Innovating Leadership, Co-Creating Our Future: Recent Episodes
Maureen Metcalf
The pace of change in the world is increasing exponentially and shows no signs of slowing down. Leadership is evolving and requires more and more innovative leaders to keep up. Many leaders update what they lead but not how they think about and act as leaders. They become outdated. This matters because Leadership creates strategic advantage. This show features interviews with global business executives, thought leaders and academics in a wide range of industries. They discuss their most pressing issues and the innovative approaches they have employed to transform their challenges into opportunities and advantages. The application of proven concepts and tools that may be applied to build your organization and deliver sustainable success are presented and discussed. Become an innovative leader in your own right! Tune in every Tuesday at 11 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Guests: Jennifer Marriner, Sr. VP, & Sherri Haymond, Co-President, of Mastercard divisions
What happens when innovation means life or death for your company?
In this first of a two-part series of innovation at Mastercard, guests Jennifer Marriner and Sherri Haymond describe the ongoing innovations in their divisions: Global Acceptance Solutions and Global Partnerships, respectively. As customers and retailers alike continue to change how they move money, Mastercard must not only keep up with them, but innovate so deeply that they actually have new tech ready BEFORE payment preferences evolve.
That means leading an organization-wide innovation culture, with plenty of leadership lessons for the rest of us.
Here's what Jennifer, Sherri, and Maureen cover:
- Why it’s so important for leaders to think differently and experiment with the new;
- How collaboration, inside and outside the organization, boosts your odds of success; and
- Why constantly asking your stakeholders “What do you need from us?” keeps you ahead of the competition.
Other episodes on innovation in companies:
- Innovation Insights: Amazon Executives Share How They Deliver the Future with Udit Madan, Jamil Ghani, & Sarah Rhoads
- Eat Mor Chikin: Chick-fil-A’s CMO on Their Recipe for Success with Steve Robinson
- Avocados: When Produce Produces Innovation with Alvaro Luque
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Making the World a Better Place: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guests:
Jennifer Marriner is the Executive Vice President of Global Acceptance Solutions at Mastercard. She leads the product evolution and strategy for Mastercard’s acceptance solutions, ensuring the company’s payments products drive usage and shape future commerce experiences. Prior to Mastercard, Jennifer spent over 16 years at PayPal, leading the Global Markets and Partnerships team. She also managed strategic merchant growth for The Royal Bank of Scotland’s acquiring division and worked at The Wall Street Journal. Based in London, Jennifer is the executive sponsor of Mastercard’s Women Leadership Network (WLN) and ADAPT.
Sherri Haymond is Co-President of Global Partnerships and a member of the company's Management Committee.
Sherri co-leads a unique team that works with partners large and small to create disruptive products and solutions. As our world becomes borderless and even more digitally connected, Sherri's team keeps a pulse on the industry and collaborates with partners to ensure Mastercard delivers innovative and differentiated products and services at scale to meet the needs of today's evolving businesses and consumers.
Sherri holds a B.A. in Literature from Duke University and a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School. She serves on the board of MoCADA, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, in Brooklyn, NY.
Guest: Éliane Ubalijoro, Rwandan Presidential Advisor, Consultant, & Professor
Clues about the leadership you’ll need in the near future are coming from unexpected places: Africa and genetics.
Our guest, Dr. Éliane Ubalijoro, shares success stories in leadership development she’s seen in African communities. Nuance, cultural competencies, and persistence stand out as qualities not usually seen in lists of leadership qualities, but they enhanced success – and with growing multiculturalism in our workforces and globally interconnected markets, they are emerging as keys to enhancing leadership everywhere.
Here's what Éliane and Maureen cover:
- How both societal and technological shifts require new leadership models – and make old-school leaders fall further behind;
- The ways your genetics (and epigenetics) affect your underlying emotions and influence your decisions; and
- The emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution, and how Africa may be better positioned to leverage it than traditional industrialized nations.
Recorded in Brussels in association with the International Leadership Association:
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- A Genocide Survivor’s Path to Leadership: How One Man Turned Trauma into Passion for Peace with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
- Sheba & ShEquity: Empowering Women-Owned Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
- Diamonds in the Rough: Sustainability & Corporate Citizenshipwith DeBeers VP Pat Dambe
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guest:
Dr. Éliane Ubalijoro is an adjunct professor of practice for public and private sector partnerships at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, where her research interests focus on innovation in global health and sustainable development.
She is the project manager and an investigator on a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health phase 2 project led by Professor Timothy Geary, the director of McGill’s Institute of Parasitology. She is a member of FemStep, a research network highlighting rural girls’ and women’s perspectives for engendering poverty reduction strategies in Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, DR Congo, and Ethiopia using arts-based methodologies. In this context, she has been developing Ashes to Light, a multimedia project to document intergenerational dialogue on resilience as a platform for wisdom sharing and youth leadership training in peacebuilding. Dr. Ubalijoro is an expert consultant for the non-profit group The Innovation Partnership (TIP) as well as the founder and executive director of C.L.E.A.R. International Development Inc., a consulting group harnessing global networks for sustainable systems development. Previously, she was an assistant professor in McGill’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Prior to going back to academia, she was a scientific research and development director in a Montreal-based biotechnology company for five years in charge of molecular diagnostic and bioinformatics discovery programs. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Ecosystems Restoration Associates, a Canadian-based pioneer in global forest restoration and conservation-based carbon offset programs. She is a contributor to the book The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the 21st Century by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Guest: Betsy Myers, Former White House Advisor, Author, & Leadership Consultant
The concept of the ideal leader changed dramatically over the last few decades, and Warren Bennis was one of the first researchers to analyze modern leadership. Our guest Betsy Myers shares the traits he found, then merges that with her own extensive experience in leadership – which reaches right up to the President of the United States – to look at the continuing gender divide in corporate and political leadership.
The gender gap remains, and who perpetuates it may surprise you!
Here's what Betsy and Maureen cover:
- The key leadership traits that make a great leader, according to Bennis’ findings;
- Why leading is just like being a parent: what you do is more important than what you say; and
- The role of Tall Poppy Syndrome in keeping women out of the C-suite.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Top Leadership Lessons for Women from a Senior White House Advisor with Betsy Myers
- Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook with Carolyn Buck Luce
- The Bonobo Sisterhood: Ape Society’s Lessons for Leadership with Diane Rosenfeld
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Betsy’s book, Take the Lead, is available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3lbMWv6. The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/3YEb1Za. Her website is betsymyers.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Ancestry CEO Deb Liu, on how to overcome the obstacles women still face in the workplace – especially in tech. It’s in hardback at https://amzn.to/47OUO9E, and audio at https://amzn.to/3Y6EmOQ.
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Generally Awesme in Every Regard: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guest:
Betsy Myers is on a mission to improve leadership by developing leaders and teams who infuse passion and purpose into their organizations by leading from both the head and the heart. Betsy's insightful keynotes and workshops have inspired executives and managers worldwide to level up their leadership. Her practical guidance helps attract and retain top talent, build an inspirational culture, and achieve impactful results in the rapidly changing workplace.
Betsy is a renowned expert on emerging leadership trends and women’s leadership and is the author of Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. She is currently a senior advisor at the Warren Bennis Leadership Institute at the University of Cincinnati. She also serves on the Council on Advancing Women in Business for the US Export-Import Bank and the Board of the International Leadership Association. She has extensive experience in the corporate world, government settings, and in higher education.
Previously, she was the founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University and the executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School. A senior adviser to two U.S. presidents, Betsy served as President Clinton's White House Advisor on Women's Issues and was the Chief Operating Officer and Chair of Women for Obama during President Obama's historic 2008 national campaign. Her extensive leadership background also includes roles at the U.S. Small Business Administration, including heading the Office of Women's Business Ownership.
Guest: Greg Moran, Former Ford Senior Executive
We’ve distilled seven absolutely vital mindsets every leader must have to succeed. They’re extra critical in today’s business environment, which continues to evolve and change years after the infamous COVID quarantine. The only constant: there’s no going back to the old way of leading.
In this episode, Greg Moran joins Maureen to discuss these seven mindsets, and give examples on their effectiveness from his extensive real world experience – from small startups such as Aware to giant corporations like Ford.
Other episodes with Greg Moran:
- How Missing Ethics Makes a Mess of Organizations
- Forming Your Firm’s Ethics
- The Rationale of Irrationality
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Overachieving with 8 Mindsets: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guests: Gill Hickman, Jepson School of Leadership Studies Professor Emerita; Jorrit Volkers, dean of Deloitte University EMEA; and Cynthia Cherrey, CEO of the International Leadership Association
“CEO clashes with their own corporate culture.” That’s the subtext of business headlines at least once a week. What’s going on?
Simply put: they’re sticking with their old leadership styles, even though the world – and their own organization – has changed around them. The solution is simple: change…and change quicky.
That’s the underlying message for our guests, as Gill, Jorrit, and Cynthia talk with host Maureen Metcalf about their own research, and how it’s important to blend today’s latest leadership theories with practical, proven leadership techniques. Generational and societal changes are happening too rapidly; leaders can’t simply “wait it out” if they want success. Listen in for the details!
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- How Leaders Thrive through Rapid Change with film director Chris Nolan and producer Mike Schindler
- Change, Risk, Diversity: The Pillars of Modern Leadership with Hilton Senior Vice President Shruti Gandhi Buckley
- Leadership 2050: Two Experts Uncover How to Become Tomorrow’s Leader, Today with futurist Susan Cannon and consultant Mike Morrow-Fox
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Adaptable Support: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
Twitter: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guest:
Gill Robinson Hickman is Professor of Leadership Studies Emerita at Jepson School of Leadership studies and winner of the 2016 ILA lifetime achievement award. Compelling common purpose would be three words at the core of Gill’s institution building work in leadership studies, her life and her research. As one of the inaugural faculty members of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, one of the first institutions in the world with a multidisciplinary faculty devoted to the study of leadership, Gill joined forces with her colleagues to build a leadership studies program from the ground up. She published Leading Change in Multiple Contexts which has become a standard in a field that has experienced incredible growth since those first Jepson faculty gathered with their compelling common purpose more than 20 years ago. She grew up as a black woman in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights era where she experienced the power of people coming together in common cause.
Jorrit Volkers is Dean of Deloitte University Europe Middle East Africa (DU EMEA), one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Deloitte. DU EMEA designs and delivers a world-class curriculum to develop Deloitte practitioners as trusted business advisors and leaders. Its vision, which Volkers himself exemplifies is to “have a ‘game-changing’ impact on clients and people, and add value to every member firm by embedding a unified culture across borders, functions and levels.” With only four years of operations, under Volkers’ leadership, DU EMEA has already offered professional and leadership programs to nearly 18,000 participants. The mission is to develop the Deloitte culture, develop skills to serve clients better and develop people. At the heart of the curriculum is the global leader framework and the seven core competencies Deloitte leaders need: living the purpose, influence, performance drive, strategic direction, talent development, competitive edge and inspirational leadership.
Guests: Amazon Vice-Presidents Udit Madan (Worldwide Operations), Jamil Ghani (Worldwide Prime), & Sarah Rhoads (Workplace Health & Safety)
Answer honestly: can you innovate? Most organizations can – but their leaders won’t. Fear of change is often cited, but the reality is they don’t know how.
Amazon’s success is predicated on constant innovation, so leaders there have deeply embedded it into their business culture. In this episode, we hear from three high-level Amazon executives, each one encouraging innovative mindsets in different ways. They reveal their teams’ latest innovations, and their own leadership philosophies that keep their teams on the cutting edge.
Here's what Udit, Jamil, Sarah and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The secret sauce behind all Amazon initiatives: constant customer-back thinking;
- How Prime uses AI to make shopping easier for those customers; and
- The Six Pillars that fuel the goal of making Amazon the safest place to work on the planet.
Do a deeper dive on Amazon leadership with these interviews:
- To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay, Amazon VP of Last Mile Delivery & Technology
- Four Key Lessons on Trust & Safety from Amazon’s Head of Family Trust with Catherine Teitelbaum
- Putting People First with AI with Dave Levy, VP of Amazon Web Services WWPS
- How Moonshots & Robots Put Packages on Your Porch with Steve Armato, VP of Middle Mile & Tech at Amazon
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Ancestry CEO Deb Liu, on how to overcome the obstacles women still face in the workplace – especially in tech. It’s in hardback at https://amzn.to/47OUO9E, and audio at https://amzn.to/3Y6EmOQ.
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Eternally Irreplaceable by AI: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
Instagram: @innovativeleader
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guests:
Udit Madan, VP of Worldwide Operations, oversees fulfillment, transportation, and last-mile delivery operations. Udit joined Amazon in 2008 as a Software Development Engineer, building technology to automate and scale the company’s fulfillment network. Over the years, he has led numerous R&D initiatives, introducing robotics and automated control systems. In 2015, he transitioned to the Last Mile Technology team, where he developed key programs for Amazon’s delivery services. Udit also played a crucial role in Amazon’s COVID-19 operations response. He earned degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Texas and was born and raised in India before moving to the U.S. in 2004.
Jamil Ghani, VP of Worldwide Prime, leads Amazon Prime globally, overseeing product, technology, marketing, decision science, operations, and finance teams that drive the membership’s growth and success. Under his leadership, Prime membership has tripled, and per-member spending has doubled, with new benefits added across categories such as healthcare, grocery, and food delivery. Before joining Amazon in 2017, Jamil was Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Digital & Innovation at Target, where he played a key role in revitalizing Target.com and launching new customer experiences. Jamil also held leadership roles at The Walt Disney Company, General Mills, and The Boston Consulting Group. He holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
Sarah Rhoads, VP of Workplace Health & Safety, oversees Amazon’s global health and safety programs, managing a team of over 9,000 professionals dedicated to the well-being of more than 1 million employees. Sarah joined Amazon in 2011 as an Operations Manager and has since held various leadership roles, including Director of Amazon Air. In her role at Amazon Air, she built the company’s air-haul network from scratch, growing it into a global operation with nearly 100 aircraft. A former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, Sarah flew F/A-18 jets and completed over 250 carrier landings. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master’s in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
Guests: Cynthia Cherrey, CEO of the International Leadership Association, & Ajay Bramdeo, African Union Ambassador to the EU
This classic episode, revisited, focuses on global challenges. Migration – legal and illegal – is just one major issue haunting the globe. As the world faces this, climate change, and other international challenges, what can you do?
Plenty, as we learn in this episode! ILA CEO Cynthia Cherrey opens the conversation by discussing the frameworks and forum for the new leadership needed to develop solutions which the Association’s annual global conference provides. Then Ambassador Ajay Bramdeo steps in to point out how old-school leadership fails in light of illegal migration and other global challenges – and how redefining leadership is necessary to solve them.
Here's what Cynthia, Ajay, and Maureen cover:
- The needs Cynthia saw in the leadership community…and how establishing ILA’s global conference can help fill them;
- The origins of the migration crisis, focusing on Africa’s emigres as an example of how poor leadership exacerbates the issue; and
- Solutions – including the leadership traits you can practice in your own organization which, in the long term, can influence resolving global issues.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Empathy, Dialogue, & a Good Mood: An Ambassador Reveals What Leaders Need in Crisis with Ambassador Thomas Greminger & Peter Cunningham
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Work, War, and In-Between: An International Peace Negotiator’s Top Tips for Resolving Conflict with John, Lord Alderdice
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Cooperation, Leadership, & Empathy: George Papandreou’s Path for Meeting Challenges with the former Prime Minister of Greece
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Cynthia Cherrey’s organization – as well as their next global conference – on the International Leadership Association website: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org. https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.
To learn more about the African Union, check out https://au.int. https://au.int/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Ancestry CEO Deb Liu, on how to overcome the obstacles women still face in the workplace – especially in tech. It’s in hardback at https://amzn.to/47OUO9E, and audio at https://amzn.to/3Y6EmOQ.
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Redefining the Reach of Podcasts: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guests:
Cynthia Cherrey, is president and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), a global network of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners. Previously, Cynthia served as Vice President and Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She publishes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education including coauthoring Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of our Work, coediting ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges book series, and co-editing Women and Leadership around the World. She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge-driven, interdependent, global society. She consults and speaks to for profit and nonprofit organizations around the world on leadership and organizational change.
Ajay Bramdeo is the African Union Ambassador to the European Union. In this position, Bramdeo is working to overcome the historical legacy of relations between Africa and Europe to establish more mutually beneficial exchanges between the two continents, particularly, in recent years, in terms of migration. He is also engaged in ensuring that Africa’s voice carries weight within larger global systems for governance, such as the United Nations and global conversations around peace and security.
Guest: Deb Liu, Ancestry President & CEO
You are who came before…personally and as a leader. Your ancestors have been shaping you for generations.
That’s one key lesson from Deb Liu, who heads Ancestry, the world’s leading genealogical service. Even though we like to think we’re completely self-made, we’ve been heavily supported by our teams and communities. But, more invisibly, we’ve also been shaped by decisions our ancestors made generations ago: when they immigrated, who they married, the jobs they worked, and more.
Deb discusses that and more with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode that looks back to help you look ahead.
Here's what Deb and Maureen cover:
- The many ways your ancestors continue to shape you (and your leadership);
- The growing role of AI in finding and preserving historical documents; and
- Why, as a leader, Deb looks for out-of-the-box thinkers to join her Ancestry team.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Why Rare Leadership Is Well-Done at Omaha Steaks with CEO Nate Rempe
- Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
- The Future Is Yours to Create with futurist Rebecca Ryan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Deb’s book is Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work on how to overcome the obstacles women still face in the workplace – especially in tech. It’s in hardback at https://amzn.to/47OUO9E, and audio at https://amzn.to/3Y6EmOQ.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Shaping a Very Positive Future: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Deb Liu joined Ancestry's helm in March 2021 as President & CEO and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Named one of Business Insider's most powerful female engineers, Deb has worked in the tech industry for over 18 years with previous leadership roles at PayPal, eBay, and Facebook where Liu created and led Facebook's Marketplace. She also led the development of Facebook's first mobile ad product for apps and its mobile ad network, in addition to building the company's games business and its payments platform, including Facebook Pay.
Now Liu is guiding Ancestry into a new chapter of growth and innovation – all to empower journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. Under her leadership, Ancestry is undertaking a bold vision focused on building a more inclusive experience. Where Ancestry has traditionally been Designed for Some, Deb is leading the company to Ancestry for All, where EVERYONE can see themselves and their families reflected in the product, regardless of family dynamics, race, ethnicity, and heritage. And the proof is in her business strategy – from the release of their inaugural Impact Report, to the acquisition of Geneanet, a leading French genealogy company, and strengthening Ancestry's executive bench, by hiring former execs from Amazon and Facebook and appointing a new female Chief Product Officer.
Actively involved with promoting diversity and women in tech, Deb is also the founder of Women In Product, a nonprofit to connect and support women in the product management field.
Guest: George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
Do you want to lead like an Olympian…or a gladiator?
The Olympics were founded by the ancient Greeks as a model for collaboration and cooperation, developing a city-state’s Olympians to their highest potential. That dovetails with the mission of today’s best leaders – and Greece’s former prime minister, George Papandreou, shares why that Olympic vision is all the more important now. As he shares with host Maureen Metcalf, it’s the key to solving so many of today’s global issues: from refugees to climate change. The first step: figuring out our common values, then building on them to work together across borders.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Former Prime Minister Papandreou’s Path to a Just World with George Papandreou and Jorrit Vokers
- How Climate Change Batters Business Bottom Lines: A Prime Minister Explains with Kim Campbell
- Here’s Why This Prime Minister Gives Failing Grades to Today’s Leaders with Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Adaptable Support: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
Twitter: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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About Our Guest:
As Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011, George A. Papandreou understands leading in turbulent times. A public servant for many years, he served, among other posts, as Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs and as Minister of Foreign Affairs before following in his father and grandfather's footsteps to become Greece's Prime Minister. His election to office after the devastation of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 came with a mandate to increase transparency and reduce corruption in Greece's government while humanizing globalization and its economic effects on Greek citizens. Challenged by time and global financial markets, he made the difficult decision to implement austerity programs and cuts that appeased the Eurozone and the pressures of the global economy. For his work in 2010 of "making the best of Greece's worst year," Foreign Policy magazine named him a Top 100 Global Thinker.
Guest: Catherine Teitelbaum, Head of Family Trust at Amazon
Your current skills can take you to surprising places. That’s the backstory for Amazon’s Head of Family Trust, Catherine Teitelbaum. It could be your story, too!
Catherine started as a classroom teacher; she’s now a tech leader. And, as she tells host Maureen Metcalf, it was a natural progression…but one she never foresaw. In this episode, she shares her journey, how those skills were perfect as online companies realized they needed trust and safety programs to maintain safe spaces online for kids and families, and the lessons learned as she ascended the leadership ladder.
Here's what Catherine and Maureen cover:
- Why authenticity might just be the most important quality any leader can have;
- The key lessons for trust and safety, both for online users and for your own team; and
- How trust is a vital bridge between company and customer, and between leader and team.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Shifting from Trusting Institutions to Trusting People with Daniele Henkel, Knight of the Order of Merit
- To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay, Last Mile Delivery Services lead at Amazon
- Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection with Erica Dhawan, author
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Ensuring Our Team Is Safe & Trustworthy: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Catherine Teitelbaum, Head of Family Trust at Amazon, is a former educator and industry veteran with 25 years of experience in the fields of online safety, product policy, educational technology, and developing trustworthy digital products. For more than a decade, Catherine held senior positions within Yahoo!, leading the award-winning Yahooligans and Yahoo! Education products as well as global policy initiatives. Catherine was the Chief Trust & Safety Officer at ASKFm, leading the safety turnaround of the teen Q&A app, and has consulted for a variety of popular social media apps. Most recently Catherine led Trust & Safety for Twitch, Amazon’s popular live-streaming service.
Guests: Susan Cannon, Leadership Professor & Futurist, and Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development & Leadership Consultant
What you know now probably won’t cut it in a few years. You need to adapt your leadership skills to succeed through the next generation – and today’s guests tell us how! Futurist Susan Cannon and consultant Mike Morrow-Fox emphasize the need for modern leaders to develop higher-order skills to navigate the complexities and rapid changes happening now…and yet to come. The keys are adaptability, cross-cultural management, and emotional intelligence. Listen now to become a forward-thinking leader able to thrive in an increasingly volatile world.
Here's what Susan, Mike, & Maureen cover:
- Why your current skills aren’t enough to carry you into the future workplace;
- How you can develop those critical leadership skills now; and
- The evolution of leadership mindsets all these changes are creating.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Prepare for the Future with Foresight with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
- Is Your Organization Designed for the Future with Mark Palmer & Eddie Moore
- The Future Is Yours to Create with Rebecca Ryan
- Coming Soon to a Business Climate Near You with Matthew Griffin
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The Leadership 2050 book is available in paperback on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4gkuOHk. Susan, Mike, and host Maureen all contributed to it.
To learn more about Susan’s coaching and consulting work, dive into Vollett Executive Coaching’s website at https://vollett.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Joining Us on This Journey to the Past: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
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About Our Guests:
Susan Cannon, PhD, is a professor at Fielding Graduate University, and on faculty with the Conscious Business Coalition. She’s a partner with Vollett Executive Coaching, as well. As an interdisciplinary scholar-practitioner, Dr. Cannon brings 30+ years to innovation, learning, and change in human systems. Her work brings recognition as a pioneer in women’s integral leadership development, founding Kore Evolution. Work history includes engineering/senior executive positions, and patents. B.S. Engineering Physics, Texas Tech University; M.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University; Ph.D. Integral Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies.
Michael Morrow-Fox, MBA, EdS, has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and human resources operations. Michael has served as full-time university faculty at Capital University winning a Department of Education FIPSE Grant and George Mason Program Excellence Award, as the Director of Technology Strategy for the OhioHealth Hospitals, as the Vice President of Operations for a technology start-up serving American Express, as the Vice President of Talent Management Training and Development for the American Heart Association, and the Manager of Organizational Education for the City of Greensboro, North Carolina. Michael has held Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since 2002, has worked on Six Sigma Black Belt initiatives since 1999 and has been a Six Sigma Green Belt since 2006. His Bachelor’s degree focused on Industrial Psychology and Employee Counseling, his MBA focus was on Organizational Leadership, his Educational Specialist Degree is in Educational Leadership, and Michael holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership.
Guest: David Rodin, CEO of Principia & Former Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict
Even the mightiest corporate juggernaut can crumble under an ethics scandal. But even minor ethics issues can taint your business – not just with PR, but in reduced employee morale, engagement, and more.
But ethics can be taught, forged, and grown throughout an organization. Guest David Rodin researches and teaches ethics for businesses and militaries, and he shares his wisdom and practical tips with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what David and Maureen cover:
- The difference between ethics and customs (or corporate culture);
- His three basic tests to determine ethical behavior; and
- The lesson of the Strategic Corporal we all need to learn!
Other episodes to help you with ethical issues at work:
-
Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
-
Transformational Leadership & Ethics with Ron Riggio
-
How Missing Ethics Makes a Mess of Organizations with Greg Moran
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about David’s ethics firm, Principia, at https://www.principia-advisory.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Ethically Clear-Headed at All Times: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
David Rodin is the Founder & Chair of Principia, the leading global advisory firm on organizational ethics. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on ethics and organizational culture. His work has helped to transform the fields of organizational and military ethics, and he advises some of the world’s largest private and public organizations.
A distinguished moral philosopher, David worked for almost two decades at the University of Oxford where he was Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Co-Founder of the Oxford Changing Character of War program. A Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand, David began his career at Boston Consulting Group. In 2011 he was honored by the World Economic Forum as a “Young Global Leader”, recognizing the most distinguished young leaders in all fields below the age of 40.
Guests: George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, & Jorrit Volkers, Dean of Deloitte University EMEA
Can you change the world? Our two guests have been doing it for years.
In the first half of this episode, former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou dives deep into defending democracy – and how the European Union has evolved into a model of independent nations resolving differences to band together for the common good.
Then, Deloitte’s Jorrit Volkers unveils the reasons he cofounded the company’s own university, as it gains renown for developing leaders at all levels. It ensures the international firm maintains quality leadership using the latest research – providing a solid career and growth path for managers in the process.
Produced in collaboration with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Climate Change: Leaders in the Hot Seat with former Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland & Beyond with negotiator John, Lord Alderdice
- Growing Up Biden: Family Lessons on Leadership with presidential campaign manager Valerie Biden Owens
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Primed for more Prime Minister Interviews: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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About Our Guests:
Jorrit Volkers is Dean of Deloitte University Europe Middle East Africa (DU EMEA), one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Deloitte. DU EMEA designs and delivers a world-class curriculum to develop Deloitte practitioners as trusted business advisors and leaders. Its vision, which Volkers himself exemplifies, is to “have a ‘game-changing’ impact on clients and people, and add value to every member firm by embedding a unified culture across borders, functions and levels.” With only four years of operations, under Volkers’ leadership, DU EMEA has already offered professional and leadership programs to nearly 18,000 participants. The mission is to develop the Deloitte culture, develop skills to serve clients better, and develop people. At the heart of the curriculum is the global leader framework and the seven core competencies Deloitte leaders need: living the purpose, influence, performance drive, strategic direction, talent development, competitive edge, and inspirational leadership.
As Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011, George A. Papandreou understands leading in turbulent times. A public servant for many years, he served, among other posts, as Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs and as Minister of Foreign Affairs before following in his father and grandfather's footsteps to become Greece's Prime Minister. His election to office after the devastation of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 came with a mandate to increase transparency and reduce corruption in Greece's government while humanizing globalization and its economic effects on Greek citizens. Challenged by time and global financial markets, he made the difficult decision to implement austerity programs and cuts that appeased the Eurozone and the pressures of the global economy. For his work in 2010 of "making the best of Greece's worst year," Foreign Policy magazine named him a Top 100 Global Thinker.
Guest: Michael Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development & Leadership Consultant
They say talk is cheap, but not listening can be very expensive. Yet many leaders don’t listen to their teams, especially in today’s climate of disagreements and divisiveness. So how can you have these difficult conversations, and keep your team running smoothly?
Our guest, Mike Morrow-Fox, has the answer: conversational receptiveness. It’s a four step technique that moves the needle on workplace dialogue, so the leader hears important information, and the speaker knows their voice has been heard and respected. Mike gives the details in this episode.
Here's what Mike and Maureen cover:
- The four distinct steps to conversational receptiveness;
- How this can be used for any difficult conversation, from mild disagreements to full conflict resolution; and
- The critical role your own mood and mindset play in getting positive results in any conversation.
For more expert insights on communication and conflict resolution, check these episodes:
- Empathy, Dialogue, & A Good Mood: An Ambassador Reveals What Leaders Need in Crisis with Ambassador Thomas Greminger & Peter Cunningham
- Effectively Addressing Values Conflicts with John Heiser
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland & Beyond with John, Lord Alderdice
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Brilliant Conversationalist: Jenna Reik
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About Our Guest:
Michael Morrow-Fox, MBA, EdS, is a consultant with the Innovative Leadership Institute experienced in health care, education, banking, government, and non-profit management.
Michael has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and human resources operations, as well as several years of full-time university teaching. Michael uses this background to blend his real-world understanding with current theoretical models helping his clients reach goals beyond their current thinking.
Michael has experience managing a 50 million dollar technology budget, helping a technology startup company get off the ground, overseeing an international nonprofit organization achieve ‘best place to work’ status, and leading organizational education for a city government. Michael’s strengths are not in what area he works, but in how he helps others work. Michael’s project management, process excellence, problem-solving, and human performance management skills help companies form truly innovative strategies.
Michael has served as a full-time university faculty at Capital University winning a Department of Education FIPSE Grant and George Mason Program Excellence Award, as the Director of Technology Strategy for the OhioHealth Hospitals, as the Vice President of Operations for a technology start-up serving American Express, as the Vice President of Talent Management Training and Development for the American Heart Association, and the Manager of Organizational Education for the City of Greensboro, North Carolina. Michael has held Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since 2002, he has worked on Six Sigma Black Belt initiatives since 1999 and has been a Six Sigma Green Belt since 2006. His Bachelor’s degree focused on Industrial Psychology and Employee Counseling, his MBA focus was on Organizational Leadership, his Educational Specialist Degree is in Educational Leadership, and Michael holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership.
Michael is a contributing author of Innovative Leadership for Health Care, Innovative Leadership Workbook for Emerging Leaders and Managers, and the Innovative Leader Guide to Transforming Organizations.
Guests: Ambassador Thomas Greminger & Peter Cunningham (Geneva Center for Security Policy)
War in Ukraine and Gaza. Disunity on climate change. Human trafficking. Water shortages.
The list of international crises is growing. So where is the leadership to solve these global crises?
It seems sadly lacking, but the qualities for this new kind of leader are well studied and defined at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). In this episode, GCSP's Ambassador Thomas Greminger and Peter Cunningham reveal their organisation's mission, the state of global leadership today, and the type of leadership it will take to steer us through these crises. They’re skills that can get you through your organization’s next crisis, too!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland and Beyond with Lord John Alderdice
- Peace through Better Leaders with Mike Hardy
- Climate Change: Leaders in the Hot Seat with former Prime Minister Kim Campbell
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re onTikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More information about the Geneva Centre for Security Policy is available on their website at https://www.gcsp.ch.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
A Peaceful Anchor in a Chaotic World: Jenna Reik
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About Our Guests:
Ambassador Thomas Greminger is the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He formerly served as the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Ambassador Greminger holds a PhD in history from the University of Zurich. He is Lieutenant Colonel GS (company and battalion commander of the Swiss Armed Forces. He has authored numerous publications on military history, conflict management, peacekeeping, development, and human rights.
Peter Cunningham is Head of Leadership at GCSP, and co-founder of the Geneva Leadership Alliance, a network advancing the understanding and practice of leadership for the advancing of peace and security worldwide. Peter constantly seeks new, diverse, and innovative ways to bridge the study of leadership with the practice of leading, especially at the international level -- working across cultural, geographical, political and organisational divides.
Guests: Chris Nolan, Director/Writer, & Michael Schindler, Writer/Exec. Producer, It’s VUCA documentary
Do you face uncertainty with fear…or with confidence?
In the 1980s, the US military began developing the concept of VUCA: ways to deal with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Today, as change happens at an exponentially accelerating pace, anti-fragility is a key concept in not just surviving, but thriving through the chaos.
VUCA experts and documentarians Chris Nolan and Mike Schindler join host Maureen Metcalf in this episode to discuss the details of anti-fragility, and the ways you can adopt this mindset for your own success.
Here's what Chris, Mike, and Maureen cover:
- Why it’s natural to react to all this volatility with anxiety…and how you can choose not to;
- The three anti-fragile disciplines you can employ right now; and
- The BRING IT ON tool, and why it works so effectively!
Binge listen to our VUCA miniseries:
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA with Chris Nolan
- Expecting the Unexpected: VUCA in Action at Red Roof with George Limbert
- Using Storytelling to Elevate (VUCA) Leadership with Chris Nolan
- The Rise of Humanness (The Role of People in an AI World) with Chris Nolan & Michael Schindler
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about VUCA on several websites, including:
https://itsvuca.com/ and
https://itsvucamax.com/.
The It’s VUCA documentary can be rented on Amazon at https://bit.ly/ItsVUCA. And you can pre-order their book, The Rise of Humanness, on their website: https://itsvuca.com/pre-order-the-book/.
And if you’d like to check out Mike’s podcast for veterans, pop over to Podbean at https://themilitarywire.podbean.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The audiobook version is available now at https://amzn.to/3Vko2IW. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Always Cool and Confident: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
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About Our Guests:
Chris Nolan, multi-Emmy Award-winning writer-director, author, story guru, and change consultant, and Mike Schindler, writer, host/co-executive producer, Award-winning author, Navy Veteran, and host of The Military Wire Podcast, and one of the nation’s foremost experts on veteran issues and individual/team leadership, teamed up to co-write and produce the groundbreaking documentary IT’S VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century, which features 17 of America’s top thought leaders, best-selling authors, and military experts who reveal the little-known practices used by Zen Masters, elite military teams, Olympic athletes, and the top 1% of companies to OVERCOME UNCERTAINTY, improve mental and emotional well-being, and achieve personal and professional success.
Guests: Faris Alami, CEO of International Strategic Management, & Christopher Washington, Provost & EVP for Academic Affairs at Franklin University
You already know the workplace has changed. But have workers changed?
Some have, but not enough. That’s where leaders come in. With AI, WFH, and more, work will continue changing at an ever faster pace, so leaders must provide ways for their teams to mentally retool, too. It’s called being future-fit: the ability to constantly learn new skills and certifications, and unlearn old habits and traditions.
Guests Christopher Washington and Faris Alami join host Maureen Metcalf in a robust discussion on how we can grow future-fit employees – and why it can hurt your company to wait.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association. Learn more at https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.
Other episodes for the future-fit leader include:
- The Future-Ready Board Member with Helle Bank Jorgensen
- Coming Soon to a Business Climate Near You with Matthew Griffin
- Back to the Future…of Work with Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Suzie Lewis, & David Dinwoodie
- Prepare for the Future with Foresight with Dr. Ciela Haranov
Be sure to check out our latest audiobook, Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. It's available now at https://amzn.to/3Vko2IW.
Production Team:
Maureen Metcalf - Host & Executive Producer
Dan Mushalko - Executive Producer & Editor
About Our Guests:
As Founder and CEO of ISM, Faris Alami works with international leaders and entrepreneurs on strategies and implementations, to create an empowering environment for startups and existing businesses to prosper and grow. In the course of his career, Faris has been a special advisor and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem expert with the World Bank, a Business Advisor with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, and a Mentor to MBA Students and Entrepreneurs globally.
Dr. Christopher Washington is a tireless supporter of global leadership development, designer of accessible, inclusive and relevant education, and champion for the role of universities in workforce development. He serves as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for Franklin University, a private, nonprofit institution of higher education. Dr. Washington takes an active role in his local community by serving on the Board of the International Visitors Council and on the U.S. Global Leadership Coalitions Ohio Advisory Council. He currently is a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council and is past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Washington D.C. based Global Ties U.S.
Guest: Shruti Gandhi Buckley, SVP of Hampton by Hilton & Spark by Hilton
How do you survive a disaster? Or, like Hilton, how do you thrive after one?
The answer is: great leadership. The COVID pandemic devastated the hospitality industry, but Hilton’s leadership adapted to this new world. As guest Shruti Gandhi Buckley reveals, the hotelier’s leadership resiliently embraced change, risk, and diversity to emerge stronger than ever.
Here's what Shruti and Maureen cover:
- Why connecting people – your staff and your customers – is critical to success in the hospitality industry;
- How promoting from within and other career growth opportunities benefit the company as well as the staff; and
- Shruti’s own professional journey, despite potential barriers as a woman and child of immigrants.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Thrive at Hilton: Relentlessly Improving the Workplace with Laura Fuentes
- Leadership Is Relationships with Kvon Tucker
- Red Roof: Revisioning the Future with George Limbert
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
For more on Hilton, Shruti recommends checking out the company website at https://www.hilton.com/en. And to learn more about the brand she runs, surf over to https://www.hilton.com/en/brands/hampton-by-hilton.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the audiobook at https://amzn.to/3Vko2IW. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Boosting ILI’s Hospitality: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
As Senior Vice President of Hampton by Hilton and Spark by Hilton, Shruti Gandhi Buckley oversees global brand strategy and integrity, with a focus on driving growth, increasing revenue, enhancing customer loyalty, and championing innovation. With more than 25 years of experience in brand management and marketing leadership, Shruti brings extensive expertise in global business management, brand strategy and analysis, guest experience, product development, consumer marketing, and public relations across a variety of industries (including food, luxury cosmetics, toys, outdoor gear, and, most recently, hospitality). She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Guests: Cynthia Cherrey (CEO) & Mike Hardy (board chair), International Leadership Association
Leadership theory is one thing; real-world leadership practice is another. But the International Leadership Association does both: taking cutting-edge leadership research from academics and incorporating them in the ILA's daily operations.
Their goal is to identify and find solutions for the global challenges today’s leaders face. They chose Geneva, Switzerland, for their 2021 international conference; the city has the largest number of multi-lateral organizations in the world. The conference theme: Reimagining Leadership. ILA’s president/CEO Cynthia Cherrey joins board chair Mike Hardy for an overview of the conference results…and how the Association is a living laboratory for reimagining leadership.
To learn more, check out the ILA website at https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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About Our Guests:
Cynthia Cherrey is President and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA),. Previously, she served as Vice President and Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Cynthia publishes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education including co-authoring Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of our Work, co-editing ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges book series; her most recent publication is Women and Leadership around the World (co-editor). She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge driven, interdependent, global society. She consults and speaks to for-profit and non-profit organizations around the world on leadership and organizational change.
Professor Mike Hardy, CMG OBE FRSA, is Founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, UK. After a distinguished career, he returned to the academic world in 2011 as Professor of Intercultural Relations at Coventry University. Mike is active with UNESCO and the UN Alliance of Civilizations; he is currently lead advisor to the World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue in Baku, the World Peace Forum in Indonesia, and directs the RISING Global Peace Forum at Coventry. Professor Hardy was awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a trustee of The Faith and Belief Forum, the leading interfaith charity in the UK.
Guest: Steve Robinson, former Chief Marketing Officer, Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A – and their cows – are now an iconic fast food brand. That type of brand recognition doesn’t happen by accident: it requires great leadership creating a culture of innovation. What can you learn from their success?
Steve Robinson unfolds the layers of leadership principles with real stories from Chick-fil-A’s history to demonstrate each one. Like other major brands, they’ve had PR bumps along the way, but worked through to continued success. Steve’s insights explain why – and it all wraps around leaders’ unique view of their stakeholders.
Here's what Steve and Maureen cover:
- The four layers of Chick-fil-A’s “onion” of success;
- Why simple hospitality is a huge differentiator in business today; and
- The moment the beef industry started feeling chicken about this restaurant chain.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Why Rare Leadership Is Well Done at Omaha Steaks with Nate Rempe
- Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse
- A Dozen Lessons Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts with Robert Rosenberg
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Steve’s book is Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
You can learn more about Steve and his consulting services at https://srobinsonconsulting.com/.
And, of course, there’s more about Chick-fil-A itself on the company’s website: https://www.chick-fil-a.com/.
Chick-fil-A’s founder wrote several books, too. One that complements Steve’s conversation in this episode is Eat More Chikin – Inspire More People: Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way. It’s in hardback (used) at https://amzn.to/4bv8KWs.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Adding Hospitality to Our Layers of Success: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Steven A. Robinson is a consultant, author and speaker on organizational culture design & leadership, brand strategy development, marketing planning, and distinctive advertising principles.
He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Chick-fil-A, Inc., 1981-2015. Prior to joining the company, Steve was the director of marketing for Six Flags Over Georgia theme park in Atlanta, Georgia. This role was preceded by marketing positions at two other Six Flags properties and communications manager at Texas Instruments.
After beginning his career at Chick-fil-A as director of marketing, Steve went on to serve as vice president of the department before becoming chief marketing officer. In his most recent role, he was responsible for overseeing marketing, advertising, brand development, menu development, and hospitality strategies.
In addition to serving on Chick-fil-A’s board of directors from 2016-2018, Steve serves on several boards for organizations and ministries, including FamilyLife, Fellowship of Christian Athletes of Atlanta, Links Players International, Atlanta Hall Management & College Football Hall of Fame, and the National Football Foundation.
He holds an associate degree in business administration from Faulkner State Junior College, a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Auburn University, and a master’s in advertising from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Guest: Leah Lizarondo, Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Carnegie Mellon University) & Co-Founder of 412 Food Rescue
When an organization truly understands a problem and an innovative solution is implemented, people get behind it and true change happens. That’s the story of 412 Food Rescue.
Leah Lizarondo saw massive food insecurity, and food waste recovery was the solution. Moreover, she reimagined food recovery as an organization that solves multiple problems.
Leah joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss food insecurity, entrepreneurism, and leading an NPO to such success.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Noodling Solutions for Food Insecurity with Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about 412 Food Rescue at https://412foodrescue.org/. If you’re interested in starting a food rescue program in your area, surf over to https://foodrescuehero.org/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The audiobook version is on Audible at https://amzn.to/3Vko2IW. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.to/45JGm1L, and audiobook = https://amzn.to/3RPhC2y
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Nourishing Our Morale Daily: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Leah Lizarondo is currently a member of the Global Leadership team at Ashoka. She is a Rockefeller Foundation/Acumen Fellow and received her graduate degree in Public Policy & Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Leah co-founded and was the CEO of 412 Food Rescue, a social enterprise with a technology, logistics and civic engagement model that fights hunger and promotes sustainability by preventing perfectly good food from entering the waste stream, and directly distributing to organizations that benefit those who are food insecure. Creating the infrastructure for national retailers, 412 Food Rescue has prevented millions of pounds of food from going to waste via technology that mobilizes over 8,000 drivers in 5 cities -- food rescue heroes -- the largest volunteer food transport network.
She was born and raised in the Philippines, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Guest: Dave Levy, Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS)
AI is all the buzz – but how do you lead your team through all the noise to find what works for you?
Dave Levy clears the noise in this episode. By helping governments discern the best AI tools to serve their communities, he sees the qualities any leader needs to look for…and security is right at the top of the list. So is education, including growing the talent pool to meet demand!
Here's what Dave and Maureen cover:
- Why “inventing” your own AI apps can be better in the long run than using a popular off-the-shelf system;
- Why Amazon is willing to invest heavily in free AI and IT training and education programs for the public; and
- The importance of having at least one leader on your board or in your C-suite who knows enough to safely spearhead your AI (and tech) efforts.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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How Moonshots & Robots Put Packages on Your Porch with Steve Armato
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Humans in the Loop: AI’s New Business Models with Suchi Srinivasan
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Leading with an Eye on AI with Neil Sahota
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Information about Amazon’s Cloud Innovation Center with Arizona State University is available at https://news.asu.edu/content/arizona-state-university-and-amazon-web-services-collaborate-introduce-smart-city-cloud.
You can learn more about Amazon Web Services’ services (we couldn’t resist!) at https://aws.amazon.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Always a Beta Release Ahead of the Latest AI: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
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About Our Guest:
Dave Levy is the Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS). In this role, Dave leads government, education, healthcare, aerospace and satellite, and nonprofit businesses globally. He and his teams help customers realize the potential of technology to transform their organizations and fulfill their missions. Previously, Dave served as the Vice President of AWS’s U.S. Government, Nonprofit and Global Healthcare businesses. Before joining AWS, Dave worked for Apple Inc. for 12 years and led the teams that helped the government adopt innovative mobile technologies. Dave serves on the M Health Fairview Health System board in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Innovation and Research Board for Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO & Founder, Competent Boards
Is your board ready to steer your business into the future? Probably not…
Your board of directors must have several critical competencies to truly benefit your organization. Competent Boards CEO Helle Bank Jorgensen goes through those requirements with host Maureen Metcalf. They start with a primer on ESG – a concept some US politicians have maligned, but understanding it holds opportunities and future profits.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Do a deep dive into board knowledge with Helle:
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Competent Boards by Choice, Not Chance
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Stewarding the Future of the Planet: Views from the Boardroom
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The website for Competent Boards is https://competentboards.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Supremely Competent: Jenna Reik
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About Our Guest:
Board members and executives in over 55 countries hold Competent Boards ESG, Climate, and Biodiversity Designation and Certificates thanks to Helle’s visionary online and bespoke education programs. Her vision is that board members, investors, and those advising them need to be informed about sustainability and other material issues that shape business of today and tomorrow - How can you make informed business decisions if you aren't informed?
Helle is a Business Lawyer and a State Authorized Public Accountant (Denmark). She serves at the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network, and Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) established by HM King Charles III, among other roles. Her recent book, Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards has become an Amazon bestseller on board governance.
Guest: Sander van ‘t Noordende, CEO, Randstad
The world is becoming talent-led. The talent pool is shrinking, which means leaders must radically shift their thinking on how to recruit – and retain – top performers.
Fortunately, Sander van ‘t Noordende sees a number of solid solutions arising from his vantage as CEO of multinational HR firm Ranstad. He shares them with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.
Here's what Sander and Maureen cover:
- The Big Three issues nearly all corporations and governments will soon be facing (if they aren’t already);
- Who the Assertive Third are in your team, and how quickly your competitors might scoop them up; and
- Why DEI bashing, though politically popular, is a red flag to top talent.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Relentlessly Improving the Workplace with Laura Fuentes
- Hiring in the Great Resignation with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
- Hiring for Keeps: The Rise of Recruiter.com with Evan Sohn
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Sander, hiring & retention trends, and other HR related information at Randstad’s main websites:
https://www.randstad.com/
https://www.randstaddigital.com/
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ. Her other 10 books are on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
The Top Talent in Our Pool: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Sander van 't Noordende is the Chief Executive Officer of Randstad, the world’s largest talent company and a workplace equity advocate. Prior to joining Randstad, he spent 30 years at Accenture most recently serving as Group Chief Executive of the Products Operating Group. He is a Forbes columnist and has been featured by Fortune, CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal discussing the world of work. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Finance and Marketing, from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He currently is a non-executive director at AECOM.
Guest: Mike Hardy, Founding Director, Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations (Coventry University)
Ukraine. Gaza. Myanmar. As wars continue raging across the globe, we strive to understand the roots of conflict. Mike Hardy finds one tap root is bad leadership.
In this rediscovered episode, Mike shares the role of poor leadership – more encouragingly, he also identifies the elements in both leadership and culture which can lead to positive peace.
NOTE: As an older episode, the audio quality isn’t up to our usual standards, but the conversation is too important to miss.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Enjoy a binge session with Mike Hardy covering different aspects of his research on peace:
- Democracy on the Run with Mike Hardy, Veronika Anghel, & Matt Qvortrup
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
- Creating Peace in an Evolving & Interconnected World with Mike Hardy
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The International Leadership Association website is https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
More information on Mike’s work – and that of his colleagues – is on the Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations’ website at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/trust-peace-social-relations/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Peacefully Nudging the Rest of Us: Jenna Reik
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About Our Guest:
Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association ( www.ila-net.org ), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum ( http://faithbeliefforum.org ), the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Guest: Greg Moran, C-level leadership executive & consultant
The business landscape is littered with fallen firms of questionable ethics. Enron is just one example. But the stumbles of today’s organisations – from Boeing to Columbia University – may be rooted in the lack of a clear ethical framework from the top.
That’s the thesis of guest Greg Moran, who lays out the evidence with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode. It’s not mere philosophical debate; as Enron showed, missing a formal ethical code is a very real existential threat.
Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:
- The distinction you need to know between morality and ethics;
- Why it’s concerning that so many college grads haven’t seriously pondered their values as they enter your workforce; and
- The critical role ethics play in getting your organization through a crisis.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Leader Character with Dr. Mary Crossan (this is the episode Maureen referenced at the beginning of today’s show)
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Forming Your Firm’s Ethics with Greg Moran
- Transformational Leadership & Ethics with Ron Riggio
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Follow Greg on LinkedIn for his expert perspective on a variety of leadership topics. He’s at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsmoran/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Keeping Us on the Straight and Narrow: Jenna Reik
Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
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About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guest: Carrie Spell-Hansson, CEO, The Folke Institute
DEI has been around for nearly 80 years, which makes recent attacks against it seem a little odd. DEI germinated on July 26, 1948 with Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which abolished racial discrimination in America’s military.
Our guest, Carrie Spell-Hansson, talks with Maureen about the continuing relevance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, and their benefits to both our organizations and to all of us personally.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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You Belong: LinkedIn Brings Diversity & Inclusion Home with Teuila Hanson
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Workforce Demographics & an Inclusive Culture with Nadia Younes, Gamiel Yafai, & Louise Carvalho
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Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives with Eric Douglas Keene
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Carrie’s work through the Folke Institute at https://www.thefolkeinstitute.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Booking Producer: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Carrie Spell-Hansson works with individuals, groups, and organizations to promote and enhance personal and organizational effectiveness through research, coaching, and training. She is committed to providing individuals and organizations with the tools they need to survive and grow in the increasingly diverse and competitive domestic and global marketplace. She has held positions as Vice President of Finance and Administration, Dean of Intercultural Development, and Vice President of Organizational Development and Culture Change prior to launching her company, The Folke Institute for Transformative Learning in 2004. As a faculty member for the American Management Association, she teaches numerous courses in their Administrative Professional, Communication, Management and Leadership Portfolios. She has also worked as an adjunct faculty member teaching Organizational Behavior and Effective Multicultural Teams to graduate students.
Guest: Tammy Alvarez, CEO of Career Winners Circle
Isn’t it time you did a little something for yourself? We usually talk about leadership in terms of how it helps your team or organization. In this episode, guest Tammy Alvarez shines the spotlight on you instead.
Specifically, she talks about taking control of your leadership career path. As leaders, we set the tone for our teams. If you don’t love your job, your team senses it. So Tammy shares her many tips for how to get your career back on the track you want…and start loving Mondays again!
Here's what Tammy and Maureen cover:
- How treating your career path like a business helps you see the opportunities that help move your career ahead;
- Why it’s important to stop thinking you’re paid for what you do – and start being paid for what you know; and
- Tammy’s personal story of feeling like an outsider as she climbed Wall Street’s executive ranks…then figured out that feeling was actually her strength.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Job I Love to Hate: It’s Never Too Late to Upgrade Your Career! with Tammy Alvarez
- The Power of Passion & Perseverance: Four Levels of Grit with Jim Ritchie-Dunham
- The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success No One Taught You with Mark Herschberg
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Tammy on her firm’s website: https://careerwinnerscircle.com/ . Her book, Escaping the Career Trap, is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3V3yNiB (paperback), https://amzn.to/4alEw7P (Kindle), or https://amzn.to/44U4cYb (audiobook).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Loving Mondays: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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About Our Guest:
Tammy Alvarez is the CEO of the Career Winners Circle and is also an author, professional keynote speaker, inspirational coach, trainer, and epic storyteller. As an award-winning entrepreneur and former corporate executive, Tammy believes leaders who inspire courage are at the heart of every successful business. Her spirited “Break All the Rules” approach blends decades of C-Suite experience with a pragmatic, results-based coaching style that helps business professionals create a big impact and love every Monday again.
Her recent book Escaping The Career Trap, Transform Your Apathy into Ambition and Never Hate Mondays Again is a self-leadership blueprint for high achievers who want to experience true career fulfillment. Tammy has an unwavering commitment to advancing ambitious business leaders so they can grow their careers as far as their drive will take them. She is the creator of the Career Success Blueprint – the ultimate executive career strategy framework, Own Your Power! – a pragmatic approach to advancing women leaders, and the CEO Advantage – helping small business owners scale without killing themselves in the process.
During her twenty-year corporate career, Tammy became renowned as a business transformation and turnaround expert on Wall Street. Her roles included Managing Director at AIG, First Senior Vice President at Bank Leumi USA, Chief Operating Officer at Genesis10, and Senior Vice President at Bank of America. Tammy delivers epic keynote speeches for companies worldwide and has been a colloquium lecturer on various leadership topics at Cornell University. She holds a degree in International Business Administration from American Intercontinental University.
Tammy and her partner Steve have adopted an ex-pat lifestyle and enjoy traveling to farflung places around the globe to hike and scuba dive. They currently reside in Mexico City.
Guests: Anie Rouleau & Danièle Henkel (CEOs of The Unscented Company & Daniele Henkel Enterprises respectively)
This episode is a goldmine of tips, knowledge, and inspiration for entrepreneurs.
CEOs Anie Rouleau and Danièle Henkel start by explaining what a B-Corporation is, and why it provided the perfect framework for their companies. But they quickly delve into their own drives to become entrepreneurs. Their answers go far beyond generating profits; there’s an entirely different wealth they hope to create now, and for future generations.
Here's what Anie, Danièle, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- What B Corporations are, and how they can benefit a business and its people beyond quarterly earnings reports;
- The importance of sourcing your supplies locally whenever possible; and
- The critical roles female entrepreneurs, in particular, have in shaping the long-term sustainability of their businesses – and of the business culture overall.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Shifting from Trusting Institutions to Trusting People with Danièle Henkel
- More Women on Boards with Marlene Janzen Le Ber & Lynne E. Devnew
- The Bonobo Sisterhood with Diane Rosenfeld
- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Anie’s firm is The Unscented Company; you can learn more at https://unscentedco.com/. Daniele’s cosmetics line is online at https://boutiquedanielehenkel.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Striving to Make Us an A+ B-Corp: Jenna Reik
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About Our Guest:
Anie Rouleau, Baléco’s Founding CEO, knows how to do business without compromising her values and convictions. (Baléco is the company behind The Unscented Company.) That’s why she chose to redefine the notion of clean by creating a line of ecofriendly home and body care products designed for conscious living. Fervent defender of local sourcing, she sits on different committees, including Made in Montreal. Women leadership and ethics being causes close to her heart, she is a mentor for young women in business. She is also part of Quebec entrepreneurship promotion groups. Mother of two, Anie is driven by her desire to protect future generations. By investing in innovation and eco-design within an industry which sets his sight far from sustainable development issues, she seeks with Baléco to define tomorrow’s business as a transparent entity, respectful of its employees, the community and the environment.
By awarding her the medal of the Knight of the Order of Merit of France in 2017, the Mayor of Paris, the Honorable Anne Hidalgo, in a well-crafted formula and of her own, said of Mrs. Danièle Henkel that she is “l ‘uniqueness in universality’. Daniele Founder and CEO of Daniele Henkel Entreprises, she markets avant-garde and non-invasive technologies for medical aesthetic centers. In addition, as a brand, she develops franchises and offers medico-aesthetic express services and a range of cosmetic products. Just recently, she launched a digital television platform, danielehenkel.tv, entirely dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized businesses and offering visibility to entrepreneurs in the regions. As a speaker, Danièle Henkel lends her voice to many causes around the world: social entrepreneurship, education, succession, social skills, health, human and ethical values in business, just to name a few.
Guest: Shaan Patel, CEO of Prep Expert
Here’s an unexpected formula for success. Step 1: Get a lower score than expected on your SAT. Step 2: Parlay your disappointment into a multimillion dollar company.
That’s how Shaan Patel’s leadership journey began. It included a victory on Shark Tank, mentoring from Mark Cuban, and earning an M.D. It’s not the typical path to industry-leading CEO, but the lessons Shaan learned along the path are important for leaders in any sector. He shares those lessons with us in this episode.
Here's what Shaan and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- Why winning is NOT the name of the game in business (but neither is losing!);
- How embracing change instead of fighting it puts you far ahead of the competition; and
- The mindsets Shaan keeps foremost to inform his leadership – and why that leadership is still evolving.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sheryl J. Tan
- Women on the Rise: A Leadership Journey with Reta Jo Lewis
- The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership with Ruchira Chaudhary
- Building Trust in Uncertainty: A Personal & Professional Journey with Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Shaan’s company, Prep Expert, on their website: https://prepexpert.com/ .
Shaan’s book, going into further detail on his strategies, is Self-Made Success. It’s in paperback at https://amzn.to/3QAhTFC, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/4abXeP9 .
For his insights on the SAT, check out SAT 2400 in Just 7 Steps. It’s in paperback on Amazon at https://amzn.to/44Gp2KE, and the Kindle version is https://amzn.to/3UsK1vE .
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Always Totally Prepared: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Shaan Patel completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of Southern California, Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Yale University, Medical Degree (MD) at the University of Southern California, and dermatology residency at Temple University Hospital. He is a board-certified dermatologist who practices teledermatology, and as the Founder and CEO of Prep Expert, Patel closed a deal with Mark Cuban on ABC's Shark Tank for an investment in the company.
Guest: Danièle Henkel, Knight of the Order of Merit & CEO of Daniele Henkel Enterprises
What’s love got to do with leadership? Turns out: quite a lot!
Danièle Henkel sees love in many ways: from passion for your work to genuine respect for the people around you. It’s another facet in building trust; in this case, though, the trust is in people rather than institutions. In a world where leaders often take the quick path – and its ethical shortcuts – to achieve success, Danièle’s take on trust and authenticity in the C-suite is enormously refreshing. She shares her personal journey, from her early days in Morocco to running a successful company in Canada – and the lessons that journey taught her. Each setback along the way has only fueled her relentless optimism, and her drive for leaders everywhere to be clear and responsible for their words and actions.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leader Character with Dr. Mary Crossan
- Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse
- The Rise of Humanness: The Role of People in an AI World with Chris Nolan & Michael Schindler
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
There’s lots more to learn about (and from) Danièle on her website at https://danielehenkel.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
ILI’s In-House Optimist: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!
About Our Guest:
By awarding her the medal of the Knight of the Order of Merit of France in 2017, the Mayor of Paris, the Honorable Anne Hidalgo, in a well-crafted formula and of her own, said of Mrs. Danièle Henkel that she is “l ‘uniqueness in universality’. Daniele Founder and CEO of Daniele Henkel Entreprises, she markets avant-garde and non-invasive technologies for medical aesthetic centers. In addition, as a brand, she develops franchises and offers medico-aesthetic express services and a range of cosmetic products. Just recently, she launched a digital television platform, danielehenkel.tv, entirely dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized businesses and offering visibility to entrepreneurs in the regions. As a speaker, Danièle Henkel lends her voice to many causes around the world: social entrepreneurship, education, succession, social skills, health, human and ethical values in business, just to name a few.
Guest: Stephanie Lemek, Founder: The Wounded Workforce
Your staff are probably dealing with trauma: in the U.S. alone, 70% of adults faced at least one traumatic experience. Those experiences manifest in different ways in the workplace, from perfectionism to absenteeism. Our trauma reactions are as unique as our fingerprints.
Being a trauma-informed leader can help your team – and, ultimately, your organization. Guest Stephanie Lemek draws on her deep experience in HR to share how to shape a trauma-informed workplace.
Here's what Stephanie and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The ways leaders can help team members deal with trauma…
- …and the ways they shouldn’t – such as playing the role of therapist.
- The seven principles of trauma-informed workplaces.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Remote Work & Mental Well-Being with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
- Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma with Rachael Kelly
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
To learn more about Stephanie’s work for trauma-informed workplaces, check her website at https://www.thewoundedworkforce.com.
More about CliftonStrengths, the assessment resource she mentioned, is available at https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx .
Her YouTube channel is The Wounded Workforce; you’ll find it at https://www.youtube.com/@TheWoundedWorkforce .
And the book Stephanie recommended is The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris. It’s in paperback at https://amzn.to/3w5TS2t, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3WoQWIO.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Booking Producer: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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About Our Guest:
Stephanie Lemek, with 16+ years of HR experience across diverse industries, founded The Wounded Workforce in 2023. Her mission is to cultivate trauma-informed workplace cultures. Observing a gap in support despite HR efforts, she embarked on creating solutions. Recognizing that over 70% of adults carry traumatic experiences into the workplace, she aims to equip leaders and HR professionals with tools to address these challenges. Stephanie's initiative stems from a passion for inclusivity and research, driven by a desire to ensure everyone has the necessary support to thrive in their professional environments.
Guest: Nancy Adler, S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University
There’s not just an art to leadership; art improves leadership!
That’s the core point of Dr. Nancy Adler’s discussion in this episode. A consultant and professor at McGill University, she’s found that art enables leaders to shift perspectives more readily, thus seeing solutions more effectively. That broadness of thought is more critical than ever: in the emerging business climate, what a leader knows is becoming far less relevant than the leader’s ability to shift perspectives and continually learn new suites of knowledge and skills.
Here's what Nancy and Maureen cover:
- Why the vaunted MBA is becoming far less relevant in the C-suite;
- Why leadership is an active verb – and why leadership titles are nouns losing their impact; and
- How a pizza box became the most effective communication tool to break through a Congressman’s barriers.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Art, Leadership…and the Art of Leadership with Ren Washington & Laura Gibson
- Tales from the Top: How Leaders Use Stories with Dr. Tanvi Gautam
- Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Nancy’s intersection of art and leadership on her Galleries website at https://www.adlerartistry.com/galleries . She’s also written or edited several books, including International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior – in paperback at https://amzn.to/4blRSm9.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 .You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Keeping Us in a Beautiful Workflow: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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About Our Guest:
Nancy Adler is an inspiring leader who has worked with managers from around the world to create synergy among cultures, rather than building walls to keep out “difference” or to hide behind fears of inefficiency and prejudice. Nancy pioneered the fields for cross-cultural management, women leading worldwide, and the role of the arts in inspiring the best of what individuals and organizations have to offer to their organizations, their communities, and to the world. As an artist, she works to make the world more beautiful, even now when so many people focus on ugliness and dysfunction.
Dr. Adler is the S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University, where she conducts research on global leadership and cross-cultural management.
Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development Consultant
Many leaders plateau: they hit a certain level, then stop growing or maturing as a leader. But even into late adulthood, we remain able to grow and develop. Indeed, some people thirst for that growth!
Mike Morrow-Fox joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss post-conventional leaders – people who have grown to a point where they can easily see the big picture, the ripple effects of decisions, understand complexity, and more. Best of all, he shares seven tips to use on your own leadership journey.
Here's what Mike and Maureen cover:
- The three major markers of a post-conventional thinker;
- Seven tips for forging ahead with your own growth; and
- Why you get bored with tasks or jobs that used to excite you.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
- Bringing Clarity to Confusion with Terri O’Fallon & Kim Barta
- You’re an Executive, But Are You a Leader? with Sonya Shelton
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The development thought leaders Mike mentioned include Bob Keegan, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bill Torbert, and Terry O'Fallon. Here’s a selection of their books to get you rolling on your development path:
- An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organizationby Bob Keegan.
- Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good) by Bob Keegan.
- Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement (Integral Publishers Dissertation)by Susanne Cook-Greuter.
- Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadershipby Bill Torbert.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Keeping the Whole Team Beyond Convention: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Michael Morrow-Fox, MBA, EdS, is a consultant with the Innovative Leadership Institute experienced in health care, education, banking, government, and non-profit management.
Michael has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and human resources operations, as well as and several years of full-time university teaching. Michael uses this background to blend his real-world understanding with current theoretical models helping his clients reach goals beyond their current thinking.
Michael has experience managing a 50 million dollar technology budget, helping a technology startup company get off the ground, overseeing an international nonprofit organization achieve ‘best place to work’ status, and leading organizational education for a city government. Michael’s strengths are not in what area he works, but in how he helps others work. Michael’s project management, process excellence, problem-solving, and human performance management skills help companies form truly innovative strategies.
Michael has served as a full-time university faculty at Capital University winning a Department of Education FIPSE Grant and George Mason Program Excellence Award, as the Director of Technology Strategy for the OhioHealth Hospitals, as the Vice President of Operations for a technology start-up serving American Express, as the Vice President of Talent Management Training and Development for the American Heart Association, and the Manager of Organizational Education for the City of Greensboro, North Carolina. Michael has held Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since 2002, he has worked on Six Sigma Black Belt initiatives since 1999 and has been a Six Sigma Green Belt since 2006. His Bachelor’s degree focused on Industrial Psychology and Employee Counseling, his MBA focus was on Organizational Leadership, his Educational Specialist Degree is in Educational Leadership, and Michael is working on his Doctoral dissertation in Educational Leadership.
Michael is a contributing author of Innovative Leadership for Health Care, Innovative Leadership Workbook for Emerging Leaders and Managers, and the Innovative Leader Guide to Transforming Organizations.
Guest: Chris Henderson, President of Lumos Clean Energy Advisors
Indigenous voices are often left out of conversations on clean energy and climate change. Yet, their generations of environmental stewardship make them pivotal players in our energy future.
Chris Henderson, a Canadian eco-entrepreneur and community leader, discusses the role of Indigenous communities in Canada's shift towards clean energy. In the process, renewable energy is enhancing social equity and fostering economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples.
Chris and host Maureen Metcalf delve into the broader implications of this shift, including environmental sustainability, technological innovation, and the global relevance of Canada's approach to clean energy.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Non-Traditional Leadership Models for Our New Era with Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry
- When Your Path Is Unclear: Embodied Leadership & Way-Showing with Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
- Leaders in the Hot Seat with Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Chris’ book, Aboriginal Power, is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3UmwANR .
