WiseTalk: Recent Episodes
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Every month, Mariposa Leadership, Inc. Founder/CEO, Susan Bethanis, speaks to thought leaders in leadership, tech, org culture, design thinking, and human resources. Join us for inspiring conversation and practical insights. For more information, visit: www.mariposaleadership.com/wisetalk
Sue Bethanis hosts leading efficiency expert Nick Sonnenberg. Nick is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.
He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. This is the culmination of Nick’s unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation, which stems in part from the eight years he spent working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. The CPR (Communication, Planning, and Resources) Framework consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 10.
Sue and Nick discuss how to:
- reduce stress and burnout by creating a more stable work environment
- improve company culture by empowering your team to spend their time on work that matters
- increase employee happiness, satisfaction, trust, and retention by making work easier
- stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques
Sue Bethanis hosts Justin Zorn and Leith Marz, co-founders of Astrea Strategies and co-authors of the new book, GOLDEN: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. Drawing on lessons from neuroscience, business, spirituality, politics, and the arts, Justin and Leigh explore why auditory, informational, and internal silence is essential for physical health, mental clarity, ecological sustainability, and vibrant community.
Sue, Justin, and Leigh discuss:
- The multiple aspects of silence and its importance to us individually and collectively.
- Specific strategies to reclaim and find silence in every day.
- How teams can find more silence together to reduce burnout and enhance creative problem-solving.
Sue Bethanis hosts Sarah Noll Wilson, executive coach, leadership development consultant, and bestselling author of Don’t Feed the Elephants!: Overcoming the Art of Avoidance to Build Powerful Partnerships. Sarah is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and hosts the podcast “Conversations on Conversations”, is certified in Co-Active Coaching, Conversational Intelligence, and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities.
Sarah works with leaders to develop more powerful partnerships and helps teams spot patterns that are keeping them from higher performance. An in-demand keynote speaker, she leads workshops and team retreats for leaders and HR professionals. Previously, Sarah worked in management and as the talent development leader for an insurance company, giving her firsthand insight into the challenges of corporate leadership. In addition to her work with organizations, Sarah is a passionate advocate for mental health. She holds several coaching certifications and has a master’s in leadership development from Drake University.
Sue and Sarah discuss:
- How effective leaders deal with relentless change and uncertainty.
- How to spot the important conversations being avoided (the “elephants”) by your team and YOU.
- Specific tips for wading into these tough topics, e.g. three different ways to use curiosity.
Sue Bethanis hosts DDS Dobson-Smith, CEO and Founder of the executive coaching consultancy, Soul Trained, and a registered neuro-linguistic psychotherapist. DDS has spent over 25 years creating cultures in which people can show up, be themselves, and experience the fundamental joys and benefits of belonging. They are certified as an executive coach by the Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring. Before founding Soul Trained, DDS held a range of senior, executive, and C-Suite roles across a host of sectors and companies. They are the author of the new book, You Can Be Yourself Here: Your Pocket Guide to Creating Inclusive Workplaces by Using the Psychology of Belonging.
Sue and DDS discuss:
- Ideas for leaders to start/continue making progress on diversity and inclusion.
- The psychology of belonging and its impact on workplace performance.
- The challenges and specific ideas for creating inclusion and belonging on global, Hybrid teams.
In this episode of WiseTalk, CEO and Executive Leadership Coach Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Britt Andreatta, an internationally recognized thought leader who uses her unique background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and education, to create brain-science based solutions for today’s workplace challenges. Britt is the former CLO for Lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) and she has over 10 million views worldwide of her online courses. She regularly consults with corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations on leadership development and learning strategy. Britt is the author of several brain science-based books including Wired to Grow (about how the brain learns), Wired to Resist(on how we move through change), and Wired to Connect (how to create great teams through inclusion and belonging). She was recently named a Top 20 Learning Influencer for 2021.
Sue and Britt discuss :
- What we’re observing as Hybrid becomes reality.
- Groundbreaking new research on the science of connection and trust and what to do with it.
- Three practical strategies as you up-level your skills in creating a culture of great teams.
Sue Bethanis hosts Susan MacKenty Brady, co-author of the just-released book Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership. Susan is is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University and the Chief Executive Officer of The Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. As a relationship expert, leadership well-being coach, author, and speaker, Susan educates leaders and executives globally on fostering self-awareness for optimal leadership. She advises executive teams on how to work together effectively and create inclusion and gender parity in organizations. A highly sought authority on emotionally intelligent leadership, Susan has been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America and has keynoted or consulted at over 500 organizations worldwide.
Sue and Susan discuss these “7 Impactful Practices”:
- Investing in Your Best Self
- Embracing Authenticity
- Cultivating Courage
- Fostering Resilience
- Inspiring a Bold Vision
- Creating a Healthy Team Environment
- Committing to the Work of an Inclusive Leader
Sue Bethanis hosts connection enthusiast and author, Ryan Jenkins. Ryan is the co-founder of LessLonely.com, the world’s first resource fully dedicated to reducing worker isolation and strengthening team connections. His new book with Steven Van Cohen is Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In.
Ryan and Steven are experts on loneliness who help organizations create engaged, inclusive, high-performing teams. In this episode, Sue and Ryan discuss how remote or hybrid teams can implement the four-step framework:
- Look at loneliness – identify it in self and others.
- Invest in connection – improve the strength of work relationships.
- Narrow the focus – illuminate what’s most important at work.
- Kindle the momentum – inflame what’s working to sustain progress.
Sue Bethanis hosts culture critic and author, Anne Helen Petersen. A former senior culture writer for BuzzFeed News, Anne now writes about the future of work, celebrity, burnout, and more at her newsletter, Culture Study, as a full-time venture on Substack. She is the author of four books, most recently Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home(co-written with Charlie Warzel) and Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Her previous books, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud and Scandals of Classic Hollywood, were featured in NPR, Elle, and The Atlantic. She received her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas and lives in Lummi Island, Washington.
Sue and Anne discuss these four key aspects of tapping into the promise of remote work:
- Flexibility – the future of work has to be guided by a new form of flexibility in which the work, not the workers themselves, becomes more malleable.
