In my work with my executive coaching clients, one of the most important aspects of sustainable change and getting into flow is to create daily habits that support our energy and focus. One of those habits that I encourage is daily reflection. The impact of a daily reflection exercise is to connect more deeply with ourselves and what matters. In this podcast episode, I share two 5-minute guided coaching exercises. The first is a morning journaling exercise. It helps you create focus for yourself...
Nov 10, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Our current state of burnout is a call for us to evolve our leadership, individually and collectively. In my work with leaders and their teams, they are increasingly asking for ways to create more trust and connection so people can feel safety in navigating the challenges of disruption. The cause of burnout is lack of connection to ourselves, our individual and collective purpose, and the people we work with. In this short podcast episode, I have created two practices for teams. At the start is ...
Oct 27, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Many teams struggle with burnout, belonging, and breakthrough innovation. Silos, matrix reporting and disconnection get in the way of results. What if we could navigate some of our most important collective challenges by accessing collective flow? I sat down with Dr. Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius , who is a pre-eminent researcher on this topic and worked directly with the “father of flow”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Dr. Keith Sawyer, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Oct 24, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Dr. Andrew White works globally with leaders to understand how they can transcend the internal and external strategic challenges they face to ensure they deliver sustainable high performance. His experience comes from being a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where he works with these leaders by directing the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, coaching several CEOs and their senior teams, and conducting research into leadership and tran...
Oct 11, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 45
What if the most serious personal and global challenges won’t be solved with more thinking or talking? What if human beings have access to deeper forms of intelligence that we have access to only in silence? Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz are the co-authors of the book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise . Justin Zorn has served as both a meditation teacher and a senior policymaker in the US Congress. He is a Harvard-and-Oxford trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellb...
Aug 30, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Bob Anderson has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and personal mastery, and between competence and consciousness. The creator and author of The Leadership Circle Profile, an integrated and innovative leadership assessment tool, Bob is a true pioneer in the field of leadership development and research. Bob is also the author of Mastering Leadership, An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results and Scaling Leadership,...
Jul 25, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Susan Cain is the author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking , which has been translated into 40 languages and spent seven years on the New York Times best seller list. Her record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 40 million times. And her new book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole opened #1 on the New York Times best seller list. In this episode we spoke about how making room to be with bittersweet emotions, individually and c...
Jul 04, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Kevin Cashman is a best-selling author, global thought leader and CEO Coach, keynote speaker and pioneer of the ‘grow the whole person to grow the whole leader’ approach to transformative enterprise leadership. He is the founder of LeaderSource Ltd, and the Chief Executive Institute recognized as one of the top three enterprise leadership development programs globally. In 2006, LeaderSource was acquired by Korn Ferry, where Kevin is now Global Leader of CEO and Executive Development across 130 o...
May 19, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Adam Symson is president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, the fourth-largest local TV broadcaster in the U.S. Prior to becoming CEO in August 2017, Adam was Scripps’ chief operating officer, overseeing the company’s broadcast TV, radio and digital media divisions. In this episode, Adam shares the story of what it is like to lead during the pandemic as CEO and how to make decisions in ambiguity. He also shares his experience of managing multiple stakeholders (employees, shareholders, the publ...
May 07, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Paddy Hull is the VP of Future of Work at Unilever. In this role, he is responsible for bringing Unilever’s social commitments on the Future of Work to life, to help people stay fit for work – now and in the future. He is leading a program to deliver on three commitments, equipping people for the future of work, pioneering new flexible employment options, and partnering with others to create jobs and skills for young people outside of Unilever. In Part 2 of our conversation, we discussed how Uni...
Apr 28, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Paddy Hull is the VP of Future of Work at Unilever. In this role, he is responsible for bringing Unilever’s social commitments on the Future of Work to life, to help people stay fit for work – now and in the future. This involves delivering on three commitments: equipping Unilever people for the future of work, pioneering new flexible employment options, and partnering with others to create jobs and skills for young people outside of Unilever. He has identified his purpose as "To bring the essen...
