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What is needed in 21st century leadership? What are the most successful change leaders of today doing that sets them apart?brbr Produced by Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership, Inside Transformational Leadership is a weekly radio show dedicated to provoking thoughtful discussion around the most important issues facing leaders today through insightful and inspiring conversations with corporate leaders, leadership coaches, academics, and community organizers.brbr Our weekly radio show examines the inner game of transformational leadership, sharing insights from renowned leaders and faculty from our world-class leadership and coaching programs. Topics include leading in times of complexity, the transformational change process, navigating deep change and disruption, the power of vision in transformational change, and the neuroscience of change leadership.
The Coaching Sugars are back for their final close-out-the-year show! Next week, December 12 at 11 am EST, the Coaching Sugars, Mike McGinley and Kirsten Olson, will consider 'Compromises, Earning A Living, and Being The Coach I Want To Be.' The Sugars think about the ways new structures at the International Coaching Federation, used for evaluating coaching, are necessary and important, and may also constrict the artistry of coaching, in a letter from an experienced coach. Next they listen in on a letter from a coach who considers whether to cancel a big contract to be the coach they dream of being.
As always, The Coaching Sugars offer responses to coaching and leadership dilemmas that are not about giving the right answers with a lot of certainty and authority, but instead offering truthful, thoughtful, heart-full advice based on their own coaching and leadership. Real, compassionate coaching and leadership talk, served up straight on December 12. Join us!
The Coaching Sugars are back for two close-out-the-year shows! Next week, December 5, 2016 at 11 am EST, the Coaching Sugars, Mike McGinley and Kirsten Olson, will chew on something at the center of many of our lives right now: “Hearing and Honoring Difference, And Remaining True To You.” This week's show will kick off with some powerful, searching letters from our listeners. The Coaching Sugars will candidly consider how to hold space and be present with clients and colleagues when our belief systems are very different and what to do what to do when you feel overwhelmed in the face of national contraction.
As always, The Coaching Sugars offer responses to coaching and leadership dilemmas that are not about giving the right answers with a lot of certainty and authority, but instead offering truthful, thoughtful, heart-full advice based on their own coaching and leadership. Real, compassionate coaching and leadership talk, served up straight on December 5. Join us!
Gary Corless, chief development officer of the Wounded Warrior Project and former CEO, has an ability we sometimes view as rare; the ability to really reflect on his experiences and to share the lessons he has learned back with the world. In the final show in our three-part series on culture in organizations, with guest host Randy Chittum, we talk with Gary about some of those lessons. We will hear how a leader actually creates and maintains culture. We will explore the benefits of a strong culture and the challenges of being a culture leader. Gary will also share his experiences of where culture comes from, how it can be implemented to be more than words on paper, and what happens when culture is “pressure tested.” Tapping into themes from the last two weeks, we will pull through threads about what happens when culture is overdone and what it means to attend to culture. As always, the focus is on leadership. We discuss all this and much more on November 28 at 11am EST, join us.
How do we know when we tip into an unconscious bias that excludes others? Do we use culture as the rationale? In the second show in a three-part series about culture in organizations with guest host Randy Chittum, we talk with Jackie Cranford about how unconscious bias is present in how we create culture. Join us as we talk with Jackie, adviser and talent strategist, about how culture may perpetuate some biases and how culture can also serve to interrupt the damage done by unconscious bias. We will revisit some of the topics addressed in last week’s episode, with Gerry McDonough, such as the “walking around definition” of culture and “how people survive, thrive, and fit in,” and get Jackie’s take on the subject. All of this, and more, will be discussed on November 21, 11am EST. Join Randy Chittum and Jackie Cranford for what promises to be an enlightening discussion.
According to Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends survey, organizational culture issues are now the number one challenge companies face around the world. The survey found that more than half of respondents say their organizations have either a poor program or no program at all to measure and improve culture. As coaches, we very often find leading culture to be a core challenge faced by the leaders we are coaching. We further find that leaders often operate with assumptions about culture that turn out to be inaccurate. In this week’s episode, guest host Randy Chittum will talk with Gerry McDonough, CEO of LeadFirst, a human capital consulting firm in DC. In this conversation, we will learn from LeadFirst’s culture studies now spanning more than thirty years, with almost 650 cultures studied and developed. Another key topic for discussion will be the impact of culture on performance and if there are cultural factors that indicate a greater likelihood of success.
There is a new world coming, a world that doesn’t exist yet, but one that we can prepare for all the same. It is a world that is even more fast-paced, interdependent and complex than we’ve ever seen before. It is a world that will need to be approached in a new way. This week’s guest, Neil Richardson, believes it is possible to prepare for this new world. Neil is a strategist and a public servant specializing in smart government advocacy and integral thinking. He is also the co-author of the recently released book, Preparing For A World That Doesn’t Exist-Yet. In this episode, join our host, Kate Ebner, for a conversation with Neil about his new book and how leaders can prepare for a world unlike any we’ve seen before.
When Netflix started out, it leased a warehouse from the US Postal Service for its inventory of movies and TV shows. Today, content is provided online. Regarded as a leader of innovation in the entertainment industry, Netflix has disrupted not only its business model and an entire industry, but also its own thinking. No longer is Netflix just streaming content--its creating its own shows. And just last week, Netflix expanded from 60 to 190 countries, streaming its content to the whole world.
As vice president of product innovation, it is Todd Yellin's job to understand what Netflix's 70 million global members are watching. Offering thousands of titles, Netflix works hard to make content discovery easy, putting the right title in front of each member at the right time. Join Host Kate Ebner as she explores with Todd how to understand disruption as a catalyst for creativity, innovation and breakthroughs--and what he has learned about the power of disruption for a leadership team.
