01/28/2025

Lead Without Fear

Be authentic and open

At the Opening Session of the ASAE Annual Meeting and Expo in 2024, poet Amanda Gorman challenged leaders to be open about discussing feelings of pain and division.

“Where I always begin with communication is with the wound or with the hurt,” said Gorman, in conversation with interviewer Holly Ransom. “It’s hard to engage with healing without talking about the injury.”

Gorman is best known for her poem “The Hill We Climb,” which she delivered at President Joseph R. Biden’s inauguration in 2021. At 22 years old, she was the youngest poet ever in that role.  Since then, she has published a bestselling poetry collection, Call Us What We Carry, and a pair of children’s books, Change Sings and Something, Someday.

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