Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

Mind shaping is world shaping. When you change your mind, you change the world.

Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

Leadership is an inside job. You cannot create what you’ve not become.

Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

We get trapped by our stories. Unless we actually have opportunities to live into something fundamentally different, innovation is stifled.

Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

We are not doomed by our DNA. Our potential is not fixed. Our brains are not finite. Every time we learn a new skill, we are re-wiring our brains—we are creating new paths for contribution.

Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

Solving today’s problems will require a new model. It will take a new story. A new map. A new landscape.

Stephanie Pace Marshall – Educational Trailblazer, Founder and President Emerita of Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA)

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

 
Letting go is a challenging task in a world that forever changing. It’s human nature to give ourselves over to fear or anger, and seek ways to find comfort and reassert control when things around us are chaotic.
I’ve been in a few situations where these feelings are so overwhelming that leaders (myself included) become immobilized [...]

Stephanie Pace Marshall describes the type of environment needed to nurture innovation as “messy, non-linear, non-predictive,” which seemingly goes against the grain of traditional top-down corporate and leadership models. So is there a way for organizations and leaders to unleash the creative talent and energy of their people in a way that provides [...]

I had a friend who came up in the profession as a speech writer. He had a way with words, but that was not the genius behind his gift. His talent (like many great writers) lied in the fact that he was a big thinker. He loved getting into issues and could immediately, easily understand the [...]