When you’re faced with a tough problem, great leadership skills become essential. This has never been more true as in the case of the DC Metro. In the 1970’s, the DC Metro was a modern marvel – an architectural and engineering masterpiece. But overtime, the quality of the metro has declined. Today, the DC metro faces many issues, such as regular train delays, faulty equipment, decreasing ridership and a lack of funding. Enter Paul Wiedefeld, a leader with over 35 years of experience in managing transportation systems. Since starting as GM of the DC metro last winter, Paul has already implemented various plans to improve the overall quality of the metro, and to ensure it continues to safely transport DC residents long into the future. Join us on Monday, October 17th at 11am EST, as host Kate Ebner talks to Paul about what it takes to be a strong leader in the face of a very challenging assignment.
What if someone offered you a blueprint for success? What if someone could give you a set of simple yet powerful tools that would enable you think and act more effectively, in order to achieve your most important Results and improve your overall well-being. The book, 'Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence: How Extraordinary Leaders Build Relationships, Shape Culture, and Drive Breakthrough Results' offers this blueprint. Written by this week’s guests, Vinay Kumar and Chalmers Brothers, the book outlines the tools and how to use them to excel as a leader. Join us on Monday at 11pm EST to uncover how exactly we can empower ourselves to become great leaders.
Over the past thirty five years, mindfulness and meditation have gone from being seen as out there to being practiced by everyone from professional athletes, like Michael Jordan, to soldiers in the U.S. Military to business leaders. In the fast-paced world of today, mindfulness and meditation are fast becoming mainstream in the world of work and leadership, practiced by organizations from Google to Goldman Sachs. Step back with us to explore what these concepts really mean in theory and in practice and why these practices for leaders are here to stay. Join Host Sheryl Phillips for an in-depth conversation with the renowned mindfulness teacher, Tara Brach, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), to learn strategies that will support your growth as a transformational leader. In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, Tara Brach is the author of the book Radical Acceptance and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart.
Designed to explore common coaching dilemmas, Georgetown coaches Mike McGinley and Kirsten Olson, inspired by Cheryl Strayed's advice column, 'Dear Sugar,' are The Coaching Sugars. They offer soulful, compassionate and REAL coaching advice to coaches and leaders.
In the third show of the 3-part series, The Coaching Sugars will shine some light into a situation we all have faced: Are you avoiding a hard conversation with your client? What do you do when there is something that must be discussed and faced, but you aren't sure how to bring it forward? Learn from the firsthand experience of The Coaching Sugars as they share thoughts on what it means to be authentic, living our coaching purpose--and deal real time with a problem at hand.
Bring your issues to The Coaching Sugars and join in for the final program in the series. Call ins are welcome!
Designed to explore common coaching dilemmas following a format inspired by Cheryl Strayed's 'Dear Sugar' advice column, Georgetown leadership coaches Mike McGinley and Kirsten Olson, aka 'The Coaching Sugars,' offer soulful, compassionate and REAL coaching advice to coaches and leaders.
In the second of three special shows, The Coaching Sugars explore those intense, real, supremely tangly coaching dilemmas we all feel, and sometimes hesitate to explore. This show focuses on working with difficult clients. Do you dread meeting THAT client? Are there issues you find yourself avoiding in your coaching relationship?
Bring your issues to The Coaching Sugars, and jump in with Kirsten and Mike! These highly interactive shows encourage call-ins and letters. The Coaching Sugars sure as heck don't have the 'right' answers. But they share thoughts on trying to be authentic, living our coaching purpose--and deal real time with the problem at hand.
Designed to explore common coaching dilemmas, Georgetown coaches Mike McGinley and Kirsten Olson -'The Coaching Sugars'- offer soulful, compassionate and REAL coaching advice for coaches and leaders. Inspired by Cheryl Strayed's 'Dear Sugar' advice column, The Coaching Sugars, Mike and Kirsten will drawn from the coaching files of their friends, colleagues and own experiences to explore those intense, real, supremely tangy coaching dilemmas that coaches feel, yet sometimes hesitate to explore. Coaches are trained not to give advice, but The Coaching Sugars are all about helping.
In this first show in this 3-part series, McGinley and Olson will take a look at what happens when coaching isn't working, yet you are contracted to complete the engagement. Join for insights, solutions, wisdoms and the good humor of colleagues who are open to sharing what they know with the rest of us. This show encourages engagement with listeners so plan to call in with your question.
At a time when leaders are mostly living (dying) according to the well-known template called “Push, Drive, Get Results,” this radio hour with leadership coaches Jim Anderson and Dan Holden will be rich with provocative conversation about the framework they call “Rest, Release, and Allow” – a container that flies in the face of typical leadership development work. Both Jim and Dan are authors of books and articles, and they founded The Refiner’s Playground, a now sustainable “experiment” with leaders who want a more authentic life. Both are deeply skilled in the Leadership Circle Framework, which has been a grounding force in their thinking. Join Guest Host Chris Wahl for an inspiring conversation about committing to wake up to the leadership possibilities of resting, releasing, and allowing, as not only an antidote to the habits that got you here, but as a way of being that promotes power and satisfaction in the present.
If you are like most leaders today, you face complex and unpredictable challenges. Often, people engage coaches to help them navigate unfamiliar territory for which they feel unprepared. Join Host Kate Ebner and ITL faculty member, author and renowned leadership coach Doug Silsbee for an in-depth conversation about how leading complexity can actually enable significant personal growth.
Learn about new ways of 'seeing, being, sensing and doing' that can help you to take new actions and find your way as a leader. Doug and Kate will examine how meeting your current challenges help you discover how to move beyond overwhelm to create personal strategies that help you tolerate the the dissonance of meeting big challenges and instead thrive in complexity.
For most organizations, diversity is a deceptively simple label that masks a great deal of uncertainty and frustration. A Harvard-educated lawyer whose TED talk, “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them” has inspired almost a million viewers, Vernā Myers’ driving mission is to help law firms and other organizations succeed at diversity: to help them transform diversity from a painfully elusive human resources goal into a real, positive, invigorating fact of life – a feature that inspires new thinking, attracts new talent, and opens the door to new business. Join Host Kate Ebner and the engaging author, facilitator and strategic adviser Vernā Myers for a conversation about how to overcome unconscious bias and make diversity and inclusion meaningful in your organization.
In today's world of increasing interdependency and complexity, leaders must utilize problem solving as well as 'both and thinking' to address the most strategic challenges and opportunities. Often, these challenges and opportunities take the form of polarities, which might be described simply as 'wicked problems' or 'chronic tensions' or 'dilemmas' or 'paradoxes.' The research is clear: leaders, teams and organizations that leverage polarities well outperform those who don't. Join Host Kate Ebner and guests Dr. Barry Johnson and Kelly Lewis to discover how to leverage your most strategic polarities to become more innovative, agile, profitable and competitive immediately and over time WHILE caring for your employees, your community and our environment.
Join Host Lee Ann Wurster-Naefe for a conversation with Holly Williams, author, coach, entrepreneur and member of the ITL faculty, as they explore the transformational nature of group and team coaching. Going behind the scenes of her book, Being Coached, Holly will share her thinking, wisdom and experience in working with groups of leaders across business, government and the non-profit sectors. You’ll learn what group coaching is, how it works, and what it brings to leaders and organizations. Listeners will get a chance to come inside the stories of leaders who have had a group coaching experience.
Every day, executives confront high stakes situations that require both strategic decision-making and efficient organization, but how do leaders know which paths will lead to success? Join Host Kate Ebner for a conversation with Larry Hirschhorn, acclaimed author and recognized expert on the internal psychodynamics of organizations. He was the 2008 recipient of the Eliot Jaques award from the Society of Consulting Psychology, and is a founding member and former president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Hirschhorn will highlight the key choices that leaders can make and how, by working effectively with skilled consultants, they can achieve their organizational and business goals. Join the conversation to learn how you can maximize consulting to create positive outcomes such as heightened teamwork and collaboration, innovation, and an atmosphere of success that can be transformative.
The words transformational leadership sound magical, but what does it really mean to lead transformation? How does lasting change happen? What toll does it take on leaders? What happens when the leader changes, but the organization doesn't? Join Host Lee Ann Wurster-Naefe for an in-depth interview and a look behind the scenes with Kate Ebner, Executive Director of Georgetown's Institute for Transformational Leadership. Discover what building an institute has taught Georgetown about transformation and benefit from the insights of students and faculty who have experienced transformational learning at ITL.
Join Host Kate Ebner for a conversation with Alicia Rodriguez, an entrepreneur, writer, author and coach, who challenges women to be fierce in their leadership. An adventurer and global traveler, Alicia is an expert on Conscious Living, which she practices and teaches to others. Discover ten leadership lessons that may surprise and inspire you to think differently about how you lead -- and live. Through her coaching and leadership work, Alicia teaches professionals how to thrive at work and in life. This program is for anyone wondering how to integrate who you are into how you lead.
Headquartered in Baltimore, MD, Miles & Stockbridge was founded in 1932 by Clarence Miles and Seymour O'Brien, later merging with a firm founded by Enos Stockbridge. From the beginning, the firm based its approach on values. The firm's founding leaders played an integral role not only in building a great law firm, but also in tackling the social issues and concerns of the day. Today, the firm has grown far beyond Maryland and,once again, its leaders are engaging in important work to bring about a Baltimore that is better for everyone. Join Host Kate Ebner and John Frisch, Chairman of Miles & Stockbridge, for a conversation about how connecting to founding values while cultivating a next generation of leaders can lead to a renewal of an organization's purpose.
Jim Hollis is one of the greatest Jungian psychologists of the modern era. Join us for today’s program during which ITL faculty member Neil Stroul will talk to Dr. Hollis about a wide range of ideas regarding the developmental journey all of us travel in our lifetimes. Dr. Hollis will share a wide range of ideas drawing upon many themes unique to Jungian psychology such as the role of individuation, archetypes, and shadows as well as his more recent writings regarding the developmental challenges of mid life.
Giving and receiving timely accurate feedback is essential for leaders, especially as complexity increases - and yet we know that many leaders have a really hard time giving - and receiving - feedback.
Join Beth Greenland, faculty member of Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership, for an insightful conversation with Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, internationally recognized leader and author of “Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World”, as they discuss how leaders can be effective in an unpredictable world and still offer clarity and certainty to their organizations.
The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and new and accessible online learning options, people are beginning to question that value. Is a college diploma still worth pursuing at any price? What is the future of higher education? Join Host Kate Ebner and award-winning columnist and author Jeff Selingo for a conversation about the future of higher education. Selingo, formerly the top editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, and founding director of The Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership, a joint venture of Arizona State University and Georgetown University, is one of our most astute observers of how modern forces are creating disruption – and innovation – in higher education today.
We’ve come to expect a lot of our leaders; we can help people become better leaders by helping access new ways of thinking about leading. Deb Ancona and her colleagues at MIT have developed a model of leadership that leaders of every stripe can relate to. Join Guest Host Neil Stroul for a conversation with Deb Ancona, director of the MIT Leadership Center, for a discussion of what great leadership looks like. Drawing on her recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Deb will share the four capabilities that are essential for today’s leaders and help distribute leadership across the organization rather than having it all rest on one leader. Deb Ancona will share key distinctions about effective leadership, ideas that are being taught in the classrooms at the Institute for Transformational Leadership. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a gifted and passionate teacher.
We speak ourselves into transformation – or we don’t. Language does far more than just describe or communicate - this is only half of the story. Host Kate Ebner explores the relationship between language and leadership, as well as how your language can actually transform your future with Chalmers Brothers, acclaimed coach and author of Language and the Pursuit of Happiness. Join the conversation to examine how leaders sustain and cultivate workplace culture and create structures of accountability through the conversations they have. Chalmers will share proven strategies from his life-changing SOAR program that produce transformational shifts in self-awareness and in the ways that people from all walks of life, as well as leaders at all levels, approach relationships, moods and emotions, commitments and accountability for achieving – and sustaining -- desired results. Tune in to learn how to access the transforming power of language.
Join us as we welcome back Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. Brigid is a former Washington Post reporter and now directs The Good Life Initiative and The Better Life Lab at New America, a non-partisan think tank. In her book, Brigid asked the important questions: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our workplaces making it impossible for us to experience anything but contaminated time? Is there anything we can do about it? Now, Schulte is doing just that. At New America, she is leading initiatives that seek to evolve and reimagine our work places and practices, gender roles, and social policies that work for the diverse 21st family. Her conversation-provoking work is leading the way to live the better life. Join Executive Certificate in Transformational Leadership Program Director, Sheryl D. Phillips and Brigid to discover inspiration to help you make shift from unsustainable to the sustainable good life.
Over the past thirty five years, mindfulness and meditation have gone from being seen as out there to being practiced by everyone from professional athletes, like Michael Jordan, to soldiers in the U.S. Military to business leaders. In the fast-paced world of today, mindfulness and meditation are fast becoming mainstream in the world of work and leadership, practiced by organizations from Google to Goldman Sachs. Step back with us to explore what these concepts really mean in theory and in practice and why these practices for leaders are here to stay. Join Host Sheryl Phillips for an in-depth conversation with the renowned mindfulness teacher, Tara Brach, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), to learn strategies that will support your growth as a transformational leader. In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, Tara Brach is the author of the book Radical Acceptance and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart.
Do you feel pressured, always-on, information overloaded and distracted at work, and, well, pretty much always? As we know by now, this has become our new way of working and living. As author Rasmus Hougaard says, our attention is under siege; and there is a direct link between attention and results. In his new book, One Second Ahead: Enhance your Performance at Work with Mindfulness, Hougaard, who is also the director of The Potential Project, provides an abundance of pragmatic approaches for bringing Mindfulness into your daily life and work. Tune in for a conversation with Executive Certificate in Transformational Leadership Director, Sheryl D. Phillips and Rasmus Hougaard and discover inspiration to help you make shifts that can change your life.
How do you want to live your life? What is the experience of you that you would like to give others? How can you switch from being reactive to a more centered approach to leading? Originating in ancient practices and common to all faiths and wisdom traditions extending back thousands of years, meditation is a personal practice that can be practiced communally in the universal language of silence. The last ten years have seen a surge in research about the beneficial effects of meditation. This research has led to a new focus – meditation integration. Here at Georgetown, the John Main Center, which developed from a small meditation group on campus, has become a pioneering academic center for meditation and inter-religious dialogue. Join Host Kate Ebner to learn from Tim Casey, Director of the John Main Center, about how meditation can be integrated into your life, whether you are a student, a parent, an educator or an executive.
Greater complexity outside requires greater clarity inside. Born at Google from one engineer's dream to change the world, Search Inside Yourself is a nationally recognized program and network. Search Inside Yourself made its East Coast debut at ITL in 2013 and will be back again in May. Join Host Kate Ebner for an insightful conversation with three leaders of the Search Inside Yourself Institute who are bringing mindfulness training together with emotional intelligence, neuroscience in a leading edge learning experience that is changing how people think about leadership today. This show is the invitation you've been waiting for to begin the search inside yourself.
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? What are the consequences for our lives of being overwhelmed?
In her provocative book, Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asked important questions: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but contaminated time? Is there anything we can do about it?
Schulte's research yielded a fascinating picture of modern life, a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out about our collective state of being overwhelmed after speaking with neuroscientists, sociologists and hundreds of working parents. Tune in for a conversation with Transformational Leadership Program Director, Sheryl D. Phillips and journalist Brigid Schulte and discover inspiration to help you make shifts that can change your life.
The smartphone-equipped professional is connected to work 72- hours a week, according to new research. And 48% percent of Americans report that their stress levels are up. The number one source of that stress? The job pressure of a 24/7 world.
What's the alternative? Top leadership coach and faculty member in the Georgetown Leadership Coaching program Scott Eblin will share innovative, practical solutions , drawing from his new book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.
Even small increases in mindfulness can lead to big changes in productivity and quality of life for someone who is overworked and overwhelmed. Join host Kate Ebner as Scott shares his personal planning framework for creating the outcomes that matter most at home, at work and in the community. Using real life examples, Kate and Scott will explore how to make mindfulness a part of your life through simple routines that reduce stress and improve your ability to bring your best.
Too often, organizational change fails because leaders don’t significantly upgrade their “inner operating system” to be able to embody the kind of leadership needed to create the envisioned culture. How do we develop leaders who can take us into the future we desire? Bob Anderson is an innovator and visionary who has brought his love for statistics and economics together with a fascination for developing leaders and organizations. Join guest host, Chris Wahl and Bob Anderson, the creator of the Leadership Circle Profile, for a conversation about the transformational nature of leading change – and the profound shifts that leaders experience in order to be the leader who is needed at this critical time. Chris and Bob will explore the deeper, long-term kind of leadership development that transformational leaders must undertake and what makes it worth their time and energy.
People value problem-solving and go immediately to what's wrong to solve problems. What would happen if you focused on what is working rather than what isn't? Join Guest Host Roz Kay for a conversation with David Cooperrider, co-creator and creative thought leader of Appreciative Inquiry and co-author with Diana Whitney of A Positive Revolution in Change. Appreciative Inquiry involves discovering what gives life to a system or organization and involves the art of crafting the unconditional positive question to strengthen the capacity to see and develop the organization's potential. David will share the transformational qualities of AI, how and when to use it, and talk about the impact of using an AI approach to change. Join Roz and David for an opportunity to learn a change process that mobilizes change positively.
We get work done through teams, yet developing a team of people who perform well together is one of the most challenging aspects of management. Join Host Kate Ebner and ITL faculty member Alexander Caillet for conversation focused on the dynamics of teams and groups. Alexander, who teaches about teams in both the leadership coaching and transformational leadership programs at ITL, has spent more than two decades working with executive teams in the pubic and private sector internationally. Learn about different team types, how to set up a team for success, and how to achieve results through the work of a team. This conversation will add to what you already know and challenge conventional wisdom about what makes teams work well.
When Netflix started out, it leased a warehouse from the US Postal Service for its inventory of movies and TV shows. Today, content is provided online. Regarded as a leader of innovation in the entertainment industry, Netflix has disrupted not only its business model and an entire industry, but also its own thinking. No longer is Netflix just streaming content--its creating its own shows. And just last week, Netflix expanded from 60 to 190 countries, streaming its content to the whole world.
As vice president of product innovation, it is Todd Yellin's job to understand what Netflix's 70 million global members are watching. Offering thousands of titles, Netflix works hard to make content discovery easy, putting the right title in front of each member at the right time. Join Host Kate Ebner as she explores with Todd how to understand disruption as a catalyst for creativity, innovation and breakthroughs--and what he has learned about the power of disruption for a leadership team.
For most organizations, diversity is a deceptively simple label that masks a great deal of uncertainty and frustration. A Harvard-educated lawyer whose TED talk, “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them” has inspired almost a million viewers, Vernā Myers’ driving mission is to help law firms and other organizations succeed at diversity: to help them transform diversity from a painfully elusive human resources goal into a real, positive, invigorating fact of life – a feature that inspires new thinking, attracts new talent, and opens the door to new business. Join Host Kate Ebner and the engaging author, facilitator and strategic adviser Vernā Myers for a conversation about how to overcome unconscious bias and make diversity and inclusion meaningful in your organization.
Will enough people take meaningful steps to reduce their ecological footprint soon enough to avoid large-scale ecological collapse? In his recently released book A New Psychology for Sustainability Leadership: The Hidden Power of Ecological Worldviews, Dr. Steven Schein posits that sustainability leaders have developed an ecological self, a post-conventional worldview, and an enhanced systems consciousness. Drawing on insights from eco-psychology, deep ecology, ecological economics, social psychology, environmental sociology, indigenous studies, integral ecology, and developmental psychology, and based on interviews with 75 global sustainability leaders in more than 40 multi-national organizations, Dr. Schein has concluded that effective sustainability leaders are deeply motivated by an ecological worldview -- seeing one's relationship to the natural world through the lens of ecology rather than a human-centric view. Join Host Kate Ebner to meet Dr. Schein and learn about his vision
How do you want to live your life? What is the experience of you that you would like to give others? How can you switch from being reactive to a more centered approach to leading? Originating in ancient practices and common to all faiths and wisdom traditions extending back thousands of years, meditation is a personal practice that can be practiced communally in the universal language of silence. The last ten years have seen a surge in research about the beneficial effects of meditation. This research has led to a new focus – meditation integration. Here at Georgetown, the John Main Center, which developed from a small meditation group on campus, has become a pioneering academic center for meditation and inter-religious dialogue. Join Host Kate Ebner to learn from Tim Casey, Director of the John Main Center, about how meditation can be integrated into your life, whether you are a student, a parent, an educator or an executive.
From the IMF to McKinsey to Patricia Arquette, women in leadership everywhere are standing up for women's empowerment. Carolyn Coughlin, a founding partner at Cultivating Leadership and author of “Developmental Coaching to Support the Transition to Self-Authorship” in the forthcoming Jossy Bass Sourcebook, Transforming Adults through Coaching, is a key contributor to this conversation. With expertise in designing and delivering developmentally-oriented leadership programs for organizations around the world, Carolyn is keenly aware of the ways women of all ages and power positions get in their own way when it comes to authoring the lives they want to create. What is it, she wonders, about the current system we all live in that means professional women are so often having to make painful choices between various things that are important to them? How might a developmental lens and developmental interventions help to shift this pattern? Join Guest Host Beth Greenland and Carolyn
Values statements hang on the ways of many organizations alongside the mission statement, but few know how to tap into the power of values-led leadership. Join Guest Host Lynn Levis for an eye-opening conversation with Manny Elkind that will show you how and why values are foundational to great leadership and high performing organizations. As President and CEO of MindTech and in executive development classrooms at Columbia University, Elkind works with leaders to align vision, strategy and organizational values with the core values of employees. Don't miss the chance to learn how to identify your own top values and put them to great use in your professional and private life.
How can we design a university for the future that has liberal arts values at its center but is appropriate for 2025 and beyond? What kind of student-centered university can we create right now that we could only create at this moment? What is the long-term value proposition of residential education? These are just a few of the questions that Randy Bass, Vice Provost for Education at Georgetown University, has been exploring with others through Georgetown's Designing the Future(s) Initiative. This week, we invite you to join Kate Ebner for a deep dive into this groundbreaking work. Learn how technology, globalization, and new business models for delivering education are disrupting the traditional university approach and opening up new possibilities for teaching and learning. The Designing the Future(s) Initiative is a call for purpose, vision and creative design -- and a wake-up call to anyone interested in the future of education.
Great leaders are also great facilitators. They know how to create magic in a room and foster commitment to action that leads to momentum and results. Join us this week for a conversation with Rae Ringel, master facilitation practitioner and trainer, and Director of Georgetown’s new, first-of-its-kind Certificate in Facilitation program. Learn more about how facilitation skills will magnify your impact as a leader, and why the Georgetown program is the first-of-its-kind. Here’s a hint: great facilitation requires more than front of the room competencies; the design and planning process is just as important!
This week we welcome internationally celebrated leadership and mastery expert Richard Strozzi-Heckler back for an encore show! Join host Lee Ann Wurster-Naefe and our guest for an even deeper look at how leaders can catalyze the transformational impact they are having on the world. What does it take to make a difference and lead with presence through complex and ever-changing times? Learn how to bring greater unity of language, action, emotion and meaning to your life and work as a leader. In addition to president of the Strozzi Institute, which offers leadership consulting and coaching services on five continents, Richard is the author of several books including the highly acclaimed Leadership Dojo and The Art of Somatic Coaching.
Here in the United States leadership is often perceived as being mostly about directing and telling others what to do. But does this longstanding tenet actually support organizational engagement and productivity? Arguably no. Join host Beth Greenland for an eye-opening conversation with renowned thought leader Dr. Ed Schein as they discuss his 2013 book -Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling. Learn how we as leaders can build organizational effectiveness by acknowledging our dependence on those who report to us, and by asking questions from a place of respect and curiosity. In addition to the author of numerous publications, Dr. Schein is the Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Over the past thirty five years, mindfulness and meditation have gone from being seen as out there to being practiced by everyone from professional athletes, like Michael Jordan, to soldiers in the U.S. Military to business leaders. In the fast-paced world of today, mindfulness and meditation are fast becoming mainstream in the world of work and leadership, practiced by organizations from Google to Goldman Sachs. Step back with us to explore what these concepts really mean in theory and in practice and why these practices for leaders are here to stay. Join Host Sheryl Phillips for an in-depth conversation with the renowned mindfulness teacher, Tara Brach, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), to learn strategies that will support your growth as a transformational leader. In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, Tara Brach is the author of the book Radical Acceptance and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart.
Values statements hang on the ways of many organizations alongside the mission statement, but few know how to tap into the power of values-led leadership. Join Guest Host Lynn Levis for an eye-opening conversation with Manny Elkind that will show you how and why values are foundational to great leadership and high performing organizations. As President and CEO of MindTech and in executive development classrooms at Columbia University, Elkind works with leaders to align vision, strategy and organizational values with the core values of employees. Don't miss the chance to learn how to identify your own top values and put them to great use in your professional and private life.
Forty years ago The Women’s Center started as a resource and counseling center for women who were facing some of life’s most difficult challenges and transitions. Today the Center has grown to include men, families, young adults and children among those it serves, but its mission remains the same. The mission of the Center is to be a vital community resource, providing excellent mental health counseling, support and education to people in the metropolitan area, regardless of their ability to pay for these services, helping them live healthy, stable and productive lives. Serving over 4,000 people between its two locations, the Center collaborates with nonprofits, government and business to expand the conversation of wellness including mental health. Join us this week for an exciting conversation with Shirley Clark, CEO and Executive Director of the Women’s Center, to learn more about her journey and the difference The Women’s Center is making in the lives of thousands.
Join Guest Host Lee Ann Wurster Naefe for a powerful conversation with Richard Heckler, pioneering founder of the Strozzi work. For more than four decades, Strozzi-Heckler has helped leaders bring greater unity of language, action, emotions and meaning to their approach to leading. Recognized as one of the top leadership coaches in the country, the Strozzi work helps leaders achieve personal mastery by accessing and utilizing more of their potential. His programs and best-selling books teach people how to identify barriers, change behaviors and embody new skills and abilities. Don’t miss this discussion of how to become a leader who embodies skillful action and grounded compassion to make a difference.
What does “leading performance” look like in today’s dynamic workforce? No longer are the traditional models of communication as effective in today’s diverse, multi-generational and mobile landscape. In an exciting preview of their upcoming advanced course at Georgetown – Leading Performance: Engaging and Developing Employees - faculty members Mike McGinley and Bonnie Holloway will discuss what it means to be a modern manager, and how new skills and mental models can support the important work of fostering employee growth. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about how to increase conversational effectiveness and positively impact success in your organization!
For more than 15 years, Georgetown University has been training leadership coaches. Established as the first leadership coaching program in the world, the Leadership Coaching program has graduated more than 1000 coaches, building an unprecedented community of practice in the field of professional leadership coaching. Join Host Lynn Levis for a conversation with Program Director Steve Heller. Discover what makes this program so transformational -- and why the demand for coaching -- and coach training -- continue to grow.
Contemplation in Action. Men and Women for Others. Educating the Whole Person. Community in Diversity. Cura Personalis, or Care of the Person. These universal values are some of those at the heart of Georgetown University’s Jesuit tradition and continue to guide Georgetown’s future. Join Host Kate Ebner and Father Kevin O’Brien for a conversation about how Jesuit values can be essential guideposts for leadership today. They will explore the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for almost 500 years – and how they can make each of us a dynamic and effective leader in the 21st century.
What does it take to create an inclusive environment in your workplace? Dr. Turnbull, a world-recognized thought leader in global inclusion and diversity, is passionate about helping us to look at how to identify obstacles such as Affinity Bias, Assimilation and Confirmation bias, to ensure that all voices are heard and embed an inclusive workplace culture. She has helped her clients develop award-winning diversity strategies that have changed the experience of their workplaces. Meet Helen Turnbull in a conversation with Host Kate Ebner. They will explore how to instill valuable new behaviors into the fabric of your organization’s culture – and how to become aware of blind spots that may be having unintended negative effects and impacting the quality of your day to day decision making. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about how to move far beyond unconscious bias to establish a workplace that is inclusive and welcoming to all.
Will enough people take meaningful steps to reduce their ecological footprint soon enough to avoid large-scale ecological collapse? In his recently released book A New Psychology for Sustainability Leadership: The Hidden Power of Ecological Worldviews, Dr. Steven Schein posits that sustainability leaders have developed an ecological self, a post-conventional worldview, and an enhanced systems consciousness. Drawing on insights from eco-psychology, deep ecology, ecological economics, social psychology, environmental sociology, indigenous studies, integral ecology, and developmental psychology, and based on interviews with 75 global sustainability leaders in more than 40 multi-national organizations, Dr. Schein has concluded that effective sustainability leaders are deeply motivated by an ecological worldview -- seeing one's relationship to the natural world through the lens of ecology rather than a human-centric view. Join Host Kate Ebner to meet Dr. Schein and learn about his vision
Kathleen Dowling Singh guides us to see the clear opportunities for spiritual awakening through the wonder and challenges of our aging process. Author of The Grace in Aging, she provides a practical guide into the dimensions of aging that help us see this phase of life as a time of promise, potential and great aliveness – unlike any other. Join Host Kate Ebner to discover how to embrace the truths of aging and unearth the transformational nature and wisdom of every day moments.
