Tom Mosgaller - Community Building, Pulling Together, and Citizen Change - Ep. #44

Tom Mosgaller is an author, experienced community builder, teacher, and leader who believes that the power of relationships is the cornerstone of strong, vibrant communities. Tom has led, taught, and coached community builders in the art of pulling together in places both big and small, urban and rural, locally, and internationally. He has celebrated successes and learned from setbacks that inspired the timeless lessons captured in the Change Framework that serves as the backbone of his book, "Pulling Together: A Handbook for Community Change". He is past president of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and co-author of the recently published book on institutional change: Bending Granite. Tom has led and served on numerous educational, healthcare, governmental, faith-based, and agricultural boards. When Tom is not leading, teaching, and working with others, he can be found learning from the land and animals on his farm in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin.In this episode, Tom and Brad discuss his leaving the family farm (that didn't have indoor plumbing) for the seminary at 12 years old, being drafted and serving in Vietnam, his career in community building (with some GREAT stories), co-writing a book with another author whose political beliefs rest in a different place than Tom's yet they find common ground in their hopes and visions for positive change in humanity, directing change management, the four attributes of citizen leaders, and MANY other things. https://www.pulling-together.com/ As always a HUGE shoutout to our sponsors at Forward Beverage and Riverside Pizza. They keep these coming. If you dig it, make sure to support them!https://riverside-pizzeria.com/ https://www.forwardbev.com/