- Culture – a company culture can be shifted, but it has to start with a dramatic rethinking of what management actually looks like, in and outside of the traditional office.
- Technologies of the Office – so much of office culture flows from our technology, tools, and design. Here we can see the most profound changes the quickest.
- Community – if work were not the primary organizing factor of our lives, we could restructure our relationships with our community outside of work.
In this episode of WiseTalk, CEO and Executive Leadership Coach Sue Bethanis hosts Liz Wiseman, a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. Liz is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact. She’s the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent clients include Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other businesses and leadership journals. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University.
Sue Bethanis hosts Amelia Dunlop, Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital and leader of the US Customer Strategy and Applied Design practice for Deloitte Consulting LLP. Amelia helps companies develop winning strategies that combine innovation, creativity, and digital strategy. She received Consulting Magazine’s 2020 Top Women in Technology Award for Excellence in Innovation.
Amelia leads a team of problem solvers who use human-centered design and customer insights strategy to help businesses shift their focus from the customer experience to the human experience. As marketers, she says we have an opportunity to create more human experiences—earning long-term loyalty and trust in the process. Amelia loves helping clients tackle their toughest problems and build organizational momentum to turn the future they imagine into a reality.
Author of the new book Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work, Amelia writes and speaks regularly about human experience, creativity, and customer strategy.
Sue and Amelia discuss:
- Why love and worth at work? (There’s data…)
- How Hybrid is making this harder? Or is it?
- The “three paths” and practical tips from each.
Sue Bethanis hosts authors Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Dr. Lauren Wadsworth, two clinical psychologists at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, specializing in furthering diversity and inclusivity. Stephanie and Lauren have authored a highly practical book, Did That Just Happen?! Beyond “Diversity”―Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations. In it, they offer leaders practical ways to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity. We are curious to hear their take on how Hybrid and Remote workforces are faring on the inclusivity front and what leaders can do to ensure it becomes or remains a priority.
For over 25 years, Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker has dedicated her work towards college student mental health. She is the founding director of McLean Hospital’s College Mental Health Program, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and the McLean Hospital-Harvard Medical School’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.
Dr. Lauren Wadsworth serves as a senior advisor on the Anti-Racist, Justice, and Health Equity team at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She is the founder of the Genesee Valley Institute of Psychology (GVIP), a clinic providing treatment for OCD, trauma, DBT, and a newly launched Racial Trauma and Healing center.
Sue, Stephanie, and Lauren talk about:
- The current challenges and opportunities that a Hybrid workplace creates for inclusive behaviors.
- Specific leadership behaviors that make a big difference, like "Empowering listening."
- What to do when you mess up.
Sue Bethanis hosts talent strategist and company culture expert, Steve Cadigan. Steve has been at the forefront of global talent strategy and company culture for the past 30 years. Most famous for scaling Linkedin from 400 to 4000 in 3.5 years, Steve also led the development of LI’s legendary company culture. Today, as Founder of Cadigan Talent Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based talent strategies advisory firm, Steve helps organizations worldwide develop winning talent solutions. With more than 25 years of leadership and executive experience in global Human Resources, Steve has practiced HR in the US, Canada, and Asia-Pacific within a variety of industries. Through leading worldwide HR efforts for more than 60 M&A transactions at three global organizations since 1998, Steve has cultivated a deep understanding of business cycles, patterns, high growth, and the key elements required to forge an organization’s sustainability. Over the course of his career, the teams, cultures, and organizations he has led and helped build have been recognized as exceptional, “world-class” performers by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine.
Sue and Steve discuss his new book, Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of Covid-19 to Create a Better Model of Working, and:
- What rolling out Hybrid means for Talent, Teams, and Skills Development.
- Why it’s “Time to be More Human,” and how to do it.
- The why and how of “Iteration and Experimentation” to evolve your organization into a better model of working.
Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson, Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities to find ways to mitigate those biases. She is the author of Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams, an award-winning and groundbreaking guide, outlining the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow—one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams which value employees’ needs to belong while being themselves.
Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN.
Sue and Stefanie discuss:
- how to support the seemingly contradictory needs of people to both standout and to fit in.
- the Inclusify Leadership Matrix – identify ways you can evolve your style to become an Inclusifyer.
- five specific habits for advancing inclusion in the remote/hybrid environment.
Sue Bethanis hosts Carole Robin, Ph.D., leadership expert, former award-winning Stanford Business School professor, and co-author of Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues. Carole is the Co-Founder and Head of Programs of Leaders in Tech, a nonprofit which brings two decades of lessons to Silicon Valley startups. She was the Dorothy J. King Lecturer in Leadership at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where she helped to further develop the Interpersonal Dynamics Course (a.k.a. the Touchy-Feely class) including co-developing the Executive version. She also became the Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program. She was known as the "Queen of Touchy Feely" and received the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Silver Apple award for contributions to alumni programming.
Sue and Carole discuss:
- Why exceptional relationships are critical to effectively lead through these transitional and uncertain times.
- Ways to create connections and continue to build relationships virtually.
- Specific behavior tips to help build trust, share feedback, and handle conflict virtually.
Sue Bethanis hosts Kevin Oakes, author of Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company. Kevin is the CEO and Co-Founder of i4cp, the leading authority on next practices in human capital. He is a frequent author and international keynote speaker on next practices in human capital and works with business and HR executives on people practices that drive high performance. He is considered one of the foremost experts on organizational culture.
In Culture Renovation®, Kevin provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world’s top companies. You’ll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including:
- Three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see
- Practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies
- The traits of a healthy corporate culture
- Proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success
Sue Bethanis hosts Larry Robertson, author of the new book "Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times." Larry is a recognized expert in creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership, and a highly sought-after advisor, speaker, and facilitator in public, private, and academic forums. He was recently awarded and named a Fulbright Scholar.
Larry is the founder of Lighthouse Consulting, a strategic advisory firm focused on the practical realities of adaptability, change management, and making breakthrough ideas real. He writes recurring columns for Inc. Magazine and The Creativity Post, is a regular contributor to Fast Company, Thrive Global, CEOWorld Magazine, Productive Flourishing, and SmartBrief, and has been featured on or in MSNBC, the Chicago Tribune, AdAge, Business Insider, The Weekly Roundup, and numerous podcasts.
