Essential Leadership to End Poverty
Essential Leadership to End Poverty
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Essential Leadership to End Poverty is where visionary leadership meets grassroots impact. This podcast explores how bold, innovative, and compassionate leadership drives sustainable solutions to poverty. Each episode features powerful conversations with changemakers who are transforming lives through action and accountability.
Whether you're working on the frontlines or influencing systems behind the scenes, this show equips you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration to lead with purpose. Join us as we uncover what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next in the effort to end poverty—because real change demands essential leadership at every level.
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The podcast focuses on innovative leadership, systemic change, and grassroots initiatives, with episodes like Inside the $25M TANF Pilot exploring practical strategies for economic mobility and discussing the dismantling of barriers to poverty alleviation.
Essential Leadership to End Poverty is where visionary leadership meets grassroots impact. This podcast explores how bold, innovative, and compassionate leadership drives sustainable solutions to poverty. Each episode features powerful conversations with changemakers who are transforming lives through action and accountability.
Whether you’re working on the frontlines or influencing systems behind the scenes, this show equips you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration to lead with purpose. Join us as we uncover what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next in the effort to end poverty—because real change demands essential leadership at every level.
In this episode of Essential Leadership to End Poverty, host Scott Miller sits down with Michael Aikens, Assistant Vice President for Economic Development at Tennessee Tech, to explore the driving force behind Empower Upper Cumberland.
More than just a program, Empower UC is a comprehensive initiative that unites innovation, education, and grassroots leadership to spark long-term economic growth in rural Tennessee. Michael shares how strategic partnerships—across government, education, and community organizations—are transforming not only economies, but the mindsets and futures of those living in historically under-resourced areas.
Together, they dig into:
The foundational vision behind Empower UC
How higher education can anchor local transformation
The role of leadership in rebuilding trust and capacity
Real-world outcomes already reshaping lives and communities
If you care about economic mobility, rural revitalization, or what it truly takes to lead change from the ground up, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
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