Louise Langheier on Teaching Young Leaders Outside the Classroom

In Chapter 11 of 21 in her 2014 Capture Your Flag interview, social entrepreneur Louise Langheier answers "How Are You Becoming a Better Teacher?" Langheier shares how asking questions and practicing inquiry has helped her better understand her employees' leadership development needs. She notes developing leaders in a workplace is different than teaching students and, for Langheier, success comes from understanding each individual employee's situation.

Louise Davis Langheier is founder and CEO of Peer Health Exchange, a non-profit that trains college students to teach health education in public high schools. Louise was selected as a member of the 2011 class of Aspen Entrepreneurial Education Fellows, and was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2012. She graduated from Yale University.