Cecilia Anderson is a corporate learning strategist with nearly 20 years of helping organisations build learning that works: for people and for the business. She focuses on creating experiences that strengthen culture, shift behaviour over time, and connect lifelong learning with authentic leadership and performance. Cecilia partners with clients to shape learning that feels personal, practical, and purposeful — whether it’s onboarding, leadership development, navigating change, or tackling the ...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Josandra Schmidt is an emerging leader for a major agriculture equipment manufacturer. She's also in the third year of her own farm startup, with her husband. Plus she’s raising two young girls. She’s one of the hardest working Millennials I know and in today's episode she shares her perspective on leadership, life, work, etc. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondra-schmidt-92971b95/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jdockter
Sep 06, 2025•1 hr 6 min
David Hutchens is an author and CEO at Mythos Global / The Storytelling Leader. He helps innovation leaders around the world exercise the storytelling "voice of engagement" skill. With nearly 30 years of experience in organizational learning, David is an expert in using narrative to facilitate engagement, alignment, learning, and change in the world's most influential organizations. David has authored nine books, including his latest, "Story Dash", which equips leaders with tools and processes t...
Sep 02, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Charlotte Kemp is a futurist based in Capetown, South Africa. She helps leaders wrestling with the future to learn how to manage change; gather futures intelligence; define, describe and design the future and create a roadmap towards innovation and growing relevance in the marketplace. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF). LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottekemp/ Exponential Thinking for Exponential Times: https://www.amazon.com/Exponential-Thinking-Time...
Aug 05, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Today's episode provides a much needed booster shot of optimism, resilience and hope. Through her stories and practical examples, Jill helps others see through the challenges immediately in front of them, into a world of joy and peace and emotional abundance. The lessons themselves are almost always hard in the moment, and often the more difficult and painful they are, the more the teach us. So set your inner cynic aside for the next hour and let Jill share her stories with you. You'll be glad y...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
T.J. Jones is an author, speaker and leadership coach with a unique ability to help leaders leverage the strength of their humility, caring and vulnerability. A Caring Warrior chooses to wake up to his or her true self, chooses to lead others by giving, and chooses to inspire organizations and the world by sharing. It takes courage to fight on the battlefields of life: the internal (self), the tribal (our teams), and the cultural (organizations). With practical wisdom, he shows you how to be a p...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Peter Laughter and Dan Rust continue their conversation regarding the concept of "Distributed Leadership" from the previous episode.Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterlaughter/
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 3 min
As a keynote speaker and leadership transformation raconteur, Peter bridges the gap between organizational theory and practical implementation. Through award-winning storytelling and evidence-based insights, Peter helps executives navigate disruption by showing how leaders can:• Release the shackles of command-and-control• Access collective wisdom of their teams• Transform culture to thrive in rapid changeThe stakes are immense:• 77 percent of employees worldwide are disengaged • 70 percent of d...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Paul Gonsalves is a seasoned Global Executive and Healthcare Consultant. Paul has a remarkable reputation for driving commercial success across a diverse range of companies, from small enterprises to Fortune 500 corporations and private equity-owned businesses.Currently, Paul serves as a Private Equity Advisor and Interim Operating Executive with Leverage Advisors. He specializes in global healthcare market opportunity analysis and business development strategies, providing advisory consulting a...
Mar 11, 2025•59 min
Harris Jensen, MD joins the "Leadership Disrupted" podcast to discuss how leaders can be drained by negative overthinking that causes problems to look more significant and more overwhelming than they need to be – leading to self-doubt, anxiety and self-sabotage. Harris also discusses his new book "Prescription for Positivity" which offers clinically proven techniques he's seen work for 30 years. And perhaps most importantly, when leaders model a positive mindset for their employees, it turns out...
Oct 22, 2024•58 min
Scott Margason has more than 30 years of experience as a consulting partner working with Fortune 500 senior leaders across the globe, and that cumulative experience has given Scott a unique and broadly informed perspective on leadership. In this episode Scott shares the values and core beliefs that drive him professionally and personally. His approach to leadership is human-centered, highly empathetic and focused on truly connecting with each of his colleagues. This approach drives his success a...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
The CEO of Infopro Learning shares his experiences and insights gained from leading a global organization of creatives and innovators. Sriraj Mallick discusses the impact of AI on leadership, the challenges of leading a global/remote/hybrid work team, and the importance of transparency in driving a high-growth business culture. Sriraj also shares his own journey of evolving as a leader, learning to draw excellence, engagement and commitment out of others rather than simply driving these through ...
