Finding Your Leadership Soul: 1 Year Later with Carlos Moreno

A year after its release, Finding Your Leadership Soul: What Our Students Can Teach Us About Love, Care, and Vulnerability continues to challenge conventional leadership models. In this conversation, past Innovator of Color awardee Carlos R. Moreno reflects on the book’s impact, lessons learned, and how leadership must evolve to keep pace with today’s rapidly changing education landscape.

From his upbringing in the Bronx to leading Big Picture Learning, Moreno shares how personal experiences and the voices of young Black and Latino men have shaped his leadership philosophy. He offers a framework for purpose-driven, equity-centered leadership that fosters meaningful transformation. Join us as we revisit Moreno’s inaugural book and explore how leadership, like learning, must move at the speed of light—bold, adaptive, and rooted in human connection.