Frame of Reference - Profiles in Leadership
"Frame of Reference - Profiles in Leadership" and "Frame of Reference - Coming together" are conversational style shows with local, national, and global experts about issues that affect all of us in some way. I’m, at heart, a “theatre person”. I was drawn to theatre in Junior High School and studied it long enough to get a Master of Fine Arts in Stage Direction. It’s the one thing that I’m REALLY passionate about it because as Shakespeare noted, “all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players”. Think about the universality of that line for just a moment. Think about the types of “theatre” that play out around us every day in today’s world. The dramatic, the comedic, the absurd, the existential, the gorilla theatre (it’s a thing, look it up) that is pumped into our Smart Phones, TV’s, Radios, and PC’s every minute of every day.
Think about the tremendous forces that “play” upon us - trying to first discover, then channel, feed, nurture, and finally harvest our will power and biases in order to move forward the agendas of leaders we will likely never meet. Think of all these forces (behind the scenes of course) and how they use the basic tools of theatre to work their “magic” on the course of humanity. Emotionally charged content matched to carefully measured and controlled presentations.
With that in mind (and to hopefully counter the more insidious agendas), I bring you the Frame of Reference "Family" of podcasts, where the voices of our local and global leadership can share their passion for why and how they are leaders in their community and in many cases, the world. Real players with real roles in a world of real problems. No special effects, no hidden agenda, just the facts and anecdotes that make a leader.
And at the risk of sounding trite, I sincerely thank my wife Ann and my two children Elisabeth and Josiah for continually teaching me what leadership SHOULD look like.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 170
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Coming Together: Ep8 - Vote for Change
Frankly I don't get it. Why do we make it so hard to vote? Supposedly it's to prevent cheating but . . . has anyone out there ever talked with the folks that actually count the votes?…
Coming Together: Ep7 - Minding Money Matters
Did you ever think about how you first found out about MONEY? After all, as the song says "money makes the world go around". Or does it? Our undersanding of it, our amassing of it (e.…
Coming Together: The Wonder of Words
Ever wonder why some words are "forbidden" while other words are magnificently grouped into phrases that make us sing with a loud voice. Words can be beautiful and inspiring, as well a…
Coming Together: Speaking the Language of Food
So last time Antoine and I had so much fun talking about all the types of music out there that Black and White folks enjoy. Strangely enough in our case, it ended up being the SAME musi…
Coming Together: Make a Joyful Noise
When I was a kid, I remember hearing the phrase "music hath charms to sooth the savage beast". It was used as a plot devise where a hero, in the midst of a dangerous situation, (usuall…
Delving into Drama - Part 3 (Return of the Second Cousin - Twice removed, of Drama Delving): Jack Canfora
Years ago, when I first resigned myself to working in the "Real World" in order to support my family, I used to think that getting an MFA in Directing had been a waste of time and mone…
Woke Vs. Anti-Woke
I'm a big fan of Star Trek and anyone that's a fan of that show knows that Matter / Anttimatter is at the heart of the Enterprise's warp engines. The energy released by the combining o…
Delving into Drama - Part 2 (The Bride of Drama Delving): Jack Canfora
If you listened to part one of this 3 part series you'll know that Jack and I had a bit of a good time talking with each other. Peas from the same pod (or podcast) as we used to say ba…
Delving into Drama: Jack Canfora
When I get to talk with someone like Jack Canfora, whom I've never met before, never known of before (sorry Jack), and come away from it feeling exhilerated, uplifted and anticipating t…
Coming Together: Try Listening
In our inaugural episode of Frame of Reference - Coming together, Antowan and I talk about why . . . it's so hard to talk about race. How do we learn about things like Black Lives Matt…
Coming Together - Season 1 Promo
After almost a year of planning and discussion, my friend Antowan Hallmon Sr and I are almost ready to make Podcast history with the release of our new groundbreaking show: Frame of Ref…
The Energy of Entrepreneurs: Zack Schreirer Part 3
Every once in a while you meet people that just make you sit back and say "wow". You know the type? Energetic to the point where you swear they could power a small country. Passionat…
The Enterprise of Entrepreneurs: Zack Schrierer Part 2
Every once in a while you meet people that just make you sit back and say "wow". You know the type? Energetic to the point where you swear they could power a small country. Passionat…
The Excitement of Entrepreneurs: Zack Schreirer
Every once in a while you meet people that just make you sit back and say "wow". You know the type? Energetic to the point where you swear they could power a small country. Passionat…
The College Cartel - Sahaj Sharda Part 2
To start off the New Year, I had a fascinating discussion with Mr. Sahaj Sharda. Sahaj is an author that brings passion to his analysis of recent trends in higher education and encoura…
The College Cartel - Sahaj Sharda
To start off the New Year, I had a fascinating discussion with Mr. Sahaj Sharda. Sahaj is the author of an upcoming book entitled "The College Cartel". He brings surprising data and a…
Taking Care of Teachers: Jeff Wright
Thanks for listening. Please check out our website at www.forsauk.com to hear great conversations on topics that need to be talked about. In these times of intense polarization we all n…
Partnership with Parents: Jeff Wright
Thanks for listening. Please check out our website at www.forsauk.com to hear great conversations on topics that need to be talked about. In these times of intense polarization we all n…
The Conundrums of COVID: Jeff Wright
In part 2 of my conversation with Jeff Wright, Superintendent of the Sauk Prairie School system we talk about the struggles that our local school system and those across the entire nati…
The Empathy of Educators: Jeff Wright
This is part one of a 4-part series with Jeff Wright, School Superintendent for the Sauk Prairie School district. In this part we talk about Jeff's background as well as delve into the…