Values

Curiosity, Communication, and Collaboration

I will be transparent with processes and information. I will build accountability procedures into the president’s role to ensure weight is given to the feedback of local leaders and board directors. I will trust the experience and expertise of professional staff, local leaders, and member educators.

Transparency, Accountability, and Trust

I approach facilitation and leadership with curiosity. I lean into stories that help us understand the present moment, and questions that start with “why” and what if.” I am comfortable with the limits of my expertise and prefer authentic collaboration to periodic consultation.

Experience, Humility, and Joy

To my leadership, I bring training and experience as an interest-based strategies facilitator, as a conflict mediator, as a presiding officer and public spokesperson for educators. If there isn’t shared joy and mutual respect across the organizational community we need to look at why. None of us can be so precious or so fragile our egos jeopardize our commitment to the future of public education in Oregon. The challenge when leading a member-led organization is to remember that the president’s role is to preside, not to direct.