Practice? Podcast: Recent Episodes

David Fearon and Peter Vaill

We all know about theory and practice. Theory and what? Theory and practice. Theory and what? Reflecting on the intriguing nature of Practice with management educators Peter Vaill & Dave Fearon.

Northern Michigan University Professor of Management Gary Stark found his place to thrive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He "talks shop" with Dave, who had, for 30 years, found his place to excel at teaching Organizational Behavior in a regional campus of the State University System. Both have been versatile leaders in the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society celebrating its 50th year of "carrying the torch" for practice-enhancing learning.

Here is another conversation in which Dave Fearon, Jr. continues to teach his dad (me) how we humans are constantly fulfilling the promise of our practices and have the capacity called languaging to tell about it. Please think of the importance of other people when it comes to the telling. This usually happens in spirited conversations, when achievements are relived and made memorialized. It's the Talk of Fame.

Outstanding Maine Music Educator Andy Forter was found in the fifth grade by an attic trumpet. Many trumpets since have kept Andy learning, growing, and inspiring the same in thousands of rural Maine students for 35 years. Making music is his gift to audiences. Making musicians is his gift to Maine and beyond.

Over 200 individuals have engaged in discussions with Dave, exploring the distinctive essence of their practices. The catalyst behind these conversations was Peter B. Vaill, who requested Dave's assistance in completing his manuscript entitled "On Practice as a Way of Being." Despite Peter's deteriorating health, these determined educators launched a podcast to convert words from pages to sound waves. Sadly, Peter passed away in March of 2020, and his voice is deeply missed by Dave and others.

Recovering from COVID when he recorded this conversation, Dave knows first-hand what it means to Practice drained of energy. Martin Goldberg's new book Out of the Workplace Trap rolls out a different map (the works of Wilhelm Reich) for releasing natural human reservoirs of what Martin calls work energy. To Dave, this opens fresh ways to foster organizational development and Practice development tying in with On Practice as a Way of Being.

Entering his seventh decade, David Mansfield looks back at his years as CEO of a major UK media corporation, his satisfying times as an advisor/coach to senior leaders, and now, ahead as a student of effective decision-making. Hear Dave's conversation with this Monday Revolutionary.

Diagnosing is a practice we rely upon in many fields. It takes 'a keen ear". Since his early teens, Dan Oleksiw has built and repaired PCs for his family's small business Computer Heads. Now, he chairs an IT department at a Connecticut Technical High School. Still helping out on weekends, Dan 'heard" Dave ailing PC's more profound problems and enacted a fix prompting this conversation. Dan's depth of experience told him "something was still not quite right," even after several part replacements. This very computer now works like a charm.

Perhaps John Hibbs was walking an Island of Guernsey beach when the first ideas for his company, CoEfficient, came to him. His practice is as a Maker, a co-maker of companies that help us see a business as its workers see it. This one is several Guernsey beach rock-skips along, but Dave finds it fascinating and promising for his Organization Development community.

Here is my conversation with my son Dave asking him to take me back to his learnings from George Herbert Meade. As you will hear, all there is about Practice happens at the moment we ACT. Picture holding your finger above the Send key. Then, send it! This ACT commits us to know what happens now and not know what will come next. The thrill of figuring out how to ACT upon what comes next energizes the associated Practice. Like it or not, we are 'caught in the ACT' and must change.

Dave discovers something else about Practice. Music is at the core of Rijon Ericson's way of being, yet today he works as a people-gatherer. He draws people together for moments of free expression in the Open Space; not unlike a wandering troubadour of an earlier time. Yes, change can be wrenching and difficult, but why not try sheer fun with the singing Purple Person, Mr. Rijon?

Dave relishes this conversation with a professor whose career, like Peter Vaill's, began among the taproots of thinking, writing, and managing Organizational Behavior. Ian Mitroff is still drawing hope and energy from those who believe in the power of the human spirit. Dave and Ian -a leading thinker on Crisis Management - agree there has never been a better time for each of us to supply that power to the world.

Dave has a lively conversation with fellow Management Educator Richard Boyatzis. Richard's research practice informs his highly regarded teaching, writings, and consultations. His current interest is coaching which helps people make timely changes. This dovetails with Dave and Peter Vaill's focus on changing and growing to keep a practice viable in times of constant change.

