The Women in Leadership luncheon at EARCOS provides a space for connection, reflection, and growth among women educators across the region. Through engaging discussions and shared experiences, participants explore leadership pathways and build meaningful professional networks. Providing an opportunity to connect with peers and gain insights from experienced leaders in international education.

Nicole Brittingham Furlonge (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-furlonge/)  

is a listener, educator, writer, and convener whose work champions deep listening as art, practice, and infrastructure—essential to how we learn, lead, and live together. As Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, she guides educators and school leaders to pause, attune, reflect, and move with empathy, curiosity, and courage.

A first-generation college student, she earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and brings to her teaching and leadership a love of story, sound, and systems thinking. 

Nicole is the author of Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature (University of Iowa Press) and is currently developing projects that reimagine listening as a civic, educational, and organizational infrastructure. Her career spans classrooms and leadership roles at independent schools including St. Andrew’s School (Delaware), The Lawrenceville School, Princeton Day School, and Holderness School, where she has served as teacher, department chair, director of teaching and learning, and director of diversity. She also shares her voice and vision through service on the boards of The School at Columbia University, International School Services (ISS), Impact Reading, and The Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child.