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Leading Legends: Female Superintendents Breaking Barriers with Purpose and Power



Leading Through Fire
Leading Through Fire reflects on the cliffs, fog, and fire that shape a leader’s life and growth. Drawing from Jim Collins’ What to Make of a Life, this post explores how disruptive moments, painful transitions, and public challenges reveal the durable capacities within us. Leadership journeys are rarely smooth, and the hardest seasons often uncover strength, clarity, resilience, and self-knowledge we may not have known were waiting to be discovered.

Dr. Cindy Petersen
Sep 142 min read


Ambition and the Worthy Goal
Ambition alone isn't enough. Without direction, it can fade into vague resolutions or get poured into someone else's definition of success. Drawing from Michael Bungay Stanier, Simon Sinek, and Jim Collins, this article explores what makes a goal truly worthy: it should be thrilling, important, and daunting. The challenge isn't simply to dream bigger, but to anchor your ambition to something that matters, accept the uncertainty that comes with it, commit, and begin.

Dr. Cindy Petersen
Aug 103 min read
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