Apr 21, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Carol Campbell is Managing Director – Consumer Insight for Delta Air Lines, responsible for guiding and shaping long-term strategies to deliver world-class experiences for Delta’s customers. Under Carol’s leadership, the Consumer Insight team plays a critical role in helping Delta to understand what’s most important to customers in the present and anticipate expectations in the future. Carol joined Delta in 2018 after 22-years with the Walt Disney Company. In this episode, Carol gave us a front-...
Mar 31, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Kevin John Delaney is a voracious reader, night owl, musician, husband, father of three and lives by the words of Helen Keller, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” He is the Vice President of Learning and Development at LinkedIn and the author of A Life Worth Living – Finding Your Purpose and Daring to Live the Life You’ve Imagined . In 2008, Kevin suffered a series of health issues that left him in a coma, very close to dying. He received an organ transplant that saved his li...
Mar 09, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Joe Whittinghill is the Corp Vice President of Talent, Learning, and Insights for Microsoft. Joe leads a team responsible for activating culture and learning, building world-class leaders, and enabling the workforce of the future for Microsoft. Joe has expertise in strategy, organization development, learning, executive development, the neuroscience of leadership, and culture activation. In this episode, Joe shares the story of Microsoft's business and culture transformation, partnering with Sat...
Jan 07, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Sarah Devereaux has spent the last 14 years in the Learning and Leadership Development space at Google. Some of her more recent roles included: Head of Executive Development Programs, Head of Strategic Initiatives for The Google School for Leaders, and Global Lead of the g2g (Googlers-to-Googlers) program. She has a keen interest in the future of work and leadership and a passion for learning and helping individuals and organizations to realize their full potential. In this episode, Sarah shared...
Dec 18, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Simon Brown is Chief Learning Officer for Novartis, a leading global medicine company based in Switzerland focused on reimagining medicine. He is also author of the Amazon-bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’. He is leading the strategy for Novartis to ‘Go Big on Learning’ in support of the company-wide culture transformation to become ‘Curious, Inspired and Unbossed’. In this episode we spoke about Simon's new book and the steps each one of us can take to become more curious and learning ag...
Nov 23, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and Co-Founder of the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. He is also the author of 17 books including his most recent Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy . In this book he examines the relationship between character and leadership and the timely importance of writing and living your own personal credo. From his more than 30 years of experience and applied research, Dr. Loehr believes the single m...
Nov 22, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Atul Khosla is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Talent, Learning & Organization Effectiveness at Mondelēz International. Atul's international HR experience, spanning more than 25 years and three continents, has been primarily focused on driving large scale transformation, strategic Organizational Development and Talent Management initiatives. Atul’s passion is to bring back humanity in leadership. In this episode, Atul shares his personal story of evolution to becoming a more hum...
Nov 19, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Kurt Harrison is a Partner for Russell Reynolds and Co-Head of the Global Sustainability Practice. In this role, Kurt specializes in executive assessment and succession planning advice for clients. Russell Reynolds is a global leadership advisory and search firm with 46 offices in 26 countries. This perspective from their website inspired me: “Sustainability has emerged as the defining issue of our time. There is now an urgent need for a new type of business leader—one who can deliver financial ...
Nov 18, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Noam has served as CEO of Waze since March 2009, building the company to become one of the world's most talked-about startups through its acquisition by Google. Noam continues to lead the global Waze team within Google to help users around the world enjoy faster, safer drives. He also led the launch of Waze Carpool - the company’s carpooling initiative aimed at taking cars off the road to dramatically reduce traffic - which, in 2019 alone, reduced CO2 emissions equivalent to planting 420,000 tre...
