Archive of Past Presentations

Ann Louden, February, 2014

• “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
• “Difficult Conversations: How to Talk about What Matters Most” by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
• “How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman
• “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown
• “Promise Me” by Nancy Brinker

Chris Sawyer, March 2014

• “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe
• “The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring” by Parker Palmer
• “Young Men and Fire” by Norman Maclean
• “Beyond Pleasure and Pain” by E. Tory Higgins
• “Inferno” by Dan Brown

Aisha Torrey-Sawyer, April 2014

• “’Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?’ and Other Conversations About Race” by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• “Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America” by Tonya Bolden
• “Leading with Soul” by Lee Bolman & Terrence Deal
• “The Kitchen House” by Kathleen Grissom
• “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni

Todd Kerstetter, May 2014

• Discussed his book “God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land” by Todd Kerstetter

Dave Cozzen, July 2014

• Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell.
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
• After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, by Jack Kornfield.
• The Stand by Stephen King.
• There’s Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection, by Bill Watterson.
• The Parents We Mean To Be: How well-intentioned adults undermine children’s moral and emotional development, by Richard Weissbourd.