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Steve O'Neil: a driving force to end homelessness, save taxpayers money

By Sharon Schmickle | 04/04/12

DULUTH — The goal is not just to provide emergency shelters, but to end homelessness by addressing its underlying causes.

Kathleen Allen
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'Driving Change' panel: 'It's about getting people to join you'

By Sharon Schmickle | 03/12/12

Kathleen Allen borrowed biological terms to discuss Paul Fleissner’s approach to leadership.

Paul Fleissner
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Southeastern counties develop bold ways to stretch dollars

By Sharon Schmickle | 03/12/12

Paul Fleissner has led a collaboration on services for the mentally ill and the chemically dependent — and now they're in new territory.

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'Driving Change' panel: Roehrig built cultural bridges between reservation students and STEM studies

By Sharon Schmickle | 02/03/12

Augsburg College history professor Bill Green comments on aspects of leadership presented in "Pulling STEM out of compartments and into students' everyday lives."

Gillian Roehrig
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Pulling STEM out of compartments and into students' everyday lives

By Sharon Schmickle | 02/03/12

Gillian Roehrig is literally going extra miles to prepare the next generation to thrive amid ever more sophisticated science and technology.

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Ground-breaking support system creates a win-win for medically-trained immigrants, Minnesota

By Sharon Schmickle | 01/17/12
Disappointing personal experiences led to the launch of an ambitious program to help foreign-trained medical workers earn credentials to practice here.'Driving Change' panel: Advocacy, peer support among keys to Holder and Nguyagwa's success
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'Driving Change' panel: Advocacy, peer support among keys to Holder and Nguyagwa's success

By Sharon Schmickle | 01/17/12
MinnPost has assembled a panel of leadership experts and scholars, who are rotating in commenting on each of the examples of leadership profiled in our series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership." Today Marcia Avner, of Avner Consulting and t
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'Driving Change' panel: 'You need a champion, and Christenson played that role very well'

By Sharon Schmickle | 12/11/11
MinnPost has assembled a panel of leadership experts and scholars, who are rotating in commenting on each of what will be 24 examples of leadership profiled in our yearlong series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership." Today William Joynes of
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Mike Christenson: From Phillips to North Side, he knows how to engage a community

By Sharon Schmickle | 12/11/11
"Mike is the kind of person who has tasked himself to being the web, to holding all of the others together and keeping them going," says Mayor R.T.
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Nathan Johnson helped Pine City accept gays

By Sharon Schmickle | 11/27/11
"I admire Nathan so much for having the personal courage in a small community ...
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'Driving Change' panel: With standing in the community, Nathan Johnson didn't need a title to lead

By Sharon Schmickle | 11/27/11
"No one could say that he was 'other,' that he was from somewhere else or he was trying to invade Pine City with this pro-gay agenda," said U of M graduate student Amelia Brunelle.
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Lyndel King's 'amazing vision,' passion were keys to audacious Weisman's completion

By Sharon Schmickle | 11/14/11
Through the Great Recession, debilitating staff cuts and other obstacles, Lyndel King drove to fulfillment her longstanding vision of an art museum that would be pushy about pulling in students.Related: 'Driving Change' panel: King inspire
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'Driving Change' panel: King inspired staff, cemented bonds to meet challenge of Weisman expansion

By Sharon Schmickle | 11/14/11
Bill Green, former superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, comments on aspects of leadership presented in "Lyndel King's 'amazing vision,' passion were keys to audacious WAM's completion."
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Driving Change panel: Doctor built on early aspiration to lead

By Sharon Schmickle | 10/28/11
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso had a solid base for bringing together the natural and developmental factors that add up to strong leadership.  
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Mayo's innovation team thinks big, moves fast to transform medical care

By Sharon Schmickle | 10/28/11

eConsults are just one example of innovations developed by Dr. Nicholas LaRusso and his team in a bid to help break the national health-care crisis.

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Building coalitions, fixing systems: Janet Lewis Muth's fingerprints are all over Rice County initiatives

By Sharon Schmickle | 10/11/11
While many activists may pick up a bull horn and storm City Hall, that is not Muth. Instead, her style is to educate and persuade.'Driving Change' panel: Rice County, Carleton students leveraged strength by working together
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'Driving Change' panel: Rice County, Carleton students leveraged strength by working together

By Sharon Schmickle | 10/11/11
Their transit project's impact was multiplied by the students' understanding that "their work is not abstract but has real value in the community," said consultant Marcia Avner.
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Muriel Krusemark: the force behind Hoffman's turnaround

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/21/11
At the new thrift store on Main Street, Paul Johnson said, "Not much happens around Hoffman that she hasn't got something to do with."'Driving Change' panel: Leadership begins with fostering community, supporting others
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'Driving Change' panel: Leadership begins with fostering community, supporting others

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/21/11
"The success of everything that we do ... depends on building relationships," says Erma Vizenor, chairwoman of the White Earth Nation. "It is all about relationships."
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'Driving Change' panel: It took courage, persistence and patience to unite disparate group around a vision

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/05/11
"He is tackling a 20-year-old problem that some of the finest leaders in our country can't figure out how to get their hands around," said Marcia Avner of Said Sheik-Abdi.