The documentary series, Power to the People, has a website at https://powertothepeople.tv/ . Learn more about Chris’ work at the Indigenous Clean Energy website: https://indigenouscleanenergy.com/ . Lumos Clean Energy’s website is https://www.lumosenergy.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Keeping Our Energy Flowing Unimpeded: Jenna Reik
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Chris Henderson is a Canadian eco-entrepreneur, community leader and environmental innovator. For the past 40 years, he has led and been at the forefront of ground-breaking Canadian enterprises and local/national business, social and ecological initiatives which have global impact and resonance. Chris is a trusted and insightful commentator on economic, environment and energy issues that respect the Planet, and generate enduring outcomes for corporations, communities and Canada. Chris’ prime current role in advising and equipping Indigenous peoples and communities to develop and own clean energy projects to catalyze social development, economic opportunity and to combat Climate Change. His first book Aboriginal Power was published in 2013. Chris is the President of Lumos Energy, Executive Director of the Indigenous Clean Energy Social Enterprise, Founder of The Delphi Group, and Board Chair of the Globe Series.
Guest: Paul F. Austin, CEO of Third Wave
Why are C-suites adopting psychedelics? Some leaders say it gives them a competitive edge in innovation and thinking; others use psychedelics for stress relief and general mental health.
Paul F. Austin reviews the science and the trends behind this movement. He joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss both how and why senior executives are moving these substances from taboo to corporate practice…and he provides important guidelines and limits on their use.
Here's what Paul and Maureen cover:
- How the link between leadership and psychedelics formed;
- The five key elements to look for in a responsible facilitator; and
- Though rare, the need to be aware of potential dangers.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Fringe or Mainstream? Leaders Explore Psychedelicswith Paul Austin
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Changing Leadership Mindsets: Psychedelics with Ehren Cruz
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The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele
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RESOURCES:
Paul has more information on his organization’s website: https://thethirdwave.co/ . Their integrative training website is https://psychedeliccoaching.institute/ . Paul’s book, Mastering Microdosing, is on Amazon in paperback at https://amzn.to/3w0tLdc, and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/49KVdcH .
Here are the websites for the two corporate benefits organizations for psychedelics in employee benefit plans: Enthea (https://www.enthea.com) and TARA Mind (https://taramind.com) .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI; the Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics, and is the author of Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life.
As the founder of Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC’s Worklife.
Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.
Guest: Mike Gerbis, CEO of Delphi
Politics and megaweather get all the attention on climate change, but the impacts on business are profound. The liabilities for business may rise faster than the temperature! So why are so many business leaders so far behind in dealing with it?
As Oz’s Lion would say, it boils down to courage. The climate issue means challenging the status quo, which upsets stockholders focused on short-term profit. Mike Gerbis, a CEO who HAS challenged the status quo, tells host Maureen Metcalf that businesses need courageous leadership to address climate change and other pressing global issues.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Circular Economy: Better for Earth, Better for Business with John Kilpatrick
- Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell
- Climate Change: Leaders in the Hot Seat with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about the organizations Mike leads or works with on their websites. Delphi is at https://delphi.ca/about-us/ . Globe Series is at https://www.globeseries.com/ . And Canada’s Leading Change is online at https://leadingchangecanada.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Courageously Keeping the Rest of Us In Line: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Mike Gerbis is CEO of a constellation of organizations that includes The Delphi Group, GLOBE Series, EXCEL Partnership and Leading Change and shares a common purpose: to achieve a sustainable, prosperous and socially just future in a generation. Mike works closely with Canadian and international leaders on issues related to climate change, corporate sustainability, cleantech and innovation, and the green economy. In addition to his 30 years of experience in sustainability consulting and events, Mike also engages and educates youth and business leaders through guest lectures and presentations as well as through initiatives such as SHAD Valley International and TEC Canada.
Guest: Amiel Handelsman, Elite Executive Coach
We all know communication is key for leadership. But HOW we communicate is tougher. And one simple misunderstanding can make the difference between success and disaster.
Guest Amiel Handelsman has observed and codified eleven concepts that will move your communications from good to great. He shares them with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.
Here's what Amiel and Maureen cover:
- The ways changing your conversation style can change people’s minds (including your own!);
- The importance of “The Pause,” and how that moment of silence can save your message; and
- Why you should assume the person you’re talking to knows more than you do.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Reimagining American Identity with Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas
- Using Storytelling to Elevate Leadership with Chris Nolan
- Communication Skills Every Leader Needs with Jonathan Reitz
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Amiel’s new podcast is How My View Grew; check it out at https://howmyviewgrew.com.Details about his coaching work are on his website at https://amielhandelsman.com.
He’s also written several books; Practice Greatness complements this podcast episode perfectly. It’s available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3Wjh6wP and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3W1JDGS.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Communicating with Cosmic Clarity: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Amiel Handelsman is the host of How My View Grew, a podcast that dives deep into humanity’s challenges by looking at big thinkers who have changed their minds. As a writer and podcast guest, he explores the human dimension of complex global challenges like democracy, the Middle East, climate change, the culture wars, and “race.” In his professional practice, Amiel helps executives and teams navigate complexity and grow a bit along the way. His clients use new conversation habits to make clear commitments, deliver what they promise, and do this with more ease. Amiel has written five books including Practice Greatness, Reimagining American Identity, and How to be an Anti-race Antiracist. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two sons.
Guest: Steve Armato, VP of Middle Mile & Tech at Amazon
Whether leaders accept or ignore new tech makes the difference between it disrupting their organizations – and transforming them.
Amazon’s use of new technology is a clear and major component of its success. It’s a big part of what puts packages on your porch. And, as Steve Armato reveals, Amazon wants to share that tech with others. Steve is their VP of Middle Mile and Tech. In this episode, he talks about the ways Amazon shares AI and other technologies – and how they develop that new technology in the first place.
Here's what Steve and Maureen cover:
- The techniques Steve uses with his team to foster new innovations from the bottom up;
- How the resulting innovations help people beyond his team, from employees system-wide to customers; and
- Steve’s own remarkable journey at Amazon, taking him from intern to Vice President.
Dive deeper into Amazon’s leadership lessons with these episodes:
- To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay
- Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, & Tye Brady
- Leadership Is Relationships with Kvon Tucker
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
Theme music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.
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About Our Guest:
Steve Armato is Vice President, Amazon Transportation Services and Technology. His team works with over 50,000 service partners – many of whom are small- and medium-sized businesses – enabling them to grow their businesses by transporting items on behalf of Amazon.
With over two decades of experience at Amazon, Steve has a passion for innovating on behalf of customers, particularly at the intersection of technology, science, and operations. Prior to his current role, he spent a decade in Amazon’s Fulfillment and Supply Chain Optimization group, building large-scale predictive systems and optimization algorithms to optimize Amazon’s inventory supply chain. Steve holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.
Guests: Lynn Shollen & Sam Wilson, researchers at Christopher Newport University and Swinburne University of Technology
Odds are good you aren’t happy with our leaders. Less than 1/3 of Americans believe their leaders are effective.
That’s according to the Leadership Attitudes Survey. Dr. Lynn Shollen joins us to share more of the results. Dr. Sam Wilson chimes in to reveal insights from the Australian Leadership Index. The two studies had remarkably similar findings.
The bottom line: most of us feel our leaders are too far removed from the everyday experiences of ordinary people.
So what can leaders do about it? Listen in to find out!
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Onboard with Care: Welcoming a New Leader with Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont
- The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele
- Ignite Your Leadership Game with Dre Baldwin
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The website for Sam’s research with the Australian Leadership Index is https://australianleadershipindex.org/ . You can subscribe to their newsletter there, too.
Lynn’s research is online, too, at https://cnu.edu/las/ . The group’s e-mail address is ldsp-survey@cnu.edu .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Prodding Us with Attitude: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. S. Lynn Shollen is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and department chair in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University, a public liberal arts institution in Newport News, Virginia, in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Higher Education Policy and Administration. Her research interests include identity and the faculty to administrator transition, identity and perceptions of leadership, leadership identities construction, and teaching about women and leadership.
Dr Sam Wilson Senior Lecturer in Leadership in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is also co-director of the Thriving in Society 4.0 program of the Social Innovation Research Institute and Deputy Director of the Social Psychology of Innovation Research Group, also at Swinburne. He earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne in experimental social psychology. His research interests span psychological studies of the future self to large, national studies of community beliefs about leadership for the greater good in the government, public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Guest: Nate Rempe, CEO of Omaha Steaks
It’s an iconic success story with a menu of leadership lessons: Born from a family escaping oppression in 1917, Omaha Steaks transformed from a small butcher shop into a global brand synonymous with the finest steaks. They’ve stayed at the top because of their long history of leaders driven to innovate.
CEO Nate Rempe joins host Maureen Metcalf to unpack the leadership methods that foster such long-lasting success – methods you can adopt, too.
Here's what Nate and Maureen cover:
- How vertical integration and horizontal leadership combine to make an organization both strong and resilient, even in a crisis;
- Why storytelling is the secret sauce in truly great leadership; and
- The role playing guitar in a rock band has in maintaining leadership perspective!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse
- Noodling Solutions for Food Insecurity with Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh
- Achieving Employee-Centric Leadership: A Leader’s Food for Thought with Heather Krentler
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Omaha Steaks on their website: https://www.omahasteaks.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Always Serving Food for Thought: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Nate Rempe is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Omaha Steaks. He is the first person outside of the Simon family to serve as President & CEO in more than 100 years.
Nate previously served the company as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining the Omaha Steaks team, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Nebraska Book Company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and completed his graduate education at Creighton University, where he later joined the Executive Faculty in the Department of Information Science & Technology. He has also held various independent advisory board positions including one at ClassBundle, LLC (a Nelnet company) and is a named inventor on four United States patents directed to technology and business processes.
Beyond his passion for food (and steak, in particular), Nate has a long track record of nurturing and inspiring others to become better leaders. His unique abilities and strengths motivate high-performing teams and drive business success. Nate balances his professional success with what he describes as his most rewarding role of dedicated husband and father.
Guest: Dr. Mary Crossan, Distinguished University Professor at Western University
You say you want to hire people with good character – but what does “character” mean?
In this rediscovered episode, Dr. Mary Crossan of Ivey University defines exactly what leader character is, why it matters, and how to develop it. She’s found leader character is not just an add-on, but a foundational element that propels organizations towards sustained excellence. And it’s a win-win: the cultivation of leader character significantly enhances both individual well-being and prompts a culture of integrity and effectiveness within organizations.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Character: A Real-Life Red Roof Report with George Limbert
- To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice, & Purpose with Ron Carucci
- Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You’ll find more about Mary’s research at https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/leadership/ . Her podcast, Question of Character, is online at https://www.questionofcharacter.com/ . The site also has an archive of essays on leadership character.
Mary’s book, Developing Leadership Character, is on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3PKZQfw. The seminal (and very robust and expensive) book establishing character research which Mary referenced is Character Strengths and Virtues by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman. It’s available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3TVsyNp .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Characteristically Awesome: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor at Western University – Western's highest honour recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service. In 2021, she was recognized on a global list representing the top two percent of the most cited scientists in her discipline. She teaches in the undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Programs. Her research on organizational learning, strategy, leadership character and improvisation has been widely published in such journals as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly and Organization Dynamics. She has extended her research to management practice through a collection of over 50 cases, many of which have been published in a book she co–authored entitled Strategic Management: A Casebook. She is also an author of the Strategic Analysis and Action textbook. In a joint venture between the Ivey Business School and the Second City Improvisation Company, she developed a management video entitled "Improvise to Innovate" which extends traditional concepts of strategic management to development tools and techniques for more innovative, flexible and responsive strategic action. Her recent research focuses on the development of leader character as a critical foundation to support and elevate leader competencies. She and her colleagues have developed courses, cases, and a diagnostic assessment to develop leader character. The “Developing Leadership Character” book is a culmination of the team’s research on leader character. She is also a co-host of the Question of Character podcast series. She works with organizations around the world on developing and investing in leader character.
Guest: Greg Moran, Executive-in-Residence, Former Sr. Executive at Ford, Chase, Nationwide, and more
Should you, or shouldn’t you?
All ethics boil down to this simple question, but getting to the answer can be enormously difficult, especially when deciding for your business. But guest Greg Moran – a long-time C-suite resident – says you can ease those ethical questions by establishing basic principles for your firm…even before you create your pitch deck for potential investors!
Greg shares more tips and real-world examples, from Enron to Boeing, in this episode.
Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:
- How a lack of common ethics across a divided society makes forging business ethics difficult;
- Why establishing principles is Job 1 when founding any organization; and
- The ways ethics get slippery in large corporations when principles are forgotten.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Transformational Leadership & Ethics with Ron Riggio
- Ethics & Problem-Solving with Joanne Ciulla & Keith Grint
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guest: Mike Hardy, Founding Director of CTPSR
In this rediscovered episode, guest Mike Hardy delivers an insightful update on the founding principles and advancements at the Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations at Coventry University. He delves into his own transformative journey towards embodying peace, serving as a beacon of inspiration. The episode highlights the Centre's remarkable evolution into a hub of outstanding research, playing a pivotal role in shaping contemporary perspectives on fostering peace in our dynamic, interconnected global landscape. Furthermore, Mike reveals the profound impact of his personal decision to renounce anger, fostering a ripple effect of positivity both in his family sphere and professional environment. Listen in for a compelling exploration of the power of leadership research and individual change in contributing to a more peaceful world.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Enjoy a binge-listen to Mike Hardy’s updates on peace and leadership:
- Democracy on the Run with Mike Hardy, Veronika Anghel, & Matt Qvortrup
- Reflecting on Leadership & Peace-Building with Mike Hardy
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Mike Hardy & Hyppolite Ntigurirwa
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More information on Mike’s work – and that of his colleagues – is on the Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations’ website at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/trust-peace-social-relations/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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About Our Guest:
Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association ( www.ila-net.org ), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum ( http://faithbeliefforum.org ), the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Guest: Brian Richardson, Founder/CEO of Richardson Consulting Group
How talented is your team?
Without a skills-based system, you may never know…and never tap into the full potential your organization has. But companies that look at skills know who has the talent to best get the job done – and who can develop and grow to obtain those skills.
That’s the message guest Brian Richardson, the founder and CEO of RSG, brings to host Maureen Metcalf in this episode. He shares tips and cases of businesses that uncovered the game-changing potential of aligning skills with company goals.
Here's what Brian and Maureen cover:
- The concept of internal talent mobility;
- How skills-based systems maximize employee potential; and
- Ways to leverage AI for personalized work experiences, helping staff unlock new levels of engagement and job satisfaction.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay
- Leading with an Eye on AI with Neil Sahota
- The Rise of Humanness (The Role of People in an AI World) with Chris Nolan & Michael Schindler
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Brian’s company (and the neuroscience behind it) at https://richardsonconsultinggroup.com/ . Information about his roundtable session is online at https://richardsonconsultinggroup.com/skills-roundtables/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
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About Our Guest:
Brian Richardson is Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group (RCG). RCG helps organizations unlock their hidden human potential by creating transformative learning experiences, putting performance support in the flow of work, and driving behavior change at scale. Brian has been a featured speaker at global and local events for the Association for Talent Development, the International Society for Performance Improvement, the Finance Development and Training Institute, the Project Management Institute, and others. Brian also hosts monthly executive roundtable skills-based organization (SBO) strategy and implementation sessions, where leaders come together to share challenges and best practices on how to use skills-based approaches to improve business performance, organization agility, and employee experience.
Guests: WE Empower Challenge winners Hadeel Anabtawi & Habiba Ali with Amanda Ellis
While female entrepreneurs have made great strides in some countries, in the U.S. and other nations women still face significant barriers that just aren’t there for male-headed start-ups. Despite that, women leaders are making a difference by promoting positive change in their local communities – changes that can have a global impact.
The United Nations recognizes several entrepreneurial women every year with their WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge; it promotes female founders globally who run successful businesses while supporting the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Past winners Hadeel Anabtawi of Jordan and Habiba Ali of Nigeria join Challenge co-chair Amanda Ellis to discuss their successes, their challenges…and the importance of women working with each other to overcome those challenges.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- More Women on Boards with Marlene Janzen Le Ber and Lynne E. Devnew
- Focus on Women & Leadership with Parminder Vir
- Can You Hear Her Now? With Celina Caesar-Chavannes
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Women entrepreneurs interested in the next WE Empower UN SDG Challenge can apply at https://weempower.awardsplatform.com/ . More information about the challenge in general is available at https://globalfutures.asu.edu/we-empower/ . The website for Habiba’s renewable energy organization is https://sosairen.org/ .
The Alchemist Lab, Hadeel’s STEM/STEAM program, has information at https://www.thealchemistlabacademy.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
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About Our Guests:
Habiba Ali has been in the renewable energy industry since 2005. She co-founded the Developmental Association for Renewable Energies and worked as the national coordinator. She worked on the Clean Development Mechanism project, Efficient Cook Stoves for Nigeria, the Solar Lamps Assembly and sales training program, and the solar dryers for healthy foods project. Habiba was named a Vital Voices GROW fellow, a World Bank Womenx fellow and is a graduate of the Cherie Blaire Road to Business Growth program. Habiba in 2018 was a Global ambassadors program beneficiary and the UNSDG awardee for Africa on WeEmpower.
Hadeel Anabtawi is a Social Entrepreneur in the children & girls empowerment field. A certified life coach, teachers’ trainer on interactive teaching methodologies and the founder of The Alchemist Lab in Jordan. She is DVF international awardee 2019, WE Empower awardee 2018 and a Vital Voices fellow 2017. Studied Industrial Engineering at University of Jordan and Masters in Business Administration at University of Leicester. She launched many initiatives that empower children and girls in particular, one of which is “Go Girls!” a program that encourages girls towards STEM & scientific thinking.
Amanda Ellis is Senior Director for the ASU Global Futures Laboratory. She is former New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and Prime Minister's Special Envoy. An economist by training, Amanda held senior roles at the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and Westpac Banking Corporation. Amanda is a founding member of the Financial Alliance for Women and the recipient of the TIAW Lifetime Achievement Award for services to women's economic empowerment.
Guest: Dr. Tanvi Gautam, Senior Faculty at Singapore Management University
How do you lead: with your head or heart? Left-brain or right? For the best leaders, the answer is “All of the above.”
From the art of conversation to discovering (and sharing) your organization’s story, guest Dr. Tanvi Gautam talks with host Maureen Metcalf about her head-and-heart-based approach to leadership development – and why adding creative “right brain” thinking to business’ usual analytical “left brain” logic leads to better teams.
Here's what Tanvi and Maureen cover:
- The five conversations teams need to have;
- Why your business’ survival depends on the concept of future-fluidity; and
- How your story, and your organization’s, gives you and your team purpose.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Using Storytelling to Elevate Leadership with Chris Nolan
- You’re an Executive, But Are You a Leader? with Sonya Shelton
- Be Human, Lead Human with Jennifer Nash
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Tanvi’s book, Deep Collaboration: Five Crucial Conversations to Accelerate Team Performance Across Silos, comes out on 27 March 2024. You can pre-order the Kindle version now at https://amzn.to/3OCZ0kH .
More about Tanvi’s work is available on her website at https://leadersupgraded.com/ . Listen to her podcast, Leaders Upgraded, at https://leadersupgraded.com/podcast/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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Have They Got a Whopper of a Story: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Tanvi is a multi-award-winning keynote speaker, executive coach, author, senior faculty, and program director at Singapore Management University (Executive Development). She uses a combination of head and heart-based tools for upgrading leaders and culture transformation. A certified Storytelling coach, certified Conversational Intelligence coach, and certified Culture Talk Tools coach, she takes a 360 intervention approach with clients such as Accenture, Mastercard, Dyson, Coca-Cola, Gap Inc, Microsoft, Merck, Electrolux, and many others.
Dr. Tanvi is known for combining the best of corporate execution focus with the depth of academic frameworks to create the shifts needed to lead in the world of disruption. She is the first Asia-based leader to be listed on the Game Changer list by Workforce Magazine (USA). Her ideas have been published and quoted in Forbes.com, Harvard Business Review, Business Times, Economic Times, BBC World, and other global publications. She is the author of two books and listed as the top 200 global influencers on leadership by People Hum in 2022 and 2023. Dr. Tanvi is also the only Asia-based HR influencer to be on the SAP global influencer HXM list. As President of the Asia Speakers' Association Singapore (2021) she was also the first woman of colour in that role. She considers learning to accept herself as an imperfect mom as a noteworthy achievement.
Guest: John Heiser, former CEO of LabVantage
We hear a lot about family values and personal values…but what about business values? And what happens when your company’s and personal values conflict?
Values conflicts arise frequently in the workplace. Addressing them leads to a more engaged and satisfied workforce (who also drive superior performance). Guest John Heiser explains how, and shares details on the “Giving Voice to Values” (GVV) program, which provides a proven framework for organizations to implement.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Adaptive Leadership & Culture Change with Ron Heifetz
- Building Communities within Your Business with Alice Yoo LeClair
- The New Era of Stakeholder Value with Keith Tuffley
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The Giving Voice to Values website John mentioned is https://www.darden.virginia.edu/ibis/initiatives/gvv . The seminal book on this topic is Mary Gentile’s Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right (available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3Td4GTF and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/49NSEr6).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Coworkers of Great Value: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
John Heiser was Chief Executive Officer of LabVantage Solutions, Inc. LabVantage is a leading global developer of laboratory information management systems. Prior to joining LabVantage, John served as President and COO of Magnetrol International, Inc. John began his career as an attorney in private practice before transitioning into business, where he has held numerous leadership positions in legal, government affairs, sales, and marketing with DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, DuPont Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co., Inc., and Bausch & Lomb. He served on the boards of the International Leadership Association and Aspire Chicago. John earned his BA degree in Political Science/Sociology from the University of Iowa, a JD from Tulane University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a PhD from the Center for Values Driven Leadership at Benedictine University. He is now a faculty member of the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
Guest: Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh (CEO & Founder of Borealis Foods)
Solving a major crisis sometimes requires reframing it. For Reza Soltanzadeh, working with Doctors Without Borders exposed him to global hunger—but he saw one solution by reframing the problem as global malnutrition.
That set him on a path of high innovation, resulting in a ramen noodle that can, quite literally, nourish the world.
Reza shares how his company, Borealis Foods, has learned to innovate so supremely well.
Here's what Reza and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- Why the American manufacturing process is ideally suited to supplying products that answer global humanitarian needs;
- The elements of Borealis’ company culture that make high innovation possible; and
- The innovative strategies for creating affordable products that meet your customers’ needs.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Opportunity in Uncertainty with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
- Building Trust in Uncertainty with Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
- Lessons Learned from Dunkin’ Donuts with Robert Rosenberg
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Borealis Foods on their website at https://www.borealisfoods.com. If you’d like to try (or donate to your local food bank) Chef Woo ramen, it’s available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/438vDwG.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Noodling on Making Podcasts More Nutritious: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh is a visionary leader and the driving force behind Borealis Foods, where he serves as co-founder and CEO. An M.D. by training, his journey began as a young doctor, where he witnessed severe malnourishment in remote villages of India, igniting his passion for affordable, nutritious food. Dr. Soltanzadeh holds over 28 years of experience in food sciences and mass production and leads the company behind Chef Woo, an instant plant-based, protein-rich, organic ramen. Reza has led numerous international ventures whose focus has been on ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) compliance.
Guests: Marlene Janzen Le Ber and Lynne E. Devnew (Researchers at Brescia University College & University of Phoenix)
We judge female leaders differently than men; we’ll decry a woman exec displaying the exact same behavior as a male. The challenges keeping women from the C-suite and board room are systemic and complex – but the process really starts at the very beginning: how women aspire to and define leadership itself!
We’re making progress: women held just over 30% of Fortune 500 board seats in 2022. That’s up from just 22.2% in 2017. With women comprising roughly half of humanity, there’s still work to be done. That’s what guests Marlene Janzen Le Ber and Lynne E. Devnew discuss with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.
From differences in how men and women express anger to how to promote (or stay quiet about) their own successes, you’ll learn about the research of boosting the number of women in the boardroom – and boosting your own career!
Produced in conjunction with the Innovative Leadership Institute: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Bonobo Sisterhood with Diane Rosenfeld
- Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations with Amanda Ellis I& Augusto Lopez-Claros
- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women (& Their Businesses) with Pauline Koelbl
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Marlene & Lynne’s book is More Women on Boards: An International Perspective; it’s available in print at https://amzn.to/48Ds2HS and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/49XC6MO .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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Marlene Janzen Le Ber is Associate Professor and Chair, School of Leadership & Social Change at Canada’s only women’s university, Brescia University College and Adjunct Research Professor at the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at Ivey School of Business, Western University. A multiple research-grant holder in the complex processes of leadership, her current research is in leader character, leader identity development in women, and impact of art-based and narrative research on policy and social change. Prior to her doctoral studies, Marlene was a health care executive within academic health sciences centers, known as a strategic leader who spearheaded numerous health system innovations. Marlene has a PhD in Strategy from Ivey Business School, MScN (Admin) and BScN from Western University.
Lynne E. Devnew is on the associate faculty for the doctoral program, is a distinguished research fellow, and chairs the Women and Leadership Research Group at the University of Phoenix in the United States. A former senior middle manager at IBM, she has a DBA in strategy from the Questrom School, Boston University, and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Master Degree Program for Executives in New York City and Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, all in the United States. Dr. Devnew’s research work and publications are focused on women’s leadership aspirations and leader identity development. She serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations.
Guest: Brian Ahearn, Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE
Employee engagement at work continues to nosedive. So how can you motivate your team?
Show them you care! That’s just one tool in the influence toolkit guest Brian Ahearn shares with Maureen Metcalf in this episode. Influencing people is a critical art in motivating people to engage in their work—and forge success for your entire team. It’s not about manipulation; that’s for poor leaders. It’s about very transparent persuasion. The theory is simple; the difficulty of putting it into practice is up to you!
Here's what Brian and Maureen cover:
- The difference between persuasion and pre-suasion;
- Why keeping your focus on ethical influence is so important; and
- The three elements of ethical influencing.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Power of Praise: Making People's Performance Positive with Ben Marcovitz
- Ignite Your Leadership Game with Dre Baldwin
- The Human Energy Crisis at Work with Joshua Freedman
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Brian’s TEDx Talk about persuasion (and the great story about his marriage proposal) is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZqO8POtgo. You can learn more about Robert Cialdini and the Cialdini Institute at https://cialdini.com. The website for Brian’s company is https://influencepeople.biz; he posts his blog weekly there.
Brian also has several books, including Influence PEOPLE: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that Are Lasting and Ethical (print: https://amzn.to/4bPv3Yy, audiobook: https://amzn.to/3OVoF84); Persuasive Selling for Relationship Driven Insurance Agents (print only: https://amzn.to/42QWUDD); and The Influencer (print: https://amzn.to/3uNl19y and Kindle: https://amzn.to/3UO3A3o).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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About Our Guest:
Brian Ahearn is the Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE and a faculty member at The Cialdini Institute. An international keynote speaker and TEDx presenter, Brian is an expert in the science of influence, certified in the Cialdini Method for Persuasion and Pre-suasion. Brian is the author of "Influence PEOPLE" and "Persuasive Selling for Relationship Driven Insurance Agents." His insights have reached over 700,000 people through his LinkedIn courses and more than a million views on his TEDx Talk. Brian’s latest work, "The Influencer: Secrets to Success & Happiness," weaves these teachings into an engaging business parable.
Guests: Allan Bird & Joyce Osland
It’s hard enough leading a small local team; imagine running a team that stretches across continents!
That’s exactly what global leaders must do. But from what motivates people to varying labor laws, cultures vary wildly around the planet, so leadership styles must adapt with them. How can a global leader do it all?
Guests Allan Bird and Joyce Osland have some answers. They’re specialists in researching global leadership, and their insights may surprise you!
Here's what Allan, Joyce, and Maureen cover:
- How do local cultures make a unified company culture so difficult (or easier)?
- What is it about our international world that makes leading globally so challenging? And
- How do we develop leaders who are skilled in managing global changes?
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
- The Bonobo Sisterhood: Ape Society’s Lessons for Leadership with Diane Rosenfeld
- Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations with Amanda Ellis & August Lopez-Claros
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More about Allan and Joyce’s firm, The Kozai Group, is on their website at https://www.kozaigroup.com/ . Their book, Global Leadership: Research, Practice, & Development is on Amazon (print = https://amzn.to/3wpAOf7 , eTextbook = https://amzn.to/3ST6Jfy ).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Pondering Global Solutions on a Daily Basis: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Joyce Osland, Ph. D., is professor emerita, having retired as the Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director of the Global Leadership Advancement Center at San Jose State University -- where she co-founded the Global Leadership Passport Program, Certificate in Advanced Global Leadership, and the innovative GLLab (assessment center). Joyce won her field’s highest teaching award based on her contributions to global leadership development and experiential learning. She is also a prolific, award-winning scholar with over 150 publications. Joyce co-edits Advances in Global Leadership and Global Leadership: Research, Practices, and Development. She consults with universities and global organizations and is a senior partner of the Kozai Group, which creates global assessment instruments. Prior to becoming an academic, Joyce lived and worked for 15 years in seven countries, primarily in the field of international development and training.
Allan Bird, PhD., has served as President of The Kozai Group, Inc. since 2001. He is also Senior Professor at the Goa Institute of Management in Goa, India. From 2009 to 2019 he was the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Bird was the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and also served as Director of the International Business Institute and Director of the International MBA program in the College of Business at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University in Japan, Columbia University, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland, Osaka International University and Japan’s National Self Defense Academy. He has also served on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. He teaches courses in global leadership development, intercultural management, international negotiations, and intercultural and global leadership assessment.
Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen
Does your board of directors have the slightest clue what to do with AI?
As AI creeps into your organization, your board has a fiduciary duty to determine its parameters in the workplace AND in the boardroom…such as figuring out how much information is relevant, and whether it’s trustworthy, misinformation, or just way more than you need. There are ethical considerations, too.
Fortunately, guest Helle Bank Jorgensen has tips to help. She’s the founder and CEO of Competent Boards, and routinely helps boardrooms improve.
Here's what Helle and Maureen cover:
- Why it’s critical for AI to earn your trust as a leader;
- The very real financial dangers of acting on misinformation instead of objective (and trust-worthy) facts; and
- The equally real opportunities that await you beyond those risks!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Stewarding the Future of the Planet: Views from the Boardroom with Helle Bank Jorgensen
- JEDI SPACE Principles for CEOs and Board Chairs with Valrie Grant & Christopher Washington
- Curing Corporate Short-Termism with Gregory Milano
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
To learn more about Hella’s work, check her organization’s website: https://competentboards.com.
Hella’s latest book – Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards – is available in hardback at https://amzn.to/42AJUlo, and for Kindle at https://amzn.to/3UAwcNo.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Borrowing Board Chairs for Extra Seating at Tonight’s Dinner Party: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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Board members and executives in over 55 countries hold Competent Boards ESG, Climate, and Biodiversity Designation and Certificates thanks to Helle’s visionary online and bespoke education programs. Her vision is that board members, investors, and those advising them need to be informed about sustainability and other material issues that shape business of today and tomorrow - How can you make informed business decisions if you aren't informed?
Helle is a Business Lawyer and a State Authorized Public Accountant (Denmark). She serves at the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network, and Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) established by HM King Charles III, among other roles. Her recent book, Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards has become an Amazon bestseller on board governance.
Are leaders letting democracy die?
Less than half of the world’s nations are full-fledged democracies today. That’s down from just 20 years ago.
Part of the problem is a nation’s democratic death usually isn’t dramatic or sudden; it’s often a series of subtler, slower moves such as only appointing loyalists to cabinet posts and judgeships, or threatening the press if coverage isn’t towing the party line.
How does this happen in leadership? In this episode, three international thought leaders -- Matt Qvortrup, Veronika Anghel, and Mike Hardy -- discuss how a growing number of despots, dictators, and demagogues have finessed techniques to undermine democracy…and leadership strategies to strengthen democracies against them.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Reality Lost: How Disinformation Shapes Your World with Tara McGowan
- Democracy: Brittle Twig or Supple Bamboo? with Matt Qvortrup
- Power, Charisma, Hormones: Science Studies Leadership with John Antonakis
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Guest Matt Qvortup has written extensively about democracies. Two books to start with are Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy (print version: https://amzn.to/4bDSJyR , Kindle version: https://amzn.to/3ONkviA ) and I Want to Break Free: A Practical Guide to Making a New Country (print version: https://amzn.to/49wh4oI , Kindle version: https://amzn.to/49jNaUO ).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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Holding a Plural Majority: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association ( www.ila-net.org ), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum ( http://faithbeliefforum.org ), the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Veronika Anghel is Lecturer at Johns Hopkins’ SAIS Europe/Bologna Institute for Policy Research; a Visiting Fellow with the Robert Schuman Center - European University Institute; and Editorial Fellow, Government & Opposition. Dr. Anghel was previously a Max Weber Fellow and Assistant Professor (part-time) in the Political Science Department of the European University Institute. She held research fellowships at the Stanford University (Fulbright), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences Vienna, the Institute for Central Europe Vienna, the University of Bordeaux, and the Institute for Government in Vienna. She received her PhD summa cum laude from the University of Bucharest in co-direction with the University of Bordeaux. Dr. Anghel worked as a foreign affairs advisor for the Romanian Presidential Administration (2014 – 2015) and a Diplomatic Adviser for the Romanian Senate (2012 – 2014). Anghel provides risk analysis for consultancy outfits on European integration, rule of law issues and party politics in post-communist Europe. Dr. Anghel is the recipient of the 2020 ‘Rising Star’ Award of the European Consortium of Political Research.
Matt Qvortrup is professor of political science at Coventry University. Described by the Financial Times, as “a world authority on referendums”, he has published more than a dozen books on democracy and presented the BBC Program How to Kill a Democracy.
Guest: Tom Krouse
Lots of leaders claim their products are made with love. Donatos Pizza means it: they practice Agape Capitalism.
As CEO Tom Krouse explains in this episode, Agape Capitalism puts a love of humanity at the center of their company processes and revenue generation. Its origins are rooted in founder Jim Grote’s observations as a teen working in a pizzeria with two owners: one a frugal bean counter, the other a passionate people-person. Sales soared higher the nights the people-person was in charge!
Tom talks about that, his own leadership style, and the parallels between playing music in a band and great leadership.
Here's what Tom and Maureen cover:
- How innovation has always been one of the major keys to Donatos’ profitability and success;
- Why the core tenets of Agape Capitalism complement corporate goals so effectively; and
- The positive effects the COVID pandemic had on the restaurant industry…and, most critically, on its leadership.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
-
Applying Innovative Leadership Concepts with Tom Grote & Christoph Hinske
-
ITP: Building the Resilience Every Leader Needs with Christina Grote & Pam Kramer
-
Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma with Rachael Kelly
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The book Tom is reading is The Gap vs the Gain by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy. It’s available in print at https://amzn.to/3UG0leq and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/48fQDlY.
Donato’s board chair Jane Grote Abell’s book is The Missing Piece: Doing Business the Donatos Way. It’s available in print at https://amzn.to/3wfTM8b. You can watch her episode of Undercover Boss on Paramount Plus (subscription) or Pluto TV (https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/65301d20a78f0d001ace948e/season/5/episode/65496d2125fde2001aed7337).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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Debating Square vs Wedge Pizza Slices: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
With a commitment to innovation, growth, and the brand’s core values, Tom Krouse has etched an extraordinary journey as a leader at Donatos Pizza. Krouse was named the fourth CEO in the company’s history in October 2010, after spending ten years in various marketing and growth leadership roles. Krouse was recognized as one of the top four pizza executives in the country at the 2023 International Pizza Expo and was also included in the 2022 Columbus Smart 50 Awards recognizing the region’s top leadership.
Prior to joining Donatos in 2000, Krouse was Vice President of Marketing for Wendy’s International, where he spent 12 years in various field and brand marketing positions. Before joining Wendy’s, he spent his early years at various advertising agencies, including being a co-founder and partner of Daly, Lewis & Krouse, a marketing communications firm. As an active member of the community, Krouse combines his passion for music, leadership, and giving back. Tom currently serves on the Board of the International Franchise Association (IFA) and the Columbus Association of Performing Arts (CAPA). He is a Co-Founder, Board Member, and past Chair of the Columbus Music Commission, past Chair of the Board of Junior Achievement of Central Ohio and past board member of Harmony Project and SproutFive. In addition, Tom is a founding member and front man for Grassinine, a popular mountain rock band in central Ohio. Through his popular LinkedIn series, The Corner Piece: Leadership Insights by a Pizza Man, Krouse inspires and shares candid leadership advice.
Guest: Ron Riggio
Are great leaders born, or forged?
Ron Riggio followed up on the four-decade-long Fullerton Longitudinal Study to uncover the childhood characteristics that indicated later leadership qualities. Those results further informed his work on transformational leadership. He discusses his findings with host Maureen Metcalf…as well as the interplay between transformational leadership and ethics.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Becoming a Better Leader: Daily Leadership Development with Ron Riggio
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
- Ethics & Problem-Solving: Leadership Theory & Practice with Joanne Ciulla and Keith Grint
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Ron has many books on leadership. For more on this episode’s topic, read Transformational Leadership (Print = https://amzn.to/489QvV6, Kindle = https://amzn.to/3uv9gVg ). He also writes about the latest topics in his Psychology Today blog, Cutting Edge Leadership, at https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/cutting-edge-leadership .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Transformational Supporters: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of more than a dozen books and more than 100 research articles and book chapters in the areas of leadership, organizational psychology, and social psychology. Ron is the former Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He has served on the board of numerous journals and writes the Cutting-Edge Leadership blog at Psychology Today. At the 2020 International Leadership Association’s annual conference, Ron was one of two people awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Guest: John Driscoll
What’s the surest way people will follow you into battle? Show you care — about them and their families.
That’s a major lesson John Driscoll learned in the Army…and it’s served him well in the private sector, including his current role at Walgreens, where he’s focused on improving service to patients in the healthcare industry. John shares his leadership insights, and the need to focus on healthcare leadership, in this episode.
Here's what John and Maureen cover:
- Why genuinely caring for your team is a top leadership priority — especially in high-stress situations;
- How American healthcare is one of, if not THE, most inconvenient services in the country; and
- John’s proven techniques for moving your team through traumatic experiences.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with Dr. Vin Gupta & John Love of Amazon Pharmacy (2nd segment of the show, starting at about 16:30 in)
- Bringing Healing Home: Healthcare Leadership with Anne Klibanski
- High-Performance Medicine: Healthcare & Innovation with Brian Ferguson
- Innovative Leadership for the Healthcare Industry with Neil Grunberg
- Curing Complexity in Healthcare with Carsten Engel
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Walgreens’ initiatives at https://www.walgreens.com.
John’s podcast and blogs about the healthcare industry are available at https://www.caretalkpodcast.com.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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John Driscoll has been at the center of healthcare innovation for more than two decades, leading large companies across sectors. He is currently the President of U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance. Previously, he was the CEO of CareCentrix, the industry leader in bringing healthcare to the home, following successful stints helping lead healthcare technology (Castlight), pharmacy benefit managers (Medco, SureScripts) and insurance (Oxford) companies. John’s ongoing interest in and dedication to public health and healthcare innovation led to being selected by the Obama White House for its Entrepreneurs in Residence program to advise the FDA on innovation. John also serves as the Chairman of the Waystar Corporation and is an active investor in emerging healthcare technologies.
He helped found Testing for America and serves on its Governing Council and is the Co-Chair of the United States of Care’s Entrepreneurs Council. He chairs the Truman National Security Project, and served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. John is a Board Member for the Alliance for Hunger. John has published articles in national publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian and Politico.
Guest: Parminder Vir
At the 4th Women and Leadership Conference, participants spent three days discussing and debating ways women’s leadership potential can be unleashed: developed, energized, and liberated in the workspace. Parminder Vir took part, and discusses the results…along with her own experiences as a female leader through four decades of work and across cultures and continents. Her tips and wisdom can be a hammer in helping break through your own glass ceiling.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- It Takes Nerve with Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Palmer
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Parminder’s website is https://parmindervir.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
In a professional career spanning 40 years, Parminder Vir has dedicated herself to positively impact and transform lives through her work in philanthropy, entrepreneurship, film and television production, arts and culture, and investment funding. She served as the CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading philanthropic organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria, from April 2014 to April 2019. She designed and launched one of the most ambitious entrepreneurship programmes on the continent - the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, a 10-year, $100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor, and fund 10,000 entrepreneurs from across the continent. Under her five-year leadership, the Foundation has cemented its role as the principal advocate for African entrepreneurship, empowering thousands on their path to economic and social transformation.
Guest: Kim Campbell
Climate change is already hitting businesses’ bottom lines – and those business costs are only beginning. As guest Kim Campbell – the former Prime Minister of Canada – points out, we hit this tipping point through poor corporate leadership in the past. The question now is: what can today’s leaders do about it?
Kim has some stats, and a lot of ideas!
Here's what Kim and Maureen cover:
- Why insurance companies may be the drivers of corporate climate change initiatives;
- The pivotal role of corporations in driving positive outcomes in combating global warming; and
- What individual leaders can do for their organizations, their communities, and the planet.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Listen to our complete collection of interviews with Kim Campbell:
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Campbell
- Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The Climate Overshoot Commission Kim worked with has the report she referenced at https://www.overshootcommission.org.
Here are the books she mentioned:
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The Petroleum Papers, on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Opq6M1 (print) and https://amzn.to/3SD6UNj (audiobook).
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The Heat Will Kill You First, on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3UDlEgH (print) and https://amzn.to/48SZbQV (audiobook).
The poem by John Keats she quoted at the end of the interview is from his larger work, Endymion. Read that full section at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44469/endymion-56d2239287ca5.
Kim’s memoirs as Canada’s first female prime minister, Time and Chance, are available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3Q8TxDc.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
NOTE: As an Amazon affiliate, we may receive a small commission on any books ordered through these links.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Stewards of ILI’s Business Climate: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
As Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. She served at all three levels of government in Canada. After leaving politics, she served as the Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles, then taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, after which she became an international leader of leaders with organizations such as the International Women's Forum and the Club de Madrid. Drawing on her extraordinary experience as an academic and a leader, she served as the Founding Principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta from 2014–2018.
Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations addressing audiences in places such as Kyiv, Dubai, Cordoba, Toronto, Berlin, Ulaanbaatar, Prague, Brussels, Paris, Vancouver, London, Beijing, Seoul, Washington, DC, and Ottawa.
Guests: Margaret Heffernan & Ira Chaleff
What we need from leaders today is vastly different than even a decade ago. That change began years ago; the pandemic merely accelerated it. The reason is simple: turbulence and uncertainty are now chronic conditions. Now, guest Margaret Heffernan says, leadership is about building organizations that thrive in turbulence. She shares six steps to make that happen.
Then, Ira Chaleff switches the perspective to your followers. After all, the best leadership requires the best followership. Influence is not unidirectional from leader to follower; it bounces back from the front line to the back office, too. Ira reveals how followers act with courage to collaborate with leaders -- and shares the counterintuitive idea of intelligent disobedience.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together with Margaret Heffernan
- Courageous Followership with Neil Grunberg & Ira Chaleff
- Non-Traditional Leadership Models for Our New Era with Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Ira is a prolific writer. His books include The Courageous Follower, Intelligent Disobedience, The Limits of Violence (with Elan Le Vieux),The Art of Followership, and Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide. Information on Ira’s consulting firm is at https://exe-coach.com; his own website is https://IraChaleff.com.
Margaret has many books as well, including Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Own Peril, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, and Women on Top: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Rewriting the Rules of Business Success. You can also see her in several TED Talks.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Devotees of the Terpsichore: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Ira Chaleff is an author, speaker, and innovative thinker. His latest work, Intelligent Disobedience, is now available on Amazon. He is founder and president of Executive Coaching and Consulting Associates. As a coach, Ira provides a stimulating and safe environment for executives and their teams to examine, evaluate and significantly improve their management styles, skills and processes. Through targeted interviews, work-climate surveys, and multi-viewpoint feedback instruments, he involves all those who have a stake in the change process, analyzes their input and provides frank, constructive feedback sessions.
Margaret Heffernan is the author of the best-selling UNCHARTED: How to Map the Future Together, nominated for a Financial Times Best Business Book award. She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute's Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She is the author of six books, and her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people.
Guest: Celina Caesar-Chavannes
What’s your secret identity?
Our true selves are often buried so deeply that they’re a secret to us. It’s hard enough to lead authentically when you don’t know who you are – but how can you motivate your team if you don’t know who they really are, either?
The key is the praxis of humanization, a way of helping your coworkers bring their authentic selves to the office. Guest Celina Caesar-Chavannes discovered this truth in her own personal journey – a journey that took her to the halls of power as a member of Canada’s parliament, where societal stereotypes continued around her unabated. But her revelation on identity soon followed, with important lessons for other leaders!
Here's what Celina and Maureen cover:
- Why titles don’t protect us from society’s sundry "-isms";
- The many ways we’re conditioned to NOT be our best at work (or at home); and
- How leaders can foster humanization, so people bring their best, unique selves to work (and you have a happier, more productive team).
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Power of Praise: Making People's Performance Positive with Ben Marcovitz
- Non-Traditional Leadership for Our New Era with Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry
- Working & Living in Joy with Pamela Larde
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Celina’s website is https://celinacc.ca. Her book is Can You Hear Me Now; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/494KzO9, paperback at https://amzn.to/49jrJmz, and audiobook at https://amzn.to/47QhWDm.
Books Celina referenced for further reading include Paulo Freire’s The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (paperback: https://amzn.to/48Knws6 or audiobook: https://amzn.to/3OeP0ho) and Robert Livingston’s The Conversation (hardback: https://amzn.to/3UbQahp or audiobook: https://amzn.to/42awCf4).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
We Hear Them Now and Always: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Celina Caesar-Chavannes is a highly accomplished author, speaker, and consultant, serving as Sr. Advisor of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiatives and Adjunct Lecturer at Queen’s University. She is a former Member of Parliament (MP) with the Government of Canada, who represented the Town of Whitby, a suburb east of Toronto. As a Liberal MP, she served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from Dec 2015 – Jan 2017, and later as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development et la Francophonie from Jan 2017 to Aug 2018.
Celina is also an astute academic with a commitment to service. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, an MBA in Healthcare Management from the University of Phoenix, an Executive MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and is a [Deepak] Chopra Certified Health Instructor. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Neurosciences at Queen’s University, exploring the intersection of equity and empathy.
Guests: Joanne Ciulla & Keith Grint
Why do so many leaders have trouble acting ethically?
For nearly three decades, Joanne Ciulla has focused her research on ethics in leadership. Even though the framework for ethics is over 2,400 years old, our definition of being ethical holds firm today. Why is it taking so many leaders so long to catch on? Her answers may surprise you.
Joanne earned the International Leadership Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Keith Grint did, as well; Maureen interviews him in the second half of this episode. Keith focused his research on helping leaders identify problems, categorize them, and determine decision styles. If problem-solving is a must for you, then Keith’s interview is a must-listen, too!
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Power, Charisma, Hormones: Science Studies Leadership with John Antonakis
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
- When Your Path Is Unclear with Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Both Joanne and Keith have authored many books. We suggest starting with:
- From Joanne, The Working Life: The Promise & Betrayal of Modern Work (paperback: https://amzn.to/3SpKsa7 ; Kindle: https://amzn.to/48GwiHy ).
- From Keith, Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (paperback: https://amzn.to/47ImFqj ; audiobook: https://amzn.to/3U55j3N ).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
- Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
- Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Platonically Aware of the Ethics: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Keith Grint is Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick University in Coventry, England and a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences. Before switching to an academic career, Grint spent ten years as a blue collar worker and held a number of jobs including postman, freezer operative, and karate instructor. This background and perspective has grounded his teaching and scholarship. As a founding co-editor of Leadership, an academic journal published by SAGE, and as co-founder of the International Studying Leadership Conference, Grint has played an important role in the development of the field by building a community of international, interdisciplinary leadership researchers taking critical approaches to leadership. A prolific writer, Grint has penned more than ninety journal articles and book chapters and has written or edited a number of landmark leadership books. His recent research includes mindfulness in high-reliability organizations and leadership romanticism.
Professor Joanne Ciulla is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Her research on the ethical challenges of leadership is interdisciplinary but draws heavily on literature in philosophy and history. She also does extensive research in business ethics. Prior to joining Rutgers, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond), where she was one of the founding faculty of the school, which is the first degree granting liberal arts school of leadership studies in the world. Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University, and numerous visiting appointments outside of the U.S., including the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan. She is a Fulbright Specialist, which allows her to work with institutions outside of the US on programs and research related to ethics and leadership.
Guests: Rob Elkington & Les Sylven
To serve and protect: servant leadership takes on a whole new meaning for a law enforcement leader. Society’s expectations for policing have changed radically – for example, up to 80% of what officers do overlaps with what social workers do! Add calls for reduced funding, labor shortages, brutality…and gone are the days of simple “cops and robbers” policing.
But the leadership and hierarchy of policing have changed very little. So can law enforcement truly rise to the challenges of both reform and crime without new styles of leadership?
Guests Rob Elkington and Les Sylven have some very surprising solutions that go far beyond the stereotypes of the hardboiled police commissioner – solutions that any leader of a high-stress workforce will find extremely useful!
Here's what Rob, Les, and Maureen cover:
- Why almost all law enforcement leaders have faced trauma – and how it can help them better serve their teams;
- How soft-skills like mindfulness are just as important as hard skills like firearms training; and
- If your mission is to serve and protect, servant leadership makes a lot more sense than old-school top-down management.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading the Court: Canada’s First Female Chief Justice with Beverley McLachlin
- Staying Cool in Challenging Situations with Janet Fouts
- Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma with Rachael Kelly
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Rob’s book is Policing for the 21st Century; McGraw Hill plans to publish it before the end of 2024. Since he discusses the concept of Ubuntu in our interview, you might find this book about it interesting: Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane (the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s granddaughter). Hardback: https://amzn.to/3HlRIgS; audiobook: https://amzn.to/3U28UQc.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Always Being Very Mindful: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guests:
Rob Elkington, Ph.D., currently resides in Canada, where he serves as Assistant Professor at Trent University Faculty of Business & Master of Management Program. Rob is the co-founder and CEO of Global Leadership Initiatives, Inc., which exists to "develop excellence in leadership globally," www.globalleader.ca.
Rob also serves on the faculty of various universities such as:
- Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University School of Public Leadership.
- Adjunct Professor at the Ontario Tech University in the Faculty of Social Science and the Faculty of Education.
- Supervising faculty with the Ed..D program for Education.
- Graduate teaching faculty for the GDIPL for Social Sciences and Humanities.
Rob is a member of the International Leadership Association, an ICF Certified FLOW Business Coach and an MBTI practitioner. He has published a range of books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and has facilitated numerous peer-reviewed presentations.
Les Sylven is a Leadership Studies Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. His doctoral research project explores police leadership with senior Canadian police officers who regularly practice meditation and mindfulness. Les was a police officer in Canada for over 30 years, serving communities as a member of the RCMP, Victoria Police Department and the Central Saanich Police Service on Vancouver Island. In 2020, Les was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Merit (O.O.M) of the Police Forces by the Governor General of Canada. Later that year, he retired from policing as the Chief Constable of the Central Saanich Police Service in order to concentrate full-time on his studies at UVic.
Guest: Carsten Engel
There’s a big gap between resources and patient needs in the healthcare sector. That’s just one area of healthcare requiring change; without it, lives truly do hang in the balance.
Carsten Engel and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare have studied healthcare systems around the globe extensively, and they have practical solutions for patients, practitioners, and the leaders of the medical industry. He shares them with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode. And most of them can help leaders in any industry.
Here's what Carsten and Maureen cover:
- The quintuple aim for healthcare worldwide;
- Why it’s critical for doctors to view (and treat) patients as partners in their health; and
- Why healthcare may well be the most complex system humans have invented!
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Seeking Success in Simplicity with Rini Das
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Bringing Healing Home: Healthcare Leadership with Anne Klibanski
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How HR Drives New Beginnings with Fara Palumbo, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The website for Carsten’s organization, the International Society for Quality in Health Care, is https://isqua.org.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Managing Change with Aplomb: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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About Our Guest:
Carsten Engel is a physician by background (graduated 1984). In 2006, he joined IKAS, The Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Healthcare, where he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive 2010. In IKAS, he was a member of the team that developed, implemented and managed the national Danish healthcare accreditation programme. In 2021, he joined ISQua as CEO.
He was appointed an ISQua Expert in 2013 and a member of the ISQua Academy of Quality and Safety in Health Care in 2019.
He has published and presented on accreditation-related topics and on topics related to quality, patient safety and person-centred care.
Guests: Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera
“What do you expect with a woman?”
That’s the attitude our guests encountered on their leadership journeys – but, as Georgia O’Keefe said, “It takes a kind of nerve…and a lot of hard, hard work.” That nerve is exactly what Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera developed. It served them well, with both becoming the first woman president of their respective universities.
In this episode, they share tips to help other women (and men!) develop the same combination of nerve, grit, and grace that made their time as leaders so successful.
Here's what Indira, Martha, and Maureen cover:
- The importance of combining both grit AND grace to be the most effective leader;
- Why staying true to your principles provides a guiding star when decisions seem tough; and
- Going beyond mentorship to develop sponsorship in helping career advancement.
Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading the Court: Canada’s First Female Chief Justice with Beverley McLachlin
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Martha & Indira’s book is Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First. It’s available in hardback (https://amzn.to/48MmR8Z), paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4), Kindle (https://amzn.to/3S8SpQW), and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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Getting Grittier and Gracier: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Dr. Martha Cook Piper was the Interim President and Vice Chancellor of The University of British Columbia from 2015-2016. She also served as the 11th President of the University of British Columbia from 1997 to 2006. Dr. Piper has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Montreal, Shoppers Drug Mart, TransAlta Corporation and Grosvenor Americas Ltd. She has also served as a board member of CARE Canada, the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, and the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation. She was Chair of the Board of the National Institute of Nanotechnology and served as a member of the Trilateral Commission.
The recipient of 17 honorary degrees, Dr. Piper is an officer in the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of British Columbia.
Dr. Indira V. Samarasekera was the 12th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta from 2005-2015. Dr. Samarasekera is internationally recognized as one of Canada's leading metallurgical engineers for her groundbreaking work on process engineering of materials. She has consulted for industry worldwide, which has adopted the results of her research discoveries. She was vice-president (research) at the University of British Columbia and held the Dofasco Chair in Advanced Steel Processing. She is the first woman and the first engineer to serve as U of A president.
Dr. Samarasekera is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Guests: Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry
Your leadership training may be missing the mark.
That’s because most programs develop you as an individual – but, in reality, we work with other leaders in addition to our own teams. In fact, the most effective organizations foster collective leadership. Our guests Nicole Ferry and Nathan Eva point out that the best collective leadership incorporates multiple models and views from women, other cultures, and more…because the old MBA-style leadership just isn’t cutting it in this new age.
They point us in a productive direction in this episode!
Here's what Nathan, Nicole, and Maureen cover:
- Why the concept of the solo, superstar, or individual leader is so outmoded;
- How to develop collective capacity in your leadership – and stop missing out on your industry’s top talent as a result; and
- Surprising non-traditional models of highly effective leadership, from gender-informed development to indigenous Australian culture.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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When Your Path Is Unclear (What Maori traditions teach us about leadership) with Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
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Evidence-Based Best Practices for Leadership Development with Gama Perruci, Sadhana Warty Hall, & Karen Ford
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Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle Tan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Steve Kempster – the researcher Nicole cited for his work on good dividends for business – co-authored a book on small business growth through leadership development. It’s LEADing Small Business. You’ll find it at https://amzn.to/47mPUPv.
Robert Greenleaf is one of the founders of modern servant leadership, as referenced by Nathan. His seminal book on the topic is Servant Leadership; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/47obe7g, Kindle at https://amzn.to/3vj5AFX, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3vh4GtA.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlan:
- Full Disclosure -- https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial -- https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Adding Their Distinctiveness to Our Own: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Nathan Eva is a Fulbright Scholar (2021), an Associate Professor at Monash University in Australia, and the Co-Director of Engagement for the Department of Management at the Monash Business School. His research examines follower-first leadership approaches that deliver organisational performance combined with inclusive and supportive workplaces. His peer-reviewed work appears in international outlets such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management. His article on Servant Leadership in The Leadership Quarterly is the most downloaded and the most cited article in their journal since 2017 and his article on Psychological Safety in Human Resource Management Review received the journal's Scholarly Impact Award for the most impactful article (2017-2022).
Nicole Ferry is an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), where she draws on her background in critical cultural theory to explore the ideological and gendered discourses of leadership and leadership development in a variety of contexts. She has published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, Gender Issues, and the Academy of Management Proceedings. Her current research focuses on the competitive and cultural dynamics of the leadership industries and the critique of popularized leadership narratives and fashions. Since arriving at CBS, she has joined the Bowline initiative, which connects stakeholders in the Copenhagen restaurant industry with scholars and students to develop new forms of action research, learning, and collaborative engagement.
Guest: Christopher Washington
What will affect your leadership the most in 2024? We’ve identified seven trends you’ll have to contend with through the coming year.
Christopher Washington (Provost & EVP of Franklin University) interviews ILI’s CEO, Maureen Metcalf, to get the details on all seven. Knowing them will help your organization navigate the destabilizing effects of those trends…and take advantage of the opportunities they create.
Here's what Christopher and Maureen cover:
- Why knowing these trends is takes the fear out of uncertainty – and anchors your organization with better risk management;
- How you must operate while straddling both the old world and the new: with one foot in old-school issues like war and geopolitics, and one foot in new-school issues like unbridled AI; and
- Through it all, why self-care and lifelong learning are the keys to staying on top of your game no matter how uncertain the future seems.
Here are the interviews Maureen referenced in this episode:
- Over the Weather: Leadership at the Weather Channel with Sheri Bachstein
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
- Power, Charisma, Hormones: Science Studies Leadership with John Antonakis
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Christopher Washington writes on Medium at https://drchristopherwashington.medium.com and with the Forbes Nonprofit Council at https://councils.forbes.com/forbesnonprofitcouncil.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Jilly Truit murder mysteries by BeverleyMcLachlin:
- Full Disclosure: https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial: https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Basking in the Days of Future Past: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Christopher Washington is a tireless supporter of global leadership development, designer of accessible, inclusive and relevant education, and champion for the role of universities in workforce development. He serves as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for Franklin University. Dr. Washington takes an active role in his local community by serving on the International Visitors Council and on the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Ohio Advisory Council. He is a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council, is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Washington D.C.-based Global Ties U.S., and is on the America 250 International Task Force.
Guest: Sheri Bachstein
Can your business weather the storm? We mean that quite literally!
There’s not a business on the planet that isn’t impacted by weather at some level. Leaders must prepare their organizations for what’s to come. It’s not just obvious climate change decisions, like making sure you don’t build that new factory in a hurricane hotspot. It’s little things, too, like a grocer stocking extra ice cream when weather keeps people indoors and craving comfort food (even in the middle of winter!).
Guest Sheri Bachstein, CEO of The Weather Company (parent of The Weather Channel), reveals the data and insights behind the forecasts that can boost – or bust – your bottom line. Along the way, she share lessons from her own unexpected leadership journey.
Here's what Sheri and Maureen cover:
- How today’s rich weather data can boost your business’ survivability…and profitability;
- Why climate change has made crafting a weather plan as part of your business plan an absolute must; and
- Realizing that your leadership journey will never be a straight line (and how to maximize the benefits of those inevitable zigs and zags).
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle Tan
- To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay
- When Your Path Is Unclear with Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The Weather Channel’s website is https://weather.com. For the business side, surf over to The Weather Company’s homepage at https://www.ibm.com/weather (NOTE: This may change when the ownership changes from IBM to Francisco Partners).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Weathering the Vicissitudes of Life: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Sheri Bachstein began her career with The Weather Channel nearly 30 years ago as a field producer (otherwise known as storm chaser). Today, as the CEO of The Weather Company, an IBM business (and parent company of The Weather Channel), she holds a deep appreciation for and understanding of weather’s impact on consumers, communities, and businesses. Under her leadership, The Weather Channel is recognized as one of the top 10 most trusted brands in the U.S., the world’s leading provider of weather, and the world’s most accurate forecaster, helping hundreds of enterprise-level companies leverage weather data to increase consumer loyalty and business performance.
Guest: Beverley McLachlin
Making decisions can be the toughest part of a leader’s job. Judges up the ante; their decisions can literally mean the difference between life or death.
Beverley McLachlin was the Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court. In this episode, she reflects on her leadership journey — from a farm in rural Alberta to the top court in the land. That journey has powerful perspectives on the decision-making process for leaders of all stripes: from law-firm partners to CEOs.
It’s inspiring, too! Beverley overcame deeply entrenched sexism and other barriers, but forged on with a clear vision.
Here's what the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin and Maureen cover:
- The many ways the legal profession offers lessons for leaders of every stripe;
- The qualities and skills judges must hone to make effective, balanced decisions — skills that will help your decision-making, too; and
- Why it’s so important to get your decisions right — but be willing to change them as new evidence comes in.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Character: A Real-Life Red Roof Report with George Limbert
- Women’s Leadership Journeys with Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle Tan
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Beverley McLachlin has written several books, including murder mysteries! Check out…
- The Jilly Truit Trilogy (mysteries):
- Full Disclosure — https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
- Denial — https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
- Proof — https://amzn.to/46PFQhv (paperback); pre order, as its release date is May 21, 2024.
- Nonfiction:
- Truth Be Told: My Journey through Life and the Law — https://amzn.to/3GC50pi (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GA3iox (audiobook)
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Deciding Daily to Be Awesome: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Beverley McLachlin was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the first woman to hold that position, and the longest-serving Chief Justice in Canadian history. In 2018, McLachlin became a Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest honour within the Order. She is also the #1 bestselling author of two novels, Full Disclosure and Denial, and a memoir, Truth Be Told, which won the prestigious Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Ottawa Book Award for Nonfiction.
Guest: Mike Hardy
Leading the world into peace is so monumentally difficult, it’s never been done (Rome’s propaganda about the Pax Romana aside!). But understanding how leaders have brought regional peace, and ends to war, has been done – and more than worthy of study.
Guest Mike Hardy founded the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. He’s also the board chair of the International Leadership Association. Mike with host Maureen Metcalf about the importance of uncovering the ways leaders bring about peace – and the roles both organizations play in that. Then he asks the big question: how can we all be effective leaders in this increasingly volatile present to create a more peaceful and prosperous future?
This episode was produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Mike Hardy & Hyppolite Ntigurirwa
- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland and Beyond with Lord John Alderdice
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Information about the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations – for which Mike was the founding director – is online at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/trust-peace-social-relations.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
They’ve Got That Peaceful, Easy Leading: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue.
Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association ( www.ila-net.org ), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum ( http://faithbeliefforum.org ), the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Guest: Beryl Tomay
One of the biggest keys to success is failure.
It seems counterintuitive, but the reality is we ALL make mistakes. Highly successful leaders embrace stumbles and fumbles, and learn from them.
As Beryl Tomay points out, that’s especially true at Amazon. Their innovation culture is so highly effective because Amazon learns from each step, good or bad, and builds from it. Indeed, some of Amazon’s most successful products wouldn’t have seen the light of day if not for what was learned from products that didn’t make the cut!
Beryl started as an intern and rose through the ranks to be Amazon’s Vice-President of Last Mile Delivery and Technology. Here’s what she and Maureen cover in this episode:
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The tools in Amazon’s innovation culture that breed success – including mentors, resiliency, and perpetual learning;
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The drive to (and importance of) planting seeds for the future; and
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How a love for Radiohead facilitated Beryl’s career path that led to Amazon!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, & Tye Brady
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Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation with Jeff DeGraff
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Humans in the Loop: AI’s New Business Modelswith Suchi Srinivasan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Supporting Us After Every Stumble: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Beryl Tomay has been at Amazon for nearly 19 years having joined in 2005 as a Software Development Engineer. She was part of the small team that launched the original Kindle device and remained in the Devices organization for the subsequent 8 years. She joined the nascent Last Mile organization (the logistics business that gets packages through the final steps on their way to customers’ doorsteps) in early 2014 as one of its first employees, and today is responsible for all of Amazon’s Last Mile delivery businesses, including the Delivery Service Partner, Amazon Flex and Hub Delivery programs. In addition, she oversees the Last Mile product and technology teams covering areas such as mapping, routing, capacity planning, pickup points, delivery station and driver experience technologies. Prior to Amazon, Beryl received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Guests: Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan
Women account for more than half of the world’s population – a little more than half in the United States. Yet they still make up far less than half of leadership roles…despite getting higher education degrees far more than men.
Why? That’s what guests Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle Tan unpack. In this episode, they explore how women’s career journeys are different than men’s, why women have “nontraditional” career paths, and why women experience leadership development in ways men don’t.
Here’s what Lisa, Sherylle, and host Maureen Metcalf discuss:
- Why it’s so important – now more than ever -- to look at women and leadership;
- What makes women's leadership journeys different from men's; and
- Why personal stories are just as critical as academic research in revealing the truths about women and leadership.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Campbell
- Sheba & ShEquity: Empowering Women-Owned Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
- You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women with Betsy Myers
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Dr. Tan’s and Dr. DeFrank-Cole’s book is Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Perspectives. It’s on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3uF3oZ1. Their most recent book is Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity; it’s at https://amzn.to/47vbG4j. The Kindle version is https://amzn.to/47sWnt6.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
On a Journey All Their Own: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Sherylle J. Tan is the Director of Internships and KLI Research at the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Tan has researched and published on leadership education and development, women and leadership, and work and family. She is currently series co-editor of Sage teaching case study collection on Women and Leadership and co-edited Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives (2019), with Lisa DeFrank-Cole.
Dr. Lisa DeFrank-Cole is Professor and Director of Leadership Studies at West Virginia University (WVU). She is a member of the Executive Leadership Team in the ILA Women and Leadership Affinity Group and has been writing and studying women and leadership for nearly 20 years. Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives by Routledge (2019) is her first co-edited book with Dr. Sherylle Tan.
Guest: Suchi Srinivasan
AI is disruptive. It’s already disrupting society, and is disrupting business faster than the internet did. It’ll disrupt you, too. But is that bad…or good?
The answer is up to you. Guest Suchi Srinivasan of Boston Consulting Group shares her comprehensive view of the effects of AI on business now – and in the near future. The bottom line? Artificial intelligence is a tool like any other: embrace it and adopt it wisely, and it can be a significant boon to your operations and for your staff. And it has the potential to finally solve food insecurity and other global issues that have plagued humanity for centuries.