Larry and Sue discuss:
- What Rebel Leadership means, why it’s vital to your company culture, and its direct effect on your bottom line.
- How moving culture from a concept to a priority creates a huge competitive advantage.
- Specific ways to plan for culture as you return to the office (in whatever form that is.)
- Why a long-term view is mostly about what you do with this moment and dealing with uncertainty will dictate how your company does.
Sue Bethanis hosts David Dye, co-author of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. As a former executive and elected official, David has over two decades of experience leading teams and building organizations. With his wife and co-author, Karin Hurt, they founded Let’s Grow Leaders, a training firm focused on human-centered leadership development for those determined to get breakthrough results without losing their humanity.
Since 2013, Karin and David have helped grow over 10,000 leaders in 14 countries with their live leadership development programs, keynotes, blogs, videos, and books. They also provide clean water to the people of Cambodia through their Winning Wells philanthropic initiative. David also hosts the popular podcast, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul.
David and Sue discuss:
- Why a Courageous Culture is such a huge competitive advantage in an era of unprecedented change
- How to identify the courage crushers you need to remove
- Tools, best practices, and approaches you can use to help your leaders build a Courageous Culture
- Ways to celebrate and reinforce your momentum for long-term success
Sue Bethanis hosts Diane Kaufman, author of HR Bullcrap! Revolutionizing Your Workplace Culture. Diane is the President and CEO of HR BullCrap! LLC and is a workplace game-changer, providing HR expertise that can reform and revolutionize workplace cultures, leadership, talent, and strategy.
Diane is a former Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for Ergotron, headquartered in the United States with 4 subsidiaries, China operations, and representation in 67 countries. She has vast expertise in multiple functions and industries in the global HR and business world, including championing cultures of pure productivity that get results with a no-nonsense approach.
In addition, Diane is a mentor to young female athletes, combining personal growth and development with building strong, healthy relationships. Diane is a former NCAA Division I athlete, which provides her the “know-how” to share her knowledge and experiences.
Diane and Sue discuss how to revolutionize workplace culture, including:
- How to build a trustworthy culture in a two-step process
- How to gain employee accountability
- How to secure and retain top talent in a Covid-era workplace
- How to get rid of the HR non-sense in HR
Sue Bethanis hosts Bob Zukis, the CEO and Founder of Digital Directors Network the world’s only organization working to advance the practice and profession of digital and cybersecurity risk oversight in the corporate boardroom. He is an Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization at The USC Marshall School of Business where he teaches corporate governance, strategic management, and global business issues.
Bob is a Conference Board ESG Center Fellow and a retired PwC Advisory Partner where he worked and lived on four continents across twenty countries on the front lines of globalization. He is the author of the book Social Inc. and co-author of THE GREAT REBOOT: Succeeding in a World of Catastrophic Risk and Opportunity, and several book chapters on digital and cybersecurity risk oversight and writes regularly in Forbes.
Bob and Sue discuss:
- How systemic risk is at the heart of the global failures
- Building a risk culture in your organization
- COVID’s Forces of Systemic Change
- How betters systems thinking can help us reboot the world
- How to use STEEPLED, a useful, strategic management method for analyzing external forces of change
Sue hosts Tim Spiker the founder of The Aperio and the Who Not What Principle, a profound and research-based truth that has powered 15 years of leadership success. Tim’s book, The Only Leaders Worth Following, explores Who Not What in-depth, inviting readers into a journey that can truly change the way they lead—from the inside out.
Tim and his organization help people become, be, and stay leaders who are actually worth following. His work includes delivering keynote talks, creating unique and customized learning experiences, and guiding long-term development journeys. Tim has worked with leadership teams in North America, Australia, and Asia. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and four children.
Tim and Sue discuss:
- The Who* Not What Principle
- How to determine which leaders are worth following
- What companies fail to do in growing leaders among their employees
- Establishing and maintaining an organizational culture of leadership development
- Leading effectively in the midst of significant uncertainty
Sue hosts Sonia Layne-Gartside, a dynamic and results-oriented global consultant, educator, and facilitator in Leadership Development and Change Management. She is the author of Workplace Anxiety: How to Refuel and Re-Engage. Sonia helps professionals to become stronger, more effective leaders and solve their biggest people-related pains, dysfunctions, and challenges. She has been developing and implementing customized training and executive education programs for the past 20 years. As a coach, Sonia helps her clients leverage their strengths to improve performance.
Sonia holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Management Studies and a Master’s in Education from the University of the West Indies. She holds advanced certification in change management from Prosci®, and is also certified as a Master Trainer, Online Instructor, Case Writer, and Instructional Designer. She currently works with C-Suite and senior leaders in Fortune 1000 companies to design leadership programs for managers and high-potentials, and to get their employees to embrace needed changes by designing and implementing change management strategies and plans.
Sonia and Sue discuss:
- How to overcome self-doubt at work
- How to thrive in a distributed workplace
- How to harness organizational chaos
- How to lead in an uncertain world
Sue Bethanis hosts Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, co-authors of Game Changer: How To Be 10x In The Talent Economy and cofounders of 10x Management, the world’s first tech talent agency that has rocketed to the forefront of the tech industry, carving out its place as a trusted and exclusive resource for companies seeking the best and most coveted freelance tech experts. 10x matches top contract technology experts, designers, and brand innovators with companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500. Customers include American Express, HSBC, Google, Verizon, Yelp, and more.
Michael, Rishon, and Sue discuss:
- How the crisis has changed the talent economy
- How to navigate the stress of hiring in uncertain times
- How to multiply the performance of your employees
- How to adapt to the changing relationship between managers and talent
- How the role of the manager is changing
Sue hosts Yvonne Wassenaar, a seasoned C-level executive, having led numerous company transformations focused on unleashing new areas of growth.
Yvonne is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She is one of the very few female CEOs in enterprise tech and has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture. She is currently a board member of Forrester (FORR) and Harvey Mudd College. Amidst growing concerns with how modern technology could be used, Yvonne is championing it to drive a safer, more efficient, and innovative planet.
