My guest this week is Scott Spradlin, a licensed Dialectic Behavior Therapist, consultant, educator, and Media Developer at Wise Mind, Wise Life. Scott’s passion is centered around mindfulness-based counseling. The pandemic has heightened the need of therapists and counselors and the need for self-care has never been greater. We discuss this idea of mindfulness along with how it plays an important role in managing our emotions and helps bring clarity to self-awareness and personal growth and emb...
Feb 09, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 46
MY guest this week is Dr. Michael T. Miller, who currently serves as Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas. He previously was the Dean of the college and has been in several other leadership roles throughout his career in Higher Education. Mike and I discuss the changing landscape of higher education and the tremendous changes occurring and the increased pressure from diverse stakeholder groups on what colleges and universi...
Jan 24, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 45
My guest is Dr. Steven Cady. Steven is a Professor of Management and Director of the DODC Program at Bowling Green State University. Steve is also one of the co-authors of the book, The Change Handbook. He is the founder of NEXUS4 Change.world. Steve shares is ideas around the topic of professional joy. He raises the question, is it possible to experience joy in work and organizational life, just like we experience it in other aspects of our lives. We discuss how our passion and purpose can allo...
Jan 18, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 44
My guest this episode is Sommer Keplar, who is a organization/change management consultant, with a background in both internal and external business consulting. Sommer shares her career journey and describes how she has leveraged her communication and psychology background to work in a variety of business spaces doing large-scale systems change, ranging from healthcare to the finance world. We discuss some of the challenges and rewards of consulting work, and especially the central role of commu...
Dec 08, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 43
My guest this episode is Jamie Pearson, who is a Surgical Neurophysiologist and former business consultant for family-owned businesses. Jamie shares her fascinating career journey and her current role in the emerging field of intra operative neural monitoring. We discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding personal growth and career evolution. We discuss how each individual has the potential and opportunity to bring all aspects of themselves to whatever job or career path they pursue. J...
Nov 30, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 42
My guest this episode is Dr. Matt Kutz, leadership catalyst, talent developer, professor, and award winning author. Matt shares his fascinating story of how he has combined his expertise as a certified, licensed athletic trainer with the world of global leadership development and organization development. We take a deep dive into his book, Contextual Intelligence and the role of insight, foresight, and hindsight. We talk about the importance of understanding context and contextual cues and being...
Nov 03, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 41
My guest this episode is Khafre Jay, Executive Director on Fire, Hip Hop Organizer, Entrepreneur, and Pedagogist; Nonprofit Strategist, Speaker, DOPE MC, Songwriter, & Best Dad Ever. Khafre heads up the nonprofit, Hip Hop for Change and shares his powerful story of growing up in San Francisco Hunter’s Point, and how he is using his platform as an artist and social activist to bring awareness and change around racism and racial injustice. He has spoken to over 20,000 youth across the globe an...
Oct 19, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 40
My guest this episode is Dr. Will Sparks, who currently serves as the Dennis Thompson Chair and Professor of Leadership at the McCall's School of Business at Queen's University in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a best-selling author and consultant in the area of leadership and organization development. We discuss his newest book, entitled Actualized Leadership: Meeting your Shadow and Maximizing your Potential, that was published by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in June of 2...
Oct 12, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 39
My guest this episode is Dr. Paul Cadario, Distinguished Fellow in Global Innovation at the University of Toronto. Paul shares his insights and experiences from his 37-year career at the World Bank, where he served World Bank clients on five continents, and helped the Bank prepare for and live in the world of transparency and accountability. Paul discusses how he continues to leverage his background as a civil engineer along with his education and experience in organization development to focus ...
Oct 05, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 38
My guest this episode is Dr. Corrie Voss, who is an Organization Development Scholar-Practitioner. Dr. Voss focuses on leadership development and helping organizations and leaders practice what she refers to as “conscious capitalism” and “conscious leadership”. We discuss how COVID-19 has turned the volume up on the challenges organizations were already facing prior to the pandemic. Corrie shares that “whatever you were saying to your employees about COVID, you might as well make it your marketi...
