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| Dr. Douglass Teschner |
Doug Teschner
dteschner@GrowingLeadershipLLC.com
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Dr. Douglass Teschner is a proven, results-oriented leader, mentor, trainer, and coach who embraces challenge, integrates vision with a passion for excellence, and inspires a higher level of personal and professional performance. One of his greatest passions is developing leaders and building effective teams and with high levels of transparency and quality communication.
14 years as development director for Riverbend Community Mental Health (including grant writing, fundraising, strategic planning, and public relations)
12 years (six terms) as an elected New Hampshire state legislator (including developing an innovative training program for elected officials). 1990-2002
2 years as a NH assistant secretary of state, supporting elections and designing and managing a statewide grant program for city and town clerks.
Internationally, Dr. Teschner served as a forestry Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco in the 1970s and rejoined Peace Corps in 2008 for nine years as a country director and expert consultant, working with more than 1500 Peace Corps Volunteers and 230 staff in Ukraine and five African nations. One staffer wrote:
‘‘Other bosses give orders, you give directions, others give targets, you give vision, others lead by authority and you have always led by respect.”
Braver Angels
From the Braver Angels Website:
Politics is tough. It always has been. American politics is competitive, thrilling, frustrating – and infuriating. The stakes are high. Issues are important. Outcomes matter. This is why we care, and should care, about our politics.
But do our politics have to be demonizing? Does it have to bring out the worst in us? Do our politics have to destroy the goodwill of our society? Is the dehumanizing of our fellow Americans something we should accept?
Affective political polarization (not only disagreement on issues but personal contempt and distrust) has been growing between us for at least 25 years. In other words the vitriol in American politics was a problem long before Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election.
Yet today, there is evidence to suggest that we are now as polarized as we have been since the Civil War. We are in what some are calling a “cold civil war” right at the moment when a spreading pandemic, vast economic trouble, and other national and global challenges call upon us to support each other like never before.
We do not accept this.
At Braver Angels we do not accept this division. We reject the normalizing of this extreme polarization. We say no to the break down of political and social life that it brings.
Our work is about restoring civic trust in the USA. It is about healing the wounds between left and right. It is about challenging institutions to be better, building community together, and discovering what it means to be American in our time.
Our work is about supporting a more perfect union. Our work is about inspiring the beloved community.
At Braver Angels, our work is about building a house united.
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