The Inclusive Leader: Recent Episodes
Jörg Schmitz
Jörg Schmitz, the Managing Director of the Inclusive Leadership Institute, discusses the elements of Inclusive Leadership with a variety of experts.
Nana Adwoa Boone, founder of Boone & Boone Consulting reflects on catalysing Inclusive Leadership as part of transformational change initiatives, cultural integrations, and global organizational effectiveness work. She describes how moving leaders along their personal developmental journey catalyzes powerful change dynamics and unlocks Inclusive Leadership.
Chief Financial Officer of tech-startup HereNOW Help reflects on how diversity and inclusiveness are central to the startup experience and motivate the tech solution that revolutionizes access to mental health and wellness services and cultivates inclusive communities of care.
A conversation with activist and scholar Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo about African knowledge systems, masculinity, LGBTQ+, race, colonialism and popular culture. Most importantly an appeal to exercise our individual agency as learners and healers in service of a fairer, more equitable world.
A conversation wtih Dr. Karen Walch! Whether we realize it or not, we negotiate all the time. And power is at the heart of negotiation. Inclusive negotiators shift from a 'power over' to a 'power with' mindset and achieve surprising results.
A conversation with Dr. Ken Price! Ken reflects on the experience of applying cultural anthropology to get organizational change initiatives (including DE&I) unstuck and make a real and meaningful impact. This conversation illuminates how leaders can benefit from an anthropology-informed perspective and practice as they are developing as inclusive leaders.
A conversation with Drs. Imme Gerke and Jacques Drolet! Born out of their focus on crop protection, these two biologists have developed a methodology to cultivate the social condition of inclusiveness for success in complex organizational and inter-organizations environments. Their work and approach connects science and art of inclusive leadership in an immanently practical way.
A conversation with Laura Liswood! Laura reflects on the success and failures of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work in organizations and society. She evaluates what gets us stuck and where we need to go to create truly diverse and equitable workplaces. Inclusive leadership is at the heart of what is needed to make DE&I real and meaningful.
A conversation with Anne-Barbara Lemmens! All of us judge—our judgments underpin our decisions. Anne-Barbara has focused on improving judgment and decision processes of leaders. "Judging softly" is the art of inclusive decision taking.
A conversation with Jessica Mayer! Jessica is an activist and educator in the area of PwD inclusion and intersectionality. Her experience, perspective, and humor can teach us all about what it means to make the inclusiveness of people with disabilities real and personal.
A conversation with Vince Varallo! Vince supports international professionals who struggle at the intersection of English, Culture, and Leadership and global organizations to truly diversify their talent pipeline.
Jörg Schmitz introduces the new Inclusive Leader podcast with an invitation to join the exploration of this emerging leadership paradigm.