Lakesha Green: Speaking Love into Community through the Arts and Vision
Lakesha is the Executive Director of the Union for Contemporary Art
CliftonStrengths: Self-Assurance | Learner | Input | Arranger | Strategic
Recorded: October 30, 2025
Amy Goodburn: Building the Good Life with Husker P.O.W.E.R.
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor & Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
CliftonStrengths: Learner | Achiever | Input | Discipline | Arranger
Recorded: September 10, 2025
P.O.W.E.R. = Purpose, Ownership, Well-being, Engagement, and Relationships
From the Inter-association Wellbeing Collaborative:
We define well-being as an optimal and dynamic state that allows people to achieve their full potential. Our focus is on two interdependent types of well-being: 1) individual and 2) community.
Amy Lanham: Creating Wellbeing Through Recreation
Campus Recreation Director, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
CliftonStrengths: Responsibility | Communication | Developer | Relator | Belief
Recorded: September 3, 2025
From the Inter-association Wellbeing Collaborative:
We define well-being as an optimal and dynamic state that allows people to achieve their full potential. Our focus is on two interdependent types of well-being: 1) individual and 2) community.
Daryl Davis: How to be Prohuman with Music and Friendship
Recorded 8/7/2025
Becca Schusler: The Win-Win of Workplace Wellness
VIA Strengths: Gratitude | Learner | Hope | Forgiveness | Self-Regulation
Born in a struggle for justice (Horace Carter Fights the Klan), Atlantic Packaging works to build wellbeing (Atlantic Wellness) and a thriving planet (A New Earth Project)
Core Values: Connection, Nourishment, Purpose, Movement, Nature, Prevention
Vision: To establish health, in all of its dimensions, as the fundamental guiding principle that informs all of our decisions.
Mission: Health & well-being is the throughline connecting our employees, our business community, and the overall vision for our company.
Recorded: July 25, 2025
Maital Neta: Positivity Matters to Our Brains!
Professor of Psychology at UNL
CliftonStrengths: Empathy, Achiever, Responsibility, Relator, Learner
Recorded: 7/23/2025
Josha Sietsma: The Nebraska Capitol is a Question Mark
The Nebraska Capitol asks us to respond to a series of profound questions:
What does it mean to live a good life?
How best to live a good life to the fullest together and transmit that wisdom to future generations in ways that expand that fullness?
Recorded: July 17, 2025
Founder and Executive Director, Studio Ludo
A finding a the study that Meghan draws on to inform her playground designs: “Play builds grit, prevents burnout, ignites joy through movement, and helps us become better people together.“
Co-Founder & CEO, True Progress Lab
VIA Strengths: Honest | Perseverance | Hope | Humility | Spirituality
Recorded on July 11, 2025
Tracy Edgerton: Leveraging Our Unique Strengths to Achieve a Shared Vision
President & CEO, Lincoln Community Foundation
Lincoln Vital Signs | Prosper Lincoln
CliftonStrengths: Learner | Input | Intellection | Developer | Achiever
Recorded: July 1, 2025
Zoya Awan - Creating Sparks of Hope
Director of Public Affairs, Walmart
CliftonStrengths: Positivity | WOO | Includer | Adaptability | Connectedness
Recorded: July 9, 2025
Andrew Hanna - Emerging Leadership, Life Design, & More
Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Prof. Hanna spoke at Nebraska's International Day of Hope celebration.
CliftonStrengths: Woo | Relator | Input | Positivity | Futuristic
Recorded: June 25, 2025
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Kathryn Goetzke - How to S.H.I.N.E. Hope
• Stress skills
• Happiness habits
• Inspired actions
• Nourishing networks
• Eliminating challenges
Kathryn's top VIA Strengths: Curiosity | Love of learning | Spirituality | Honesty | Fairness
Recorded 6/19/2025
Rebecca Davis - Dimensions of Connectedness (Social Capital & Social Health)
Director & Producer
Rebecca speaks on the community engagement she has generated around the country with the documentary, Join or Die, and we also explore themes of wellbeing present in the film.
Recorded 6/5/2025
Rob Lion - Black River
C.A.R. from Self-determination Theory:
Competence
Autonomy
Relatedness
Recorded 2/18/2025
Joshua created Econic to partner with leaders who envision a better world and desire someone to help them build it.
Joshua’s CliftonStrengths: Strategic | Maximizer | Ideation | Futuristic | Individualization
Recorded: 2/15/2025
Dan Martin
VIA Strengths: Humor | Creativity | Love of Learning | Curiosity | Bravery
Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay.
Recorded 2/4/2025
David B. Feldman, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist and Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University.
Prof. Feldman's top VIA strengths: Love of learning | Curiosity | Hope | Judgement | Kindness
Hope science developed in a playful laboratory. Hope develops in the playful laboratory of the imagination.
Recorded May 7, 2025