Here's what Suchi and Maureen cover:
- The new business models – and ethical dilemmas – AI brings to your decision-making;
- The role of technology in boosting your balance sheet…and in solving hunger and other global issues; and
- The persistent gender imbalance in the tech workforce, and what women can do to overcome it.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with an Eye on AI with Neil Sahota
- The Rise of Humanness (The Role of People in an AI World) with Chis Nolan & Michael Schindler
- Unleashing the Power of Human-AI Collaboration with Neil Sahota
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Suchi’s work at Boston Consulting Group on the firm’s website: https://www.bcg.com. Search for her podcast, In Her Ellement, on your favorite podcast platform; for example, it’s on Podbean at https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/n9cty-268d9c/In-Her-Ellement-Podcast.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Firmly in their element: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Suchi Srinivasan is a managing director and partner at BCG and has occupied the role since 2022. Suchi grew up with a dad who worked as an engineer, and vividly remembers the tech he brought home with him from work. After her studies, she went on to work as a software engineer at the former Bell Telephone Laboratories, moving on to Microsoft during a time of huge change and innovation in the company. Suchi is passionate about using technology as a way to solve some of our world’s most complex and pressing challenges such as climate change.
In 2011 Suchi became one of the founding members of the Cleanweb Hackathon, a non-profit community-building event for global entrepreneurs and software developers. The goal was to drive IT-powered innovation and large-scale climate change impact. The event grew into an organization that boasted over 10,000 members across 25+ countries.
Suchi is also an advisor and sponsor for Women In Cloud, a community-led economic development organization taking collective action to generate $1B in new net economic access for women entrepreneurs and professionals by 2030.
Suchi is a seasoned executive operating cross-vertical to help businesses recognize the threats and opportunities brought on by Digital and AI.
She has two decades of experience across Microsoft, McKinsey and Dell envisioning and operationalizing response strategies to build ecosystems, deliver solutions and services, grow customer satisfaction and bring new products to market.
Suchi has 20+ experience in digital, B2B software and hardware. Track record of driving growth, M&A, GTM operations, and partnerships in Fortune 500 and venture-backed startups. Exceptional business acumen, operational savvy, deep intellectual curiosity, and entrepreneurial spirit to lead investors and board members, customer CxOs, and cross-functional global teams in engineering-driven cultures and fast-paced, resource-constrained environments to deliver on ambitious breakthrough initiatives.
Guest: Greg Moran
When your competitor’s (or CEO’s) decisions don’t make sense, pause: there’s something to learn there. What do they know that you don’t?
That’s just one insight guest Greg Moran offers about dealing with the irrational in your organization. Sometimes a decision is just bad; but more often than not, it’s been made from a perspective or with information you don’t see. And that perspective might just be the missing key to your success!
Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:
- The impact of rational and irrational decision-making on your organization’s success;
- How your company’s structural incentives might be the cause of some of the worst decisions your peers (and maybe you!) make; and
- The changing dynamics of the employer-employee relationship as society changes.
Enjoy your own Moran-athon with:
- Working Together: Leading a Hybrid AI-Human Workforce with Greg Moran
- What Leaders Won’t Talk About (When Scaling their Business) with Greg Moran
- What Your Team REALLY Thinks with Greg Moran
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The book on competitive intelligence Greg mentions at the beginning of the show is Inside the Competitor’s Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success by John Horn. It’s on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3sHtutS. You can contact Greg at https://zed2a.com.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
So Rational We Think They Might Be Undercover Vulcans: Jenna Reik & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part-time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guest: Brad Jackson
Theory is one thing. Practice is another. That’s just as true of leadership coaches and their theories as with any science. Guest Brad Jackson understands that, and works to put leadership theory into real-world contexts so it can be truly useful.
That’s the focus of his book: Revitalising Leadership – Putting Theory and Practice into Context. It argues that the universal prescriptions favored by most leadership scholars ignore the reality that context always matters in leadership practice. He puts our attention on the key challenges for leadership in different organizational contexts. From developing a specific purpose for leadership to formulating the values, norms and domains of action, putting leadership in context is tremendously useful – shaping the role, responsibilities, rights, behaviors and attributes relevant to leaders and followers.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- How Do Leadership & the Environment Connect? – with Rian Satterwhite & Kathleen Allen
- Workforce Education: A New Roadmap – with William Bonvillian & Sanjay Sarma
- The Essentials of Theory U with Otto Scharmer
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can find Brad’s book on revitalizing leadership on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3SLJhT6. For a breezy read, check out his other book, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Our Great Revitalizers: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
As director of the Policy Innovation Hub and Professor of Social Innovation at Griffith Univeristy, Brad Jackson’s research explores the relationship between leadership and governance practices; cross-sectoral leadership processes; the role of communication in strategic leadership; and the application of aesthetic and geographic perspectives to leadership research, development and education. He has taught courses in leadership and ethics; leadership and change; organisational behaviour; cross-cultural management; management learning; leading social enterprise and qualitative research methods. Prior to re-joining Victoria University of Wellington, Brad was the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership and Co-Director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute at The University of Auckland Business School between 2006 and 2013. During his original term with Victoria between 1999 and 2006, he served as Head of School of Management and the Director for the Centre for the Study of Leadership among several appointments.
Guests: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
Seeing your family members tortured and murdered will have a major influence on your leadership mindset. But not necessarily in the ways that you think.
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa survived the Rwandan genocide as a child. Growing up, he thought of vengeance and retribution. But after encountering exceptional kindness, his mindset shifted – and he now leads efforts for peace and reconciliation. As he reveals his gripping story, Mike Hardy joins the conversation to discuss his friendship with Hyppolite, and his own work in pointing leaders to peace.
Here's what Hyppolite, Mike, and Maureen cover:
- The atrocities young Hyppolite witnessed, and why humanity still practices such hatred;
- The simple acts that turned Hyppolite’s heart from revenge to reconciliation; and
- Steps leaders at any level can take to help people remember their humanity.
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses rape, murder, and other atrocities of genocidal acts.
This episode was produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland and Beyond with Lord John Alderdice
- Cultivating Empathy through Authenticity with Jason Lioy
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Hyppolite’s powerful memoir, A Boy Called Hyppo, is available at https://amzn.to/3MI38Pm.
Learn more about Hyppolite’s organization, BE THE PEACE, at https://commonstreet.org/be-the-peace. Information about the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations – for which Mike was the founding director – is online at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/trust-peace-social-relations. And the Yale initiative they both mentioned, the Jackson School of Global Affairs, has more information at https://jackson.yale.edu.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
Note: As an Amazon affiliate partner, we may receive a small commission on any books sold through these links.
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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They’ve Got a Peaceful Easy Feeling: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue.
Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association (www.ila-net.org), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum (http://faithbeliefforum.org) the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. When he was seven years old Hyppolite, lost many members of his extended family and witnessed the murder of his beloved father. He struggled after the genocide to gain an education and to learn to forgive the killers.
By the age of thirty he had graduated from university in Rwanda and worked as a journalist and radio presenter, a playwright and a theatre director.He raised enough money to travel to England and achieved a Masters Degree in Sociology from Bristol University.He started a foundation for peace in Rwanda, and travelled to America to deliver a series of lectures at universities using theatre to address issues of hatred and racism being transmitted from one generation to the next.
In 2019, Hyppolite became an international news item when he performed a hundred-day walk across 1,500 kilometres of Rwanda to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide, inviting people to join him and to share their stories of peace and forgiveness.
Guests: Gama Perruci, Sadhana Warty Hall & Karen Ford
Are you spending a hefty budget on leadership training, and wondering if it’s worth it?
You’re far from alone. According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 billion on leadership-based curriculum…and many wonder about the results. McKinsey reports "There is no silver bullet for successfully developing leaders—more than 40 key actions must be taken to increase chances of success to 80 percent."
So how do you boost your chances, and make the most of your investment? Our guests in this episode have done the research, and share the results with host Maureen Metcalf!
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Finding Peace in Conflict: Northern Ireland & Beyond with John, Lord Alderdice
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell
- Adaptive Leadership & Culture Change with Ron Heifetz
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Sadhanna & Gama’s book is Teaching Leadership: Bridging Theory & Practice. It’s available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/469UtMk. You can learn more about Sadhana on her website: https://sadhanahall.com/home.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI . You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
Sadhana Warty Hall is the former Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center. Hall designed, implemented, and oversaw programs for undergraduate students focusing on leadership, public policy, and civic engagement.
Prior to her appointment at the Rockefeller Center, she worked for more than 20 years with communities around the world. In Tuvalu, Bhutan, and the Caucasus, she helped implement programs in health, agriculture, economic development, and water supply. In the US, Hall's experience includes managing primary healthcare programs and extending health services to disadvantaged communities in the state of New Hampshire. She served as director of international relations with the Global Health Council, where she also directed three annual global health conferences with 1,500 participants representing 80 countries.
She holds a B.S. from the University of Delhi, India, a M.A. from the University of Rajasthan, India, and an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health.
The late Dr. Gama Perruci was Dean of the McDonough Center at Marietta College in Ohio and served as a leadership education consultant for The New York Times, a facilitator for the Young African Leaders Initiative, and a facilitator and the leadership programs at Dartmouth College’s Rockefeller Center. Gama was a frequent guest on the BBC and the Paris-based Radio France International broadcast to Brazil, his country of birth. He served as a member of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s Academic Advisory Council and as the Board Chair of the International Leadership Association. Notably, he also served as a consultant for the review of the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy and as an evaluator of Zayed University’s leadership program in Dubai, UAE. He is the author of several books including Global Leadership: A Transnational Perspective; Teaching Leadership: Bridging Theory and Practice with Sadhana Warty Hall; and Understanding Leadership: An Arts and Humanities Approach with Robert M. McManus.
Dr. Karen Ford is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of Strategic Leadership Studies at James Madison University. Her educational background includes a D.S.W. from Howard University, an M.S.W. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a B.A. from Emory & Henry College. Her professional interests focus on accountability and policy in higher education. Dr. Ford has held various positions, including Professor in the Social Work Department at JMU, Director of Lynchburg Youth Services, Regional Youth Prevention Specialist for the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, Director of Camp New Hope, and a Middle School Social Studies Teacher. Additionally, she has contributed to organizations such as the Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors Association, Council on Social Work Education, American Association of University Professors, Virginia Network of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, and the NAACP.
Guest: Matthew Griffin
Feeling uncertain about the future as a leader? You have good reason: a staggering 55% of a company’s fate lies beyond the CEO’s grasp. In fact, 40% of CEOs believe their companies won’t survive the next decade. So what can you do?
Futurist Matthew Griffin shares his insights in this episode — with game-changing strategies that will reshape the way you perceive your own future leadership.
Here's what Matthew and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- What the statistics say about the growing irrelevance of today’s type of CEO;
- The qualities you need to win in the current (and future) climate of business chaos; and
- How the future of work is shaping up as AI infiltrates the office space.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Prepare for the Future with Foresight with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
- Is Your Organization Designed for the Future with Mark Palmer & Eddie Moore
- The Future Is Yours to Create with Rebecca Ryan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Matt’s work, access his blog, and more on his organization’s website: https://www.311institute.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Warily Eyeing the Future: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Matthew Griffin, described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers” and a “Young Kurzweil,” is a world class futurist and the founder and CEO of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures consultancy working across the next 50 years, and the World Futures Forum and XPotential University, two philanthropic organisations whose mission it is to reduce global inequality, in all its forms, and ensure the benefits of the future are accessible to everyone, irrespective of their abilities or background. He is also the author of the futuristic “Codex of the Future” series, and the book “How to Build Exponential Enterprises.”
Matthew’s clients include royalty, world leaders, G7 and G20 governments, Accenture, Aon, BCG, Centrica, Credit Suisse, Decathlon, Dentons, Deloitte, GEMS, Huawei, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Qualcomm, RWE, SAP, Samsung, T-Mobile, and many others.
A rare talent Matthew is regularly featured in the global media, including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Telegraph, ViacomCBS, and WIRED, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of revolutionary emerging technologies on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled.
Recognised for the past six years as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts Matthew is an international speaker who helps governments, investors, multi-nationals and regulators around the world envision, build and lead an inclusive, sustainable future.
Guests: Rian Satterwhite & Kathleen Allen
Leadership is changing in so many ways, in large part because our environment is changing in so very many ways. That’s true of the business climate as much as nature’s environment. Are the two related?
Absolutely, according to guests Kathleen Allen and Rian Satterwhite. From both Kathleen’s senior organizational perspective and Rian’s academic research findings, leaders must now consider the biosphere as one of the primary frames of leadership. The result? A more resilient and sustainable business. They provide some background and practical practices you can take.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Stewarding the Future of the Planet: Views from the Boardroom with Helle Bank Jorgensen
- Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, & Tye Brady
- Reflections on Women in Leadership with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Both of our guests have books explaining more about their leadership and environment principles. Rian co-edited Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives, on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3QpaxnM. Kathleen’s book is Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World; it’s available in paperback at https://amzn.to/45ZdlO3 and for Kindle at https://amzn.to/3tUc11y. (Note: as an Amazon affiliate, we may make a small commission on any of these book sales.)
You can also learn more about Kathleen’s work on her website: https://kathleenallen.net/works.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Naturally Wonderful Teammates: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Kathy Allen helps organizations and individuals create meaningful change using Nature as a model for more effective leadership practices. In recent years her time has been spent writing, presenting, and consulting on ways to incorporate the concepts of living systems and Nature’s adaptive cycle to leadership, human, and organizational development. Dr. Allen’s clients include executives, non-profit organizations, businesses, and collaborative networks based in the United States and in countries around the globe.
She is the author of the popular book Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World. Along with Dr. Cynthia Cherrey, she is the co-author of Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of Our Work.
Rian Satterwhite's research focuses on understanding and examining effective leadership. As Director of the Office of Service Learning at UNLV, Satterwhite helps to advance leadership development and community service. He advises UNLV faculty in building meaningful partnerships into their courses, and also supports students experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Satterwhite has delivered more than 30 national and international conference talks and presentations. He is active in the International Leadership Association, the Association of Leadership Educators, NASPA, ACPA, and the National Association of Campus Activities, among others. He has been featured in numerous publications about leadership and co-edited the 2018 book, Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives.
Guest: Alvaro Luque
Innovation is key to success in our changing world. And avocados are the key to innovation!
They’re a superb example, at least. By fostering innovation, Alvaro Luque — president and CEO of Avocados From Mexico — boosted the overall market for avocados in the United States. And that market is still growing.
One major move involved the Super Bowl, a move no one in the produce sector had ever tried before. Learn the results, and Alvaro’s tips for fostering innovation, in this episode!
Here's what Alvaro and Maureen cover:
- The role of internal innovation champions within your organization;
- Why innovation is crucial to brand marketing that makes a difference, and
- Why boosting an entire market, including your competitors, is more profitable than just focusing on market share.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, & Tye Brady
- Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance with Howard Tiersky
- How to Harness Honesty with Peter Kozodoy
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Avocado Advocates: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Alvaro Luque has transformed the produce industry by delivering innovative marketing strategies that not only defy established paradigms but also deliver impressive results. With more than 28 years of marketing experience in the CPG and produce industries, Alvaro has successfully built a brand in a brandless category. Under Alvaro’s leadership, Avocados From Mexico (AFM) has led the growth of U.S. avocado consumption to more than 2.5 billion pounds per year, and today, 8 in 10 avocados in the U.S. come from Mexico. Alvaro’s vision for making AFM the first fresh produce brand to advertise in the Super Bowl is one of many industry firsts that have positioned AFM as the most preferred brand of avocados in the U.S. and one of the most innovative produce companies in the world.
Guests: Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
What can the Maori traditions of New Zealand teach you about leadership?
Recorded at the 2018 International Leadership Conference in West Palm Beach, this episode explores embodied leadership and way-showing. With influences from Maori culture, guests Donna Laskin and Chellie Spiller reveal way-showing and embodied leadership as ideal practices for leaders to use when navigating uncharted territory where the path forward is unclear.
Ethics help guide you as a leader, too. They’re critical to build trust and inspire followership.
Together, ethics, way-showing, and embodied leadership provide hope that you have the ability to amplify your impact. They’re a great alternative to “tired” frameworks of leadership.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Adaptive Leadership & Culture Change with Ron Heifetz
- International Leadership: One Size Doesn’t Fit All with Mansour Javidan
- Be Human, Lead Human with Jennifer Nash
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RESOURCES:
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Way-Finders Whenever the Podcast Team’s Focus Goes Adrift: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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Donna Ladkin is internationally recognized for her critical and accessible scholarship in the field of Leadership and Ethics. Informed by a thorough study of continental philosophy, Donna has re-considered many of the basic assumptions of leadership and its development as exemplified in her prize winning book Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Leadership Questions (the second edition of which was published in 2020 by Edward Elgar). Her current research interests include re-imagining leadership theorizing through the lens of Critical Race Theory, exploring how business schools might go about decolonizing their pedagogical practices, as well as studying the practices of organizations and leaders aiming to achieve ecologically sustainable ways of working.
Professor Chellie Spiller, of Ngāti Kahungunu and Pākehā lineage, is based in Auckland and is a professor at the University of Waikato Management School. Chellie has extensive corporate experience in management, tourism and marketing, holding senior executive positions in New Zealand and abroad. She brings this experience to her academic work and leadership and management training and development programmes. Chellie's research explores wayfinding, diversity and inclusion, governance, authentic leadership, wisdom and change at work and how businesses can create relational wellbeing and wealth. Chellie is an author, keynote speaker and facilitator. She works closely with a team of experts who bring an experiential dimension to the learning environment.
Guests: David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, and Tye Brady
Do you want to foster a work environment that sparks innovation and fuels creativity? You can learn from Amazon’s success!
In this episode, Amazon execs David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, and Tye Brady discuss how the e-commerce giant delivers the future through its highly successful innovation culture – using examples of new developments in robotics, drones, and a unique patient-centric pharmacy-in-your-pocket. Underneath them all is a common thread of improving customer experience with convenience and speed. Their experience becomes your takeaway to boost your leadership, too!
Here's what our guests and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The four questions the Amazon Pharmacy team ask to guide developing their new ideas for innovation;
- What the Golden Window is in healthcare, and why that motivates Amazon’s goal of delivering your prescriptions in less than 30 minutes; and
- How starting every new initiative from your customer’s perspective reframes your leadership for success.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Paving the PATH to Customer-Centric Success with Sarah Ahern
- Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance with Howard Tiersky
- None Shall Pass: Crossing the Deathline with Dr. Karen Tilstra
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Delivering Morale and Support: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guests:
David Carbon is VP of Prime Air. Prior to that, he was VP of Operations for Boeing’s 787 program – with earlier work on the 747; he started with Boeing/Hawker de Havilland in Australia. He also spearheaded projects at Ford Motor Company.
John Love is VP of both Amazon Pharmacy and PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy. Prior to those, his 16-year Amazon career also saw him serve as VP of Alexa Shopping, as well as supporting many other business lines. He’s responsible for helping customers discover equitable, affordable, high-quality medical care and prescription access.
Dr. Vin Gupta is the Chief Medical Officer for Amazon Pharmacy. He remains a practicing pulmonologist, is affiliate faculty at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation and Evans School. He serves as a major in the USAF Medical Reserve Corps, and is a medical analyst for NBC News.
Tye Brady is the Chief Technologist of Amazon Robotics, Fulfilment Information Technology. He has over 30 years of hands-on experience in team leadership, technical management, and system design. Prior to Amazon Robotics, Tye spent 15 years with Draper Laboratory. He’s a founding partner of MassRobotics, a not-for-profit that serves as a world-class platform for robotic innovation.
Wars are raging again, yet peace IS possible. Getting there provides invaluable lessons for leaders dealing with conflict everywhere, whether it’s in the workplace or the battlefield. John, Lord Alderdice, has helped peace happen.
From the Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles and brought peace to Northern Ireland, to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lord Alderdice has been involved in numerous peace negotiations. But finding peace requires a special kind of leader — one which may be in short supply lately.
Lord Alderdice reveals to host Maureen Metcalf the leadership qualities that bring peace, promote peace, and maintain peace.
Here's what John and Maureen cover:
- Why conflict is rooted in relationships – sometimes centuries old – more than specific actions or grievances;
- How the factors influencing conflict go far beyond the two sides we see fighting; and
- The importance of knowing that future generations pay the consequences of our actions today.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
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- Reality Lost: How Disinformation Shapes Your World with Tara McGowan
- The Good Fight: Using Productive Conflict with Liane Davey
- Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Lord Alderdice edited Faith and Modernity: A Muslim-Christian Conversation. It’s available at https://amzn.to/46Hk1Bt.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. It’s available at https://amzn.to/3FqkYCi. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
- Time and Chanceby Kim Campbell
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Working for Peaceful Resolutions Daily: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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John, Lord Alderdice, FRCPsych, is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, and was the Chairman of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords during the Liberal/Conservative Coalition Government. He also speaks for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Lords, and as Leader of the Alliance, he played a significant role in the negotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was elected, he became its first Speaker. In 2004 he retired as Speaker on being appointed by the British and Irish Governments to be one of the four members of the International Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), put in place to close down the operations of the paramilitary organizations and monitor security normalization.
Guest: Paul Gibbons
What happens when you apply hard science to leadership? A lot of truths turn out to be unfounded myths.
Paul Gibbons, who strides both the corporate and consulting worlds, dug deep to uncover those myths, particularly as they affect change management. From flaws in personality assessments to the ineffectiveness of adapting to learning styles, Paul reveals many of the major workplace myths he’s uncovered researching his latest books.
Here's what Paul and Maureen cover:
- Why Meyers-Briggs tells you what you already know;
- Understanding the human element in change management; and
- Why it’s so important to be a LIAR (and what that really means!).
Language Advisory: The language in this episode is rather salty; s**t is sprinkled liberally throughout.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons
- Leverage Change with Jake Jacobs
- Joy at Work with Roxanne Brown and Edward Cook
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Paul on his website: https://paulgibbons.net. He’s also written many books, including The Science of Organizational Change (paperback: https://amzn.to/3FiX37F and Kindle: https://amzn.to/46RoWzx), Impact (paperback: https://amzn.to/46yy5gP and Kindle: https://amzn.to/3tGin4s), and The Spirituality of Work and Leadership (paperback: https://amzn.to/48YJcB6 and Kindle: https://amzn.to/46yYVVS).
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here. Her latest is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Managing Change Very Well, Thank You: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Paul Gibbons was most recently a partner at IBM Consulting—a thought leader and futurist on behavioral science, culture, leadership, and the future of work. He previously advised PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), KPMG, and Deloitte on talent, culture, and leadership. He previously authored five books, most prominently The Science of Organizational Change and Impact, the first two books in the Leading Change in the Digital Age series. Those books birthed the conversation about change mythology. The first volume of his Humanizing Business series, The Spirituality of Work and Leadership, was published in 2021.
Guest: Neil Sahota
You need help with AI. Artificial intelligence requires developing a new set of ten leadership skills. And fast!
Do you know what they are? Neil Sahota and Maureen Metcalf do. They share them in this episode, along with the risks you face if you don’t reskill your leadership team. For example, up to 1/3 of workers using ChatGPT don’t tell their bosses. And that opens your company up to a wide swath of potential liability!
Here's what Neil and Maureen cover:
- The most important skills leaders need in this new Age of AI;
- Why dragging your feet on developing those skills and solid AI policies puts your enterprise at risk; and
- How the new book Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI is the perfect resource to get you started!
Learn more about AI with these episodes:
- Unleashing the Power of Human-AI Collaboration with Neil Sahota
- How to Own the AI Revolution with Neil Sahota
- The Rise of Humanness (The Role of People in an AI World) with Chris Nolan & Michael Schindler
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Neil’s book, Own the AI Revolution is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Q1ASHL. You can learn more about Neil on his website: https://www.neilsahota.com.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Warily Watching AI: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor, author of the best-seller Own the AI Revolution, and a sought-after speaker. With 20+ years of business experience, he works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next-generation products/solutions powered by AI.
Guest: Kim Campbell
As our world is changing at a rapid pace and our leadership strategies are changing, what does this mean for women in leadership? In this program, we will be discussing the changes of women in leadership with an experienced leader who has had significant worldwide leadership roles. Right Honourable Kim Campbell will share her insights from women in leadership from the early 1990s to now and where women in leadership hope to go in the future.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
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Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with Kim Campbell
-
You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women with Betsy Myers
-
Women on the Rise: A Leadership Journey with Reta Jo Lewis
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Kim Campbell’s work on her website at https://kimcampbell.com. Her memoir, Time and Chance, is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Q8TxDc (Kindle version: https://amzn.to/46D6avJ).
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Greatly Appreciative of our Neighbors to the North: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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As Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. She served at all three levels of government in Canada. After leaving politics, she served as the Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles, then taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, after which she became an international leader of leaders with organizations such as the International Women's Forum and the Club de Madrid. Drawing on her extraordinary experience as an academic and a leader, she served as the Founding Principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta from 2014–2018.
Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations addressing audiences in places such as Kyiv, Dubai, Cordoba, Toronto, Berlin, Ulaanbaatar, Prague, Brussels, Paris, Vancouver, London, Beijing, Seoul, Washington, DC, and Ottawa.
Guest: Jacob Morgan
There is strength in vulnerability. It sounds like a Zen master’s saying, but it’s a fundamental truth of today’s workplace: leaders who display vulnerability have greater success.
But there are five different aspects to vulnerability, and Jacob Morgan shares them with host Maureen Metcalf. The loud, short-tempered leader who pretends to know it all is outdated and now hinders the growth of organizations. Jacob helps build stronger connections within your team — and beyond.
Here's what Jacob and Maureen cover:
- The common thread of vulnerability Jacob discovered interviewing 100 top CEOs;
- The big difference between being vulnerable and vulnerability; and
- The benefits of vulnerability for a leader’s personal growth, professional success, and building a thriving organization.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Future Leader: Skills & Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade with Jacob Morgan
- Be Human, Lead Human with Jennifer Nash
- To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice, & Purpose with Ron Carucci
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Jacob’s book on vulnerability is Leading with Vulnerability (hardback = https://amzn.to/46Eueyt and Kindle = https://amzn.to/3ZEbZqw). His earlier book is The Future Leader (hardback = https://amzn.to/46Euxt7 and Kindle = https://amzn.to/3PJzlpY).
The new book’s website is www.LeadingWithVulnerability.com and his main website is https://thefutureorganization.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Decidedly Invulnerable: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
After graduating with honors in business management economics and psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, Jacob was excited to join the corporate world. At his first job he was told that he’d be traveling the country, meeting with executives and entrepreneurs, and doing all sorts of exciting work. A few months in, he was stuck doing data entry, cold calling, and PowerPoint presentations. One day the CEO came out of his nice corner office, handed Jacob a $10 bill and said, “I’m late for a meeting, go grab me a cup of coffee, and get something for yourself as well.” That was the last corporate job he ever had.
Today, Jacob Morgan is a trained futurist and one of the world’s leading authorities on leadership, the future of work, and employee experience. He speaks in front of tens of thousands of people each year and his content is seen over a million times a year. Jacob is the best-selling author of five books: Leading With Vulnerability (Wiley, 2024), The Future Leader (Wiley, 2020) The Employee Experience Advantage (Wiley, 2017), The Future of Work (Wiley, 2014), and The Collaborative Organization (McGraw Hill, 2012). He speaks at over 50 conferences a year including TED Academy which is one of the largest TED events in the world. In addition, Jacob provides advisory and thought leadership services to various organizations around the world.
Guest: Ron Heifetz
In times of change, people often try to hold onto the values of their culture that have had personal meaning and significance to them. When dominant cultures are confronted with stresses, they are called to examine their values and take on very difficult integrative work. The leadership required must point out values their cultural values; in the United States, for example, one would be: We stand for freedom and respect for all people, and our policy does not align with what we say we stand for.
How do we make space for this evolution? What are the “gives” and “gets” required to evolve cultures? How can we hold steady to our cultural DNA and still evolve? In nature, when an organism adapts, it builds on its old capacity and generates radically new functionality. Ron suggests that "God didn’t do zero-based budgeting in evolution." We honor our past yet determine what parts of the past we can release.
Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- You Belong: LinkedIn Brings Diversity & Inclusion Home with Teuila Hanson
- Reality Lost: How Disinformation Shapes Your World with Tara McGowan
- Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Adaptable Support: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Ronald Heifetz is among the world’s foremost authorities on the practice and teaching of leadership. In 2016, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia highlighted Heifetz’s advice in his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
Heifetz founded the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School where he has taught for nearly four decades. He is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership. Heifetz played a pioneering role in establishing leadership as an area of study and education in the United States and at Harvard.
Heifetz co-developed the adaptive leadership framework with Riley Sinder and Marty Linsky to provide a basis for leadership research and practice. His first book, Leadership Without Easy Answers(1994), is a classic in the field and one of the ten most assigned course books at Harvard and Duke Universities. Heifetz co-authored the best-selling Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Change with Marty Linsky (2002, revised 2017). He then co-authored the field book, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing your Organization and the World with Alexander Grashow and Marty Linsky (2009).
Guest: Mansour Javidan
What do getting a little drunk and meeting quarterly quotas have in common for leaders? They each build trust with your team — depending on what country you’re in!
Guest Mansour Javidan has studied the similarities — and differences — in effective leadership in cultures across the globe. He shares the results of his research in this episode…especially the common qualities you’ll need to be a great leader no matter where you are.
Here's what Mansour and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The importance of crafting a story with your team, no matter what nation they’re in;
- The roots of trust, and why it’s a need hard-wired into our biology; and
- The universal traits of good leadership (plus a few fun differences!).
This episode is produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership – with Ruchira Chaudhary
- Building Trust in Uncertainty: A Personal & Professional Journey – with Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
- Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust & Connection – with Erica Dhawan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Mansour’s work with the GLOBE 2020 project at https://globeproject.com. The latest information on the Thunderbird School of Management at Arizona State University is online at https://thunderbird.asu.edu.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here. Her latest, Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI, is available at https://www.innovativeleadershipfieldbook.com/book-series/innovative-leadership-followership-in-the-age-of-ai.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Colleagues We Trust Inherently: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Multiple award-winning executive educator and author whose teaching and research interests span the globe, Dr. Mansour Javidan received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He is the Garvin Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
Mansour is the Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the world-renowned research project on national culture and leadership, titled GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness, globeproject.com). He is a coeditor of the 2004 GLOBE book. Mansour is currently the Project Director and Principal Co-Investigator of GLOBE 2020, working with a team of 426 researchers studying culture change, leadership ideals, and trust dynamics. Dr. Javidan was recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world. He is also recognized as among the top 2% most cited scientists in the field of business and management in the world. The World Bank and the United Nations Development Program have designated Dr. Javidan as an expert advisor on Global Leadership.
Guest: Dr. Karen Tilstra
Here’s the painful truth: following old established procedures and avoiding risk stifles your growth…even your survival. What’s the answer?
Innovation. But, as Dr. Karen Tilstra points out in this episode, fear keeps your team from embracing innovation. She calls the point of fear the Deathline. Deathlines may doom your organization’s long-term success. Fortunately, Dr. Tilstra shares a wealth of proven tips on overcoming this killer of human and business potential!
Here's what Karen and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The origin of the Deathline concept, and techniques to overcome it;
- Strategies to overcome Deathlines, and boost both innovation and creativity; and
- How to tap into the benefits of driving clear, open conversations with your team.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Creative Mindset: Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation – with Jeff DeGraff
- The Essentials of Theory U – with Otto Scharmer
- Optimize Your Mindset – with David DeRam
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Karen’s books are The Deathline: Stopping the #1 All-Time Killer of Human Potential (paperback = https://amzn.to/3Rmlrg6, Kindle = https://amzn.to/460DTPO)
and
101 Activities to Ignite Collaboration, Boost Creativity, and Fuel Innovation (paperback = https://amzn.to/45XeOW1, Kindle = https://amzn.to/46eHJoc).
You can also learn more about Karen and her firm at Creativity Effect’s website: https://www.creativityeffect.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & How to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Supporting Our Efforts with No Fear Whatsoever: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Karen Tilstra, PhD., is an author, award-winning innovator, psychologist, and super fun person. She has led hundreds of human-centered design projects, runs innovation workshops, and builds innovation labs for universities, healthcare systems, pro-sports teams, and government agencies. Her two books, The Deathline: Stopping the #1 All-Time Killer of Human Potential and 101 Activities to Ignite Collaboration, Boost Creativity, and Fuel Innovation, help leaders and team members unlock the creative potential that lies within all of us.
Guest: Cameron Stockdale
Can a four-day workweek be just as productive – even more productive – than a five-day workweek?
The answer is an unquestionable “yes!” Cameron Stockdale talks about this and other workplace wellness initiatives with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode. Cameron is the CEO of the Work Wellness Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia. They’ve experimented with many different ways of improving employee wellness, with sometimes surprising results! For example, the staff overwhelmingly prefer taking walks outdoors over chillaxing indoors on yoga mats during their regular 17-minute breaks.
What would work in your workplace? Listen in to find out!
Here's what Cameron and Maureen cover:
- How giving employees the tools for wellness is more effective than dumping money into the most expensive wellness programs;
- Why it’s important to normalize our view of mental health to the same view we have of physical health; and
- Uncovering the myth of the 8-hour workday (because in a “normal” office, your people only really work 2 hours and 59 minutes a day!).
Produced with support from the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons
- The Human Energy Crisis at Work with Joshua Freedman
- The Dogged Pursuit of Pet-Friendly Workplaces with Lisa Campbell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You’ll find complete information on the Work Wellness Institute on their website at https://workwellnessinstitute.org/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Feeling Fine, Thank You: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Threads: @innovativeleaders
Twitter: @IL_Institute
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Cameron Stockdale, an executive leader and scholar in the fields of leadership, innovation, technology, law, and organizational behavior, brings his extensive experience to bear in guiding positive change within organizations. Emphasizing an approach of ongoing growth and refinement, his work focuses on increasing efficiencies and bolstering team performance. Drawing from a substantial background in emergency services, including over 25 years of hands-on experience, Dr. Stockdale’s research is rooted in its practical applications. As the CEO of the Work Wellness Institute, a non-profit research organization dedicated to conducting global research and disseminating knowledge that fosters a positive workplace environment Dr. Stockdale’s goal is to make research more accessible for workplaces and employers, with a focus on workplace health, wellness and performance issues.
Besides his undergrad education in Recreation Management and Paramedicine, Dr. Stockdale holds a Doctor of Education degree in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University, a Master of Laws degree in Innovation, Technology & Law from the University of Edinburgh, a Postgraduate Certificate in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University Extension School, and a Master of Arts degree in Leadership from the University of Guelph.
Guests: Chris Nolan & Michael Schindler
In their zealous rush to incorporate Artificial Intelligence, most corporate leaders are forgetting one thing: you.
Chris Nolan and Michael Schindler remind execs to remember humanness in their plans. AI may be a great time- and money-saving tool, but humans remain an important equation in the mix. A complete reliance on AI overlooks the nuances and insights humans bring to the table.
And, they warn, there’s one job that analysts already say AI may be able to do better than a human: CEO!
They share their research on AI and VUCA – and the human-conserving ways companies can navigate them -- with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Chris, Michael, and Maureen cover:
- How AI is accelerating the exponential pace of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Chaos, and Ambiguity) in our lives;
- The ways AI is propelling change – but may not be as innovative as people think; and
- Why it’s so important for smart companies to keep humans at the center of work as AI grows more powerful.
Have a Chris Nolan binge-listen with these episodes:
- Using Storytelling to Elevate Leadership with Chris Nolan
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA with Chris Nolan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You’ll find all things VUCA (and humanness) at Chris & Michael’s website: https://itsvuca.com/ . If you’d like to check out their VUCA documentary, it’s on Amazon at https://bit.ly/ItsVUCA .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Trying to Find Order in a Chaotic World: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
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About Our Guests:
Chris Nolan is a multi-award-winning writer and director, bringing in-depth understanding to the complex interplay between humans and AI technology. His insights, gained from a distinguished career, aid in comprehending and balancing the intricate dynamics of this digital era. His thought-provoking work on VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century, showcases his adeptness in decoding the exponentially accelerating technological changes. Michael Schindler, a veteran, writer and podcast host, adds his transformative voice to the discussions on integrating AI with human qualities. His inquisitive approach breaks down the complexities of blending business and AI. Mike's expertise, shaped by hosting the 'Military Wire' podcast, frames his insightful outlook on the future of work.
Together, Michael & Chris consult with companies – and coach their leaders – on navigating VUCA in the business world…and understanding humanness in the process.
Guest: Sonya Shelton
Where is passion bred: in the heart or in the head? An executive may not care, but a leader knows how critical passion is – along with purpose and culture.
In this episode, Sonya Shelton reviews these and other critical elements of true leadership with host Maureen Metcalf. In a process called Red Thread Leadership, Sonya helps leaders tease out the elements that make their leadership – and their organizations – strong. It’s all based on her proven experience working in and carefully observing Disney and other companies.
Here's what Sonya and Maureen cover:
- The red flags that are raised when executives use their titles to lead;
- How poor leadership leads to burnout and turnover; and
- Why younger generations won’t put up with a lack of purpose in a company or its executives.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
- Do It on Purpose with Nell Derick Debevoise
- Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice, & Purpose with Ron Carucci
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Sonya’s book is You’re an Executive But Are You a Leader? It’s available on Amazon in hardback at https://amzn.to/3QXhYV0 and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3QUdQ8c.
Her firm, and contact information, are online at https://executiveleader.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor: Luigi Morelli
Executive Cool Cats: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Twitter: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
Instagram: @innovativeleader
TikTok: @innovativeleadership
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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About Our Guest:
When it comes to navigating the ins-and-outs of business, Sonya Shelton has seen it all: from successful startups with brand new ideas to well-established Fortune 500 companies. Sonya Shelton founded Executive Leadership Consulting in 2007 from her passion for partnering with leaders and high achievers to create a clear vision and build work environments where employees are fulfilled and completely committed to their organization’s success. She has captured her leadership tips and success stories in her #1 Amazon bestselling book “You’re an Executive, But Are You a Leader?” Having been an executive as well as an international speaker and consultant, Sonya knows how to tap into lesser-known, hidden practices that drive true leadership. Her philosophy, background and experience add a strategic, pragmatic, and multidimensional approach to making strong leaders. Sonya serves on the Forbes Coaches Council and is a certified Master Corporate Executive Coach through the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches.
Guest: Jennifer Nash
In corporate America through the years, CEOs lost sight of something: humans. Humans fell so far off the radar that, when corporate leadership was analyzed, the majority of executives were actually leading processes and procedures, not people!
Do you work for one of those execs? Are you one of them?
There’s hope! Some leaders – like Ford’s Alan Mulally – began putting humans back in the equation, making their companies stronger. Dr. Jennifer Nash joins us to discuss Mulally’s techniques and other ways to lead with humanity, along with the benefits you’ll see.
Here's what Jennifer and Maureen cover:
- What human leadership means;
- Why it gets better results than the stereotypical uncaring bureaucracy; and
- How to help leaders who aren’t cruising on the status quo, and actually want to be better leaders!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma with Rachael Kelly
- The Bonobo Sisterhood: Ape Society’s Lessons for Leadership with Diane Rosenfeld
- The Human Energy Crisis at Work with Joshua Freedman
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Jennifer’s book, Be Human, Lead Human, is available on Amazon. Paperback is https://amzn.to/3qPZXx7 , Kindle is https://amzn.to/45BNtbl .
You can learn more about the book and Jennifer’s work on her website: https://drjennifernash.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Ever Mindful of Our Humanity: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Twitter: @IL_Institute
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2
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About Our Guest:
Jennifer Nash, PhD, MBA, PCC is a leadership expert and consultant to Fortune 50 organizations such as Google, Ford, Exxon Mobil, JP Morgan, IBM, The Boeing Company, and Verizon. She is Founder & CEO of Jennifer Nash Coaching & Consulting, a leadership advisory firm helping successful leaders connect people and performance to deliver exceptional results.
Jennifer’s 25-year resume includes serving in executive and leadership roles at Deloitte Consulting and Ford Motor Company and as adjunct professor at the University of Michigan. She contributes to Harvard Business Review, has presented her research at Columbia University, and is a Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching Fellow.
Guest: Dre Baldwin
Feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the lack of progress in achieving your goals, despite your best efforts and hard work? You are not alone! Many leaders and aspiring leaders find themselves trapped in a cycle of unproductive actions, such as micromanaging every task or relying solely on their team's inertia, instead of taking personal initiative. This not only hinders their own growth and development but also limits the potential for success within their organizations. It's time to break free from this cycle and embrace the significance of personal initiative in driving your own success.
Former pro-basketball player and current full-time entrepreneur Dre Baldwin joins host Maureen Metcalf to share concepts from his business and new book, Work on Your Game – using the professional athlete mindset to achieve your – and your team’s – goals.
Here's what Dre and Maureen cover:
- How structure can be the missing element to make personal discipline easier;
- Why the Third Day Theory helps you continue something new – from an exercise program to a new team project – past the novelty of its honeymoon period; and
- The infectious way your personal motivation can spread and help your team get on their game, too.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Disruption in America’s Favorite Pastime: Leadership Insights from Major League Baseball with Mark Shapiro
- The Science of Dream Teams with Mike Zani
- Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, and Success with Barbara Kellerman
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
To receive Dre’s daily motivational text message, text a “subscribe” request to 305-384-6894. There’s also plenty to learn on his website at https://www.workonyourgameuniversity.com.
He’s also written a lot of books, including but by no means limited to:
- Work on Your Game (hardback = https://amzn.to/3OBZarp, Kindle = https://amzn.to/3OUP6KD)
- The Third Day (paperback = https://amzn.to/3OVvWFt, Kindle = https://amzn.to/3scvoSM)
- The Mental Handbook (paperback = https://amzn.to/3QF255j, Kindle = https://amzn.to/3DWSrDJ)
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Desperately Trying to Get Dan to Work on His Game: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
In just 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from the end of his high school team's bench, to the first contract of a 9-year professional basketball career.
While playing professional basketball, Dre pioneered new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire.
Dre started blogging in 2005 and began publishing videos to YouTube in 2006. He has published over 8,000 videos to 137,000+ subscribers, his content being viewed over 73 million times to date.
Dre's daily Work On Your Game Podcast MasterClass has over 1,700 episodes and more than 3 million downloads.
Dre has given 4 TEDxTalks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness & Personal Initiative and has authored 29 books. He has appeared in national campaigns with Nike, Finish Line, Wendy's, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, STASH Investments and DIME magazine.
A Philadelphia native and Penn State alum, Dre lives in Miami.
Guest: Pauline Koelbl
40% of small and medium-size businesses in Africa are owned by women. But expanding those businesses is tough: they don’t receive anywhere close to 40% of investment funds. Pauline Koelbl is out to change that, and narrow the extreme gender gap.
Born in Rwanda -- the 'Switzerland of Africa' -- Pauline faced the challenges of life as a young refugee, yet managed to secure not one, but two Fulbright scholarships. Now she leads ShEquity, an impact investing fund addressing the gender funding gap in Africa. Discover how she’s shaping the future for women-owned businesses in Africa in this follow-up episode.
Here's what Pauline and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- Why investing in women-led businesses does double duty as an investment in community, much more effectively than with men-led firms;
- Breaking down the misconceptions around African women in business – and of the African business climate in general; and
- The far-reaching impacts of the companies ShEquity has invested in so far.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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ShEquity - A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses with Pauline Koelbl
-
You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women with Betsy Myers
-
Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook with Carolyn Buck Luce
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram,and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Pauline’s impact fund, ShEquity, on the web at https://shequity.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Every Man a King by Walter Mosley
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor: Luigi Morelli
Majority Investors in this Podcast: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership
YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership
Twitter: @IL_Institute
Mastodon: @InnoLeader
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About Our Guest:
ShEquity’s Founder & Managing Partner, Pauline is a gender-lens/impact investor and a leading innovation expert in developing & emerging economies with over 20 years of experience in international affairs and venture philanthropy. ShEquity provides smart investment to impactful and scalable African female-led and owned businesses. Pauline also has 11+ years of experience catalyzing innovation and supporting SMES/startups across Africa. Her passion lies in innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment of youth and women.
A double Fulbright Scholar and Fellow, Pauline holds an Executive Education in Innovation for Economic Development from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; a Master’s Degree (MA) in Poverty and Development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Studies (Honors) from the University of Arizona (UoA), USA. In 2022, Pauline was recognized as one of 100 Leaders building ‘Meaningful Business’, combining profit and purpose to help achieve the UN Global Goals.
Guest: Joshua Freedman
Gallup and other surveys are showing employee disengagement at record highs. The human energy crisis is at its root. This energy crisis isn’t due to staff skipping breakfast and coffee in the morning; it’s the result of stunningly low emotional intelligence (or EQ) with American bosses.
We can’t answer it by becoming more like Vulcans; the lack of emphasis on emotional intelligence is causing strained relationships, reduced collaboration, toxic work atmospheres, disengagement, and mental health issues. Fortunately, Joshua Freedman of Six Seconds has solutions. In this episode, he helps you discover how prioritizing emotional intelligence can bring about a transformative shift in your organization’s success…and its profitability.
Here's what Joshua and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The integral role trust plays in creating robust teams and sustainable success;
- The correlation between emotional intelligence and higher performance (we’re talking 22 times higher!); and
- The surprising real cause of burnout – it’s not overwork!
LANGUAGE ADVISORY: The term “s**t show” appears twice at (33:25). We retained it here because of the phrase’s common usage in many American workplaces.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Getting Lost in the Language of Leadership with Jonathan Reams
- Lead Responsibly: An Absolut with Ann Mukherjee
- Working and Living in Joy with Pamela Larde
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The website for Joshua’s company, Six Seconds, is https://www.6seconds.org/ .
He’s a prolific writer, too! Just a few of his books on emotional intelligence include:
- At the Heart of Leadership: How to Get Results with Emotional Intelligence (Paperback = https://amzn.to/44ReiIr or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3OlJ0T9 )
- Whole-Hearted Parenting: How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Create More Peace, Connection, and Joy (Paperback = https://amzn.to/3qjDJmT or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3qgPWsM ) and
- Inside Change: Transforming Your Organization with Emotional Intelligence with Massimiliano Ghini (Paperback = https://amzn.to/3QgzGCC or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3OgM2YU )
Here’s the article on the human energy crisis from Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s Chief People Officer, which Joshua mentioned: https://www.fastcompany.com/90872995/microsoft-chief-people-officer-we-are-experiencing-a-global-human-energy-crisis .
And here is the US Surgeon General’s framework for workplace mental health and well-being: https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/workplace-well-being/index.html .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor: Luigi Morelli
Holding a Gamut of Positive Emotions: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Joshua is the author of books, articles, case studies, and psychometric assessments related to emotional intelligence (EQ). He’s a Master Certified Coach (ICF) and the CEO and cofounder of Six Seconds, the global community for EQ. Six Seconds is the world’s first & largest network of emotional intelligence practitioners and researchers with 25 offices globally. As a consultant, facilitator, or coach, Joshua's clients include FedEx, Intel, Etihad Airways, Amazon, Microsoft, the UN, and all branches of the US armed services. Joshua co-developed Six Seconds’ EQ Certification Training which he has delivered on five continents as master-trainer to thousands of professionals seeking practical tools for learning and teaching emotional intelligence.
Guests: Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Suzie Lewis, & David Dinwoodie
Here’s a common business myth: the key to navigating all the complexity increasing in the world is simply working harder and longer. But the results aren’t there. Neither is the science.
In reality, the future of work requires agility, and adaptive problem-solving. In this episode, guests Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Suzie Lewis, and David Dinwoodie bring their expertise with host Maureen Metcalf about what works – and what doesn’t – in company cultures.
Here's what our guests cover:
- Why we need to rely on the people in our personal and professional networks (and the fact that you can only manage 15 of them effectively);
- The importance of your own vertical development (not just developing expertise in your field); and
- How personal flourishing is important for leaders and their teams.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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The Power of Passion & Perseverance – Four Levels of Grit with Jim Ritchie-Dunham
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The Science Behind Our Yes! with Jim Ritchie-Dunham
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Flex: The Art & Science of Leadership in a Changing World with Jeff Hull
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Details about the Global Flourishing Study our guests mentioned are online at https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/global-flourishing-study. The article on the navigating complexity and the future of work by Jim, Suzie, & David is available in its original Spanish version at https://www.harvard-deusto.com/navegar-por-la-incertidumbre-y-aprender-con-agilidad-claves-en-el-trabajo-del-futuro.
David and Jim have also written books, including:
- Ecosynomics: The Science of Abundance by Jim Ritchie-Dunham
- Becoming a Strategic Leader by David Dinwoodie et al
Learn more about Suzie’s company, Transform for Value, at https://transformforvalue.com/.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
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About Our Guests:
David Dinwoodie
David L. Dinwoodie has collaborated with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) for over 15 years as a researcher, author, educator, and coach. As Vice-President of Global Leadership Solutions managed CCL’s global portfolio of Open Enrolment Programs, Corporate Learning Solutions, Coaching and Assessment Services across 12 campuses worldwide servicing 3,000 client organizations and over 30,000 individuals each year. David is co-author of the book Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success. He is an Advisory Board member for the Penn State School of Graduate Education (SMEAL) and Developing Leaders Quarterly.
Suzie Lewis
Suzie Lewis is founder and managing director of Transform for Value, and an executive fellow at the Centre for the Future of Organisation, an independent think tank at the Drucker School of Management. Suzie is a global business leader, speaker, podcast host, and executive coach with extensive experience in driving international transformation projects, in preparing business leaders and employees for change, and bridging the gap between human and digital ecosystems. Her quest is to build more inclusive & collaborative environments, placing the onus on how to drive value through people as well as data and processes to drive sustainable change.
James Ritchie-Dunham
James L. Ritchie-Dunham, PhD is president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, affiliated with Boston College, Harvard, and author/co-author of Leadership for Flourishing (forthcoming), Agreements (2023), Ecosynomics (2014), Managing from Clarity (2001), and many chapters and articles. He blogs regularly at jlrd.me. His global research, surveying over 132,000 groups in 126 countries, shows (1) that you prefer abundance-based agreements to scarcity-based ones, (2) lots of people have figured out how to live this way, for decades, with far better results and experiences, and (3) you can choose to shift your agreements, experiences, and outcomes to abundance-based.
Guest: Lisa Campbell
Pets in the workplace can boost productivity, well-being, and those vaunted “water cooler” conversations. (Although they become “water bowl” conversations instead…)
Those are just some of the benefits for both businesses and employees Lisa Campbell, VP of Corporate Affairs for Mars Pet Nutrition North America, shares in this episode. Sure, there’s some prep work to be done, but the benefits are many and lasting. If you’ve been thinking of (literally!) letting your workplace go to the dogs, this is a must-listen podcast.
So sit, stay, and hit play. That’s a good listener!
Here's what Lisa and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- What to consider as you design your pet-friendly work environment;
- The multitude of benefits to your staff (and ultimately your bottom line); and
- How to avoid potential pet-friendly pitfalls, such as accommodating people with pet allergies.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Do It on Purpose with Nell Derick Debevoise
- Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsuleand
- Intentional Leadership in a New Work World with Monique Jefferson
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The Cesar website with information on going dog-friendly at work is https://www.cesar.com/dog-friendly .
You can learn more about Mars’ dog-friendly cities program at https://www.bettercitiesforpets.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury (Paperback: https://amzn.to/44tMfOZ or Kindle: https://amzn.to/3XWJ2VO )
- Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog by Harlan Elllison & Richard Corben (Paperback: https://amzn.to/3Q3Blv8 )
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Paperback: https://amzn.to/3DoPStC or Kindle: https://amzn.to/46WA5A4 )
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli
Keepers of the Golden Ticket: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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Guest: Ehren Cruz
In this supplemental episode, we learn that psychedelic drugs have entered the C-suite. After decades as a societal pariah, why are psychedelics finding a home among America’s corporate leaders?
Focusing on plant medicine, Ehren Cruz gives some of the background, history, and science behind the many business uses leaders are finding. The Wall Street Journal is paying attention – so we’re taking a look at it, too.
Here's what Ehren and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The goals leaders have for their psychedelic journeys;
- The neurochemistry behind these plant medicines; and
- The difference between therapeutic and ceremonial techniques in safe – and legal – psychedelic use.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Fringe or Mainstream? Leaders Explore Psychedelics with Paul Austin
- Reality Lost: How Disinformation Shapes Your World with Tara McGowan
- Leading Edge 120: Getting Higher Up the Chain with Greg Moran
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You’ll find more information about Ehren’s work on his website at https://thesparc.co/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- X-Men Archives #3: Legion by Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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Companions on the Journey: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox
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About Our Guest:
Ehren Cruz is a historian & anthropologist, Third Wave Psychedelic Certified Coach (CCP1), CTA & ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Master Ceremonialist, Trained Harm Reductionist, loving husband & proud father. He is devoted to the healing & self-actualization of self & others in all facets of his life.
For over a decade, Ehren dedicated his life to the creation of experiences that ignite the mind, inspire the heart, and empower our communities. From reimagining organizational culture to transforming the face of festivals & events, his success is rooted in the fostering of environments that welcome and encourage self-actualization, team synergy, and inspired creative expression. Between 2009-2019, Ehren produced, curated, and served as Master of Ceremonies for events welcoming over 300K patrons, hailing from 80 different nations, including 5400+ performers, 3000+ individual shows, 1650+ workshops, and countless immersive experiences – setting a new bar for what’s possible when converging visionary art, music, culture, & spirit into the alchemy of intentional festival settings.
After a decade as an award-winning producer & high-performance team builder, netting over $100M in gross regional income through festivals & events, in early 2021 Ehren founded The SpArc: a groundbreaking coaching approach that utilizes rites of passage immersive experiences to dramatically elevate awareness, embodiment, and impact.
Guest: Rini Das
Simplify. Streamline. Succeed. Seems simple enough, but most big organizations do the opposite, bogging teams down with more and more complexity. But as the world itself becomes more complex and changes (like AI) arrive more rapidly, resilience is absolutely key for any organization’s survival – much less success!
Rini Das knows complexity; she worked in healthcare early in her career, which has layers upon layers of processes. Fortunately, she knows simplicity and resilience, too. In this episode, she reveals the ironies and challenges faced by leaders striving to create simpler, more adaptable companies in the face of VUCA. She shares solutions, too!
Here's what Rini and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How to foster resilience – making your organization strong against the unpredictable;
- Dissecting the potentials and pitfalls of using AI to revolutionize your operations; and
- Your role in confidently steering your team through changing tides.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Simplify Work: Crushing Complexity with Jesse W. Newton
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA with Chris Nolan
- Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together with Margaret Heffernan
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More information on Rini’s leadership work is on the RD Management Consulting website: https://www.rdmchelps.com .
The organization for LGBTQ+ professionals in tech which Rini cofounded is Zettabytes.Today .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Complex People in our Simple Company: Luigi Morelli & Jenna Reik
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About Our Guest:
Rini Das (She, Her, Hers) is a serial entrepreneur, having founded her first company to provide STEM tutoring when she was 15 years old. She founded and led various startups such as a gamification SaaS company -- PAKRAGames.com -- and a big data consulting company -- DemsWin.com.
At her core, she considers herself as Mary Poppins, she likes to fly in with her umbrella, solve problems and fly away. She founded RD Management Consulting Inc. (RDMCHelps.com) in 2003.
She brings decades of experience in M&A consulting, Operational Excellence and Lean Six Sigma, IT Leadership Excellence, Software Development, User adoption and Data Science and Analytics.
She has taught at various universities. She holds an MA in economics from Stony Brook University (SUNY) and an MS in applied mathematics from the University of Iowa. She is the co-founder of Zettabytes.Today - a networking organization for LGBTQ+ professionals in Tech.
Guests: Christina Grote and Pam Kramer
We tell our teams not to stress, and to have a good work-life balance. But what about us: their leaders? Too often, leaders ignore their own advice – and the stress becomes overwhelming.
Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) is one answer. More than just another mindfulness practice, it’s a way of growing and developing, created to help you explore your full potential. In short, to help your skills and talents move from ordinary to extraordinary!
In this episode, Christina and Pam go over the basics of ITP, the philosophies and origins of the concept, and even walk us through one of the practices.
Here's what Pam, Christina, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How we hold ourselves back from achieving our full potential;
- The core practice intentions of ITP; and
- The special role ITP can play for leaders, in particular.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
-
The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele
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Staying Cool in Challenging Situations with Janet Fouts
-
Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership with Dr. Maryanna Klatt
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Christina and Pam’s book is Living an Extraordinary Life – it’s available in paperback at https://amzn.to/46wvZ1j and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3JIfHIT.
Another book they mentioned is the foundational The Life We Are Given by George Leonard & Michael Murphy (paperback: https://amzn.to/46AqcaP ).
Of course, they have lots of information on their website: https://www.itp-international.org/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor: Luigi Morelli
Integral to Our Success: Jenna Reik & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guests:
Christina Grote is the board chair of ITP International and has been a practitioner of Integral Transformative Practice since 2003. She is a licensed massage therapist and her interest in natural healing led her to explore ITP and include it in her work. She founded ITP Columbus in 2004, which continued for many years. She has designed and taught ITP workshops and planned numerous conferences with longtime friend, collaborator, and ITPI president Pamela Kramer. Christina lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband Jim.
Pamela Kramer is President of ITP International, a nonprofit organization that stewards ITP and the work of its founders, George Leonard and Michael Murphy. Pam is an ITP Mastery teacher, is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, and presents workshops at venues in the US and abroad. She is engaged in training ITP teachers, forming ITP groups, and bringing integral principles and practices to the workplace. Pam is an executive coach and consults with organizations and their leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Guest: Moora Aarons-Mele
Does anxiety plague your leadership role? Just push through it isn’t a solution: the constant stress and strain of anxiety can take a toll on both your mental health and workplace performance. It's time to stop ignoring the issue and start implementing effective strategies to manage anxiety.
Morra Aarons-Mele lives with anxiety, too, but has researched it deeply. Now, she’s dedicated to helping others navigate its challenges. In this episode, Morra shares her personal story with host Maureen Metcalf, and offers practical advice for anxious leaders across all industries. The unexpected twist? It turns out, anxiety can actually be a source of motivation and drive. Listen to learn more!
Here's what Morra and Maureen cover:
- The scale of anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues;
- Why they are so important to acknowledge in the workplace; and
- How anxiety affects your own leadership…and your team’s well-being.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leadership Is Relationships with Kvon Tucker
- A Cure for Toxic Leadership with Raj Subrameyer
- Remote Work and Mental Well-Being with Bleb Tsipursky
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Morra’s new book, The Anxious Achiever, is available in hardback at https://amzn.to/3pkND7o , and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3puFYU1 .
Her previous book, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You’d Rather Stay Home, is also available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/46nUcql (paperback) and https://amzn.to/3JwnVnl (Kindle).
Moora’s podcast is on all major platforms. You can hear sample episodes – and learn more about her consulting work – on her website at https://morraam.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Jessica Jones: Alias by Brian Michael Bendis
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lost Them & Hot to Get Them Back by John Reid, et al
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Assistant Editor: Luigi Morelli
Bon Vivants: Jenna Reik & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Morra Aarons-Mele is the host of The Anxious Achiever, a top-10 management podcast that helps people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership. Morra founded Women Online and The Mission List, an award-winning digital-consulting firm and influencer marketing company dedicated to social change in 2010 and sold her businesses in 2021. She helped Hillary Clinton log on for her first internet chat and has launched digital campaigns for President Obama, Malala Yousafzai, the United Nations, the CDC, and many other leading figures and organizations. She lives outside Boston with her family and menagerie. For more details, visit www.theanxiousachiever.com.
Guest: Pamela Larde, Ph.D.
Does the struggle to balance work and personal life sound familiar? Have you bought the myth that working harder leads to? You’re not alone. But the truth is, that leads to burnout, stress, and decreased productivity. It’s time to break free and discover the power of joy in professional settings. By prioritizing joy and well-being, you can enhance your personal and professional life, build mental stamina, and create a positive work environment.
Pamela Larde joins us with details on building your joy. And by incorporating joy into your leadership approach, you can foster a culture that is not only successful but also fulfilling for both you and your team. Join us to learn how to integrate joy into your workplace and achieve the results you want.
Here's what Pamela and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The difference between joy and happiness;
- How leaders can help their teams find joy – and how that benefits your organization; and
- The personal benefits of fostering joy and well-being in your own life.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Joy at Work! With Roxanne Brown & Edward Cook
- Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons
- The Science Behind Our Yes! with Jim Ritchie-Dunham
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Pamela has a bounty of resources on the practice and science of joy on her website: www.thejoywhisperer.org.
Her upcoming book is Joyfully Single. While you wait for it to be released, check out her current book: Letters to the Brokenhearted.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Asst. Editor: Luigi Morelli
Joyful Podcast Support Personages: Jenna Reik & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Pamela Larde, a professor, coach, award-winning author, and business owner, is committed to engaging in the work of advancing the reach and commitment of the coaching profession to serve and build up heart-centered leaders. In 2013, she founded the Academy of Creative Coaching, which was among the first of black female-owned ICF-accredited coaching schools in the world. As a scholar with a strong interest in helping people overcome barriers through the art and science of coaching, her research focuses on joy, justice, self-motivation, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.
Guests: Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell
Are you on code?
“On code” is like authenticity on steroids: as a leader you not only walk the talk, but give back, bring others along (mentor and sponsor), and fight for change when you see inequity. Being on code can be tough; after all, as guest Ricky Robinson points out, “In reality, most organizations don’t want you to be your authentic self.”
But fear not; Ricky and Keith Powell, the founders of C-CRETS, join host Maureen Metcalf to explain the many ways of getting on code…and the many benefits it presents.
Here's what Keith, Ricky, and Maureen cover:
- How being on code can help you win the war for talent;
- What the concept of Village Accountability is all about; and
- The very real importance of DEI in AI.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Career Sponsorship & Being Sponsor Ready with Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell
- Building Communities within Your Business with Alice Yoo LeClair
- DEI Insights from IBM South Africa with Roger Madison
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Ricky and Keith’s work on their website: https://www.c-crets.com/ . You’ll also find links to their podcast there, or at https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/r229d-127b00/C-CRETS-Podcast . Either way, you’ll find tips and tricks for climbing the ladder, and handling the systemic roadblocks for people of color
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Inside a Silver Box by Walter Moseley (Hardback: https://amzn.to/43WBe8p ; Kindle: https://amzn.to/45Yvg8J )
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Currently Coding: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:
Keith Powell is a Chief Operating Officer in private education with over 20 years corporate experience in the U.S. and Canada. Most of his career, Keith led global Finance and Operations functions for Fortune 1000 companies in the automotive, chemical, consumer and commercial goods, e-commerce, and smart home industries. Keith was the “first” or the “only” quite often climbing the corporate ladder. Having mentored and coached hundreds throughout his career, he continues to share practical, digestible advice to underrepresented employees as a co-founder of C-CRETS (https://www.c-crets.com/ ), which is a career advice platform offering career coaching services, online courses and topical content through blogs and a podcast.
Ricky Robinson is a Vice President of Human Resources for a $35B leader in the Medical Device industry. His 20+ year career has afforded him leadership roles in Human Resources for some best in class global organizations spanning industries from commercial goods, retail, smart home industries and med tech. Ricky is extremely familiar with being the “Sole Brother” on the Executive Leadership Team quite often challenging diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias issues within Corporate America, as an advocate and sponsor for underrepresented groups. Having spent his career as a mentor and coach, he continues to share the tips and tricks that help underrepresented employees reach their full potential as a co-founder of C-CRETS https://www.c-crets.com/ ).
Client loyalty. Stakeholder loyalty. Employee loyalty. However you define your customers, their loyalty is key to moving your organization from just good to great. One key to growing it is to always make it easy for your customer to get what they want from you.
But how do you know what they want, much less how they want to receive it?
With data! And knowing how to find that data is what Sarah Ahern and her company, PATH, help organizations of all sizes understand. In this episode, Sarah shares the role of surveys, communication, and more in delivering exceptional customer experiences. And that, in turn, delivers long-term success for your business!
Here’s what Sarah and host Maureen Metcalf discuss:
- The importance of collecting feedback through surveys to hear your customers’ voice;
- Why customer experience isn’t just another buzzword, but the foundation of the Experience Economy; and
- How companies with this focus outperform the S&P500 by up to 1,200%!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
-
What Your Team REALLY Thinks, in Real Time! – with Greg Moran
-
Leadership Is Relationships – with Kvon Tucker
-
Lead Responsibly: An Absolut – with Ann Mukherjee
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The article Sarah mentioned about how to lose customers is online at https://www.pathgrowth.com/insights/5-techniques-to-lose-any-client-employee-or-customer .
Sarah also referenced these books in the interview:
- The Experience Economy by Joseph Pine II & James Gilmore (Hardback = https://amzn.to/3IZdKat or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3MSU2P0 ) ;
- Good to Great by Jim Collins (Hardback = https://amzn.to/43PUdl7 or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3WVlIY6 )
- Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers by Fred Reichheld, et al (Hardback = https://amzn.to/3NgTjbK or Kindle = https://amzn.to/3qtt5tN )
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Podcast Loyalists: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guest:
Sarah Ahern, MA, is an Owner and Partner at PATH, a 40-year-old woman-owned market research and business management firm. She has developed and launched companies, programs, products, and services for almost two decades as a 4-time entrepreneur and consultant.
Sarah has built change management and market growth strategies for Fortune 100 and 500 companies across North America. To spice it up, she rounds out her understanding of human behavior with a Masters in Health Education, a culinary degree, and experience designing and implementing nutrition-focused population health programs for Whole Foods Market, LinkedIn, Tesla, SpaceX and more.
Sarah is a passionate thought leader, consultant, educator, and community steward. She was recognized as a 2022 recipient of the Columbus 40 Under 40 award and is a renowned facilitator and mentor in the social enterprise community.
Guest: Neil Sahota
The jobs of tomorrow are being incubated right now.
Artificial Intelligence – AI – is already rapidly transforming our world. You have two years, maybe up to five, before it transforms your work, too. But IBM Master Inventor Neil Sahota sees hope, not gloom: throughout human history, technological transformations meant more and often better jobs. The key is to be ready, and Neil tells us how.
Here's what Neil and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The five skills every job will require;
- The fact that we don’t teach three of those five skills in U.S. education; and
- The top actions leaders need to take right now (because odds are you’re already behind the curve…and your competitors!).
