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Tom Handley Loves Backpacks

Tom Handley Loves Backpacks

Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York creates the world’s top designers. Tom Handley is a professor of Marketing and Public Relations and has been nominated three times Distinguished Faculty of the Year. He’s an expert in public relations, social media and online education. He’s placed over 500 young and experienced students in internships and over 300 in dream jobs. Tom talks with John about his extraordinary  career and keys to career success for idealists of all ages. 

The DNA of Disease

The DNA of Disease

Every living thing leaves DNA in the environment, including organic waste. Andy Rothstein hunts down the genes to aid threatened species and stop forecasted pandemics. Andy gauges the health of ecosystems. He’s a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley who joints the podcast to talk about a range of topics, from research and education to environmental careers and the future of the planet. 

Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Education

Andrew Krugly joins the podcast for a reflection on his education and nonprofit leader’s experience over decades in the innermost circles of education policy, administration and leadership. Topics range from Andrew’s principalship in a provocative Evanston, Illinois, elementary district to leading an early childhood education nonprofit in Chicago. Andrew speaks candidly about his unique perspective on what works and what fails in education, learning and neuroscience in practice today. Andrew provides candid advice that will help education leaders, teachers, parents and policy experts.

Diversity and Reliability in Schools

Diversity and Reliability in Schools

Just John this fortnight discusses two issues for improving schools. He talks about the value of hiring workers with diverse learning, working and living backgrounds, and he discusses how to build reliably successful schools.

Data Science

Data Science

Data science guru Eva Hare joins John Heintz to talk about how organizations today are using data science in practice as a way to gain insights from their own sets of data.

Third Culture Kids

Third Culture Kids

The future is here! Third Culture Kids know about more than three cultures and are often adults. Ruben Marquina, psychotherapist and third culture kid himself joins John on this podcast about the paths, effect and significance for global education of the third culture kid.

Creative Business Learning

Creative Business Learning

Nick Wright joins host John Heintz in a wide-ranging discussion of education today. They discuss demand, disruption, operations and dreams for the future of learning. Nick provides a candid look inside one of the world’s fastest growing education platforms.