Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Questions John asked about what to do when it’s the leader who is planning to le...
Dec 05, 2016•33 min•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast Mindy Danna: Adult Development Mindy Danna has over 20 years experience helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals through coaching, organization development, and strategic facilitation. She specializes in workplace communication, influencing skills, sales management, team building, strategic facilitation, and conflict resolution. Key Points The stages of development from Robert Kegan: Impulsive mind (early childhood) Imperial mind (adolescence) Socialized mind (46% of the adult p...
Nov 28, 2016•37 min•Ep 273•Transcript available on Metacast Muriel Wilkins: Own the Room Muriel is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Paravis Partners. She hosts the Coaching Real Leaders podcast, presented by Harvard Business Review. She's also the co-author, with Amy Su, of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Key Points It’s about learning to adapt and learning how you bring your best self forward for the situation at play. Effective leadership presence does two things: (1) it makes an impression through ...
Nov 19, 2016•31 min•Ep 272•Transcript available on Metacast Judith Glaser: Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser is an Organizational Anthropologist. She is one of the most pioneering and innovative change agents, consultants, and executive coaches, in the consulting industry and is the world’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence, Neuro-innovation, and WE-centric Leadership. She is a best-selling author of seven business books including her newest best seller Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinar...
Nov 14, 2016•38 min•Ep 271•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Questions Joshua asked about creating a genuine connection with the team he lead...
Nov 07, 2016•38 min•Ep 270•Transcript available on Metacast Larry Braman: Career Consultant and Coach Larry Braman is the president of Global Career Consulting and Placement and the founder of Career University, live and on demand job landing and career advancing webinars. Key Points It’s essential for us to recognize that the most successful people ask for (and receive) help all the time. Say less initially in your interactions with influencers so that you can meet them where they are as the conversation progresses. When someone offers to help or to mak...
Oct 31, 2016•45 min•Ep 269•Transcript available on Metacast Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez: Ignite Nancy Duarte has created thousands of presentations for the world's top institutions, including Apple, Cisco, Facebook, GE, Google, TED, and the World Bank. She's also the author of Resonate*, Slide:ology*, the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations*, and co-author of Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols*. Patti Sanchez is a communicator with 25 years of experience leading transformative marketing initiatives for brand...
Oct 24, 2016•37 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast Ron Wallace: Leadership Lessons From a UPS Driver Ron Wallace is the former president of UPS International. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations in more than 200 countries and territories, with more than 60,000 people under his direction. He’s the author of the book, Leadership Lessons From a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not Me*. Key Points By promoting from within, a company’s legacy and culture is seamlessly passed on. Don’t hire people for jobs, hire them for career...
Oct 17, 2016•33 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast Lynda Gratton: The 100-Year Life Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She has been ranked in the top 15 on The Thinkers50 list of the world’s top 50 business thinkers. She’s the author with Andrew Scott of The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity*. Key Points Many more of us, and potentially a majority of our children, will live to be 100 or more Organizations (and society) still tend to frame our lives in three stages: education, wor...
Oct 10, 2016•37 min•Ep 266•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Key Points Dave asked what advice we would give to our younger selves about lead...
Oct 03, 2016•38 min•Ep 265•Transcript available on Metacast Croft Edwards: CROFT + Company Croft Edwards is a Master Certified Coach who has been serving an array of clients from energy and mining, to forestry and aviation, since 2000. He’s a retired US Army Officer and has over eighteen years in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. Key Points Much of leaders’ effectiveness has to do with their level of self-mastery. Flow is a combination of physical, mental, and emotional factors. We learn our behaviors from others, and they learn their behaviors f...
Sep 25, 2016•40 min•Ep 264•Transcript available on Metacast Susan Gerke (web) is the president of Gerke Consulting & Development. She has worked with global teams and has certified facilitators around the world to deliver management, leadership, and team offerings. Susan is co-creator of GO Team, a training suite for organizations to power team performance.
Sep 19, 2016•43 min•Ep 263•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference Chris Voss is the Founder and CEO of the Black Swan Group and the author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It*. Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. Key Points Compromise is a dirty word. Really smart people often have trouble being negotiators. Nego...
Sep 12, 2016•37 min•Ep 262•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Key Points Rachel asked about how to balance performance and people. Mike asked ...
Sep 05, 2016•35 min•Ep 261•Transcript available on Metacast Bob Frisch and Cary Greene: Simple Sabotage For over 30 years, Bob Frisch has worked with Senior Executive Teams and Boards on their most vital strategic and organizational challenges, both as a consultant and a corporate executive. Cary Greene has over 20 years’ experience working with senior executives and boards on challenging and complex strategic issues. They are co-authors with Robert Galford of the book Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Guide for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors...
Aug 29, 2016•39 min•Ep 260•Transcript available on Metacast Scott Anthony Barlow: Happen to Your Career Scott Anthony Barlow is the Founder of Happen to Your Career. He’s been featured on CNBC, Yahoo, CareerBuilder, Fast Company and Huffington Post and various colleges and universities as a top expert on career happiness. He's held roles executive roles in human resources, business development, and career coaching. Scott is the host of the Happen to Your Career podcast, featuring the career stories of many successful professionals. His team and him have ...