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- How to Own the AI Revolution – with Neil Sahota
- The End of Jobs – with Jeff Wald
- The Creative Mindset – with Jeff DeGraff
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Neil's book, Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition, can be purchased here.
Learn more about Neil on his website at NeilSahota.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
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About Our Guest:
Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor, author of the best-seller Own the AI Revolution, and a sought-after speaker. With 20+ years of business experience, he works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI.
Guest: Teuila Hanson
Does your team feel like they belong in your organization? Do you?
At LinkedIn, that feeling of belonging is a critical part of workplace culture. And one way they accomplish it is by taking DEI to a whole new level: DIBs (Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging programs). Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson has seen remarkable success with it…so much so, LinkedIn happily shares techniques with other companies. It’s like an open source program for HR departments anywhere! What’s more, the benefits cascade into the community. Teuila brings us the details in this discussion with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Teuila and Maureen cover:
- Why LinkedIn looks at an employee’s entire career cycle, and how it helps them advance within the company;
- What DIBs means in practice; and
- How HR innovations like this break generational cycles in and provide opportunities for families in poor socioeconomic conditions.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Workforce Demographics & Inclusive Culture with Nadia Younes, Gamiel Yafai, & Louise Carvalho
- DEI: Needed Conversations & Understanding – with Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney
- Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives – with Eric Douglas Keene
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Information about the course Teuila mentioned about incorporating DIBs in your organization is online at https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advancing-a-dibs-strategy-in-your-organization/driving-transformative-change-in-your-deib-work?autoplay=true .
You can learn more about the business side of LinkedIn at https://about.linkedin.com/ . LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has written many books. Start with Masters of Scale about successful entrepreneurs. It’s available through Amazon at https://amzn.to/3MthBO1 (hardback) and https://amzn.to/4321yOp (Kindle) .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Glass Hearts by Terri Paul
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Sandman – Book 1 by Neil Gaiman & Sam Kieth
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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People We’re Linked To: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Teuila Hanson is the Chief People Officer at LinkedIn. In this role she leads the team responsible for hiring, developing and growing top talent, including all benefits, employee experience, and Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging programs.
Prior to joining LinkedIn, Teuila was the executive vice president and Chief Strategy and People Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In this role, she led the strategy and people teams and served as chair of the bank’s management committee, creating an engaging workplace by driving bank strategy and integrating best practices in talent management, inclusion and diversity, learning and development, compensation and benefits, employee engagement and corporate culture. Teuila also held various leadership roles at AECOM Technology Corporation, a global professional services organization.
Teuila earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sonoma State University, and her juris doctor degree from Golden Gate University School of Law. She is a licensed member of the California Bar.
Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Many CEOs and executives insisting on staff returning to the office full time are making decisions based on myths about hybrid work. The truth may surprise them – and you!
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky busts those myths with hard data and direct experience with 23+ organizations. The bottom line: for the majority of “office” workers, hybrid work benefits both wellbeing and productivity. With mental health concerns at an all time high world-wide, that’s a message more employers should be paying attention to.
Here's what Gleb and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How hybrid work boosts not only boosts mental well-being and productivity, but employee retention and satisfaction, too;
- How to establish new norms for workdays that accommodate diverse lifestyles; and
- Why workers feel social isolation in the office, too – and targeted strategies to combat it!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
- Building a Culture of Brain Health, Growth & Effectiveness with Dr. JJ Walcutt
- Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Gleb has written seven books. In this episode, he talked about Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams (Paperback: https://amzn.to/3MI2uSt and Kindle version: https://amzn.to/3pQ5enr ). His other works include:
- Never Go with Your Gut
- The Blind Spots Between Us and
- Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back into Politics with Tim Ward
You can also learn more about Gleb’s work on his company’s website: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Joker: An Origin Story by Louise Simonson & Luciano Vecchio
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky helps leaders use hybrid work to improve retention and productivity while cutting costs. He serves as the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. He is the best-selling author of 7 books, including Never Go With Your Gut and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams. His cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 650 articles in prominent venues such as Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Forbes. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting for Fortune 500 companies from Aflac to Xerox and over 15 years in academia as a behavioral scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and Ohio State. A proud Ukrainian American, Dr. Gleb lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Guest: Laura Fuentes
Joy, learning, friendship: that’s how Laura Fuentes believes the ideal workplace should be. When she arrived at Hilton, Laura found a culture and leadership team that was thinking along the same lines. Since then, she’s been instrumental in guiding the growth of that culture into one of inclusion, wellness, growth, and purpose – the four pillars of Hilton. It’s just one way Laura and Hilton commit to the well-being of Hilton’s employees. The goal: make Thrive at Hilton something every employee feels every day. Laura shares that journey, which has plenty for you to learn from to make your organization a thriving place, too!
Here's what Laura and Maureen cover:
- How Thrive at Hilton has 100-year-old roots, when Conrad Hilton shared his belief that travel is the key to world peace;
- The incredible value of a human-focused work culture; and
- How that culture boosts the company: “If your team members feel respected and heard, that’s how they’ll make your guests feel, too.”
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Joy at Work! with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cook
- Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons
- Hiring in the Great Resignation with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You’ll find more information on Hilton at https://www.hilton.com. Go to the bottom of the homepage to find their business information. The Thrive at Hilton details Laura discussed are at https://jobs.hilton.com/us/en/benefits.
To learn more about Conrad Hilton’s vision for the Hilton hotels, check out his autobiography, Be My Guest.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
- Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay Jones
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Laura Fuentes is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Hilton with over two decades of experience in engineering, strategy consulting and human resources. Having worked in hospitality, financial services, and management consulting, Laura’s career reflects her global, cross-industry perspective in key business and talent areas. Throughout her tenure at Hilton, Laura has led efforts to build an award-winning culture at Hilton, being recognized by Fortune as the #1 Best Place to Work in the U.S. and by DiversityInc as the #1 Company on their 2021 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. Originally from Spain, she holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia, a M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She lives in Arlington with her husband and two sons.
Guest: Kvon Tucker
If there’s one key thing that’s common to all effective leadership theories, it’s this: leadership is all about relationships. Kvon Tucker distilled this through both academic scholarship and real-world experience at Netflix, Google, and Amazon. Those companies remain high-performing outliers because of their unique leadership culture, and an emphasis on relationships (and writing!) are key.
Losing sight of that leads to more than just sterile numbers on morale, low engagement, or layoffs. It leads to real pain for people, real depression, and – as Kvon saw – real suicide.
Kvon discusses all this, along with solutions for leaders who care, in this episode.
Here's what Kvon and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How an old school practice – writing – leads to innovation and better odds of project success;
- Why truly effective leaders understand the importance of relationships; and
- The reasons that, even with all the trappings of success, your job can still leave you feeling miserable and depressed…and what to do about it.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Building a Culture of Brain Health, Growth, & Effectiveness with Dr. JJ Walcutt
- Leading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
- Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Kvon’s website has more information about his company and his work. You’ll find it at https://consciously.one/ .
If you’re in crisis or emotional distress, call the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. They have more information online, too, at https://988lifeline.org/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for personal development right now include:
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
- Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
- Spark: The Revolutionary News Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, MD
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Kvon Tucker is the CEO and Founder of Consciously, a purpose-driven Executive and Leadership Coaching firm.
Kvon is also a professionally trained Learning and Leadership Development expert. He has spent a third of his life dedicated to helping leaders, teams, and organizations learn, adapt, and transform.
His favorite tagline is, “All I know is how to help people grow.”
He has helped leaders at Netflix, Amazon, and Google adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale through experiential learning and leadership development coaching.
Kvon also holds a Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (M.S. I-O) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and Professional Certified Coach (PCC).
Guest: Will O’Brien & Dave DuBose
The labor shortage is not going away. Workers are more transient, looking for better pay, plus Amazon, Walmart, and other large online retailers are continuing to drive up competition for distribution center (DC) employees. So, most DC operators resort to wage increases and retention bonuses as the quick solution to this really challenging people problem. Will O'Brien and Dave DuBose joins the show to share the better answer, which is a set of more robust solutions that better serve the operators’ longer-term needs and mitigate their dependence on short-lived “quick fix” wage and bonus answers that everyone else is chasing.
Here's what Will, Dave, and Maureen cover:
- Why pay is only the beginning in forming long-term solutions to supply-chain labor;
- How Columbus, Ohio, represents the distribution issues retailers face; and
- Why, regardless of the economy, the labor shortage is not going away.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Supply Chain Innovation: Orders Can’t Be Filled with Stagnation with Mike McLellan of DHL
- Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruptionwith Greg Moran
- Are You Disrupting, or Being Disrupted? with Mark Kvamme
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Will and Dave are partners with True North Growth Partners; you can learn more at https://truenorthgrowthpartners.com/ . (We love their motto: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”)
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Will O’Brien is a partner at True North Growth Partners where he works with organizations on the supply chain and operations sides of their business. He helps his clients overcome the things that hold back their growth and profitability. He has over 30 years of experience in supply chain and operations. He has held executive positions in both industry and consulting. As an executive at Lowe’s Home Improvement he helped to lead the development of the supply chain for that big box retailer during a period of rapid growth, from $35 billion to $50 billion in revenue. He also helped pioneer Lowe’s omni-channel fulfillment when its online sales were growing significantly. He successfully grew a mid-sized family-owned supply chain consulting firm by over 50%, expanded its markets, improved its pricing, reengineered its sales and business development organization and created career paths and professional growth for its associates.
Dave DuBose is a senior supply chain professional with strong cross-industry experience including retail, consumer products, resources and high-tech in the North American and global theaters. Dave has held executive positions in logistics and supply chain in industry as well as consulting and has more than 30 years of professional experience. DuBose delivers innovative results and can translate business strategy into operating strategy and tactics. He has deep expertise in end-to-end business operations and in deploying business solutions from strategy through implementation. Dave is on the Columbus Roundtable, and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is active in speaking and writing about contemporary supply chain issues.
Guest: Greg Moran
Odds are Artificial Intelligence isn’t going to replace you at work. It’s going to join you.
Greg Moran sees AI integrating much the same way breakthrough technologies always have. It will help us be more efficient, and help leaders make better decisions. Of course, it’s not all rasterized rainbows and Unix unicorns; to thrive, people will have to be able and willing to continually learn new skills and processes. In short, the obsessively curious will rise to the top. Greg shares the details in this episode.
Here's what Greg and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How generative AI has already proven it can give you a competitive advantage by helping you make better, faster decisions on quality information, but…
- …be careful! AI won’t make those decisions for you!
- Why continually growing, learning, and adapting are top skills for career success (and coasting at work is no longer an option).
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- How to Own the AI Revolution with Neil Sahota
- The Future Is Yours to Create with Rebecca Ryan
- The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace with Greg Moran
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Greg is the former COO and currently a board member of Aware, which creates AI-infused solutions for collaboration platforms; you can learn more at https://www.awarehq.com/ . You can also connect with Greg on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsmoran/ .
A terrific book about the promise and pitfalls of the AI revolution is Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition; it can be purchased here.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Hybrids Before It Was Cool: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guest: Ann Mukherjee
Ann Mukherjee’s life is one of complete inspiration, both personally and professionally. Her mother was killed by a drunk driver when Ann was just 14; as an adult, she endured alcohol related violence.
Yet today, she leads the second largest wine and spirits company in the world. Far from a contradiction, it’s a calling – one which sees not just customers and ROI, but caring and ROR (Return on Responsibility). The two are intertwined; even as Pernod Ricard promotes safe, responsible drinking, their profits have soared.
Here's what Ann and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The changing role of leaders, especially CEOs;
- How Ann sees her work at Pernod Ricard not as a job, but as a calling; and
- The important role of mentors for career success.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
- Leading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
- Career Sponsorship with Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Ann’s company, Pernod Ricard, at https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en . The organizations Ann mentioned include The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility ( https://www.responsibility.org/ ) and Women of the Vine & Spirits ( https://www.womenofthevine.com/cpages/home ).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
A toast to our podcast support team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Ann Mukherjee joined PRNA (Pernod Ricard) as CEO in December 2019. An industry outsider and woman of color, Ann is focused on delivering both ROI and ROR (return on responsibility). She’s advanced the business through ambiguity, driving a transformation rooted in the science of predictable consumer demand and guiding PRNA to record-breaking profits in 2021. Ann has launched award-winning brand campaigns and initiatives around consent, voting and hate speech. Ann has been recognized by Forbes 2022 ‘50 over 50’; Forbes’ Top 50 Most Influential CMOs; ADCOLOR’s Legend Award; and was inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame.
Guest: Paul Austin
You never know where the next big breakthrough in leadership research will come, so we’re going to sporadically feature outlier ideas, research from the fringe. Today is our first foray, as we investigate the role psychedelics can play in leadership development.
Struggling with the dichotomy of legality and morality, Paul Austin found himself on an unexpected journey of self-discovery – a journey that led him to establish Third Wave, a platform dedicated to using psychedelics to unlock leadership potential and transform paradigms. As Paul says to host Maureen Metcalf, “If I could focus my time and energy on one thing that would move the needle the most, it would be intentional psychedelic use by the leaders who are creating the paradigms of tomorrow.
Here's what Paul and Maureen cover:
- How intentional microdoses of psychedelics can propel leadership development;
- Why the proper setting and having an expert facilitator for guidance is absolutely critical; and
- How CEOs and other leaders are already using psychedelics to help them problem-solve in today’s new normal of chaos and disruption.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
- Bringing Clarity to Confusion with Terri O’Fallon & Kim Barta
- Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership with Dr. Maryanna Klatt
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
If you have questions, and you’d like Paul to answer them in an upcoming podcast, e-mail them to us at Inquiries@InnovativeLeadership.com .
Paul’s web page contains the resources he mentioned in the interview; it’s https://thethirdwave.co/ .
Paul has also written a book on the healing and development use of psychedelics. Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Perfomrance, and Transform Your Life is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3zRICoz (Kindle version: https://amzn.to/3zP92Hu ).
The seminal books by other researchers Paul mentioned are James Fadiman’s The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide at https://amzn.to/43sxjRp (Kindle: https://amzn.to/410wL3g ) and Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Kindle: https://amzn.to/3KRgSGU ) .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- X-Men Archives #3: Legion by Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
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Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics.
As the founder of Third Wave, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC's Worklife.
Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.
Learning how to master this skill will be crucial in the story of humanity’s present-future evolution.
Guest: Mike McLellan
Supply chain disruptions: they’ve been at the top of the list for leaders’ anxiety in nearly every sector for years. Will it ever get better?
Yes – if you’ve learned lessons from COVID and other supply chain disrupters. That’s the advice Mike McLellan has for leaders. A vice president of operations for DHL Supply Chain, Mike discusses the innovations DHL and others are implementing: from rapid responses to exoskeletons for warehouse workers. If your organization relies on supplies – and few organizations don’t – this is a must-listen episode!
Here's what Mike and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How COVID-19 exposed weaknesses that had been brewing in the supply chain for years;
- Why having a single-source supplier looks great on the balance sheet, but is quite costly in reality; and
- The critical role of resilience for companies’ future survival.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption with Greg Moran
- Leading in Circles: The Inevitable Circular Economy with Christoph Hinske
- Are You Disrupting, or Being Disrupted? with Mark Kvamme
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Details on tech innovations, sustainability, and other programs Mike mentions are on DHL’s website at https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered.html . To dig even deeper, read DHL: Three Letters that Shrank the World by Jane Chung for Kindle at https://amzn.to/3MgwHIa .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here. Most relevant for today’s interview is the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations. The Guide is available now on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3KufXMg , and the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/3U7MzyK .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers
- Batman/Catwoman by Tom King & Clay Mann
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Professional Podcast Disrupters: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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Guest: Dr. Ciela Hartanov
Change is accelerating. Volatility continues unabated. And no business is immune. What’s a leader to do?
Develop foresight and become future-ready, of course! Ciela Hartanov joins us in this episode to detail her practical process for developing foresight. As a futurist, she’s developed many tools for probing potential paths’ future outcomes. She’s distilled those tools into her foresight process. That, in turn, helps leaders adapt their mindsets, enabling them to make their organizations future ready.
Here's what Ciela and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The definition of foresight, and what it means for businesses;
- How future-ready capabilities increase profitability and growth potential; and
- Questioning whether organizations really need a C.E.O. at the top.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together with Margaret Heffernan
- Finding Peace When in Conflict – with Lord John Alderdice (excerpt of full interview referenced by Maureen in today’s podcast)
- Opportunity in Uncertainty – with Dr. Ciela Hartanov (her first appearance on our show!)
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Here is Dr. Hartanov’s email address: ciela@humcollective.co . You can also learn more about her consulting, research, and other work at https://www.humcollective.co/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay Jones at https://amzn.to/3MamuwO
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler at https://amzn.to/3KiRWYs
- Connections by James Burke at https://amzn.to/3GpWdav
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Future-Ready Friends: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Ciela Hartanov is a futurist, organizational psychologist, human behavior expert, writer, and thinker dedicated to reinventing work. She helps leaders create a revolution inside the modern workplace, one aimed at breaking a system that promotes work practices that have existed since the industrial era. She was part of the founding team of The Google School for Leaders and Head of Next Practice Innovation and Strategy at Google, where she developed projects designed to shape the future of leadership and work. She currently runs humcollective, a boutique strategy and innovation firm that helps companies, executives, and teams make sense of the forces shaping the future and prepare strategically.
Guest: Tara McGowan
Misinformation and disinformation have become the lifeblood of social media – even some cable channels hungry for ratings. But, as a leader, you need hard facts and straight information.
How did we get here, and what can you do to find the good data your decisions need? Tara McGowan, founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, notes that propaganda and disinformation have always existed…but social media’s algorithms have amplified it exponentially, creating hard echo chambers that can be hard for truth to get through. And, she says, that puts not just your business at risk, but democracy itself. Fortunately, she has some solutions!
Here's what Tara and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How social media algorithms work – and revolutionized the spread of misinformation;
- Ways leaders can recognize disinformation and halt its spread; and
- 3) Simple steps we can all take to be media literate.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women with Besty Myers
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- Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with Kim Campbell
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- Democracy: Are We a Brittle Twig or Supple Bamboo? with Matt Qvortrup
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More information on Courier Newsroom is available at their website: https://couriernewsroom.com/ .
Tara’s website tracking election campaign spending and digital strategies is https://fwiwmedia.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
If you’d like to learn more about journalism, try these books:
- Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism by Brooke Kroeger (hardback = https://amzn.to/3lsU4DE , Kindle = https://amzn.to/3JynXKM )
- With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Murrow by Norman Finkelstein at https://amzn.to/3Z4xDlW
- Information Wars: How We Lost the lobal Battle Against Disinformation by Richard Stengel at https://amzn.to/3yWvpu5 (paperback) and https://amzn.to/3yXN7O0 (Kindle)
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Tara McGowan is the founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom and CEO of Good Information Inc, a civic incubator that invests in immediate solutions to counter disinformation online. A former political strategist with an early career in journalism, Tara has seen firsthand how America’s information crisis has contributed to the rising threat of authoritarianism and the deterioration of social trust.
Guests: Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont
More than 40% of new leaders fail within 18 months. Why?
Don’t blame the leader; look at the organization instead! Most organizations don’t onboard a new leader well, if at all. They assume a person’s success at one company will automatically transfer to theirs – but there are far too many variables at play to bank on that. Instead, an onboarding plan that goes beyond HR protocols and benefits sign-up is necessary: a plan that considers company culture, history, team dynamics...even quality of life differences if the new leader is coming from out of town!
Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont of Connect the Dots share tips, tricks, and outright wisdom from years of experience helping organizations maximize the success of their new leaders.
Here's what Brenda, Erika, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The three main components of a good onboarding plan;
- Why overlooking help with personal transitions – including spouse and children – is a key reason for new leaders leaving your organization; and
- Why how you handled your workforce during the COVID pandemic is the ultimate litmus test for a leader considering your job offer.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Hiring for Keeps: The Rise of Recruiter.com - with Evan Sohn
- A Cure for Toxic Leadership – with Raj Subrameyer
- Hiring in the Great Resignation – with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
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RESOURCES:
To learn more about Erika & Brenda’s company, Connect the Dots, visit https://connectthedotsconsulting.com/ .
They’ve also written two books together as further resources for you:
Solving Employee Performance Problems at https://amzn.to/3LbelrG
And
Perfect Phrases for New Employee Orientation and Onboarding at https://amzn.to/3FgqmIJ .
In addition, Erika also wrote The Talent Selection and Onboarding Pocket Tool Kit at https://amzn.to/3ZCDWOp , and Brenda wrote the Talent Assessment and Development Pocket Tool Kit at https://amzn.to/3YG62Y3 .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
People We Onboarded to Our Podcast without Them Knowing: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:
Brenda Hampel co-founded Connect the Dots Consulting in 2006, having already gained a national reputation as a leadership team session and discussion expert.
From day one, Brenda dedicated Connect the Dots to providing Real Leadership, meaning custom-crafting Leadership Solutions to a client’s unique, specific, real-life leadership needs. That focus has only grown, for today Brenda and her team service a wide range of companies with a tailored, custom approach to leadership building and related services that help transform companies and the leaders at their helm.
Erika Lamont is an executive coach, author, speaker and founding partner of Connect the Dots Consulting. Connect the Dots is a boutique management consulting firm deep expertise in leadership onboarding, coaching and team effectiveness. Erika brings a distinctive blend of operational experience and leadership development skills to her client base. Erika has held leadership roles inside large organizations such as Riverside Methodist Hospital (part of the OhioHealth Corporation), and Bath & Body Works, a division of The Limited, Inc.—experience that has been advantageous to her coaching practice.
Erika is a Master Certified Executive Coach (MCEC) and an active member of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. She is also a certified coach for Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching and blends her own leadership experiences with the proven methods of best-practice coaching.
Guest: Betsy Myers
We may gripe about the pandemic, but it gave us one very positive change for women in the workplace: flexibility. It also highlighted for everyone that old-school leadership won’t cut it anymore. Betsy Myers says head and heart leadership is the model for today’s leaders. It fuses data-driven strategies and decisiveness with qualities such as warmth, compassion, empathy, and collaboration. In short, the head sets the purpose for an organization, but the heart engages your people to follow and bring their best selves to the team. Here's what Betsy covers with host Maureen Metcalf:
- Change is inevitable…so successful leaders embrace it;
- The impacts of holding on to an old-school leadership style (and why it’s the #1 cause of leadership failure!); and
- What Head-and-Heart Leadership really means.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook – with Carolyn Buck Luce
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ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses – with Pauline Koelbl
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Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Betsy’s book, Take the Lead, is available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3lbMWv6 . The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/3YEb1Za . Her website is https://betsymyers.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Taking the Lead (and the office doughnuts): Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Betsy Myers is on a mission to improve leadership by developing leaders and teams who infuse passion and purpose into their organizations by leading from both the head and the heart. Betsy’s insightful keynotes and workshops have inspired and offered practical guidance to executives and managers around the world who want to level up their leadership, retain top talent, and achieve results in the modern workplace.
Betsy is a renowned expert on emerging leadership trends and women’s leadership and is the author of Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. She currently serves on the Council on Advancing Women in Business for the Export-Import Bank of the United States and has extensive experience in the corporate world, government settings, and in higher education.
Previously, she was founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University and executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School. A senior adviser to two U.S. presidents, Betsy served as President Clinton’s Advisor on Women’s Issues and was Chief Operating Officer of President Obama’s 2008 National Presidential Campaign. She also held leadership roles in the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Guest: Anne Klibanski
Healthcare begins and ends in the home. At least, it should: you’re more likely to heal a bit faster and your outlook tends to be brighter at home instead of a hospital. Further, COVID revealed and amplified medical staff burnout and other issues already brewing in our healthcare system.
It’s overwhelming for most healthcare leaders, but our guest – Dr. Anne Klibanski – tackles these issues head-on. The president and CEO of Mass General Brigham, she and her team created, and continue to develop, groundbreaking solutions for their hospitals...and, more importantly, their patients. In this episode, Anne shares those solutions and the challenges they present for leaders with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Anne and Maureen cover:
- The lack of patient beds and other resources COVID made clear (but remain today);
- What healthcare leaders can do to resolve those issues; and
- Why the old status quo for American healthcare won’t work anymore, along with the newer, better methods Mass General Brigham is creating and using.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- High Performance Medicine: Healthcare & Innovation with Brian Ferguson
- Innovative Leadership for the Healthcare Industry – with Neil Grunberg
- (Hospital) Hiring in the Great Resignation – with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
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RESOURCES:
Information on Dr. Kilbanski and her team is available at https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written two books on healthcare and physician leadership: the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Physician Leaders and the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Health Care.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard Cytowic, MD
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Podcast Surgical Team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Anne Klibanski is President and CEO of Mass General Brigham, a Boston-based integrated healthcare system that includes internationally known Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, nationally recognized specialty hospitals, seven community hospitals, a health insurance company, physician networks, community health centers, home- based care, and long-term care services.
Dr. Klibanski’s vision for Mass General Brigham is to build the integrated academic health care system of the future with patients at the center, by transforming care, improving outcomes, and expanding impact locally, nationally, and globally. She has led clinical integration of services across the system, spearheaded the development of new digital platforms to achieve digital care, and overseen the increased investment in leading-edge research since assuming the role in 2019.
Guests: Mark Palmer & Eddie Moore
Forget about future ready; you’re not ready for now!
Most leaders operate at a disadvantage: they don’t have a formal blueprint of their organization. Yet organizational design is vital if you want to be ready for whatever the future brings to your business. From your supply chain to internal communications, organizational design is far, far more than an org chart. In this episode, guests Eddie Moore and Mark Palmer explain how absolutely vital design is in making your business future-ready!
Here's what Mark, Eddie, and Maureen cover:
- What organizational design really is;
- How succession planning is built in to the very fabric of design; and
- The many ways org design future-proofs your team.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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The Essentials of Theory U with Otto Scharmer
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Hiring in the Great Resignation: Developing Your Culture, Communications, and Pipeline in a Crisis with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
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Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Eddie and Mark at their respective websites: http://emooreconsulting.com/ and https://www.jobfitcalculator.com/ , respectively.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Better Podcasters by Design: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
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About Our Guests:
Mark Palmer is a thought leader, author, consultant, and entrepreneur specializing in organization change management, leadership development, strategic performance, and workforce solutions innovation. He is a co-founder and managing partner for Hire Direction, a data-driven organization solutions consultancy and 2022 recipient of Forbes America’s Best Management Consulting Firms.
Mark was co-founder and Chief Product Officer for LaborGenome, and lead innovator for talent alignment modeling technologies. He is co-creator of the Position Success Indicator (PSI) and DEV:Q (Development Quotient) organizational performance metrics. Mark is also an advisor and consultant with the Innovative Leadership Institute (ILI), focusing on leadership coaching, team building, and organizational effectiveness. He was a founding member and facilitator for Integral Institute, an international think-tank created to combine progressive organizational research with practical applications in both the public and private sector.
Mark has over 25 years of experience working with clients to optimize strategic alignment, team effectiveness, and organization systems.
Edmund (Eddie) Moore is a seasoned professional with over 24 years of experience working in and consulting to Fortune 100 and 500 companies in a wide range of industries and in diverse roles.
Eddie brings a unique mix of creative energy, intelligence, and pragmatism to solve your leadership challenges. His approach to strategic planning, organization design and change management are based on over 20 years of consulting and corporate experience. His diverse background allows him to draw from the various disciplines of psychology, organization effectiveness, marketing, technology, finance and communications to design and facilitate leadership conversations and work processes tailored to your needs and the ability of your team.
Guest: Sharon Melnick
Pushy. Manipulative. Lofty.
We have a lot of negative views for powerful leaders – but that’s not what real power is about. When a leader is in their power, they raise everyone around them. It’s the difference between simply having power, and being IN your power.
With her latest book, In Your Power, Sharon Melnick explores the ways women leaders, in particular, both grow and leak their power. She discusses those, as well as how turning down an invitation to the White House led to her epiphany about giving away your personal power, in this episode.
Here's what Sharon and Maureen cover:
- How and why we can redefine power as a force for good;
- The three ways in which we’re not in our power; and
- How burnout results not just from overwork, but from being underpowered, too.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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The Women’s Power Playbook with Carolyn Buck Luce
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ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women with Pauline Koelbl
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Power, Charisma, & Hormones: Science Studies Leadership with John Antonakis
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Sharon and her work at InYourPowerBook.com & SharonMelnick.com.She’s also written several books: the subject of this interview In Your Power, as well as earlier works including Success Under Stress and Confidence When It Counts.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New Yorkby Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
People in their Podcast Power: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Between ever changing work practices, and the elusive act of fulfilling personal and professional demands, leaders are having to navigate a new world of challenges and strike the right tone of balancing completion with compassion. Dr. Sharon Melnick introduces the idea that power is the underlying issue in many of the trends we see among employees, and that leaders who use their power for the good of all can create team members who are loyal, inspired, and accountable. What Dr. Melnick sees from having coached and trained over 40,000 professionals is that leaders already have so much more power than they realize or are using.
As a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach, Sharon combines proven leadership best practices with behavior change methods she developed through 10 years of psychology research at Harvard Medical School. Sharon has spoken at over 200 retreats and leadership conferences around the world (as well as presenting at the White House, the United Nations, and at West Point). She hosts the popular podcast, The Power Shift.
Guest: Carolyn Buck Luce
Live an epic life.
That’s the goal Carolyn Buck Luce advises you to have. In this episode, she shares ways to make that happen…and how that path started for her. Eight year old Carolyn Buck Luce was inspired by John F. Kennedy's call to service, and decided to take responsibility for answering it even though she was only in elementary school. She created her first Decade Game, a plan for the next ten years of her life. Despite the pre-internet turmoil of the 1960s, she was determined to follow her purpose and make a difference in the world. She used the Decade Game to understand the power of leadership and the importance of courage, vulnerability, and trust. And, critically, she observed that women give away much of their power – not just in the board room, but beginning as children in primary school.
That served to motivate her even more. Carolyn continues her mission, and still uses her Decade Game in her journey to becoming an organizational shaman inspiring humans to live epic lives.
Here's what Carolyn and Maureen cover:
- What, exactly, the Decade Game is – and how to play it;
- Why truly courageous leaders use their power for good; and
- The importance of having purpose.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
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Storydoers: Leaders with Higher Purposes with Ty Montague
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Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Carolyn’s latest book is Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook . She’s also written a fascinating book on our medical system: Reimagining Healthcare: Through a Gender Lens .
More about her life-steering Decade Game is online at https://www.mydecadegame.com/ , and the Power Playbook at https://www.epicwomensplaybook.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New Yorkby Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Epically Powerful Podcast Players: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Carolyn Buck Luce is one of America’s most respected and accomplished voices on Women’s Leadership and their relationship with power. She is the author of the recently published EPIC! The Women’s Power Play Book. A gifted strategist and executive coach, Carolyn has spent the last five decades of her career building highly effective cultures, businesses, teams, and leaders in both the public and private sectors. From a diplomat in the USSR, to a Wall Street Banker, to healthcare futurist and management consultant, throughout her career, Carolyn has focused on helping courageous leaders make the difference they dream of.
Guest: Reta Jo Lewis
"It's not just about the the betterment of you and your family. It's about the betterment of the community."
That is one of the core values that helped guide Reta Jo Lewis through an eventful leadership journey, culminating in her current role as president and chair of the board of the Export Import Bank of the United States — the first African American to accomplish this. She is a passionate advocate for women in entrepreneurship and has a long history of working in politics and law.
In this episode, she shares more about her amazing leadership path (including time with Nelson Mandela), and how that can help you in your own career journey.
Here's what Reta Jo and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The importance of feeling you’re working for something bigger than just yourself;
- Having confidence that the skills and knowledge you have now prepared you for your next career opportunity; and
- Why forging a network and relationships with peers, mentors, and role models is so important to developing as a leader.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses – with Pauline Koelbl
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Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellise & Augusto Lopez-Claros
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Winning in the Face of Adversity: Overcoming Challenge with Grace – with Joyce Beatty & Doug McCollough
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
You can learn more about Reta Jo’s agency and her work there at www.exim.gov .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New Yorkby Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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Ms. Lewis is a senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in international affairs, legal, public policy, business and regulatory affairs, and subnational diplomacy.
On February 9, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Reta Jo Lewis as EXIM’s President and Chair of the Board of Directors. Ms. Lewis was most recently a Senior Fellow and Director of Congressional Affairs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to her time at GMF, she served as the first-ever Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs under Secretary Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State during the Obama-Biden Administration. As Special Representative, Lewis was the chief diplomat in charge of the international efforts to build and support strategic relationships between the federal government, state and local leaders, and their foreign counterparts. In 2013, she was awarded the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award.
Ms. Lewis was the first Black woman to serve as Vice President and Counselor to the President at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She led the Chamber’s initiatives focused on fostering strategic alliances between small businesses, especially women- and minority-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and executives. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Member of the Board of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security. Ms. Lewis received a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, an M.S.A.J. from American University, and a B.A. from the University of Georgia. She is a native of Statesboro, Georgia.
Guest: Henry Mintzberg
There’s a lot of chaos for leaders to deal with, and it’s been pushing us out of balance for decades. Henry Mintzberg has had enough. Enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right, as well as the leadership paralysis in the political center. The world we live in needs a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience.
But Henry doesn’t complain: he crafts solutions. In this episode, he presents host Maureen Metcalf with an integrative framework for a comprehensive way forward. It’s based on his book, Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center.
Here's what Henry and Maureen cover:
- Why the internal threats to democracies and our individual self-denigrations are tied to the same root cause;
- How imbalance wreaks havoc on our lives and leadership; and
- What can be done to restore balance and our cultural sanity .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Building Communities within Your Business – with Alice Yoo LeClair
- Courageous Followership – with Neil Grunberg & Ira Chaleff
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA – with Chris Nolan
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RESOURCES:
Henry’s book discussed in this episode is Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center. It’s available here . He’s written quite a lot; some of his other books include Simply Managing, Bedtime Stories for Managers, and The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning.
You can also learn more about Henry and his activities at CoachingOurselves.com and through his blog at Mintzberg.org .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
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Constantly Rebalancing Far Too Many Duties: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Henry Mintzberg is a writer and educator, mostly about managing originations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies, which is his current focus. Henry sits in the Cleghorn Chair of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in Montreal. He has authored 20 books, including Simply Managing and Bedtime Stories for Managers, which have earned him 20 honorary degrees. Henry co-founded the International Masters Program for Managers as well as a venture CoachingOurselves.com, novel initiatives for managers to learn together from their own experience, the last in their own workplace. Henry may spend his professional life dealing with organizations, but he spends his private life escaping from them—mostly in a canoe, up mountains, and on a bicycle. You can find out more about his adventures on mintzberg.org, which includes his blog.
Guests: Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
In this episode, Raj Sisodia and Sudhanshu Palsule explore the power of conscious leadership. With Conscious Capitalism, this can inspire a higher purpose for businesses, transcending the old Industrial Era story of profit-driven motives. The world has changed dramatically, but our leadership and business models have yet to catch up.
United in their belief that business can be a force of good, they share their research and personal journeys as they forged new leadership principles of purpose, wholeness, and healing.
Here's what Raj, Sudhanshu, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The four pillars of 21st Century leadership (and business);
- The importance of evolving from a shareholder mindset to a stakeholder mindset; and
- How leaders and their organizations profit by combining the best of their masculine and feminine cultural energies.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
-
Should IT Executives Share their Soft Side? – with David White
-
Joy at Work – with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cooke
-
Leading with Care in a Tough World – with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
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RESOURCES:
You’ll find more from Raj and Sudhanshu on their websites: ConsciousCapitalism.org and RajSisodia.com, or RehumanizingLeadership.com and SudhanshuPalsule.com respectively.
Both Raj and Sudhanshu have written many books. Raj’s include the seminal Conscious Capitalism, as well as Firms of Endearment, and Shakti Leadership. Raj also blogs at ConsciousCapitalism.Typepad.com/conscious-capitalism .
Sudhanshu’s books include Rehumanizing Leadership and The Social Leader.
And for Adam Smith’s thoughts on the social obligations of capitalists, read his The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
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Our Consciously Caring Colleagues: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:
Raj Sisodia is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj has a Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. His fifteen books include Conscious Capitalism (2013), Everybody Matters (2015), Firms of Endearment and The Healing Organization. Raj has worked with numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, BorgWarner, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart and McDonalds. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University and has served on the boards of Mastek and The Container Store.
Sudhanshu Palsule is an award-winning educator, leadership philosopher, CEO advisor, author, and speaker. He is regarded as one of the leading thinkers in the fields of Transformative Leadership and Leading in Complexity. Author of several books, his latest book, “Rehumanizing Leadership” was published in 2020. Sudhanshu is a fellow at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also an Educator and Academic Director at Duke CE (part of Duke University, USA). He has written several books including The Social Leader, Managing in Four Worlds, The Ecology of Organizations, Personal Growth, and Science, Technology, and Social Change.
Guest: Monique Jefferson
Are you a hybrid leader yet?
That’s what today’s work world demands. Most workers prefer work from home. Others prefer to be in the office. Still others like hybrid work: a combination of both. In this episode in our Connex Partners Executive Insights series, we ask -- How do you lead people with such opposing preferences? And how do you accommodate the breadth of diversity in the workforce?
Monique Jefferson says the answer lies in being intentional. The Chief People Officer of NYC’s Community Preservation Corporation successfully guides her leaders into intentionality and inclusivity. Done well, your team will have purpose, passion, and perspective…all of which lead to greater morale and loyalty. She shares her methods with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Monique and Maureen cover:
- The path to being an intentional leader in today’s hybrid work environment;
- Why flexibility ranks higher than compensation in importance to today’s workers; and
- The Three Ps, and their importance to your team…and you .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace – with Greg Moran
- Five Trends to Know: Leadership in 2023 – with Christopher Washington
- Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives – with Eric Douglas Keene
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RESOURCES:
Monique Jefferson is on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-d-jefferson-sphr-shrm-scp-8120712 . Information on Monique’s 3-P haven, the Community Preservation Corporation, is at https://communityp.com/ .
Information about this episode’s sponsor, Connex Partners, is at https://www.connexpartners.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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Our Intentional Podcast Support Team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Monique Jefferson is an expert in human capital management with an instinct for determining the impact of organizational change, particularly on marginalized groups. She is a results-oriented, proven human resources executive with over 20 years of global experience in the financial services, legal, Insurance, media, non-profit and professional services industries. Her primary areas of expertise include talent and performance management, compensation, leadership development, diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, talent acquisition, executive coaching, cultural change, employee engagement, training, and employee and labor relations.
Monique currently serves as Chief People Officer of Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) (a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) within the multi family affordable housing sector) where she develops the human resources strategic plan and builds a culture that will enable CPC to attract, engage, grow and retain a high performing,diverse workforce. Monique previously served as the Chief Human Resources Officer of New York Public Radio, the second largest public media company in the U.S., where she led a culture transformation and implemented the first Race Equity Action plan for the organization.
Guest: James Brenza
By their very nature, emerging industries (such as EVs, private spaceships, and cannabis) present unique leadership challenges – and opportunities – rarely encountered in long-established businesses. In addition to general entrepreneurism, you’re creating something new for the marketplace…and forging the team to shepherd it.
Emerging industries often lend a new twist on old businesses: they allow the opportunity to relook at established practices, sparking innovation in the business sector. James Brenza joins the show to discuss his venture into an emerging industry -- and how that provided him with new challenges as well as the possibilities of new solutions.
Here's what James and Maureen cover:
- How disruptions in your personal life can spark your drive into new kinds of business;
- Ways to navigate the uncertainty of cutting-edge industries when legislation isn’t consistent across the country; and
- Why standards and technology remain vital components in emerging industries.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Leverage Change: Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results - with Jake Jacobs
- Opportunity in Uncertainty – with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
- Building Trust in Uncertainty – with Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
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RESOURCES:
More about James Brenza’s agritech firm is online at https://greenest-grow.com/ . You can also connect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenestgrow/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Emerging Podcast Pioneers: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
James Brenza is an information technology and analytics leader with 20 years of diversified experience and success in delivering analytical, functionally rich, complex solutions. He is a hands-on leader who carefully balances strategic planning, business communications and technical delivery. He has extensive experience with motivating mixed-shore teams to deliver high quality, flexible results. James’ academic foundation includes 3 degrees: Information Technology, Finance, and an MBA. He complemented his technical skills with a Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Qualification and PMP certifications. He applies that foundation to solving problems in banking, insurance, retail, distribution, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and public service. He has also been involved in the startup community by serving on advisory boards and as CDO.
Guest: Janet Fouts
We recognize the many layers of stress we are under day-to-day. Those stresses are very real – and often increase as we move up the leadership ladder. That stress has consequences, both physical and mental. What can we do?
Janet Fouts has distilled some very simple tools that can help us be less reactive and more responsive to what life throws at us. They’re based on her deep dive into mindfulness as she dealt with the extreme stress of working as a full time digital marketer while caring for a dying partner. In the process, she learned that when we are aware of ourselves, we have better opportunities to understand others, making us better leaders, communicators, and partners.
Here's what Janet and Maureen cover:
- How to recognize, and deal with, the triggers that can set you off;
- Ways to learn mindfulness in easy microsteps; and
- Why work meetings cause so much stress (and why Americans do meetings so poorly).
Other episodes to keep your leadership chill:
- Mindfulness Benefits in the Workplace – with Rich Fernandez & Peter Weng
- Mental Toughness: How to Embrace Stress for Greater Success - with Col. Deb Lewis
- Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership - with Dr. Maryanna Klatt
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RESOURCES:
We’re watching for her forthcoming book, Microdosed Mindfulness. In the meantime, check out her other publications. Her prior book on self-care while caring for others is When Life Hits the Fan. She also has a batch of books on social media marketing from her earlier career, available here. To learn more about Janet, surf to her website: JanetFouts.com.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Mindfully Minding the Podcast Store: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
After 25 years as CEO of Tatu Digital Media, a Silicon Valley marketing agency, Janet Fouts quit and founded Nearly Mindful, where she serves as a Human Potential Facilitator, working with individuals and teams to reach their full potential through emotional intelligence and mindfulness coaching, workshops, and retreats.
Guest: Jacob Morgan
There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won’t work in the future – so how do we prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond?
What’s required of leaders, even the types of leaders we need, is in flux. So what can a struggling leader do now?
Jacob Morgan wondered, as well, so he interviewed over 140 CEOs, then partnered with LinkedIn to survey almost 14,000 of their members around the globe to see how those CEO insights aligned with employee perspectives. He uncovered some fascinating insights, and shares them in this episode.
Here's what Jacob and Maureen cover:
- The undeniable reality that pre-pandemic leadership isn’t going to cut it in this post-pandemic decade;
- Why these changes are happening; and
- The four mindsets and five behaviors to develop as a leader for tomorrow.
Related episodes to make you a future-ready leader:
- The Future Is Yours to Create – with Rebecca Ryan
- Curing Corporate Short-Termism – with Gregory Milano
- Red Roof: Revisioning the Future – with George Limbert
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RESOURCES:
Get all the details of Jacob’s findings in his book, The Future Leader. He’s also written The Employee Experience Advantage, The Future of Work, and The Collaborative Organization.
The Notable Nine PDF Jacob referenced is available at TheLeadershipDigest.com . Or learn about his other forward-searching work at TheFutureOrganization.com .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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The Future of Podcast Humanity Rests in Their Hands: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Jacob Morgan is a four-time bestselling author, keynote speaker, and futurist who explores leadership, employee experience, and the future of work. He is the founder of FutureofWorkUniversity.com, an online education and training platform that helps future proof individuals and organizations by teaching them the skills they need to succeed in the future of work. Jacob also hosts the Future of Work podcast, a weekly show where he speaks with senior executives, business leaders, and bestselling authors about how the world of work is changing. He is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fortune, HBR, Fast Company, the BBC, and others.
Guest: Greg Moran
When young companies scale their business, there are many challenges…some obvious, and some no one talks about. Greg Moran joins the show for a discussion about the topics that are often avoided. Some have even been considered taboo! We’ll learn about back-office processes and tooling, hiring and diversity, space: culture and people, keeping the value chain in balance, pricing and value creation, establishing ESG processes, and minimizing distraction. It’s a primer for entrepreneurs on the threshold of growth!
Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:
- The struggles that happened before the start-up success stories everyone publicizes;
- Why scaling the back office is just as important as scaling your product or service; and
- How truth with your growing staff is critical to continued success.
More episodes with Greg Moran for binge-listening:
- The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace
- Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption
- What Your Team REALLY Thinks…in Real Time!
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RESOURCES:
To learn more about Greg’s company, surf over to https://www.awarehq.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.
Guests: Neil Grunberg & Ira Chaleff
“He who cannot be a good follower, cannot be a good leader.”
Aristotle shared that wisdom over 2,000 years ago, but today we chafe at being labeled a follower. Yet, as Ira Chaleff and Neil Grunberg point out, if no one is following, then no one can be leading, either!
Followership is critical in any organization. Think of followership and leadership as a yin and yang: each of us needs to be good at both of them, and each of us needs to know when to play which role. It all depends on the context. Most critically, be a courageous follower: one with the values and integrity to let your leader know when things are amiss. Enron is a classic warning about what happens when an organization doesn’t have courageous followers!
Here's what Ira, Neil, and Maureen cover:
- The importance of standing up to and for your leader (even at the same time);
- How strict hierarchies distort the flow between follower and leader, slowing down the organization; and
- Why a lack of courageous followership leads to catastrophes at work (such as Enron) and in our personal lives (such as Uvalde and other mass tragedies).
Other episodes for further learning:
- The New Rules of Work – with Gary Bolles
- Employees – Empowered! – with Rod Lacey
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders – with Terri O’Fallon
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RESOURCES:
Ira Chaleff is a prolific writer. His books include The Courageous Follower, Intelligent Disobedience, The Limits of Violence (with Elan Le Vieux),The Art of Followership, and Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide . Information on Ira’s consulting firm is at https://exe-coach.com/; his own website is https://IraChaleff.com .
Neil Grunberg has a multitude of research papers and articles in leadership journals. He also cowrote Innovative Leadership for Health Care with Maureen and others, and edited A Distinctive Approach to Psychological Research.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Ira Chaleff is an author, speaker, and innovative thinker. His latest work, Intelligent Disobedience, is now available on Amazon. He is founder and president of Executive Coaching and Consulting Associates. As a coach, Ira provides a stimulating and safe environment for executives and their teams to examine, evaluate and significantly improve their management styles, skills and processes. Through targeted interviews, work-climate surveys, and multi-viewpoint feedback instruments, he involves all those who have a stake in the change process, analyzes their input and provides frank, constructive feedback sessions.
Neil Grunberg is a professor of Military & Emergency Medicine, Medical & Clinical Psychology, and Neuroscience in the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also a professor in the Graduate School of Nursing, Director of Research and Development in the USU Leadership Education and Development program, and Director of Faculty Development for Military and Emergency Medicine. He is a medical and social psychologist who has been on faculty at USU since 1979.
Guest: Alice Yoo LeClair
Contrary to old-school management beliefs, having a work-best-friend boosts productivity. Having an entire work community? That boosts a lot of people’s productivity, morale, even longevity with the organization. Best of all, the communities you foster at work don’t need to be work-related to have these effects: gamers, Trekkies, and football fanatics in your workplace all benefit.So how does an HR leader drive community building within their organization? Does remote work make it more difficult? How does it fit with the CHRO’s other responsibilities? And how do you focus on this when managers so often dump their personnel responsibilities on the HR department instead of taking their own leadership reins? Alice Yoo LeClair knows the world of Human Resources well, with experience in organizations of all sizes. With her deep experience and eyes on the future, she shares her wisdom and observations with host Maureen Metcalf.
This is the first of several episodes which view innovative leadership from the perspective of the CHRO and other human resources leaders: the Connex Executive Insights Series.
Here's what Alice and Maureen cover:
- What a community is, and why having work communities is so important for your team;
- How workplace communities benefit the broader business; and
- Why Gallup research shows that having good friends at work substantially boosts productivity.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Joy at Work – with Roxanne Brown and Edward Cook
- Achieving Employee-Centric Leadership – with Heather Krentler
- Workforce Demographics & an Inclusive Culture – with Nadia Younes, Gamiel Yafai, & Louise Carvalho
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
For a deeper dive on all things HR, check https://www.connexpartners.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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Citizenry of our Podcast Community: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Alice Yoo LeClair is the Head of Talent, Culture, & Performance at Ascendion. At the time of recording, she was Chief Human Resources Officer for Euromoney PLC’s Financial & Professional Services (FPS) division. Before joining Euromoney, Alice was the Head of HR for the Americas GTM region and multiple product verticals at Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business. Previously, she held global people strategy and commercial program management roles at IPC Systems, IntelePeer and Level 3 Communications (now Lumen Technologies). Alice has a bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Hartford where she double majored in Piano Performance and English. She also has a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from eCornell, Cornell University’s external education unit.
Guest: Rebecca Heiss
From our archives, a special show about our hidden biases.
We all have bias. In various forms, it’s built into our brains. But implicit bias creates a disadvantage for leaders and their organizations. Dr. Rebecca Heiss has studied bias extensively, and shares what implicit bias is and how it impacts each of us. As leaders, we need to understand and manage implicit biases because they impact our hiring choices, promotion and succession decisions, company policies – even how closely we pay attention to someone in a presentation. To truly ensure we hire and retain top talent, we need to remove bias from our decision making process as much as possible. During this show, Rebecca shares her research…and what it reveals about the ways we can beat the bias in our business, and our lives.
Here's what Rebecca and Maureen cover:
- What, exactly, implicit bias is – and how it taints your decision-making without you realizing;
- How implicit bias goes beyond major strokes like race and religion, such as the seemingly subtle bias of “Blondes have more fun” which has deep effects in the workplace; and
- The ways bias actually impedes how efficiently (and profitably) your company is achieving its goals.
Other episodes for deeper learning:
- The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias – with Gleb Tsipursky
- Reimagining American Identity – with Amiel Handelsman & Jewel Kinch-Thomas
- DEI: Needed Conversations & Understanding – with Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Dr. Heiss has a fascinating book on dealing with stress and boosting productivity. Instinct is available here .
Her equally fascinating TEDx talk on Ghostbusting Our Evolutionary “Other” is on YouTube here.
There’s more on her website at www.RebeccaHeiss.com .
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Producer: Dan Mushalko
Editor: Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Rebecca Heiss is an evolutionary biologist focusing on human behavior and physiology. She’s the founder and CEO of a measurable stress reduction company, Instinctive Cognition. As a speaker and consultant, Rebecca has developed a passion for helping others overcome blind spots to become their best biological selves.
After earning a PhD with research designated as “transformative” by the National Science Foundation, Rebecca went on to hold multiple appointments in academia, applying her research to solve practical problems in overcoming what she refers to as “biological ghosts” — subconscious behaviors that haunt modern life. A creative thought leader, she delivered a TEDx talk on a portion of her work, and has built her career on helping others break through their evolutionary ethical “blind spots.” Having conquered the business of biology, Dr. Heiss has turned her focus to revolutionizing the biology of business.
Guest: Michelle Sanchez-Bickley
Amidst the Great Resignation, exceptional organizations are still retaining their top employees, and recruiting new staff. Renown Health is one of them.
In the second of our Connex Executive Insights series, Michelle Sanchez-Bickley of Renown Health joins Maureen Metcalf to discuss the challenges of the Great Resignation for HR departments. It’s particularly challenging in the health care sector; the strains of COVID on our medical system put particular pressure on doctors, nurses, and hospital support staff. That’s led to 30% or more turnover.
Using a combination of developing internal culture, open communications, hybrid and remote working, and a modern innovation on apprenticeship, Renown Health is a bright spot emerging above the crisis.
Here's what Michelle and Maureen cover:
- Why taking a hard look at your company culture is key to losing staff;
- How Michelle maintained a hiring pipeline even though COVID hit the healthcare industry so hard; and
- Why you lose good employees when they don’t see a path for growth, development, or simply learning.
Related episodes:
- Innovative Leadership for the Healthcare Industry – with Neil Grunberg
- High Performance Medicine: Healthcare & Innovation – with Brian Ferguson
- Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership – with Dr. Maryanna Klatt
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Further information on Michelle’s healthcare system is online at Renown.org .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Michelle Sanchez-Bickley is Chief HR Officer for Renown Health, the largest not for profit health system in Northern Nevada. In this role, Michelle is responsible for overall strategic and HR operational functions for the enterprise. She has over 25 years of HR leadership experience, with the majority of her career spent in healthcare. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science and justice studies from Frostburg State University in Maryland, and earned her Master’s degree in human resource development from Georgia State University. She is a certified senior professional in human resources (SPHR) and a Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). She serves on several local not for profit boards, including Education Alliance, Nevada Works, and Nevada Employer Association. She loves to mentor others and is passionate about the community in which she serves.
Guest: Pauline Koelbl
Surviving life as a refugee is one thing. To turn that life into a mission to empower other women is quite another.
That’s exactly what Pauline Koelbl did. Escaping the war in Rwanda, she found herself a homeless refugee. Eventually, Pauline found a home in Tucson, Arizona. More importantly, she found mentoring and support there – and now “pays it forward” as the founder and managing director of ShEquity, and investment firm providing capital and other resources to women-led and -owned businesses in Africa. Women are the key to unlocking economic success on the continent; they operate over 40% of small and medium sized enterprises. What’s more, they reinvest about 90% of their revenue in sectors and activities that benefit their families and communities – men only reinvest 40%. That’s one of many reasons the McKinsey Global Institute estimates the global GDP would increase by $28 trillion if we simply closed the business gender gap!
Pauline shares her compelling story of refugee-turned-entrepreneur focused on female empowerment with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Pauline and Maureen cover:
- How closing the gender gap in the workforce potentially adds $28 trillion to the global GDP;
- Why, despite the stereotypes, refugees bring with them vast amounts of intellectual capital host countries tend to waste; and
- Why women are the key to African (and other) nations fully realizing their economic potential.
Other episodes you'll find edifying:
-
Diamonds in the Rough: Sustainability & Corporate Citizenship – with Pat Dambe
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Diversity & Inclusion Insights from IBM South Africa – with Roger Madison
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Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
More on Pauline’s investment firm is online at https://shequity.com/ .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
They Who Shall Remain Unnamed: Luigi Morelli and Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Pauline Koelbl is AfriProspect GmbH’s Founder/CEO as well as ShEquity’s Founder/Managing Partner. AfriProspect focuses on connecting African innovators with global markets, and ShEquity provides smart investment to impactful and scalable African female-led and owned businesses. Pauline also has 10+ years’ experience catalyzing innovation and entrepreneurship across Africa. Her passion lies in innovation, entrepreneurship, youth, and women economic empowerment. A double Fulbright -Scholar and Fellow-, Pauline is currently serving on a variety of boards of companies/organizations connected to business, entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.
Pauline holds an Executive Education in Innovation for Economic Development from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; a Master’s Degree in Poverty and Development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (Honors) from the University of Arizona, USA.
Guest: Chris Nolan
Does your world feel chaotic, unpredictable – lunging beyond your understanding or control? You’re not alone: in fact, the US military felt the same, and created the concept of VUCA to maintain a defensive edge. The good news: you can readily apply VUCA to your organization to maintain YOUR defensive edge!
In this episode, Emmy award-winning filmmaker Chris Nolan reveals the power of storytelling to help leaders navigate the rapidly accelerating VUCA Max world. It’s an inspiring how-to in creating a compelling vision to shape and rebrand your future…and drive success in your organization.
Here’s what Chris and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- How to use future-back thinking to prepare for and accommodate rapid change;
- How storytelling can change the future; and
- The importance of vision in guiding and motivating your team.
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovativeleadershipinsitute/ . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RELATED PODCASTS to Continue Your VUCA Binge:
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA – with Chris Nolan (this is a great primer on the VUCA concept)
- Expecting the Unexpected: VUCA in Action at Red Roof – with George Limbert
- Improve Virtual Team Success by Leveraging Paradox – with Jean Brittain Leslie
RESOURCES:
Chris’ VUCA documentary is on Amazon here. The website supporting the film and with more VUCA information is www.ItsVUCA.com . And to contact Chris, follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/it-s-vuca/ .
For just plain fun: Check out Chris’ musical comedy feature film about the teen vampire scene, I Kissed a Vampire.
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video Editor: Devon Mushalko
League of Extraordinary Podbean Gentlemen: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Chris Nolan is a multiple Emmy Award-winning director, creative director, marketing strategist, branding story expert, writer, songwriter, playwright and author. His most recent projects include the award-winning “Unforgettable Happens Here” campaign for Disney earning 20M views on YouTube. Two ten minute spy movies “From The Adapt or Die Files” for Google‘s API division. And the “Your Life. Now Playing.” series for RealNetworks. Chris has developed and directed brand storytelling campaigns and commercials for Fortune 100 companies and won countless advertising awards: Cannes, Clios, Addy's and Telly's. He has also directed several hours of episodic TV as well as directed and written feature films. His latest film projects are the documentary "It's VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century" and a feature about Jimi Hendrix entitled ‘Floating Bridge’. His most recent book is "It's VUCA: The Master Guide to Living in the 21st Century".
Guests: Nadia Younes, Gamiel Yafai, & Louise Carvalho
Slow as molasses. That’s one way to describe how leaders have responded to the rapidly changing workplace. The work environment was already changing before the COVID pandemic; now, there’s no going back to the old “industrial” model. It doesn’t meet rapidly evolving employee expectations nor the major shifts in workforce demographics. That, in turn, means the Great Resignation should have come as no surprise at all!
The new, effective workplace models all embrace DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Inclusive business cultures hold many advantages for staff, leaders, and profitability. From morale to a broader pool of leaders, the benefits are impactful.
How does it work? Nadia Younes, Louise Carvalho, and Gamiel Yafai use CERN, Europe’s particle physics research center, as a launching point to explore inclusiveness with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Nadia, Gamiel, & Louise cover:
- While Gen Z gets all the press, leaders must learn how to juggle the wants and needs of five different generations overlapping in the same workplace;
- Why – despite the old-school wishes of CEOs like Tim Cook, Bob Iger, and Elon Musk – workers and the workplace have changed forever; and
- With the decline in church attendance and other traditional social arenas, how the workplace has become most people’s place of “community.”
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives – with Eric Douglas Keene
- DEI: Needed Conversations & Understanding – with Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney
- 5 Trends to Know: Leadership in 2023 – with Christopher Washington
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
The international online leadership community, Rejuvi 45, is on the web at https://www.rejuviventure.com/ .
More about the human side of the CERN physics center is at https://home.cern/ .
For further reading, Nadia Younes co-authored The Diversity Calling: Building Community One Story at a Time. Gamiel Yafai wrote or co-wrote two books: Demystifying Diversity: A Handbook to Navigate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Yemen Proud: Past & Present.
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
International Men of Podbean Mystery: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:
Nadia Younes has extensive cross-industry and geographical experience leading efforts in DEI, employee experience, and work-life/wellbeing in global multinational companies headquartered in Switzerland, the US, Canada, Australia and the UK…including Wells Fargo, Amgen, Novartis, Rio Tinto, International Monetary Fund and Zurich Insurance. She has also consulted with over 100 other multinational and non-profit organizations and helped introduce the next generation of measurement of gender equality that includes intersectionality with race and other dimensions of diversity.
Gamiel Yafai has worked at the highest levels with many public, private and voluntary organisations on diversity and inclusion culture change initiatives over the last 21 years. Recipient of the Global Diversity Leadership Award presented by the Global HRD Congress, and author of Demystifying Diversity and Yemen Proud, Gamiel has worked with some of Europe’s largest employers to design and implement diversity and inclusion culture change strategies and action plans to both attract new talent from diverse backgrounds, and to support existing talent as they reach their potential.
Louise Carvalho, a lawyer by profession, has practiced in Canada, in England, within the United Nations and European Union institutions in post-conflict Kosovo, and at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize 2013) in The Hague. Louise joined CERN in October 2014 as a Legal Adviser and was appointed Diversity & Inclusion Programme Leader in 2018.
Guest: John Antonakis
Power does tend to corrupt. Especially the more testosterone is added to the mix.
That’s just one finding that the scientific study of leadership has revealed. Yet, despite the legions of leadership consultants plying their theories, very little research in the field has been conducted with scientific rigor. Even science basics, such as control groups and identifying variables, are missing. That punches big holes in many leading leadership philosophies and best-selling books; they look at what top-performing companies have in common…but don’t check to see if the worst performing companies have those same things in common, too!
Enter John Antonakis. A professor of organizational behavior, and the editor-in-chief of The Leadership Quarterly, John applies the scientific model to studies of leadership qualities, with a particular interest in charisma. He’ll talk about power, hormones, and his AI charismometer in this episode.
Here's what John and Maureen cover:
- Why the lack of truly scientific studies of leadership makes it difficult to tease out what really forges a good (even great) leader;
- How testosterone in a leader increases their likelihood of corruption; and
- That most traits of truly great leaders can be learned – you don’t have to be born with them!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Getting Lost in the Language of Leadership – with Jonathan Reams
- The Bonobo Sisterhood: Ape Society’s Lessons for Leadership – with Diane Rosenfeld
- The Science of Dream Teams – with Mike Zani
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Learn more about John’s research at http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jantonakis .
We have a short (1:21) excerpt from this interview on YouTube at https://youtu.be/CaALP3jTo4s .
Information on John’s book, The Nature of Leadership, is at https://amzn.to/3Xdm7UH . He also contributed to Being There Even When You Are Not (Vol. 4), available at https://amzn.to/3ik8Rir
Host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
John Antonakis is Professor of Organizational Behavior and editor-in-chief of The Leadership Quarterly, a high-impact journal in management and applied psychology. John’s research focuses on estimating the causal effect of leadership on outcomes. He is a highly-cited scientist, and has published groundbreaking research in journals such as Science. His work has been covered by media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Guardian, NEWSWEEK, the Daily Mail, BBC News, Forbes, The New Yorker, Business Insider, Fast Company and hundreds of other news sources.
Guest: Fara Palumbo
Change is probably the biggest single consequence of the pandemic on organizations in every sector and of every size. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina not only weathered that change, but thrived – even winning awards. Their Chief People Officer, Fara Palumbo, talks with host Maureen Metcalf about the positive opportunities the pandemic presented to her HR department in launching initiatives – and making Blue Cross/Blue Shield an even better place to work. They discuss change, transformation, and how HR acts as the primary driver for those shifts.
This interview is part of the Connex Executive Insights Series.
Here's what Fara and Maureen reveal:
- How remote work has so many advantages for both the worker and the organization;
- Why it can be outright foolish to return to the inefficiencies of full on-site work; and
- Changing your focus from work-life balance to work-life flexibility.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace – with Greg Moran
- Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust & Connection – with Erica Dhawan
- The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers & Agile Companies – with Jeff Wald
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
There’s more about Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina on their website at Bcbsnc.com .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Dynamic Duo of Podbean: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Fara Palumbo is Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services, and information to 3.8 million members. Throughout her career, she has focused on transforming the talent and culture of teams via a focus on innovation, diversity, and change leadership. During her tenure at Blue Cross NC, Fara has led the transformation of the company’s talent strategy, leading cultural change to enable long-term business growth. Under her leadership, the company has achieved and maintained its certification as a Great Place to Work©, and has earned numerous recognitions as an employer of choice, including the Working Mother Top 100, Best Companies in Healthcare & BioPharma, Forbes Best Mid-sized Companies for Diversity, and NAFE Top Company for Women Executives.
Guest: Jonathan Reams
Leadership is nothing without thought -- and research shows we (literally!) think with our hearts as well as our minds. Neurocardiology is just one way we're learning about how a good leader thinks. The development of more robust thinking skills is vital in growing as a leader. Jonathan Reams, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, discusses the mindsets required for leaders to be effective.
Here's what Jonathan and Maureen cover:
- What the science of neurocardiology shows about how a leaders’ emotions physically affect their teams;
- How the fall of Superman and rise of The Avengers in popular culture reflects the change in leadership the real world needs; and
- The thinking tools we need in a knowledge economy.
Watch an excerpt from this interview on YouTube at https://bit.ly/Reams-YT .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Optimize Your Mindset: A Case Study – with David DeRam
- Opportunity in Uncertainty – with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
- Mindset Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle – with Sean Castrina
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Jonathan has two books. Maturing Leadership dives deeper on the topics in this interview; you can buy it here. The second, Integral Education, is about teaching, not leadership per se!
You can also learn more at Jonathan’s website: JonathanReams.com .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. Follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Masters of All They Survey…on Podbean: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Jonathan Reams practices the cultivation of leadership through awareness-based consulting, coaching and action research on leadership development program design and delivery in a variety of settings. He has a position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, and is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and of the European Center for Leadership Practice. He brings awareness-based leadership development practices to his work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges.
Guest: Jason Lioy
Authenticity boils down to one key concept: be yourself. That concept is critical at Dawn Foods; their passion is their people, and their goal is to create a psychologically safe environment for people to bring their whole selves to work. In short, every Dawn employee can truly “be yourself.”
Making the workplace a safe space took a lot of effort, but Dawn succeeded. The Great Resignation barely touched the company; taking DEI, empathy, and authenticity to a whole new level has driven both retention and core business strategy. Their I Am staff campaign and Women in Leadership program are just two successful facets of Dawn’s belief in people. Dawn’s Chief People Officer – Jason Lioy – joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss the motivation and implementation of this unique and inspiring drive to help each person achieve their potential.
Here's what you’ll learn from Jason & Maureen:
- Pre-pandemic, companies viewed their staff as resources or assets (things), but successful companies today view them as people first;
- Why people respond better to (and are more productive with) authentic leaders; and
- How respect for diversity boosts the bottom line.
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- DEI: Needed Conversations & Understanding – with Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney
- 5 Trends to Know: Leadership in 2023 – with Christopher Washington
- Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma – with Rachael Kelly
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Dawn Foods – their products and their people – at www.DawnFoods.com .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Masters of the (Podbean) Universe: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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About Our Guest:
Jason Lioy is the Chief People Officer for Dawn Foods, a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. In this role, Jason leads the global people team to ensure the long-term success of Dawn’s 4,000+ team members across the company’s three core regions: Europe, Middle East, and Africa; Latin America; North America. Since joining Dawn in 2014, Jason has helped build Dawn's brand and culture into one that recruits, develops, and celebrates diverse top talent, and promotes expertise, collaboration and a passion for bakery. Prior to joining Dawn, Jason's experience spanned global HR leadership and development roles with a strong background in HR operations in manufacturing plants at Philips, GE, and Armstrong World Industries. In his spare time, Jason enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two sons.