Sue and Yvonne discuss:
- How virtual connections can enhance our lives
- How to shift business-as-usual to remote work
- How to create a resilient workforce
- How the pandemic is separating out the future winners from losers
- How scenario planning can help get a clearer glimpse of what different potential futures might mean to your business strategy and workforce
Sue Bethanis hosts Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of the leadership book, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You.
Frances X. Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School. She recently served as Uber’s first Senior Vice President of Leadership and Strategy to help the company navigate its very public crisis in leadership and culture. Frances regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for improved performance. Her TED Talk on the topic of building trust has logged over four million views.
Anne Morriss is a highly sought-after leadership coach and the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator that works to help more and varied leaders thrive. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to Fortune 50 executives to public-sector leaders building national competitiveness. Anne has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises, serving most recently as CEO and founder of GenePeeks, which addressed the urgent need for better personal health information.
They discuss:
- How leaders can maximize trust and minimize stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
- How to unleash the full potential of leaders to increase safety and inclusion in the workplace
- How to bring out the best in people who are different than you
- Practical tools based on their work in companies such as Uber and Walmart
Sue Bethanis hosts Alyssa Westring, Ph.D., an associate professor of management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University and an award-winning educator and an inaugural Presidential Fellow at DePaul. As the Director of Research for Total Leadership, Alyssa brings her expertise to evaluating the impact of Total Leadership on clients and program participants. Findings from this research are used both for continuous program improvement and for disseminating the authors’ discoveries and their implications for both scholars and practitioners.
Alyssa is the co-author of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2020) and a scholar of diversity and inclusion, with a focus on women’s careers in STEM fields. Her work on women in medicine has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is a founding member of the Research Partnership for Women in Science Careers, and my scholarly writing can be found in numerous academic journals and regularly speaks to Fortune 500 companies about creating organizational cultures that facilitate work-life integration, diversity, and inclusion. In her TEDx talk, The Secret Life of a Work-Life Insider, she shares how her research questions and personal journey into motherhood have shaped one another.
Sue and Alyssa discuss:
- How to best navigate WFH as a parent — how do we really do this juggling act in the New Normal?
- How to engage with your kids in meaningful ways, generally, and during Covid-19
- How to get community support virtually
- How to best deal with your own stress levels so you can be a more patient parent
Sue Bethanis hosts Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D., an award-winning author, veteran, and pathfinder. She is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, jointly appointed in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department. She speaks, teaches, and publishes widely about resilience, decision-making under stress, civil-military relations, military effectiveness and innovation, and international security.
Liz served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Asia, Europe, and on Balkans deployments, leaving service as a captain and created Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, which she’s taught to thousands in high-stress environments. Her book about the neurobiology of resilience, Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma, is based on her teaching in these high-stress environments. MMFT research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other media outlets. She has given several MMFT-related plenary keynotes at major conferences, including the Departments of Defense/Veterans’ Affairs National Suicide Prevention Conference and the International Trauma Conference. She has also presented MMFT research during Congressional testimony and at the White House.
Liz and Sue discuss:
- How to find resilience and well-being in times of coronavirus
- The relationship between stress and trauma
- How to train survival brain agency
Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, a world-renowned Ayurvedic physician and educator from India, and the director of the Ayurvedic Healing and Integrative Wellness Clinic in Santa Cruz, California. He holds a B.A. in Ayurvedic medicine and completed a three-year residency as an M.D. (doctorate in Ayurvedic internal medicine) with a gold medal at the prestigious Pune University.
He is the author of several books including The Hot Belly Diet: A 30-Day Ayurvedic Plan to Reset Your Metabolism, Lose Weight, and Restore Your Body's Natural Balance to Heal Itself, the co-author of The Art and Science of Vedic Counseling with David Frawley, and his most recent book, Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life: How to Harness the Power of Clock Genes to Lose Weight, Optimize Your Workout, and Finally Get a Good Night's Sleep. Suhas is an advisor and consultant at the Chopra Center, a faculty member at several Ayurvedic institutions, and a sought-after motivational speaker, researcher, and an acclaimed educator in the field of integrative medicine.
Suhas and Sue discuss:
- How to stay healthy during COVID-19
- How your body tells time
- How your schedule could be killing you
- Why sleep is considered to be a miracle drug
- Three simple steps to transform your life
Sue hosts David A. Carbonell, PhD, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety in all its forms. He is author of several books including, Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and his most recent, Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: 10 Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick. He is “coach” of the popular self-help site www.anxietycoach.com, and has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 9,000 professional psychotherapists in the U.S. and abroad.
He is a long-standing member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and a frequent presenter at their annual conferences. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from DePaul University in 1985 and has maintained a practice devoted to the treatment of anxiety disorders since 1990. He lives in Chicago, IL, with his wife and a pair of rescue dogs. In his spare time, he is a founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists who perform at clubs, theaters, and mental health conferences throughout the Chicago area.
David and Sue discuss:
- How anxiety tricks you into changing your everyday behaviors
- Why, despite your best efforts, your anxiety keeps getting worse
- How to follow his three steps for coronavirus anxiety
- What to do differently to allow you to worry less
Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler, a leading expert on conflict and organizational psychology. Jennifer and Sue will discuss how we can limit conflict to be able to focus more on connecting with our colleagues and families.
Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, and author of Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life selected as Financial Times “Book of the Month.” In the corporate arena, Jennifer counsels CEOs and their teams on how to achieve optimal organizational health and growth, specializing in innovative technology, healthcare, financial, and professional services companies. She has served clients including CSC, IBM, Intel, Athena health, Novartis, Oscar Health Insurance, Oxeon, Roche, Barclays, GE Capital, Moody’s, Cornerstone Research, Lexis Nexis, Navigant, and KPMG. She also coaches global business and government leaders in the Executive Education Program at Columbia Business School. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, she received her B.A. with honors from Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
Jennifer and Sue discuss:
- The New Normal: How do we set both physical and psychological boundaries in our WFH (work from home) in order to get stuff done, limit confrontation, and stay calm
- How do we deal with conflict when it does come up in both home and work
- How do we harness difficult emotions
- How do we cope with social isolation
Sue Bethanis kicks off 2020 with Dr. Daphne Scott. Daphne brings two decades of real world coaching and corporate development experience to her work with organizations, teams and individuals. She combines strong leadership abilities with highly-trained facilitation skills to bring individuals and teams into greater relationship, creativity, and ultimately, success.