Aug 22, 2016•42 min•Ep 259•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Robertson: Holacracy Brian Robertson is the primary developer of Holacracy, which allows leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process. He co-founded HolacracyOne to support Holacracy’s growth, and he fills and loves a broad variety of the company’s roles. Brian is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World*. Key Points Holocracy functions like a city; everybody knows the parame...
Aug 15, 2016•38 min•Ep 258•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Henschel: The Look & Sound of Leadership Tom Henschel of Essential Communications grooms senior leaders and executive teams. An internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace communications and self-presentation, he has helped thousands of leaders achieve excellence through his work as an executive coach and his top-rated podcast, The Look & Sound of Leadership. Key Points There is a certain amount of fear involved in a promotion over peers. The situation has feelings attached t...
Aug 08, 2016•44 min•Ep 257•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Key Points Phan asked about how to best identify a business partner. Ruben asked...
Aug 01, 2016•28 min•Ep 256•Transcript available on Metacast Therese Huston: How Women Decide Therese Huston is looking to change the conversation about women as decision-makers. Her book, How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices*, debunks popular negative stereotypes about women as decision-makers. She is also the Founding Director for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. Key Points When a female leader makes a mistake in a job traditionally held by men, people are much mor...
Jul 25, 2016•41 min•Ep 255•Transcript available on Metacast Dacher Keltner: The Power Paradox Dacher shows us how to use power for good and the most important ways we can gain and lose influence. Quotes We need to rethink what power is … it’s not necessarily a dirty word. —Dacher Keltner If you can just stay interested in other people and know where their minds are, you will rise in power … and you will keep your power because people will respect you. —Dacher Keltner In today’s collaborative workplace, our power rests critically upon the good work of oth...
Jul 18, 2016•34 min•Ep 254•Transcript available on Metacast David Burkus: Under New Management David is the author of Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual*. In this conversation, David teaches us how leading organizations are now using new management techniques. Quotes If you’re not embarrassed by your work from five years ago, then you’re not growing fast enough. —David Burkus You need to be a great place to be from, not just a great place to be at. —David Burkus Discover More Activate your free membership for f...
Jul 11, 2016•37 min•Ep 253•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Question from Chase I’m wondering about coaching someone who has inherited a job that pushes them beyond their skill set...
Jul 04, 2016•42 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast Molly Moseley: LinkUp In this episode, Molly Moseley of LinkUp teaches us how to respond when somebody quits. Quotes When someone is approaching you putting in a resignation, you need to throw out that reactive brain and think logically. —Molly Moseley As a manager, you need to know the [career] goals of every one of your direct reports. —Molly Moseley If you are constantly worried that this person is going to leave, maybe you did make the wrong decision to have them stay. —Molly Moseley Resourc...
Jun 27, 2016•33 min•Ep 251•Transcript available on Metacast Ryan Williams: The Influencer Economy On this episode, Ryan Williams, author of The Influencer Economy*, teaches us how to master the influencer economy — and the importance of getting started. Quotes When it comes to a platform, it’s all about the relationships. —Ryan Williams In the internet, everyone is reachable. —Ryan Williams Never ask for a favor … always make it a win-win. —Ryan Williams You need to make it as easy as possible for influencers to say yes. —Ryan Williams You’ve got to give...
Jun 20, 2016•47 min•Ep 250•Transcript available on Metacast John Kotter: That’s Not How We Do It Here! On this episode, John Kotter, author of That's Now How We Do It Here!*, and many other bestselling books on organizational change, shares how to succeed with leadership and management. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.
Jun 13, 2016•46 min•Ep 249•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Question from Marcelo I am from Brazil and I would like to let you know that sin...
Jun 06, 2016•43 min•Ep 248•Transcript available on Metacast Chase Carey: Chasin' Meditation Chase Carey, author of Chasin' Meditation*, teaches us how to reduce stress using the practice of meditation. Quotes Meditation isn’t about what happens in meditation; it’s all about what happens in your external life. —Chase Carey Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you have to pay attention to it, and it doesn’t mean you have to come up with a conclusion or emotional response to it. —Chase Carey If you’re a business leader, a coach, or a professional, y...
May 30, 2016•32 min•Ep 247•Transcript available on Metacast Zvi Band: Contactually Zvi Band, CEO of Contactually shares how his organization conducts one-on-ones and how their strategy leads to results. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.
May 23, 2016•38 min•Ep 246•Transcript available on Metacast David Nihill: Do You Talk Funny? David Nihill, author of Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker*, teaches us how to practically engage our audiences with humor. Quotes Humor isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s a must-have. —David Nihill If there’s embarrassment in there, there’s humor in there. It’s just about whether you’re willing to talk about it. —David Nihill The end of laughter is followed by the height of listening. —Jeffrey Gitomer Resources FunnyBiz E...
May 16, 2016•35 min•Ep 245•Transcript available on Metacast 
