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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 1037: Children – Special Post

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 “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me.“

Today’s post is a little different than usual.
 
I don’t know why but it was never in God’s will for Patti and I to have children of our own.  But that doesn’t mean that we didn’t have the love for children in our hearts.  We have done our best to live out that love through our nieces, nephews, students and the children that we teach in Sunday School.  Out of this caring place in my being for children is a grief and mourning for those kids, and their families, who were killed in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday. What a stark reminder it was to all of us that protecting over the lives of our next generation is so, so  important. There are no easy answers and each is fraught with challenges but we can all agree, I hope, that we cannot allow our children to grow up in a world of fear and danger. As business leaders and influencers we can take some of what as been given to us and allow ourselves to be required to make a difference.  Many people, all doing something, can make a difference.

Jesus cared so greatly for children and He many times used them as an example of how our faith was to be modeled after their innocence against disbelief.  I am comforted today that I know those children of Connecticut played together in His arms on Friday morning.  We each can find a way to do our part to make this world better while we are here.  I implore all of us to find our way today and to give some of ourselves to solve the those issues that put our children in harm’s way.  

Matthew 18:5 (New Living Translation)