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Amy Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well


Porchlight Book Company and Boswell present a virtual afternoon with Amy Edmondson, who is a Professor at Harvard Business School, the creator of the popular Ted Talk, "How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team," and author of Right Kind of Wrong, a revolutionary guide to transforming our relationship with failure. In conversation with Sally Haldorson, Porchlight’s Managing Director.


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Edmondson, a pioneering researcher of psychological safety, upends our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. She illustrates how organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not.

From Grit author Angela Duckworth: "The incomparable Amy Edmondson shows us how to see failures as beginnings rather than endings - and how to create the conditions for failing well. Comprehensive, clear, and full of real-world examples, a must-read for performers and leaders alike."

Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organization and Teaming. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and more. She received her PhD, AM, and AB from Harvard University.

Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence


In conversation with Jacki Lyden, at Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall, 733 N Eighth St

Milwaukee journalist and Pulitzer finalist Meg Kissinger appears at Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall for the launch of her searing new memoir, While You Were Out, which tells the story of a family besieged by mental illness and offers an as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. In conversation with NPR journalist Jacki Lyden, author of the memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba.

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Growing up in the 1960s in Chicago suburbs, Kissinger’s family seemed to have a charmed life on the shores of Lake Michigan. Eight kids, two loving parents, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors were a heavily-medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, Kissinger chronicles her personal story of family struggle and tragedy which catalyzed a career of journalism focused on exposing our country’s flawed approach to mental health care.

From Hidden Valley Road author Robert Kolker: "Meg Kissinger is a world-class reporter and a rip-roaring storyteller. Her heartfelt, eviscerating, deeply introspective investigation of long-held family secrets will leave you quaking with rage about our broken mental health system-and grateful that writers like her are on the case."

Milwaukeean Meg Kissinger spent more than two reporting on America’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A Pulitzer finalist, she has won two George Polk Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and two National Journalism Awards. Kissinger teaches investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a visiting professor at DePauw University, her alma mater.

Jennifer Ackerman, author of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Boswell joins forces with Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to present a virtual afternoon with Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, for a conversation about her latest. What an Owl Knows is a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination. In conversation with Lindsay Obermeier, Schlitz’s Raptor Program & Animal Ambassador Director.