Tyler Adams

Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. Why We Must All Cultivate Professional Leadership Psychology Morningstar Khongthaw faced a new challenge. While monsoons and steep terrain had tested living bridges for centuries, modernity presented something different: government agencies requiring documentation of knowledge passed down through oral tradition for…

Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. Expand from intimate family grammar to tribal leadership and stewardship that can preserve and transmit wisdom across generations In Meghalaya’s Rangthylliang village, Morningstar Khongthaw faces an emergency that has nothing to do with monsoons or failing concrete. Twenty skilled elders remain…

Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. The family becomes the first apprenticeship in thinking beyond immediate return, in caring for structures that outlast individual lifespans. Yet in our age of scattered families and fractured lineages, we find ourselves asking:  How do we reclaim family as the foundational…

Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. An Introduction to the Apprenticeship Leadership Model In the wettest place on earth, where torrential monsoons transform gentle streams into raging torrents that devour concrete and steel, the Khasi people of Meghalaya need bridges. They do not build them. They grow…