Lea Appleton

Every scar has a date. A story. A before and an after.In this talk, Lea Appleton shares her own chronology of scars—cancer, divorce, miscarriage, mastectomy, knee surgeries, hip replacement, osteoporosis, c-section for twins, a career made from scratch—not as a catalogue of suffering but as...

Every organization has an orientation. This is the program for what comes next.Disorientation arrives somewhere in the middle—too far from the beginning to feel hopeful, not close enough to the end to feel relief. Everything feels like too much. And most institutions respond by trying...

There is a lyric in The Sound of Music that has always bothered me: "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could." I want to rewrite it."Something comes from something. Something always could."In this talk, Lea Appleton draws on a beloved children's story—Joseph Had a Little...

Most of us have felt it, a physiological restlessness, a philosophical ache, a something-more-than-feeling that surfaces and won't quite go away. We push past it. We try to think our way through it. We wait for it to resolve.In this talk, Lea Appleton introduces the...