Endorsements
A Bridge Within
Building Connection. Creating Opportunity.
Endorsements
A Bridge Within
Building Connection. Creating Opportunity.
Leaders from education, business, philanthropy, and public service reflect on the message and impact of A Bridge Within.
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“Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a powerful and timely vision for leadership, one that recognizes that the capacity to create opportunity in the world begins with the development of the human being. This relational intelligence is a deeply needed perspective for leaders navigating complexity and change.”
Isabelle C. Hau
Executive Director, Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Author, Love to Learn
“Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a powerful and timely vision for leadership, one that recognizes that the capacity to create opportunity in the world begins with the development of the human being. This relational intelligence is a deeply needed perspective for leaders navigating complexity and change.”
Isabelle C. Hau
Executive Director, Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Author, Love to Learn
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“Every day, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune leads and lives in the belief that ALL people deserve equal access to the future. Her book A Bridge Within speaks to the leadership required today to ensure that our students, and our communities broadly, have the opportunities to access a rapidly changing future. Rachael believes in the power of innovation and broad-based collaboration across differences to drive a better future for all. It is a critically important message of leadership and community-based action, driving pathways and outcomes of excellence in a tumultuous time.”
Deborah Quazzo
Managing Partner, GSV Ventures
Co-Founder, ASU + GSV Summit
“Every day, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune leads and lives in the belief that ALL people deserve equal access to the future. Her book A Bridge Within speaks to the leadership required today to ensure that our students, and our communities broadly, have the opportunities to access a rapidly changing future. Rachael believes in the power of innovation and broad-based collaboration across differences to drive a better future for all. It is a critically important message of leadership and community-based action, driving pathways and outcomes of excellence in a tumultuous time.”
Deborah Quazzo
Managing Partner, GSV Ventures
Co-Founder, ASU + GSV Summit
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“A Bridge Within is more than a framework. It is a calling. A way of bringing our people together, not in spite of our differences, but because of them, through them, and with profound respect for what each soul carries to the table. Every perspective, every lived experience, every one is valuable. Rachael’s true-life stories demonstrate that bridge leadership is indeed sacred work. The kind of work that reminds us that we are far more alike than we are unalike.”
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Author, African Proverbs for All Ages and Speechifying
Snowden McFall
Author, Fired Up! and Stress Express!
“A Bridge Within is more than a framework. It is a calling. A way of bringing our people together, not in spite of our differences, but because of them, through them, and with profound respect for what each soul carries to the table. Every perspective, every lived experience, every one is valuable. Rachael’s true-life stories demonstrate that bridge leadership is indeed sacred work. The kind of work that reminds us that we are far more alike than we are unalike.”
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Author, African Proverbs for All Ages and Speechifying
Snowden McFall
Author, Fired Up! and Stress Express!
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“As someone who has led organizations through complexity and change, I know leadership is rarely about having all the answers. It requires self-awareness, courage, and the ability to bring people forward together. In A Bridge Within, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a practical and deeply human guide to leadership — reminding us that the strongest bridges we build to others begin within ourselves and can lead to lasting, meaningful impact.”
Jenna Dorn
Co-Founder, Salire, an executive leadership program for women
Former CEO of several national nonprofit organizations
“As someone who has led organizations through complexity and change, I know leadership is rarely about having all the answers. It requires self-awareness, courage, and the ability to bring people forward together. In A Bridge Within, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a practical and deeply human guide to leadership — reminding us that the strongest bridges we build to others begin within ourselves and can lead to lasting, meaningful impact.”
Jenna Dorn
Co-Founder, Salire, an executive leadership program for women
Former CEO of several national nonprofit organizations
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“Throughout my career, I’ve seen firsthand how important it is to build trust across differences. In A Bridge Within, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a timely perspective on the kind of leadership our communities need now.”
Nat Glover
Former Jacksonville Sheriff
“Throughout my career, I’ve seen firsthand how important it is to build trust across differences. In A Bridge Within, Rachael Tutwiler Fortune offers a timely perspective on the kind of leadership our communities need now.”
Nat Glover
Former Jacksonville Sheriff

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