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Shakespeare-Based Leadership

What do a handful of officers in the British Royal Navy... several dozen lawyers across Virginia... and hundreds of federal employees across America all have in common?

They have all been to Staunton to study leadership, modeled on the works of Shakespeare.

Could the Bard also turn you into a leader?

Note: This is an encore broadcast, which originally aired Monday, January 30, 2012.

Guests:
Ralph Alan Cohen, PhD - Director of Mission and Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center and Blackfriars Playhouse, based in Staunton, Virginia. The Gondar Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Mary Baldwin College.   Author of  ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare [Prestwick House].

Sarah Enloe, M.Litt., MFA - Director of Education,  American Shakespeare Center.

Tom Graham was Senior Producer and host of WMRA's Virginia Insight from 2006 to 2015.