Daphne is the Founder of DS Leadership Life and the Chief Culture Officer for Confluent Health. She is an expert at waking up leaders to a mindful way of leading, and given her improv comedy training, she brings a unique sense of humor to her work helping merged companies integrate cultures. Daphne holds a Master’s of Applied Positive Psychology and is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. She hosts The Super Fantastic Leadership Show podcast and the series Leadership in the Driver’s Seat on her YouTube channel. Her latest book is called Waking Up A Leader: The Five Relationships of Success.
Daphne and Sue discuss:
- How to mindfully assess these five relationships to see whether they’re helping you thrive or holding you back
- How to be equipped with new transactional skills that will not only improve your leadership and time management capabilities, but help you address the real-world challenges
- How to be prepared to lead with far less stress than before and a newfound sense of well-being
Sue Bethanis hosts Samir Arora, Founder & Group CEO of Sage Digital. At Sage, Samir is building a platform for experts, publishers and businesses: Sage Plus for Experts currently is an invite-only platform for experts, talent and celebrities and their teams.
Samir has frequently been featured and quoted over the years, including on the cover of MacWeek, MacWorld, AdWeek, Folio, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal and several times in the New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, The Times, Bloomberg TV, Fox, CNBC, and CNN.
Samir and Sue discuss:
- How AI helps businesses understand their audiences
- How to use AI to verify legitimate sources
- How AI helps businesses build a direct to consumer brand
Sue Bethanis hosts Jeff Mounzer, VP of Product Management at Qventus, an AI-based software platform that helps hospital teams make better operational decisions in real-time, with positive impacts to financial performance and patient experience. Qventus addresses operational challenges across the hospital including emergency departments, perioperative areas, patient safety, inpatient and outpatient. Located in Silicon Valley, Qventus is honored to be working with leading public, academic and community hospitals. The company was recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies in the Healthcare space for 2018. And, received the 2016 Fierce Innovations Awards in Healthcare, winning for Best Financial/Operations Solutions and Best New Product. The company was also recognized by Healthcare Informatics as a 2017 Innovator Award winner, receiving the award for leading ‘Cost Savings’ technology.
Jeff and Sue discuss:
- How AI will dictate the future of healthcare
- How healthcare systems are doing more with less
- How AI solutions empower teams to excel in real-time
- How to create situational awareness to optimize resource allocation
Sue Bethanis hosts Niraj Dawar, Professor Emeritus from the marketing group at the Ivey Business School in Canada. Niraj's research focuses on brand equity and brand management issues. He is author of the book TILT: Shifting your Strategy from Products to Customers and his published papers on brand extensions, consumers use of brand, and other signals as well as international consumer behavior have appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Research, the Journal of International Business Studies, and other outlets.
Niraj teaches PhD, MBA, and undergraduate courses in marketing management and brand management, as well as in Executive Education programs. Prior to joining the Ivey Business School, he was Associate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, France.
Niraj and Sue discuss:
- How does marketing change in the “Age of Alexa”?
- How AI platforms create value for consumers
- Why AI data privacy will continue to face scrutiny
Sue Bethanis hosts Mike Banic, Vice President of Marketing at Vectra. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Marketing for Networking at Hewlett-Packard. Mike joined HP from Juniper Networks where he held the roles of VP of Enterprise Marketing and VP of Marketing for Ethernet Switching. Mike joined Juniper through the acquisition of Peribit Networks where he was VP of Corporate Marketing. Mike has held product marketing and product management roles at Trapeze Networks, Rhapsody Networks and Extreme Networks. He started his career as a system engineer at Artel Communications. Mike holds a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and previously served on the board of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
Mike and Sue discuss:
- How to create an effective marketing strategy with AI data-informed analysis
- How AI can help you understand your audience better
- How you can use AI algorithms to increase productivity
Sue hosts Cheryl Cran, a future of work expert and founder of nextmapping.com. She is the author of 7 books including her new book released this year, "NextMapping - Anticipate, Navigate & Create the Future of Work", as well as the best-seller, “The Art of Change Leadership - Driving Transformation In a Fast Paced World.”
Cheryl has been named a #1 Future of Work influencer and is an international award-winning consultant. Her future of work thought leadership has been featured in publications such as Huff Post, Forbes, IABC Magazine, Law Magazine, Metro New York, Entrepreneur Magazine, Readers Digest, CBS Online, NBC Online, and Fox Online. Her clients include AT&T, Kaiser Permanente, Gartner, Appirio, Upwork, and many more.
Cheryl and Sue will discuss:
- How to inspire your future of work mindset
- How to adopt a people-first approach
- How create agile, adaptable & innovative teams
- How to excel at the intersection of people and technology
Sue hosts Nikita Lukianets, Founder and CTO of PocketConfidant AI, 24/7 virtual coaching technology. He is also a founder and researcher at Open Ethics initiative, fostering the inclusive dialogue between experts and citizens to design systems where humans and AI successfully work together. Nikita has an MBA degree in innovation management and a technical background in applied physics and neuroscience. He is interested in emerging technologies, quantitative ethics, and various aspects of human-computer interaction.
Nikita and Sue discuss:
- Why data is the new electricity
- How AI will change the future of work
- How AI will transform society
- Two pillars to ethical AI
Sue Bethanis hosts Duncan Wardle, former Vice President of Innovation & Creativity at The Walt Disney Company. Duncan and his team helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences for consumers around the globe.
Today, Duncan is a leading global innovation and creativity consultant, training companies across the globe on how to leverage the full creative potential of their teams. With an infectious energy and playful collaboration, Duncan pushes executives and their teams to overcome preconceived ideas, act more audaciously, and develop their own innovation “light switch”, triggering their creative brain and accessing the ideas that turn ordinary companies into industry leaders.
Through his company id8, Duncan has trained over 30,000 professionals and executives across the world at organizations such as Apple, NBA, Twitter, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Forbes and many more.