Guest: Heather Krentler
Employees want to be heard. They want to know their employer wants the best for them. Continental Services heard – and worked hard to innovate their company culture to fully focus on the employee journey. Heather Krentler, Continental’s chief administrative officer, joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore Continental’s employee-led culture and how it came to be; the changes made not just to engagement, but sourcing the best talent in the first place; and how leaders embraced the new employee-centric culture. The results have been remarkable: a happy staff really does lead to a pleasant bottom line!
Here's what Heather and Maureen cover:
- How part of the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting stem from people – your staff – asserting more control over their lives;
- Why compensation doesn’t cut it as the only benefit to retain a valuable employee; and
- Why the best ideas tend to come from the front line, not the back office.
See an excerpt from this interview on YouTube at https://bit.ly/Heather-YT .
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- What Your Team REALLY Thinks…in Real Time – with Greg Moran
- Leading with Care in a Tough World – with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
- Joy at Work! – with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cook
RESOURCES:
- You can learn more about the employee-centric initiatives Heather and her team have created at ContinentalServes.com .
- Or contact Continental via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/continental-services-michigan/ .
OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Associate Producers Extraordinaire: Luigi Morelli & Connor Carson
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Heather Krentler is the Chief Administrative Officer for Continental, a food management company that specializes in “Food Your Way”: providing flexible food solutions for a flexible workforce. After fifteen years in advertising and media, Heather transitioned to the food industry in 2017 and has been dedicated to building consultative and collaborative centralized services for a rapidly growing enterprise ever since, including Human Resources, Marketing, Systems Management, Risk Management, Loss Prevention, and Project Management. She brings a passion for service to the table and specializes in leadership development and change management as a Gallup-Certified Strengths-Based Coach.
Guest: Tammy Alvarez
You shudder when Monday rolls around. You dread checking overnight work messages on your phone when you wake up. Yup: it’s easy to find yourself in a career you don’t love, and not know how to get out.
Take heart! Tammy Alvarez has been there. She found her way out…and now coaches people to help them forge the path to careers they actually love. She shares some of her tips with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode. One key mindset: think of your career as a business, and you are its CEO. If you’re still searching for the job that brings you joy, these tips from Tammy and her Career Winners Circle -- a comprehensive collection of coaching and training programs designed to strengthen leaders to grow their careers quickly and sustainably – will help!
Here's what Tammy and Maureen cover:
- How to determine what parts of working can still make you passionate about a job,
- Why it’s never too late to switch jobs or careers – even as you near retirement, and
- Saying goodbye to quiet quitting as the leader of your team!
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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Career Sponsorship and Being Sponsor Ready – with Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell
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Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do – with Paul Gibbons
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The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success No One Taught You – with Mark Herschberg
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Tammy’s career coaching firm at CareerWinnersCircle.com. You can also connect with Tammy on LinkedIn here.
The book Maureen mentioned – Leadership 2050 – to which she contributed is available here.
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Meet Tammy Alvarez, CEO and founder of Career Winners Circle: a comprehensive collection of coaching and training programs designed to strengthen leaders to grow their careers quickly and sustainably.
Her spirited “Break all the Rules” approach blends decades of C-Suite experience on Wall Street with a pragmatic, results-based coaching style. She helps business professionals like you create impact so you can love every Monday morning again!
She is an inspirational coach, trainer, and epic storyteller who delivers transformative learning experiences for her global client base. She believes the heart of every successful business is leaders who inspire courage.
Peter Kozodoy was peeved at the number of lying, dishonest managers, CEOs, and other leaders he had to contend with. So he analyzed honesty…and found that honest leaders not only do better, but their teams function better, too. Peter discusses:
- How to use strategic brutal honesty to improve far more than morale: it improves sales, marketing, recruiting, and so much more;
- The simple 2-question technique that teaches us how to shake off self-limiting talk that prevents us from success; and
- How to use honesty like a Jedi mind-trick to spark creativity, resolve interpersonal conflicts, and become a more effective and empowered leader.
Peter’s book is Honest to Greatness.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
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To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice, & Purpose - with Ron Carucci
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The Power & Promise of Generation Z, Part 1 – with AnneMarie Hayek
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The Power & Promise of Generation Z, Part 2 – with AnneMarie Hayek
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Peter’s book, Honest to Greatness, is available here.
He also has more information on his websites: PeterKozodoy.com and HonestToGreatness.com .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. Your can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
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About Our Guest:
Peter Kozodoy is the award-winning author of Honest to Greatness, an Inc. 5000 serial entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and business coach who works with organizations and their leaders to help them overcome self-limiting bullsh*t and use honesty to achieve greatness. His articles on leadership and entrepreneurship have appeared in Forbes, Inc., HuffPost, PR Daily, and more. He holds a BA in economics from Brandeis University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and lives in Puerto Rico with his wife and their spoiled dog. To strike up an honest conversation, visit PeterKozodoy.com.
Guest: Kenny McDonald
It takes a village to raise a city. That twists traditional wisdom, but it’s true: no one leader can improve an urban landscape alone. It takes a group of leaders in public and private partnership. When they’re united by one vision, their city can grow into a powerhouse. Kenny McDonald oversees that for Columbus, Ohio – a city that’s launched into a bold future…most recently, as the site for Intel’s newest, largest chip plant. As president of the Columbus Partnership, McDonald upholds and advances the shared vision of the city’s CEOs. In this episode, he shares how that works so effectively – and what other urban leaders can learn from the Partnership’s example.
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Hot Topics: A Prime Minister's Perspective with Kim Campbell
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Growing Up Biden: Family Lessons on Leadership with Valerie Biden Owens
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Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros
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RESOURCES:
Information on Kenny’s organization, the Columbus Partnership, awaits at ColumbusPartnership.com. If you have specific questions, e-mail info@ColumbusPartnership.com .
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. Your can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
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About Our Guest:
Kenny McDonald serves as the third president and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, a civic organization of Columbus’ top business leaders. The Partnership was founded in 2002 to improve the economic and cultural base of Central Ohio. McDonald is responsible for leading strategies focused on diversity and equity, growth and development, and business and civic innovation, in order for the Columbus Region to achieve its vision to become the most prosperous metropolitan area in the United States.
He brings more than 25 years of experience working with metropolitan economies in Savannah, Georgia;, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Charlotte, North Carolina. He also spent seven years as a global site location advisor for Fluor Corporation.
Guest: Jim Ritchie-Dunham
There’s more to grit than determination – a whole lot more. Knowing that can help you harness this incredible power of passion and perseverance.
Building on the work of Angela Duckworth and her seminal book, guest Jim Ritchie-Dunham shows how there are four levels of grit in an organization...an insight which dovetails neatly with his own work in ecosynomics. Leaders often unknowingly determine how it cascades through various parts of their business – but because they’re not aware of it, they may be reinforcing the wrong kind for a particular department, team, or employee. That results in inefficiencies, lower staff engagement, and the loss of talent. But all of that can be boosted when grit is recognized and deftly applied. Dig in to a deeper understanding of grit with Jim Ritchie-Dunham and host Maureen Metcalf!
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The four lenses for viewing and identifying the grit in your team, and throughout your organization
- The unstated social agreements you have with every single person you work with, and
- How the best leaders see grit in their teams.
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Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Science Behind Our Yes! - with Jim Ritchie-Dunham
- The Good Fight: Using Productive Conflict - with Liane Davey
- Mental Toughness: How to Embrace Stress for Greater Success - with Col. Deb Lewis
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RESOURCES:
Jim's book, Ecosynomics: The Science of Abundance, is available here. He also co-wrote Managing from Clarity.
Jim also blogs regularly at https://jimritchiedunham.wordpress.com/ .
You can learn more about his Institute for Strategic Clarity at ISClarity.org .
Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. Your can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Jim is president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, and is affiliated with Boston College, Harvard, EGADE Business School, and UPMadrid. He wrote Ecosynomics (2014) & co-authored Managing from Clarity (2001). He blogs regularly at jlrd.me. He has a BSPE (UTulsa), MIM (Thunderbird), MBA (ESADE), and PhD Decision Sciences (UTAustin).
Guest: Greg Moran
"Good afternoon, staff. I'm listening."
If only your boss truly listened, like Frasier Crane! The reality is most folks high up the chain have little clue about what the front line -- and the customers the front line interacts with -- are thinking. As the staff at one major company said, "They're not even listening to us."
The solution is easy. Slack, Teams, and other chat channels have replaced the watercooler as your company's own internal social media. Listening to those conversations reveals a wealth of information...and solutions to boost your team's and customers' experiences. As an example, guest Greg Moran discusses the basics of how Aware's AI system finds trending topics without intruding on privacy.
In this episode, you’ll learn:1. There's a big difference between monitoring employees and listening to them
- How listening -- directly and via AI -- gives people a voice in the head office; a voice not filtered by management, and3. How to maintain individuals' privacy while keeping a finger on the pulse of your team.
Other episodes with Greg Moran:
- Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption
- The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace
- Watch this video excerpt from this podcast
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RESOURCES:
The website for Greg's company, Aware, is: www.awarehq.com .
Greg's blog is at https://www.awarehq.com/blog/author/greg-moran .
Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. Your can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
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Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and displays that passion as COO at software company Aware – and shares it by teaching part time at Ohio University.
Turning the tables, Christopher Washington -- the provost and Executive Vice President at Franklin University – interviews our host, Maureen Metcalf, on the top five trends leaders will contend with in 2023. The key it to lead with a scientist's mindset, experimenting and creating opportunities to help your organization navigate the destabilizing effects of the trends, and to take advantage of the opportunities they create.In this episode, you’ll learn:1. How will issues of sustainability and energy security impact businesses?
- What are the implications of inflation and food insecurity on your workforce, and your ability to retain employees?3. Is your internal training creating outdated leaders?
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovativeleadershipinsitute/ . We’re on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
- Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA with Christopher Nolan
- Expecting the Unexpected: VUCA in Action at Red Roof with George Limbert
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovativeleadershipinsitute/ . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf/ .
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. Your can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .
Christopher Washington writes on Medium at https://drchristopherwashington.medium.com/ and with the Forbes Nonprofit Council at https://councils.forbes.com/forbesnonprofitcouncil .
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About Our Guest Host:
Dr. Christopher Washington is a tireless supporter of global leadership development, designer of accessible, inclusive and relevant education, and champion for the role of universities in workforce development. He serves as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for Franklin University. Dr. Washington takes an active role in his local community by serving on the International Visitors Council and on the U.S. Global Leadership Coalitions Ohio Advisory Council. He is a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council,is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Washington D.C.-based Global Ties U.S., and is on the America 250 International Task Force.
Few leaders set out to harm others – but it can happen despite our best intentions. The key is to look outward from our decisions to all the ripple effects they generate.
And the best way to look outward is to look inward!
It’s hardly a secret that our emotions affect our cognition. Our guest, Terri O’Fallon, founder of Stages International, reveals in this episode that identifying and naming our emotions helps us become better leaders, and increases our sense of well-being. With host Maureen Metcalf, Terri delves into the concept of 'developmental ethics' to challenge leaders to embrace their emotions, actively seek out potential harm, and practice adaptability for the greater good with generous spirit.
Here's what Terri and Maureen cover:
- How do emotions influence leadership and how can leaders ensure they are doing no harm?
- What are the benefits of recognizing and labeling emotions, both positive and negative?
- How can leaders cultivate generosity of heart when faced with competitive situations?
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- The Power of Praise: Making People's Performance Positive
- Democracy: Are We a Brittle Twig or Supple Bamboo?
- Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovativeleadershipinsitute/ . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, and Twitter, too!
RESOURCES:
Terri's company, Stages International, is on the web at
StagesInternational.com .
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Terri OFallon Ph.D. has focused the last 14 years on learning and change in human systems as an applied researcher. She has worked with hundreds of leaders studying the interventions that most effectively result in developing leaders who can effectively implement change. She has her PhD in Integral Studiesfrom the California Institute of Integral Studies. She and Kim Barta have created STAGES International, an organization that focuses on how the STAGES developmental model can support insights into our own growth as people, leaders, guides, coaches, and the kind of impact these insights can have on our influence in human collectives.
Featured Guest: Chris Nolan
One look at the headlines on any given day makes it clear: the world is UNclear. How can an organization navigate through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to survive – much less succeed? By understanding VUCA, a concept developed by the Pentagon in 1987 to give our military an edge in chaos. Filmmaker Chris Nolan joins Maureen Metcalf to share how this military technique directly applies to businesses and non-profits – information drawn from his new documentary and book: It’s VUCA!. For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Mastodon: @InnoLeader .
Featured Guest: Matt Qvortrup
As a political scientist, Matt studies democracy – its evolution, and particularly how democracies decline. He shares his perspective on the rise of populism across the world, how that leads to un-democratic leaders, then answers the question, “Is American democracy a brittle twig or a supple bamboo?” He offers solutions, too; every strong democracy in history thrived on disparate points of view – and leaders who welcomed diverse opinions.
Featured Guest: Christopher Washington
Christopher Washington joins Maureen to discuss the Leadership Trends for 2021 and Beyond.
Featured Guest: Evan Sohn
Having trouble filling positions? Brace yourself: the Great Resignation is morphing into the Job Hopper Economy. Evan Sohn, the CEO of Recruiter.com, is in a unique position to see beyond the simplistic explanations of TV pundits. He joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his big-picture view of the state of hiring today…and where it will be tomorrow. Lesson 1: “Money solves all problems” is a pre-pandemic thought that no longer applies. Employees are looking further; in addition to equitable pay, they’re looking for meaningful benefits and companies with conscience. They want their hard work to contribute to more than this quarter’s P&L statement. And they’re willing to hop to the jobs that provide it. Or they job hop to maintain personal freedom and engagement. Whatever the reasons, the talent pool is changing – and your hiring and work culture need to change with it. Evan explains how, as he provides the history of Recruiter.com .
Featured Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen
Helle Bank Jorgensen recently published her book, Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards. Its publication could not be timelier, with companies around the world having to seriously examine environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the wake of the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow. To achieve long-term profits and sustainability, boards must ask the right questions on a range of complex issues, including climate change, ESG, corruption, cybersecurity, human trafficking and supply-chain resilience. Helle joins Maureen to share the insights from more than 100 world experts and reinforced by international case studies that she shares in her book. The book is a must-have guide for board members and executives everywhere.
Featured Guest: George Limbert
The pace of change in the world is rapidly increasing, and there’s no slowing it down. VUCA – a program developed by the U.S. military – is a way of identifying the disruptions of change…and, more importantly, of being ready for them. We’ve talked about the theory of VUCA before (see our interview with Chris Nolan posted September 6, 2022). In this episode, George Limbert talks about VUCA and its antidotes practiced in the real world. George is the head of Red Roof Inns. The COVID pandemic presented a sudden onslaught of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity for the entire travel and hospitality industry worldwide. Yet Red Roof emerged from the pandemic with some of their best financials ever. How? George and his team were VUCA-ready. He shares his experience and business-tested VUCA antidotes in this episode so you can prepare for the uncertainties to come, too! For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .
Featured Guest: George Limbert
“Character is what you do.”
That’s a fundamental leadership principle for George Limbert, president of Red Roof. This is our second visit with George since he began his leadership journey as a first-time corporate president last summer. Red Roof has prospered under his guidance, proving the value of his philosophies. Character sits at their core.
A focus on character led to many innovations at Red Roof, including their Women’s Center for Excellence and Women in Leadership programs to help level the gender playing field, particularly in the lodging industry.
To keep character objectively defined, and his actions with character exemplary for his team, George looks at himself and his team through the lens of judicial temperament. It’s a non-biased way of looking at a situation from all sides to determine its core truth; it comes naturally to George, whose legal background goes beyond law school with deep roots in family: his father is a judge, and a brother and sister are also attorneys.
George shares the many ways any good leader can display character, calmly analyze corporate storms, and deal with other real life ups and downs of leadership with host Maureen Metcalf. Join us for this episode filled with practical examples from Red Roof.
Featured Guest: Greg Moran
Whether it’s official or not, the signs of a looming recession surround us. But that doesn’t necessarily mean doom-and-gloom. During the Great Recession of 2008, for example, while GM needed a huge government bailout to survive, Ford made it through without a Federal dime. Both are large automakers, both based in Detroit, so what made the difference? Planning! Ford started preparing for a downturn nearly two years before. Greg Moran – Ford’s Chief Strategy Officer at the time – shares both that history and what we can learn from it to ride our organizations through the current economic shifts.
Featured Guest: Terri O'Fallon, Ph.D. & Kim Barta MA
Although our bodies stop growing, our minds continue to develop throughout adulthood. But seeing the world differently can be confusing as your old brain emerges into the new. That confusion can be doubly difficult for leaders navigating their own growth (or Vertical Development) with that of their teams. At each successive level, leaders expand their capacity – yet face new shadows: areas of confusion and challenge. By understanding those areas, you will be able to identify and move through them more quickly, bringing light and opportunity where shadows once fell. Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta of STAGES International join Maureen to discuss different areas of confusion and, more importantly, how to recognize and overcome them…and continue growing in the process.
Featured Guest: Rachael Kelly
Every business has its ups and downs. But when trauma hits, the worst thing to do is ignore it. The best: tend to your people! Rachael Kelly watched the effects of COVID quarantine rapidly cascade through the restaurant industry…including at her organization: Smokey Bones. As a restaurant chain, the quarantine hit Smokey Bones hard -- and almost instantly. That, in turn, created serious issues for servers and other restaurant staff. Rachael joins host Maureen Metcalf to reveal how they dealt with the cascading trauma…and, more importantly, how they turned it into an opportunity to improve their team environment and emerge even stronger. In fact, Smokey Bones holds multi-year certifications as a Great Place to Work.
Featured Guest: Amer Kaissi
A major myth in politics and business is that arrogant, over-confident people are better leaders. But reality reveals the opposite: humility combined with ambition drives the best leadership performance – and that, in turn, improves the entire organization. Author and Trinity University professor Amer Kaissi discusses the details with host Maureen Metcalf. His new book, Humbitious, digs deep into the reasons the humble-yet-ambitious leader delivers the best results…for everyone from front line staff to the board of directors. This isn’t academic theory; Kaissi studied real-world leaders from Napoleon Bonaparte to New Zealand’s acclaimed Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. While narcissists sometimes do make it to the top, they’re the exception, and their actual performance (as opposed to their PR) tends to be less than stellar. Fortune favors not simply the bold, but the humbitious!
Featured Guest: Greg Moran
Great leaders always care about what their front-line staff think; after all, no one knows the nitty-gritty of how an organization functions better than the people actually making the product or delivering the service. But even the best leaders sometimes have trouble figuring out how to encourage their teams to speak openly. Often, for example, people who have suffered under bad leadership are afraid of speaking up for fear of reprisals.
So what's a leader to do? Greg Moran, COO of Aware, has practical tips based on his years of experience with companies of all sizes. Hint: technology is here to help. His own company, Aware, developed a system that reviews (non-private!) chats in Slack, Yammer, and other company messaging tools to determine what your people are really concerned about...and help you develop solutions for them. You become more aware, and they become more engaged!
For daily leadership musings, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (we're @IL_Institute).
Featured Guest: Raj Raj Subrameyer
Raj Subrameyer knows about toxic leadership first-hand: HE was a toxic leader. Fortunately, Raj learned before it was too late that the toxins affect the leaders just as much as their teams. Anxiety, depression, anger, sleeplessness, illness...they all mount up. In this episode, Raj talks about his former leadership style, and his subsequent journey to a better work life. In the process, he reveals lessons on personal branding. It's not unrelated -- the more comfortable you are with yourself, the more comfortable your team becomes in working with you.
Featured Guest: Jon Reid
Adulthood is kryptonite.
We’re all born with superpowers. Curiosity is the most easily recognizable. As children, we’re flooded with it. But as adults, instead of being rewarded for having a million questions, we’re expected to have the answers. Leaders, in particular, believe they should have all the answers.
Your superpowers are still there, and truly great leaders know how to unlock them. John Reid will help you rediscover yours, too! Author of The Five Lost Superpowers, Reid joins host Maureen Metcalf to identify the powers we’re all born with…and to provide some basic tools to reactivate them so you can achieve your full potential, personally and as a leader. And when you do that, you’ll help the people around you achieve their potential, too!
Featured Guest: Ruchira Chaudhary
Something was wrong with the company.
Working for a large corporation in Singapore, Ruchira Chaudhary realized there were too many issues blocking a thriving work environment…and it all stemmed from poor leadership. Now an international executive coach and author of Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership, Ruchira joins us to reveal how coaching is more than a nice skill for leaders – it’s the secret sauce of truly extraordinary leadership.
Coaching is more important today than ever before: our turbulent times require leaders that empower, elevate and enable. They must build trust, resilience, and admit mistakes. And they must recognize that each team member requires different coaching: understanding this could actually help close the workplace gap between men and women, for example. Ruchira points out that coaching is no longer a ""nice to have'' aspect of leadership - it is absolutely essential, and you simply cannot be a good leader without being a good coach!
Featured Guest: David DeRam
David DeRam is a 30-year veteran of the software and start-up world. But it wasn’t until he co-founded Greenlight Gurus that he fully realized the power of mindset training in boosting performance, morale, innovation, and outlook for every member of his team. Giving his team every edge possible is quite literally a matter of life and death: Greenlight Gurus develops quality management software for medical device makers.
David joins host Maureen Metcalf to provide insights on his unconventional approaches and implementation of mindset training.
Unconventional should hardly be unexpected from a CEO who believes his core duty is to ensure every employee goes to bed Sunday night excited and eager to get to work Monday morning!
Featured Guest: Rebecca Ryan
All of us took history classes, but who’s taken future classes?
Studying the future is a discipline that stretches back decades. Strategic foresight is the established and proven process of looking at future probabilities, yet many business and NPO leaders either don’t know about it, or don’t understand it. It’s used by Fortune 200 companies, the U.S. military, the World Bank, and others. As futurist Rebecca Ryan explains to host Maureen Metcalf, strategic foresight helps those organizations decrease risk and maximize opportunity. That, in turn, provides them with a competitive advantage. So much so that Disney requires learning it before candidates can enter the C-Suite. Listen to this episode – and get a glimpse of your future!
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Featured Guest: Chris Nolan
It’s hard enough to lead in steady times. But with pandemics, climate change, war, and more, how do you set a path for your business’s future when the world’s future is so unclear? Chris Nolan is clearing the air. In his new book and documentary, It’s VUCA!, Chris shows how a military system of thinking and analysis developed in 1987 applies to any civilian organization trying to navigate today’s chaos. VUCA stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. That may seem daunting, but Chris’ research reveals that – by understanding the VUCA principles – you can lead your team to a future that’s bright instead of bleak.
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Featured Guest: Ben Marcovitz
A leader’s lust for short-term profit often means pulling tomorrow’s results into today’s reports. Those intentions may be well-meaning, intending to please shareholders and the board. But they can result in bankrupting the future. After all, if you’re crediting next quarter’s returns into this quarter, how will you make next quarter look as appealing? It’s unsustainable.
In his new book, Curing Corporate Short-Termism, Gregory Milano guides senior managers who want to encourage more investment in the future of their companies. Many corporate practices are counterproductive, creating stiff headwinds for managers trying to grow their business. The solution: a culture of ownership. When you see yourself as the owner of the company, your decisions change; the long-term becomes more important.
Gregory discusses the dangers of short-termism and the tools to overcome it with host Maureen Metcalf – and how these principles produce long-term value that benefits not just the organization's shareholders, but all of its many stakeholders…including society at large.
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Featured Guest: Ben Marcovitz
Most often, when employees are labeled as underperforming, leaders write them off. When such an employee inevitably leaves (or is forced out), you’re potentially giving your competition top talent…because with the right approach, those employees can become motivated high-performers. Ben Marcovitz, CEO of the Rise Institute, believes expecting radical growth from struggling staff should be the norm. It’s far less costly than staff churn and training, and can reveal untapped potential. From the classroom to the corporation, Ben has seen this work consistently in practice. He shares the details with host Maureen Metcalf. Join us, and radically grow your in-house pool of talent!
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Featured Guest: Jon Reitz
Communication is key to effective leadership. You may have the best vision in the history of humankind – but if you can’t communicate it to others, you’ll never come close to achieving your goals.
Good leaders know this; that’s why Googling leadership communication skills results in literally billions of results! Sorting through those hits could take a lifetime. Fortunately, Jonathan Reitz has spent his life in professional communications, and he’s distilled it down to the four most essential communication skills every good leader needs. They’re not what you’d expect.
Jonathan joins host Maureen Metcalf in this episode to share those four skills. He’s ready to communicate them to you now!
Featured Guest: Rod Lacey
simPRO’s approach to the Great Resignation is simple: empower employees. And learning how to direct that empowerment is simple, too: listen to staff. Employees will tell you what they need, and want! This employee empowerment prepares simPRo for the future of work. In this episode, simPRO’s Chief People Operations Officer, Rod Lacey, shares insights into how the employer/employee relationship has evolved; what that means for company culture and leadership strategy; how decisions are shaped by employee listening strategies; and how this all manifests as in the employee value proposition. You’ll learn that, for simPRO, simple solutions mean success!
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Featured Guest: Dr. Maryanna Klatt
It’s no secret that the well-being of your workforce directly affects the well-being of your entire organization. Prior to the pandemic, most corporate wellness programs focused on physical fitness. The stresses of COVID quarantining, though, showed that mental health is every bit as important.
Integrative medicine ties both physical and mental health together, revealing many ways in which they influence each other. In this episode, Dr. Maryanna Klatt discusses the role of integrative medicine, how it affects our well-being, and why this is so important for leaders. Her own research focuses on mindfulness, but the Center works with and researches acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, massage, and more.
There’s a clear ROI for leaders: reducing stress and burnout is a mighty tool in keeping the Great Resignation away!
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Featured Guest: Gary Bolles
Work isn’t what it used to be.
Even before COVID and the Great Resignation, a seismic shift began shaking in the workplace: not just how we work, but why we work. Prior generations worked mainly for money; today’s younger generations work mainly for mission (and hope the pay will follow).
How can a leader lead a workforce that’s so varied in why, where, and how they work? First, understand – and help forge – the new rules of work. Second, adapt your “sets”: mindset, skillset, and toolset.
That’s simply stated, but not always easy to do. Gary Bolles, author of the new book The Next Rules of Work, joins host Maureen Metcalf to uncover the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the workplaces succeeding in this new world…and the mindset that will help you embrace them for your own team.
Featured Guest: Neil Sahota
Many people fear the Artificial Intelligence revolution that’s underway. But like every other major societal revolution in human history, you can play it to your favor. The key? Innovative thinking. In reality, these upheavals create newer, better jobs for people – though, from the sabot to the Luddite, people who don’t think differently, innovatively, even disruptively miss the opportunities these advancements create. IBM Master Inventor Neil Sahota joins host Maureen Metcalf to detail the key strategies for thriving through the AI revolution.
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Featured Guest: Nell Derick Debevoise
If you don’t know your own purpose, can you really get behind your organization’s purpose?
Nell Derick Debevoise found that a critical component of success is knowing how your personal purpose intersects with your organization’s purpose. That holds true for the individual members of your team, too: if you understand what their personal or professional purpose has in common with the company’s purpose, you’ll foster a happier and more productive team.
With purpose in mind, you can then look at decisions through the Me/We/World dimensions: how does this affect me and the individual members of my team; how does this affect my organization; and how will it affect the world?
Nell draws from her years of experience in both the non-profit and private sectors to reveal the commonalities of good, purpose-driven leadership in both, highlighting the techniques within her new book, Going First: Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action.
Featured Guests: Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas
America’s racial reckoning is underway, yet continues to be hotly debated. One novel approach comes from leadership consultants Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas: frame it as a hero’s or heroine’s journey. The answer is surprising, simple – and makes a great deal of sense in fostering reckoning…then reconciliation.
The same core principles also apply to leadership, particularly when combined to the fundamental leadership style required by musicians when performing jazz: the music simply couldn't be performed without a leader who knows how to forge a team, yet preserve the unique perspectives and talents of each member of the team.
Featured Guests: Kevin Cassidy & Christopher Washington
Formed in the aftermath of World War I, the International Labour Organization has evolved along with the workforce as part of the League of Nations and the United Nations. The ILO studies the environment for workers from a tripartite perspective: from labor itself, from business, and from government. All three are necessary to create optimal conditions for workers – but for women, minorities, and citizens of developing nations, conditions are far from optimal.
Kevin Cassidy – Director for the ILO Office for the United States and Canada – has a uniquely comprehensive view on both the issues and solutions for labor today…as well as glimpses of how artificial intelligence and new tech will affect labor tomorrow. It’s not what you think; CEOs and CFOs, for example, are in the group most easily replaced by AI. Franklin University Provost Christopher Washington joins host Maureen Metcalf in this wide-ranging discussion of labor’s past, present, and future.
Featured Guest: George Limbert
Helping nurses and doctors during the pandemic. Assisting first responders as towns recover from natural disasters. Joining the fight against human trafficking.
Red Roof’s evolution as a corporation is more than just another branding story. New president George Limbert firmly believes leaders must guide their organizations into always doing what is right: for customers, of course, but also for employees…and communities. As a new president, we plan on following George quarterly to better learn his vision, observe his evolution and growth as a leader, and study how he incorporates his principles into day-to-day operations. Join us for this first introductory episode as George discusses his history, and the steps he’s already taken in the midst of 2021’s radical viral, social, and economic changes.
Featured Guest: John Kilpatrick
Traditional organizations follow a linear economy: everything flows one-way, from resource to product to consumer to trash. It’s often summarized by the mantra “take, make, waste.” That certainly doesn’t mitigate climate change, pollution, and other threats to humanity. Is there a better path that won’t disrupt our consumer-driven culture?
John Kilpatrick heartily believes so. Just circle back to the economy of our great-great grandparents: the circular economy. It’s the old “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra, with a heavy emphasis on the “reuse.” It was the common sense way of life for most Americans for much of our history. John goes into the details - and reveals the clear benefits to both business and consumers - as he joins host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.
Featured Guest: Christopher Washington
The pandemic didn’t destroy the old “normal.” COVID simply accelerated trends that were already underway. The best leaders see that, and are forging new paths to success for their organizations and their people.
The tables turn in this episode, as regular host Maureen Metcalf becomes the guest, interviewed by ILI Fellow and Franklin University provost Christopher Washington. Drawing on her own extensive experience as well as the collective knowledge of the leaders she interviewed throughout 2021, Maureen reveals the six major trends for leaders in 2022: from a reduced emphasis on results in favor of growing capacity, to the continuing labor shortage (and the need to retain your current employees by truly valuing them). Whether you’re in a government, non-profit, or business sector, this is a must-listen for leaders worldwide looking for success in the new year.
Featured Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursk
The COVID pandemic caught many organizations completely by surprise. It didn't have to. Good leaders follow a process called future-proofing: looking ahead to potential crises they cannot prevent, but can prepare for.
Our dangerous judgment errors (known as cognitive biases) cause leaders at all levels to underprepare for change, especially major disruptive change. Gleb Tsipurksy joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore recent behavioral science research on these cognitive biases. Moreover, the research points to effective science-based techniques that leaders can use to address these mental blind spots and future-proof their organizations by forecasting and addressing threats and opportunities.
Featured Guest: Ron Carucci
Honesty is more than a character trait: it’s a muscle that has to be built to stay strong; honesty can be learned. Truth, justice, and purpose are “three sides of the same coin." Together, they mean honesty - to have honesty, you need all three; honesty means you have to say the right thing, do the right thing, and say and do them for the right reason...even when it’s hard. Based on a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 3,200 leaders, we can now prove under what conditions people will tell the truth, behave fairly, and serve a greater good...and under what conditions they will lie, cheat, and serve their own interests. Ron Carrucci joins the show to discuss his book, To Be Honest. It is a book about heroes – the honest leaders and thinkers we should all want to emulate. Honest organizations out-perform, out-compete, and out-attract top talent by substantial multipliers.
Featured Guest: Pete Martin
If you're a leader of a business or non-profit, how you spend your time has a direct impact on the success of your organization. Focusing on just one big idea instead of scattershotting your attention keeps that impact positive.
What you as a leader work on minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day matters -- and either moves the needle and propels growth, or constricts it. For instance, consistently and strategically choosing one “big idea” per month will move a business forward faster than any one particular tactic. Working on one big idea across each pillar of your business - team, customers, capital and strategic execution (and personal mindset) - will lead to exponential growth over time. Pete Martin joins Maureen to share reasons why companies get stuck and stop growing, and what leaders can do to change that.
Featured Guest: Kim Campbell
"The future will spit on our graves." Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell doesn't mince words when she muses on the big issues facing the world today...and, particularly, what happens if we don't work to fix them now. From climate change to sexual harassment, host Maureen Metcalf draws remarkably candid perspectives from the only female to have served in Canada's top spot.
Featured Guest: Darren Chait
There's one simple truth most working adults realize in their first job: meetings stink. Darren Chait is no exception. While he was an attorney, he recoiled at how inefficient and archaic lawyers' meetings are...then he had sticker shock when he saw the invoices and realized clients pay for that slow-paced inefficiency! That put him on the path to finding a better way for meeting. The result: Hugo, an online app that changes the way we think about meetings.
On the way, Darren learned that leadership in a fast-growth startup is very different than what the textbooks say. He joins Maureen to share what he's learned on the journey about leadership, how collaboration is changing, modern team dynamics, shared consciousness, direction versus support, and when to make leader problems team problems.
Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek
Older generations view Gen Z as having their eyes glued to their smartphones. While those phones are a window on the world no other generation has encountered, it means they’re more likely to see the world for what it is, warts and all. And that exposure to the world and its diverse cultures makes Gen Z more ardent in resolving life-threatening issues like climate change and racism…driving them to make real life better.
AnneMarie Hayek is returning to the show to continue our conversation about her research of GenZ. In her book, Generation We, she joins forces with thousands of Zs to tell their powerful story—a story that impacts all generations. In her return visit, we discuss how leaders we can attract and lead Gen Z, how Gen Z’s unparalleled exposure to diversity shapes their priorities, and how this generation will impact the arc of humanity for generations to come.
Featured Guest: Colonel Deb Lewis
Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis - it’s a wonder we’re still standing. Too few of us have stress tools powerful enough to put stress to work for us so we can enjoy the journey. Once you’ve learned how to be mentally tough, you will use stress to your advantage. It becomes your superpower!
Colonel Deb Lewis learned the importance of mental toughness as part of the very first class of women to graduate from West Point. The lessons learned there, and in her subsequent Army career, inspired her to develop her unique Mentally Tough Women program to teach people how to handle stress, not simply de-stress. She joins the show to share her experiences, and how you can learn to effectively use stress to your advantage, too.
Featured Guests: William Bonvillian & Sanjay Sarma
Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. From pre-K through college and on-the-job ""professional development,"" the United States' old-school education system simply isn't up to the task. Universities, for example, can no longer be havens of academic theory and football; enrollment will begin to trickle over the next decade as college grads become too unprepared for the modern workplace.
We need a roadmap for a new workforce education system to rebuild America's working class, tackling inequality by equipping our workers for twenty-first-century jobs. The post-pandemic workplace requires us to train more workers more quickly, using innovative methods. William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma -- both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - join host Maureen Metcalf to share various ideas on the new roles community colleges, employers, governments, and universities need in workforce education, as well as new education technologies that may be adopted to deliver such training.
Featured Guest: Mark Herschberg
Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? Mark Herschberg is on the show to discuss his book The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He shares practical ideas from his book and his thoughts on leadership that will help you master these vital skills.
Featured Guest: Howard Tiersky
Digital is at the center of most adults' lifestyles worldwide -- and it's here to stay. (In fact, roughly 1/3 of people surveyed said they'd give up sex instead of their smartphone!) That has disrupted and changed the customer relationship. Customers today expect the brands they deal with to deliver outstanding and seamless digital experiences. If your brand is failing to thrive, odds are you're ignoring the marketplace changes digital has wrought. You must take what is core to your value proposition and adapt it, perhaps significantly, for a world filled with digital customers. That will require flexible and innovative leaders whose companies can turn on a dime. Howard Tiersky joins Maureen to discuss the methods for accomplishing this outlined in his new book, Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance, as well as his experiences assisting large organizations grow from their analog past.
Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek
AnneMarie Hayek joins the show to share insights from her new book, Generation We. In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Generation Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we should be hopeful. Zs are not naïve idealists. They’re hardened realists with a bold vision for how we can transition, re-create, and progress. Generation We is your invitation to see the future they will create as it’s unfolding.
Featured Guest: Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham
We all have agreements. Some are overt, such as agreeing to make monthly payments when you get a mortgage to buy a house. And some are unconscious, like the agreement in sports that everyone on your team will work toward winning against the other team.
We all have two ways of responding to those agreements. You have a Yes! response that aligns your purpose and unique contributions with the impact you can generate and the experience you can have. It's yours to choose. Your Yes! always generates net-positive value and your No! always generates net-negative value—your choice. Jim Ritchie-Dunham joins Maureen to explain the science behind our Yes!
Featured Guest: Dr. Jeff Hull
In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if you are leading a team you must manage a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures have led to a seismic shift in terms of the tools needed to successfully manage and grow within a company: charisma and strategic thinking abilities now matter less than qualities such as vulnerability and relatability. Jeff Hull joins Maureen to discuss the research he has done on the art and science of leadership in a changing world that is featured in his book, Flex.
Featured Guest: Mike Zani
Moneyball was just the tip of the iceberg. In that movie, a baseball team relies on performance data instead of scouts' intuition to build a winning club. The very same concept can forge a dream team in your own NPO or business.
Sophisticated assessments, data, and software give CEOs and managers in any industry detailed insights into human behavior -- and, more critically, their team members' behavior. As CEO of The Predictive Index, Mike Zani has witnessed firsthand how the application of data and science can impact, and completely change, the way we function in our professional lives. In his new book, THE SCIENCE OF DREAM TEAMS: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness, Zani details a data-driven approach to talent strategy that makes hiring, motivating, and managing people more efficient and effective than ever. From coaching a U.S. Olympic team to founding an investment firm, he knows first hand how assessments can build a dream team.
Featured Guest: Paul Gibbons
Conversations about meaning and purpose at work are very old and very new. Spirituality provides a lens for those discussions -- a lens that is effective regardless of your team's religious preferences. From evangelical to atheist, a sense of mission and meaning are critical to well-being. Workplace spirituality helps us understand the issues underlying personal meaning in the workplace: fulfillment, engagement, purpose, leadership and more. However, it also increases worries about values conflicts and how well organizations handle that. There are many ways to help the process go smoothly. 40-year career veteran Paul Gibbons joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss the spirituality of work and leadership for leaders and organizations.
Featured Guest: Dr. JJ Walcutt
The power of mind over body goes back at least 2,000 years with the Stoics -- but what about the power of the brain over both mind and body?
To be competitive over the next decade, all organizations -- non-profits, businesses, and especially the military -- must not only help staff optimize their bodies for physical and mental health purposes; they also need to ensure that cognitive optimization is a major focus of staff development. Despite our hubris, the human brain is not equipped to handle the deluge of data that is coming, much less the constant upskilling requirements that are emerging already. Dr. JJ Walcutt joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss Accelerate, a program that helps organizations get on the right track toward building a culture of brain health, growth, and effectiveness. The military is paying attention; should your organization, too?
Featured Guest: Jake Jacobs
Change is now a constant in all organizations. Is there a way to make it easier? Jake Jacobs joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss his new book Leverage Change, and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations -- at the individual, team or organizational levels. He shares practical actions leaders can take to achieve the much sought-after, but seldom accomplished, goals of successful change management.
Featured Guests: Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell
Rising up the corporate ladder is fraught with challenges. Those challenges -- both visible and invisible -- multiply for people of color, women, and others underrepresented in the executive suite. Mentors are fine, but an in-house sponsor can truly make the path smoother. Ricky Robinson and Keith Powell share why...not with theory, but hard-won practical advice from their own 20+ year journeys to C-suite success in some of the world's largest companies.
Featured Guest: Jared Graybeal
In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout:
ConfidenceCompetenceClarityCharacterConnections andCommitment.
This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement, and is designed to give you the perspective that works for your unique goals, no matter what’s going on in your life. Jared applied these principles to his own life. He joins Maureen to discuss the book, and how listeners can re-energize, so they never stop growing.
Featured Guest: Otto Scharmer
Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolved human consciousness. Otto’s first book sold over 100,000 copies and to put that in context, the average self-published book sells 250 copies, and the average traditional book sells 3,000 copies in its lifetime. Otto joins Maureen to discuss his latest book: The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications, a book that meets a crucial need during this point in history in helping us bring necessary changes to our foundational systems from a place of deep consciousness and perspective taking from all key stakeholders – including the future as a key stakeholder.
Featured Guest: Ty Montague
Today’s most successful companies and leaders are StoryDoers, not storytellers. These leaders have clearly defined a higher purpose that frames their ultimate ambition and desired contribution to the world - and they orient every action they take in service of achieving this goal. Ty Montague joins the show to discuss what makes someone a Storydoer, why Storydoers are better leaders and tools leaders can use to become a Storydoer.
Featured Guest: Ron Riggio
Great leaders are great learners” is often quoted but how can leaders implement this into their very hectic day? Ron has created a year-long leadership development guidebook that offers day-by-day instruction in short excerpts to provide leaders with knowledge and practical application ideas. Ron joins the show to discuss his new book “Daily Leadership Development,” his lifetime achievement award and his views on the current state of leadership.
Featured Guest: Roger Madison
Diversity and inclusion are critical topics in not only the U.S. but the world right now. Roger Madison, Jr., founder and CEO of iZania, a company formed to connect Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and consumers online joins the show. Roger was previously a sales executive with IBM in South Africa and he will share about his experiences in South Africa and what he learned that can further diversity and inclusion in our world today.
Featured Guest: Robert Rosenberg
Every entrepreneur dreams of expanding their business from around the corner to around the world. While today those dreams look doubtful, hope can be found from the story of a CEO who managed to do so despite decades of economic downturns, near bankruptcy, and constant change. Robert Rosenberg joins the show today to share insights and lessons learned from his experience taking Dunkin’ Donuts from 100 shops to 6,500 outlets. These lessons are also captured in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin Donuts.
Featured Guest: Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney
How can we change the way conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion are progressing towards productive, inquiring, learning experiences -- and ultimately creating a more just and equitable workplace and society? How can we understand the effects outside-of-work events have on people of color within work? Laura Morgan Roberts and Courtney McCluney join the show to share insights from their work, and to encourage leaders to examine and understand racial barriers…and how those barriers can be removed.
Featured Guest: Mark Kvamme
Business disruptions are occurring every day for entire business segments. Effective organizations are looking ahead to lead the disruptive efforts to set the new market. If you are not disrupting – you will get disrupted. Mark Kvamme joins Maureen to discuss how he works with organizations to identify opportunities and be the disruptor rather than being disrupted.
Featured Guest: Margaret Heffernan
We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t allow that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Margaret Heffernan joins us to discuss her new book, Uncharted, How to Navigate the Future, in which she drew on a wide array of people and places to look at long-term projects developed over generations that could never have planned for the way that they have been run.
Featured Guest: Keith Tuffley
What is the purpose of business in the 21st century? And what are the values and skills needed by business leaders in this new era of stakeholder value? Keith Tuffley joins Maureen to discuss these emerging topics and share his experience.
Featured Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen
How do you get a corporation to change its views on society and the environment? Start with its board of directors. They determine the heart and soul of an organization. That’s vital now, with companies around the world examining environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the wake of 2021’s COP26 summit in Glasgow. It’s quite possible to achieve both profit and environmental sustainability, but that requires deep thinking. A board must ask direct questions on a range of complex issues: climate change, ESG, corruption, cybersecurity, human trafficking, and supply-chain resilience. Helle Bank Jorgensen interviewed over 100 board members, experts, and executives for her new book, Stewards of the Future. Their wisdom – and practical pointers on how corporations can realistically be part of the solution – is shared in the book…and in this episode, as Helle gives host Maureen Metcalf an overview of her guide for a profitable and planet-friendly future.
Featured Guest: Greg Moran
Greg Moran joins Maureen to discuss the challenges organizations are facing during the months of working from home and how his organization, Aware, is helping companies track employee engagement and satisfaction without invasion of privacy. They also discuss the seven leadership mindsets and behaviors required to adjust to the disruptions leaders are facing. Leaders need to act more like scientists than experts. They need to change what they expect of themselves (mindset) and how they show up (behavior) to meet the current challenges.
Featured Guest: Valrie Grant & Christopher Washington
Research has shown that diversity at every level of leadership leads to a more successful organization. In the first segment, Dr. Christopher Washington of Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio, joins Maureen to discuss the importance of J.E.D.I. (just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments) S.P.A.C.E. (supportive, purposeful, accountable, collaborative, and evaluative practices). The second segment features Valrie Grant, the Managing Director of GeoTechVision and one of the five 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainability Development Goals Challenge Awardees. She will discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level of leadership, including the board room.
Featured Guest: Debra Haven
A change mindset is here to stay. Implementing change takes high energy, an abundance of patience and extreme flexibility. United States Navy Rear Admiral Deborah Haven, Retired joins the show to discuss her experience in leading change and working in an uncertain environment as well as the lessons she has learned that can be translated to situations all leaders face.
Featured Guest: Darcy Winslow
The need for system leaders, system literacy and collaboration are more important than ever. The field of ‘awareness-based systems change’ is growing, and there are many very accessible ways to engage. Darcy joins Maureen to discuss taking a more holistic, or systems approach, does not require a PhD in Systems Dynamics - anyone can become a systems thinker and have a positive impact in the systems in which they work and live.
Featured Guests: Trista Bridges & Donald Eubank
Sustainability is now a business-critical issue. Companies and industries that don't embrace it will be left behind. In fact, we are already starting to see this. Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank join the show today to discuss their new book Leading Sustainability: The Path to Sustainable Business and How the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Changed Everything, which is the culmination of 18 months of research from around the world. In their research, they found that bold leadership and innovation are two key common elements that enable the success of sustainability strategies and actions.
Featured Guest: Brian Ferguson
The COVID pandemic has elevated a long-overlooked narrative: we ask A LOT of the nurses, doctors, and frontline medical staff who shepherd our communities in times of public health crisis. And while they are required to step into unknown, high-pressure + high-stress work, we do not equip them with the same tools for resilience and recovery that we do for professional athletes and elite military units. Brian Ferguson joins the show to discuss how Arena Labs is focused on pioneering what they call "High Performance Medicine" in order to bring those same tools, training, and technology to frontline medical teams.
Featured Guests: Congress Woman Beatty and Doug McCollough
In a time when people are sharing more of their personal struggles, we talk to Congress Woman Beatty and Doug McCollough about their struggle and more importantly how they navigated those struggles so that she could make their greatest impact on the world. Congresswoman Beatty not only overcame, she changed the people’s view of what it was to be a successful black woman and she mentored women to make sure the pipeline behind her was strong and the country was better because of all facets of her service! She talks about how helping women succeed helps America succeed. She serves as a role model for inclusion globally by serving with grace and decorum! Doug shares how his focus on inclusion is expanding the field of employees working in technology in central Ohio. Through his board work as well as his work as CIO, he is creating a pipeline that allows unemployed people to get trained and find technology jobs. He is helping build the system that will close this gap long term!
Featured Guest: Barbara Kellerman
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. Barbara joins the show today to discuss her views on leadership education, what it takes to build highly effective leaders and her new book Leaders Who Lust.
Featured Guest: Aline Kamakian
Thriving during a crisis is a challenging feat for any leader. Aline Kamakian shares with listeners not only how she encountered the difficult decisions that many faced in the hospitality industry due to the pandemic but she was also forced to deal with the destruction of one of her restaurants during the massive blast that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, in August of 2020. Aline joins the show to share her story, how she adapted to the crises her business endured and advice for leaders she has gleaned from her experiences.
Featured Guest: Mark Shapiro
We think of ""leadership"" as a topic for the military, governments, and the corporate boardroom. But innovative leadership benefits us in every sector, including professional sports. The president and CEO of the Toronto Bluejays, Mark Shapiro, joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his approach to effective leadership -- and approach tempered and proven through the disruption his team faced getting the game through the COVID pandemic.
Succeeding in unusual times provides examples and perspectives which illustrate the best of effective leadership.
Featured Guests: Tom Grote and Christoph Hinske
Many -- perhaps too many -- corporations think they're transforming their business models...but in reality continue to do the same old stuff; they just put fancy new words around it. Innovative leaders focus more on real systemic change than on the vocabulary. Many of those change leaders take lessons learned from organizations such as the Innovative Leadership Institute, merge them into their business models, and develop unique new ways of improvement and change.
Two of the Innovative Leadership Institute’s certified facilitators join us to discuss how they took the concepts they learned and applied them to their business functions. Graduates Tom Grote and Christoph Hinske join Maureen to discuss how they have extended the program content, and built a values-based systems mapping technique that helped shape both of their professional and personal journeys.
Featured Guest: Greg Moran
The pandemic accelerated discussions and forecasts about the future of work. But there's a relative dearth of study about the future of leadership. This is a critical gap: as work changes, leadership must also change to ensure organizations can meet their objectives. After all, effective change always starts at the top. It is essential for leaders to "innovate how they lead" to keep pace, but what does that mean? Greg Moran joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore the changes leaders need to make, both in how they think about and how they perform the essential work of leadership.
Featured Guest: Eric Redmond
Deep tech describes capabilities that were impossible yesterday, barely feasible today, but tomorrow will be so pervasive it will be hard to imagine we ever lived without it. In this early stage of the digital age, understanding how deep tech is disrupting the world is no longer a competitive advantage -- it's a matter of survival. Eric Redmond joins us to discuss his new book, Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything.
Eric know of what he speaks; he's the Forrest Gump of technology: a twenty-year veteran technologist who always happens to show up where deep tech history is being made, from the first iPhone apps to Bitcoin. He has advised state and national governments, Fortune 100 companies, and groups as varied as the World Economic Forum and MIT Media Lab.
Featured Guest: Sean Castrina
Disruption to the norm, unexpected events, uncertain times: these are part of life, not just limited to pandemic times. These disruptions force companies to rethink how they have done business, and how they can continue to stay in business. Leaders are daily faced with tough decisions on how to lead in this new and different environment.
Sean Castrina launched over twenty successful companies. He joins the show to discuss his story of overcoming a setback, how he moved beyond it to start multiple new businesses, and the leadership lessons he has learned from his experiences.
Featured Guest: Jeff Wald
The world has witnessed three-step functions in technological change: mechanization, electrification, and computerization. These industrial revolutions led to massive increases in productivity and thus we need far fewer workers. With each of these technological breakthroughs, the power balance between companies and workers shifted heavily to companies. The abuses of that power by companies instigated employee unrest. Counterbalancing forces rose to constrain companies’ power, eventually prompting unions, regulation, and the social safety net to bring stability to the relationship. As we enter the fourth great leap forward in technology with robots and AI, we face the first services revolution. The power balance will again shift massively to companies as new technologies drive productivity increases in the service industry, much as the last three industrial revolutions transformed manufacturing. Jeff Wald joins Maureen to discuss his book, The End of Jobs, and what the future of work is.
Featured Guest: Eric Douglas Keene
Diversity recruiting and retention is a hot topic in HR departments and the board room. Their DEI initiatives often fall short, though; many organizations don’t understand the nuances of recruiting, nor how to navigate the complexities of retention. Ensuring candidates and organizations create the best experiences and a path for mutual success isn't difficult. Eric Douglas Keene joins Maureen to discuss changes occurring in the world of diversity recruiting, with tips on helping your workforce benefit from the rich diversity of our citizenry.
Featured Guest: Jeff DeGraff
Everyone can be creative in their own way. Creativity skills can be learned and developed. The creative process is iterative: we typically fail many times before we succeed. We learn from those failures and approach the next experiment with new information and an improved understanding. Yet it can be different in the workplace; particularly in large organizations, the innovative leader is often pushed down by stagnant thinking up the chain. Jeff DeGraff joins Maureen to share how you can tap your individual creativity…and how to deal with the realities of how true innovation is received in the workplace.
Featured Guest: Jonathan Reitz
Coaching skills are not just for the life coach or the executive coach, they are every leader’s secret weapon. Managers can become the leaders that are needed when they understand how to use coaching skills that put the development of their team as the top priority and multiply their impact. Want to move from managing your team to leading your team? Coaching skills are the key. Jonathan Reitz joins Maureen to share how managers can move toward leading by learning some simple coaching behaviors.
Featured Guest: Liane Davey
Business today is more competitive than ever; staying ahead requires you to make tough calls, face hard choices, and work through conflict. But productive conflict is so rare. Why? Because productive conflict requires a different mindset, new skills, and repeatable processes -- none of which come naturally. Liane Davey joins Maureen to discuss building a productive conflict culture.
Featured Guests: Rich Fernandez and Peter Weng
Even before Covid-19, employees reported record rates of burnout and stress; Gallup studies show only 15% of employees are fully engaged at work. Organizations need well-being development for their employees. It is essential for today’s workplaces to provide well-being support, every bit as much as traditional professional development. Supporting the long-term mental health of your team can mean the difference between an engaged, collaborative and productive organization, or one riddled with toxicity and turnover. With 71% of U.S. office workers either curious about or already practicing meditation, now is the time to signal your long-term support for employees, and bring in the neuroscientifically proven benefits of contemplative practices, such as meditation. Peter Weng and Rich Fernandez discuss mindfulness and employee well-being with Maureen.
Featured Guests: Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros
Gender inequality around the world has many facets: archaic laws that codify sexism, male control of joint income and household assets, exclusion from governance, trafficking and violence against women, denial of education and adequate health care, and gender segregation in the work force, to name a few. The Gender Equality and Governance Index (GEGI) taps into some of the world’s best datasets to analyze gender discrimination on a global scale, using five critical “pillars”: governance, education, work, entrepreneurship, and violence. The Index covers 158 countries and provides a compelling perspective on the status of gender inequality across the planet. It allows policymakers, the business community and civil society to pinpoint specific areas for improvement and to learn from best international practices. Amanda Ellis and Augusto Lopez-Claros join Maureen to discuss the index results for 2020 and how we as leaders can implement changes for the good of all.
Featured Guest: Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
As a society, we're facing a growing lack of trust. We're losing trust in each other, and in our institutions. The impacts ripple through our personal lives and through the nation -- reflected in how difficult it is for both parties to come together in Congress for the greater good. It's also led to an increase in mental illness and suicide. Dr. Mary Jo Burchard shares her personal experiences with this lack of trust to demonstrate how important building trust is in our lives: at home, at school, and at work.
Featured Guest: Neil Grunberg
Universities and medical schools do a wonderful job preparing their students for medical procedures, but the often-missed crucial element for great health care is leadership training.
Neil Grunberg joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his experiences, and how the leadership framework he developed with Maureen can build the leadership skills needed by medical staff to make our healthcare system stronger. Neil has seen the gaps firsthand; he's a professor at the Uniformed Services University, training physicians, nurses, and psychologists for military and public health service.
It’s said that leaders are made, not born. That’s certainly true of the Biden family. Although Joe Biden is in the spotlight as the 46th President of the United States, his three siblings are all leaders in their own right, too. And Joe’s sister Valerie Biden Owens says that forging of strong leadership began in childhood with deep family values.
Valerie joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss her book, Growing Up Biden. She shares the challenges she faced breaking gender barriers, the importance (and elusiveness) of confidence, and growing women as leaders. She'll also dive into the ingrained lessons and expectations that have been the guiding principles of the Biden’s close-knit, Irish American, Catholic family. These stories and insights speak deeply to the impact of family and generational leadership on political and personal ethos.
It's a revealing conversation unfolding the many ways our parents’ guidance shapes us as leaders of our own families, organizations…and nations.
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Valerie Biden Owens is the first woman in U.S. history to have run a presidential campaign — that of her brother, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. She also led his seven straight U.S. Senate victories and has been his principal surrogate on the campaign trail.
Valerie is Chair of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware and a partner at Owens Patrick Leadership Seminars. Valerie sits on the Advisory Board of the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. For 20 years, when Valerie was not managing or advising President Biden’s campaigns, she served as Executive Vice President of Joe Slade White & Co., a media consulting firm. She has worked extensively with Women’s Campaign International, teaching women how to organize and develop communication and political skills. Valerie has also served on the National Board of the Women’s Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee and has served for 35 years on the board of The Ministry of Caring.
In 2015, Valerie delivered the keynote address for Harvard Law School’s International Women’s Day celebration and was one of 50 women presented with the law school’s international “Women Inspiring Change” award. In 2021, she was named to the Forbes 50 Over 50 Women Who Are Leading the Way in Impact list.
She is a graduate of the University of Delaware. She is married to Jack Owens, an attorney and businessman. They have three children.
De Beers Vice President Pat Dambe takes a case study approach to the private and public sector partnership between De Beers and the government of Botswana on sustainability and corporate citizenship. She discusses her personal and corporate story and the courage required to contribute responsibly to the communities in which she works and resides. Pat’s story offers a model for a company and a country to create an interconnection that transcends the challenges both face to ensure a vibrant global company and a vibrant company “forever”. She shows that diamonds aren't the only gems De Beers exports; they serve as an example of how a company can change how it operates even after a century of old-school practices.
About Our Guest:
Pat has over 20 years executive leadership experience working for a variety of Fortune 500 companies and luxury brands including Coca Cola South Africa, Draft FCB, Thebe Investments, Bentley etc. Educated in Botswana, USA and Canada, she holds a BA Honours from Queens University from Ontario, Canada. Pat is currently the Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Government Relations at De Beers Global Sightholder Sales (DBGSS) and is responsible for Government Relations, External Communications, Sustainability and Social Investment. Her primary role is to protect and promote the brand and reputation of the DBGSS and diamonds as a category and support the commercial interests of the business with external and internal stakeholders. The role also entails managing DBGSS’s relationships with Government and non-Government stakeholders.
One look at the headlines on any given day makes it clear: the world is UNclear. How can an organization navigate through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to survive – much less succeed? By understanding VUCA, a concept developed by the Pentagon in 1987 to give our military an edge in chaos. Filmmaker Chris Nolan joins Maureen Metcalf to share how this military technique directly applies to businesses and non-profits – information drawn from his new documentary and book: It’s VUCA!. For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Mastodon: @InnoLeader .
Can you survive in the new economy?As the supply chain disruptions have shown, our current economic model is very linear. One kink in the chain can cascade through our whole system, nationally and globally. And our linear economy assumes unlimited resources to keep production going to start the chain. But unless we start mining asteroids soon, Earth has finite resources…and climate change is reducing even those (for example, where do we get wood as forests continue to die off?).One solution is the circular economy, but its proponents are seeing it as an ideal. Christoph Hinske of Saxion University joins us to point out the assumptions in the circular economy system, and the problems those can create. It’s a necessary process to strengthen the circular economy’s viability while we face the inevitable transition to something new in the ways we conduct business.For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .
Though we rarely think of it, there are strong connections between art and leadership. Art sets the environment and tone of the workplace; in your business or home office, it sets the tone of any conversation -- and sends a strong message of who you are, as a person and as a leader. The type of art around your team also shapes the kind of creativity and problem-solving they'll generate. The Center for Creative Leadership has used and studied art as a critical component of leadership development for decades; Ren Washington and Laura Gibson of the Center join us to explore the many ways art and leadership interconnect.
People like to think humanity is at the top of cultural achievement, the pinnacle of evolution’s craftwork. But one glance at the daily headlines proves that we have problems. Lots of problems. And across all nations, there’s a glaring problem that hits hard over half our population: sexism. From subtle misogyny to outright violent abuse, women continue to be left on the outside of patriarchies…of a man’s world.
That’s not the case with bonobos. They’re our close evolutionary relatives: apes with whom we share 98.7% of our DNA. And their society is very equal. They share parenting duties and food amongst the entire group. And the females defend each other when needed, banding together like sisters regardless of status, age, or friendship. It’s the Bonobo Sisterhood, and guest Diane Rosenfeld tells us there’s a lot our political and corporate leaders can learn from these primates who show just how primitive people can be in comparison!
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When you face uncertainty, how do you react?
We’re biologically to meet uncertainty with concern, even panic or anxiety: it triggers our fight-or-flight response. But behind that veil of the unknown lies tremendous opportunity, and we can rewire our brains to look forward to it…to welcome uncertainty as fun and exciting. As Dr. Ciela Hartanov explains to host Maureen Metcalf, the key is to hack our own mindset to create a new mental framework. In the process, we may just find ourselves in more humane workplaces.
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RESOURCES: Information on Dr. Hartanov’s reference to Patagonia is here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2022/09/20/chouinards-donation-of-patagonia-is-big-and-bold-but-not-new/?sh=55ae26163ecf . Maureen’s general insights on leadership are also available at Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/people/maureenmetcalf/?sh=de4f1fa1e7d8 .
The pace of change in the world is rapidly increasing, and there’s no slowing it down. VUCA – a program developed by the U.S. military – is a way of identifying the disruptions of change…and, more importantly, of being ready for them.
We’ve talked about the theory of VUCA before (see our interview with Chris Nolan posted September 6, 2022). In this episode, George Limbert talks about VUCA and its antidotes practiced in the real world. George is the head of Red Roof Inns. The COVID pandemic presented a sudden onslaught of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity for the entire travel and hospitality industry worldwide. Yet Red Roof emerged from the pandemic with some of their best financials ever.
How? George and his team were VUCA-ready. He shares his experience and business-tested VUCA antidotes in this episode so you can prepare for the uncertainties to come, too!
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Poor leadership spawns many current organizational ills: disengagement, turnover, absenteeism, and more. What is going wrong? Some leaders have the right beliefs and sentiments. Others may possess the right skills. Yet, world-class leaders need BOTH the right beliefs and practices to address the current employee and organizational challenges. That ideal combination produces a leader who goes beyond servant leadership to truly caring leadership – and the results on employee engagement are profound.
In their new book, Leading With Care in a Tough World: Beyond Servant Leadership, authors Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt detail the transformation to caring leadership – and the reasons it’s so deeply needed by so many organizations. They share those reasons with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.
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85% of employees worldwide are not engaged in their workplaces. That takes an obvious toll on morale…and productivity. What can you do?
Roxanne Brown and Edward Cook have some compelling answers. They cofounded The Change Decision, a change and culture consultancy focused on growing Joy at Work. Their mission sounds simple, but after decades of disengagement, there is both art and science in boosting your staff. They’ll explore insightful change leadership tips, including strategies for managing ongoing changes; what to do when facing change resistance; how to inspire teams and managers; and navigating deeply personal, complex feelings that come with being a change leader.
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A leader’s lust for short-term profit often means pulling tomorrow’s results into today’s reports. And that can result in bankrupting the future. After all, if you’re crediting next quarter’s returns into this quarter, how will you make next quarter look as appealing? It’s unsustainable.
In his new book, Curing Corporate Short-Termism, Gregory Milano guides senior managers who want to encourage more investment in the future of their companies. Many corporate practices are counterproductive, creating stiff headwinds for managers trying to grow their business. The solution: a culture of ownership. When you see yourself as the owner of the company, your decisions change; the long-term becomes more important.
Gregory discusses the dangers of short-termism and the tools to overcome it with host Maureen Metcalf – and how these principles produce long-term value that benefits not just the organization's shareholders, but all of its many stakeholders…including society at large.
Great leaders always care about what their front-line staff think; after all, no one knows the nitty-gritty of how an organization functions better than the people actually making the product or delivering the service. But even the best leaders sometimes have trouble figuring out how to encourage their teams to speak openly. Often, for example, people who have suffered under bad leadership are afraid of speaking up for fear of reprisals.
So what's a leader to do? Greg Moran, COO of Aware, has practical tips based on his years of experience with companies of all sizes. Hint: technology is here to help. His own company, Aware, developed a system that reviews (non-private!) chats in Slack, Yammer, and other company messaging tools to determine what your people are really concerned about...and help you develop solutions for them. You become more aware, and they become more engaged!
Most often, when employees are labeled as underperforming, leaders write them off. When such an employee inevitably leaves (or is forced out), you’re potentially giving your competition top talent…because with the right approach, those employees can become motivated high-performers. Ben Marcovitz, CEO of the Rise Institute, believes expecting radical growth from struggling staff should be the norm. It’s far less costly than staff churn and training, and can reveal untapped potential. From the classroom to the corporation, Ben has seen this work consistently in practice. He shares the details with host Maureen Metcalf. Join us, and radically grow your in-house pool of talent!
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It’s no secret that the well-being of your workforce directly affects the well-being of your entire organization. Prior to the pandemic, most corporate wellness program focused on physical fitness. The stresses of COVID quarantining, though, showed that mental health is every bit as important. Integrative medicine ties both physical and mental health together, revealing many ways in which they influence each other. In this episode, Dr. Maryanna Klatt discusses the role of integrative medicine, how it affects our well-being, and why this is so important for leaders. Her own research focuses on mindfulness, but the center works with and researches acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, massage, and more. There’s a clear ROI for leaders: reducing stress and burnout is a mighty tool in keeping the Great Resignation away!
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There’s more to grit than determination – a whole lot more. Knowing that can help you harness this incredible power of passion and perseverance.
Building on the work of Angela Ducksworth and her seminal book, guest Jim Ritchie-Dunham shows how there are four levels of grit in an organization...an insight which dovetails neatly with his own work in ecosynomics. Leaders often unknowingly determine how it cascades through various parts of their business – but because they’re not aware of it, they may be reinforcing the wrong kind for a particular department, team, or employee. That results in inefficiencies, lower staff engagement, and the loss of talent. But all of that can be boosted when grit is recognized and deftly applied. Dig in to a deeper understanding of grit with Jim Ritchie-Dunham and host Maureen Metcalf!
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All of us took history classes, but who’s taken future classes?
Studying the future is a discipline that stretches back decades. Strategic foresight is the established and proven process of looking at future probabilities, yet many business and NPO leaders either don’t know about it, or don’t understand it. It’s used by Fortune 200 companies, the U.S. military, the World Bank, and others. As futurist Rebecca Ryan explains to host Maureen Metcalf, strategic foresight helps those organizations decrease risk and maximize opportunity. That, in turn, provides them with a competitive advantage. So much so that Disney requires learning it before candidates can enter the C-Suite. Listen to this episode – and get a glimpse of your future!
