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The Whigham School Podcast

The Whigham School Podcast explores how education must evolve to prepare leaders for the future. Hosted by our school founder, Steve Whigham and Dr. Jeremy Patterson.

The Podcast

What if education was designed not just to inform, but to transform?

Through conversations with founder Steve Whigham, Dr. Jeremy Patterson, educators, global thinkers, and changemakers, The Whigham School Podcast examines how learning can move beyond traditional classrooms to cultivate global awareness, cultural intelligence, moral courage, and a commitment to meaningful impact. Explore topics such as:

  • How to build global awareness

  • What is cultural intelligence?

  • How will moral courage change the world?

  • Explore what "meaningful impact" can practically look like

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The Whigham School Podcast

The Whigham School Podcast explores how education must evolve to prepare leaders for the future.

The Program

Earn Your Master's Degree with More Change Makers like Dr. Jeremy Patterson

The Whigham School is a graduate-level Global Studies program designed to develop culturally intelligent, globally experienced leaders through immersive learning across six continents and more than 40 countries.

The mission is to encourage a new generation of global leaders to do substantial good in the world.

Built around global understanding, global leadership, and global benevolence, The Whigham School prepares students to navigate complexity, engage across cultures, and use their education, profession, and influence as a force for human flourishing.

Students do more than study the world. They learn to understand it, engage with it, and help shape it.

For more information, please visit https://whighamschool.org/

About The Leader’s Guide to Tomorrow

The Leader’s Guide to Tomorrow by Steve Whigham helps illuminate the kind of leadership philosophy at the heart of The Whigham School.

The book explores the character, courage, wisdom, and moral imagination needed for the future — offering a framework for leaders who want to move beyond self-interest and contribute to something larger than themselves.

Together, The Whigham School and The Leader’s Guide to Tomorrow reflect a shared belief:

The world does not suffer from a lack of intelligence, ambition, or resources.

It suffers from a lack of courageous, morally grounded leadership.

For information, please visit https://thetomorrowleader.com/

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Authentic feedback from real people that do substantial good in the world.

The Whigham School represents the future of education: experiential, global, and focused on leadership for the common good. Its graduates will be the voices the world most needs to hear.

Mary Schreiber Swenson
PhD, Entrepreneur and CEO, MySmile Choices

These leadership qualities are invaluable for diverse teams operating in the international marketplace. Graduates of The Whigham School are destined to catapult their professional attractiveness to global enterprises and enhance their personal long-term success.

John Ehrie
JD, LLM, CPA, Former CFO, and Former Partner of KPMG

The Whigham School goes far beyond developing proficiency in leadership, identification of cultural distinctions, and command of multiple languages.

Joseph Benanti
President of Vine Branch Consulting

By uniting technological innovation with emotional intelligence, The Whigham School is cultivating the next generation of leaders who will drive meaningful connection and sustainable growth worldwide.

Jad Mikhail
MBA, Thought Leader in Experience Driven Strategies in Cybersecurity and Product Innovation within the Retail Credit Industry

The Whigham School doesn’t just prepare students for jobs; it equips them to lead with empathy, cultural fluency, and purpose.

Natalie Nasrallah
MBA, Leader in Global Technology Marketing

Due to the curriculum intensity across so many different countries and cultures, they live leadership, negotiation, diplomacy, and empathy, giving them a strategic perspective with a strong operational work ethic that no other employee can bring to your company.

Leslie Schall
MMR, Director of Employee Experience, Michelin North America (Retired)

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