The UnLeading Project

S3 E5 Hospicing Leadership: Leading Through Crisis, Loss, and Grief

In a time of great loss, change, crisis, and regeneration, Hospicing Leadership: Leading Through Crisis, Loss, and Grief explores what it means to turn towards grief, to recognize and honour its presence, and to consider what it means to be with grief and metabolize it into something else. In a time of unprecedented levels of grief, we explore what it means to lead in ways that tend to individual grief, communal grief, and systemic grief.

S3 E3 Abolitionist Leadership: Towards Restoration, Love, and Liberationmm

In Abolitionist Leadership: Towards Restoration, Love, and Liberation, we dive into the logics of carcerality that are deeply entrenched in schooling and society. These are logics of dehumanization that deem some people disposable, guilty, and dangerous to protect the claimed innocence and supposed safety of others. Join us for a conversation that unpacks these logics, challenges false binaries of good/bad, pure/evil, right/wrong, and opens us possibilities for restoration, community, love, and liberation for all.

S3 E4 Leading Against Neoliberalism and Privatization

In Leading Against Neoliberalism and Privatization, we consider how neoliberalism, capitalism, and privatization concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few, posing serious threats to the public good. These forces operate broadly across society, impacting healthcare, housing, job security, labour rights, and the weakening of unions. In education, neoliberal and privatization agendas manifest through private partnerships, specialized schools and programs, reliance on fees and fundraising, school choice, private schooling, homeschooling, and even in curriculum design and our understanding of students and education’s purpose. We’ll examine how these systems shape who we are as leaders, influence our relationships with one another, and envision possibilities for a more equitable future.

S3 E2 Leading for Linguistic Justice and Language Revitalization

Leading for Linguistic Justice and Language Revitalization explores the ways in which narrow conceptions of language, notions of “standard” English, and accent discrimination maintain systems of white supremacy and colonialism. We consider how our understandings of language change our access to thinking and being in schools, communities, and the academy. This podcasts challenges Eurocentricity and invites us to consider how coloniality influences how we speak, listen, communicate, and engage with one another. We will also explore the possibilities of practices like translanguaging that allow people to bring their full selves and identities to a space.

S3 E1 Technologies of Leadership

Technologies of Leadership recognize that technology, like leadership, is not neutral. We will explore leadership as we move away from the Information Age towards the Age of Intelligence. We consider what it means to lead in a time of constant change, technological opportunities and innovative possibilities, but also in a time of unprecedented surveillance, an often unregulated technology sector, racist algorithms, and neocolonial practices in the AI sector and beyond. This podcast will explore how these technologies change us, how we need to rethink leadership in these times and through these times, and how we can lead in ways that leverage possibilities of technology, while actively resisting the potential dangers.