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One look at the headlines on any given day makes it clear: the world is UNclear. How can an organization navigate through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to survive – much less succeed? By understanding VUCA, a concept developed by the Pentagon in 1987 to give our military an edge in chaos. Filmmaker Chris Nolan joins Maureen Metcalf to share how this military technique directly applies to businesses and non-profits – information drawn from his new documentary and book: It’s VUCA!.
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There’s a fierce competition going on out there: competition for talent. While pundits debate how real the Great Resignation is, HR departments face it every day. Rod Lacey has seen it, but the Chief People Operations Officer of simPRO has a very simple and elegant method for recruiting and retaining top talent: listen to them. There’s no need to second guess: current staff and incoming candidates will tell you what they’re looking for from an employer beyond the paycheck. Listen in as he chats with host Maureen Metcalf, and start to stabilize your organization’s talent flow!
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Many people fear the Artificial Intelligence revolution that’s underway. But like every other major societal revolution in history, you can play it to your favor. The key? Innovative thinking. In reality, these upheavals create newer, better jobs for people – though, from the sabot to the Luddite, people who don’t think differently, innovatively, even disruptively miss the opportunities these advancements create. IBM Master Inventor Neil Sahota joins host Maureen Metcalf to detail the key strategies for thriving through the AI revolution.
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It takes a village to raise a city. That twists traditional wisdom, but it’s true: no one leader can improve an urban landscape alone. It takes a group of leaders in public and private partnership. When they’re united by one vision, their city can grow into a powerhouse. Kenny McDonald oversees that for Columbus, Ohio – a city that’s launched into a bold future…most recently, as the site for Intel’s newest, largest chip plant. As president of the Columbus Partnership, McDonald upholds and advances the shared vision of the city’s CEOs. He shares how that works so effectively – and what other urban leaders can learn from the Partnership’s example.
Having trouble filling positions? Brace yourself: the Great Resignation is morphing into the Job Hopper Economy. Evan Sohn, the CEO of Recruiter.com, is in a unique position to see beyond the simplistic explanations of TV pundits. He joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his big-picture view of the state of hiring today…and where it will be tomorrow.
Lesson 1: “Money solves all problems” is a pre-pandemic thought that no longer applies. Employees are looking further; in addition to equitable pay, they’re looking for meaningful benefits and companies with conscience. They want their hard work to contribute to more than this quarter’s P&L statement. And they’re willing to hop to the jobs that provide it. Or they job hop to maintain personal freedom and engagement. Whatever the reasons, the talent pool is changing – and your hiring and work culture need to change with it. Evan explains how, as he provides the history of Recruiter.com .
Whether it’s official or not, the signs of a looming recession surround us. But that doesn’t necessarily mean doom-and-gloom. During the Great Recession of 2008, for example, while GM needed a huge government bailout to survive, Ford made it through without a Federal dime. Both are large automakers, both based in Detroit, so what made the difference? Planning! Ford started preparing for a downturn nearly two years before. Greg Moran – Ford’s Chief Strategy Officer at the time – shares both that history and what we can learn from it to ride our organizations through the current economic shifts.
A major myth in politics and business is that arrogant, over-confident people are better leaders. But reality reveals the opposite: humility combined with ambition drives the best leadership performance – and that, in turn, improves the entire organization.
Author and Trinity University professor Amer Kaissi discusses the details with host Maureen Metcalf. His new book, Humbitious, digs deep into the reasons the humble-yet-ambitious leader delivers the best results…for everyone from front line staff to the board of directors. This isn’t academic theory; Kaissi studied real-world leaders from Napoleon Bonaparte to New Zealand’s acclaimed Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. While narcissists sometimes do make it to the top, they’re the exception, and their actual performance (as opposed to their PR) tends to be less than stellar.
Fortune favors not simply the bold, but the humbitious!
Chris Resch of 66 Degrees and Joe DiDonato of Baker Communications (BCI) continue discussing the impacts of a recession on sales teams; the discussion started in Part 1. Too many organizations start trimming staff when revenues drop -- but downsizing isn't a one-size-fits-all answer. Hard data can help you make objective decisions...so you're RIGHTsizing your team to stay strong. That can mean the hard times won't be quite so hard after all!
Every business has its ups and downs. But when trauma hits, the worst thing to do is ignore it. The best: tend to your people!
Rachael Kelly watched the effects of COVID quarantine rapidly cascade through the restaurant industry…including at her organization: Smokey Bones. As a restaurant chain, the quarantine hit Smokey Bones hard -- and almost instantly. That, in turn, created serious issues for servers and other restaurant staff. Rachael joins host Maureen Metcalf to reveal how they dealt with the cascading trauma…and, more importantly, how they turned it into an opportunity to improve their team environment and emerge even stronger. In fact, Smokey Bones holds multi-year certifications as a Great Place to Work.
“Character is what you do.”
That’s a fundamental leadership principle for George Limbert, president of Red Roof. This is our second visit with George since he began his leadership journey as a first-time corporate president last summer. Red Roof has prospered under his guidance, proving the value of his philosophies. Character sits at their core.
A focus on character led to many innovations at Red Roof, including their Women’s Center for Excellence and Women in Leadership programs to help level the gender playing field, particularly in the lodging industry.
To keep character objectively defined, and his actions with character exemplary for his team, George looks at himself and his team through the lens of judicial temperament. It’s a non-biased way of looking at a situation from all sides to determine its core truth; it comes naturally to George, whose legal background goes beyond law school with deep roots in family: his father is a judge, and a brother and sister are also attorneys.
George shares the many ways any good leader can display character, calmly analyze corporate storms, and deal with other real life ups and downs of leadership with host Maureen Metcalf. Join us for this episode filled with practical examples from Red Roof.
Recession is a very real possibility – if not probability – if the worldwide economy continues on its present path. How can you recession-proof your organization?
With data…and people. The two may seem to be polar opposites, but mixing good data about your sales team along with employee-centric leadership forges a two-sided key to surviving – even thriving in – a recession. Chris Resch of tech firm 66 Degrees and Baker Communications’ Joe DiDonato join host Maureen Metcalf to reveal how these tools can be used. Downsizing is the C-suite’s knee-jerk reaction to slower sales in a recession; Joe talks about the downward spiral that creates…and Chris discusses how combining data with understanding people can lead your team to beneficial right-sizing.
Adulthood is kryptonite. We’re all born with superpowers. Curiosity is the most easily recognizable. As children, we’re flooded with it. But as adults, instead of being rewarded for having a million questions, we’re expected to have the answers. Leaders, in particular, believe they should have all the answers. Your superpowers are still there, and truly great leaders know how to unlock them. John Reid will help you rediscover yours, too! Author of The Five Lost Superpowers, Reid joins host Maureen Metcalf to identify the powers we’re all born with…and to provide some basic tools to reactivate them so you can achieve your full potential, personally and as a leader. And when you do that, you’ll help the people around you achieve their potential, too!
Raj Subrameyer knows about toxic leadership first-hand: HE was a toxic leader. Fortunately, Raj learned before it was too late that the toxins affect the leaders just as much as their teams. Anxiety, depression, anger, sleeplessness, illness...they all mount up. In this episode, Raj talks about his former leadership style, and his subsequent journey to a better work life. In the process, he reveals lessons on personal branding. It's not unrelated -- the more comfortable you are with yourself, the more comfortable your team becomes in working with you.
Google “leadership communication skills” sometime. You get 3.5 BILLION results. How does a leader know where to start improving their skills? Today, Jonathan Reitz, CoachNet's FLUXIFY's Director for Training/CEO, joins Maureen to discuss how to build a roadmap every leader can use to gather useful feedback, make a self-assessment and raise their own communication game.
Ruchira Chaudhary, leading executive coach and author of 'Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership' will share insights based on her award-winning book and discuss how coaching is the secret sauce of Uncommon or Extraordinary Leadership. She believes Coaching has never been as important than it is today. Our turbulent times require leaders that empower, elevate and enable. Leaders that build trust, resilience and admit mistakes. She argues that coaching is no longer a nice to have'' aspect of leadership - it is essential, and that you cannot be a good leader without being a good coach!
Peter Kozodoy joins Maureento discuss how to use strategic brutal honesty to improve your sales, marketing, recruiting and so much more. He will also share the simple 2-question technique that teaches us how to shake off the self-limiting talk that prevents us from success and how to use honestly like a Jedi mind-trick to spark creativity, resolve interpersonal conflicts and become a more effective and empowered leader.
We’ve all seen seismic changes in the brave new world of work; that’s doubly so for leaders and their coaches. Leadership coaches must become steeped in the Next Rules of Work – to help their clients navigate this post-pandemic workplace. Gary joins Maureen to discuss what those next rules of work are, why they’re so critical for leaders to learn, and the “sets” leaders need to do it: mindset, skillset, and toolset.
Employees want to be heard. They want to know their employer wants the best for them.
Continental Services heard – and worked hard to innovate their company culture to fully focus on the employee journey. Heather Krentler, Continental’s chief administrative officer, joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore Continental’s employee-led culture and how it came to be; the changes made not just to engagement, but sourcing the best talent in the first place; and how leaders embraced the new employee-centric culture. The results have been remarkable: a happy staff really does lead to a pleasant bottom line!
Although our bodies stop growing, our minds continue to develop throughout adulthood. But seeing the world differently can be confusing as your old brain emerges into the new. That confusion can be doubly difficult for leaders navigating their own growth (or Vertical Development) with that of their teams. At each successive level, leaders expand their capacity – yet face new shadows: areas of confusion and challenge. By understanding those areas, you will be able to identify and move through them more quickly, bringing light and opportunity where shadows once fell. Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta of STAGES International join Maureen to discuss different areas of confusion and, more importantly, how to recognize and overcome them…and continue growing in the process.
David DeRam, co-founder and CEO at Greenlight Gurus, joins Maureen to discuss actionable insights on using autohypnosis and mindset to achieve elite performance. He wants to help other business leaders learn the less-than-conventional methods he's used to achieve incredible results and how they can replicate them in their lives.
Leaders now face a level of uncertainty most of us have not seen – or could foresee – earlier in our careers. The world is in flux. How should leadership adapt in response to the changes happening in the world? We need to combine the wisdom of the past with new perspectives and tactics. With his past in Fortune 100 corporate America and his present in the innovative start-up world, Greg Moran’s experience and vision provide a guide. Greg and Maureen discuss the changes and foundational skills that are more important for you than ever before.
Jason Lioy of Dawn Foods joins Maureen as part of the Connex Executive Insights Series sponsored by Connex Partners. Together they will explore DEI and employee engagement through the lenses of inclusion, empathy, and authenticity. They will discuss how Dawn Foods has created a psychologically safe environment for people to bring their whole selves to work and how that’s helping drive both retention and core business strategy.
When an organization truly understands a problem and an innovative solution is implemented, people can get behind that organization and true change begins to happen. That’s the story of 412 Food Rescue and how Leah Lizarondo saw the solution of food waste recovery as an answer to those in food insecurity. Maureen is joined by Leah to discuss Leah's motivation and how she reimagined the solution to be an organization that solved multiple problems.
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On the Baker Communications Sales Leader Series, Jill Guardia, Executive Director of Sales Enablement at TriNet, Debbi Varela, Leader in Revenue Enablement at ProCore and Joe DiDonato, Chief of Staff at Baker Communications join Maureen to discuss Sales Enablement, why this is important to the sales organization, what the value proposition for sales enablement is and how to build a team around you. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.
The International Leadership Association (ILA) exemplifies a model for Anti-fragile. They imagine what is possible for global leaders focused on global challenges. They are an imagination-driven organization. For the 2021 annual conference, they chose Geneva, Switzerland. They leveraged Geneva being the city with the largest number of multi-lateral organizations in the world and Switzerland is ranked #1 as the most innovative economy in the world as the location to convene and create the space for leaders to grapple with the complex challenges they face.
The ILA's key initiatives are: 1. Global leadership initiative 2. Power of purpose 3. Guiding standards and general leadership projects
The theme for the 2021 conference was Reimagining Leadership and they were challenged to reimagine how to implement the conference in the new Covid-era. They developed the High Flex model and realized a successful hybrid conference.
Cynthia Cherrey, President and CEO of the International Leadership Association, and Mike Hardy, Professor at Coventry University and Board Chair of ILA, join Maureen to share how the ILA is being a living model for reimagining leadership together.
Leadership is nothing without thought -- and research shows we (literally!) think with our hearts as well as our minds. Neurocardiology is just one way we're learning about how a good leader thinks. The development of more robust thinking skills is vital in growing as a leader. Jonathan Reams, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, discusses the mindsets required for leaders to be effective.
This interview is part of the Connex Executive Insights Series and features Fara Palumbo of Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina.
In the discussion with Fara, she and Maureen will explore change, transformation, and how HR acts as the primary driver for those shifts within the business. More importantly, they will touch on the practical elements of operationalizing that change; how to secure buy-in from senior leaders; how to keep the course; and what kinds of opportunities a departure from the norm can bring.
The importance of studying leadership scientifically; there is too much opinion out there peddled by consultants and way too much bad research promulgated by well-meaning but badly trained researchers making claims that simply do not have any evidence. Leadership must be studied scientifically. As the corona fog clears, I trust too that scientists will see why they need to study leadership with the same urgency and energy they study molecules, vaccines, and interventions; simply put, leadership is an effective weapon that must be added to our arsenal to fight viral pandemics. John Antonkais, Professor of Organizational Behavior and editor in chief of The Leadership Quarterly, joins Maureen to share his thoughts on the importance of scientific leadership research.
Data science, how can we use it to improve sales performance? In part 2 of this interview, Maureen is joined by a panel that will share how Baker Communications and MindTickle are joining together to use data science to improve sales performance. We will look back at how previous methods have failed and how these new, innovative approaches are accelerating sales growth and company efficiencies. Maureen is joined by Mike Clayville, Chief Revenue Officer at Stripe, Gopkiran Rao, Chief Strategy Officer at MindTickle and Walter Rogers, CEO and Board Member of Baker Communications, Inc.
In many cases, leaders have been molasses-slow in changing their mindsets and adapting to major shifts in workforce demographics and the continuous need for talent development given the rapidly changing employee expectations and workplace dynamics. We need to develop a greater understanding of how our organization's culture is experienced differently by different segments of the workforce. The Industrial model that underpins most modern workplaces is no longer competitive with new and emerging models. An overhaul is long overdue, including ensuring --and measuring--the impact of inclusive leadership on people, the planet and profits.
Maureen is joined by a panel of guests to discuss this change in workforce demographics and how organizations need to adapt to an inclusive culture. The panel includes: Nadia Younes of The Center for Global Inclusion, Gamiel Yafai from Diversity Marketplace Limited and Louise Carvalho of Cern.
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires bold actions that unlock the potential of local innovators/entrepreneurs and foster inclusive access to opportunities and financing, especially for women. According to McKinsey Global Institute, “closing the gender gap in the workforce could add a staggering $28 trillion to the global GDP”.
In Africa, women operate over 40% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but there is a financing gap of $42 billion (in USD) between male and female entrepreneurs. Given that women reinvest about 90% of their revenue in sector/activities that benefit their families and societies, compared to about 40% for men, closing the gender funding gap is a win for everyone!
Pauline Koelbl, AfriProspect GmbH’s Founder and CEO and ShEquity’s Founder and Managing Partner, joins Maureen to share how ShEquity,’s vision is to close the gender funding gap in Africa. They focus on providing smart investment to female-led and owned businesses, the key driver to socio-economic growth and aim for triple bottom line: financial, social and environmental return.
Data science, how can we use it to improve sales performance? In Part 1 of this 2 part series, Maureen is joined by a panel that will share how Baker Communications and MindTickle are joining together to use data science to improve sales performance. They will look back at how previous methods have failed and how these new, innovative approaches are accelerating sales growth and company efficiencies. Maureen is joined by Mike Clayville, Chief Revenue Officer at Stripe, Gopkiran Rao, Chief Strategy Officer at MindTickle and Walter Rogers, CEO and Board Member of Baker Communications, Inc.
The increasing rate of work digitization and technology adoption is both creating job displacement and shortening the time required to upskill and reskill employees. As leaders align emerging technologies, worker roles, and job skills with their sustainability intentions, the evolving nature of work imposes a heavy emotional tax on workers who must continuously learn and adapt. Faris Almi, Founder and CEO of ISM, and Christopher Washington, Executive Vice President and Provost at Franklin University, join Maureen to discuss how more enlightened leaders are engaging in a caring and compassionate workforce and workplace transformation practices while meeting the sustainability goals of their organization.
As part of the Connex Executive Insights Series, Michelle Sanchez-Bickley of Renown Health joins Maureen to discuss how to develop your culture as the result of better connecting the dots between employee communications, engagement, and development; how to bring new employees into that paradigm by working with the community resources; how the development of those employees can both propel business strategy and be a retentive tool; and the importance – and practical strategies for – doing all that within a crisis.
What does leadership look like for Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP)? In this two-part interview, Ambassador Thomas Greminger joins Maureen to discuss the GCSP and leadership insights and then Peter Cunningham, Head of Leadership of GCSP joins Maureen to talk about key issues that are shared across many organizations – global governance. What does leadership look like in this context? What we are doing? and how we are going about doing it is crucial.
Lord John Alderdice, a sitting member of the House of Lords, has been involved in numerous peace negotiations, working to find peace between those in conflict. He joins Maureen to share his thoughts on leadership qualities that bring peace, promote peace and maintain peace. During the conversation, they explore the range of relationships driving successful conflict resolution ranging from the relationship we have with ourselves, the systems and cultures in which we operate, our past relationships and future generations who will experience the consequences of our actions.
Data science, how can we use it to improve sales performance? Maureen is joined by a panel that discussed how Baker Communications and MindTickle are joining together to use data science to improve sales performance. The discussion looks back at how previous methods have failed and how these new, innovative approaches are accelerating sales growth and company efficiencies.
This is the first of a two-part interview series. The second part airs on February 19.
During this interview, the Rt. Honorable Kim Campbell, the first female Prime Minister of Canada, talks about her how her career has unfolded, her career trajectory in the next phase of her career, her concerns and her hopes going forward. The conversation starts with the idea of being a good ancestor and explores what that means and why we should care.
Do today’s leaders have a responsibility to drive community building within their organization? What challenges are there in building communities in remote work? How do data, technology and merit-driven approach to employee development help to retain and evolve our traditional networks? Additionally, where does the leader’s, and specifically the human resource leader’s, responsibility start…and end? Alice Yoo LeClair joins Maureen to discuss these questions facing today’s leaders.
Helle Bank Jorgensen recently published her book, Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards. Its publication could not be timelier, with companies around the world having to seriously examine environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the wake of the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow. To achieve long-term profits and sustainability, boards must ask the right questions on a range of complex issues, including climate change, ESG, corruption, cybersecurity, human trafficking and supply-chain resilience. Helle joins Maureen to share the insights from more than 100 world experts and reinforced by international case studies that she shares in her book. The book is a must-have guide for board members and executives everywhere.
When businesses begin to scale their business there are many challenges to consider. Greg Moran joins the show for a discussion about topics that are often not addressed in scaling a business such as back-office processes and tooling, hiring and diversity, space: culture and people, keeping the value chain in balance, pricing and value creation, establishing ESG processes and minimizing distraction.
Having a clear sense of your individual purpose is a prerequisite for leadership in the 2020s. It takes time and attention to refine our own purpose but delivers huge returns in terms of our wellbeing and performance in the Me, We, and World dimensions. In other words, we become healthier, happier, and more effective as individuals; our teams become more collaborative, creative, and profitable; and the people and planet around us benefit as well. Nell Derick Debevoise joins the show to discuss her new book, Going First, Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action.
Uncertainty is the norm across all realms of our work and home lives. However, this uncertainty is different depending on professional roles and personal living conditions. This year’s leadership trends report points out key trends we anticipate continuing and some recommendations to address these trends. Christopher Washington joins Maureen to discuss these trends and how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations to face these trends.
Red Roof is evolving under the leadership of their new President, George Limbert. George and his team have updated their vision to reflect our post-covid era that embraces the community and employees and creates an exceptional customer experience across all Red Roof branded properties. George talks about the bold steps they are taking now to bring this vision into reality. This interview is the first in a series of Red Roof’s re-imagining and evolution.
How has the pandemic changed the workforce, both regionally and globally? What can be done about this drastic change in demographics? Kevin Cassidy and Christopher Washington join the show today to discuss the role of the ILO, the International Labour Organization, to examine the trends in employment, to consider emergent ideas such as changing dimensions of job quality, provide insights on populations differentially impacted by the pandemic and enlighten listeners to effective “human-centered” recovery strategies and recommendations from the ILO.
Traditional organizations have followed a linear economy that is often summarized by “take, make, waste.” Today, John joins Maureen to discuss how leaders must begin to educate themselves on circular economy. What is it? Why is it critical for leaders to understand this topic? What does it mean for their organizations?
AnneMarie Hayek is returning to the show to continue the conversation about her research of GenZ. In her new book, Generation We, she joins forces with thousands of Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. In this episode, we will discuss how as leaders we can attract and lead Gen Z, how their diversity of exposure impacts their priorities and how this generation will impact the arc of humanity and more.
Episode 1 of her interview was aired on October 5th, 2021.
This is the second of a 2-part interview with Dave Kurlan, founder and CEO of Objective Management Group and Joe DiDonato, Chief of Staff for Baker Communications. They join the show to discuss a much-needed tool that’s coming into widespread use in the hiring, onboarding, training and coaching of salespeople. It uses data science to help diagnose strengths and identify skill gaps to aid in our hiring and training decisions. And for most sales executives it’s a welcome addition that helps them solve the problem of sales turnover, which currently plagues the industry at an astronomical 34.7%. This assessment was designed by Objective Management Group and used by Baker Communications to help their clients accelerate sales performance, reduce turnover, and compress the time it takes to get sellers into the field selling.
There's one simple truth most working adults realize in their first job: meetings stink. Darren Chait is no exception. While he was an attorney, he recoiled at how inefficient and archaic lawyers' meetings are...then he had sticker shock when he saw the invoices and realized clients pay for that slow-paced inefficiency! That put him on the path to finding a better way for meetings. The result: Hugo, an online app that changes the way we think about meetings.
On the way, Darren learned that leadership in a fast-growth startup is very different than what the textbooks say. He joins Maureen to share what he's learned on the journey about leadership, how collaboration is changing, modern team dynamics, shared consciousness, direction versus support, and when to make leader problems team problems.
What you as a leader work on minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day matters, and either moves the needle and propels growth or constricts it. For instance, consistently and strategically choosing one “big idea” per month (or pieces of that big idea) will move a business forward faster than any one particular tactic. Working on one big idea across each pillar of your business - team, customers, capital, and strategic execution (and personal mindset) - will lead to exponential growth over time. Pete joins me today to share reasons why companies get stuck and stop growing and what leaders can do to change that.
Honesty is more than a character trait; it’s a muscle that has to be built to stay strong; honesty can be learned. Truth, justice, and purpose are “three sides of the same coin” together they mean honesty- to have one, you need all three; honesty means you have to say the right thing, do the right thing, and say and do the right thing for the right reason; even when it’s hard. Based on a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 3200 leaders – we can now prove under what conditions people will tell the truth, behave fairly, and serve a greater good, and under what conditions they will lie, cheat and serve their own interests. Ron Carrucci joins the show to discuss his book, To Be Honest. It is a book about heroes – the leaders and thinkers we should all want to emulate. Honest organizations out-perform, out-compete, and out-attract top talent by substantial multipliers.
Dave Kurlan, founder and CEO of Objective Management Group and Joe DiDonato, Chief of Staff for Baker Communications join the show to discuss a much-needed tool that’s coming into widespread use in the hiring, onboarding, training and coaching of salespeople. It uses data science to help diagnose strengths and identify skill gaps to aid in our hiring and training decisions. And for most sales executives it’s a welcome addition that helps them solve the problem of sales turnover, which currently plagues the industry at an astronomical 34.7%. This assessment was designed by Objective Management Group and used by Baker Communications to help their clients accelerate sales performance, reduce turnover, and compress the time it takes to get sellers into the field selling.
How we would approach America’s racial reckoning if we framed it as a hero or heroine journey? What it would mean to use this metaphor for developing leaders? Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas join the show to discuss their approach to this very timely topic.
We recognize the many layers of stress we are under day-to-day, but by using the very simple tools of mindfulness that Janet Fouts will share can help us to be less reactive and more responsive to what life throws at us. When we are aware of ourselves, we have better opportunities to understand others, making us better leaders, communicators, and partners.
Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? Mark Herschberg, author and instructor at MIT, joins Maureen to discuss his book The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He will share practical ideas from his book and his thoughts on leadership that will help you master these vital skills.
BCI’s Distinguished Sales Leader Series: This is part 2 featuring Marcela Pineros and Joe DiDonato. They joined the show to focus on the shift to using data science to drive our decisions in the areas of hiring, training, coaching, and onboarding and to share how data can help pinpoint areas that need to be addressed at a more granular level, and how that shift in thinking can help you raise your sales team’s revenue and profit contributions in a drastically shorter period of time.
Customers today expect the brands they deal with to deliver outstanding and seamless digital experiences. If your brand is failing to thrive, you need to take what is core to your value proposition and adapt it, perhaps significantly, for a world filled with customers who have digital at the center of their lifestyle. Howard Tiersky joins Maureen to discuss his experiences in assisting large organizations in winning digital customers.
AnneMarie Hayek joins Maureen to share about her new book, Generation We. In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we should be hopeful. Zs are not naïve idealists. They’re hardened realists with a bold vision for how we can transition, re-create, and progress. Generation We is your invitation to see the future they will create as it’s unfolding.
In today’s episode of BCI’s Distinguished Sales Leader Series, we’re going to focus on the shift to using data science to drive our decisions in the areas of hiring, training, coaching, and onboarding. Marcela Pineros and Joe DiDonato join the show today to share how data can help pinpoint areas that need to be addressed at a more granular level, and how that shift in thinking can help you raise your sales team’s revenue and profit contributions in a drastically shorter period of time.
You have a Yes! that aligns your purpose and unique contributions with the impact you can generate and the experience you can have, which is yours to choose. Your Yes! always generates net-positive value and your No! always generates net-negative value—your choice. Jim Ritchie-Dunham joins Maureen to explain the science behind our Yes!
In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if they are leading a team chances are that they are managing a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures have led to a seismic shift in terms of the tools needed to successfully manage and grow within a company: charisma and strategic thinking abilities now matter less than qualities such as vulnerability and relatability. Jeffrey Hull joins the show to discuss the research he has done on the art and science of leadership in a changing world that is featured in his book, Flex.
The COVID pandemic crushed sales for many businesses...but not at AVI Systems. When building a world-class sales team, an organization needs to implement a formal sales process proven to improve sales performance. This formal sales process is like the back office for sales. Joe DiDonato (BCI) and Don Mastro (AVI Systems) join host Maureen Metcalf to discuss their experiences, as well as the case study they wrote about what Don did to get his AVI Systems team through the pandemic -- and then skyrocket sales. This is part 2 of a 2-part series.
Sophisticated assessments, data, and software are giving CEOs and managers within any organization or industry detailed insights into human behavior. As CEO of The Predictive Index, Mike Zani has witnessed firsthand how the application of data and science can impact, and completely change, the way we function in our professional lives. In his new book, THE SCIENCE OF DREAM TEAMS: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness, Zani details a data-driven approach to talent strategy that makes hiring, motivating, and managing people more efficient and effective than ever. Mike joins the show to share his research on how to build a dream team.
The COVID pandemic crushed sales for many businesses...but not at AVI Systems. When building a world-class sales team, an organization needs to implement a formal sales process proven to improve sales performance. This formal sales process is like the back office for sales. Joe DiDonato (BCI) and Don Mastro (AVI Systems) join host Maureen Metcalf to discuss their experiences, as well as the case study they wrote about what Don did to get his AVI Systems team through the pandemic -- and then skyrocket sales.
Conversations about meaning and purpose at work are very old and very new. Spirituality proves a lens for those discussions. Workplace spirituality helps us understand issues such as fulfillment, engagement, purpose, leadership, and more. However, it also increases worries about values conflicts and how well organizations handle that. Paul Gibbons joins me today to discuss the spirituality of work and leadership for leaders and organizations.
As the second part of this interview, the discussion with Allison Duquette of CampusLogic and Joe DiDonato of Baker Communication continues with Maureen, going deeper into the ways Allison integrated assessments in both her current sales team, selection of sales managers, and new hires. Assessment tools boost the efficacy of hiring the right candidate for the job...yet most managers still hire by gut feeling. That’s a mistake Allison overcame, and in so doing, learned assessments can make the difference between firing someone, and figuring out where they can thrive.
To be competitive in business over the next decade, it will not only be necessary to optimize the body for physical and mental health purposes, but it will additionally be necessary to ensure that cognitive optimization is also a major focus. The human today is simply not equipped to handle the deluge of data that is coming nor the constant upskilling requirements that are inevitable. Dr. JJ Walcutt joins Maureen to share about Accelerate, a program that gets businesses starting on the right track toward building a culture of brain health, growth, and effectiveness.
Assessments can provide fresh insights into the strengths of your top sales performers -- and ways to build those strengths in the rest of your team. Joe DiDonato of Baker Communications Inc. and Allison Duquette of CampusLogic discuss with Maureen the real-world use of assessment tools with the sales team...along with the refreshing surprises encountered along the way!
This is the debut of a special sales-team-focused miniseries, the Distinguished Sales Leader, co-produced by the Innovative Leadership Institute and Baker Communications Incorporated.
Change is now a constant in all organizations. Is there a way to make it easier? Jake Jacobs joins the show to discuss his new book and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations -- at the individual, team, or organizational levels. He will share practical actions leaders can take to achieve these much sought-after, but seldom accomplished goals.
The leadership journey can be a challenging one with unseen challenges that ruin reputations. Skilled people can be left wondering what went wrong if they don’t have effective sponsorship. These challenges are even more pronounced for underrepresented people in leadership roles. Ricky Robinson and Keith Powell of C-Certs will talk about the importance of having a sponsor and of being sponsor-ready.
In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout. Confidence. Competence. Clarity. Character. Connections. Commitment. This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement and is designed to give you the perspective you’re looking for, no matter what’s going on in your life. Jared joins the show to discuss his new book and how listeners can begin to be reenergized to never stop growing.
Emerging Industries often lend a new twist on businesses, they allow the opportunity to relook at old practices and can lead to innovation in the business sector. James joins the show to discuss his recent venture into an emerging industry and how looking at an emerging industry can provide new challenges as well as possibilities in new solutions.
Several of the Innovative Leadership Institute’s certified facilitators joined the show to share how they have taken the concepts that they learned from a 9-month program and applied them to their business functions. Tom Grote and Christoph Hinske joined Maureen to discuss how they have extended the program content and built a values-based systems mapping that helped shape both of their professional and personal journeys.
We see lots of articles on the future of work but little about the future of leadership. As work changes, leadership must also change to ensure organizations can meet their objectives. It is essential for leaders to innovate how they lead to keep pace, but what does that mean? Greg Moran joins the show to explore the changes leaders need to make in how they think about and perform the essential work of leadership.
Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. We need a roadmap for a new workforce education system to rebuild America's working class, tackling inequality by equipping our workers for twenty-first-century jobs. We need to train more workers more quickly, using innovative methods. William and Sanjay join the show to share various ideas on the new roles of community colleges, employers, governments, and universities need to take in workforce education, as well as new education technologies that may be adapted to deliver such training.
Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis - it’s a wonder they’re still standing. Too few of us have stress tools powerful enough to put stress to work for us so we can enjoy the journey. Once you’ve learned how to be mentally tough, you will use stress to your advantage. It becomes your superpower! Colonel Deb Lewis joins the show to share her experiences and how you can learn to effectively use stress to your advantage.
Deep tech described capabilities that were impossible yesterday, barely feasible today, but tomorrow will be so pervasive it will be hard to imagine life without it. We're in the early stages of the digital age, and understanding how deep tech is disrupting the world is no longer a competitive advantage, it's a matter of survival. Eric Redmond joins Maureen to discuss his new book, Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything.
Disruption to the norm, unexpected events, uncertain times are things many of us are facing during this worldwide pandemic. We have seen jobs lost, companies forced to rethink how they have done business and how they can continue to stay in business. Leaders are daily faced with tough decisions on how to lead in this new and different environment. Sean Castrina joins the show to discuss his story of overcoming a setback, how he has gone on to start multiple new businesses, and the leadership lessons he has learned from his experiences.
The world has witnessed three-step functions in technological change: mechanization, electrification, and computerization. These industrial revolutions led to massive increases in productivity and thus we need far fewer workers. With each of these technological breakthroughs, the power balance between companies and workers shifted heavily to companies. The abuses of that power by companies instigated employee unrest. Counterbalancing forces rose to constrain companies’ power, eventually prompting unions, regulation, and the social safety net to bring stability to the relationship. As we enter the fourth great leap forward in technology with robots and AI, we face the first services revolution. The power balance will again shift massively to companies as new technologies drive productivity increases in the service industry, much as the last three industrial revolutions transformed manufacturing. Jeff Wald joins Maureen to discuss his book, The End of Jobs, and what the future of work is.
Diversity recruiting and retention has become a hot topic and yet, many organizations don’t yet understand the nuances of recruiting and how to navigate the complexities of retention and ensuring candidates and organizations create the best experiences and mutual success.Eric Douglas Keene joins Maureen to discuss changes occurring in the world of diversity recruiting.
Everyone can be creative in their own way. Creativity skills can be learned and developed. The creative process is iterative. Most of the time we fail many times before we succeed. We learn from those failures and approach the next experiment with new information and an improved understanding. Jeff DeGraff joins Maureen to share how you can tap your individual creativity.
Coaching skills are not just for the life coach or the executive coach, they are every leader’s secret weapon. Managers can become the leaders that are needed when they understand how to use coaching skills that put the development of their team as the top priority and multiply their impact. Want to move from managing your team to leading your team? Coaching skills are the key. Jonathan Reitz joins Maureen to share how managers can move toward leading by learning some simple coaching behaviors.
In a world of work-from-home and so much of our personal interaction being digital, we need to understand what we are conveying by digital body language. Today, Erica Dhawan joins the show to share findings from her newest book – Digital Body Language – which decodes the new signals and cues of effective collaboration and teamwork in a digital-first human workplace. Listeners will learn to investigate and improve their own digital body language so that they can support a silo-breaking, trust-filled environment at their places of work. Listeners will understand that the language and punctuation we use across all mediums requires that we be careful, conscious and considerate, and always mindful of how our recipients might respond.
Business today is more competitive than ever and staying ahead requires you to make tough calls, face hard choices, and work through conflict. But productive conflict is so rare. Why? Because productive conflict requires a different mindset, new skills, and repeatable processes, none of which come naturally. Liane Davey joins Maureen to discuss building a productive conflict culture.
Research has shown that diversity at every level of leadership leads to a more successful organization. The show today has 2 segments. In the first segment, Dr. Christopher Washington of Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio will join Maureen to discuss the importance of J.E.D.I. (just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments) S.P.A.C.E. (supportive, purposeful, accountable, collaborative, and evaluative practices). The second segment will be with Valrie Grant, the Managing Director of GeoTechVision and one of the five 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainability Development Goals Challenge Awardees. She will discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level of leadership, including the board room.
How can we change the way conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion are progressing to move towards productive, inquiring, learning experiences, and ultimately creating a more just and equitable workplace and society? How can we understand the effects outside of work events have on people of color within work? Laura and Courtney join Maureen to share insights from their work and to encourage leaders to be examining and understanding the racial barriers and how they can remove those.
Even before Covid-19, employees were reporting record rates of burnout and stress with Gallup studies showing only 15% of employees fully engaged at work. Now with workers stuck behind screens, grasping for focus and suffering from the real mental challenges of prolonged social isolation and anxiety, organizations are in need of well-being development for their employees. It is essential for today’s workplaces to provide well-being support for employees, as well as traditional professional development. Supporting the long-term mental health of your team can mean the difference between an engaged, collaborative and productive organization or one riddled with toxicity and turnover. With 71% of U.S. office workers either curious about or already practicing meditation, now is the time to signal your long-term support for employees, and bring in the neuroscientifically proven benefits of contemplative practices, like meditation. Peter and Rich join the show to discuss mindfulness.
Gender inequality around the world has many facets: archaic laws that codify sexism, male control of joint income and household assets, exclusion from governance, trafficking and violence against women, denial of education and adequate health care, and gender segregation in the workforce, to name a few. The Gender Equality and Governance Index (GEGI) taps into some of the world’s best datasets to analyze gender discrimination on a global scale, using five critical “pillars”: governance, education, work, entrepreneurship, and violence. The Index covers 158 countries and provides a compelling perspective on the status of gender inequality across the planet. It allows policymakers, the business community, and civil society to pinpoint specific areas for improvement and to learn from best international practices. Today, Amanda and Augusto join me to discuss the index results for 2020 and how we as leaders can implement changes for the good of all.
As a society, we face a dramatic loss of trust in each other and our institutions. This reduction in trust impacts everything from people's inability to come together to solve problems to an escalation in mental illness and suicide. MaryJo will share her experiences with struggle and how it can impact your ability to build trust.
Mark Shapiro, President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays, joins Maureen to share his approach to effective leadership and discuss how this approach positioned the Toronto Blue Jays to navigate the challenges they faced and the solutions they implemented so that the game could go on, and finally, the leadership insights learned. Through this conversation, Mark’s comments and perspective illustrate the best of effective leadership.
Universities and medical schools do a wonderful job preparing their students for medical procedures but the often-missed crucial element to great healthcare that is missed in this training is leadership training. Neil joins Maureen to share his experiences and how we believe the leadership framework we’ve developed can be used to build the leadership skills needed by medical staff to make our healthcare system stronger.
Every entrepreneur dreams of expanding their business from around the corner to around the world. While today those dreams look doubtful, hope can be found from the story of a CEO who managed to do so despite decades of economic downturns, near bankruptcy, and constant change. Robert joins the show today to share insights and lessons learned from his experience taking Dunkin Donuts from 100 shops to 6,500 outlets. These lessons are also captured in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin Donuts.
During the last year, we have seen dramatic change and Futurist John Peterson tells us we will see more change in the next decade than in all of human history. If this is even directionally correct, we need to prepare board members to lead through this range of complex changes. Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO of Competent Boards, joins Maureen to discuss her Future Boardroom Competencies report.
What is the purpose of business in the 21st century? And what are the values and skills needed by business leaders in this new era of stakeholder value? Keith joins Maureen to discuss these emerging topics and share his experience.
Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation, and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolved human consciousness. Otto’s first book sold over 100,000 copies and to put that in context, the average self-published book sells 250 copies, and the average traditional book sells 3,000 copies in its lifetime. Otto joins Maureen to discuss his latest book: The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications, a book that meets a crucial need during this point in history in helping us bring necessary changes to our foundational systems from a place of deep consciousness and perspective-taking from all key stakeholders – including the future as a key stakeholder.
The need for system leaders, system literacy, and collaboration are more important than ever. The field of ‘awareness-based systems change’ is growing, and there are many very accessible ways to engage. Darcy joins Maureen to discuss that taking a more holistic, or systems approach, does not require a Ph.D. in Systems Dynamics - anyone can become a systems thinker and have a positive impact on the systems in which they work and live.
“Great leaders are great learners” is often quoted but how can leaders implement this into their very hectic day? Ron has created a year-long leadership development guidebook that offers day-by-day instruction in short excerpts to provide leaders with knowledge and practical application ideas. Ron joins the show to discuss his new book “Daily Leadership Development,” his lifetime achievement award and his views on the current state of leadership.
As a political scientist, Matt studies democracy – its evolution, and particularly how democracies decline. He shares his perspective on the rise of populism across the world, how that leads to un-democratic leaders, then answers the question, “Is American democracy a brittle twig or a supple bamboo?” He offers solutions, too; every strong democracy in history thrived on disparate points of view – and leaders who welcomed diverse opinions.
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. Barbara joins the show today to discuss her views on leadership education, what it takes to build highly effective leaders and her new book Leaders Who Lust.
We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t provide that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t repeat itself and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Today Margaret joins the show to discuss her new book, Uncharted, How to Navigate the Future, in which she drew on a wide array of people and places, to look at long-term projects developed over generations that could never have been planned the way that they have been run.
There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won’t work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now? To answer these questions, Jacob interviewed over 140 CEOs and partnered with LinkedIn to survey almost 14,000 of their members around the globe to see how CEO insights align with employee perspectives. Jacob joins the show to share insights he gained from this research.
Sustainability is now a business-critical issue. Those companies and industries that don't embrace it will be left behind. In fact, we are already starting to see signs of this. Trista and Donald join the show today to discuss their new book “Leading Sustainability: The Path to Sustainable Business and How the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Changed Everything,” which is the culmination of 18 months of research from around the world. In their research, they have found that bold leadership and innovation are two key common elements that enable the success of sustainability strategies and actions.
We are facing unprecedented changes in our world today. These changes range from geopolitical changes to the impact the pandemic has had on everything from how we work to technology acceleration and corresponding need to change leadership. Today Christopher Washington joins Maureen to discuss the top seven Leadership Trends for 2021 and Beyond.
Thriving during a crisis is a challenging feat for any leader. Aline Kamakian shares with listeners not only how she encountered the difficult decisions that many faced in the hospitality industry due to the pandemic but she was also forced to deal with the destruction of one of her restaurants during the massive blast that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, in August of 2020. Aline joins the show to share her story, how she adapted to the crises her business endured and advice for leaders she has gleaned from her experiences.
Mindsets are the most foundational element for why leaders do what they do. Unfortunately, most leaders are not conscious of their mindsets, and their negative mindsets wreak havoc on their effectiveness. Ryan Gottfredson joins the show to discuss his new book “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work and Leadership” and what leaders can do to awaken to their mindsets and develop Success Mindsets, so they can unlock much more effective leadership.
The COVID pandemic has elevated a long-overlooked narrative: we ask A LOT of the nurses, doctors, and frontline medical staff who shepherd our communities in times of public health crisis. And while they are required to step into unknown, high-pressure + high-stress work, we do not equip them with the same tools for resilience and recovery that we do for professional athletes and elite military units. Brian Ferguson joins the show to discuss how Arena Labs is focused on pioneering what they call High Performance Medicine in order to bring those same tools, training, and technology to frontline medical teams.
A change mindset is here to stay. Implementing change takes high energy, an abundance of patience and extreme flexibility. United States Navy Rear Admiral Deborah Haven, Retired joins the show to discuss her experience in leading change and working in an uncertain environment as well as the lessons she has learned that can be translated to situations all leaders face.
Diversity and inclusion are critical topics in not only the U.S. but the world right now. Roger Madison, Jr., founder and CEO of iZania, a company formed to connect Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and consumers online joins the show. Roger was previously a sales executive with IBM in South Africa and he will share about his experiences in South Africa and what he learned that can further diversity and inclusion in our world today.
Today’s most successful companies and leaders are StoryDoers, not storytellers. These leaders have clearly defined a higher purpose that frames their ultimate ambition and desired contribution to the world - and they orient every action they take in service of achieving this goal. Ty Montague joins the show to discuss what makes someone a Storydoer, why Storydoers are better leaders and tools leaders can use to become a Storydoer.
We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships—whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information by making assumptions. Today, Gleb joins Maureen to discuss his book The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships and the skills to help you debias—to stop, pause, and objectively observe situations before jumping to conclusions about others’ motives.
Founder and former rue21 CEO, Bob Fisch works towards creating a new level of understanding between Millennials and Baby Boomers that is built on a spirit of respect and mutual mentoring. Bob wrote Fisch Tales: The Making of a Millennial Baby Boomer to bring those two distinct demographic groups together to illustrate how they can learn valuable lessons from each other simply by listening more closely and sharing more freely. Bob is quoted as saying “I believe that which year you were born or which generation you belong to doesn’t matter. What matters to me is who you are, what you do, and how young you allow yourself to be.”
Better leadership, like peace, is a critical factor for human flourishing –with better leadership societies can begin to address many of the sources of human insecurity- but often, just as with peace, we remain more aware of its absence than its existence. Mike Hardy, Founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the UK, joins Maureen to discuss his current work, trends in democracy and what leaders can be doing to make a difference through better leadership for a more peaceful existence for us all.
Marcia Daszko joins Maureen to share 3 pieces of advice for leaders. 1. STOP using management fads and best practices”. These cause internal competition and dysfunctional work environments full of blame and finger-pointing 2. START thinking differently by learning about systems and statistical thinking. If leaders want better outcomes, they need to create a new System that will deliver it and help them make better decisions. And 3. TRANSFORM/Change what they do and how they lead to transform their organization and create amazing customer experiences.
People are the crux of any organization’s success, but many businesses don’t take any intentional steps to create an energetic, positive work environment that spirals people’s attitudes upward. Yet, the right culture can help you create a ‘cycle-proof’ business that can grow even during your industry’s bust cycles that inflict economic pain on competitors. Bill Higgs joins Maureen to share the costs of bad company culture and the ways leaders can build great company cultures.
The fact of the matter is that effective leadership insists on constant rejection of the status quo. True leaders demand continuous reflection and improvement of those around them, and even more importantly, of themselves. Deke Copenhaver joins the show to discuss how leaders can be a changemaker in business, government, and their families to make a difference in the world.
For most people and businesses, growth is linear, but some relationships can dramatically change our direction and ultimate destination - these are the Curve benders. How does strategic business relationships enable business model innovation? How does unplanned events such as COVID-19 become an impetus to rethink, reimagine, if not reinvent key parts of your business? How is agile alignment critical for leaders to balance speed and agility with patience to make the best decisions possible with their available data? David Nour joins Maureen to discuss these pressing questions leaders are facing in our rapidly changing environment.
Current research has found that companies with a gender-diverse workforce at all levels experience better financial performance. Taryn joins the show today to share research her and her team at Training Industry have conducted that reveals that the leadership development provided to women is not equitable to the leadership development provided to their male peers. She will discuss the conclusions of the research and how employers can overcome this inequality in training to ensure a gender-diverse workforce at all levels.
We are in a major shift in a fundamental aspect of how businesses grow, how buyers purchase, and how businesses build meaningful conversations and customer relationships. Companies who align their mission, strategies, action plans, and tools with the way buyers think, learn, discover, and purchase will have a huge competitive advantage. Organizations need to adjust their mindset and build a strategic foundation to deal with these facts and not just update a business plan. Todd joins Maureen to discuss his book, Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles and how leaders can focus their business on the customer and succeed at attracting and keeping the ideal customers.
Nashater Deu Solheim joins Maureen to share with our listeners how to use the power of psychology to get what we need from every interaction, while also maintaining positive, win-win team relationships. The hope is that we will walk away with new tips to inspire trust, easily navigate conflict, and create value every day -- and that will help us gain traction and develop high-performing, fully engaged teams.
In our current world, businesses are operating in a constantly changing environment and leaders are facing situations they have never had to deal with before. Having a Learning Mindset, an attitude that predisposes you to be open to new experiences, to believe you can and will learn, and to intentionally grow and develop from your experience, and exercising the Learning Practices are essential to becoming an innovative leader in today’s highly chaotic environment. By doing so, leaders can create an ongoing positive cycle of learning and performance that creates better performance and higher levels of learning. Steve Terrell, President of Aspire Consulting, joins Maureen to discuss the Learning Mindset and the Learning Practices from his book Learning Mindset for Leaders.
The Pandemic, Activism, and Workforce Dynamics due to Political Decisions are three of the top issues leaders of today’s organizations must be considering as each can have major implications on the organization if not handled properly. Dr. Dale Meyerrose joins me today to provide guidance to today’s leaders through some of the points leaders must be aware of when facing each of these three hot issues.
Greg Moran joins Maureen to discuss the challenges organizations are facing during the months of working from home and how his organization, Aware, is helping companies track employee engagement and satisfaction without invasion of privacy. They also discuss the seven leadership mindsets and behaviors required to adjust to the disruptions leaders are facing. Leaders need to act more like scientists than experts. They need to change what they expect of themselves (mindset) and how they show up (behavior) to meet the current challenges.
Lisa Gable, CEO of FARE, has managed several major turning points within her work experience. At FARE, with food allergy, the organization is at several major inflection points with the first peanut allergy therapy receiving FDA approval, gene editing in agriculture, consumer packaged goods and artificial intelligence. Lisa joins Maureen to help leaders understand when they are at an inflection point and how to optimize and maximize results for their organization and society’s benefit.
Organizations must rethink how they identify future leaders – today’s practices are often influenced by unconscious bias and result in unintentional discrimination, leaving potentially more capable talent behind. If organizations fix the broken rung, people will be promoted based on merit, not gender or race, and diversity will be enhanced. Martin Lanik joins Maureen to discuss the comprehensive study of fairness in how organizations prepare the next generation of leaders.
Companies that do not think seriously about a crucial element of corporate culture?integrity?are destined to fail. As our workplaces are becoming more diverse, global, and connected, integrity matters more than ever. It requires leadership from the top, but it also requires that everyone in the company have a shared sense of what integrity means in their workplace and a strong, empowered voice to put that integrity into practice. Rob Chesnut joins the show to share his experiences and about his new book, Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution.
Developing leaders must be balanced between the internal aspect of improving style and skill sets and the external ability to read their environment and set smart priorities. Our changing environment requires constant monitoring, analysis, and adaptation. Mary Lippitt joins Maureen to discuss her book Situational Mindsets: Targeting What Matters When It Matters.
In celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Innovating Leadership, Co-creating Our Future, Maureen is joined by Dr. Christopher Washington to both look back at the last five years of shows and look forward at the opportunities and challenges facing our leaders. Maureen and Christopher will recap the biggest takeaways from the guests in the past 5 years.
The future of credit is quickly evolving in today’s digital world. Eric Haller joins the program today to share about the importance of virtual and augmented reality, voice and text for credit, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are both paramount in the transformation of credit.
Successful organizations of the future are the ones that will manage the decentralized human capital and diverse human culture inherent in any global business environment. Melissa Lamson joins Maureen to discuss how new technology has become the primary driver of our global communication and successful managers know how to use technology to manage and motivate teams remotely. But it also requires a whole new set of communication and project management skills that are constantly evolving.
“Our world and our businesses revolve on the level of Trust people have in us. Success begins with Trust and ends when Trust dissolves.” This quote by Mark Given is the basis for this show. Mark joins Maureen to discuss the topic of trust and the importance of trust to help leaders succeed.
The world is becoming increasingly complex, disruptive and interconnected. Antoinette Braks joins Maureen to discuss how we need later stage leadership capacity to transcend the turmoil and lead others in transformative efforts to create a new more sustainable society, economy and planet. This requires vertical learning to later stages of development especially to a stage called Strategist or Synergist, where there are less than 10% of executive leaders. Vertical learning takes the lid off our growth potential.
The burning question many businesses should be asking is “Can our business survive and thrive the rapid advance of technology?” Today Terry Jones, the founder of Travelocity.com and founding chairman of Kayak.com, joins the show to discuss with Maureen how existing corporations can change and adapt to new products, as sometimes it's forgotten how to discover new things. His advice: “You better take a risk, if you don’t, you’ll be gone.”
Systems Innovation, including systems thinking & dynamics, is one of the most essential skill sets in the 21st century. Christoph Hinske joins Maureen to discuss how the basics can be learned in under 10 minutes and applied to your own projects in under 4 hours. Do not believe in people who state: You have to have a high IQ, use expensive programs and study for years to use systems stuff. Without this, you will never be able to lead in, sensitive, messy and highly ambiguous environments.
The way leaders define a problem comes from their experience of the problem and may not account for everything that’s going on. At the same time, there is almost always something they can do to improve their situation. Liz Kislik joins Maureen to discuss why it’s crucial for leaders to look deeply at what’s going on and the problem’s causes and sources to be able to work on the problem in the most effective ways.
David Goldsmith joins the show to share why leaders need great coaches. The world is increasingly complex, and leaders are asked to make decisions in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments. Usually without enough information. With the speed of business so fast, great leaders need coaches and not just good coaches, great coaches.
There is no more time to put it off – you have to have that uncomfortable conversation. Marcia Reynolds joins the show to help you turn resistance into a productive result. You will learn how to mentally prepare for your conversation as well as what to do while you are in it. No matter if you are wearing the hat of leader, parent, or friend, you will gain the confidence and tips you need to hold your next difficult conversation!
Building a community around products and/or services is essential and when done properly can be immensely rewarding but leaders must take the time to do it correctly. Mitch Russo joins Maureen to discuss how leaders must spend the time to deeply understand what their tribe members want and need, then devise a way to give it to them, while providing a path to evolve individually and together as a group. Good leaders will stay focused on being a true leader and LEAD with vision, personality and purpose.
Everyone has experienced people acting in ways they can't stand. Dr. Rick Brinkman literally co-wrote the book on it. Dealing With People You Can't Stand, How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst. He will show us why people act the way they do and how to use Conscious Communication® to successfully transform and prevent unwanted behaviors. Communication is like a phone number, you need all the digits to get through and you need them in the right order. There is a strategy for each of the difficult behaviors that can transform them. It is just a matter of being a Conscious Communicator™ and taking responsibility for the power you have to influence others.
With great power comes great responsibility. Our spiritual evolution and collective wisdom struggle to keep pace with the power granted by our technological evolution. Harnessing the good business does by scaling science for the benefit of humanity, through creating communities where people can learn—and contribute more than they could alone—and by furthering human flourishing are among noblest aims we may pursue.
In this show, Paul Gibbons joins Maureen to discuss the future toward which business is leading us, in 2030,and how it is the backdrop to our change. We have in our hands, as citizens and as business leaders, the power to do great good by pointing business toward our most inspirational and useful aims and leading those changes with passion and reason.
Jack Modzelewski joins the show to share about his leadership experiences and his new book, Talk Is Chief: Leadership, Communication, & Credibility in a High-Stakes World . With compelling stories and strategies, this book inspires leaders and aspiring leaders to treat their daily communication practices as seriously as their fiscal, operational, value creation, deal making, business transformation, and other executive responsibilities.
Millennials are stepping into leadership roles at an increasing rate. We hear questions about millennial preparedness for leadership roles. At the same time, we have an expanding range of ages in the workforce. Leadership behaviors must change to prepare leaders and organizations to navigate the challenges they face with a more diverse workforce. During this conversation, Greg and Maureen talk about harvesting the best leadership tools, frameworks and behaviors to ensure all leaders are prepared.
Executive Order 9981 was issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. This order abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and led to the end of segregation in the services. In this session, Maureen is joined by Carrie Spell Hansson to discuss what we have learned about diversity and inclusion training in the 70 plus years since that Order.
As a certified BCorp since 2015, Anie Rouleau has made a pledge to become a natural ambassador and promote the movement across Québec. She believes in 2030, a company that is not transparent, inclusive, socially and environmentally responsible will be outdated. We must redefine the key successes of tomorrow's businesses and we need to start now. Each of our stakeholders is essential. We need to commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country. She is joined by Daniele Henkel to discuss with Maureen the importance of the BCorp movement.
We are living in a world where we are barraged with people who take the quick path and, in many cases, ethical short cuts to achieve success. These short cuts are often exposed, and many people have a crisis of faith in our institutions. This crisis can create a crisis of faith in our institutions. With this crisis as the backdrop, Maureen will discuss character with Daniele, who promotes being a leader who lives the highest ethics put into action!
Daniele will tell us about her journey as a highly principled leader. Part of her conversation will explore how we got where we are and more importantly, how can we move forward. People are trying to find the solutions. Many of us know the answer – it is grounded in respect for one another, exploring respectful discourse, returning to basic values of respect, honor, loyalty. This requires each individual leader to be clear and personally responsible for your words and actions. What you do matters, and it impacts others.
Nancy Adler is an inspiring leader who has worked with managers from around the world to create synergy among cultures, rather than building walls to keep out “difference” or to hide behind fears of inefficiency and prejudice. Nancy pioneered the fields for cross-cultural management, women leading worldwide, and the role of the arts in inspiring the best of what individuals and organizations have to offer to their organizations, their communities, and to the world. As an artist, she works to make the world more beautiful, even now when so many people focus on ugliness and dysfunction. She joins Maureen to discuss her Leading Beautifully Awards, created to honor the best among us.
As our world is changing at a rapid pace and our leadership strategies are changing, what does this mean for women in leadership? In this program, we will be discussing the changes of women in leadership with an experienced leader who has had significant worldwide leadership roles. Right Honourable Kim Campbell will share her insights from women in leadership from the early 1990s to now and where women in leadership hope to go in the future.
An equitable, abundant and powerful clean energy future will be grounded on the principles decarbonization, digitalization, decentralization and democratization. Chris Henderson is Canada’s foremost advisor to Indigenous communities, and joins the show to share how First Nation, Metis and Inuit communities across Canada are leading and participating in an emerging clean energy economy. He delves into the array of social, environmental and economic impacts of this broad movement, which has global relevance and significance.
Courageous leadership is required to address the world’s most pressing environmental and social issues, such as rising carbon emissions, resource scarcity, plastic pollution, mass migration, poverty and conflict. Maureen Metcalf interviews Mike Gerbis, a business leader who has managed to challenge the status quo, break through traditional conventional commercial approaches and implement more sustainable solutions.
We are excited to showcase two current leadership researchers and their findings, one from the United States and the other from Australia. We will discuss the development and key results of the first annual Attitudes about Leadership in the United States survey conducted by Lynn Shollen of Christopher Newport University. This survey examines the public’s attitudes about leaders and leadership, perceptions of influences on leadership at various levels and in different sectors, and factors affecting willingness to follow, among other topics. Also featured will be The Australian Leadership Index with its co-creator, Sam Wilson. This research measures perceptions and expectations of leadership for the greater good in twelve institutions across the government, public and private and non-profit sectors in Australia.
In this episode, Dr. Mary Crossan describes what leader character is, why it matters, and how to develop it. She will explain how leader character fosters individual well-being and sustained excellence in organizations. Elevating character alongside competence is a new frontier for leadership.
Mike Hardy gives an update on the progress of the Coventry Center for Peace studies. He explores both how he is navigating his personal journey to be a model for peacefulness. His center is growing into a self-sustaining center for exceptional research that underpins the evolving thinking about how we create peace in an evolving and interconnected world. At the same time, Mike shares how his choice to give up anger in his life has created a contagious environment at home and at work.
A discussion with Henry Mintzberg about his book, Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center. Enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right, as well as the paralysis in the political center. The world we live in needs a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience. This conversation presents an integrative framework to suggest a comprehensive way forward.
De Beers Vice President Pat Dambe takes a case study approach to the private and public sector partnership between De Beers and the government of Botswana on sustainability and corporate citizenship. She discusses her personal and corporate story and the courage required to contribute responsibly to the communities in which she works and resides. Pat’s story offers a model for a company and a country to create an interconnection that transcends the challenges both face to ensure a vibrant global company and a vibrant company “forever”.
Businesses who are adopting AI are performing better than those who aren’t. However, it’s clear that business leaders are not in a confident position to deliver successfully, and many leaders believe that their current business model will suffice for longer than ten years – despite agreeing that AI adoption leads to success. Dr. Jennifer Barth joins the show to discuss the findings of her research on the current state of AI across four specific industries: retail, manufacturing, health and the financial sector within the UK, and how organizations within these sectors can implement AI in an ethical, cost effective and optimal way.
The report link is - https://info.microsoft.com/UK-DIGTRNS-CNTNT-FY20-10Oct-07-AcceleratingcompetitiveadvantagewithAI-AID-3001579-SRGCM3020_01Registration-ForminBody.html
During a time of ongoing organizational disruption, leaders benefit from exploring how the rapid change can serve as a pointer and inspiration to help them envision futures that were not possible as recently as last year. Each disruption opens another door to opportunity across a broad range of industries.
Greg Moran joins Maureen for this annual trend discussion that looks at what we think are the most important business drivers to consider over the next three to five years.
In today’s environment where the news headlines are dominated by stories designed to draw attention (often negative attention), there is a hope that change can happen when individuals and businesses choose to conduct themselves in a way that is counter-cultural. Jim and Tom Grote join the show to discuss their business model of Agape Capitalism, which is a way of doing business based on the power of love. They want to extend this impact beyond their company or their industry to the entire economy.
We live in a world where about half of the population is uncomfortable following people different than they are. This is challenging because research tells us that diverse people create better business results. In this show, we will talk to Steve Steinour and Dwight Smith about the power of words and how both of them are changing organizational culture through the power of words and aligned action.
With great power comes great responsibility. Our spiritual evolution and collective wisdom struggle to keep pace with the power granted by our technological evolution. Harnessing the good business does by scaling science for the benefit of humanity, through creating communities where people can learn—and contribute more than they could alone—and by furthering human flourishing are among noblest aims we may pursue.
The future toward which business is leading us, in 2030, is the backdrop to our change. We have in our hands, as citizens and as business leaders, the power to do great good by pointing business toward our most inspirational and useful aims and leading those changes with passion and reason. Alexia Maas joins Maureen to discuss the disruptions occurring and the legal impacts those disruptions are making.
In order to exhibit all the great leadership behaviors that have been learned from reading great books, attending inspiring conferences and listening to innovating podcasts, leaders must have a leadership maturity that will facilitate the alignment of their aspirations with their behaviors. Mike Morrow-Fox joins Maureen to discuss leadership maturity, what we know about it and how leaders can evolve their leadership maturity.
We have been hearing from everyone that we are living in disruptive times. The question for many of us becomes – what does this really mean for me and what can I do. During this show, Terri Bettinger and Greg Moran join Maureen to explore disruption, what factors allow an organization to create sustainable disruption and how companies and leaders can create organizations that are truly disruptive.
Ethics, which is a fundamental aspect of all spiritual paths, includes the elements of emotional, social, behavioral, intellectual, and moral intelligence. Terri O'Fallon and Kim Barta, join Maureen to discuss their view that any path that leads to growth in these aspects are spiritual. This perspective allows us to see how each of these areas grow and develop and mature leaders and help them support social structures that hold organizational integrity.
Junior Achievement is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year. It has combined a proven track record of delivering powerful content with new groundbreaking approaches for delivery including partnering with businesses, educators, government, and the community to prepare young people for success in their lives and careers. It serves as a case study for disruption. It is finding novel ways to solve education and workforce development challenges that face our communities today and going forward.
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JA is finding solutions that integrate education, business, government, and non-profit sectors to develop K-12 grade students who will make up the workforce of the future.
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JA is delivering programs that prepare young adults to be job ready upon graduation from high school. They are piloting programs that integrate industry specific skills and soft skills. This program is delivered by aligning the needs of businesses, educators and students.
The biggest falsehood in business leadership and career advice may also be the most repeated: go with your gut. Gleb Tsipursky joins Maureen to explain why that is terrible advice because going with your gut leads to dangerous judgment errors that behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience scholars call cognitive biases, which lead to disastrous decisions that devastate highly profitable companies, top-notch careers, and great business relationships. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Glebs new book Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters helps business leaders make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters.
In this episode Maureen interviews Dr. Melanie Katzman, author of the new book, CONNECT FIRST: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work. Melanie gives actionable advice for restoring joy and amplifying success at work through the power of human connection. In her dual roles as a therapist and a consultant to companies on six continents, she found that connecting first as humans—and then as colleagues, coworkers and community members—is the solution to almost any conflict encountered by both her clinical patients and her corporate clients.
Aleksandra Scepanovic joins the show with her inspiring story. How she first moved to New York City in the early 2000 is after starting her career as a journalist covering the Bosnian war, from the war zones of the Balkans. When she came to New York City, she was enamored by the beauty in the architecture in the different neighborhoods, which led her to begin a career in real estate. Aleksandra felt a special connection to the brownstone neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and after spending more time in the borough, she and her partner co founded Ideal Properties Group there in 2007. Aleksandra shares how the difficulties influenced her leadership skills and what she learned that allowed her to become a better leader.
Retail, and all other industry segments as we know them, are dead. The only industry that remains is the “Customer Experience Industry” and everyone is a part of it unless you do not have customers and then you have bigger problems. Customer expectations are raised with every interaction and the only way to stay competitive is to combine content with context to build lasting connections with your customers. In this show, with Dave Cherry of Cherry Advisory, he and Maureen will discuss how to do that in today’s customer experience industry.
There are women leaders making a difference by promoting positive change in their local communities which can have a global impact. “Women hold each other’s hands around the world for innovative positive change, supporting and promoting each other’s work to make the world a better place and co-creating the future we want”. Amanda Ellis, co-chair of the WE Empower United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Challenge, which promotes women business owners globally who are both running successful businesses and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, joins Maureen along with Hadeel Anabtawi and Habiba Ali, two of the 2018 winners of the challenge. Their inspiring stories show how women leaders can make a difference in the world to promote positive change.
For twenty years The International Leadership Association’s mission has been to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world. Through this platform, they organize events and conferences assembling talent across sectors, cultures, disciplines and generations. For the 4th Women and Leadership conference, a community of like-minded women and some men, young and old, spent three days discussing, debating, and reflecting on ways in which women’s leadership potential can be developed, energized and liberated for the ‘greater good’. Parminder Vir joins us today to share her insights on Women in Leadership from the conference and her life experiences.
Successful businesspeople can usually point to a previous boss or mentor who helped shape their career by sharing their expertise as well as their wisdom. These lessons are not held in a classroom but in offices, hallways, cubicles, lunchrooms and wherever employees gather. The lessons revolve around what’s happening in the business as well as what’s necessary to learn in order to become more effective. John Baldoni joins the program to discuss how C-level executives, managers, as well as employees and other stakeholders, following the principles in GRACE will result in stronger, more cohesive teams which makes for a stronger company overall.
Your organization’s culture: It’s either an asset or a liability. At this very moment, your culture is helping business performance. Or hurting it. Jeff Grimshaw and Lynne Viscio are here to discuss their new book, Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture Into Competitive Advantage. It seeks to answer one of the most critical questions facing leaders and organizations today: How do you turn your business culture into a sustainable source of competitive advantage?
The labor shortage is not going away, workers are becoming more transient and Amazon is continuing to drive up competition for distribution center (DC) employees. So, most DC operators resort to wage increases and retention bonuses as the quick solution to this really challenging people problem. Will O'Brien and Dave DuBose joins the show to share the better answer, which is a set of more robust solutions that better serve the operators’ longer-term needs and mitigate their dependence on short-lived “quick fix” wage and bonus answers that everyone else is chasing.