Sep 27, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Global Leadership Coaching: A fascinating journey into coaching and consulting for a speech language therapist and world explorer. My guest this episode is Fiona Fraser, who is a leadership coach from Scotland, who currently lives in Chile. She shares her fascinating story of how she came to find herself working as a coach and consultant, after spending years in Chile working with NGOs as a speech and language specialist working with deaf children and preteens. She soon found herself spending mo...
Sep 14, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 36
My guest this episode is Scott Span. Scott helps individuals and organizations overcome obstacles, accelerate performance, and getting stuff done. He recently was a part of a group of world-class experts on focus, drive, and mindset to help individuals live their best life who have authored a new book, “The Successful Spirit.” We talk about his ideas around balance, mindfulness, and commonsense ways you can take control of your life by harnessing your inner spirit. Scott’s focus is on authentici...
Sep 06, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 35
My guest this episode is Terry Bohn, who is a clinical consultant, supervisor, coach, and counselor. Terry is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. We discuss central role of curiosity in change, the need to have an open mind and a growth mindset. With Terry’s strong background in mental health and counseling, we discuss the importance of personal growth and meaning through life’s change inflection points, doing the work that matters to people.
Aug 30, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 34
My guest this week is Linda Ackerman Anderson, Ed.D. Linda is a coach who develops senior leaders and change consultants in how to consciously succeed in organization transformation. With over 40 years of experience as a change consultant, Linda discusses her current work and passion around Transformational Change, particularly as it pertains to social justice, diversity and inclusion, and police reform with a current large community client. A key part of this work is centered around culture cha...
Aug 23, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 33
My guest this week is Suzanna Mathews, who is a dating & relationship coach and ‘mindful matchmaker.’ She helps individuals create mindset tools, social strategies, and digital tactics to help her clients elevate dating and deepen connection. She shares how she brings business acumen to the building of healthy, meaningful relationships. We talk about how having a relationship coach can be invaluable in helping personal growth, increasing self-awareness and developing greater fulfillment with...
Apr 27, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 32
This week, I am joined by Dr. Nate Regier, an author, consultant and public speaker and the Owner of Next Element, a global training and advisory firm specializing in leadership communication. Nate helps people-focused leaders re-imagine compassion at work by implementing The Compassion Mindset Framework. Nate shares his ideas around inclusion and particularly his focus on personality inclusion and what this means for organizations to grow and thrive. His book, Conflict Without Casualties, is a ...
Apr 20, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 31
My guest for this episode is Dr. Roni Reitter-Palmon, who is the Director of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Graduate program and Director of Innovation, Center for Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She shares her research and consulting experience around creativity and innovation. We discuss how all creativity is change, but not all change is creativity. In helping organizations grow and improve, she shares her insights around the role of novelty and usefuln...
Apr 13, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 30
My guest is Nikki Beyrle, the Senior Director of Human Resources for the LDF organization. She works with a variety of large beverage companies and their HR and talent development teams. She talks about the need as an HR professional to integratively use both sides of her brain; using the left side for the transactional/analytical aspect of HR and using the right side of the brain for the transformational/strategic side of HR. We talk about the challenges of this type of diverse thinking and off...
Apr 06, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 29
My guest is Jennifer Freeman, a shaman who helps empower individuals and organizations through her company, Quantum Coaching and Consulting. She shares her own personal journey and transformation and how this led to her coaching and consulting practice where she helps others shift from a Newtonian perspective, where they see themselves as an object or problem to be solved, and instead, see themselves as a process of mystery, wonder, and possibilities. She focuses on helping her clients to bring ...
Mar 30, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 28
My guest for this episode is Dr. Tojo Thatchenkery, Professor and director of the Organization Development and Knowledge Management graduate program at the Schar School of Policy & Government, at George Mason University. He is also a member of the Taos Institute and the NTL Institute. He is a leading change thinker, and the author of over a dozen books including Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn and Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge. He shares his ideas and insigh...
