Find the fire in people: how working in a juvenile corrections facility radically altered my view on leadership

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published September 11, 2020

Two years ago renowned leadership coach Brian Fretwell gave a TED talk titled ‘What a 15-year-old meth addict taught me about leadership’. Some two million views later, he shares how his experience working in the juvenile detention system radically altered his thinking on leadership.

"You can’t light a fire for somebody else, it’s really just you finding the embers and throwing gasoline on it,” Brian Fretwell says of leading cultural change.

So Brian, you started your career as a teacher in a juvenile corrections facility, can you tell us a bit ...

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