Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 132
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4758-7285-9 • Hardback • November 2023 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
978-1-4758-7286-6 • Paperback • November 2023 • $25.00 • (£18.99)
978-1-4758-7287-3 • eBook • October 2023 • $23.50 • (£17.99)
Dr. Carrie Hruby has been a superintendent or assistant superintendent for almost 20 years. As a co-creator of the first female superintendent cohort in Illinois, Carrie is passionate about empowering, elevating and celebrating women in leadership. Carrie has published numerous journal articles on the topic of leadership and presented at conferences on the topics of women in leadership, finance, fiscal responsibility, and legislative advocacy.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Comfy Shoes and Care for the Organization
Chapter 2: Confidence
Chapter 3: Keychains
Chapter 4: Self Care and Surrogate Stress
Chapter 5: Time as a Precious Resource
Chapter 6: Mountaintop Moments
Chapter 7: Self-Reflection and Accountability
Chapter 8: Communication
Chapter 9: Building Consensus and Respect
Chapter 10: Ethical Leadership
Chapter 11: Leadership Endurance
Chapter 12: Burnout
Chapter 13: Influence
Chapter 14: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Author’s Note
Comfy Shoes and Keychains takes the most challenging aspects of leadership and not only honors struggle, but systematically lays out what stellar leadership looks like. I was inspired, equipped and motivated to elevate my own leadership along with those around me!
— Dr. Jill Siler, Ed. D., TASA Deputy Executive Director and author of "Thrive Through the Five"
What a gift to women in leadership and those who aspire to lead! Carrie Hruby did a fantastic job of co-mingling key experiences and variables impacting females from both a practical and a theoretical prospective. The stories in this book are so very real and heartfelt. I felt a deep connection to women whose cultural backgrounds are different than mine. What bounds us together is a common struggle to prove ourselves as worthy and the resiliency that exists within us to overcome. I found the reading of her Comfy Shoes and Keychains to be quite therapeutic.
— Dr. Sonya Whitaker, Deputy Superintendent of Schools, Illinois, President and Chief Consultant, Whitaker Educational Consulting Inc.