Two leadership learnings I experienced this summer have me thinking...

First, as part of the Cabinet's annual retreat in July, we visited the new American Civil War Museum located at the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. This newly built museum is a result of the 2013 merger of the American Civil War Center and the White House and Museum of the Confederacy. A docent led us on an informative, though too brief, tour of the exhibits which tell the complex story including north and south, enslaved and free, male and female, soldiers and families, and the build-up to and the fall-out from. Following our tour, we were privileged to meet with the museum's CEO, Christy Coleman, for over 90 minutes, until well past the museum's closing time. What an incredible and fascinating conversation about leadership in the midst of change!