Dave draws in thoughts from his careful reading of Mark Solms' book The Hidden Spring. Practice is a conscious choice to pursue specific results over an indefinite period. Thus, understanding consciousness reveals more about the human nature of Practice. Dave suggests we listen to Solms on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mark+solms)

This conversation is with Dave's friend Karen Stevenson whom he knows is a multi-talented designer and project manager. However, with her gardening, she says she can be creative in ways that balance her more structured practices.

We sometimes recall when a new practice or a new phase of practice began. It was exactly four years ago - November 2018 - Dave's teaching practice phased into the practice of podcasting and writing about the fascinating nature of Practice. It all started with a phone call on behalf of Peter Vaill to help him publish his last book. Now that book On Practice as a Way of Being is done, and there are 188 episodes of this Practice? Podcast.

Dave learned of Fitness Coach Connor Clark from a friend who is one of his clients. Her training with weights over the years has given her strengths undergirding all her other practices. Co-founder (with his brothers) of Lift Performance, Connor talks about what it means to look forward to each day in the gym. Gains.

Management practice is in high demand is to create, restore, and replace how her part of the business is organized. This is what Whitney Walrath, now as VP for Development, has been called up to do across her career, for Rexel USA. In her new role, Whitney also captures future trends to inform timely changes. People, technology, locale - Whitney gets it together.

Dave and Maria Lai-Ling Lam discover how similar their doctoral experiences were (several decades between) thanks to the confidence Peter Vaill placed in each doing very challenging dissertation studies. His example shapes her teaching to this day as she engages students in a unique new practitioner Ph.D. program at Anderson University.

Dave's former student Rich Madara is looked to by his company CDW's salesforce to help them learn and perform at the velocity of digital transformation. He talks with "Doc" when recently taking on this broadly-framed role where little of the old sales theories and materials pertain. Rich is concurrently transforming his own Training Practice to meet this challenge.

We resume our conversation about Social Enaction by exploring the infinite nature of consciousness bolstered by imagination. Recording this episode by a Maine lake, we could waft each other's attention to matters as close as the industriously fishing loon to the looming universe. The practice of conversation edifies and amazes. We (former) Mainers knew the next chance to boggle a Mind started with "Pull up a chair and talk awhile",

Dave met Cecile Betit (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecile-g-betit-69b32843/) at an inaugural Zoom meeting for Open Source Organization Development. She spoke of Inner Development in a breakout session. Intrigued, Dave arranged this episode to learn about and from Cecile. She tells of her unique chance to watch an employee-owned company develop in just this way.

Dave meets two social entrepreneurs who advise and convene a fascinating national experiment in elevating the conditions favoring good health for all. Wellville (https://wellville.net/). Rick Brush (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rrbrush/) and Jeff Doemland (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdoemland/) constantly learn from those collaborating in each Wellville and see that lessons learned in each of the five sites are shared by all.

Dave finds his former Management student Jessica Maura (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmmaura/) happily growing and changing as she strives to keep a national company's payroll system in synch with constant changes through the Pandemic to what may change tomorrow. They reflect on how Dave's course design anticipated this caliber of practice.

In this conversation, Dave's former student Pam Potanka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-potanka-76616a57/) instantly credits her North America-wide Aftermarket Service Team with the results she could claim for herself. She realizes her gains in leadership practice with measures of each member's success and of their responsiveness collectively.

Gage has taken over the family workbench and makes his practice restoring battered and silent antique clocks to full use back on new mantles. Soon to begin his freshman year in college to study American History, his fully recovered clocks resume keeping the time of other people's lives. For years to come, this practice will keep Gage ticking. https://www.facebook.com/gage.robertson.35

Placing investments that earn within the global stock market's rapid ebb and flow calls for a seasoned archer's precision. Rob' Larity's desire to be different in the crowded wealth management arena led to the creation of Cognitive Investments (https://www.cognitive.investments/), which is just now opening to individual investors. Dave loves meeting an earnest "rethinker"; so will you.

This is the continued conversation where Dad tells Dave to take his thoughts about thinking itself out to the freeing range of speculation. This demonstrates what each of us can do in our practices to make a 'normal' moment into a chance to consider our Universe(s). If for any reason, it makes 'room' for more grounding ideas to grow. In our new digital book On Practice, Peter Vaill writes: "We don’t know as much about the consciousness of practitioners and have tended instead to impose models on it that are basically normative, that is, how we think that consciousness should be". This, we push out the boundaries.

This is another 'Dave & Dad' talk probing the dynamics of mind and consciousness underlying our Practice behavior. It went long, so it is offered in two parts. This conversation is an example of how two people with different knowledge focus on one thing - socially enacted Practice - and see where it leads us. Live conjecturing.

In this continuing conversation with prognosticator Tom Casey, founder of Discussion Partners Collaborative (https://discussionpartners.com/), we hear Tom tell Dave that he and his patterns strive on behalf of their clients to write the next chapter in the book of business history before it happens. His message: Get ready. Leaders in every sort of practice are also busily sketching rough drafts of what could be happening tomorrow. Why? To be as ready as possible. Then the future still smacks us in the face; but it hurts less.

Fellow teachers Dave and Gordon talk about how and why Gordon's relocation from Indiana to Louisianna (https://www.ulm.edu/cbss/), adding administrative leadership responsibilities, keeps him engagingly happy. Lots of laughter peppering words of wisdom from both the old timer (Dave) and the up-and-comer (Gordon). Note: His forthcoming book is "Leaders Assemble!: Leadership in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Dave's conversation with Meredith (Meredith Fineman, best-selling author of Brag Better) is what his generation would call "rollicking" and intriguing. Meredith is on to something. Perhaps a great majority of us are conditioned from childhood to avoid self-promotion. Bragging takes practice, perseverance, and another of Dave's old terms - moxie. It's all in the book (Brag Better Book by Meredith Fineman). Speaking of books, Peter Vaill and my book On Practice as a Way of Being ( https://www.mylibrary.world/practice). You will hear Meredith coaching Dave to plug this accomplishment. Done.

Dave and Organization Development & Change sage Frances Baldwin agree in this conversation that there is a palpable, even spiritual, feeling of making contact with another. From this point of mutual reference and reverence, the conversation takes on a richer, more nuanced character. Stories come quickly to mind. Newly thought word combinations emerge. Easy laughing carries the momentum from the serious to the playful. You will not want this episode to end, it is so pleasant to hear Frances' voice.

Dave has a conversation with a serious young woman who confidently chooses difficult and rare ways of developing her mental acuity. Mastering the most elaborate accordion, for example, and providing a keen-eyed proof-reading of Dave's and Peter Vaill's book On Practice as a Way of Being ( https://www.mylibrary.world/practice). Mahaska at 17!

This conversation gives us a look "under the hood" to get a feel for how our brains keep changing the formation of neurons as we change our most practiced behaviors. Dave, Jr. and Dave, Sr. conjecture on how and why this works and why keeping our brains healthy matters.

Dave resumes his conversation with Valency Consulting Organization Development practitioners Linda and Vanessa who are devoting new thought to the prospect of Mutual Mentoring in client organizations. Mentoring well and often is discussed as a practice for closing social distances among those whose diverse perspectives can clear up intriguing messes.

Dave's former student and long-time friend Jackie adds a new practice complimenting her strengths as a leadership developer. Nearing completion of her international executive coaching credentialing, Jackie reflects upon what this new service role also means to her own learning and growth.

This episode marks the time our digital-first book On Practice as a Way of Being is ready for purchase. Theo, the producing editor and Dave, co-author with the late Peter Vaill, reflect on their long-abiding collaboration to finish Peter's last book. Future Practice? Podcast episodes will feature each of Peter's 32 conjectures and how this matters to any listener/reader.

Dave meets lively new author and seasoned student of women in sport Kathleen Ralls whose book “Take Her Word For It: Sports Cultivate World-Class Leaders" prompted a lively, introspective conversation. World-class athletes know success first hand and continue seeking it in other contexts.

Dave discovers how two seasoned organization and leadership development practitioners found each other when the need arose to create a more powerful and lasting system of mentoring with their Valency Consulting clients. Theirs is a study in effective collaborative practice. Linda Ferraro and Vanessa Phipps will be back with another episode about their novel take the practice of mentoring.

Dave is meeting OD Practitioner Patrick Trottier (https://emergentchange.net/) for the first time, eager to learn what is meant by emergent organization development and emergent change. This conversation yields some representative insights, but there is much more there to be explored in a future episode. A foundational way of thinking is to become comfortable working in the realm of the unknown or unknowable. How? Stay tuned.

This interlude of the Practice? Podcast is posted for Memorial Day 2022. Dave reads Peter Vaill's favorite poem - Corson's Inlet by A.A Ammons. Noticing the ever-shifting nature of human Practice is like noticing the changing life when returning daily to familiar ground. "That tomorrow a new walk is a new walk". Our next Episode will be another new walk for Dave.

Dave asks B-Corp Impact Associate Mel Hubner what she sees herself doing in five years. Her response - she loves where her practice has landed her among people whose values and energy give her many reasons to thrive. Mel may look up in five years to finding that she with 360Impact/ Southern Energy Management have grown beyond her greatest hopes.

This episode is Dave's chance to learn from a current student in the innovative Bowling Green State University Doctoral Program in Organization Development & Change. Doug Bellah is growing practice to become an inviting presence in important conversations - inviting all voices to be heard. Truly heard, so that change is collaborative and inclusive.

This is another father & son conversation with Dave giving us closer look at the systemic, self-organizing properties of us enacting practice moment to moment. He draws from Illya Prigogine. Suddenly, change happens. We tumble forward through life seeking stability and certainty, constantly learning from our choices.

Organization Development & Change professor Dr. Bill Brendel leads Dave's thinking about the nature of Practice to its most human roots - the Mind and Mindfulness - Right Mindfulness in particular. This, and much more by introducing the innovative Open Source OD.com

In celebration of the 160th Episode of this podcast, and the completion of Practice as a Way of Being: Peter Vaill's conjectures on why your Practice matters, Dave asked Kathryn to help him ponder out loud why he has invested three years in the work he promised Peter he would continue. Answer - it matters to everybody now, more than ever.

In this episode, Dave talks with fellow professor Dr. Steve Taylor, Professor of Leadership & Creativity at Worcester Polytechnic University. An underlying practice for Steve is that he is a playwright.This gives him an aesthetic perspective on leadership and practice as CRAFT. See the 2022 issue of Organizational Aesthetics.org for his editorial about these views.

In this episode, Dave's conversation with the pioneering Co-Founder of Southern Energy Management and the founder of the consultancy 360Rocks is threaded with happy career coincidences and values alignment. They had never met but ended this episode as new friends. Maria practices as a true champion of the B Corp way of doing business.

This conversation is with Marketing Analyst Estanfania Maya who is still early in her career in a major insurance company. She is enjoying collaborating in her team to discover patterns in multiple data sets; then translating these into visual and narrative stories the sea of numbers tell. Consequential decisions are made with what she does each day.

In this conversation, Dave talks with a fellow professor devoted to understanding and advancing leadership practices in many forms and settings. Associate Professor of Civic Leadership at the Staley School of Leadership Studies, Kansas State University, Brandon Kliewer organizes his own teaching and research practices within the sphere of Civic life. Tune in.

In this episode, Dave reunites with a former student who has been an HR practitioner in various corporate roles over ensuing years. It is in the last six years that Christine Fusciello found her niche building a leadership development program for technologists for her major corporation. Heady work for a level headed professional.

This episode is a conversation with Dave's former student Zhihui, who serves admirably on an IT team in a major lighting company, but whose devotion to Emma and Ellie as their Mama (Chinese for Mama) can be heard in the warm tone of her voice. Peter Vaill said in one of our early episodes that being a mother is also a practice, perhaps the most essential to mankind. We are each her finest results, are we not?

In this episode Dave explores his discovery that his former student and longtime aerospace practitioner is also in a new selling practice. Jessie engages social media to create a community of clients benefiting from plant-based MONAT hair and skin products. She records conversational videos about her own product use and what she is learning from her client community. Having an 'Also Practice' to grow and to grow oneself and one's income is trend emerging from the pandemic.

In this conversation, Dave (aka Doc) finds another of his former students still growing and changing after 14 years. Why? He uses all his multiple capabilities to determine bonding worthiness of general contractors of major construction projects. From crunching the numbers (which he was working late to do after the recording) to assuring the character of his company's clients, Cesar's working-learning days are full.

In this unusual episode, Dave learns architect Antonia's not so secret to growth. Antonia rescues four baby pigs and they teach her how to be an even better human. This is expressed in her designs for school learning environments. Meet the creator of the Underdog Animal Sanctuary.

In this episode, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Laura Harris, PhD talks with Dave just ten days into her altogether new practice setting. It is a start-up called NeuroX1 where her curiosity and creative research will have a fuller range of motion than her previous academic posts. She is in it for the growth (and new medicines).

In this episode, Dave once again reconnects with a former CCSU student from 12 years ago to find that Semir Alihodzic(Team Lead- Enterprise Data & Analytics at Travelers) loves the pace of rapid change in how DATA (so far) can be tamed for multiple uses. Listen and learn why.

This brief interlude in our Practice? Podcast series marks the second anniversary of Peter Vaill's death. Dave ponders how and why his 'practice of Practice' has kept him satisfyingly busy these last two years. Since March 2020, there have been 127 more episodes. The digital-first book that Peter could not finish, Practice as a Way of Being, is now ready for preview or purchase at https://www.mylibrary.world/. Dave carries on the work started and inspired by his 'favorite teacher' Peter B. Vaill.

In this episode my Sociologist son Dave and I give the listener a close look (well, listen) to how a Social Enaction analysis of just a moment of recorded conversation reveals the work being done to sustain it and develop a collaborative relationship. Topic, conversation practice, and relationships all occur under our actual noses - as we talk.

This episode tries something new. Steve Cavaleri, Fred Reed, and I have a running joke. "Three mean walk into a bar" - like good friends who meet at the pub weekly to have big and little thoughts about life. In this conversation - Why do we need to keep up our writing practices?

In this episode, Dave talks with Lizy Freudmann, Principal of One More Thing, LLC. You will hear that she practices strategic marketing in a manner fully reflecting and engaging her core values. This includes thoughtfully revising her business model to offer more service choices.

In this episode, Dave bridges Kate Emery's Episode 22 (April 2020) to show us in Episode 145 that an eminently successful businesswoman can awaken the occasional artist in her to learn, grow, and develop in 2022 as Kate the (full-time) Painter.

In this episode, Dave reconnects with former student Bob Loughery, spanning 36 years since they met at Central Connecticut State University in 1989. Bob's passion for helping his national insurance customer contact center practitioners grow has kept him innovating across all the years. You will be inspired by his resilience and theirs. Dave sure is.

This conversation is with veteran construction project manager Brian Hannigan. His company, Permasteelisa North America Corp., designs, engineers and installs architectural envelopes (cladding and windows) for many of the world's tallest and most complex buildings. Brian's practice is to lead the actual installation right to the top. He is a true "Project Guy".

In this episode, Dave, a lifelong educator, talks with a fellow mid-career educator Michael Stratton who currently serves teaching as President of the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and Dean of the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College. Always an educator who loves teaching. Mike can see it no other way. Nor can Dave.

In this episode, we hear the sound of promise. Maamle Adjoka-Nortey is a university student making the most of her formal and informal learning experiences to attain greatness as she defines it. She tells Dave that she envisions herself, five years from her 2023 graduation, still constantly growing her applied computer science and leadership skills. In demand, independent, and keenly interested. Maamle greatness. Promising indeed.

In this episode Dave re-connects with former student Bob Ruffalo to discover how he has, once again, shifted his once rare in-bound marketing firm (Impact+) onto the new ground of their own new playbook - They Ask, You Answer. Bob embodies the entrepreneurial practitioner as an open-minded, courageous learner for his company and their many clients.

In this episode, Carol Gorlick talks with Dave about a rare opportunity to be an Ethnographer for the earliest cycles of a cohort-based Bowling Green State University doctoral program in Organizational Development & Change. This is research Carol loved to do early in her long career, now coming full circle.

In this episode, Dave talks with 17-year-old V-8 engine restorer Sam Tindal. Setting his roots in his car restoration community. Supported by his auto-tech expert dad Joe, Sam has persevered from his first 350 V8 engine block, bought at age 12, to today's steady stream of customers. Nine engines waiting for him when he gets home from high school. He learns every minute of it.

In this episode, Dave and Collaborative Discussion Partners Lead TOM CASEY talk about 'what's next' for our practice futures. Need for talent is now so great, co-creating terms employment is the new order of the day. And more

In this episode, Dave meets Tad Mayer for the first time only to discover that he and two change practitioners (Carly Inkpen and Justin Wright) will soon publish a book, thus adding to their mix -practicing authors. Title: Finding the Job that Loves You Back. Thus, the title of this episode.

Here is another episode with a 'father and son' talk at the junction of conversation and socially enacted practice. They apply a theory of organizational learning - Communities of Practice - to a lived case in point. Dave's own emerging field in Library Science - Data Curation and Management - is where his fellow practitioners connect globally to learn with each other what works next.

In this episode, Brooke, another of Dave's former students, tells her Pandemic story that is ending well. She begins an altogether new way for her to apply her professional fitness practice to discovering and encouraging people who are fit for the most challenging jobs in IT.

This episode with Kathryn Kaplan inspires Dave to report we can build new practices from the heart up when what we did professionally is in the history books. Living now in Mexico, she chooses to climb a steep double learning curve - certification in a new role to support the dying and Spanish,

In this episode, Dave has the pleasure of reconnecting with former student Natalia to find her practicing a complex, ever-shifting role problem-solving for her major health insurance company with their business customers.

In this episode, Dave graciously bids podcast producer and website manager Anthony Rivera farewell on his journey towards the Practice of filmmaking.

In this episode, Head of Sales practitioner Samantha Giaver joins Dave in a conversation on how her Practice has gone international, literally and figuratively.

In this episode, managing principal Tom Casey returns to discuss the cause and effect relationship between Practice and labor with Dave.

In this episode, sales director Tom Stickels joins Dave in their second conversation on how he sells his Practice to other practitioners in order to empower them.

In this episode, Dave is once again joined by Brittany Ernst, PhD, a corporate OD practitioner who discusses the shift in our recent years and its effects on Organizational Practice.

In this episode, market analyst Diana Sanchez joins Dave in a conversation on how her analyzing Practice taught her to accept help and work smarter, not harder.

In this episode, Dave is once again joined by sociologist son Dave Jr. who discusses with him the fundamentals of leadership Practice from a sociological view.

In this episode, management educator Kerri Brannen talks with Dave about how her teaching Practice has changed to keep up with students' expectations and her career goals.

In this episode, Don Dunoon, simpatico student of leadership as Practice, joins Dave in the lifelong Practice of understanding why organizations and people behave the way they do.

In this episode, Dave meets with life-long practitioner Harvey Dershin to look back on multiple careers, adapting and growing, and bringing more to offer to each new role.

In this episode, Dave Jr. and Dave Sr. talk about how learning to prepare our brains for our Practices help us think and act better than before.

In this episode, career branding consultant Caitlin Gonzalez talks with Dave on how creating a business that brings out her best offerings was a leap of faith, and a leap of Practice.

In this episode, automotive sales manager Rtan Goldstein joins Dave in a conversation on how his offering excellence in purshcasing an automobile has driven his sales Practice over the past several years.

In this episode, David Bright, passionate leader in the field of Organization Development & Change, talks with Dave on how Practice can be specific, and that's okay!

In this episode, Isabelle Hertz, coach and organizational change consultant, joins Dave in a lively conversation on how her OD Practice has changed over time and why.

In this episode, Dave is joined by Bela Pina, whose underwriting Practice has led her to now managing and leading a field of underwriters.

In this episode, OD consultant Paul Gowin joins Dave in a conversation on how his determination has led to a Practice where the goal is to extract meaning and dispense knowledge.

In this episode, patient care associate Mara Lieberman discusses her current journey with Dave, trying roles until she finds where she can grow her quality Practice.

In this episode, managerial leader Gary Strack is back to talk with Dave on the life-affirming Practice of Golf and how it applies to any Practice.

In this episode, Dave sits with Jenn Grace and Stephen Higgins who have combined their Practices to make a book called "I Am Me", co-authored by 100 children from 4-8 years old.

In this episode, Olivia Higgins, Organization Development Manager for the people of ESPN, joins Dave in a conversation on being a fan of your Practice to better it.

In this episode, associate professor Jane Wheeler joins Dave in a conversation on teaching again and again, and then some; Practice without end.

In this episode, aspiring nurse Rachel Trezza talks with Dave on how she is preparing herself to Practice as a nurse.

In this episode, Dave and Dad explore how conversation works using a bit of Episode 2 to shape the Practice of communication.

In this episode, Gary Strack, seasoned managerial leader, talks with Dave on how he will never stop seeking new and better ideas for his Practices for the rest of his life.

In this episode, Bob Laraia, a wealth management practitioner, keeps Dave smiling on how to manage and promote the value in one's Practice.

In this episode, program manager Norma Ortega tells Dave how making internships happen for college students at her energy corporation rejuvenates her Practice tenfold.

In this episode, long-time consultant Tom Casey joins Dave in their second discussion to find how Tom's Practice includes learning the challenges of senior leaders.

In this episode, publisher and professor of management Eileen Higgins talks with Dave on how she continually teaches herself in order to improve her teaching Practice.

In this episode, marketing professional Lizy Freudmann joins Dave in a conversation on how she is leading a constantly adapting marketing consultancy - One More Thing.

In this episode, Bill Torbert, a jack of all trades, talks with Dave on how Practice and action science has animated a lifelong teaching career and his twelfth book!

In this episode, professor, playwright, novelist and podcaster Dorothy Marcic joins Dave to discuss why choosing to never stop learning pushes her to new heights for her many Practices.

In this episode, Dave sits down with collaborator and MFA film student Anthony "Ant" Rivera to reflect on how their Practice of producing the podcast has grown.

In this episode, dynamic management educator Scott Allen talks with Dave on the difference between an active Practice and a passive Practice, and why he chooses the former.

In this episode, Laura Harris, Ph.D. is a nexus of science, technology, and unbounded curiosity which shows in her conversation with Dave on paying your Practice forward.

In this episode, technology director Rob Hokunson talks with Dave about facing challenges by powering through and adding tools to his Practice toolbox.

In this episode, long-time banking executive Chris Ludecke joins Dave in how he formed his Practice from putting his own self-worth first.

In this episode, insurance executive Ted Pizzo tells Dave how he is fully present in the moment, learns from everyone to grow his business, and does more for his public service with what and how he learns. A true practitioner!

In this episode, Joe De Feo, Chairman of the Juran Institute, joins Dave in keeping great thinking of the past relevant to the present, to the Practice.

In this episode, director of sales Tom Stickels joins Dave in how his Practice of selling sold him on Practice.

In this episode, attorney Paul Bedard joins Dave in how arriving where he can practice Law where he grew up and continues to develop his Practice.

In this episode, Dave is joined by entrepreneur Ash Crawford whose practice is all a-Quivr.

In this episode, Deanna Pendleton, self proclaimed "business behind the brains", joins Dave to discus her Practice as an active participant in digital technologies.

In this episode, executive director Theo Forde-Stiegler talks with Dave about finding a new way to collaborate and expand on one's Practice.

In this episode, inspirer Brent Robertson joins Dave in a conversation about Brent's Practice to find our futures through the power of conversation.

In this episode, Dave and Dave delve in to how conversations form social bonds in our working relationships.

In this episode, Jim Thompson, system dynamics researcher from WPI, joins Dave in discussing how his lifelong passions lent to his lifelong Practice.

In this episode, Tom Stickles, Director of Sales, talks with Dave on how his sales Practice allows him to make a positive impact in a hectic world.

In this episode, Dave is joined by professor Mary Collins, whose non-fiction writing Practice inspires the writer in her students and readers alike.

In this episode, Peter Winiarski, CEO of Win Enterprises, joins Dave to delve into how his Practice and company help make significant change for businesses big and small.

In this episode, Dave and Jackie Bardoorian have a turnabout and talk about his Practice with the podcast and in life going forward.

In this episode, Dave takes a few moments to reflect on Peter's passing and what they both accomplished, which he will continue to move forward with.

In this episode, CEO Joe DeFeo joins Dave in a conversation on how to inform yourself and continue to make steps for a Practice, that will last a lifetime.

In this episode, longtime Fordham University Management Professor Jim Stoner displays his role as an "expander" of vision, purpose, connections, ideas. A poet tells us so.

In this week's episode, Babson College Management professor Alan Cohen enters into a conversation on how he is, as always, living a practiced teaching life to the fullest.

In this episode, Dave goes solo as he reflects on what it means to live a practiced life and how to maintain this perspective.

In this episode, David Schwab, whose practice is running DAS Contruction Services, joins us to talk about his love for learning and making tough decisions in order to benefit his Practice.

In this week's episode, we introduce "the other Dave Fearon" and delve into the inner workings of social enaction.

In this week's episode, management professor Steven Cady tells us how he is building a legacy, a place for OD teachers, thinkers, and practitioners to find each other and be found by each other.

In this episode, we are joined by Leadership Consultant Linda Ferraro to discuss how her work is the success of others in organizations.

In this week's episode, management professor Joe Raelin joins us in discussing the inner workings of leadership and how it emerges from our Practices.

In this week's episode, marketing guru Joe Tindall joins us in discussing how his projects shape his practice from moment to moment.

In this episode, management professor David Jamieson guides us through exploring the use of self in Practice.

In this episode, Judy Cooper brings her forty years of experience at the Glenholme School for special needs to the conversation, showing us how her role as a leader has and continues to develop during COVID-19.

In this episode, organizational leader and former student Matt Minahan talks about how he builds on his practice as a strategist while sharing stories of Peter's teaching days.

In this episode, Kate Emery, a business leader with an artist's eye, talks about her process of capturing a vision beyond "business as usual."

In this week's episode, chief operating officer Brian Maguire joins us to discuss managerial leadership from a small business all the way up to a large corporation.

In this week's episode, chief administrator Kathie Ross shares how she is making her organizations and Practice work with and for people alike.

In this week's episode, management professor Joe Seltzer joins us to discuss building Practices in teaching and wood artistry to last.

In this episode, we pick up the pieces and move forward as we further our search into the nature of Practice with ethics professor, and former doctoral student of Peter's, Dr. Eric Dent.

In this short note, we acknowledge and mourn the loss of Peter Vaill, one of our founding Conversationalists, a management educator, a role model, a father, and a dear friend. We will move past this and continue to develop, what Peter called, "our Practice of Practice." We will miss him greatly.

In this episode, we reflect on what we've learned so far from practitioners in conversation.

In this week's episode, we sit in with fellow practitioner Steve Meisel to ask about his dealings with Practice in recent years.

In this week's episode, we sit in with fellow practitioner John Uliano to ask about his dealings with Practice in recent years.

In this episode, we tackle how bringing practitioners into our conversations will benefit ourselves and our listeners.

In this week's episode, we sit in with fellow practitioner Brittany Ernst to ask about her dealings with Practice in recent years.

In this week's episode, we sit in with fellow practitioner Jackie Geraci Bardoorian to ask about her dealings with Practice in recent years.

In this week's episode, we sit in with fellow practitioner Cristina Negron Mitusina to ask about her dealings with Practice in recent years.

In the last episode of 2019, we pause and reflect upon what we have offered so far and look ahead towards the future.

In this episode, we continue to look at Practice as an organizing principle. We see Practice as an interaction between the individual and a practice that distinguishes a person's own way of doing things.

In this episode, we have an epiphany; Practice is an organizing principle. Conjecturing anew, we realize that a job (even a hobby) can be a Practice if we decide to make it and keep it.

Vital to all Practices – a Practice of learning. In this week's episode, we commend a practice of learning to any sort of Practice, free from the walls of classrooms, as it’s main power source.

It’s everywhere we look. In this week's episode, we hone in on a type of Practice we know well, and about managerial leadership as a practice for organizational results.

Practice is real to us. Is it real to a practitioner? In this week's episode, we ponder what is “real” to the individual, which raises questions about intention, naming, knowing, and learning for one’s Practice.

In this episode, we continue to refine and tweak our main way of thinking. Practice grows its practitioners as increasingly-challenging results are pursued and (sometimes) caught.

Digitization? Hard to say, impossible to ignore. In this week's episode, we highlight our irony in digitizing our conversations in a podcast to extend our teaching practices beyond courses and writings.

Social technical systems? Yes, they are always in our faces. In this episode, we talk about the balancing game for Practices, which constantly tilt between technical and human influences.

In this episode, we discuss systems that shape Practice and are shaped by Practice, performing in systems unique to the practitioner’s situation.

In this week's episode, we sharpen our perspectives on Practice by treating Practice itself as perspective; never holding still like a picture frame, but hung out as a shingle.

Practice grows us? In this episode, we speculate on learning as "fresh baked" into our Practices in the "heat" of constant change.

In this week's episode, we tackle some myths and untested assumptions by tapping into our way of thinking about Practice, to open up curiosities and conventional wisdom about Practice.

In this week's episode, we develop our main way of thinking about Practice from which many current and future “conjectures” arise.

In this episode, we get started on the basic ideas of Practice, probing our own teaching and writing experiences to unearth why Practice means something to everyone.

In our inaugural episode, we look into discovering our fascination with learning "in action," to keep practices going in ever-changing circumstances.