Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2023 · No. 04

Resilience vs. Self-Reliance

Bill Hulseman

From the recording

I don't think it's hyperbole to say I feel unshackled after a career of adapting my life to work. Now I adapt work to my life.

Bill Hulseman

About this episode

Bill Hulseman began with Beyoncé, Madonna and the ballroom scene, and a question about surviving in a world not made for you. Then he told his own story: two decades in Catholic schools creating safe spaces for students while hiding who he was, a move to a new principal job, and losing his mother, sister and father in quick succession. Today he builds his work around his life, and he sees resilience as bouncing toward something better.

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