Duncan and Sue discuss:
-What skills organizations need to compete and thrive in the most disruptive decade of transformation
- How to develop a 4-step creative problem-solving process
- How to leverage 8 key creative behaviors
- How to infuse a culture of innovation and creativity within your organization
Sue Bethanis hosts Alexandra Levit, futurist, consultant, and author. Alexandra Levit’s goal is to prepare organizations and their employees to be competitive and marketable in the future business world. A former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal and writer for the New York Times, Fast Company, and Forbes, Alexandra has authored several books, including Humanity Works: Merging People and Technologies for the Workforce of the Future.
Alexandra recently became a partner with organizational development firm PeopleResults. She consults and writes on leadership development, human resources, technology adoption, entrepreneurship, innovation, career and workplace trends on behalf of numerous Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Canon, Deloitte, DeVry University, Intuit, SilkRoad, and Staples. In the last several years, Alexandra has conducted proprietary research on the future of work, technology adoption, the millennial generation, gender differences and bias, and the skills gap.
Alexandra and Sue discuss:
- What the 'robot takeover' will really look like
- How talent and machines can work side by side
- How you can make organizational structures more agile and innovative
- How to lead organizations of the future
Sue Bethanis hosts Thomas Davenport, one of the top three business/technology analysts in the world, one of the 100 most influential people in IT, and one of Fortune’s top 50 business school professors.
Tom is a world-renowned thought leader and author, is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article. An author and co-author of 20 books and more than 200 articles, he helps organizations to transform their management practices in digital business domains such as artificial intelligence, analytics, information and knowledge management, process management, and enterprise systems.
In his new book, The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work, Tom recommends enterprises avoid AI moonshots and instead look to advance AI more incrementally.
Tom and Sue discuss:
-How AI technologies are being used
- How to become a cognitive corporation
- How AI will impact jobs
- How to manage the organizational, social, and ethical implications of AI
- Leading case studies and top strategies to make the most out of AI implementation
Sue Bethanis hosts Sanjay Srivastava, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Genpact, an 80,000 employee digital transformation services provider. Sanjay is deeply rooted in the Innovation ecosystem – he was a serial entrepreneur, is an advisor to Silicon Valley AI incubators and several startups, and a limited partner in digital-focused venture funds. He is a member of the Digital 50, and of BCG’s Digital Transformation Network, and was named by IDG as a “Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow.” He is a frequent speaker at various industry forums on AI, analytics and automation and writes on disruptive innovation, including Competing in a Digital First World on CIO.com and LinkedIn.
Sanjay and Sue discuss:
- What separates AI from intelligent automation
- How can AI be applied to business
- Critical factors for successful AI adoption
- The challenges in moving forward with AI
Sue Bethanis hosts Jake Metcalf, a consultant and scholar specializing in data and technology ethics.
Jake is passionate about helping people understand how seemingly small decisions about data technologies can have significant and disparate consequences in society. His academic background is in applied ethics, particularly in science and technology, and his scholarship in data ethics is recognized as influencing this nascent field, particularly around issues of research ethics policy and practice in academia and business. He lives amongst the redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains, where he fulfills his lifelong dream of running a philosophy business from a converted barn.
Jake and Sue discuss:
- Why data responsibility is a competitive advantage
- How to develop your capacity for ethics
- How to assess and implement data ethics
Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Martin Lanik, author of the business bestseller The Leader Habit: Master the Skills You Need to Lead–in Just Minutes a Day and CEO of Pinsight. His habit-forming career development solutions focus on 5-minute practice sessions woven throughout the day. Martin’s research-based formula has helped thousands of executives achieve the results they want. More than 100 companies – including AIG and CenturyLink – have implemented his programs, which received awards from Chief Learning Officer and Brandon Hall.
Martin’s work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Chief Learning Officer, Talent Economy, and Monster.com. Martin has contributed articles to outlets like Chief Executive, Business Management Daily, HR People + Strategy, and HR.com.
Martin and Sue will discuss:
-How leadership is a series of habits
-How to master the skills you need to lead
-How to focus on developing one skill at a time
-How to encourage new skills in others
Sue hosts Mary Abbajay, President and Founder of Careerstone Group, LLC, a woman-owned professional development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions.
Mary brings 20 years of experience in leadership positions, a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management, and post-graduate certificates from Georgetown University and the Coaches Training Institute. She has served as adjunct faculty at George Mason University’s School of Management and has taught at both Montgomery College and the Georgetown University Center for Professional Development.
Mary is the host of “Women Talk” and a regular contributor on “The Working Life,” two iHeart Media radio shows broadcast in the Washington, D.C. area. Mary was named as one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business and was a Smart CEO Brava Award recipient in 2017. Mary is the author of the new book, Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss.
Mary and Sue discuss:
- Why managing up is a skill you need
- How to get along with any boss
- How to increase organizational trust
- How to manage your own professional success
Sue hosts Diana Faison, an expert in the fields of leadership training, executive coaching, and strategic planning, with a focus in the field of women’s leadership. She is a partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership, a consultancy and talent development firm that works to advance women’s careers to top levels. Her passion for empowering the next generation of female leaders has led her to coach and design programs targeted toward millennials.
Diana has authored articles for Success and Lead Change Group, and is co-author of the book, The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on business leadership topics such as political savvy, strategic planning, brand, personal power, authentic leadership, influence, and well-being.
Diana and Sue discuss:
+How to become politically savvy
+How to prepare for influence
+5 strategies for influence
+How to succeed on the corporate stage
Sue hosts S. Renee Smith, a renowned self-esteem and branding expert, life and business coach, and speaker. She has worked with over 100 organizations and has coached over 300 small business owners. With more than 20 years of experience in communications, she has served as a television talk show host, producer, and spokesperson, director of public relations at an academic institution, a corporate marketing representative, and a manager. Her insights have been featured in Entrepreneur, Shape, Marketing Daily, Workwise, and other magazines, and she has made countless radio and television appearances.
S. Renee is the author of the new book, 5 Steps to Assertiveness: How to Communicate with Confidence and Get What You Want. She is also the co-author of Self-Esteem for Dummies, which was written for the world’s bestselling reference brand series, For Dummies.
