As the new academic year approaches, I’m thinking back on my evolution as a teacher. My experiences range from tutoring second graders in science to explaining neuroanatomy to medical students. And, the bulk of my experiences, over the past 23 years, have been teaching creative problem solving, leadership, and entrepreneurship…

How tiny risks lead to big rewards You have much more control over luck in your life than you might think. Opportunities are ubiquitous — like the wind. However, you need to build a sail to catch the winds of luck by taking small risks that get you out of your comfort zone. I’m always on the…

What is leadership? Some see leadership as a set of management skills, some believe a leader’s role is to set a vision, and others hold a leader responsible for driving results. Without a shared understanding of what leadership comprises, we are often left talking past one another. Therefore, it behooves…

Musing on meeting new colleagues in person for the first time. — I wonder what I’ll learn about my new colleagues when we meet in person? I wonder how team dynamics will change when the whole team is together? I wonder what we will miss from our online experiences? Like me, millions of people have started new roles during the pandemic lock…

When I was a kid I went to summer camp in rural Maine. It was a rustic place on the banks of a small lake where we spent the day outside, swimming, learning archery and water skiing, doing arts and crafts, and building meaningful friendships. I lived for summer camp…

My most popular blog post by far is, “Teaching: It’s about Inspiration, Not Information.” Readers resonated with the message that the role of a teacher is not to unscrew your skull and pour in knowledge, but to tap into your soul to spark your imagination. So, how do you do…

The current crisis has kicked started everyone’s creativity. For me, this means lots of teaching experiments. I’m trying lots of new approaches to teaching online via Zoom, as well as cooking up a virtual summer internship program, and crafted a set of minimum-viable-lessons on Twitter, called Jolts. To capture the…

It’s May 2020, and thousands of college students across the country and around the world are struggling to find summer internships. The organizations that would normally hire them are instead laying off workers in the face of the global pandemic that is disrupting everything. In response, the Stanford Technology Ventures…

Join us! Tina Seelig and Lisa Kay Solomon from Stanford University will be teaching a free, one week online course from March 30 — April 3, 2020. The course will be taught via Zoom and is open to all. Computer scientist, Alan Kay, famously said, “The best way to predict…