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Goodwin Great Talks Archive

Tune in and boost your transferable skills!

The Goodwin Great Talks virtual speaker series features panelists from a multitude of backgrounds sharing insights on a diversity of topics, such as non-profit leadership and career planning.

If you couldn’t attend an event, see what you missed! Our past events archive features videos that capture the discussions and insights shared.

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For questions and more information, please contact TinaMarie Coolidge, EdD, at 215.895.6933 or Tinamarie@Drexel.eduu.

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What is Project Management and How Can I Use it to be more Effective and Efficient?

What is Project Management and How Can I Use It? Part 2: Case Studies in Rescuing Problem Projects

This session builds on Session 1 and will review case studies of two problem projects that need an injection of capable project management to untangle well intended efforts that went astray and put each project in jeopardy of completion, regardless of schedule or budget!

  • Date: Feb. 10, 2026
  • Panelists: Patrick O'Brien
  • Video Runtime: 48 minutes
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The Power of Creativity in the Workplace

This engaging panel brings together seasoned professionals from fields such as banking, legal, and beyond—members of Goodwin College’s Advisory Council who have successfully navigated complex challenges by leveraging creative thinking.

  • Date: Jan. 20, 2026
  • Panelists: Craig Loundas; Gregory C. Ludwig; Joel Ruffin; Marilou Taylor Watson
  • Video Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
What is Project Management and How Can I Use it to be more Effective and Efficient?

What is Project Management and How Can I Use it to be more Effective and Efficient?

This session is designed for educators, administrators and professionals who are looking to gain a deeper understanding of effective project management and how to use project management tools for enhanced collaboration during challenging projects.

  • Date: Dec. 9, 2025
  • Panelists: Patrick O'Brien
  • Video Runtime: 50 minutes
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Belonging Matters: The Power of Connection

This presentation examines the significance of fostering belonging in higher education, highlights strategies institutions can implement to build inclusive communities and explores the impact of belonging on student engagement.

  • Date: Nov. 11, 2025
  • Panelists: Dr. Karen DeVose
  • Video Runtime: 54 minutes
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The Leadership Balancing Act: People, Priorities and Progress in a Time of Change

This engaging panel featured Drexel’s senior leaders as they explored how to lead with clarity and purpose while keeping people at the center.

  • Date: Oct. 14, 2025
  • Panelists: Nadine Ezzat; Hillen Grason; Vibhas Madan; Angela Montgomery; Subir Sahu
  • Video Runtime: 55 minutes
panelists for courageous conversations about race

Engaging in Courageous Conversations about Race: What’s in Your Toolbox?

In this interactive session, leadership from the School of Education’s Critical Conversations about Urban Education shares how they use Courageous Conversations’ protocol to engage in schoolwide, interracial dialogue.

  • Date: May 14, 2025
  • Panelists: Deanna Hill, JD, PhD; Kristine S. Lewis Grant, PhD; Sherri Manson, MBA; Cianni Williams, BS education ’24
  • Video Runtime: 43 minutes
Leslie Ashburn-Nardo

Demystifying DEI: Addressing Five Common Misperceptions

In this session, Drexel University’s Vice Provost of Faculty Advancement and Inclusion Dr. Ashburn-Nardo shared evidence to “demystify” DEI and address five common misperceptions.

  • Date: April 8, 2025
  • Panelist: Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, PhD
  • Video Runtime: 43 minutes
Kena Sears-Brown

How to Advance Your Career through Professional Development

Learn how professionals at every career level, from emerging leaders to career shifters, can benefit from enrolling in short certification courses and industry bootcamps to ensure that they stay relevant and prepared for the ever-changing workplace.

  • Date: March 11, 2025
  • Panelist: Kena Sears-Brown, MBA
  • Video Runtime: 41 minutes
Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro

Creativity Series, Part 3: Powering Up Your Creativity to Find Workplace Solutions

This session invites participants to share their beliefs about creativity from which we will build a common definition of creativity that is also grounded in research.

  • Date: Feb. 12,2025
  • Panelist: Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro, PhD
  • Video Runtime: 49 minutes
Wendy Elliot Pyle

Creativity Series, Part 2: Creative & Collaborative Problem Solving Using the “6 Thinking Hats” Method

Have you ever felt you did not have all the information and perspectives necessary to make the best decision? During this session, Wendy Elliot Pyle introduces Edward De Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats” method of problem solving.

  • Date: Jan. 14, 2025
  • Panelist: Wendy Elliot Pyle
  • Video Runtime: 66 minutes
Daniel Albert

Innovating and Decision-making with Generative AI

In this webinar, Assistant Professor of Management Daniel Albert explored innovative applications of recent generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) models, such as ChatGPT.

  • Date: Dec. 10, 2024
  • Panelist: Daniel Albert, PhD
  • Video Runtime: 66 minutes
Wendy Elliot Pyle

Creativity Series, Part 1: Mindful Ways to Nurture your Creativity

During this presentation, Wendy Elliot Pyle shares a variety of mindful exercises and practices to help you appreciate, begin, rekindle, or expand your creative potential and self-efficacy.

  • Date: Nov. 12, 2024
  • Panelist: Wendy Elliot Pyle
  • Video Runtime: 61 minutes
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Leading & Working During Organizational Change

In this insightful online panel session, senior leaders from esteemed institutions of higher education shared their experiences, strategies and best practices for navigating the complexities of organizational change.

  • Date: Oct. 8, 2024
  • Panelists: Katie Zamulinsky, EdD; Brian Ellis, PhD; Jackie McCurdy; Dawn Medley, EdD; Patience Ajoff-Foster
  • Video Runtime: 57 minutes
Giuseppe G. Salomone, PhD

Exploring Gender, Sex, Sexuality and Gender Identity

This webinar uncovers the power of emotional intelligence in leadership, and challenges leaders to tap into next-level intelligence to practice better self-management and handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

  • Date: Dec. 12, 2023
  • Panelist: Giuseppe G. Salomone, PhD
  • Video Runtime: 59 minutes
Craig Loundas, PhD

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: What's Needed During Unstable Times

This webinar uncovers the power of emotional intelligence in leadership, and challenges leaders to tap into next-level intelligence to practice better self-management and handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

  • Date: Aug. 8, 2023
  • Panelist: Craig Loundas, PhD
  • Video Runtime: 56 minutes
Dan Freeman MS, EdD

Leading Organizations for the Next Generation of Employees

Managers and leaders often do not understand the new breed of talent that is coming to work for them. To sum up this new breed of talent in one phrase, it is the “humanizing the workforce.”

  • Date: May 9, 2023
  • Panelist: Dan Freeman MS, EdD
  • Video Runtime: 55 minutes