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Sterling Freeman, Executive Director
2001-2003 Friday Fellow
A New Suit of Clothes
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“…I always knew that there were high familial and community expectations. Those high expectations were great motivators and confidence builders. In fact, as parent, I am about the business of raising the bar for my daughter. Her ability to achieve is a regular conversation of ours. At the same time, I have learned something interesting about high expectations and how they can potentially land with young people. High expectations can have a dubious effect. There can be a tendency for high expectations to empower and constrict, motivate and debilitate, enhance potential, yet stifle creativity. What I am offering is not something that I heard but something that I experienced…”
Closing the Gap
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“…Closing the gap requires commitment to core values and courage to integrate them in our daily practice. [Bill Grace] noted immanent scholar Cornel West, who suggests that we must speak truth to power in love. To power and in love are not mutually exclusive, but inextricably linked. Without the former, those figures who are in positions to help stimulate the moral barometer are left unchallenged and change is left stuck in the proverbial fantasyland. Without the latter, incivility and combativeness heightens the risk of aborting proposed change…”
Musings on Leadership
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“…So we want to improve human relations by building a community, the members of which are bound by a common experience that engenders colleagueship and collaboration in their efforts to lead in this state. We believe the leadership practices of integrity, intention and inclusion are tools for building this community and for use by its members in their various leadership roles. We take a three-pronged approach in order to deliver this model…”
Thinking and Acting for the Public Good
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“…Time for reflection leads me away from the conversation with the following thoughts. I must be willing to consciously identify and pursue aspirations hewn out that most basic element - our common humanity. I must be willing to hear and respond to the complex cry for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by the multitude of voices that wail for a better way of being. I must be willing to respect the power that I do hold and realize that all I have is not all there is. Others have power too, it might be my job to help them recognize and use it…”
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