“Employers have such a footprint—not just on the environment but on people. The bright spots for workers during this pandemic have to do with relationships, this perception that management and coworkers actually care.” - Eileen McNeely
“To maximize impact, we must view data in terms of iteration and interaction.”
“When someone is killed by police, the impact of that loss of life radiates beyond the individual killed and their family to those who knew them, lived near them, and look like them—specifically in Black and Hispanic communities.”
“Science and data are absolutely necessary to inform decisions and ground institutions (political, social, educational) in reality. Yet the political and human realities are equally vital to respect and work within.”
At her core, Danielle is driven by an impulse—connect people with ideas and advance the conversation. While she applies this impulse in a number of ways, her pet mediums are writing and audio. Danielle has written and published a number of communication pieces as part of community outreach efforts, corporate content strategies, and personal curiosities. Her work has appeared in such publications as Inside Higher Ed and eCampus News, and she has written journalistic content for Roche-Genentech, Harvard CEPR, the University of Delaware. She is also currently the sole contributor to Harvard University’s Strategic Data Project blog.
Danielle LeCourt is a professor of communication, writer, speaker, and unapologetic idealist. Having spent the first 10 years of her career working in research, communication, and marketing, Danielle has written about higher education, STEM education, economics, behavior change, and social change for a number of publications.
In 2015, Danielle started the Re-Quilibrium Podcast (ReQ Podcast for short) to explore major questions of change. Drawing on fields like neuroscience, behavioral economics, anthropology, and history and research on such topics as peak performance; behavior change; cognitive psychology; and human development, well-being, and flourishing; Re-Q explores the mechanisms and philosophies of personal, cultural, and social change.
