The Lipscomb University Leadership Dialogue Program presents Dr. Parker J. Palmer on Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Swang Center Room 108, 3901 Granny White Pike, Nashville.
Admission to the program is free. The event is open to the public and everyone is invited to attend.
Palmer is a writer, teacher, and activist who works independently on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. His work spans a range of institutions-colleges and universities, public schools, community organizations, religious institutions, corporations, and foundations.
He serves as senior associate of the American Association of Higher Education, senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute, and founder of the Courage to Teach Program for K-12 teachers across the country. In 1998, The Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 administrators and faculty, named Dr. Palmer as one of the thirty "most influential senior leaders" in higher education and one of the ten key "agenda-setters" of the past decade.
His publications include six widely used books: Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, To Know as We are Known, The Company of Strangers, and The Promise of Paradox.
The Leadership Dialogue program is a lecture series held on the Lipscomb campus in which outstanding leaders in many fields, exemplifying the virtues espoused by the Center for Leadership Excellence, will be invited for public lecture and for informal conversation with students, faculty, staff and civic friends. For more information, call (615) 269-1000 or 1-800-333-4358 or email Grady.Bogue [at] lipscomb.edu.