Nov 17, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Shelley Zalis is an internationally renowned thought leader for advancing equality in the workplace and is the CEO of The Female Quotient. As the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, she changed the game, helped elevate feminine values in the workplace and has devoted herself to becoming a mentor and role model to women and leaders in her industry. She is co-founder of #SeeHer, a movement led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to increase the accur...
Sep 10, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Michael Bush is the global CEO of Great Place to Work® a people analytics and consulting firm with operations in more than 60 countries. Through certification programs, Great Place to Work® recognizes outstanding workplaces and produces Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the World’s Best Workplaces™ list, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women™ list, the Best Workplaces for Diversity™ list and dozens of other distinguished workplace rankings around the world. The company’s m...
Sep 06, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Abbe Luersman is the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) for Royal Ahold Delhaize, an international retailing group with strong local consumer brands in Europe and the United States – €63bn in revenue, 383,000 associates and serving over 50 million customers in-store and 20 million online weekly. Prior to joining Ahold, Abbe spent 6.5 years with Unilever where she held two distinct roles, SVP Unilever Europe and SVP HR Transformation & Strategy. She is Co-Chair and on the Board of Directors ...
Aug 13, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In a time of unprecedented change and disruption increasingly leaders need to manage emotional wellbeing, our own and that of others we work with. In my book " Wired for Disruption ", I describe neuro-emotional agility as the ability to move ourselves and others from a state of threat to a state of curiosity and creativity. We do this by activating the empathic neural network in our brain. In this unscripted live coaching, one of our leadership community members LaToia volunteered to be coached ...
Aug 13, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Bruce Broussard is President and CEO of Humana, a Fortune 50 company with $65 Billion in revenues and 46,000 team members. Under his leadership, Humana has created an integrated care delivery model with a focus on improving health outcomes, lowering costs, and creating a personalized member experience. Bruce also plays a leadership role in the Business Roundtable, which is driving stakeholder capitalism. He is a member of the Board of Directors of KeyCorp and the World Economic Forum Health Gove...
Jul 30, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 24
At age 22, Tami Simon started Sounds True, now a multimedia publisher, with a dream, a tape recorder, and a guiding mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Over its 35-year history, Sounds True has produced over 3,000 titles and been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies. In this episode, we spoke about devoting ourselves to living a life of purpose, how to listen to our inner guidance and intuition, and why we each need an Inner MBA so we can be a force for goo...
Jul 23, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Tanuj Kapilashrami is the Group Head of Human Resources for Standard Chartered Bank, a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Tanuj built her career at HSBC where she worked across multiple HR disciplines in many of their footprint markets - Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, India and London. In this episode we spoke about how leaders today need to be willing to be vulnerable to admit they don't have all the answers (...
Jul 09, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Ruchika Sikri is the Head of Well Being Learning Programs and Strategy at Google. She leads a powerful community of 350+ Googlers across 130+ office locations to bring secular and science-based Mindfulness and Compassion Learning programs to 120,000+ Googlers globally. Her daily meditation and yoga practice is grounded in increasing clarity in mind, purity in heart, and sincerity in action. In this episode, we talked about the one simple habit every leader needs to learn to promote well-being on...
Jul 01, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Aamir Paul is the US Country President for Schneider Electric. In his role, he leads the commercial teams to deliver best in class solutions for Schneider Electric’s partners and customers across the company’s Energy Management and Industrial Automation portfolio. In this episode, we spoke about how Schneider Electric has responded with agility to the pandemic, how it is disrupting the market to bring energy efficiency and sustainability as well as new models of working. You can learn more about...
Jun 29, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Times of disruption can create fear, anxiety, and stress. This leads to dysfunctional leadership behaviors. We have to intentionally shift our mindsets and biology to be collaborative, connected, curious, and creative. As I write about in my book Wired for Disruption , our neuro-emotional agility is at the core of leadership required in times of disruption. This requires us to practice compassion for ourselves and others to develop new neural networks in our brain. This short mindful coaching ex...
Jun 10, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 19
