Inspiring and Motivating Employees in Turbulent Times.History, as Goodwin demonstrates, provides lessons, solace, and even hope.

Drawing from her most recent book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Goodwin transports us back in time to provide perspective and analysis as she helps us understand how the presidents she’s studied most closely-Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson-provide proof that as a country and a people we’ve been through most difficult times before and came through stronger. Not since the 1850s has our country been so politically divided, not since the Great Depression and World War II have we experienced such a string of collective hardships, not since the 1960s have we struggled so for social and economic equality. Leadership in Turbulent Times: Virtual Fireside Chat or LectureĪt this challenging time in our nation’s history, as we face a cascading series of crises-a fight to protect democracy in Ukraine while we worry about the fragility of our democracy at home, a country more polarized than any time since the Civil War, still grappling with the struggle for racial and economic justice and the devastating impact of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, “America’s historian-in-chief” Doris Kearns Goodwin puts this defining time in historical context.She was the first woman to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979, and is a devoted fan of the World Series-winning team. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government, including a course on the American Presidency. Goodwin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College. Goodwin’s interest in presidential leadership was inspired by her experience as a 24-year-old White House Fellow, working directly for President Johnson in his last year in the White House, and later assisting him in the preparation of his memoirs. Well known for her appearances and commentary on television, Goodwin is seen frequently in documentaries and on television news and cable networks and late-night talk shows. Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin is the author of seven critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books, including her most recent, Leadership in Turbulent Times, which incorporates her five decades of scholarship studying Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. Since 2020 she has served as executive producer for the History Channel’s miniseries events Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, with more to come!

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