Understanding the principles of influence allows you to leverage human psychology and increase your opportunity to hear that magic word everyone wants to hear when they make a request – Yes! By discussing Brian’s book, Influence PEOPLE: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that are Lasting and Ethical, we want to help individuals and organizations take the complex scientific research on the influence process and put it into practical application. The result of this practical application is more success at the office and peace and happiness at home.
For those wrestling with questions about business leadership, avoiding bad decisions, investing in a start-up, and turning a passion into a profitable venture, Charles Morgan shares his story of how he retired and then found himself back in the role of CEO for a struggling data and analytics startup company. His story is textbook entrepreneurialism, at least as ‘textbook’ as an entrepreneurial narrative could ever be. He will talk about the intersection of entrepreneurism and data.
Digital transformations can be made routinely successful and is more important than ever now that we’re in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds are becoming more blurred. This however does not eliminate the fact that 70% of digital transformations fail.
That failure is not due to technology or innovation itself but in fact comes down to the details. The lack of clear goals and having a disciplined process for achieving them is what leads to failure of digital transformations. Tony Saldanha will join us to discuss his new book, Why Digital Transformations Fail.
Values conflicts arise frequently in the workplace. Effectively raising and addressing those conflicts as they arise will lead to a more engaged, satisfied workforce that will also drive superior performance. John Heiser joins the program to explain the Giving Voice to Values program that provides a proven framework that can be implemented in a global context. John will also talk about his involvement in and the value of the International Leadership Association.
Business disruptions are occurring every day for entire business segments. Effective organizations are looking ahead to lead the disruptive efforts to set the new market. If you are not disrupting – you will get disrupted. Mark Kvamme joins Maureen to discuss how he works with organizations to identify opportunities and be the disruptor rather than being disrupted.
All kinds of people come up with ideas for new products, but most have no idea how to move beyond the “what a great idea!” phase. These are individuals Jules Pieri wanted to empower when she cofounded her company The Grommet, an online product launch platform that discovers, supports, and sells innovative products made by ordinary Makers, inventors, and small businesses. Jules joins the program to discuss the Maker Movement, how women are involved in the movement and how listeners can begin to be involved. She shares insight from her recent release HOW WE MAKE STUFF NOW: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses. A book written to share with all readers the advice and inspiration she has given to the thousands of partner entrepreneurs that The Grommet supports, so that anyone of any background can turn their idea into a product they can sell—and eventually, into a thriving business. Tacy Trump as the Executive Producer.
Current research is showing that upskilling, reskilling, and retention are new mandates for companies to retain talent but it’s easier said than done. Trying to use old methods that won’t scale or engage users doesn't work so a new approach to personalized training is needed for leaders to retain the level of talent desired. Mike Kritzman of SkillNet shares how leaders can provide personalized training for each of their employees.
Outmoded ways of thinking through problems will no longer suffice in a world where change is constant. To keep ahead of the competition, companies need to seek out innovation. Leaders need to be creative to help their employees thrive, not just survive. By applying the ideas and methods Chris discusses from THE CREATIVE THINKING HANDBOOK, leaders will be able to have confidence in the quality of their solution, adopt new thinking habits, attitudes and beliefs, and embed a creative culture in their company.
Human resources executives are not typically thought of as being CEO-ready, though they play a major role in setting policy on employee engagement, culture and diversity. The common perception is that HR is not viewed as a profit center and is perceived as a drain on profits. These executives tend to be defensive about what they do. HR needs to gain the ability to look critically at the problems facing their companies and come up with 21st century options that fit today’s world. Glenn G. Jones will discuss how to give HR professionals a different view of what’s possible, open up new career paths and provide confidence that what they do is a positive for all. Non-HR executives will also gain perspective on gaining the growth mindset and courage to allow HR professionals to flourish outside the realm of human resources.
EOS© (Entrepreneurial Operating System) builds a solid foundation necessary to grow a successful business. This system is designed for entrepreneurial organizations and the basics apply to well run businesses of any size.
Rainee talks about implementing this system to help business owners and leaders maintain a solid balance between leading and managing a business with practical tools.
The six key elements are: 1. Vision - defining the organizations vision and values using 8 key questions shared by all 2. People - getting the right people in the right seats 3. Data - Scorecard, measurables looking at leading indicators 4. Managing issues - using list and continually tracking accountabilities and resulutions 5. Documenting and following processes 6. Gaining traction through execution - managing the business through clearly defined goals and accountability meetings weekly
For organizations to be successful, they need to perform at 80% on all six elements.
Business as usual can no longer be the leader thought pattern in regard to environmental impacts made by businesses. We are at a critical point where sustainability and impacts on the environment by business practices must be considered. What as leaders can we do to make a difference in these highly sensitive decisions? Christoph Hinske, Michelle Thatcher and Khoo Hock Aun discuss the options leaders have to encourage favorable corporate behavior and what leaders can do to make a difference.
Dr. Ciaramicoli's will talk about his book: The Soulful Leader. He provides poignant and practical examples of his ground-breaking AIE (authenticity, integrity and empathy) leadership platform for leaders in all industries to help them successfully optimize the potential of employees.
AIE leadership produces an environment where staff members grow to respect each other while producing on the highest possible level.
Dr. Ciaramicoli has developed this approach during 35 years of consulting with and counseling leaders in business, education, politics, and on athletic teams. His communication and leadership groups have been ongoing for over 30 years, which has allowed him to study the personal characteristics that lead to excellent leadership skills. His pioneering approach offers new promise to a society struggling with fear and doubt about those in powerful positions.
In today’s interconnected economy, companies need all employees, not just senior leaders, to adapt to change and make decisions and take ownership of their work. This is commonly referred to as ‘employee engagement’ in management literature, but the real challenge lies not in making employees more engaged, but in making them more confident in their decision making and ability to lead change.
In EMPLOYEE CONFIDENCE: The New Rules of Engagement, expert Karen J Hewitt explains what employee confidence is and how to instill it in all employees, not just the high potentials; the cumulative power of all employees thriving means the company operating at maximum potential too. While it’s ultimately the responsibility of individuals to become more confident, leaders have a responsibility to create workplaces that encourage Employee Confidence. Employee confidence is an approach to and evidence of culture change, giving you human capital that delivers value far beyond your expectations.
Mark talks about delivering for the end customer (internal or external) as a strategic leader as well as a leader of corporate strategy.
In the current environment strategic leaders need to consider several topics such as:
- What is happening for you in the field of strategy?
- How do you help the business meet their business objectives?
- What do you mean your agenda is always their agenda?
- What is your concern with the term digital transformation?
- How do you consider human elements?
- How do you consider the political elements?
- For fun, what is happening in the hydroponic space?
- Why is succession so important?
Mark gives examples of what he has done at Scotts Miracle-Gro as well as what he is doing on boards where he serves. His insight provides a valuable perspective for leaders who want to become more strategic!
As humans evolved from primitive hunter-gatherers to modern civilization, the capacity to respond to leadership has become wired into our brains. As intelligence increased and with new abilities to communicate with more and more people at a time, new leadership approaches developed.
Management expert and social anthropologist Graeme Findlay traces this development in his new book EVOLVE: How Exceptional Leaders Leverage The Inner Voice Of Human Evolution, showing how today’s leaders can use the multiple “voices” of leadership, each of which represents a different stage of leadership evolution.
Graeme discusses the four voices and how they work to increase effectivieness: a. Heartfelt voice b. Command voice c. Prosocial voice d. Futurizing voice
We discuss how leaders can use this meta-model lt expand their influence through the development of self-awareness and an understanding of the psychology of the leader-follower interaction.
Leadership is an acquired skill, requiring rigorous training, not unlike attaining physical fitness. Just as you can’t wake up one day and decide you will achieve all your fitness goals in a day, it’s necessary to make a commitment to leadership excellence and then execute a disciplined plan with specific targets.
Tobin Draws on personal experience, the experiences of others, as well as adult learning and development and leadership research, as he shares the lessons he’s learned in his new book PEAK LEADERSHIP FITNESS: Elevating Your Leadership Game. Focusing on the intersection of physical and leadership fitness, the book helps identify where to get started and which activities will guide and support the ongoing journey toward peak fitness. Like physical fitness, your journey to peak leadership fitness begins with a commitment and requires action. It is not a single, discrete activity. It is a mindset of continuous improvement,
The workforce is changing rapidly and finding the right talent is a continual challenge for leaders. To complicate matters, technology is changing the nature, if not the definition, of work. The general technologies related to AI and machine learning are seen as having the most potential to influence these workforce dynamics. Dr. Meyerrose will bring clarity to these rapidly evolving concepts and developments with which leaders will have to deal sooner rather than later.
In a world where jobs are changing dramatically and there is a shortage of skilled workers, training can be a strategic business enabler, yet most companies don’t have the expertise and competence to provide training that effectively and efficiently meets the needs of their businesses.
Employee development is a critical element for all companies and companies need the right people, processes, technologies and methodologies to keep their talent current. How can organizations make the change such that L&D is delivering measurable business value to their companies at acceptable costs?
Ed talks about the books he co-authored and contributed to: Running Training Like A Business: Delivering Unmistakable Value, and the three ASTD published books, Building Learning Capability Through Outsourcing, Lies About Learning and More Lies About Learning as he explores the history of training outsourcing and the growing need to get it right as a business enabler and for the right ROI.
Organizations and the people working in them find themselves in environments that are increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA).
Under these conditions, tensions that are ongoing, and seemingly overwhelming can be difficult to understand, much less easy to address. These tensions show up in all facets of organizational life including leadership (control vs. empowerment), teamwork (task vs. relationships), strategy (competition vs. collaboration), structure (centralize vs. decentralize), and in the individual (work vs. home). These conflicting demands, when pursued jointly, are often referred to as paradoxes. Reframing these tensions beyond either/or problems in need of a single solution enables us to produce an outcome that is superior to tackling one demand at a time.
Jean explains how to work with paradox and apply these tools to improving virtual team success. She draws on the rich research she conducted to provide solutions.
We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, yet have not realized the significant productivity gains that previous revolutions delivered. Author and Global Management Consultant Jesse Newton believes this to be in part because of the debilitating complexity that organizations have created over their existence. He’s spent years specializing in unburdening organizations from paralyzing complexity. Growing complexity has traditionally been met with added structures, processes, committees and systems. As a result, organizations often become a complicated mess, clouding strategic focus, slowing innovation and breeding complacency.
In his new book, Simplify Work: Crushing Complexity to Liberate Innovation, Productivity, and Engagement, Newton delivers a newfound clarity on the case for simplification and the steps organizations and individuals need to take to unleash their potential.
Business strategist and designer Cheryl Heller shares her system for putting social design into action to solve seemingly intractable problems facing business, governments, foundations and social organizations.
“Social design is about changing people’s perceptions about what they believe is possible and can work together to create,” says Heller, who chairs the first MFA Program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. “It instills a belief in human creativity and builds the capacity for communities to imagine new realities.”
It runs counter to the conventional wisdom that our future is best left in the hands of experts who believe they have all the answers in advance. In complex social systems, navigating in uncertainty and chaos, plans don’t work, only networked innovation and experimentation does.
During the course of our careers we face a series of challenges in our personal and professional lives. Kate talks about how she navigated her Stage 4 cancer diagnosis while holding a significant leadership role. She discusses her personal and professional journey. She has Five Lessons in resilience that she wished my younger self knew.
Whether an individual is just starting out in her career or is trying to find his Ikigai, (A Japanese concept that means a reason for being.), Kate’s lessons are applicable:
- What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
- Focusing on what you can control
- The days may be long, but the years are short
- Practicing the art of gratitude
- Paradigms can put you in handcuffs – explore other perspectives
Kate hopes that her triumphs and failures will help individuals realize that they can live a life of resiliency and internal prosperity.
Leaders are faced with more change than any other tie in history. Navigating the fourth industrial revolution and responding to complexity that is accelerating – it is critical for leaders to identify new opportunities on the horizon and manage their risk so they can deliver the best outcome for their organization as well as for them as leaders.
Greg Moran talks about his career choices and pivots moving from large consulting to take a key role steering Ford out of crisis to a venture funded start-up. At each career stage, he optimized his decisions based on his life situation and personal values.
Nicholas Papanicolaou then shares his career journey and choices. Like Greg, Nicholas made choices that optimized for his life situation at the time. He worked for Aristotle Onassis, started a shipping business, ran Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd and became the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (The Ecumenical Order).
During this conversation, Mike will update his work running the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations and how that intersects with his now post as Board Chair of The International leadership association.
Mike talks about the great progress of both organizations and their projects. This progress serves as the foundation on which he will be working to build along side many talented people.
As he takes the longer perspective reflecting over time on how we got to our current level of contribution and what we need to do to build on this great progress to position us to be effective in the increasingly volatile world we will face in 2019 and beyond to create a more peaceful and prosperous world.
The challenges of women and more diverse voices in leadership are systemic and complex. There are many variables that need to be considered in order to successfully accomplish our change goals. During this interview Lynne and Marlene share their research, published in More Women on Boards: An International Perspective. This is particularly important to validate or dispel our beliefs and stereotypes with solid research.
According to Heidrick & Struggles, 22.2 percent of Fortune 500 board members were women in 2017. The authors talk about possible interventions to move this number higher including looking across the globe to see other successful practices and what can appropriately be borrowed from them.
Finally, they discuss differences is how women can communicate to be more effective. This includes how they express anger, how they amplify the good ideas of others and how they promote or do not promote their own successes. This conversation is a must listen for all women!
This interview focuses on the book Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development with two co-authors. They discuss how significant the issue of global leadership is and how we identify, develop and support our leaders so they can run enterprises that thrive. It is also important to understand the scope, complexity and challenging this work brings and the difficulty this presents for leaders. Some topics include:
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What is it about the global context that makes leading globally so challenging?
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What are the critical requirements of global leaders with respect to change and innovation?
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How does culture impact global change initiatives?
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How do we develop global leaders who are skilled at change and innovation?
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How can global leaders build and maintain innovative organizations?
Throughout two decades of “advancing leadership knowledge and practice for a better world,” the International Leadership Association has held space for dialogue, deep exploration, and the exchange of ideas at the intersection of leadership theory and practice and into a powerful, innovative network focused on a deeper understanding of the process of leadership.
This interview is with the two 2018 inductees Keith Grint and Joanne Ciulla who have distinguished themselves for the advancements over long and successful careers. While it is impossible to share a full career in a short interview, they share some of their latest thinking.
Keith talks about how leaders categorize problems and decision styles. His focus in this conversation is getting leaders to think about the world in a way that relates to the problem and provides better outcomes.
Joanne, as an expert in ethical leadership as her field of study for the last 25 years talks about ethics in our current time.
According to Freedom House, over 60% of the world’s countries were democracies at the turn of the millennium. The number is now below 50%.
Democratic breakdowns are not often dramatic events. Often popular government is brought down gradually, almost imperceptibly. Democracies are undermined from within, through abusing tax laws against opponents, employing libel laws to silence the press, selecting friendly judges to tilt the political balance, and while typically, political parties remain in existence and there are still elections, one day — democracy ceases to exist.
Thought leaders working in a broad range of countries discuss how would-be despots, dictators, and demagogues have finessed these undermining techniques and will share leadership strategies that can be used to strengthen democracies.
As a prolific author on leadership - Ron talks about his longitudinal study and his work with transformational leadership and ethical considerations of a leader.
During a time where we need leaders to transform their organizations while behaving ethically, this interview offers must know content.
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What is a transformational leader? As we consider the definition today - is transformational leadership what we thought years ago?
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How do we define organizational ethics and leadership ethics?
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What is the interplay between transformational leadership and ethical leadership?
Ron shares critical information for leaders, scholars and educators to understand.
During this interview, the editors of the new book Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives (2019) discuss the latest research and novel perspectives. If you are interested in learning what is new in women's leadership, this is a great interview! Questions include:
- Why is important to look at women and leadership?
- What makes women's leadership journeys different from men's?
- What was your goal in writing/editing the book:
- Why is it important to hear personal stories, in addition to research, about women and leadership?
- How have recent events highlighted the importance of research on women and leadership?
Brad talks about his book: Revitalizing leadership – Putting Theory and Practice into Context.
He connects leadership theory and practice with context. It argues that the universal prescriptions favoured by most leadership scholars ignore the reality that context always matters in leadership practice – and in leadership theorizing too. Addressing this gap, the book offers a novel framework that enables the development of context-sensitive leadership theory and practice that directs attention to the key challenges for leadership in different organizational contexts. It involves developing a specific purpose for leadership in a given context, as well as formulating the values, norms and domains of action that guide leadership efforts in that context. Determining these various matters then informs the role, responsibilities, rights, behaviours and attributes relevant to leaders and followers for that context, and the focus, purpose and boundaries of the leader-follower relationship.
According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 Billion dollars on leadership-based curriculum, with the majority of those dollars being spent on “Leadership Training.”
According to McKinsey, there is no silver bullet for successfully developing leaders—more than 40 key actions must be taken to increase chances of success to 80 percent
As a leader interested in developing or as an organizational leader interested in developing people working for you, it is important to have good information about how to select a leadership development program. There are plenty of opportunities to spend your money from one day classes to online programs to comprehensive university programs - how do you make the best decision to ensure you are investing your time and money wisely and that you have a high probability of success from your investment.
This interview explores how to develop a broad range of leaders at all levels of an organization.
Our guests represent multiple frameworks on leadership and the environment. They would like leaders to consider the biosphere as one of the primary frames of leadership.
During the interview, they discuss how to apply these frameworks in practice in ways that are practical. Kathy's book: Leading From The Roots is about nature inspired leadership lessons that help us create more generous, resilient and sustainable organizations (sustainable including kind to the earth). They describe their independent work and how they approach this complex set of challenges we currently face. Kathy coming from organizational perspective with senior leaders and Rian with university students. Like a forest, diversity in approach strengthens the field of study and impact they will both make.
Both of our guests co-chair the ILA sustainability leadership group. They have a strong commitment to build people teaching and leading in this area.
This interview explores two critical topics, Embodied leadership and way showing along with ethics.
Way showing and embodied leadership include practices for leaders to consider when they are navigating uncharted territory where the path forward is unclear.
Ethics, as we have seen over the past years, are critical to build trust and inspire followership.
We would like you to walk away with a sense of hope that you as leaders have the ability to amplify your impact. We offer new insight in embodied experience and different ways of knowing and pushing back from “tired” frameworks of leadership as well as a fresh view on ethics. This discussion is designed to help you learn to find your “way” in times where there is no prescribed path ahead. This body of work draws in part from the Maori lineage.
It is interesting to listen to well respected leadership researchers explore the combination of ancient traditions and current leadership practices.
Situational analysis is one of the five key elements of Innovative Leadership. Being effective at situational analysis means you are able to evaluate four key elements of any organizational situation:
- your personal values and thoughts
- your behavior
- the organizational culture
- the organizational systems and processes
As leaders we are continually responding to changing and competing demands and situations. It is important to have an holistic framework that allows us to evaluate the situation and align each of the key elements. We use situational analysis in a broad range of circumstances ranging from validating key decisions to evaluating opportunities. This tool increases leadership effectiveness and also allows them to act with higher level of authenticity and presence.
During the conversation, presence is a major theme. By understanding what is happening and who we are as well as what we value, we are liberated to be who we are authentically.
Each year Maureen publishes a synthesis of the interviews she hosted and discuss the main themes she is hearing in the past year as well as in her consulting work with senior executives around the world.
She has now completed more than 150 interviews. This interview is a synthesis of what she is taking away as key themes for leaders and executives to focus on for 2018 – 2022. This is a rolling synthesis, she will update it again in 2019 with new themes.
Christopher Washington, PhD, hosts this show and discusses what he is seeing as a board member of Global Ties and EVP/CEO of Urbana University.
The goal of this conversation is that listeners have a clearer understanding of the global leadership trends and what they might do personally to prepare themselves and their organizations to respond.
We have been hearing about the topic of doing well by doing good for a few years. Should tech leaders take adopt this concept to reevaluate how they do business? If so, why would they? How would they?
To take the question further, what accountability (if any) do leaders have for the uses of their products and services?
During this conversation, Dale and Maureen will discuss the questions posed above and a project Dale has been involved with where Imcon International Inc., the developer of the Internet Backpack, a remote connectivity solution that allows users to communicate from almost every location on the planet, the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University and the Republic of Liberia will collaborate on a far reaching project that will digitally transform Liberia by increasing the nation’s current internet penetration of about 7% to 40% by 2021.
This project is a strong example to illustrate how technology leaders can solve global challenges.
We have been hearing about the topic of doing well by doing good for a few years. Should tech leaders take adopt this concept to reevaluate how they do business? If so, why would they? How would they?
To take the question further, what accountability (if any) do leaders have for the uses of their products and services?
During this conversation, Dale and Maureen will discuss the questions posed above and a project Dale has been involved with where Imcon International Inc., the developer of the Internet Backpack, a remote connectivity solution that allows users to communicate from almost every location on the planet, the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University and the Republic of Liberia will collaborate on a far reaching project that will digitally transform Liberia by increasing the nation’s current internet penetration of about 7% to 40% by 2021.
This project is a strong example to illustrate how technology leaders can solve global challenges.
Many companies are trying to recruit executives to address the labor shortage. Years ago, many men moved several times in their careers – my father was one of them. We are seeing the rate of movement decline.
Venki talks about his transition from GE and how he is applying that experience to CAS in playing a foundational role in their transformation.
There are many factors to consider for dual career families before relocating. Venki talks candidly about what made his shift work. He discusses factors such as:
- Opportunity to make an impact
- Autonomy to operate independently
- Timing with family
- Willingness to travel on the part of both working spouses
- Community - ease of living and working
If you are considering career mobility as an option to enhance your career, this interview provides some unique insight into how one senior executive evaluated his range of options to identify a great career building opportunity.
With Rebecca’s experience leading women’s empowerment network and extensive work with entrepreneurs, she will share her story of overcoming challenges and stepping forward in her life to make her unique impact in the world.
Her journey involved overcoming significant fear and changing her thinking about who she was and what she should be doing in the world. She needed to address these fears and like most of us manage through her fear about each of her next steps. With each next step, she fought, bargained then surrendered to what she was being called to do in the way she was being called. Each step allowed her to get closer to her why in life - her authentic purpose.
Rebecca's story is inspirational on many levels and gives practical guidance for moving forward to live your highest impact life.
As we look at the challenges we see in the world, it is easy to become disillusioned. Depending on geographic location, you are likely facing some type of disruption.
As people who want to make a difference, how do you know where to focus your energy?
Tom and Rick say yes to challenge. Separately, have done humanitarian work in Africa, formed a LGBTQ state wide advocacy organization in Ohio and many other acts of advocacy large and small.
As a married gay couple and adopted parents of two daughters, they talk about their recent activism and how what they have chosen to say yes to is informing the arc of their lives as well as the lives of the people their work touches.
Rick recently ran for political office in the US. They talk about how this yes impacted their families and how it creates new opportunities for both of them going forward.
They inspire the question what will you say yes to?
We will talk about Simon’s book Wake up and smell the coffee: The imperative of Teams. Teamwork is such a quintessential and critical element of organizational life. Teams are an imperative to agile and effective organizational performance. With a consistent and sustained effort much can be achieved in terms of improving team effectiveness and the associated benefits of increased productivity and impact to the bottom line.
Around 90% of what we do in the organization today happens through collaborative effort. This makes teamwork the imperative that it is. In today’s challenging and increasingly complex business environment we need teams to deliver. If the organization can deliver a 5% improvement across the entire organization in terms of team effectiveness, imagine the impact to the bottom line. Simon believes that the approach he advocates, if implemented across the organization, can deliver up to a 20% improvement in effectiveness.
We know in a knowledge economy, we need to use different skills and mindsets to drive success. This means different cultures and systems. People need to feel comfortable showing up as their whole selves rather than cogs in a wheel.
Many of us are waking up… We yearn to make a difference – to use our innate gifts in a way that improves our lives and the lives of others. We want to be seen for who we are, not what we do. We yearn to connect, to be heard, to hear others. We ache to share our stories, our talents, and our passions – to make a positive difference in the world.
If this resonates with you, then I have good news! Not only are we waking up – Corporate America needs us to wake up! The businesses that are most successful today and will thrive going forward, are the ones that require us to show up fully and in deep connection with our hearts and the hearts of others.
During the interview, we explore the book and concrete practices that can be applied appropriately at work.
According to a McKinsey study in 2018 focusing on the future of work: “technologies will transform the nature of work and the workplace itself. Machines will be able to carry out more of the tasks done by humans, complement the work that humans do, and even perform some tasks that go beyond what humans can do. As a result, some occupations will decline, others will grow, and many more will change.
While we believe there will be enough work to go around (barring extreme scenarios), society will need to grapple with significant workforce transitions and dislocation. Workers will need to acquire new skills and adapt to the increasingly capable machines alongside them in the workplace. They may have to move from declining occupations to growing and, in some cases, new occupations.”
The interview explores how the Position Success Indicator assessment identifies job DNA based on occupational traits that help people determine their best role fit to support workforce transitions.
As leaders, it is imperative that we are continually committed to understanding the truth. Since we continue to learn, this translates to a commitment to update what we think and how we lead. Effective leaders must continue to evolve and face the difficult realities so that they can inspire and lead others around them.
As citizens, we must be committed to being engaged, we must learn about the issues that impact us personally and those that impact the broader community and vote for some balance between personal gain and collective gain.
Katherine talks about how we become more informed. She leads a book group for women where they study the constitution. She sees the constitution as a contract between our elected officials and the governed. As a smart citizen, we should understand the contractual arrangements we are engaged in.
This interview interweaves her broad range of experiences in leadership studies, running a company and promoting civics and civility.
In a time where companies are competing aggressively for talent, Mr. Ravi talks about what Larson and Toubro (L&T) did in their recent talent initiative to support significant business growth and meet the objective of running increasingly complex initiatives.
L&T takes pride in ‘imagineering’ which, coupled with employees’ commitment, has made them transform from Construction space to Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Company with proven track record of executing complex mega projects each exceeding USD 2 Bn.
L&T won the top award from the global Training and Development Association for their demonstration of enterprise-wide success as a result of talent development (BEST award 2018). Mr. Ravi led the initiatives that earned the award. He talks about how his team used talent development as a strategic business tool to drive success.
He will give us details about the talent development program that earned L&T the #23 ranking in the world for the BEST award.
In a time when people are sharing more of their personal struggles, we talk to Congress Woman Beatty and Doug McCollough about their struggle and more importantly how they navigated those struggles so that she could make their greatest impact on the world.
Congresswoman Beatty not only overcame, she changed the people’s view of what it was to be a successful black woman and she mentored women to make sure the pipeline behind her was strong and the country was better because of all facets of her service! She talks about how helping women succeed helps America succeed. She serves as a role model for inclusion globally by serving with grace and decorum!
Doug shares how his focus on inclusion is expanding the field of employees working in technology in central Ohio. Through his board work as well as his work as CIO, he is creating a pipeline that allows unemployed people to get trained and find technology jobs. He is helping build the system that will close this gap long term!
As a CIO and member of the executive team, Angelo's focus is well beyond that of CIO – he focuses on overall success and health of his organization, Central Ohio Primary Care. This means he shifted his activities and mindset when promoted to “C” level.
During this interview, Angelo talks about how his career evolved and how he made these important shifts. He also talks about how his personal life events prompted him to make specific job choices and how these choices unfolded to create success.
He discusses the following topics:
- How did your role change when you got your first “C” level role?
- How was this different than you anticipated?
- Where do you spend your time?
- What is your technology role? How much time?
- What is your role in the community?
- Why do you invest so much in building cross industry CIO success, student success and manager success?
If you aspire to fill a C level or senior role, this conversation provides great insight!
Troy discussed his newly released book: Unwritten Truce: The Armed Forces and American Social Justice.
Inclusion is a good organizational practice. The global market is diverse. Having a diverse work-force is a strategic advantage because It provides any organization with a greater ability to understand various segments of their consumer base and develop products and services that will better resonate with these segments and therefore drive better results and higher impact. In for profit businesses – it drives higher and more sustainable profits.
Troy talk about his journey as a man of African American heritage and his recommendations to increase inclusion and results.
In addition to his story, Troy and Maureen discuss the challenges and recommendations to increase inclusion and address the recent challenges that are surfacing as the Me Too movement and many others. It is imperative that leaders create an environment that promotes a healthy environment!
We have been hearing about the topic of doing well by doing good for a few years. Should tech leaders take adopt this concept to reevaluate how they do business? If so, why would they? How would they?
To take the question further, what accountability (if any) do leaders have for the uses of their products and services?
During this conversation, Dale and Maureen will discuss the questions posed above and a project Dale has been involved with where Imcon International Inc., the developer of the Internet Backpack, a remote connectivity solution that allows users to communicate from almost every location on the planet, the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University and the Republic of Liberia will collaborate on a far reaching project that will digitally transform Liberia by increasing the nation’s current internet penetration of about 7% to 40% by 2021.
This project is a strong example to illustrate how technology leaders can solve global challenges.
During this show, Terri, Kim and Maureen talk about the interconnection between organizational issues and levels of developmental maturity.
The conversation focuses on three types of issues and how they map to maturity as well as approaches to address them: 1. Existential, the group is moving to a new developmental level. How does it look for the organization? How do you see individuals? Do you have recommended course of action to help move forward? 2. Breadth, the group has the necessary philosophy and capacities at the level they are at, but they don’t have the skills they need. How does it look for the organization? How do you see individuals? Do you have recommended course of action to help move forward? 3. Shadow, the group has an adequate developmental level and skills but they have group shadow material that is holding them back. Let’s revisit what is shadow material? How should the team work to address it?
The best way to become a better leader is to better yourself. Sometimes taking on a big adventure on your vacation is a great way to do that.
Pilgrims from all over the world have walked the Camino de Santiago trails across Europe for centuries, making their way to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, North-West of Spain. Today, more than a pilgrimage, the Camino is an unforgettable experience and unique journey.
The pilgrimage to Santiago has never ceased from the time of the discovery of St. James's remains in 812 AD, though there have been years of fewer pilgrims, particularly during European wars.
Victor shares his adventure in hiking the 500 mile trek along the Camino in Spain which resulted in his best selling book: The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership from a Walk Across Spain. He shares how he personally applied the Camino Values to his journey and how he integrated them into his life and business practice as a leader upon his return.
Resilience is a key factor in leadership success during times of stress. Our ability to manage our own energy and thinking have a significant impact on our ability to deliver personally and on our ability to inspire our followers. By building our resilience and creating a culture where others are expected to build theirs, we can make a significant impact on driving and sustaining our success as individuals and as organizations.
Jon and Maureen start with defining resilience then move to the critical aspects of personal resilience. They include a focus on how brains and bodies react to stress and practices that will reduce the impact events have on leaders. discuss their areas of expertise in brain functioning. This interview includes a discussion of specific tools that allow leaders to build more resilient brains and reduce emotional reactivity. These tools help leaders manage feelings thereby also reducing stress.
Equipped with these tools, leaders need to build practices.
This is the kick-off of our leadership happy hour series. During this conversation, Greg, Terri and Maureen discuss the topic of aspirations over the courses of their leadership careers.
Aspiration has the power to expand our limits and potential by motivating us to test our capabilities and competencies further and in new ways. It has a completely different effect on us than its evil twin – desperation. Not that aspiration is inherently good or desperation is inherently bad, but when people believe, the paths they follow look very different than when they do not.
The conversation will touch on the following among many others topics: 1. The power of aspiration as a means of creating opportunity where it is desired 2. Aspiration is necessary filtered through our values and priorities - and that’s okay! How do we remove the limits of aspiration when they have been indoctrinated into leaders for reasons that have nothing to do with their potential (i.e. race, gender, etc.).
Guru builds on prior interviews discussing agility, lean and a culture of learning. During this show he discusses how DevOps is transforming the pace of development at Nationwide IT, continuously improving the company’s competitive advantage while meeting consumer demands.
Guru shares real-life experiences of leading this transformation across several application development and maintenance efforts, while highlighting the integration of Agile and Lean practices and the importance of lean leadership.
During this conversation Maureen and Guru explore the implications of using the Dev Ops methodology, in conjunction with others to accelerate the rate of change and how the organization must respond. It means people's jobs will change - including IT people who are doing their work differently. They explore how Nationwide is preparing people for significant changes in their work yet at the same time focusing on sustaining jobs for those committed to personal growth.
Each year Maureen publishes a synthesis of the interviews she hosted and discuss the main themes she is hearing in the past year as well as in her consulting work with senior executives around the world.
She has now completed more than 150 interviews. This interview is a synthesis of what she is taking away as key themes for leaders and executives to focus on for 2018 – 2022. This is a rolling synthesis, she will update it again in 2019 with new themes.
Christopher Washington, PhD, hosts this show and discusses what he is seeing as a board member of Global Ties and EVP/CEO of Urbana University.
The goal of this conversation is that listeners have a clearer understanding of the global leadership trends and what they might do personally to prepare themselves and their organizations to respond.
Leaders follow many paths to success – in a time of varying role models for exceptional leadership, Maria talks about how she developed over her career. She shares her values, her path to CIO, role models and the art of leadership.
Many people develop visions but living them is the art. Maria talks about how she puts her values into action to create a positive workplace, great results and strong successors.
She shares:
- Her passion and how it connects to her work
- the art of leadership
- her path to leadership - career is lattice more than a ladder
- her role models - actual and virtual
- the value of inverted mentoring
- the role of empowerment in IT transformation at NetJets
She shares her insights and career journey with passion and wisdom.
Empowerment is foundational to employee engagement. We have been talking about it for over a decade and yet, many leaders are unclear about how to use it and still maintain accountability and responsibility to drive results.
During this interview, Linda and Maureen will talk about empowerment basics then move into the nuances of how to empower people to drive better results rather than abdicating responsibility. This has been a long term question of balance for many leaders. During the discussion, we will explore:
1) How do you define empowerment? 2) Why is empowering others such a key skill in leadership and growing a movement? 3) How does empowerment help us navigate an environment subjected to significant change and disruption? 4) What makes empowering others such a challenge for the leader? Why do leaders fail to empower others? 6) What are the essential skills needed to empower others? 8) What are 3 key tips to empowerment?
In a time where more people are questioning capitalism as a concept and our younger work force is demanding an opportunity to bring purpose and meaning into their work, we want to explore how this is happening successfully in profitable organizations. Mark talks about what he has done to bring successful capitalism and consciousness together to build a business that is both profitable and socially conscious. He shares his journey and company success along with details about what conscious capitalism looks like in his company, Improving. We discuss the following questions?
- How does conscious capitalism work in an actual company?
- What was the value you anticipated when you took this journey?
- Have you gotten the results you anticipated?
- What did you need to change about yourself and the organization to realize that value?
Not only does conscious capitalism offer an avenue to improve profitability, it is an avenue to attract and retain talented people!
The most advanced and effective leaders have evolved as much as they have developed. That evolution is often fueled by challenges and disorienting dilemmas. We leave our comfort zones and move into areas where we are not the most skilled. This can mean we relinquish our leadership roles and follow others.
Some of the most innovative leaders are known for their unconventional activities. These range from performing in rock bands to extreme sports to attending festivals like Burning Man. They move out of their regular surroundings and face challenges.They push physical, emotional and often spiritual boundaries. Attendees are rumored to include Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group and Larry Paige, Co-Founder of Google. Why?
Adventure, getting out of your comfort zone and taking what you learn from these adventures back into your leadership mindset and behaviors enables evolution.
Ken talks about his adventures and what he has learned about himself and building leaders.
As an IT Leader and someone who works in technology, David talks about why the soft side of what we do is a significant contributor to success.
As technology leaders, we need a diverse set of skills including a heavy dose of soft skills to be a highly successful business leaders beyond our technical skills. These skills range from awareness and management or our mood, an ability to be present and focused and skills in establishing and managing a positive culture where a broad range of perspectives can be explored and synthesized.
This is a new type of management and requires new skills. Battelle is working to ensure their culture and their leaders are prepared with the soft skills and culture to thrive and maintain agility as they lead in integrating new technology into companies and the US government.
David also shares his perspective on his career path and the importance of seeking mentoring and being a mentor.
Gary and Maureen talk about the leadership “operating systems” people are working with based on our brain programming and our level of conscious awareness of this operating system.
When we increase our awareness, we can reprogram this operating system to move beyond the survival and ego based system to a more deliberate, service based, long term success oriented system. In our current time with increasing complexity and challenge, we as leaders need to commit to updating this operating system to ensure future generations thrive. This updating is something that must be done by each leader – we can’t look to those in political roles or senior roles to take care of it – all of us have a responsibility.
The discussion includes an in-depth discussion of: 1. how decisions are made by the brain, 2. the impact of confirmation bias and how to navigate it, 3. the illusion of control, how to relinquish this perception, and the benefit of making this change
Eric’s mission is to change the way we think about work. His message: there will be less of a talent gap, communications gap, and age gap in the workplace as we rethink the human technology interface and manage how we think about one another and behave with one another.
A recent HBR article indicates the nearly 50% of employees reported being lonely and that loneliness shortened our lives by the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
The price we pay for speed, convenience, and even efficiency is a trade-off – not a saving. The time we save by not having that face-to-face conversation is costing relationships, friendships, and even basic understanding of who we’re working with. Eric will discuss an antidote that balances savings and relationships.
This means rethinking belonging and how we navigate topics like employee engagement in remote and distributed environments.
Eric will also discuss the conversations he has had on this topic with World Economic Forum.
This interview focuses on Iconic franchises. Iconic franchises tend to be significantly more profitable than standard ones. They’re also far more resilient in the face of market fluctuations. But you can’t create an iconic property overnight. Iconic Advantage is a compound effect that you earn after a period of deliberate and sustained commitment. The effect is stronger over time. So, the only way to start is to choose to become iconic. An Iconic Advantage strategy is for companies that want to establish market leadership by becoming the standard-bearer in their market.
This is about focusing your efforts in the right places. It means instead of just chasing shiny new objects, you focus on innovating the old—where your existing strengths lie. Iconic Advantage involves over indexing your efforts on your iconic properties. On the flip side, it also means that you reduce your focus on properties with low potential. You need to put your energy and resources in the right place.
A key element of community success is the work that happens at the intersection of business, nonprofit government, and community organizations that allow the improve the health and living conditions for vulnerable members of society. Chuck Gehring, CEO of LifeCare Alliance, talks about his work to run one of the only agencies in the country that takes all applicants without a waiting list.
Nonprofits are turning to social enterprise, combining profits made in the for profit arm of an organization to the work of the nonprofit arm of the organization. Life Care Alliance meets half of its funding needs from social enterprise. The services they deliver save the state approximately $70,000 per year per service recipient based on their Meals on Wheels program and other services.
The meals are delivered by volunteers, many from local corporations. Volunteering gives companies the opportunity to build stronger teams and allow employees to see the impact they are making directly.
The greatest story of the 21st century is not technology, but how technology will be used as a tool for deepening the levels of human potential. Brian talks about his work leveraging the most proven performers, time-honored principles and cutting-edge technology to develop unique performance solutions for a wide range of “arenas” – from medicine to agriculture.
He will discuss the following questions?
- Why has innovation become such a buzzword in recent years?
- What trends are you focusing on and how do they impact organizations and leaders?
- What is the archetype of a leader who is effective in a world of dramatic change and dynamism?
- Why is human potential such a powerful concept in today's global environment?
- What challenges do all modern leaders face?
- What is the most important trait of today's leaders?
- What are The First Principles of High Performance
- How does technology serve leaders and make for more high performing teams? What is singularity?
Workforce development starts in kindergarten and extends through the end of our careers which may for some of our young people be 90 or beyond.
During this interview, Mike focuses on his work as the President of Junior Achievement in Central Ohio with children in kindergarten -12th grade helping prepare young people to enter the workforce ready to be productive and successful contributors.
Mike shares that this is bigger than any one organization or even sector, it requires all sectors aligning around the common mission of preparing everyone to contribute and lead productive and fulfilled lives and building thriving communities. Junior Achievement is a global organization helping address local issues related to workforce readiness - preparing children and young adults for the business of life.
While Mike's work is based in Columbus, Ohio, like many of our guests, he is a thought leader in his area and much of what he is doing can and is being emulated in communities globally.
$46 billion a year is spent on leadership training, but a recent Gallup survey showed that 82 percent of employees find their leaders “uninspiring.” Why the gap? Because most leadership development focuses on outward skills like strategy, people management and finance. Instead, new research shows that leadership should start inward with the mind.
THE MIND OF THE LEADER: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results (Harvard Business Review Press; March 2018) by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter reveals how leaders can lead themselves, their people, and their organizations by training their minds.
The authors found that three mental qualities are essential to becoming effective leaders. Leaders must be mindful (being present and attentive to their people’s needs), selfless (to model cultures based on growth and learning instead of ego) and compassionate (show their people they have their back).
Being seen as an expert or thought leader in a given field can differentiate organizations and leaders in several ways. For organizations, it helps drive business, for leaders is can afford better opportunities. For consultants, it may be a significant differentiator. During this show, Rebecca will share with you….how you too, can be seen and heard on multiple platforms and SHINE!
She will discuss: 1. Her project to help Experts step into becoming an influencer; 2 Speaker Talent Search? How this can help Leaders; 3. Why she likes to remind leaders life is not a solo journey. And what do you mean by this; 4. Ways to look at stepping out of your comfort zone and becoming more visible; 5. Ways you help people leverage off of the platforms you have built (so it can be easier for them...not harder.)
Rebecca shares practical steps for leaders to build their influence and impact!
The most important capability for leaders to develop is self-awareness and the capacity to reduce denial. (eg, Stanford Grad School of Business Advisory Council). During this interview we talk about how you can cultivate self-awareness to improve your leadership effectiveness.
Various tools give us feedback about how we see ourselves in comparison with others using some theory or framework. The Enneagram takes it to the next level through exploring deep motivating factors.
Belinda talks about how she uses the Enneagram to help leaders build self-awareness to improve their leadership performance and results.
Belinda gives great examples of different leadership types and how leaders use type assessment in conjunction with level of leadership maturity to increase their effectiveness.
She also explores how to use our body and sense of presence to identify what we are experiencing physically as one mechanism of self-awareness. In addition, knowledge of our type to manage our reactions and feel more grounded and able to manage challenge.
People are talking about machine learning and analytics and the possible impacts they may have. During this show, we provide an overview of what these terms mean and equally importantly, give a case study of a company using them to solve a problem.
These tools have the potential to change how problems and work is done in many sectors. We want to talk about the concept broadly and illustrate a practical application to spark you as leaders to consider how it might impact you and even better, how you might chose to harness it proactively to improve your impact and your business effectiveness.
Additionally, we'll talk about the impact on leaders when you move into product creation and how that can impact your perspective.
James and Joe are founders of XDS, a premier provider of analytic solutions that facilitate financial compliance. It is a humbling experience to lead an awesome team while solving some of the toughest challenges providing fast results and massive ROI's.
As we face significant change in the world, technology is leading those changes. Many of these changes will cause people in the technology community to become less effective if they don’t change at the same rate as tech. Specifically, leading in this new era is different than leading in the past and aspiring CIOs need to build skills differently now than they did in the past. Steve discusses a program he envisioned and created that involves a cross sector collaboration between multiple companies and the local CIO Forum. This is a wonderful example of local organizations investing in not only their own employees but the overall community education.
- What sparked your decision to launch the IT Leaders program?
- What themes and trends are you seeing that sparked action?
- Describe the program content and how you came to select these topics;
- This program is a collaboration between several community organizations, please share who is involved and their roles.
Under Alex’s leadership, the city Columbus and the central Ohio Region have grown dramatically in ways that Harvard Business Review talks about as “The Columbus Way” in their case study about the Columbus Partnership, a group focused on increasing the vitality of the region.
The Partnership originated with 8 CEOs and is now a group of 65. Alex will share the Columbus mindset and the fabric of the culture that makes others want to emulate it. He will also talk about the current and future focus as the leaders of Columbus and the region join together to address challenges faced across the country and globe by creating local solutions.
Alex discusses: 1. The Columbus Way referenced in the HBR Case study; 2. How are the city, businesses, civic organizations and non-profits partnering to anticipate and proactively address disruption? 3. Biggest accomplishments; 4. Smart city project; 5. Biggest goals going forward
Alex shares his insight in building and sustaining a thriving region.
Disruption is on top of everyone’s mind as technology rapidly accelerates the fear of the future accelerates. People are worrying about what is the impact of future technologies on our lives, how we lead firms in the digital era, our personal careers and future jobs. Some people are tackling this head on and some are somewhat resistant or frozen in their track because the newness and pace of change.
Digital disruption is the change that occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services. Words like change, disturbance to the status quo, Innovation, new markets or products.
Tracey and Maureen discuss Tracey's new book: Digital Disruption; The Future of Work, Skills, Leadership, Education and Careers in a Digital World focusing on the 10 disruptive predictions for 2018.
Building a talented workforce is a key element in growing our community. For Doug, being named in the TOP 20 for Amazon HQ2 is a wake-up call for the community. The question to us as a community – are we prepared to grow and compete with other communities that have other natural advantages? This ability to compete comes down to access to talent.
As IT Leaders, who do we presume will come in to address this. We need to engage in this conversation and develop a new skill set for ourselves. It is up to us to build the community that builds sustainable talent flow.
Doug discusses: 1. What do we want our community to look like in the future? 2. What gaps do we see? 3. What does the technology leader of the future look like? Who exemplifies that leader now? 4. What do we have in place now that can help provide the jet fuel of talent? 5. What do we still need to build?
This discussion will be informative for leaders trying to build their talent pipeline anywhere in the world!
Organizational development is a field of research, theory and practice dedicated to expanding the knowledge and effectiveness of people to accomplish more successful organizational change and performance.
This conversation will help leaders develop a stronger understanding of how working with developmental levels will help then accomplish their mission and deliver better results and at the same time a better employee experience.
During the conversation we will also talk about the move to teal (also referred to as strategist or Level 5) for organizations. Terri and Kim share tools for understanding the developmental level of their organization to help you will become aware of teal capacities and requirements for becoming teal. They as discuss four basic styles of leadership and organizational development and how they support organizations in moving toward teal.
Jeroen van der Veer talks about his leadership strategy when you are talking about moving from A to B. Some of his key points about senior leadership are: 1. ensure you direction is very clear, 2. keep it simple, 3. focus on clear and simple communications. Then middle management translates the top leader messages to the middle level teams and create accountability.
Harvest lessons learned with brutal honesty then focus on the future!
We then shift focus and Cynthia Cherrey talks about her take away from the conference focusing on Leadership in Turbulent times. She brilliantly weaves together key themes from across the range of presenters that focused on thriving in times of turbulence and leveraging the chaos to create a better world now and in the future. Her comments include a recognition of the importance of leadership and the many different and nuanced roles of leaders. She also looks at the rich interplay between leaders, their organizations and their communities.
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Alliance for Advancing Leadership in Peace and Security was formed to advance the practices of leading in public, private, non-profit organizations and civil society: especially those dedicated to advancing peace and security. The Leadership Alliance combines expertise in executive education for large, multi-level organizations with in-depth knowledge of peace and security issues and policy in an innovative formula for geopolitical, community, and international leadership development.
Peter and Patrick, the GCSP co-leaders talk about their work to build leadership to promote global peace. They discuss their biggest concerns at this point in history and share some of the work they are focused on to improve peace in security leadership.
They offer unique insight into how this partnership was formed, why they think it is a priority and how they are proceeding as an organization.
This program is part of the International Leadership Association Conference Interview series.
According to Barry Johnson, in today's world of increasing interdependency and complexity, it is vital to utilize problem solving AND both/and thinking to address your most strategic challenges and opportunities. The research is clear - leaders, teams and organizations that leverage Polarities well outperform those that don't.
He makes the distinction between problems to be solved and polarities to be leveraged.
Barry talks about how you to leverage your most strategic Polarities (AKA paradox, wicked problems, chronic tensions, dilemmas, etc.) to become more innovative, agile, profitable and competitive immediately and over time.
He gives examples of how leaders he worked with to apply polarity thinking in large scale and global organizations. He walks through specific examples to help listeners understand how to apply polarity thinking to their real world challenges.
Michelle talks about what is most important in creating sustainable success. This includes understanding the current challenges they are facing from insight to execution. Additionally, she helps them anticipate the challenges they will face. She talks about the first of its kind report that Kantar Public released at Davos focusing on the challenges governments face across the planet and how the current loss of trust impacts their ability to navigate current challenges.
Sebastian’s work takes leaders and their teams to the new levels of performance and business results. He provides leaders and their teams the best opportunity to grow and develop – and maximise the greatest return of investment – by identifying and building on their talents and strengths, and unleashing their ability to consistently perform at their best, and deliver extraordinary outcomes.
▬ UNIQUENESS – he treats leadership as a research discipline, a critical social phenomenon, and essential business practice.
We start with Margaret Heffernan talking about Turbulence as a chronic condition. Leadership is about building organizations that thrive in turbulence.
- Acknowledge we are where we are.
- Build an organization that is spectacularly alert to predict.
- Be highly sensitive and responsive to what is happening.
- Create and sustain information network.
- Know what is going on.
- Create an environment where it is safe to say what you see. Move away from fear to open to saying what you believe about what you are seeing.
Then Ira talks about understanding that to bring out the best leadership requires the best followership. Influence is not unidirectional from leader to follower; it is bi-directional and multi-directional. They elevate each other’s performance in support of the mission that brings them together. We discuss how followers act with courage to collaborate with leaders and the idea of intelligent disobedience?
This interview is part of the 2017 International Leadership Association Conference Interview series in Brussels Belgium.
Kathryn talks about what leaders need in order to be transformational in turbulent times. She will discuss two key areas of focus:
[1] how leaders can nourish themselves so that their very being is transformational—enlivens those with whom they connect; [2] how they create healthy organizations for a healthy world
She explores concrete examples of what this means and also offers practical take-away practices leaders can apply in their daily lives.
During this conversation, we talk about peacefulness – and leading toward an increased level of peacefulness. We explore the idea as humans as a peaceful species – and his search for communities that are already peaceful to emulate.
We talk about a broad range of topics focusing on living in turbulent times and Mike’s reflections cultivated from a very successful career working across the globe.
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We are defined by our self-awareness and our connection with others. We must be able to shift our selves and cultures as the world changes.
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If we are not adapting our world view, we want to move to the past because that is what we know and where we think we will feel safer. Now, we must address the anxieties people face.
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How do we identify places that are peaceful and replicate them rather than fixing or making peace?
He wraps the conversation up with Mike's recommendations for what every leader needs to cultivate to promote peacefulness in their lives and work.
How do we create organizations that promote mindfulness and joy during work.
Subanhu talks about how to build mindfulness in organizations. Great leaders uniting people around a making positive impact on society - a deeper purpose.
Great leadership starts with knowing yourself and is built through the power of introspection. This allows you to be more humble, authentic and vulnerable. Mindfulness practices allow you as a leader to be fully present and aware of the moment.
Michelle talks about how she demonstrates authenticity as a leader, a CEO, and a mother. She gives a very honest account of changing business plans because of her personal commitment to her family. In an era where we talk about authenticity and balance, we often see organizations expect their leaders to continually prioritize work over family. There are certainly many times that work will need to be a priority and yet, Michelle talks about her personal decision to balance and what that looks like in her life.
This interview explores dialogical leadership. At a high levels, dialogical leadershp involves ideas such as truth is a relational construct between the individual and society. Everything we think about truth is relational and is created in the minds of people.
Second, the self-narrative is the story one constructs about the self. In this philosophy, there is no core self, just what we construct and re-construct about ourselves.
By understanding the changes in the self narrative over time, we can see how this narrative impacts actions. By understanding that culture is socially created, we have the freedom to help shift it.
The core of this work is that by reconstruction of the self narrative and looking at what is truly important, we can bring more of our self to every situation. We do this by asking questions and reflection to assimilate the multiple aspects of the self in our life to bring the gifts of each one into every situation.
In the context of the changes we anticipate in the coming years from population growth in Africa to climate incidents to block chain, what is required of leaders now in this era.
There is nothing we can do to protect ourselves if we are not protecting each other globally. As we consider climate incident, civil unrest and economic stability, we are impacted by forces we can not control or even mitigate.
While we have talked about interconnection for years, we are entering an era where we as leaders need to consider the consequences of our economic decisions. We as consumers and leaders need to consider the impact we are creating through our buying decisions and through our organizational decisions. This type of decision making requires a different level of thinking and awareness than was required in the past. We can now use apps to look at the footprint of companies we buy from. To evaluate their sustainability and social impact to inform decisions.
Business is a social institution. Can we maximize value for the firm and at the same time create value for society? How is shareholder value maximization aligned with or in conflict with social good.
Mike gives examples of how he drives both profit and social impact. This includes:
- Appreciative inquiry summit
- Partnering with Autistic organization to hire adults with autism to fill routine jobs
- Hiring interns to fill roles and providing education
How have you created buy-in for novel processes? 1. Use tools like appreciative inquiry to create alignment, involvement, and commitment across the entire organization 2. Establish processes for inclusion of staff and clients and at the same time ensure leaders retain positive control and accountability for results
Jorrit talks about the leadership journey Deloitte is creating for people from entering the firm through their retirement. They developed a narrative about self, other and what is connecting the two.
A few key points from the interview: 1. Deloitte is not picking one framework or theory but rather pulling from a range of theories that can be agile. 2. There are taking a significant focus on purpose and values. 3. Remote working is improved when people launch in person then move to remote working.
The second speaker in this interview is George Papandreou, Former Prime Minister of Greece. He talks about his leadership journey in democracy. He discusses the opportunity to take ownership or our voice as citizens to shape our societies?
He also talks about use and abuse of power and ethics of leadership.
There is a shared theme between Jorrit and George talking about leadership purpose and ethics required in leadership. This theme serves as a foundation for creating a just world.
This discussion is intended to help listeners come to know the deeper purpose of adversity or failure. In some ways to help dissolve judgement and move forward with new ways of seeing difficult events.
Ken will share what he learned from being buried in an avalanche and the process he went through to find this deeper purpose. As a leadership and organizational coach and consultant, he helps leaders metabolize their struggles to create growth and opportunity.
This is particularly important when failures in our current time can be very public so we as leaders have limited private time to make sense of our failure before it becomes public, in some cases this publicity can be humiliating and seem career ending. Navigating failure with grace and humility and with a mindset of growth can be a skill that not only makes or breaks leadership careers, it can have a profound life impact.
Ken's generosity in sharing his insights and lessons along with his warmth make this a must listen!
As 2017 comes to a close and we continue to plan and look forward, we see signs that technology change is positioned to revolutionize many areas of business and society. Given Dale’s experience, we want to share his views on short to medium term changes he is focusing on as well as how he is advising leaders to prepare for and manage the changes they anticipate and those they don’t anticipate but need to respond to.
Dale shares his perspective on the following questions: 1. As we wrap up 2017, what stands out for you as some of the key changes that happened this year?
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With these changes, some things seem even more important to get right – what are the key foundation stones that you think remain constant in this changing time for the individual and for the organization?
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As we look forward to 2018 and beyond – are there any trends you are watching closely?
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As leaders, do you have any recommendations for how to navigate the trends?
This interview discusses THE BOOK OF MISTAKES, an inspiring business fable of a young professional named David. Two years into the workforce, David has already become embittered with lost confidence, misdirection, and growing apathy over a list of all-too-familiar stresses. That is, until he’s taken on a journey from “struggling young professional” to “promising entrepreneur, public speaker, and change-maker” by nine sage teachers readying him with the mistakes that lead to failure. We discuss a few of the nine mistakes, commonly made but rarely addressed. The list of nine includes:
- Working on someone else’s dream.
- Allowing someone else to define your value.
- Accepting excuses.
- Surrounding yourself with the wrong people.
- Staying in your comfort zone.
- Allowing temporary setbacks to become personal failures.
- Blending in instead of standing out.
- Thinking there is a fixed and limited amount of success available.
- Believing you have all the time in the world.
One of the key skills leaders consistently struggle with is conflict management. During this discussion, Mike will share a range of approaches to help leaders address difficult conversations and manage conflict.
Included is a discussion about why leaders need to address conflict including the impact of bad apples on the team performance and also the impact of positive influences. Both are contagious, confronting bad apples is foundational to positive results.
Mike then shares several models that help leaders think about how they will navigate the inevitable conflict they face. These models help leaders build actual skills to manage conflict personally.
Finally Mike talks about building a culture that supports healthy conflict resolution. It is not enough for key leaders to have the skills, it is important to build the organizational aptitude and agreements about how it will navigate conflict in a manner that is generative. When conflict is addressed effectively, orgs thrive.
Brad brings his artistic finesse and strong intellect together to help companies build brands that matter. In the crowded field of branding, social media proliferation and the dizzying pace of new platforms that promise to solve business marketing problems.
Brad talks about how to make sense of these trends and amplify your business presence thereby allowing you to accomplish your organizations mission and vision. Brad shares his unique concept of “Banding to Branding” revealing the innovative leadership strategies of art (expressive), intuition (emotional), and study (gap-finding) that he utilized in capturing a multi-million dollar recording contract with Geffen Records, and later, successfully parlayed this into the Midwest’s first, brand-only Agency which transforms organizations and their leaders through the discipline of brand and the wisdom of rock-roll.
The discussion will challenge you to re-shape your organizational perspective through the power of brand leadership.
Implicit bias creates a disadvantage for leaders and their organizations. We would like listeners to have a clearer understanding of what implicit bias is and how it impacts each of us.
As leaders, we need to understand and manage implicit biases because they impact our hiring choices, promotion and succession decisions and our policies. To hire and retain top talent, we need to remove bias from the decision making process as much as possible.
During this show, Rebecca talks about her research and extensive work in this field. She discusses:
- What is implicit bias?
- What is the business case for addressing it?
- What examples have you seen where bias adversely impacts an organization meet it's goals internally with staff and externally with customers or clients?
- What can leaders do to become aware of and reduce the impact of bias in themselves and their organizations?
- What works for you with your biases?
Dwight has achieved a great level of success as a leader running a company and sitting on several high-profile boards. He shares how his vision and values helped him achieve his success across a broad range of organizations. He discussed how he moved through his career and who helped him accomplish this success. His humility is a trait that stands out as a key factor enabling him to build the trust necessary for successful leaders.
He shares what he looks for in emerging leaders and leaders when he is making hiring and succession decisions as well as when he mentors the next generation of leaders.
In the final segment He talks about a program very important to him, My Special Word, designed for the children who will be our future leaders and workforce. His values extend beyond his current roles, they pervade all of his actions in his corporate life, his board work and in his high impact volunteer work that will extend to children around the world!
There are lots of reasons to attract and retain diverse leaders and workforce ranging from expanding the talent pool, improved understanding of customer base, improved productivity, and greater innovation and creativity are just a few. During this interview, he shares his experience on how companies can attract and retain a diverse talent pool in leadership roles and why they should. Discussion includes:
- Why does recruiting diverse talent matter? What is the business case?
- How do you define diverse? Different looks, gender, points of view, economics? 3 Most of your recruiting is focused on senior leadership roles, why are companies investing so heavily in building diverse leaders?
- What are the biggest challenges you see in attracting diverse executives in different industries?
- After you hire diverse leaders, what do companies need to do to retain them?
- Tell me about your company tag line: “Diversify Access to Executive Talent.”
On this show, we talk about leader development from many angles. One highly effective approach is participating in peer groups to build these skills and receive the challenging feedback executives require and often don't get from within their organization. These groups are proven effective when they are structured and facilitated well.
For Artie, in all his interactions, he seeks this outcome: that all people can find their way to a group of peers, because — in business, family, and geopolitically — people are at their best when they regularly receive the caring challenge of peers.
We discuss: 1. Artie's experience with peer leadership development groups? 2. What is most effective and why? 3. What is least effective and why? 4. If you were asked to design a program with limited constraints – what would it look like? 5. What is the effect on the members? How soon? 6. What in your background makes you apt for leading peer groups? 7. Why do you do it? What motivates you?
As leaders, many of us ask ourselves questions about how we can contribute to address some of the challenges the world is facing beyond our businesses with our very limited time. How do we select organizations that are trustworthy and well run and actually make a measurable impact on the long-term viability of the people they help? What can we learn about leadership overall from a well-run social enterprise that recently underwent a turnaround?
- Let's explore Soles4Souls - it looks like you are leveraging the model of doing well by doing good. Can you share more about the org and the changes you and your team have made since you took your CEO role.
- How has the s4s micro enterprise model has evolved to increase impact…and why we haven’t changed faster
- How do you measure impact in places where getting data (quantitative and qualitative) may be too expensive to gather?
- How is partnership central to working globally in supporting entrepreneurship to help disrupt poverty?
Karen believes that visionaries do indeed have wrinkles, and that older women will lead the way into the future as they meet the Greatness Challenge of our AGE. Women will shift the story on the leading edge of business, as innovative social entrepreneurs, change makers, leaders, and discerning, high-value consumers. She fully owns her destiny more than ever before: to empower people to rock their AGE; to help women especially, and the men that love them, to experience the power of Agelessness, so to shape a new story for our times. By the year 2020, 76 % of Americans will be 50 years or older. With age comes many challenges, but also a heightened appreciation for life along with a greater thirst for meaning in work and relationships. As business leaders, we need to understand this demographic and how it impacts our workforce, marketplace, and clients. Karen talks about the Longevity Economy, the new story of aging across generations, and the potential business impact of new opportunities and challenges as our workforce changes. We need to have thoughtful strategies to navigate the new terrain of the future.
This interview has 3 objectives: 1; discuss their latest work on Human Emergence; 2. explore how holistic informed practices are starting to emerge; and 3. provide a brief overview of the work Christopher and Sheila are doing development of skills and capabilities to facilitate and coach the implementation of holistic practices.
We explore: 1. What is the leadership thinking required to address today's wicked problems 2. What is a holistic worldview? How is it connected to solving wicked problems 3. How do we stimulate the development and realization of this worldview? 4. How are holistic management and Solonics (from prior interview) integrated to create this new holistic offering? 5. Explain some specific examples of how people develop this holistic worldview 6. How might our listeners go about developing a holistic worldview themselves?
In an era where companies understand that diverse talent adds value to the culture and the bottom line, many companies are struggling to find and retain this talent, especially in STEM fields. JJ talks about the importance of attracting women to STEM jobs and yet, for many people this is a black box. She discusses how the organization she started to addresses this question and shares what she has learned with you including why it matters and what you can do. • Why did you start Tech Savvy Women? • Why is diverse talent important for the IT industry and your company? • How can you find diverse talent? • How do women show differently than men when interviewing? • How can you retain and foster diverse talent?
Many companies are facing a serious challenge in navigating the increased impact online platforms have to disrupt businesses - either enabling them or upending them. Kajabi is such a platform. During this interview, one of the founders, Travis Rosser and Maureen Metcalf discuss how Kajabi can be leveraged across a broad range of applications to support organizational and individual success.
Kajabi offers a cost effective solution to building online training content that can be used to help companies connect and support clients, onboard employees, educate internal staff, educate clients and patients and many more applications.
We hope this conversation challenges you as a listener to consider how you can use this or other platforms to enhance how you train internal staff and build stronger relationships with your customers.
If you are thinking of starting a business, Kajabi is a great place to explore your ideas and test market receptivity.
In an era where we are facing major changes to our medical system, with medical costs as high at 20% of GDP, Bill is a leader who is working to address this challenge. On this show, we talked about the need for physician leadership because of the dramatic changes required in the health field. Bill will talk about some of those changes and a program he created that moves us toward that solution.
The conversation includes: 1. Why do you think leadership matters for physicians at this point in history? 2. Tell us about the Learning from every patient program? 3. Why is this program so important? 4. How will it change the practice of medicine? 5. How will it impact the average consumer – what will it do to my experience when I go to the Dr.?
Bill offers compelling solutions to current challenges and also talks about the difficulty in implementing major changes in organizations.
This is the second interview exploring the idea of Level 5/Teal organizations. During this discussion, we delve more deeply into how we can foster the development of these leading edge capacities. Further exploring organizational shadow and integrative thinking, we will look at case studies, practical examples and interventions that support level 5 leadership and organizational development.
● Why are trust and safety important quality in teal organizational culture? ● Are level 5/ teal capacities skills that we can learn or do we just have to “be” a level 5 / teal leader? ● Exactly how can organization and leaders become more adaptive? ● What is organizational shadow? Why is it important? How can we identify it and work with it? ● What are organizational polarities and how to teal leaders and organization deal with them that goes beyond decision making or multiple bottom line?
This exploration is important for leaders aspiring to reshape their organizations.
John discusses new ways of going to college and “doing college”. Aspects of college that people will find familiar and some different. These differences now mean we have robust options to map skills to jobs. This can start in middle school through college to companies. We need skills across the pipeline that are thinking about the broader pipeline. We need everyone around the table to create alignment. John shares his thoughts on the following questions: 1. What are you most hopeful about regarding higher education in the future? 2. What skills do you see as required for the 21st century economy? Debunk the myths about what is available especially if we consider lifelong learning. 3. What are the delivery mechanisms that will support this education in a quality manner? 4. How do you balance cost of education, speed of education change, and quality? 5. You talk about testing of new approaches, what do you mean by this? 6. How should parents and students rethink education?
We have talked extensively about the leadership skills required to handle the increasingly complex work challenges with an accelerating rate of change, interconnected workplaces across the globe and increasing pace of technology. A key question for companies who believe they need to develop leaders to remain competitive is what is required beyond what we are already doing? We explore: 1.What is vertical development? 2.Why does it matter? 3.How does it relate to leader 2050? 4.Can you explain the process? 5.Can you give some examples of specific tactics? 6.What can companies do to leverage this as part of a comprehensive leadership development program? Mike and Maureen explore how vertical development is required to build the mindset and competencies leaders require to navigate this complexity and create long term thriving enterprises.
In their new book, Leading with Vision, the authors explore trends in executive development and understand how creating a compelling vision allows businesses to engage the ever-elusive Millennial, effectively developing a framework and an actionable blueprint to help leaders nurture talent more effectively.
They outline four approaches to leadership to create a compelling vision that others will unite around: Courage, clarity, connectedness, and culture. When brought together, these calculated leadership principles form a powerful strategy to create your compelling company vision.
They will discuss: 1. Are millennials prepared to lead? 2. What is going on with women is leadership roles? 3. Who is in control employers or employees? 4. Is employee turnover preventable? 5. Do they use assessments in the selection process? 6. How can our government attract and retain the next generation of A-players? What factors that would help government create a compelling vision?
