00

7th Annual Navajo Education Conference Set for June 9

2023-06-12T06:25:00-07:00

photo taken at the 4th Annual Navajo Education Conference Navajo education leaders and scholar-practitioners are coming together this June.  The 7th Annual Navajo Education Conference is slated for June 9, 2023, at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. This conference is a joint effort between Fielding Graduate University, the Navajo Nation, the Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education, the Office of Navajo Scholarship and Financial Assistance (ONNSFA), and Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium.  “We are proud that Fielding Graduate University is partnering with the Navajo Nation to provide an opportunity for Navajo educators and leaders to [...]

7th Annual Navajo Education Conference Set for June 92023-06-12T06:25:00-07:00

Fielding Provost Wendi Williams Selected as Keynote Speaker for APA 2023

2023-07-27T08:01:37-07:00

The American Psychological Association (APA) selected Fielding Provost and Senior Vice President Wendi S. Williams, Ph.D., as a keynote speaker for the annual APA 2023 conference. The event will take place from August 3rd to the 5th in Washington D.C., with keynote presentations also being live-streamed. Provost Williams will be speaking on the main stage in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Friday, August 4th, at 2 pm Eastern. Friday, August 4 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. ET WALTER E. WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER, LEVEL 3, BALLROOM A AND B/ MAIN STAGE LIVESTREAM (Virtual Experience tickets available here) APA keynote speakers [...]

Fielding Provost Wendi Williams Selected as Keynote Speaker for APA 20232023-07-27T08:01:37-07:00

Alum & Public Trustee John L. Bennett, Ph.D., Named Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte

2023-05-11T12:01:19-07:00

Fielding alum and Public Trustee John L. Bennet, Ph.D. (HOD’2006) was recently named a Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte.  The Noble Fellowship is an endowed fellowship at Queens University of Charlotte, sponsored by Drs. Jerry Greenhoot and Kathryn Greenhoot, in honor of their teacher, Professor Noble Hines, whose life and values expressed the concept of “paying forward” long before it was defined elsewhere. His contributions were multiplied by the lives he influenced well beyond those people he knew or intended to assist. It is in this spirit that the Noble Fellowship was founded.  The goal of the Noble [...]

Alum & Public Trustee John L. Bennett, Ph.D., Named Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte2023-05-11T12:01:19-07:00

What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership

2023-05-11T14:17:23-07:00

Fielding alum Dr. Lee Ann Avery recently published the chapter What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership in the book Leadership - Advancing Great Leaders and Leadership. The chapter and book are available for download from IntechOpen as part of the peer-reviewed open access volume collection. Lee Ann Avery, Ph.D. Dr. Avery's chapter What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership is a qualitative and exploratory study that examines how leadership is demonstrated in the context of offshore sailing through the sea stories of sailing captains’ experiences where there was potential for massive physical, psychological, or material consequences to the [...]

What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership2023-05-11T14:17:23-07:00

Greater Good’s Editors Pick the Most Thought-Provoking Science Books of the Year

2023-05-08T17:15:06-07:00

U.C. Berkeley’s Science Center for the Greater Good picked Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth as among the most inspirational and thought-provoking science books of 2022. Restoring the Kinship Worldview The books editors and authors are faculty member, Wahinkpe Topa (“Four Arrows”) and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Emeritus, Darcia Narvaez. They use powerful quotes from noted Indigenous to introduce 28 Indigenous worldview precepts needed to re-balance our out-of-balance emphasis on contrasting dominant worldview precepts.  The Indigenous, kinship, nature worldview that guided humanity for most of its history is “not about domination or self-centeredness or anthropocentrism, but rather about [...]

Greater Good’s Editors Pick the Most Thought-Provoking Science Books of the Year2023-05-08T17:15:06-07:00

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