Appearances & resources
Leadership Development Resources
Before launching Whole Human Leadership, I was primarily an academic. My book, podcast interview, articles, storytelling toolkit and videos show the foundation of my approach. I invite you to explore them below.
Interactive toolkit
Whole Human Leadership: The Guide
Build your foundation. Name your layers. Light the candle of your purpose.
This toolkit is for leaders who want to lead from wholeness, not burnout. You build your leadership like a layered cake. Start with a whole-brain foundation, then add your identities, your values, and the practices that fill your cup. Play, creativity, storytelling, mindfulness, and nature are the icing that holds it together, and the candle on top is your purpose.
This is my philosophy and approach, built into a fun, interactive guide for your use.
- Eight chapters, each with a short teaching, a somatic practice and a worksheet
- Fill in your content on screen, or print the pages to work on paper
- Ends with your own living leadership philosophy
- Includes a guide for a 90-minute team session
Get the Guide
Purchase Whole Human Leadership: The Guide and start building your leadership from wholeness.
The Guide isn't available right now. Please get in touch to ask about a copy.
Book
Becoming: Transformative Storytelling for Education's Future
This edited volume is a collection of powerful stories about teaching, learning and leadership. It gives readers a framework to reflect on, and tell, their own stories to fuel personal, professional and organizational transformation.
The eBook or hard copy can be purchased directly through DIOPress or Amazon.
Tea for Teaching podcast
Podcast Interview: Transformative Storytelling
"From the earliest days of human society, storytelling has played an important role in transmitting and sharing knowledge. In this episode, Laura Colket and Tracy Penny Light join us to discuss how storytelling can be used in higher ed to help us reflect on and understand the rich diversity and the commonalities that exist within our educational communities."
Videos
Videos I have created or been part of, from research on teaching during the pandemic to storytelling in education. More conference videos are on the Center for Research on Storytelling in Education's YouTube channel.
Teaching & Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Created with the Center for BioMedical Visualization at St. George's University, based on my research into people's experiences of teaching and learning through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Grenada
My opening remarks at a virtual panel in Grenada with the Minister of Education and other senior education leaders, based on early findings from my research.
Highlights from the Storytelling in Education Conference
In 2019 I co-founded the Center for Research on Storytelling in Education. With a Spencer Foundation grant, we launched it with a virtual conference series.
Gender Roots
Made with St. George's University's Center for BioMedical Visualization for the JAM initiative (Justice, Art & Medicine): a culturally relevant video on gender identity and expression.
Free resource
Storytelling Toolkit for Educators
The CRSE Storytelling Toolkit is a free, open-source resource developed through the Center for Research on Storytelling in Education (CRSE), which I co-founded.
It offers a healing-centered, justice-rooted framework to help educators bring storytelling into their classrooms, fostering deeper connection and leadership.
Selected Research on Storytelling & Leadership
Leading through Chaos in a Neocolonial Context Article. This article examines the personal stories of Haitians to better understand the nature of Haitian leadership in a neocolonial, post-disaster context.
Reimagining Professional Learning in a Time of Social Isolation Article. This article highlights the power of storytelling as a tool for professional learning for educators and educational leaders, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Transformative Storytelling as Critical Praxis for Educational Leaders Book chapter. Storytelling as praxis offers leaders an opportunity to build meaningful, authentic working relationships in order to create more equitable teaching and learning environments.
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