Resilience is a key foundation to personal and organizational success. This interview focuses on individual resilience. The conversation is designed to help you expand your understanding of resilience overall, how it connects to stress, how it is connected with success, how to measure it and what to do to build it.
This dynamic conversation starts with resilience basics - exploring the four main components: a. physical well-being b. Manage thinking c. purpose and emotional intelligence d. Manage connections
We then move to a conversation about how to measure individual resilience and understand the resilience gap between the individual's capacity and requirements.
Once you understand your resilience gap, it is time to set about creating solutions in each of the four main areas to manage your resilience so that you can lead effectively in times of ongoing change and occasional chaos.
We would like listeners to walk away with a clearer understanding of the role leadership plays in the practice and administration of medicine. This show will provide recommendations about what can physicians can do to prepare for the changes in the medical ecosystem and become a more effective leaders?
Topics include the following discussions:
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You’ve served as Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Chair of Surgery at Penn State, and then VP for Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine first at OSU and then most recently at Dartmouth. Now you spend most of your time studying, writing about and teaching leadership. You’re especially interested in the idea of leading yourself. Tell us about it.
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You’ve been saying for several years that we need to change the way we think about leadership in health care and you give a talk titled “Flipping the leadership paradigm.” Tell us about that.
During this interview, Dr. Moeser talks about how he grew within his career from earning a PhD in Musical Arts to becoming Chancellor of UNC.
James chronicles his career from being an early civil rights advocate as an undergrad through the challenges of balancing being a world class musician to a senior university leader.
He shares his unexpected success and also his unexpected losses. Through each step he looked to mentors and learned from role models (positive and negative) to shape his own leadership style.
He also drew from his role as a church organist. He draws from the experience of developing buy-in to build involvement from volunteer church choirs.
This is a wonderful opportunity to share the career journey with the Chancellor of one of the nations top universities.
Tamara’s life is about breaking through the status quo for game-changing results –and, that’s what her clients learn how to do, too! During this show, we talk about some of the key elements that enable her clients to be successful and how those same elements can become barriers if not attended to. As we talk about the rate of change and the need to innovate – Tamara is an expert in the art and science of innovation – not just changing products but also culture and mindset.
We explore: 1. What is your biggest pet peeve about only special people innovate? 2. When is it time to innovate? 3. Why do some organizations excel at developing great ideas but they can’t put them into practice? 4. Why as leaders do we need to go beyond lip service and give them tools? 5. What tools do you provide through your launchstreet platform? 6. What is an innovation quotient and an innovation archetype? How do I use this information to help position people in innovation roles?
According to Gallup, 32% of employees are engaged in the US and 13% globally. This leads to a productivity crisis! Companies are exploring options for how to address this crisis. Thorlo's President, Richard Oliver, shares his experience addressing this issue in a 60 year old, US based, manufacturing organization. He says, there is a new possibility for how people are in relationship in organizations and families. The principles we discuss during the sho are broadly applicable and focus on generative agreements that create much stronger outcomes in financial returns, organizational performance metrics and employee experience. Richard talks about how he leveraged his experience as a CPA with Deloitte to his existing practices at Thorlo with the collaboration and partnership with Jim Ritchie-Dunham at the Institute for Strategic Clarity. He gives specific concrete examples to help leaders understand how this approach is different and why it is impactful.
Chris was on the ground navigating the crisis in Ferguson leading the Christian Hospital EMS (CHEMS) .
During this conversation, well discuss the Ferguson uprising as the backdrop to discuss the importance of a leadership vision, clear communication, clear roles and responsibilities and strong leadership that is learning on the ground as a volatile situation evolves and changes.
Chris walks us through how the situation unfolded and the leadership challenges the emergency response team leaders faced. He gives a behind the scenes look at what happened, what worked and what the emergency responders learned from this uprising.
He then ties the lessons learned from this event to overall leadership lessons.
Oprah-reviewed author, Forbes Top-10 business school lecturer and author of The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, talks about why companies need to value employees for their ideas and results, not time in the office and about her book. The Gig Economy transforms the way we work by disconnecting work from an office. Independent consultants, contractors, and freelancers are judged by their results and output – no matter how, where, or when they are produced - not on the time they spend in their office chair, or whether they work from 9 to 5 every day. 1. What exactly is the gig economy and how did we get here? 2. Is shifting more of the organization’s work to gig work a viable strategy to create strategic advantage for many companies? 3. How do companies get started ? 4. How do companies track results and impact?
As a CIO with Nationwide Insurance, Guru shares his experience changing how the culture of IT to accomplish their mission. He discusses what they are doing to build a culture of continuous learning and innovation as they continue to expand the scale their agile and lean roll-out.
Guru shares how the implementation has evolved since it was initiated in 2009. He compares how they began their journey and what they are doing now to continue to expand the scale as well as continue to evolve the leadership behaviors, mindset and organizational culture.
He will discuss specific examples of how they have shifted how leaders behave and think about their work as leaders. Additionally, he explores several specific steps they have taken to expand their culture of learning including what is taught, who teaches and how the team self manages their own learning choices.
As a futurist and leadership scholar, Robin has worked for decades dedicated to understanding how leaders develop and transform their organizations, communities and ultimately the world to thrive. During this interview, Robin discusses his latest book – Synergise! – 21st Century Leadership. We discuss the following:
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How can your process help those aspiring to level 5 leadership to redefine success for themselves and their organisations?
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How do the 4 C's (consciousness, capabilities, cultures and creations) impact leadership development?
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In your fourth book “The Great Shift- Catalysing the Second Renaissance”, you sketched out a BIG VISON for the future of business and human civilisation in 2050. How close have we come to actually realizing that vision?
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You write and speak about co-creating a thriveable future by 2050. In your book Synergise! you have set out Six Pathways to the future that leaders and organisations can position themselves on. What are they?
Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do. With many businesses failing in their first few years, failure to do some of these things may even lead to the failure of your business. Chris talks about how to turn good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do.
Chris co-wrote The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) with Dr Steve Levinson, a clinical psychologist based in Minnesota, what inspired the book and collaboration.
We will discuss: 1. What stops people getting the things they want to done?
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How should people go about setting clear intentions?
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Strategies in the book to help us to get more done?
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What strategies Chris personally applies and how they help him?
During this interview, Chris will share actionable ideas!
Christoph discusses his findings from the experience based research exploring the patterns and specifics of societal-scale transformations in different culture. This research was commissioned by the German government and focused on global transformations outside of Germany.
Christoph interviewed 22 thought leaders about their personal experience in running large scale transformation processes. Specifically he looked at the global implications of transformation exploring the patterns and specifics of societal scale transformations in different cultures. This work is now being leveraged by sustainability and transitions people around the world.
During the interview, he shares common themes across cultures and transformation focus and recommendations that increase the probability of transformation success.
The following quote summarizes how individuals and organizations view resources: they are often perceived to be limited, but never scarce
As a futurist and leadership scholar, Robin has worked for decades dedicated to understanding how leaders develop and transform their organizations, communities and ultimately the world to thrive. During this interview, Robin discusses his latest book – Synergise – 21st Century Leadership.
Robin starts by describing the book and why it is so important during our current era. This discussion explores among other topics, why it is important to move beyond basic sustainability toward thriving.
He then talks about one of the frameworks in the book focused on developing organisation, called 6C’s: Context, Combinations, Constraints, Containers/Platforms, Catalysts, and Connections.
Robin explains the 6C model and gives examples of how he uses it to help organizations move to thrivability. This book and conversation are intended to provide tools for busy leaders to use in navigating their biggest challenges.
Over the past two years, Maureen conducted 100 weekly interviews with top executives, academics, consultants, and diplomats from around the globe. For the 100th anniversary, she synthesizes the key themes and summarizes key learning during these interviews.
This interview focuses on what top thinkers and leaders are focusing on. They continue to build their own inner capacity to deal with life’s challenges, they are staying current on a broad range of topics that impact their organizations from technology to geopolitics and they are focusing on evolving their organizations to remain successful as the ecosystem in which they operate continually changes.
One of the most important take-away’s is that while we are facing unprecedented challenge, there are amazing people thinking about these issues and experimenting with solutions to solve our biggest challenges.
Effective decision making is one of the key skills for great leaders. Learning how to balance science based approaches to decision making and also leverage experience and intuition form a strong foundation for leaders to improve how they make decisions and how they improve their decision making process.
During the discussion Gleb shares several key points from his research. He will share tips and underlying foundation to enable you to improve your decision making skills.
• How do you use science-based strategies for avoiding disasters in business environments? • How do you appeal to the emotions of internal and external stakeholders in your business to maximize success? • How do you manage your own emotions to make wise decisions - neither taking undue risks nor failing to seize promising opportunities? • How do you combine intuitive and analytical thinking to make the best possible decisions in an environment of uncertainty?
If we look at the continuum of leaders through the comparison of phones, at one end you have the flip phone and at the other you have the smart phone.
Where do you fall on the continuum? How do you even know?
During this show we will talk about the 7 characteristics of Leadership 2020 and give examples of what those specific behaviors look like in practice based on the experience of our guest, Mike Sayre.
To continue the phone analogy, updating your phone means a change in hardware and software. To update yourself as a leader, you need to update your mindset and behavior. Mike will talk about both his mindset and his behaviors during difficult business transitions.
These behaviors were published in the book Leadership 2050.
Gary has been writing and presenting on board room black holes and taboos based on his research with National Association of Directors (NACD) and the Conference Board of Canada. During this show, we will talk about Gary's top 5 issues and why executives and board members need to be thinking about these high impact topics. His goal is to help leaders find blind spots before they blind side you.
This discussion focuses on the top five black holes and taboos that emerged during his research: 1. Where do you make money? 2. Change - the world is changing - how quickly should your organization change? 3. Overly optimistic financial and procedures and processes. 4. Opportunity cost - what made sense once upon a time may not make sense now. 5. Face the facts - what do you measure and how much is in the rear view mirror vs. what is anticipatory?
This interview is designed to help you as a leader anticipate and identify your blind spots and taboos.
In complex adaptive systems, those required to meet many of the challenges we currently face, leaders and organizations need to co-evolve to ensure their ability to respond to the opportunities and challenges.
During this conversation, Terri and Maureen explore how individuals and organizations evolve. It starts with the question of how individuals grow up as leaders. They then map this same framework to exploring how organizations evolve.
Terri presents a brief overview of the StAGES model, using it to frame to conversation about how a developmental model can be used to better understand the idea of organizational evolution. This is particularly useful when individuals use the developmental tools they employ for their own development to help the organization mature. While this sounds like even more work for busy leaders, this is the focus that enables them to create systems that are truly adaptive.
Part of the challenge in building innovative leadership is learning to become more introspective and how to put that introspective knowledge into practice. Looking inside yourself—examining the very makeup of your inner world—enables you to function in a highly grounded way, rather than operating from reactive habits and biases that simply lead to more uninformed or unconscious decision making.
One way to observe this is by examining qualities intrinsic to your inner being, described as types, which reflect the basic makeup of your personality. The Leader Personality Type plays a critical role in how you see the organization and also how you provide guidance. It is an essential foundation of your personal makeup and greatly shapes your leadership effectiveness.
During this interview, Belinda and Maureen will discuss how to use the Enneagram to prepare leaders to improve their self-awareness AND their leadership effectiveness.
As a CIO with Nationwide Insurance, Guru shares his experience changing how the culture of IT to accomplish their mission. He discusses what they are doing to build a culture of continuous learning and innovation as they continue to expand the scale their agile and lean roll-out.
Guru shares how the implementation has evolved since it was initiated in 2009. He compares how they began their journey and what they are doing now to continue to expand the scale as well as continue to evolve the leadership behaviors, mindset and organizational culture.
He will discuss specific examples of how they have shifted how leaders behave and think about their work as leaders. Additionally, he explores several specific steps they have taken to expand their culture of learning including what is taught, who teaches and how the team self manages their own learning choices.
As part of our series from the Global Ties US conference, this interview features two women who run Global Centers; for Georgia Council for International Visitors and the San Diego Diplomacy Center.
As citizens and leaders, we work in a global economic system. Aside from preference or opinion, it is imperative for us to continue to build our understanding of the global systems and the people who participate.
Global Ties is an organization whose vision is: peaceful, prosperous world where individuals build enduring relationships through international exchange; and whose mission is to strengthen relationships between individuals and nations by making international exchange programs more effective.
This show focuses on how two cities are accomplishing this mission. Many citizens will not leave the US and yet these programs help them develop international relationships and build a global acumen. This is the foundation of citizen diplomacy.
During this show, we explore the impact of mental health concerns in the general workplace and or veterinarians and vet students.
Mental health costs are on the rise and we see statistics that as much as 40% of the population will be personally impacted by a mental health issue during some point in their lives. This show is designed to remove the stigma about getting help and equip colleagues and bosses have some idea for addressing it.
We discuss: 1. General data on prevalence of mental health issues within the general population?
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Veterinary data on prevalence of mental health issues within profession and veterinary students
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Factors to these issues in society in general
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Recommendations to identify issues and address them.
Mental health is still a stigma in many environments and as long as it is, people will continue to suffer in some cases without treatment and impact the overall productivity and satisfaction of their colleagues and clients.
In 2017, Rebeca won the International Visiting Leaders Alumni Award for Innovation and Social Change. Rebeca petitioned the Tanzania High Court that ruled that the Marriage Act – which allowed girls as young as 14 to be married – was unconstitutional.
Yasmine Hasnaoui is an expert on conflict resolution with a focus on sub-Saharan conflict.
Both are graduates of the US Department of state International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) for young leaders.
This show focuses on the impact both women have made in their countries and internationally. They discuss their leadership journeys, both coming from humble backgrounds. They also talk about their recent accomplishments and goals.
Both women are making a significant impact within their countries and also impacting international relations. They are an inspiration to young leaders who aspire to change the world and to experienced leaders as a reminder of what happens when we mentor and nurture the next generation of leaders.
One of the most dangerous problems we face in the world is extremism on behalf of belief. In many cases, extremists convince themselves that another faith or political system or individual is ‘evil’, and that they are justified in destroying them by any means necessary.
During this conversation, Maureen we will talk to Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard about the smear campaign Marc and the Center for Integral Wisdom.
What emerged was a much more hopeful conversation. They are modeling the behaviors they teach as they confront this challenge and they are working to leverage what would for others be a crippling crisis and share with others the culture of collaboration and unique contribution to a conscious world. They are talking about an evolution of our culture!
For me this is a story of personal resilience and how they used a crisis to precede transformation. They were both required to model the concepts they were teaching in a very personal way and they are here to share their story.
As part of the thought leader series, Rick talks about his book, The A Player. He shares his key findings about what organizations are doing and not doing that impact their ability to attract and retain the best employees.
Here are some of the topics Rick and Maureen discuss during the interview:
- What is the definition of an A Player, and what differentiates them from a B or C Player?
- I don’t think I want a B or C Player piloting my next airline flight or performing my next surgery. Why then do managers and business leaders tolerate B Players on the team?
- What happens to the B and C Players? Can they be coached into become A Players? How long does it take?
- What if my C Players become B players. Isn’t that good (enough)?
You will walk away with a clearer understanding of what A Players” are and how to create an environment where your organization attracts and retains them.
The Kansas Leadership Center was established in 2007 to develop civic leadership across the state. Through its work, KLC aspires to transform the civic culture of Kansas. This requires developing civic leadership on a large scale. KLC now directly trains 2,000 people a year while thousands more have access to its leadership framework and curriculum. The organization’s programs operate from the premise that civic leadership must become more purposeful, provocative, and engaging to make progress on the state’s adaptive challenges.
During this informative discussion, David and Ed talk about the center, its framework and the principles.
Leadership is not exclusive to those with authority or expertise; anyone can exercise leadership at any time. It is an intentional activity that can be learned. Progress starts with the individual and must engage others. In this way, civic leadership becomes a means for sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.
This interview shares information about Global Ties, an organization that strengthens relationships between individuals and nations by making international exchange programs more effective. Its vision is: peaceful, prosperous world where individuals build enduring relationships through international exchange. Its mission is to strengthen relationships between individuals and nations by making international exchange programs more effective.
As we face changing global dynamics at the national level, this show explores how we as individuals and organizations can build the foundation for a better world.
Global ties does just that. Their premier program is the International Visiting Leaders Program (IVLP). It brings current and future leaders from around the world to communities throughout the United States and provides members with connections, leadership development, and professional resources, so that they are the strongest, most effective organizations they can be.
As part of the thought leader series, Dr. Boggs shares information from his book Honored Feathers of Wisdom: Attributes For Personal and Organizational Growth.
Dr. Boggs draws from the Native American heritage to identify these traits. This book is a great reminder of the nuanced traits of leaders. Bob focuses on how being a wise person results in better leadership.
Bob and Maureen discuss the following topics among many others:
- Why do you draw from Indian Chiefs as a foundation for your book?
- What is the pathway to wisdom?
- Why do we care about wisdom for leaders – isn’t success measured just by results?
- Leaders need to be intellectually “smart” but why do they need to balance their intellect with emotion?
- You talked about Chiefs it looks like they had influence but not command and control power – what was their role?
- How can we pull from what Chiefs did long ago and apply it to today?
For people working in groups, we have often seen the group perform to the level of the lowest common denominator. This conversation provides a high-level framework for leaders to refine their approach to increasing team effectiveness by leveraging the concept of “room to roam.” Room to roam looks at five key variables we believe are the foundation when looking at leadership successful performance in groups.
The five perspectives are: 1. Leadership maturity 2. State development 3. Years of experience 4. Mindfulness 5. Ability to identify and co-host or build on the perspectives in the room
This conversation explores the five perspectives in greater detail as well as the idea of co-hosting as a tool to change the way the group works.
Another critical element of group functioning is the agreements they have with one another on how they operate.
As we listen to leaders talk about their transformation success - it sounds as if they created a plan, executed on the plan and declared victory.
In working with large complex change, this is rarely true. Things happen that derail the project such as acquisitions, divestitures, and market changes. The test of a successful leader is how he or she responds to the changes that happen and pivots to revise the strategy for success and implements these changes. Two seasoned experts answer the following questions and share their experiences:
- You have both led successful transformations across multiple sectors and industries, what challenges that came up for you and how you responded? Let's start with a change you didn't anticipate?
- How did you manage the people who were living through uncertainty - in some cases worried about losing jobs and their families financial security?
- Did you see any common themes?
As part of the International Leadership Association (ILA) series, Barbara Kellerman, recently awarded the ILA’s lifetime achievement award, will discuss her thoughts on the end of leadership as well as her point of view about followers, leaders and contexts given our current environment.
This rich conversation spanned topics from: 1. the end of leadership, 2. bad leadership and perspective antidotes, 3. how we as leaders think about followers and understand them, 4. how context informs effective leadership, 5. how leaders evaluate the environment to take effective action, 6. the current state of political leadership across the globe and some of the underlying trends.
This conversation is a must listen for leaders trying to make sense of the current landscape in leadership and in organizations. Barbara's insights will inspire your thinking about what you do as a leader and how you can improve your effectiveness.
Gill and Jorrit discuss how organizations and researchers combine theory and practice to teach leadership to university students and career professionals. They talk about need for ongoing curiosity and learning at every stage of professional life. The ILA provides a forum for the interchange between scholarship and practice. Practitioners like Jorrit share the challenges businesses face and provide a venue to support great research. The findings are then integrated back into academic work updating what students learn as well as are taught to professionals at Deloitte University to support delivering great outcomes to clients and creating a society that can meet the challenges that continue to emerge. A practical example of current research is: leading and working in the “e” environment. Their combined work will result in new models supporting better practices to create healthy working environments. This research contributes to the 2017 ILA conference, Leading In Turbulent Times.
As part of the International Leadership Association Conference series, I invited Bill to discuss his new book focusing on helping new leaders and the teams they lead succeed.
Bill talks about: • Common mistakes new leaders make • The unique challenges faced by first time managers, such as the transition from “BFF” to “boss” • How first time managers can motivate their teams, while maintaining the relationships they had before the promotion • What support first time managers actually need, and how organizations can provide it
This interview and the associated book provide a great foundation for helping first time managers.
We discuss changes in leadership we are seeing and how important clear leadership, followership, and agreement on a goals is to drive successful outcomes.
We expand the definition of leadership to integrate the impact of the environmental and cultural context in defining the leadership style. This discussion explores the range of styles (continuum) from command and control to inclusive leadership and when to use each style. This shift requires leaders to have a broader range of skills than required when only command and control were required. It also requires the leader to know when to step aside and share leadership.
We explore how to enhance this capacity in building leadership through intellectual curiosity. This process includes creating disorienting dilemmas or approaches to development outside of standard programs. Aldo discusses how he used mountaineering to build his emotional skills and the ability to interact effectively.
As part of the International Leadership Association series, Juana talks about the eight leadership principles that set the foundation for cross-cultural leadership. These are drawn from best-selling book “Salsa, Soul and Spirit – Leadership for a Multicultural Age”
Juana discusses the principles and illustrates them with examples that apply to our current global organizational environments.
- Know your history and respect the history of others
- Mi Casa Es Su Casa - cultivate a generous spirit
- From I to We - lessen individualism and cultivate collectivity
- A leader among equals
- Leadership is social responsibility
- Community servanthood: create a community of leaders
- Generate a shared vision
- All my relatives - treat everyone like a relative
Finally, Juana offers recommendations to build the capacity to live these principles in your daily leadership practice.
By helping leaders understand their own views and behaviors when facing diversity, we enhance our leadership capacity. When we eliminate segments of the population because they appear different, we remove valuable insights and perspectives.
The 21st century is a relationship age. Mike discusses the forces of prejudice versus the forces of pluralism. If people are not able to be comfortable living and working among diverse people, then leaders need to spend their time policing and setting rules and guidelines to keep us safe. The alternative is a scenario were the group creates norms and it finds ways to move through situations based on our its agreements without the boss intervening. If we learn to be comfortable with the space difference needs, we create greater opportunity for everyone involved and diversity becomes a true differentiator in solving the greatest problems. When we limit diversity, we limit perspectives and we are at a disadvantage.
Our two guests - both experts and advocates for women as leaders talk about the role women leaders play in organizations and how we develop girls and women to prepare them to take leadership roles.
Why do we need more women leaders? How do they impact organizational success including financial performance, diversity of talent, and improved engagement and retention?
They talk about: 1. the business case for why we need women in leadership roles, clarifying the benefits of women holding these roles. 2. specific tactics for girls and women to develop their leadership skills. 3. global female leadership role models 4. board roles impact women have
Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece, talks about how he navigated major challenge as a leader. One of my key take-a-ways was the importance of building trust and demonstrating courage as foundational skills to leading in turbulent times.
He talked about his personal experience as a refugee when his family was in exile to provide context for his views on the importance of inclusion and building alliances across borders.
At the root, this interview is about how do we, as people, build common values and common rules to promote fair competition that enables us to work together across borders to solve the challenges we face as a global community. How do we emulate the metaphor of the Olympics rather than the gladiator pit? This interview offers a glimpse into his perspective.
During the Interview, we discuss Ron's thoughts on leadership and his journey. Here is a preview:
In times of change, people often try to hold onto the values of their culture that have had personal meaning and significance to them. When dominant cultures are confronted with stresses such as immigrants, they are called to examine their values and often required to take on very difficult integrative work. The leadership required must point out values such as: We stand for freedom and respect for all people, and our policy does not align with what we say we stand for. How do we make space for this evolution? What are the “gives” and “gets” required to evolve cultures? How can we hold steady to our cultural DNA and still evolve?
In nature, when an organism adapts, it builds on its old capacity and generates radically new functionality. Ron suggested that God didn’t do zero-based budgeting in evolution. We honor our past and at the same time determine what can we release.
Cynthia created a global conference designed to deeply engage individuals and groups and fundamentally evolve the science and practice of leadership and build a global community of innovation and collaboration. She discusses the conference and the underlying invitation to for leaders to continue to explore this very important topic by engaging in the difficult process of personal growth as leaders continuing to strive to improve our craft of leadership. We explored some of the themes this community is facing and the hopeful environment we both experienced. While we face ever increasing complexity in our globe, we continue to build solutions to address that complexity with researchers, educators and practitioners.
Ajay shares his insights about the need to create mutually beneficial exchanges between countries, particularly in terms of migration. This theme is of importance with the current migration issues and t the discussion for broader questions of inclusion, peace and security.
Revitaliza is a woman owned green building company in Mexico committed to improving the world and the lives of their employees and clients based on their services and the company culture they have created. Also embedded in their culture is empowerment of women. Revitaliza and its owner are are truly positive deviants and a shining example of a company making a positive impact and making money.
During the interview they talk about how they are shifting agreements within their company and the impact this has on their employees, their process efficiency and their external stakeholders.
• How do you use the focus on agreements to build your culture and drive successful performance? • What are some of the agreements you have put into place? • Talk about how you are shifting agreements within the company and the impact this has on their employees, their process efficiency and their external stakeholders.
Gary and Maureen talk about the leadership “operating systems” we are working with based on our brain programming and our level of conscious awareness of this operating system. When we increase our awareness, we can reprogram this operating system to move beyond the survival and ego based system to a more deliberate, service based, long term success oriented system. In our current time with increasing complexity and challenge, we as leaders need to commit to updating this operating system to ensure future generations thrive. This is something that must be done by each leader – we can’t look to those in political roles or senior roles to take care of it – all of us have a responsibility.
1) Over 99% of our thinking and actions take place automatically – can you talk more about that? 2) Pain is weighted 3-5 x higher – how does that impact our lives? How does that impact us as leaders? 3) The way our brains are working is not okay (we need to upgrade our operating system) - how?
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Paul to talk about his ongoing impact in with young and emerging leaders focusing on identifying what is possible in their lives and bringing that possibility into action. By shifting mindset to what is likely given our limitations to what is possible, leaders generate significantly greater and more fulfilling results.
Questions we explore: 1.Why is it so hard to “live in possibility” these days? 2.What does it mean to “live in possibility”? 3.What is the importance of adopting an attitude of possibility? 4.How did you come to adopt this sort of thinking? 5.How can I help my team embrace living in possibility? 6.How does living in possibility connect to leadership? Why is the connection important? 7.Why do people typically dismiss those that have this attitude?
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Carla to talk about her ongoing impact in innovating organizations from the employee level, leadership level and board level. As we talk about how leaders innovate themselves and their organizations, Carla is one of the people I look to share significant insight! I consider her my model.
• How did you get started with your career? • You were an early woman in a male focused industry – can you give us some insight about how you navigated this situation? What factors allowed you to blaze trails for people like me who followed and had an easier time because of your work • You were one of the key founders of the Change Management and Leadership practice at Accenture please share some thoughts about how you helped facilitate the innovation of that practice. • You retired from Accenture and moved on to the next phase of your career and you now serve on several boards including LeaderShape. What guidance can you share?
Bob because he has reinvented himself several times in his career. He takes on large roles to solve complex problems mainly in the space of health care right now. His ability to evolve as a leader is at the core of what I believe will be required for leaders going forward – especially in the health care field.
During this conversation we talk about Bob's path from artist to trauma surgeon to CEO to the Veteran's administration to running a medical association.
Since this show is about helping leaders create their own personal innovation strategy, Bob's journey is a particularly interesting one because it highlights multiple successful reinventions. For physicians and physician leaders it may be even more interesting because of the volume of change facing the medical industry overall.
Bob will talk about his overall journey including knowing when to leave and his own internal thought process and motivations.
Victor talks about the power of applying the “Leadership Matrix” -the box- to team management. He will describe what it is, how it works, and how it will help you get the best out of yourself and your team.
- Who should read Lead Inside the Box? What problem does it help them solve?
- How do you help people solve that problem?
- Walk us through the different parts of the Leadership Matrix?
- What are the four boxes and how do you use this tool -box- to allocate leadership time by group?
Victor provides great insights about how this structure helps managers and leaders think through what employees need using a framework to categorize where they are right now. This tool can also help shift people to become more productive.
Paul talks about the power of story for leaders. He shares his insights about what works, why it works and how you will be more effective as a leader if you master the use of story as one of your skills.
Paul recounts a compelling story told by Bob McDonald, CEO of Proctor and Gamble and connects it to a primary leadership and parenting lesson for him. Through his use of story he illustrates:
- What is a great leadership story?
- What are the primary elements?
- Why use stories to lead and sell?
- What are the most common mistakes of using story?
You will walk away with a foundation for using story in your role as a leader. You can also learn more about using story in leadership by reading Paul's book: Lead with Story.
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Mike because he has transformed several companies – mostly building for sale-exit. He is known for his ethical and caring approach to driving results over the past decades. In a time where people struggle to finding their own approach – Mike has lived his values and delivered strong results.
Mike will discuss: 1. His approach to transformation across multiple industries 2. Common themes 3. Leadership qualities required for successful transformation 4. His collaboration on the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations - award winning guide 5. Key take-aways from his recent executive roles
Mike provides great insight into what has made him successful. While a leader who is behind the scenes rather than grabbing credit - he is the quiet and stable force that ensures difficult challenges are resolved and companies thrive.
As part of the thought leader series, talks about the importance of vitality to leadership effectiveness. Physical health and vitality provide leaders a strong foundation to meet the challenge of stressful jobs and full lives.
Deborah discusses how vitality connects to leadership then walk through the 9 keys to deep vitality with concrete examples.
The discussion moves beyond a sole focus on physical health as the only key to vitality and explores topics such as living a life that is aligned with purpose.
She explores concepts like curiosity and experimentation that enable leaders to craft programs that support their personal vitality and commitments.
Her approach makes vitality practical for busy leaders who know they need to do more but can't find an approach that works with their busy lives.
As part of the thought leader series, Mike will share his insights about the 12 characteristics of great leaders and what makes them great. He will share his personal experiences as well as the work is doing with clients. He will answer the following questions.
• Are great leaders made or born?
• You write that many if not most of us are good leaders, but few are truly great. Given that accurate self-analysis is very difficult, how do you know how good of a leader you really are?
• Of the 12 characteristics of great leaders that you cite in your article, which ones really resonate with you personally? In other words, which one or two do you consider the most important features of top leaders?
As effective leaders, it is critical to recognize and anticipate market shifts and proactively position companies to be nimble, but stable, during these times.
Joe is known for his ability to shape companies to thrive in the face of industry transition. He is also community focused – building community partnerships.
During the interview we explore Joe's experience with large scale industry change and how community involvement has contributed to the success of the Dispatch Printing Company.
We discuss:
- The bulk of you career has been spent in companies and industries that were either emerging like the internet or changing like media. What qualities do you think are most important to drive change in this environment?
- Your work at the Dispatch Printing companies leverages the community as a whole – building on public and private partnerships – can you share some of that work and why you think it contributes to a healthy ecosystem and translates to business success?
We are at a fulcrum point in our history and in this unique time – we need effective global leadership. During this discussion we will discuss leadership from global and local perspective and explore the international leadership association and its contribution to the research and practice of international leadership.
Cynthia lives and works at the intersection between research, teaching and the practice of leadership. Her passion is connecting each of these important disciplines to improve the outcomes for each. She will share her insights and answer some important questions:
We need to think globally – what is driving the requirement and becoming a global society
Diverse perspectives are required help address issues that require different points of view - how do we navigate the future?
How do we become the change we create? What are the competencies? Is there a roadmap? How do you as listener get to make an impact? What is the ILA?
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a global network of cities and regions with a think tank at its center. Its mission is to help communities use information and communications technology (ICT) to create inclusive prosperity, to tackle social and governance challenges and to enrich their quality of life. The ICF think tank studies how Intelligent Communities use ICT to succeed in the broadband economy.
As effective leaders, it is critical to attend to the geographic environment and the ecosystems in which we live and work and explore how this ecosystem impacts the success of the organization and the leader.
During the interview, the founders share: 1. Why they started the ICF 2. How do organizations benefit from being located within intelligent communities? 3. What is a healthy ecosystem? 4. What is the difference between a smart city and an intelligent city? 5. Why should leaders contribute to community building?
A key element of successful leadership in this dynamic time is successfully implementing large scale change.
Kathy Starkoff has extensive experience successfully transforming large IT organizations as well as advising others on their implementations. She is an expert in all facets of IT including cyber security and risk management.
This show will give you a better understanding of how leaders and their organizations successfully implement large scale change. This interview will include the following questions:
• How does an organization achieve sustainable large scale change? • What are the critical components of large scale change? • Why does it always take so long? • How do you recognize issues along the way? • How do you address issues along the way? • What is the probability of a typical project’s “success”? • What are the most common mistakes made?
As the organizational ecosystem continues to change, board directors and trustees must better understand the nature of their roles and how they are changing to address the increased complexity they face. Dr. Dale Meyerrose explores the role of board members in depth then explores some of the responsibilities.
During the second segment, Dale discusses an innovative way to think about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis SWOT as it applies to cyber security. He integrates and aligns an analysis of cyber security and other strategic differentiators across all four quadrants in the SWOT.
During the third segment, we discuss leadership depreciation and how effective leaders look at leadership across the SWOT analysis and how they update their approach to leadership. Dale shares how he navigated a distinguished military, government, corporate, and nonprofit career by continually reinventing himself.
As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots.
During the show, Christopher and Sheila work with the coaches, Carla and Jim They: - Invite coachees to tell them how their peer conversations went. What did they learn? How has their relationship shifted? • Invite the peers of the coachees to participate and interview them about their experience. • How has this experience changed engagement at work for coachees and peers? Has there been a ripple effect beyond them? • What can we learn by looking at the data from the listening audience? • Bonus: still have a question you would like answered? Email your Email your question by August 31 to: info@5deep.net
As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots.
During the show, Christopher and Sheila work with the coaches, Carla and Jim to help them understand their 360 degree data from the LeaderView self-assessment. Additionally, they: • help coachees understand how to interpret the data from their peers. • Prepare them to have conversations with their peers — how to get the most out of those conversations? • Homework: complete the LeaderView Conversation Guide, then have a conversation with each one of your peers. • Bonus: have a question you would like answered in Episode 4? Email your question by August 3 to: info@5deep.net
Amy and Maureen are the co-authors of the Innovative Leadership Workbook for College Students - winner of the 2016 International Book Award for Best College Guide. br During the conversation, they talk about developing leadership skills among college students. Amy shares her experience teaching leadership at The Ohio State University and share her underlying frameworks that shaped the Innovative Leadership Workbook for College Students. brbr They discuss topics including: br 1. What makes leadership development in college unique from other areas where one might seek leadership development opportunities? br 2. The most important steps that a student can take to get involved with leadership on campus. br 3. The best people to support leadership development on a college campus. br 4. Where would someone got to seek mentorship? br 5. What does the research say about the most important areas of growth for college student leaders? br 6. The importance of self-reflection in building leadership capacity
As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots.
This segment is designed to offer an example to help leaders and coaches understand their personal feedback and how they would use this data to develop themselves and their clients.
During the show, Christopher and Sheila work with the coaches, Carla and Jim to help them understand their data from the LeaderView self-assessment. Additionally, they: • Giving instructions about peer assessments: A person with whom you would like to have a better relationship. A person with whom you have a good relationship. • Homework: invite two peers to complete the LeaderView 360 survey. • Bonus: have a question you would like answered in Episode 3? Email your question by July 24th to: info@5deep.net
As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots. During this series, we will share information about the tool and give you the opportunity to participate by taking your own assessment and hearing how others work with it.
Part one of the series introduces the participants and the LeaderView tool. Christopher and Sheila are the coaches and also creators of the LeaderView and LeaderView 360 tools.
They will discuss: 1. What is personal freedom and flow? 2. What is the business case for a leader to invest time and money in this process? 3. Meet the participants and learn about their leadership development goals (we will walk through the process with Jim Svagerko and Carla Morelli as they get engage in the assessment and coaching process).
Gary and Maureen talk about leader ego development and development beyond ego through and how brain science impacts this development. When we talk about Level 5 Leadership from Good to Great – many people think of humble and tenacious. Building true humility is more than acting like you are humble, it is transcending traditional ego structure, a process that is foundational to developing into a “level 5 leader. This development comes in part from cultivating an ability to rewire our brains. br Gary will share his expertise on the following: br 1. When we talk about changing – you have mentioned some things change quickly and others quite slowly and the rate is linked to our survival. Explain how this relates to leader development. br 2. Why would anyone ever want to have a less ego-centered process? If the ego wasn't necessary, we wouldn't have one. Look how powerful our species has become...we dominate the planet. Why change? br 3. What is this process and can I do it?
Vibrancy and Ecosynomics are important topics for organizations that want to create engaged employees and drive strong business results. One of the vibrancy community's goals is to identify the highest vibrancy organization and highlight what they are doing so others can benefit from the success of the highest vibrancy organizations. br This interview highlights WCBE public radio station in Columbus, Ohio. This is the station where many of these shows are recorded. WCBE is an organization that has tested high on the vibrancy scale while the parent organization scored as less vibrant. Much of the difference in scores can be attributed to the deliberate actions taken by the General Manager, Dan Mushalko to address issues that are a drag on the stations vibrancy. br A key focus of this discussion will be creating vibrant departments or units within a large organization even when the parent is not focused on vibrancy. Dan and Jim discusses his success factors driving vibrancy.
Dr. Wulf and Jim talk about the leading work Central Ohio Primary Care (300 physicians) is doing and preparing for in the next five years with health care reform accompanied by new innovations in medical care. We will discuss how they became a leader in their field and what they are doing to shape how the field of medicine and how it is practiced (and led) into 2020. brbr During the interview we will discuss: br 1. COPCP background and how has it changed over the years? br 2. COPCP is trying to build a business outside of the “conglomerate” model, What does the leadership look like in the kind of business? br 3. How will healthcare changing for the Primary care physician, and what challenges does this present? br 4. What kind of physician leader will be needed to move healthcare in the future?
Maryanna is an accomplished researcher looking at the connection of mindfulness and performance across multiple populations and organizations. br The interview focuses on Maryanna's work with mindfulness based interventions and how leaders can use them to improve their effectiveness and encourage their organizations to use it to impact work groups beyond the impact on individual leaders. This concept is particularly important in helping leaders manage the stress associated with the volume of change organizations are currently facing and that leaders are responsible to anticipate and manage. brbr Topics include: br 1. Maryanna's research findings br 2. Discussing specifics of what mindfulness is and how leaders can use as well as the results they can expect br 3. Balancing mindfulness practices to reduce stress and improve performance while minimizing time invested in the practice brbr Maryanna's work is highly research based - Her program, “Mindfulness in Motion” is an evidenced –based approach to stress reduction in the workplace. Replacing the yellow text above.
In this show, we will explore what innovation really is, and is not, and bust some common myths. Listen in to learn how you can make innovation and growth a predictable and profitable business process. brbr Maureen, Urko and Jeff will discuss: br 1. What is the innovation process? br 2. What makes it predictable? br 3. What are the biggest myths you want to dispel during this conversation? br 4. Why are some companies better at innovation than others? br 5 What do you see is the biggest impediment to innovation in organizations today? br 6. Is leadership itself ever an impediment to innovation? br 7. How can companies build a culture of innovation?
People start businesses to make a difference in the world. They have an impulse to solve a need. Over time they can move toward profit generation and protection. br Conscious Capitalism is about returning to the roots of doing something that matters. There are more and more people starting businesses because they want to do something that matters to them. This is a movement/philosophy that allows businesses to transform. br It is business 2.0. What we relied on for competitive advantage is no longer sufficient. Your purpose and values are the things they can’t copy and paste. We are also unapologetically profit motivated. brbr Thea and Maureen discuss: br 1. the four pillars of conscious capitalism br 2. what does personal conscious capitalism look like br 3. what concrete actions individuals can take to get started br 4. what concrete actions organizations can take to get started
Leaders will better understand the nature of the threats we currently face and how to take proactive steps to optimize organizational success by taking advantage of the cloud and at the same time protect organization’s critical to position to run efficient and effective organizations. br During this show, Maureen and Dale will discuss several questions raised by an executive forum to provide a perspective from senior leaders: br 1. Overview of the cyber security landscape - what is real and what is hype? br 2. Address specific questions from the executive forum members about cyber security br 3. What should leaders and boards be thinking with regard to cyber security? brbr This session will provide listeners with a strong foundation to understand and plan their next steps required to keep their organizations operations and data safe.
With the increasing pace of change in IT, what do you need to do with IT to avoid being ‘Netflixed’? brbr Susan will share her perspective on several questions br 1. What disruption do you see being caused by technology over the next 5 years? br 2. What do you recommend organizations DO to address this disruption? brbr IT change is going to continue at an increased pace and increased cost. You need to think through and have a strategy for managing that change so it doesn’t catch you flatfooted. Your IT strategy goes well beyond the IT organization itself – because of the depth and breadth of technology you have and will be implementing, the organization needs to look at IT and technology spend as a key component of their business strategy.
As a CIO with Nationwide, Guru Vasudeva shares his extensive experience with implementing lean and agile practices across a large IT organization. He shares his challenges, recommendations and financial and quality results. br He answers the following questions: br 1. Does lean only apply to operations? br 2. What results has Nationwide been able to achieve through Lean IT? br 3. As a CIO – how have you changed your leadership style to run an organization that is using lean and agile? br 4. How does lean relate to innovation? br 5. What advice you have for CIOs who are embarking on a Lean transformation?
Dave and Maureen discuss Dave's experience with supply chain optimization and talk about what leaders should be thinking about with regard to how effective supply chain management contributes to accomplishing overall organizational strategy. When done well it is cost effective and attracts limited attention. When done poorly, it damages company’s reputations. Dave will share his experiences of strategic solutions and pitfalls. brbr Topics include: br 1. What role does supply chain play in business? In society? br 2. What trends are you seeing in supply chain work and how will it change the supply chain practice in the next few years? br 3. What are common business issues that companies face in supply chain optimization? br 4. What innovative solutions should companies be considering?
This interview is recorded live at the CIO Tomorrow Conference on April 14, 2016. It includes conversations with two keynote speakers - Thai Lee and Dr. Dale Meyerrose talking about disruptions in the technology industry and their views on how to run organizations that will thrive in and era of rapid disruptive changes. br In early 2015, Fortune magazine sent a survey to each of the Fortune 500 CEO’s, asking in part what their companies saw as their greatest challenge. Not surprisingly, the largest response was the rapid and disruptive pace of technological change. Those CEOs knew that disruption creates pivotal points at which normal patterns can no longer reasonably be maintained. Their concerns about how these new advancements will impact the future expectations of their companies, both from a capabilities and a consumer point of view, are important perspectives worthy of serious consideration. br Change is a choice, not a mandate. Organizational health is driven by this choice.
Carla and Laura talk about mergers and acquisitions focusing on key factors that drive success and failure. They are seasoned M&A veterans, participating in many transactions and both have seen similar themes. This interview provides insights and recommendations to improve the probability of success for your next transaction – whether you are acquiring, selling or involved in the integrations. brbr 50% - 80% of acquisitions fail to deliver intended results. We will explore key success factors: br 1. Understanding the deal goals - the why of the transaction for both sides br 2. Working with the human factors that have the greatest impact (and M&A transactions fail without considering humans and dealing with their needs) br 3. Navigating the organizational factors br The participants share their stories of success and their unique perspectives.
We have all had a bad boss or someone we struggled to work with. During this show, Maureen and Mike will compare and contrast good bosses and bad bosses.
Mike draws heavily on his research as well as decades of successful leadership experience to lay out a list of bad behaviors, the correlating great behaviors and discuss how to move from bad to great. They will provide examples to illustrate both bad and good.
This show will be enlightening and enjoyable.
This is a witty and delightful conversation where Lesley shares her genuine experience launching and growing companies and explore what unique qualities she used as a leader to be named one of the top 100 most powerful women in Canada. She shares what she has learned from her unique background and shares her perspective on what she would recommend for other leaders. br Lesley is open and genuine in sharing her personal journey as an anthropologist from her first job as an on-air radio manager to a highly influential leader and entrepreneur to hosting guests along the Camino in Portugal. br She will answer questions about her unique journey and also discuss her recommendations for leaders now. br Lesley also hosts a radio show Women who Lead. She will share some of her learnings from the highly influential women she has interviewed.
Gary and I talk about some recent brain research and how leaders and emerging leaders can leverage this research to gain additional capacity and also what recent research is DISPROVING: busting conventional wisdom. As we think about the purpose of this show, Gary’s work is perfectly tailored to help leaders rethink how they lead and for some, as we look at the brain consciousness connection – what it even means to be a leader. br Gary also connects his work with the brain to promoting happiness. br 1) Why did you take up this work? br 2) What was the question you started with? br 3) Your bio says you did research at Yale. Tell us more about that br 4) How can we become much more productive and less distracted. br 5) How do I stop the internal narrative in my head? br 6) How does being less distracted and managing my internal narrative help me be more happy?
Christoph recently gave a keynote speech to the World Green Building Council in Venice focused on retrofitting all buildings in Europe. The gathering was part of the EU funded BUILD UPON project, the world’s largest collaborative effort on building renovation – bringing together over 1,000 organizations, across 13 countries, at over 80 events in 2016-17. br As leaders focusing on implementing multiple concurrent changes – it is imperative that we understand what drives change and what inhibits it or just drains our energy. br He will discuss the following: br 1. Tell us more about the World GBC project br 2. How does your work with agreements increase the probability of successful transformation? br 3. What is an agreements map and the cost of scarcity calculation? br 4. How does mapping and calculating the cost of agreements drive change? br 5. What concrete steps can I take to evaluate my agreements?
Paul talks about his new book (continuation of an earlier interview) focused on large scale change and the concepts of agility and anti-fragile. These are foundational concepts for leaders looking to build organizations that are able to respond quickly to predicted and unpredicted change.
Being agile and 'anti-fragile' positions organizations to be resilient to the shocks they will face and enable them to be proactive - leveraging the shocks that adversely impact other organizations.
Paul and Maureen will discuss:
1) What is anti-fragility? 2) What are some real-world examples of anti-fragility? 3) Why should this be of interest to business leaders? 4) Do we know of business organizations that are anti-fragile? 5) How might a leader use these principles? 6) How can a leader use these principles to position the organization to proactively respond to threats?
Cam and Maureen will talk about different generational groups and pros and cons to working with each. When armed with this foundational knowledge, leaders and businesses can adapt to get the greatest value from their workforce and provide the best possible working experience to each group. br Questions they will address include: brbr 1) Where do these generational definitions come from? How about the ages? br 2) How different is each, really? br 3) What do they have in common? br 4) Can you give me some strengths and weaknesses in leadership for each generation? br 5) How about as followers, what do they do well and poorly? br 6) What are each of their futures? Where will they end up? brbr Marston’s expertise has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the Chicago Tribune, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Money, and Forbes, as well as on Good Morning America, CNN International, and the BBC. He writes a column for InvestmentNews, CNBC, and Investment Advisor among others.
Hugh and Maureen will talk about how he developed his unique leadership niche as well as what he does to scale companies and prepare them for a profitable exit. brbr Questions: 1. What was the most formative position you have held? br 2. What are the primary factors you consider when working with a client? br 3. How important is leadership in scaling a company? br 4. How do you define effective leadership? br 5. How did you build your leadership? br 6. What do you consider when taking a client? br 7. What causes you to turn down clients? br 8. What do you do that sets you apart from other leaders and growth consultants? br This is a generative and open conversation with a highly effective CEO, board leader and consultant. Hugh talks about how he developed personally and who influenced his success as well as how he selects leaders to drive the ventures he supports.
Sherry and Maureen will talk about how careers evolve. Most of the leaders I have coached or worked with, when they look back at their careers, indicate that they didn't imagine being where they are or that the short term decisions would turn out the way they did. br Sherry will discuss interviews she has conducted with a range of women and also ask Maureen to share more about her career progression. We invite you as our listeners to reflect on the these questions for yourself and chart your own history. brbr 1. What key career moves have you made and what prompted them? br 2. How did you get to your current role? Did that role even exist when you started college? br 3. How did early influences get you where you are now? br 4. How do you learn and what inspires you now? br 5. From a foundation of success - what is next for you? Are you focused on legacy? If so, what is that legacy? brbr As we share our stories, I invite listeners to think about the legacies they leave and how to make the greatest impact.
One of the significant challenges I see firms face is investing in strategic planning and yet they often don’t implement the strategy successfully. This unsuccessful implementation results in loss of investment in developing strategy, loss of strategic opportunity for strategy not implemented and loss of confidence in the leadership team who taught their new strategic direction then they don’t get it done. br In this show we cover a broad range of topics on leadership, defining strategy is certainly among the most important. It is the combination of creating a strong strategic plan and successfully implementing it that differentiates a company’s success. If either of these elements is missing, the strategy project is unsuccessful. Rattan differentiates himself in working with clients to define and ensure successful implementation of organization differentiating strategies. Today he will share what he does that allows his clients to thrive short and long term.
For over 25 years Patrick has successfully saved many companies from bankruptcy. He is passionate about American entrepreneurs - the companies $20 million nder, which are the backbone of America. br In this show, Patrick will talk about what he has learned from his own personal struggles and the work he does with entrepreneurs. brbr 1. Why does he do this work? br 2. What is a successful entrepreneurial CEO to him? br 3. What kind of people survive reorganization? br 4. Is it possible to fail more than once and recover? br 5. Can you teach people to avoid their own shortcomings or are we all programmed to fail in certain areas? br 6. What is the difference in unfair and unrealistic expectations? br Patrick is highly energetic. He followed an unconventional path to his current role. His personal stories make his message highly compelling.
Today's successful executives need to optimize their performance at individual and organizational within complex business environments. They need to innovate the way they lead at the same pace as they innovate their products, services, and processes to ensure they receive the value they expected for their investment in change. This session is based on the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook – winner of the 2012 International Book Award – Best Business Reference Book. br During this session we will: br • Introduce the innovative leadership model br • Discuss each of the five elements brbr This model will help leaders focused on improving their leadership skills as well as those participants who want to improve the leadership skills of others in their organization. br This session is accompanied with an online innovative leadership assessment at www.metcalf-associates.com
Ruth will talk about her work with TED and how she helps leaders build stories as the foundation for effective communication. br She will discuss the following: br 1. What is different about TED events from other formats that makes it so compelling? br 2. What makes a talk TED-like? br 3. What preparation is required to give a TEDx or TED-like talk - they are so short after all? (hah!) br 4. How did you get involved in TED? br 5. How has it influenced your business or speaker coaching methodology?
Dani has served as an Executive Director, coached boards and now teaches at The Ohio State University focusing on nonprofit leadership. During this discussion she will answer several questions that relate to being effective either as a nonprofit leader or board member. brbr 1. What is a nonprofit? (short answer) br 2. You and I wrote a nonprofit leadership book together – why did you invest your time to do this? br 3. What do you want leaders to understand about effective nonprofit? br 4. What is a typical nonprofit structure? br 5. What is the role of a nonprofit Board? br 6. What should you know if you’re invited to serve? Is that different than what you should know if you’re already serving? br 7. If you want to get involved in a nonprofit, either in Board leadership or as volunteer or staff, where should you to start?
Organizational Vibrancy is important topics. This body of work is making a great impact in pockets of organizations around the world and yet relatively unknown in others. I have personally found this model to have a great impact on several of my clients. It has helped them identify where they excel and what gets in the way of their teams bringing about the innovative solutions they say they want and need to have a thriving organization. br Questions to be discussed: br 1. What is vibrancy? br 2. How do agreements fit into this equation? br 3. As the CEO of an international organization – what question were you looking to answer when you starting considering assessments? br 4. Why the vibrancy assessment? br 5. What value did you get? br br 6. What were the leadership qualities required to successfully implement the changes recommended to create a highly vibrant organization?
Scott talks about the value of nonprofit board membership in leadership development, ideas for securing board roles and nonprofit board participation foundational information. br He answers the following questions: br 1. What does it mean to serve on a board? Give us an example of the range of activities involved? br 2. When you think about high-functioning boards what are one to two things that distinguish them? br 3. How do you select a board in which to participate? br 5. What are some must know topics for board participation? br 5. What are the benefits to the leader and the community when they chose to serve on a board?
Paul talks about his new book, The Science of Organizational Chance focused on large scale change and also to the concepts of agility and anti-fragile. These are foundational concepts for leaders looking to build organizations that are able to respond quickly to predicted and unpredicted change. brbr He will answer the following questions: br 1. Why did you write The Science of Organizational Change? br 2. What are the 3 biggest ideas from the book that readers should pay close attention to? br 3. You talk about evidence-based management in the book - what do you mean by that? br 4. Why is anti-fragility an important concept for understanding complex systems?
Cindy talks about her foundational view on different intelligences, spirituality, and the spiritual intelligence framework. She provides great insight into how multiple intelligences impact overall development and how they link to leadership. She will then talk about the transition from emotional intelligence to spiritual intelligence (SQ). brbr I selected Cindy as a guest because I respect her as a thought leader, find her interviews interesting and I like her SQ21 tool that brings spirituality and leadership together using a practical and quantifiable framework. brbr She discusses the following:
1.What are multiple intelligences and how do they develop? 2. What is the connection between EQ and SQ – how the SQ model leverages the 21 competencies 3. Explain more about SQ and the SQ21 assessment? 4. How does SQ relate to leadership effectiveness? (why should I care as a leader)? 5. How do you use the assessment to help leaders understand their strengths and how to develop?
Many of us have structured giving plans to maximize our donations based on causes we believe in. By listening to this show, you will have an understanding of what exceptional nonprofit leaders are doing (CEO and University Dean). Both of these leaders are providing highly innovative services to meet community needs and collaborating to ensure people and pets in Columbus, Ohio receive care.
- What characteristics are you most proud of as leaders?
- You both offer creative services that are best in class in the US and highly innovative - please share more about what you do and how you fund your services
- How are LifeCare Alliance and the College of Veterinary Medicine partnering to ensure seniors are able to care for their pets.
- Many of our listeners are corporate leaders – what would you like your corporate counterparts to know about nonprofit leadership? Some of these counterparts also serve on nonprofit boards – what do you wish board leaders were thinking about?
Brian will kick off the tool series talking about using liking and reciprocity as key elements in the larger field of persuasion. Brian shares his experience with multiple clients using the Cialdini method. He talks about reciprocity as a concept then provides rich examples to illustrate reciprocity and make it practical for leaders to apply. brbr Brian will answer the following questions: 1. In leadership why are relationships so important in today’s business environment? 2. Let’s talk more about liking and reciprocity Starting with liking, how can people get others to like them more? 3. How can a leader use reciprocity to be more effective? 4. Let’s talk about how a leader can engage reciprocity further. Can you share some examples? 5. When it comes to liking some leaders believe it’s not their job to be liked, just to produce results. Why would someone with that attitude want to engage liking?
Mike talks about his keys to success and about his current company, NexDefense. In an environment where cyber security is a hot topic, Mike’s company is positioned to help resolve one of their biggest risk elements. Mike will share his insights about being an executive and growing NexDefense. brbr I selected Mike as my guest today because he has been a role model for me for many years. He consistently demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence combined with a level of analytical rigor that makes him unique in my experience in growing and turning companies around.
- What is NexDefense and what needs does it fill/problems does it solve in the marketplace?
- What attracted you to this company?
- You have been CEO and/or President of multiple companies that you have led through major transformations – what would you want to share with our leaders about your most valuable lessons in this process?
- What is the culture and how does that contribute to success?
I selected Angelo because he has the rare distinction of being both CEO and CIO so he has a perspective on leadership from both roles. He is also a true thought leader in our community. He has been a university adjunct faculty and facilitates a large CIO forum and CIO Tomorrow conference. He is the “go to guy” for many leaders in our community and beyond. brbr Angelo talks about his keys to success. He shares his insights and growth path very candidly. He talks about his fears and motivations for growth in a manner executives rarely share. brbr 1. What differentiates you from the other successful CIOs? 2. What experiences did you have in life and how did you navigate them to position yourself for leadership success? 3. You were a highly successful CEO of a tech company then you moved back to being a CIO – why the shift when the company was posting record growth and profits? 4. What advice do you give young leaders as they manage their careers?
Christopher and Sheila Cooke share an overarching purpose — “one viable planet”. They are focused on the release of latent capacities that equip humanity to cope with complexity and forge a world that works for all life. Together they lead 5 Deep, a specialist training and advisory company that is focused on igniting the new era through Thought Leadership, Innovation and Change.
5 Deep offers a principle-based approach that is outlined scientifically and validated through repeatable experience, with a focus on change management through leadership development, process optimization, and cultural facilitation, including the provision of supporting training and organizational development.
- Why does the topic matter? Leadership and business effects everything. Our history, our future our lives.
- What do we do? Seek out underutilized capacities in population today and grow those that can join on the mission
- How do we do it? Create life conditions for people to thrive.
James Brenza interviews Maureen Metcalf and Dan Mushalko about the interplay between leadership and transformation. Dan will share his experience in leading the transformation of a public radio station. They will talk about:
- How do you connect transformation and leadership to create successful results?
- Qualities required to successfully implement transformation
- How does leadership drive transformation success?
- How do you develop leaders to meet transformation objectives?
Maureen shares the concepts and Dan illustrates them with his experience.
Many organizations are facing complex large scale change initiatives. We have talked about innovation, agile organizations, the future of the organization and future trends. Kathleen shares her experience leading large projects and give practical insight. She will answer the question – what do I need to know before I start a project that will increase my likelihood of success during the project and sustaining the progress we made after implementation.
Here are the main conversation topics: 1) What are the top 5 drivers of successful implantation 2) What causes failure - explain the top 5 barriers to success 3) What do you wish clients knew and understood at the outset? 4) If you could hand out a magic pill that made sure they understood two key points – what would those be? 5) What needs to happen to support value realization after project completion? 6) If you were to share 1 success and 1 failure – what would you want others to learn from your successes and struggles?
The gap is widening between what needs to be done to enable 9 billion people to thrive on Earth by 2050, and the current business as usual outcomes we are generating. Closing this gap will make the difference between a thriving human civilisation on a thriving planet by the end of this century and the end of human civilisation as we know it. Business, governments and civil society all have a key role to play in closing this thrival/survival gap.
During this conversation Robin discusses 1. The 6 capitals equation - this is the new normal for leading thinkers for governance. 2. How we are going to make this happen? 3. What does regenerative and inclusive look like to different people at different stages of development in different cultures? 4. How fast we are going to make this happen, and will that be in time? 5. What type of leadership is required to make it happen?
Robin is a fast paced speaker whose show provides insight and thought provoking call to action!
During this session we discuss key elements of successful initiatives. James talks about the key goals being: 1. increase revenue 2. decrease direct cost 3. decrease indirect cost
We also talk about the leadership activities required to deliver these results.
James draws from his extensive work experience to make this discussion very practical for executives shaping initiatives and leaders implementing them.
During this episode we will discuss the specifics of the Strategist leadership competency model first discussed in the Leadership 2050 show. This model has seven specific competencies Mike and Susan will discuss.
- Professional humility
- Unwavering commitment to right action
- 360 degree thinker
- Intellectually versatile
- Highly authentic and reflective
- Able to inspire followership
- Innately collaborative
We will be presenting this information at the International Leadership Association conference in Barcelona on October 16, 2015 as part of the overall Leadership 2050 book panel.
Have you ever wondered what differentiates successful domestic leaders from global leaders? What can you do to develop global leadership skills?
During this program, Steve Terrell, co-author of the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Global Leaders will share his expertise in designing and delivering programs that help leaders succeed globally.
- What differentiates exceptional global leaders?
- How do you develop this mindset and skills?
- How can leaders prepare before taking global assignments?
Earth’s 7.3 billion citizens are currently consuming 1.6 planet’s worth of resources, thereby guaranteeing runaway global warming, climate change and suffering for billions in the next few decades. Such a wicked problem needs a whole new kind of leadership, capable of thinking and acting on a planetary scale while maintaining local viability.
Now Imagine ...
a world powered by renewable energy, where all human beings thrive in resilient habitats; where businesses operate in a circular economy that regenerates natural capital, without a particle of waste, and are led by enlightened leaders whose goal is to maximize the ThriveAbility of all their stakeholders.
Robin and his organization have framed six desiderata by which we can measure the endpoint of the ThriveAbility Journey toward a regenerative, inclusive economy.
Six desiderate will be on www.metcalf-associates.com/blog
Beena will talk about Leadership Maturity, what it means, and why it is important for leaders and managers to understand the different stages of maturity. 'Vertical Development’ or leadership maturity is becoming a hot topic. If you listened to our first show – Leadership 2050 – vertical development was a key theme underlying the concept of Strategist Leadership development. She talks about leadership development programs and gives practical guidelines for leaders looking to develop vertically. Listen to the conversation centered around these questions: 1.Many leaders have worked very effectively in the past so they aren’t really sure if vertical development is important for their long term success. Can you explain this framework a bit more? 2. What is the value in understanding and using the frameworks that underlie this work? 3. What can I do to develop vertically? Beena shares the framework and her stories to make this rich and valuable framework practical.
Today Brian and Alexis will talk about their experience with creating and implementing Holacracy in some of the most progressive organizations like Zappos. During this show we talk about the organization of the future and how Holacracy fills a major role in building thriving organizations of the future. Holacracy is one of the best organizational frameworks I have seen to create agile/nimble operations. Topics will include:
1) What is Holacracy? 2) Why Holacracy? 3) Why now? 4) Who have you worked with? I have read about companies like Zappos – can you share more about who choses Holacracy? 5) What are the pre-conditions to consider this approach? 6) Can you tell us more about the Zappos implementation?
Innovation is much more than a buzz word - it is a critical capability for organizations and leaders to succeed in our dynamic environment!
Julie is an expert in all facets of innovation. She has worked as an executive and a consultant to deliver great success. During this interview Julie will share her views on what drives successful innovation.
- Many people are intimidated by innovation. Can you debunk some of the fear that only “special” people can/should be involved in innovation?
- Share a bit about the process of innovation
- What are the biggest enablers and pitfalls to success?
- How might a leader prepare before launching a big innovation project? What are the absolute must do’s?
Julie's engaging stories and deep experience make her interview a must listen for leaders interested in building their capacity!
Abrasive Technology (AT) that has made the leap from traditional organization to an “agile”/nimble organization. This responsiveness pervades the people, the culture, and the processes like hiring and employee evaluation. Responsiveness is something that is “crafted”. Daryl and Mike Morrow-Fox will discuss characteristics of the organization of the future and discuss the evolution of Abrasive Technologies. They will answer the following:
- What does the organization of the future look like?
- What specific in AT that represent an organizational evolution?
- Tell us about the transformation process
This will be an interactive discussion exploring why AT selected many of the approaches they did and Daryl's underlying beliefs that fueled the transformation.
Emotional Intelligence is a key differentiator in organizational life - it is a major accelerator for smart people who want to improve their impact and for organizations to improve their success.
Jim discusses his experience at CEO of Varment Guard and how building that business connected him to Emotional Intelligence. He will discuss:
- His personal story and insights on how emotional intelligence (EI) impacted his business success
- What is Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- As a leader what is the value you get from building EI?
- How would you go about building EI?
- How do you work with leaders?
Business Analytics is a hot topic for many organizations. Analytics programs can be a significant differentiator for organizational success when implemented successfully When done poorly they waste money, time and good will.
James will talk about: 1. Which is more important - technology or leadership? 2. How much does leadership capability impact outcomes? 3. What are leadership maturity levels and how do they impact implementation success? 4. How do you use your understanding of leadership maturity to increase your program success and ROI? 5. What are the most important leadership traits to successfully implement analytics programs and why? 6. What are some warning signs you look for when leading an implementation? 7. What resources do you recommend to support implementation success?
Jim Ritchie-Dunham and team developed a quantitative framework based on extensive data collected across 93 countries to identify the factors that make an organization vibrant. Our guests talks about how this framework of Ecosynomics drives organizational abundance by improving an organization's ability to innovate out of key problems and create strategic advantage. The agreements (often unconscious) serve as the differentiator between organizations that consistently transcend the constraints of our daily organizational lives and those who don't. By creating conscious agreements that enable participants to identify creative solutions, they can determine how to implement innovation and execute for results. Organizations that can't do these three tasks will be outpaced by those who can. We will discuss: 1. What is vibrancy and ecosynomics? 2. How has the framework been used in the World Green Building Council? 3. What early results are you seeing? 3. How can you learn more?
Authentic persuasion is a critical skill for leaders moving their organizations into the future. They need to see a vision and enroll the organization in moving toward that vision.
We would like you to leave today with a clear understanding of why applying persuasion is so important for your professional success and personal happiness and a few ideas about how you might improve your skills.
Discuss will include: 1. What exactly is persuasion? 2. How does persuasion differ from manipulation? 3. What are the principles of persuasion you teach? 4. Is there one principle that stands out as more effective than others? 5. Can you give me an example of how you used something you teach at work that lead to a big success? 6. Please provide an example of the business value your process has provided.
Gary and Jodi talk about their experience driving successful company growth and exit across multiple software companies. Gary is very high energy and enthusiastic and shares his personal story. He answers the following questions:
- Who are you in addition to being a CEO?
- How did you grew Astute Solutions and orchestrated an exit?
- What is a growth cube and how does it inform how you work as a CEO?
- What do you believe are top qualities of successful senior executives
- How do you prepare a company to be ready to attract investors?
- What accomplishment are you most proud of personally? Professionally?
- What fundamentals have you put in place in your organizations - to successfully transform your organizations to higher valuation and growth?
- How do you create raving customers and associates? How does this drive business value?
- What sets you apart from other leaders? What can our listeners learn from you that they could emulate?
Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS LLC will talk about his recent book: Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results.
Mike will discuss • Why he decided to write this book • What he hopes readers take away from it • The questions the book answers that successful people need to know • His Top 3 points he wants readers to take away that will encourage them to learn more • What guidance he would give leaders based on his experience • His legacy as a leader • How his organization works • How he thinks about training and development
Mike shares his work in a very practical and easy to apply manner. He shares wisdom and experience that leaders at all levels can use immediately to become more effective.
This is our inaugural show we will be talking to Susan Cannon and Mike Morrow-Fox. Our topic is Leadership 2050. We will discuss trends and a leadership model from a chapter we co-authored in the upcoming International Leadership Association Book Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging Trends (Emerald Group Publishing, 2015).
The qualities of effective leadership can be paradoxical—requiring effective leaders to be passionate and unbiased, detailed and strategic, hard driving and sustainable, fact-focused and intuitive, self-confident and selfless—often at the same time. Such complexity is rarely found in leaders even under optimal conditions. As we move toward 2050, new contexts and conditions are poised to emerge that will create challenges.