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Jeff Wetzler: One Exercise Away From Uncovering the Unspoken

The One Away Show

Release Date: 11/15/2024

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Jeff Wetzler has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities. Blending a unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education, he’s pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America, and most recently, as co-Founder and co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized education innovation organization.

Jeff earned a Doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Brown University. He is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow. Jeff’s new book, Ask, offers readers insights they need to take on important challenges and live a fulfilling life.

At his first job, a mentor showed Jeff an experiment that became the starting point for his whole career. Find out how this moment changed him on today’s One Away Show.

 

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