I am grateful for those responses and so is Sharna.
Recently Sharna and I connected again via video but this time she interviewed me for her Lead and Follow Podcast. It was a lively, fun 48-minute conversation that ran the gamut from followership to relational trust to ownership of change. You can listen to that podcast here.
If you hear anything in Sharna’s podcast that you’d like to learn more about, you can text me at 240- 583-1754 or email me at info@tenaciouschange.us.
One of these things is not like the other…or are they all connected? Hmmmm…
Tango, Teamwork, Leading and Following
Just posted on the Tenacious Change YouTube channel is a new change maker conversation with Sharna Fabiano, MFA. Sharna is an internationally recognized tango artist. She has applied what she has learned and taught about tango to what it means to work in partnership in teams. You’ll enjoy meeting Sharna and the video. Take 39 minutes and 12 seconds to check it out!
Over the past year Tenacious Change has produced several other conversation videos on topics of interest to people working the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. More are in the works but here’s the current list:
The Work of Love: A conversation with Durryle Brooks, PhD of Baltimore, Maryland
Toxic Followership: A conversation with Wendy M. Edmonds, PhD of Bowie, Maryland
Spanish Classes for Individuals and Teams Serving the Latino Community
Tenacious Change has partnered with Charlemos con Clemenciato offer low-cost group Spanish classes to people working to serve the Latino community. Teachers, public health workers, social workers, etc. have been benefiting from these classes now for two years. The Fall Session begins on October 4th but there is plenty of time to register.
Clemencia is Clemencia Vargas, a retired dentist and health disparities researcher and a forever public health enthusiast. When she retired from the University of Maryland in 2019, she launched into her second career as a Spanish teacher. Her vision and goal withCharlemos con Clemenciais to increase the Spanish speaking capacity of those serving the Latino community. She is a native Spanish speaker from Colombia who has strengthened her language teaching skills through advanced training at major universities in both the United States and Spain.
This is a continuing partnership and not exactly new. Tom Klaus (Tenacious Change) and Clemencia Vargas are married to one another, and they are also ballroom dancers, include tango! Because both are interested in strengthening the capacity of organizations and their leaders to serve the Latino community, they decided to join up in this cause. They know how important it is to equip providers to work wisely, well, and compassionately with the Latino community. Take a look at the following video to learn more about the classes from Clemencia.
Classes for the Fall 2021 Session begin on October 4th. Please visit theCharlemos con Clemenciawebsite to get complete information and register for classes.
Yep, you’ve arrived! This is the blog for Tenacious Change.
However, this might not be what you were expecting, right? Recently we’ve been doing some “moving around” on the web. A little “hide and seek” but we are not actually trying to hide. You may have been looking for the Tenacious Change Approach or Tom Klaus, the founder and president of Tenacious Change LLC and the developer of the Tenacious Change Approach. For your convenience, here are the links to those sites:
Tom Klaus – Where you can learn more about Tom Klaus, his vision and mission, his focus on animating people, organizations, and whole communities to lead change for the greater good.
In the near future you’ll find articles and items related to the Tenacious Change Approach and Tom’s work. For now, though, we are just refreshing and reopening this space.
