Kai Degner
@kaidegner.bsky.social
SimplerLeadership.com
Localsummits.org
Leadership coach | Doctoral student, dissertation underway re: listening + leadership
Former elected mayor & councilmember in Harrisonburg VA | 2016 Congressional Candidate VA6
Dad, husband, Ravens/Orioles fan
Localsummits.org
Leadership coach | Doctoral student, dissertation underway re: listening + leadership
Former elected mayor & councilmember in Harrisonburg VA | 2016 Congressional Candidate VA6
Dad, husband, Ravens/Orioles fan
College prep for 5 yrs old.
You can never start too early.
You can never start too early.
September 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
College prep for 5 yrs old.
You can never start too early.
You can never start too early.
Brutal way to mess up my bell curve.
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September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Brutal way to mess up my bell curve.
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The circumstances driving the resignation of UVA President Jim Ryan are sad, infuriating, and dangerous.
He himself had no choice, given his integrity, as demonstrated in today’s email to the University community.
He himself had no choice, given his integrity, as demonstrated in today’s email to the University community.
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The circumstances driving the resignation of UVA President Jim Ryan are sad, infuriating, and dangerous.
He himself had no choice, given his integrity, as demonstrated in today’s email to the University community.
He himself had no choice, given his integrity, as demonstrated in today’s email to the University community.
Could this exercise be the secret to creating a listening culture?
June 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Could this exercise be the secret to creating a listening culture?
More from Carl Rogers - getting back to the foundational texts of active listening is useful
June 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
More from Carl Rogers - getting back to the foundational texts of active listening is useful
Who’s going to mess this up?
June 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Who’s going to mess this up?
My bell curve is strong
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My bell curve is strong
Another sign egg prices aren’t coming down anytime soon:
Fox News posting affiliate links for backyard chicken coops.
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Fox News posting affiliate links for backyard chicken coops.
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May 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Another sign egg prices aren’t coming down anytime soon:
Fox News posting affiliate links for backyard chicken coops.
🥚🥚🥚🐣🐣🐣
Fox News posting affiliate links for backyard chicken coops.
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You might be at the Virginia Democrats Rural Retreat if…
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You might be at the Virginia Democrats Rural Retreat if…
Pfff excited to be finalizing this presentation to kick off a new learning community for people ready to level up their leadership in these times. Seems like a culmination of 22 years of learning and doing.
Title Slide:
3 Secrets to Unlock the Collective Leadership Needed Now to Save Democracy
Title Slide:
3 Secrets to Unlock the Collective Leadership Needed Now to Save Democracy
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Pfff excited to be finalizing this presentation to kick off a new learning community for people ready to level up their leadership in these times. Seems like a culmination of 22 years of learning and doing.
Title Slide:
3 Secrets to Unlock the Collective Leadership Needed Now to Save Democracy
Title Slide:
3 Secrets to Unlock the Collective Leadership Needed Now to Save Democracy
The resistance has room for everyone - but we need to get in a room.
Here’s a recipe to do so:
1. Send a powerful invitation speaking to feelings of overwhelm and isolation, and need to be in collective action.
2. Run the meetings in Open Space (attendees create agenda).
3. Donations cover costs.
Here’s a recipe to do so:
1. Send a powerful invitation speaking to feelings of overwhelm and isolation, and need to be in collective action.
2. Run the meetings in Open Space (attendees create agenda).
3. Donations cover costs.
March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The resistance has room for everyone - but we need to get in a room.
Here’s a recipe to do so:
1. Send a powerful invitation speaking to feelings of overwhelm and isolation, and need to be in collective action.
2. Run the meetings in Open Space (attendees create agenda).
3. Donations cover costs.
Here’s a recipe to do so:
1. Send a powerful invitation speaking to feelings of overwhelm and isolation, and need to be in collective action.
2. Run the meetings in Open Space (attendees create agenda).
3. Donations cover costs.
Please add one lesson you would expect to be in this children’s book
February 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Please add one lesson you would expect to be in this children’s book
Even Costco won’t save us from the higher prices.
February 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Even Costco won’t save us from the higher prices.
February 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Sooo, go ahead and search for “California citrus.” Look at these two sequential stories.
The ag disruption due to the new administration is not coming. It’s here.
The ag disruption due to the new administration is not coming. It’s here.
February 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sooo, go ahead and search for “California citrus.” Look at these two sequential stories.
The ag disruption due to the new administration is not coming. It’s here.
The ag disruption due to the new administration is not coming. It’s here.
Timely from my Soel Radio station on Pandora. See song title and artist:
The State of the Union
thievery corporation
The State of the Union
thievery corporation
February 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Timely from my Soel Radio station on Pandora. See song title and artist:
The State of the Union
thievery corporation
The State of the Union
thievery corporation
ChatGPT: design a tshirt for Gary Vee to sell…
February 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
ChatGPT: design a tshirt for Gary Vee to sell…
I hope they don’t need these markings very long.
January 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I hope they don’t need these markings very long.
Something ironic about an headline about the mafia weaponizing wildfires being behind a paywall?
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Something ironic about an headline about the mafia weaponizing wildfires being behind a paywall?
January 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Finally nailed a homemade pizza crust. Cooked all the way through, stiff enough to hold up.
Used $3.67 prepared dough from the neighborhood pizza shop - great alternative to making it myself or buying premade. (Ask your pizza shop if they sell dough.)
475 for 9 min.
Stone is from our raclette.
Used $3.67 prepared dough from the neighborhood pizza shop - great alternative to making it myself or buying premade. (Ask your pizza shop if they sell dough.)
475 for 9 min.
Stone is from our raclette.
December 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Finally nailed a homemade pizza crust. Cooked all the way through, stiff enough to hold up.
Used $3.67 prepared dough from the neighborhood pizza shop - great alternative to making it myself or buying premade. (Ask your pizza shop if they sell dough.)
475 for 9 min.
Stone is from our raclette.
Used $3.67 prepared dough from the neighborhood pizza shop - great alternative to making it myself or buying premade. (Ask your pizza shop if they sell dough.)
475 for 9 min.
Stone is from our raclette.
Anyone else graduates to “socks age” for Christmas? #RavensFlock
December 25, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Anyone else graduates to “socks age” for Christmas? #RavensFlock
December 21, 2024 at 9:56 PM