PEG Conversation With Raymond Lauk: Sharing the Magic! Storytelling for Leaders Stand Up Comic, Author, Speaker, and Professor

PEG Conversation With Raymond Lauk: Sharing the Magic!  Storytelling for Leaders Stand Up Comic, Author, Speaker, and Professor.  Biography Dr. Raymond Lauk is an associate professor of educational leadership at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY,  where he teaches graduate level educational leadership courses, an undergraduate diversity course and an undergraduate management course in the Business School. Dr. Lauk retired from Illinois public education in 2019, where he spent most of his career as a school district superintendent, business manager, principal, and elementary school teacher in highly diverse communities.  He was also the superintendent overseas at the American School of Brasilia, Brazil.  In 1978, Dr. Lauk was one of Illinois’s first elected 18 year-old school board members—so he understands school governance as a school board member and as a superintendent.  His Ph.D., MBA, and Master’s Degree in Elementary Education are all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Dr. Lauk received his B.S. with Honors degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.   As a speaker, Dr. Lauk has conducted training for the National School Boards Association, state school boards associations in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, and Minnesota, superintendent associations in Illinois and Indiana, and for Brazilian educators and policymakers at the National School of Public Administration in Brasilia, Brazil.  Dr. Lauk works with school leaders and board members to incorporate storytelling into their communications in order to more effectively share the district’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations for its students.  He has worked with school districts across the country to ensure students’ safety and security when he was the Education Solutions Manager at GE Security from 2006-2009.   A native of Chicago, Dr. Lauk has been trained in storytelling and comedy at Chicago’s Second City Theater.  He has performed storytelling and stand-up comedy throughout Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, and Bangkok.  In his spare time he is a runner who has completed 12 Chicago Marathons in the past 15 years.  In 2024, he will be running the Illinois Marathon, Berlin Marathon, and Chicago Marathon.  Dr. Lauk has also been an entrepreneur and was the owner of Dr. Ray’s Toffee, a skill he learned as a student teacher in Boulder, CO. Link: http://www.rlauk.com/ 9Donate to support PEG free artist interviews: PayPalMe link Any contribution is appreciated: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PhantomElectric?locale.x=en_US Support PEG by checking out our Sponsors: Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly.me or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription. The best tool for getting podcast guests:  Podmatch.com https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghost Subscribe to our Instagram for exclusive content: https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/ Donate to support PEG free artist interviews: Subscribe to our YouTube  https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost?si=rEyT56WQvDsAoRpr PEG uses StreamYard.com for our live podcasts https://streamyard.com/pal/c/6290085463457792 Get $10.00 Credit for using StreamYard.com when you sign up with our link RSS https://anchor.fm/s/3b31908/podcast/rss