Transformational Leadership

I informally rejected and have laughed with people when I talk about the “transformational” aspect of my job, until today.  An educator who has been in this business since I was a child stopped me to share that some of the work our team has done over the past few months has facilitated conversations that “this district hasn’t ever had, but has needed for a long time!”

I hesitate to take much pride personally, but when I came across a podcast from Richard Elmore (Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education) tonight, I realized that transformation indeed can come in many forms and is coming from our work.  This concept has led Elmore to create a new Ph.D. program in Transformational Leadership which entails, not 3-5 years of research-laden toil, but combines cohort study and a residency, coursework from economic, business, and humanities colleges matched with educational theoretical work to bring new thinking to public school issues.  It sounds like he’s teaching transformation through a transformed approach to doctoral study.  If the commute to Harvard wasn’t such a pain (and my wife hadn’t insisted I take a break from college), I’d enlist today!
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At its simplest, transformation is incorporating new ways of doing things, maybe having conversations that we haven’t had, but needed.  It’s not the new document or system created, so much as the new thinking that enables new ways of work.  The real magic and prize comes from, as Elmore says, “investing in people”.  When people are guided to create new thought through adversity or necessity, transformation occurs.  When we care enough about our long term success to invest in our people, I think we’ll find that transformation can come from within.