Dear Reader,
There's the work we do -- and then there's who we are in doing it. After all, we're not our resumes or our job descriptions. We're living, breathing human beings endeavoring to make things happen, especially the things we care about and have signed up for (i.e. our jobs). The work of leadership can be sweaty, passionate, tedious, dull, grueling, and exhilarating work. As leaders, we persevere because we believe in what we're doing. We stick to it because we committed to it. Beneath it all, we believe we can make a difference through our efforts. And, well, we do want to deliver on that job description.
When I first met Maggie Little, I was impressed by the reputation, breadth and depth of the Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, a renowned resource for the University, the policy world, and the global bioethics community. I noted the big challenges and goals she described in transforming the organization to lead in modern day terms. A big job. An important challenge. Then, suddenly I found myself listening with rapt attention to Maggie herself. Smart, strategic, down-to-earth and absolutely determined to take the Kennedy Institute to the next stage of greatness, Maggie's perspective on how to lead organizational change is, well, spellbinding. A natural change leader, her instincts are superb. An accomplished scholar and philosopher, her candid perspective about what she's doing and why provide a master class for leaders on how to talk about your vision, how to lead change and, frankly, how to enjoy the whole process.
Please join me on Monday, May 21st to learn directly from a leader who is in the midst of unfurling an exciting vision and building the organization that can make it happen. Yes, she has a cool job, but it's Maggie herself you'll want to hear.
Very best, 
Kate Ebner
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Monday, May 21 11 AM Eastern Time On VoiceAmerica Business
From Vision to Reality: Taking a Venerable Institute to a New Future Lessons Learned from Maggie Little, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
 Listen on Monday. When Maggie Little assumed directorship of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, she inherited a major transition -- and an opportunity to develop an innovative vision to carry the Institute into the rapidly changing future. First, Maggie had to rethink the funding model. Then, she needed to persuade the University and supporters to see the big vision that was evident to her and invest in it. Third, she needed to enlist her staff to create needed change while creating new capacities. Find out what Maggie did next and how she is leading one of the world's premier bioethics institutes into a future that is even greater than its storied past. This program is a must-listen for any leader who has stepped into an established organization with the assignment to take it to the next level. Join Host Kate Ebner to discover what Maggie Little knows about leading change to manifest vision - real time! More. Be inspired. Missed the Live Show?
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Finding (& Keeping) the Right Nanny for Your Family
Top 10 Tips from White House Nannies
On Monday, May 7, Barbara Kline of White House Nannies joined Kate Ebner on Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life for a special Mother's Day program. In our work with leaders who are working parents, the issue of childcare is a common theme. In order for a leader to be at their best at work, they need to be confident that their home life is running smoothly in their absence. A leader who knows that her sick child is at home from school eating homemade chicken soup with the care of a reliable nanny can fully focus her energies on the presentation to the Board of Directors or the pitch to the prospective client that afternoon. The solution seems obvious: identify and retain a great nanny. In practice, however, finding the nanny that is right for you and your family can be a daunting challenge.
Barbara Kline provided these tips to listeners on finding and retaining a nanny. We know many of our working parents will appreciate this advice from the experts at White House Nannies.
- Don't stop at just one interview: multiple interviews with a prospective nanny are essential.
- It's a joint decision: include your spouse or partner in the interview.
- Hire your complement, not your clone. Be flexible about a nanny's background. College degrees aren't essential but a love of kids is.
- Describe reality, not fantasy: explain your real work schedule, not the one you wish you had.
- Overlap is over-rated: When transitioning to a new nanny, limit the time the new and old nannies work together.
- Stay on the same page: Have a written work agreement before your nanny starts.
- Talk it out: Try to have weekly 20-minute, touch-base meetings with your nanny.
- Delegate then detach: Try not to micro-manage your nanny.
- Trust your gut: If something doesn't feel right, it isn't. Move on.
- Career. Family. Sanity. When life gets difficult, pick 2 out of 3.
Listen to the complete interview with Barbara Kline.
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Create Your Vision!
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Missed the last show?
 Listen to Kate's Mother's Day Special Interview with Barbara Kline of White House Nannies on the 5/14/12 episode of Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life. We hope you will direct friends, family and colleagues to this interview. Barbara's guidance will be helpful to any parents of young children who are looking for great childcare and family solutions and aren't sure how to find them. (And her own entrepreneurial story is inspiring, too.)
Be inspired.
Become inspiring.
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Recommended Resources
 White House Nannies
by: Barbara Kline
Barbara Kline has been matching high-powered couples with ultra-competent nannies for more than two decades, and her tales run from the poignant to the utterly absurd. Read about the unsung heroines whose special commitment makes their work far more than a job. Nannies see babies take their first steps and hear their first words while Mom and Dad are halfway around the world trying to save it. Meet these wise, wonderful (and occasionally odd) surrogate mothers who keep Washington from spinning off its axis of global power. It's "West Wing" crossed with "Supernanny."
How She Really Does It: Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Momsby Wendy Sachs Millions of mothers choose to work because they love their careers. So how are women holding on to financially necessary or stimulating and rewarding careers and still being engaged mothers? Wendy Sachs, journalist and mother of two, set out to find what's really happening at the intersection of motherhood and work today. Based on her in-depth interviews with mothers from diverse backgrounds, How She Really Does It explores the creative and courageous ways in which stay-at-work moms are making it happen. Here are the moms next door - as well as lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, journalists, and television personalities - who are navigating the everyday work/home conflicts, and, yes, dealing with the guilt. Through it all, they are empowered career women and caring, present mothers. This modern working woman's survival guide will give you hope that even if you can't have it all, you can have at least some of it all of the time.
by: Barbara Kline
Barbara Kline shares her thoughts on current childcare issues. Follow her blog to get her sound advice.
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