¡§Coming Out¡¨ and Discovering the Rainbow

About the Book

"This book, “Leading With A Compassionate Heart: At work and in life” is an offering to you, the reader, and my labor of love. This book can serve as a resource; it is a collection of professional articles and poems on a myriad of health care administration, leadership, and life topics that are relevant to the workplace and to life in general. It is my hope that this work will shed clarity and a deeper understanding of some of the fundamental issues facing health care administrators and leaders today. As health care administrators and leaders, I invite you to lead with and to meaning, as a guiding influence and to build new thinking categories from which to process experience. I encourage you to use your appreciative lens to create small waves of positive possibilities for others. May you lead with a compassionate heart!"

About the Author

Daniel Allen DuBour was born in Springfield, Massachusetts July 28th 1944. He is the fourteenth child of the late Ernest and Mildred DuBour. In his junior year in high school, the family moved to East Longmeadow, Massachusetts where he graduated from East Longmeadow High School in 1963. Upon graduation, Daniel joined the United States Air Force. After basic training and job training, he was transferred to Darmstadt, Germany, where he served for three years. He was honorably discharged from the Air Force in March of 1967. In the same year, he entered Don Bosco Seminary in Newton, New Jersey where he studied Theology. He decided to leave the college in June of the following year. In 1982 Daniel graduated from Mercy Hospital School of Practical Nursing in Miami, Florida and has been working as a Licensed Practical Nurse to the present time. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1989 where he met his wife. They were married in May of 1990. She passed away in January of 2006. During his time in Arizona, Daniel joined the Knights of Columbus. He was elevated to Grand Knight and also became a Knight of the fourth degree. He also joined the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk’s. He served as Chaplain, Lector, and Loyal Knight’s respectively. After the death of his wife, he moved to South Florida where he worked for an agency in the public school system for special needs children. Semi-retired, he decided to take up writing, a long time desire.