Kimball Gallagher, celebrated, innovative concert pianist, explores how he leads both with music and through music. This episode of Your Leadership Podcast features Kimball's role as founder and leader of 88 International, an NGO that collaborates with public and private partners around the globe to help youth build large-scale music programs.

With co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison, Kimball offers listeners an extraordinary blend of artistic vision and ground-level social transformation, paying forward leadership skills and capacity through music composition, performance, and more.

Read about Kimball Gallagher here.

Read about 88 International here.

88 International was recognized in CNN's "5 Good Things" podcast.

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Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

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Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered byCommander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize ourinterviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

Tara VanDerveer, the second-winningest college basketball coach in history, joins Your Leadership Podcast, recounting how she learned to lead, how she is still learning today, and how she practices leadership lessons.

Her stories help us explore a key theme of Season 2 of Your Leadership Podcast: how does a leader go about creating and maintaining an environment where colleagues - students - players - partners can succeed, individually and collectively?

Throughout Your Leadership Podcast, co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim gather answers to that question using the concept of "curatorial" leadership. Leaders can "curate" conditions for success. Through her lifelong learning, in the gym and elsewhere, Coach VanDerveer curated environments where her players and teams could thrive.

Read about Tara VanDerveer at the official website of Stanford University, where she led her teams to three NCAA championships.

Read more about Tara VanDerveer at her Wikipedia page, including her coaching Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in 1996.

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About us:

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

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Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

What we have here is success in communicating, adapting a famous movie quotation and carrying forward our first key theme of the season: success and succession for leaders.

This episode pivots to the second of our key themes, what we are calling "curatorial" leadership. We borrow the idea of leaders "curating" an organizational context from the world of art and artifacts, in museums, archives, galleries, and other collections.

One key to curation for leaders (and also for art curators) is thoughtful and effective communication, to multiple audiences, both inside and outside the group. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison did into what that means, adding nuance and context and by way of example, a reference or two to successful coaching in professional sports.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Production notes:

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.