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Dr. Ruth Zaplin leads quick sessions on mental resilience and mindfulness. Learn and enhance the mental skills needed to remain resilient in times of crisis and hardship.

These monthly guided mediations and practices aim to help listeners strengthen their mental resilience.

©Ruth Zaplin, 2021

Mindfulness Mondays with Dr. Ruth Zaplin Session XX: Cultivating Happiness

Lightening the Load

This month's session is led by Carol S. Hyman, Executive Director of Applied Mindfulness Training and colleague of Dr. Ruth Zaplin, who shares an excerpt from the audiobook version of her book Meeting Your Mind. The section featured here deals with the baggage all human beings carry. Thought patterns and emotions so deeply ingrained we don't recognize them as distinct from ourselves. But if we take the time to unpack—to get to know our baggage—we can learn to recognize our burden for what it is, and maybe even lighten the load. 

You'll find a link to purchase the full audiobook version of Meeting Your Mind and many other free resources for helping you Turn Troubles Into Treasures at appliedmindfulnesstraining.org

Dr. Ruth Zaplin leads quick sessions on mental resilience and mindfulness. Learn and enhance the mental skills needed to remain resilient in times of crisis and hardship.

These monthly guided mediations and practices aim to help listeners strengthen their mental resilience.

©Ruth Zaplin, 2021

Mindfulness Mondays with Dr. Ruth Zaplin Session XXI: Lightening the Load with Carol Hyman

Mindfulness Mondays with Dr. Ruth Zaplin Session XXII: Dealing with Uncertainty

Mindfulness Mondays with Dr. Ruth Zaplin Session XXIII: Embodied Self-Awareness

Speaker: Gregory L. Giddens, Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction, Department of Veterans Affairs

Date Recorded: June 7, 2017

In this session, Greg Giddens, from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will explore organizational change, including how to address the change paradigm of people wanting to get better, but most being resistant to change as well as how to successfully implement change management/business management and control systems in a collaborative manner.   We will discuss the differences between managing and leading people and why successful organizations need both.  With more than 25 years of senior executive experience, Greg will share his personal leadership journey, core leadership principles and strategies to develop and implement your leadership principles in your organization.

Embracing Change as Opportunity with Gregory L. Giddens

In this episode of Take It From Key, Key Director, Patrick Malone, and Jerri Marr, the Assistant Director for Recreation, Heritage and Volunteer Resources for the USDA Forest Service, discuss Marr's childhood influences, early career experiences, and her call to public service.  Jerri Marr is currently serving a one-year fellowship in the White House Leadership Development Program.

Episode #2 - Take It From Key with Jerri Marr, Assistant Director for RHVR

Ted Kniker, Executive Vice President of IMPACT Paradigm Associates and Key faculty member, joins Key Director Patrick Malone for this episode of Take It From Key to discuss the importance of program evaluation.  Drawing on his expertise and experiences, Kniker highlights the demystification of evaluation, how to build evaluation capacity within an organization, and "putting context around numbers."

Episode #4 - Take It From Key with Ted Kniker, Executive VP of IMPACT Paradigm Associates

In this special edition of Take It From Key, we rewind back to our 9th Annual Key Executive Leadership Conference in June 2018.  Starting off the day was opening Key note speaker, Sam Worthington, CEO of InterAction.  Worthington's  discussion of the importance in recognizing and embracing the need for disruptive change as an opportunity for growth energized the audience for the day to come.

Episode #5 - Take It From Key Featuring Sam Worthington, CEO, InterAction

TSA Administrator David Pekoske talks with Key Programs Director Dr. Patrick Malone about why he nominated Kimberly Walton for the 2019-2020 Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership and how she exemplifies excellence in leadership.

Recounting his time as a Key Faculty member and his experiences as a public servant, David also discusses the important of continual learning for public servants, especially for those who are or aspire to be leaders and managers.

Key Roger W. Jones Executive Leaders Podcast Series Ep. 4 with David Pekoske

Lois Greisman, Associate Director for Marketing Practices at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 2019-2020 Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership Recipient, talks with Key Programs Director, Dr. Patrick Malone, about what the future of public service and leadership looks like, some moments of challenge in her career, the impact her team and FTC have on the safety and security of Americans, and shares something she wishes she knew before starting her career in government.

Key Roger W. Jones Executive Leaders Podcast Series Ep. 5 with Lois Greisman

In the season finale of the Key Roger W. Jones Executive Leaders Podcast, Brad Bunn, 2019-2020 Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership Recipient, and LTG Darrell Williams, his nominator and former Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, talk about their professional relationship and the importance of their agency's mission in providing for war fighters. 

The pair share what they believe makes a career in public service unique, characteristics that make great leaders, and serving the nation.

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