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David Brooks, bestselling author, social commentator and executive director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project, will share how all citizens can be leaders in repairing our country鈥檚 social fabric in a talk Feb. 23.听

Brooks is the fifth speaker in CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Leo Hill Leadership Speaker Series, a signature program of the Center for Leadership overseen by Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano.听

Brooks, in his talk 鈥淟eadership: Centering Relationships and Building Trust,鈥� will focus mostly on his work with Weave, an initiative within the Aspen Institute, that emphasizes a fundamental shift in the U.S. from hyperindividualism and personal success to relationalism that places relationships at the center of our lives.听

The talk will be livestreamed and is free and open to the public. Registration is required.听

鈥淭he topic of David Brooks鈥� talk couldn鈥檛 be more timely for us as a nation,鈥澨鼶iStefano听said. 鈥淟eadership is a fundamental priority for our campus. I am eager to join a conversation with David, our campus community听补苍诲听anyone else motivated to be part of this movement.鈥�

Brooks is a听New York Times听columnist, commentator on听PBS NewsHour,听狈笔搁鈥檚听All Things Considered听and NBC鈥檚听Meet the Press, and author of听The Second Mountain听补苍诲听The Road to Character.听

He is the author of听Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There听补苍诲听The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.听In April 2015, he came out with his fourth book,听The Road to Character, which was a No. 1听New York Times听bestseller.

Brooks also teaches at Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.听He听has written often about leadership and what it will take to heal the nation in a time of intense divisions.听听

Weave: The Social Fabric Project is aimed at bridging the differences that divide Americans and seeking out a compelling common ground. The project will include a series of workshops in diverse communities across the nation in order to identify unifying themes and promising partners.听

The initiative鈥檚 longer-term goal is to draw attention to organizations that are effectively healing social divisions, to see how their efforts can be applied to the national level, and to create a network and set of permanent structures to allow for planning, dialogue and action.

鈥淭he Weaver movement is repairing our country鈥檚 social fabric, which is badly frayed by distrust, division and exclusion,鈥� Brooks says on the Weave website.听

Weave is 鈥渁 way of life and a state of mind, not a set of actions,鈥� according to the Weave project. 鈥淚t鈥檚 about the spirit of caring you bring to each interaction with someone else. It鈥檚 a willingness to be open and loving, whether you get anything in return.鈥澨�

The speaker series is brought to campus by the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership.