The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Education and Healthcare

With 4,000 students on campus and 180,000 online, President of Southern New Hampshire University, Paul LeBlanc aims to transform lives at scale by putting students at the centre of the education experience.In this episode, we talk a lot about the power of love, the difference between belonging and mattering, and why competency based education is finally taking off.

Show notes:

• More about Southern New Hampshire University, https://www.snhu.edu/
• More about Gregory Elliot’s work at Brown University:, https://www.brown.edu/academics/sociology/people/gregory-elliott
• More about David Graeber’s work: https://davidgraeber.org/
• Favourite book about learning: ‘Death at an Early Age’, Jonathan Kozol
• Favourite book: ‘Anna Karenina’, Leo Tolstoy