Sep 12, 2024•39 min
Larry Julian, bestselling author of "God is My CEO," joins us to discuss the challenges many leaders face when trying to integrate their faith and business. When the demands of business seem to be at odds with the guidance of one's faith, how does a business leader make decisions? Larry has been coaching leaders for more than 20 years and shares insights from a lifetime of experience helping these leaders navigate the sometimes conflicting demands of business and faith.
Sep 10, 2024•45 min
Today's episode is focused on leading a team, a department or an entire organization AFTER a large layoff. I studied more than 8,000 employees who survived a corporate layoff and discovered that, on average, their productivity, work quality and engagement all declined significantly. Retention rates of these employees also declined sharply, so employers were losing more of those they had planned to keep. Even the layoff of only a few, or even just one employee, can have a significant negative imp...
Jul 06, 2023•57 min
The phrase “First Wave DEI” refers the time period before May of 2022, with many decades of slow (and unsteady) progress toward greater awareness (and in some cases, appreciation) of the societal importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Race, gender and sexuality were the primary focus of DEI initiatives during this period. In the workplace, Human Resources departments were primarily responsible for establishing and enforcing equitable policies. The “Second Wave DEI” period began in the wa...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr
Once again I was NOT invited to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland this January. So while government leaders were rubbing shoulders with big business, big philanthropy, big media, and other cultural leaders to, as they say, SHAPE global, regional and industry agendas, for the rest of us, I was having conversations with what I like to call WORKING leaders. People like the CEO of a $50 million manufacturing company in Ohio, the VP of marketing for a global food distributor, ...
Mar 14, 2023•38 min
We look back at the year 2022. There were plenty of interesting and unexpected things that happened this past year to provide us with leadership lessons and observations IF you are paying attention and asking the right questions.
Feb 21, 2023•46 min
In this episode we will help leaders understand the approach of an optimal leader coach, and align coaching style with the employee’s competency/skill level. Performance coaching starts with a strong coaching relationship of trust, going in both directions. Followed by clearly defined performance objectives and standards. Good coaches measure individual and group contributions against clearly defined standards for performance. When gaps are identified, these are clearly and positively communicat...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 3 min
As a leader, if you are wondering what to do about quiet quitting, I suggest you start by focusing on yourself. Because the most recent research and survey data shows that LOUD Leaders have 30-40% fewer quiet quitters. "Quiet Quitters" are disengaged employees who choose to stay in their jobs, but are doing only what is specifically required of them at work and nothing more. Many of these employees will tell you that they are "working to live" as opposed to "living to work." Whatever the root ca...
Nov 17, 2022•37 min
Quiet quitting is just the latest popular term referencing employees who put no more effort into their jobs than absolutely necessary. The bad news is that employee engagement has been in decline for more than 20 years, and yet there is GOOD NEWS because employees have told us EXACTLY what it takes to drive their full engagement. In this episode we start with the role of leaders in boosting (or destroying) engagement, and the primary focus of those exceptional leaders who have the proven ability...
Nov 08, 2022•59 min
We are living and working in disruptive times: technology-driven upheavals, economic recession and inflation and supply chain issues, global pandemics, terrorist attacks, trade wars, culture wars. Employee expectations for their relationship with employers and leaders are evolving. And as employees needs and priorities change, it makes sense that leadership would need to evolve as well. In this disrupted landscape we need to do more to develop evolved leaders who can best serve their companies a...
Nov 01, 2022•32 min
This is a brief introduction to the "Leadership, Disrupted" podcast which explores the art and science of high-impact leadership in a disrupted world where the future – of business, of capitalism, of our society, and yes, of leadership – is changing and evolving and where none of us can be certain what the future holds, but we are sure that it will be fundamentally different. All of this will be discussed from the perspective of real leaders in the real world who are changing the way business wo...
Oct 22, 2022•3 min
