I have truly appreciated and valued IIL’s decade-long relationship with the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). It began when Professor Patricia Rife-Beavers, PhD adopted The Power of Acknowledgment in what seemed like “minutes” after it was published, for her Project Communications Management course in the graduate program. Every semester since, students have read the book as “required reading” and according to their professor and to them, it has made a profound difference. When I was asked to deliver a Grateful Leadership keynote for Women’s History Month at UMUC, numerous current and past students, faculty, and executives attended the presentation. I couldn’t resist interviewing them while we had cameras running… here is the first of these dramatic, engaging and wonderful interviews.