S. Renee and Sue discuss:
- How to identify your specific communication style
- How to listen assertively
- How to effectively use your body language
- How to face feedback
Sue hosts Stacey Hanke, Founder and CEO of Stacey Hanke, Inc., a consultancy that equips leaders within organizations to communicate with confidence, presence, and authenticity. Stacey is the author of two books, including her latest, Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday. Her books provide practical and immediate skills and techniques that give leaders the ability to enhance their influence.
Stacey has trained over 15,000 people to rid themselves of distracting body language and how to choose words wisely. She has delivered over 500 presentations for business leaders in the financial, healthcare and government industries, and everyone in between. Her vast client list includes Adobe, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Kohl’s, three branches of the US Armed Forces, Nationwide Insurance, Pfizer, GE, General Mills, and Walmart. In addition to her client list, she has been the emcee for Tedx and featured in many media outlets including The New York Times, SmartMoney magazine, Business Week, Forbes, and Lifetime Network.
Stacey and Sue discuss:
- What the three drivers of influence are
- What influence is not
- How to eliminate excuses and take action
- How to grow your influence
Sue Bethanis hosts Phil M. Jones, best-selling author and multiple award-winner. Phil is highly regarded as one of the world’s leading sales trainers. He has trained more than two million people across five continents and fifty-six countries, and coached some of the biggest global brands in the lost art of spoken communication. In 2013, he won the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Award for Sales Trainer of the Year, the youngest-ever recipient of that honor. He has also written five international best-selling books and developed a number of online training courses that have enrolled tens of thousands of members around the world.
Discover the power that language has over the subconscious brain, gain practical examples that have instant application, and receive tailored examples of how the “Magic Words” from Phil’s best-selling book, Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact, are applied to your specific business critical situations.
Phil and Sue discuss:
- The secret to starting conversations effortlessly
- How to overcome every common objection with a simple question
- How to overcome the indecision in your customers
- How to choose your words wisely
Sue Bethanis hosts Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, an author, executive coach, and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.” Jennifer has deepened her knowledge and appreciation for introverts through her work as a learning and development professional and speaker at leading organizations like General Electric, Freddie Mac, NASA, Turner Broadcasting, and the US Centers for Disease Control.
Jennifer’s best-selling books The Introverted Leader, The Genius of Opposites, and Quiet Influence have helped introverts throughout the world expand their leadership capacity. Her latest book, The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength (2nd Edition), lays out a well-tested, four-step strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.
Jennifer and Sue discuss:
-How introverts can influence effectively
-How extroverts can learn from introverts
-Tips for introverts in a Type A workplace
Sue Bethanis hosts Chris Nadherny, a nationally recognized C-level recruiter. Chris spent 30 years with Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive search firm. His executive search clients included leading Fortune 500 companies, private equity portfolio companies, and later stage start-ups. Along the way, he counseled and helped guide the careers of several thousand executives—ranging from CEOs to Vice Presidents across multiple functions and industries. Since retiring from Spencer Stuart, Chris developed a career-management consultancy focused on helping executives reach their desired career executives. His career guidebook, The Proactive Executive: A C-Suite Recruiter's 5-Step System for Achieving Greater Career Success, encapsulates insights from his interaction with thousands of successful executives throughout his career.
Chris and Sue discuss:
- How to establish a proactive mindset toward your career
- How to cultivate awareness and influencing skills
- How to optimize your market positioning
- How to improve the underdeveloped aspects of your executive profile
Sue Bethanis hosts Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. Dr. Keltner has shared the stage with the Dalai Lama, counseled Pixar for depicting emotions for the film Inside Out, and has advised Facebook on the use of emoticons. He is the author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and argues that people acquire power through socially intelligent practices, but lose those talents once feeling the surges of power.
Dr. Keltner and Sue discuss:
-Why we need to question a coercive model of power
-How feeling powerful makes us less empathetic and responsive to others
-Why power is about lifting others up
-Why lasting power is given, not grabbed
-A fivefold pathway to enduring, empathetic power
Sue Bethanis hosts David Rogers, professor at Columbia Business School and the author of The Digital Transformation Playbook. David is a globally-recognized leader on digital business strategy. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, CNBC, Marketplace, Channel News Asia, and in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Economist. His most recent research with Columbia’s Center on Global Brand Leadership has focused on Big Data, the Internet of Things, in-store mobile shoppers, digital marketing ROI, and data privacy. David talks with Sue about why traditional businesses need to rethink, adapt, and learn from todays’ digital disruptors and innovators. He reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, Big Data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models―and how to integrate these into your existing business and organization.
Sue Bethanis hosts Andrea Lieberstein, a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor. Andrea has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 25 years. She leads mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally. Her clients have included individuals, corporations (most recently Google and Marvell), medical centers, schools and colleges.
She was instrumental in implementing the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region in the 1990’s. Andrea is a contributing author to Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook and The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. Her new book is called Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Feed Your Whole Self and End Overeating.
Andrea and Sue discuss:
- Why we are drawn to the wrong foods and overeat
- How to mindfully transform what we eat
- The eight essential ingredients for a well-nourished life
- Five steps to mindful eating and living
Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. David Carbonell, Founder and Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias, and the “coach” at www.anxietycoach.com, a self-help website for people troubled by fears and phobias.
Dr. Carbonell is a recognized expert in this field and has conducted training and seminars for a variety of professional groups, including the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, the United Airlines Employee Assistance Program, and Northwestern University Medical School, among others. He is the author of Panic Attacks Workbook and the The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It.
David and Sue discuss:
- How worry stems from irrational thoughts
- Why the harder we try, the worse it gets
- The “trick” behind chronic worry
- How to train yourself to respond to anxiety
Sue Bethanis hosts Sue Rasmussen, an expert in productivity and the international best-selling author of My Desk Is Driving Me Crazy: End Overwhelm, Do Less, and Accomplish More. Sue Rasmussen shows women entrepreneurs how to end overwhelm, do less, and accomplish more – so they can achieve the success they want and make the difference they really want to make. She’s a professional coach who has worked with over 6,000 small business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants from 29 countries. Sue’s work has been featured in Success Magazine, Women Entrepreneurs Magazine, the NBC TODAY Show, as well as numerous radio and publication interviews.