Big results come from small steps. If you think you don’t have time for mindfulness, think again. This handbook, named a Best Courageous Book of 2014 by The Center for Courage and Renewal, was written with school leaders in mind, but the perspective that it offers can help any leader with a challenging work load and endless responsibilities to gain perspective and inner balance. When leaders add mindfulness into the day, bit by bit, it results in more effective leadership – and a more positive influence on faculty, staff and students. Join Host Kate Ebner for a conversation with Kirsten Olson, co-author of The Mindful School Leader to explore how practicing mindful can fit into your busy schedule – and transform your leadership and your organization.
Join Guest Host Lee Ann Wurster Naefe for a powerful conversation with Richard Heckler, pioneering founder of the Strozzi work. For more than four decades, Strozzi-Heckler has helped leaders bring greater unity of language, action, emotions and meaning to their approach to leading. Recognized as one of the top leadership coaches in the country, the Strozzi work helps leaders achieve personal mastery by accessing and utilizing more of their potential. His programs and best-selling books teach people how to identify barriers, change behaviors and embody new skills and abilities. Don’t miss this discussion of how to become a leader who embodies skillful action and grounded compassion to make a difference.
Transformational leadership requires conscious change -- and the change begins within. Change-makers today demonstrate a transformational mindset, the behaviors of an empowering and engaging leader, and the ability to inspire not only by what they do, but also by the presence they bring. Sheryl Phillips and Dr. Randy Chittum co-direct the Executive Certificate in Transformational Leadership at Georgetown's ITL. Join Host Kate Ebner for a close look at why transformational leadership matters -- and how leaders are learning it at the Institute for Transformational Leadership. We will discuss the principles of transformational leadership and how you can apply them to your own leadership and organization.
Founded in 1974, Friends of Guest House helps Northern Virginian women make successful transitions from incarceration back into the community. Their mission? To provide women with a criminal history the structure, supervision, support and assistance they need to become self-sufficient and responsible members of the community. Friends of Guest House address the root causes of the vicious cycle of crime by offering programs that focus on core issues ranging from trauma and addiction to housing and employment. And their program works: without re-entry support, 70% of ex-offenders nationwide re-offend within two years. Among Guest House graduates, fewer than 10% re-offend. Join Host Kate Ebner for a conversation with Executive Director Kari Galloway, Faith Ruderfer, and Terry Garrett for a conversation about a transformational approach that changes lives.
Contemplation in Action. Men and Women for Others. Educating the Whole Person. Community in Diversity. Cura Personalis, or Care of the Person. These universal values are some of those at the heart of Georgetown University’s Jesuit tradition and continue to guide Georgetown’s future. Join Host Kate Ebner and Father Kevin O’Brien for a conversation about how Jesuit values can be essential guideposts for leadership today. They will explore the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for almost 500 years – and how they can make each of us a dynamic and effective leader in the 21st century.
The poet David Whyte speaks of work as a journey of becoming and the workplace is often where human beings develop as individuals. Join Faculty Guests Barbara Braham and Chris Wahl to learn how to bring a developmental lens to your leadership. Taught in both the coaching and transformational leadership programs at Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership, the work of these two faculty members has made groundbreaking connections between what we know about how people learn and develop as human beings – and the role that adult development plays in your capacity to lead. Host Kate Ebner will explore the stages of adult development, what they mean for you as a leader, and how to use an understanding of adult stages of development to shape your messages and actions as a leader.
Leaders with presence stand out for their seemingly innate ability to command attention and inspire commitment. But what exactly is this secret quality they exude? CEO coach Kristi Hedges, author of The Power of Presence and member of the ITL faculty, demystifies the concept of leadership presence and shows how anyone -- regardless of position or personality -- can strengthen their impact through presence. Join Host Kate Ebner to learn how to build trust as the foundation for leadership, swap perfectionism for authenticity, banish limiting thoughts and behaviors, and galvanize your team through visionary, inspiring communications that add up to a powerful and effective presence.
Bob Tobias has been thinking and teaching about leadership in the federal government for years. As the founder of the highly regarded Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University, Bob has engaged government leaders in thinking in new ways about what it means to lead change in the public sector. Join Host Kate Ebner for a conversation about how government leaders can move from entrenched, partisan positions to collaborative solutions that get American government moving in a positive direction. Learn what Tobias is teaching top government leaders in the groundbreaking programs that he has developed at American University -- and what you need to know about leading change when things seem stuck.
We’ve come to expect a lot of our leaders; we can help people become better leaders by helping access new ways of thinking about leading. Deb Ancona and her colleagues at MIT have developed a model of leadership that leaders of every stripe can relate to. Join Guest Host Neil Stroul for a conversation with Deb Ancona, director of the MIT Leadership Center, for a discussion of what great leadership looks like. Drawing on her recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Deb will share the four capabilities that are essential for today’s leaders and help distribute leadership across the organization rather than having it all rest on one leader. Deb Ancona will share key distinctions about effective leadership, ideas that are being taught in the classrooms at the Institute for Transformational Leadership. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a gifted and passionate teacher.
No organizational leaders can succeed in today’s fast evolving and highly connected world on their own. Through a project funded by the Fetzer Institute, Dr. Carol Pearson spent three years exploring what transforming leadership means with thought leaders from many fields. The resulting book The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, draws on psychology, sociology, neuroscience, social networking theory, organizational change theory, myths, traditions and actual experiences to discover how leaders today achieve transformational results. Join Host Kate Ebner and Dr. Pearson to learn what today’s leaders must know to succeed in a complex world. This show will reframe the challenge of leading and offer an overview of what transformational leadership is, how it works, and how it is evolving.
Giving and receiving timely accurate feedback is essential for leaders, especially as complexity increases - and yet we know that many leaders have a really hard time giving - and receiving - feedback.
Join Beth Greenland, faculty member of Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership, for an insightful conversation with Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, internationally recognized leader and author of “Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World”, as they discuss how leaders can be effective in an unpredictable world and still offer clarity and certainty to their organizations.
