As a supplement to my courses for Cornell’s Certificate in Leadership from Ancient Rome, this page collects some recent essays and talks I’ve given for business and professional audiences.
Essays
- 2022. Cicero’s Six Mistakes of Man. Classical Wisdom
- 2019. What is the Duty of a Company? LinkedIn. With Devin Bigoness.
- 2018. Twitter has become the modern-day Colosseum. Fortune.
- 2018. Six Leadership Insights from the Trial of Socrates. LinkedIn. With Devin Bigoness.
Videos
- 2023. eCornell Keynote: “Pushover: How to Avoid Caving to Unreasonable Requests.” (on Plutarch, online here.)
- 2021. eCornell Keynote: “How to Tell a Joke. Timeless Strategies for Winning the Room and Getting Ahead.” (online here; for the book, see here.)
- 2020. eCornell Keynote: “Timeless Odyssey: What the Ancient Greek Epic Teaches Us About Modern Mentoring.” February. (online here.)
- 2019. eCornell Keynote: “How to Make a Tough Call: Classical Lessons in Decision Making from the Ancient World.” October. (online here). (On Cicero’s treatise On Duties)
Michael Fontaine 
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