Sue (and Sue) discuss how to:
- Work fewer hours, yet accomplish much more
- Let go of things that waste your time and drain your energy
- Make decisions that are right for you and your business
- Eliminate “fear of missing out” and “shiny object syndrome” for good
- Focus on the actions that bring you the best results – and let go of the rest
Sue Bethanis hosts Brigid Schulte, the director of The Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America. Brigid is a journalist and author who writes widely for publications including The Washington Post, Slate, Time.com, The Guardian, Forbes, Fast Company, and many others. She was a long-time staff writer for The Washington Post where she won a number of reporting and writing awards and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Her 2014 New York Times bestselling book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.
Brigid and Sue discuss how:
- To identify and cope with overwhelming pressures of modern life
- Stress affects our brain
- To embrace time for leisure activities
- Work, love, and play are inextricably linked
- Employers can cultivate and create a flexible workspace
Sue hosts Bonnie St. John, a Paralympic Ski Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, a highly sought after keynote speaker, a Fortune 500 leadership consultant, and dubbed “one of the five most inspiring women in America,” by NBC Nightly News. The celebrated author of seven books, Bonnie co-authored her latest work, MICRO-RESILIENCE: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, & Energy, with her husband, and former entertainment industry CEO, Allen Haines. As CEO of the Blue Circle Leadership Institute, Bonnie leads several international virtual leadership programs including Transformational Leadership – designed to address the unique challenges of multicultural women in the workplace. Her extensive research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and physiology will leave you with powerful new tools to conquer key stressors that impede abilities to lead and perform at a high level.
Bonnie and Sue discuss how to:
- Use your brain more efficiently
- Stop being hijacked by primitive impulses
- Reframe your attitude
- Tap into the power of your purpose
Sue hosts Daniel Friedland, MD., an internationally recognized thought leader on stress, resilience, mindfulness and the neuroscience of leadership. He is the author of Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership. Daniel helps you make a shift that could transform stress, overwhelm and burnout to become a more energized, compassionate, values-based high performance leader, and create a culture of engagement in your organization.
Daniel and Sue discuss how to:
- Experience greater control and composure under stress
- Transform stress into an energy source to meet your challenges
- Focus your energy and attention to experience meaningful relationships
- Catalyze your growth as a more conscious and engaged leader
Sue hosts Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, and best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change. Michelle helps shift you towards more positive, solution-focused communication, ultimately leading to a decrease in the negative effects of stress.
Michelle and Sue discuss how to:
- Make yourself immune to stress and negativity
- Drive success by communicating with positivity
- Lessen the power of negative people
- Share bad news more effectively
- Create and sustain a positive culture at work or home through contagious optimism
- Share tools for positive thinking with colleagues and friends
Sue Bethanis hosts Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, founder of CSE Consulting and the author of the upcoming book, Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction. Cheryl teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and has won several journalism awards for her investigative stories about international politics, business and economics.
Cheryl and Sue discuss:
- How to use the AREA method as a flexible and repeatable decision making process.
- How common biases and mental shortcuts tend to impede good decision-making.
- How research is a fundamental part of decision making that can be broken down into easy-to-follow steps.
- How to improve learning, stay focused, and make your work easier.
Sue hosts Dr. Derek Roger, Founder and Director of the Work Skills Center and co-author of Work Without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success. Drawing on his expertise in personality, psychometrics and neuroscience, Derek initiated an innovative program of research on stress and health at the University of York, where he established the internationally-renowned Stress Research Unit.
Derek and Sue discuss:
- Adjusting your mindset to work more efficiently
- Controlling your response to any kind of pressure
- Developing a stress-free leadership style
- Building more resilient organizations
Sue Bethanis hosts Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the author of The Disruption Dilemma. While Joshua’s research interests are varied, he has developed specialties in the nature of technological competition and innovation and economic growth, industrial organization and regulatory economics.
Joshua and Sue discuss:
- The features of disruptive technologies
- Why companies need to have an internal disruptive strategic framework
- The difference between demand-side and supply-side disruption
- Why supply-side disruption is so dangerous
- Three prescriptions for long-term survival
Sue Bethanis hosts Cat Lee, Head of Partner Marketing at Pinterest. Known as one of the most innovative platforms in the world, Pinterest has revolutionized how people discover products and content, and how customers engage with businesses. Cat provides an insider’s view on how Pinterest has become an extremely disruptive social media powerhouse while building 100 million users.
Cat and Sue discuss:
- Pinterest’s innovative vision for future growth through visual search
- Strategies and processes to understand, anticipate, and lead market disruption
- How Pinterest is eliminating traditional barriers for business participation
- How Pinterest partners with retail companies
Sue Bethanis hosts Terence Mauri, a top leadership expert and author of The Leader’s Mindset: How to Win in the Age of Disruption. Terence inspires new leadership thinking and powerful shortcuts to help you disrupt your industry, your organization and, ultimately, yourself.
Sue and Terence discuss:
- Pathways to discover your leadership purpose
- How to act brave and decisively in the face of adversity
- How to use failure for rapid learning
- Incorporating 10X thinking into your leadership
Sue hosts Julie Williamson, Chief Growth Enabler for Karrikins Group. Julie and Sue discuss her newest book co-authored with Peter Sheahan, Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice, and how to:
- Identify your most valuable edge of disruption
- Become the disruptor not the disrupted
- Initiate change within an organization
- Become a thought leader in your marketplace and influence more senior buyers
Sue hosts Janet Crawford, CEO of Cascadance, Inc. and co-author of Leadership Embodiment. As a scientist and pioneer in the application of social neuroscience to corporate culture, Janet has two decades of experience working Fortune 500 companies with her client organizations spanning the who’s who of Silicon Valley.
Janet and Sue discuss:
- The Biological Basis for Fear – What is our brain doing when we are in fear and what do we do about it?
- How Do Leaders Respond Mindfully? – How do we listen openly?
- How do we protest/resist in a mindful way so we can collaborate?
- Our Brain’s Reaction to Uncertainty – How do we keep our brain healthy in stressful and uncertain times?
Sue hosts clinical psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson. Professor Robertson discusses his new book, The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper, a revelatory study of how and why we react to pressure in the way we do, with real practical benefits to how we live.