PGL Inspiration Newsletter – Lead with Heart (August 2025)
- Marti Deyo
- Aug 14, 2025
- 2 min read
Lead with Heart | Reimagining What It Means to Lead
Published: August 15, 2025
Welcome to Issue 2 of PGL Inspiration—our monthly newsletter designed to nurture reflection, connection, and the human side of global learning. Each month, we explore a theme that invites you to pause, recenter, and grow with purpose in community with others across the world.
In our August issue, we’re diving into the theme of Leadership—not as a position, but as a practice rooted in service, integrity, and care. Leadership begins when we choose to live by our values, speak up for others, and model humility, curiosity, and compassion.
What’s Inside the PGL Inspiration Newsletter – August 2025
✨ Inside this issue:
Letter from Marti: Redefining leadership as something personal, relational, and globally aware.
PGL Voices: Gulnoza Usmonova shares her journey shaping the future of tourism in Central Asia, and how leadership is about collaboration, not hierarchy.
Practical Wisdom: Reflection prompts and mini-practices to help you “lead through listening” and lift up others’ contributions.
Program Updates: Applications for JetPrep + Prep Programs open September 1, travel programs to Japan open September 15, and our Global Voices podcast launches this fall.
📖 Click here to view or download the full newsletter as a PDF or scroll below for highlights from this month’s issue.
“Leadership is not about being in charge.
It’s about taking care of those in your charge."
— Simon Sinek
🌱 This Month’s Prompt
How are you using your expertise to empower others—students, peers, or your community?
When people think of you as a leader, what qualities do you want them to remember most?
🌀 Mini Practice:
Reach out to a former student, mentor, or colleague to let them know their influence still matters.
Practice “leading through listening”—create space for someone’s idea to shine.
We’re so glad you’re here for the journey. Every choice you make in alignment with your values plants a seed of change.
Want to share how you’re growing this month?
💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts!
Email us at hello@positivegloballearning.org or tag us on social to share your reflections.
With purpose and possibility, The PGL Team 🌍💛
Positive Global Learning
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