For most organizations, diversity is a deceptively simple label that masks a great deal of uncertainty and frustration. A Harvard-educated lawyer whose TED talk, “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them” has inspired almost a million viewers, Vernā Myers’ driving mission is to help law firms and other organizations succeed at diversity: to help them transform diversity from a painfully elusive human resources goal into a real, positive, invigorating fact of life – a feature that inspires new thinking, attracts new talent, and opens the door to new business. Join Host Kate Ebner and the engaging author, facilitator and strategic adviser Vernā Myers for a conversation about how to overcome unconscious bias and make diversity and inclusion meaningful in your organization.
The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and new and accessible online learning options, people are beginning to question that value. Is a college diploma still worth pursuing at any price? What is the future of higher education? Join Host Kate Ebner and award-winning columnist and author Jeff Selingo for a conversation about the future of higher education. Selingo, formerly the top editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, and founding director of The Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership, a joint venture of Arizona State University and Georgetown University, is one of our most astute observers of how modern forces are creating disruption – and innovation – in higher education today.
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? What are the consequences for our lives of being overwhelmed?
In her provocative book, Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asked important questions: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but contaminated time? Is there anything we can do about it?
Schulte's research yielded a fascinating picture of modern life, a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out about our collective state of being overwhelmed after speaking with neuroscientists, sociologists and hundreds of working parents. Tune in for a conversation with Transformational Leadership Program Director, Sheryl D. Phillips and journalist Brigid Schulte and discover inspiration to help you make shifts that can change your life.
We experience our lives as narratives that move through time -- in other words, as story. Each of us is the hero of our own story -- and that hero is always on a quest. In development, we actively strive to articulate and unify the themes in our stories. We continually rework and edit our own stories so they make coherent sense to us. Join Host Kate Ebner, Director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership (ITL) at Georgetown University, for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Neil Stroul, who teaches transformational leadership at ITL. Neil's foundational class opens the gateway to transformation and will help you understand how your own personal story is shaping your life experiences, for better or worse. Learn how to create a story that allows you to answer your calling and more closely resemble your personal version of the Hero-in-Victory. Don't miss this mind-opening show.
Greater complexity outside requires greater clarity inside. Born at Google from one engineer's dream to change the world, Search Inside Yourself is a nationally recognized program and network. Search Inside Yourself made its East Coast debut at ITL in 2013 and will be back again in May. Join Host Kate Ebner for an insightful conversation with three leaders of the Search Inside Yourself Institute who are bringing mindfulness training together with emotional intelligence, neuroscience in a leading edge learning experience that is changing how people think about leadership today. This show is the invitation you've been waiting for to begin the search inside yourself.
Too often, organizational change fails because leaders don’t significantly upgrade their “inner operating system” to be able to embody the kind of leadership needed to create the envisioned culture. How do we develop leaders who can take us into the future we desire? Bob Anderson is an innovator and visionary who has brought his love for statistics and economics together with a fascination for developing leaders and organizations. Join guest host, Chris Wahl and Bob Anderson, the creator of the Leadership Circle Profile, for a conversation about the transformational nature of leading change – and the profound shifts that leaders experience in order to be the leader who is needed at this critical time. Chris and Bob will explore the deeper, long-term kind of leadership development that transformational leaders must undertake and what makes it worth their time and energy.
The smartphone-equipped professional is connected to work 72- hours a week, according to new research. And 48% percent of Americans report that their stress levels are up. The number one source of that stress? The job pressure of a 24/7 world.
What's the alternative? Top leadership coach and faculty member in the Georgetown Leadership Coaching program Scott Eblin will share innovative, practical solutions , drawing from his new book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.
Even small increases in mindfulness can lead to big changes in productivity and quality of life for someone who is overworked and overwhelmed. Join host Kate Ebner as Scott shares his personal planning framework for creating the outcomes that matter most at home, at work and in the community. Using real life examples, Kate and Scott will explore how to make mindfulness a part of your life through simple routines that reduce stress and improve your ability to bring your best.
What happens when you enter a room? Do you have that elusive quality called presence? Presence is not limited to people in mighty positions. Your presence is your ability to connect authentically with the thoughts and feelings of others, and you can learn how to inspire, motivate and connect in ways that elevate your presence as a leader. Join Guest Host and ITL faculty member Lee Ann Wurster-Naefe for an enlightening and practical conversation with Belle Linda Halpern. A professional singer/ actress, Halpern co-founded The Ariel Group in 1993 and Inspiring Educators in 2013 and has spent years bringing proven techniques for developing presence on stage to leaders in all sectors, from corporations to schools. Don't miss this fascinating hour and the chance to learn strategies for enhancing your own presence.
We speak ourselves into transformation – or we don’t. Language does far more than just describe or communicate - this is only half of the story. Host Kate Ebner explores the relationship between language and leadership, as well as how your language can actually transform your future with Chalmers Brothers, acclaimed coach and author of Language and the Pursuit of Happiness. Join the conversation to examine how leaders sustain and cultivate workplace culture and create structures of accountability through the conversations they have. Chalmers will share proven strategies from his life-changing SOAR program that produce transformational shifts in self-awareness and in the ways that people from all walks of life, as well as leaders at all levels, approach relationships, moods and emotions, commitments and accountability for achieving – and sustaining -- desired results. Tune in to learn how to access the transforming power of language.
We experience our lives as narratives that move through time -- in other words, as story. Each of us is the hero of our own story -- and that hero is always on a quest. In development, we actively strive to articulate and unify the themes in our stories. We continually rework and edit our own stories so they make coherent sense to us. Join Host Kate Ebner, Director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership (ITL) at Georgetown University, for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Neil Stroul, who teaches transformational leadership at ITL. Neil's foundational class opens the gateway to transformation and will help you understand how your own personal story is shaping your life experiences, for better or worse. Learn how to create a story that allows you to answer your calling and more closely resemble your personal version of the Hero-in-Victory. Don't miss this mind-opening show.