Celebrating CPL's class of 2022

Graduating fellows shine in public service around the globe, from helping Ukrainian refugees find a safe place to live to expanding healthcare in Israel's Bedouin community

New releases: Faculty books offer lessons for public leaders

Passing the leadership torch to younger generations and learning how to fail more safely with crisis management expertise

Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders are Made

David Gergen
CPL Founding Director
Public Service Professor of Public Leadership

In Hearts Touched With Fire, David Gergen, a leader in the public arena for more than half a century, draws from his experiences as a White House adviser to four presidents, his decades as a trusted voice on national issues, and years of teaching and mentoring young people to offer a stirring playbook for the next generation of change-makers.

To uncover the fundamental elements of effective leadership, Gergen traces the journeys of iconic leaders past and present, from pathbreakers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, John McCain, and Harvey Milk to historic icons like Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, to contemporary game changers like Greta Thunberg, the Parkland students, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

Juliette Kayyem
Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security

In The Devil Never Sleeps, CPL affiliate Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the “devil’s” inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does.