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Dean J. Fusto is a 2020 recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University and the President and Head of Brandon Hall School, an international boarding and day school serving students in grades 6-12. His career spans nearly three decades as an educational leader. He founded the teachlearnlead.net community in 2014 as a tribute to his heroes and heroines: teachers. This comprehensive site is an online edu-library that has grown in reach and built a global audience of teachers and school leaders seeking professional development and access to the latest educational research. Dean is a past recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship and an EE Ford Fellowship. As a thought leader and influencer, he has published 5 books, dozens of articles and holds an M.A.T. from the SIT Graduate Institute, an M.A. from Columbia University, and Proactive Leadership certification from Cornell University. He has founded and designed numerous experiential, service-learning trips for thousands of students and teachers. In 2017, out of his passion for inspiring youth leadership, he founded the Center for Global Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurial Studies at Brandon Hall School. In 2020, he established the Therese A. Fusto microgrants to fund social and community impact projects. Dean can be reached through his LinkedIn network or via Twitter @djftll


Here are links to the resources mentioned in our conversation with Dean Fusto about the 5 pillars of leadership.

Connect with Dean on Twitter, LinkedIn, and through his website www.teachlearnlead.net

Learn more about Brandon Hall.

Read Dean’s article The Five Pillars of Impactful Leadership.

Read Dean’s book The Next Best Thing to Being There!

Read Michael’s article Leadership has become a science fiction genre:


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