Join us to pour over ancient and contemporary Jewish texts to mine them for meaning about our own leadership and the leaders we see around us, or the models we are searching for. As people we are bound to make mistakes - as leaders how do we come back from them? What feedback do we need, and as followers what is the best way to give feedback? Where does apologizing and atoning come into play and how does having faith in each other impact the dynamics of leadership mistakes? 

Elisha Gechter has been at the Harvard Kennedy School for the last decade, working to support Israeli students, and designing leadership learning experiences for over 100 fellows at the Center for Public Leadership. Elisha has been working in the Boston Jewish Community for 17 years – previously connecting people searching for community and for Jewish wisdom as the Associate Director of Adult Learning and Community Engagement at Hebrew College and fundraising with local young leaders at the Jewish Federation, CJP. She has a BA in psychology from Yeshiva University in New York and an MA/MBA from Brandeis’ Heller Hornstein Program in Jewish Leadership and Non-Profit Management. She is currently pursuing Rabbinical Ordination from Yeshivat Maharat in their part-time executive track and hopes to graduate this June. She is a board member with Mayyim Hayyim Mikvah and Education Center, is an alum of Encounter, an educator on local Honeymoon Israel programs, and through Hebrew College's Tamid Jewish learning programs. Elisha lives in Somerville with her husband and two kids and is an active minyan goer.