Mar 16, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 27
My guest this episode is Dave Jamieson, who is the president of the Jamieson Consulting Group, a visiting professor at a number of universities. He is the author of multiple books including the Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in OD, The Facilitator's Fieldbook and Consultation for Organizational Change Revisited. The companies that are thriving and growing are having to make significant changes. No organization really knows what is on the other side of the bridge. We discuss the role o...
Mar 09, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Episode 25 My guest this episode is Dr. Dorothy Siminovitch, from Toronto, Canada. Dr. Siminovitch is a global executive coach, speaker, author, Director of Coach Training, presence, awareness & somatic coaching. She is the co-founder of the Gestalt Center for Coaching and author of the book, Gestalt Coaching Primer. She has her Ph.D. from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. We discuss the concept of vertical development and how we use ourselves to recogn...
Feb 23, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 25
My guest this episode is Dr. Russell Fox, political scientist and professor. Russell considers himself an idea person and his research is centered around local politics and the politics of place. We discuss the increased polarization of politics and how polarization is now sociological and the impact of technological change. The increased technological means of information sorting and its impact and implications is still unfolding. My guest this episode is Dr. Russell Fox, political scientist an...
Feb 16, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 24
My guest this episode is Noble Kumawu from Accra, Ghana. Noble is the President of the Organisation Development Institute and Chief Executive Officer of the Organisation Development (OD) Consultancy firm, Organisation Capacity Improvement Consultants (OCIC). Noble established the first African educational graduate program in Organization Development. He is the author of two books, “Global OD: A Model for Africa and the World” (2007) and “The Father of Organisation Development in Africa: The Jour...
Feb 09, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
My guest for this episode is Michelle Clarke, who is a Global Leadership Coach & Facilitator, Coach Trainer, and Improv Coach - YES! She describes her fascinating journey from South Africa to Santiago, Chili. We discuss the challenges and opportunities of using the cloud to deliver leadership coaching and group facilitation. She describes how she provides cross-cultural facilitation virtually around the globe. Michelle also shares how she conducts Improv workshops to develop leaders, increas...
Feb 02, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 22
My guest for this episode is Angela Nan, who is a consultant and professor in Myanmar. She is a recent graduate of Assumption University with her Ph.D. in Organization Development. She talks about her recently launched consulting practice and her work with empowering and training female leaders in her country. She is part of a growing presence of new OD practitioners introducing OD and expanding its use across their region.
Jan 26, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 21
My guests for this episode are two of the authors of the soon to be released book, Syngineering; Building Agility into Any Organization, Bill Zybac and Richard Thayer. Bill poses a powerful question, “How do we deal with the volatility and complexity all around us, and all kinds of unintended consequences playing out all over the globe?” Our conversation explores the field of organization design and some of the book’s ideas and strategies to help design organizations to adapt and manage change. ...
Jan 19, 2021•54 min•Ep. 20
My guest for this episode is Dr. Brian Primack, who is the Dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas. He has a unique skillset with a background in both human development and psychology along with an M.D. in Family Medicine. He shares his perspective on the impact of the changes in technology (especially social media) on health outcomes. We discuss how during the pandemic, technology and social media are providing a lifeline for those who are isolated,...
Jan 12, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Using organization development and poetry for changing and saving lives. My guest this week is Manish Srivastava, who shares his journey from the director of learning and development for Unilever into working globally with such issues as child malnutrition with UNICEF in Ethiopia and Human Capital efforts and engaging the youth around sustainable change in Cambodia. He has been a consultant with the Presencing Institute at MIT University for a number of years. He shares his stories around Awaren...
Dec 01, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 18
My guest this week is Rod Barnett who does consulting in organization development and people development with his consulting firm, Salient Management Consulting. He currently resides in Australia, just outside of Sidney. He shares his thoughts around the role of leadership in adaptation and resiliency. We discuss the shifting notion of the purpose for organizations and the connection to the larger community. He talks about the concept of dissonance and how organizations and individuals are exper...
Nov 20, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 17
