Featured Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen How do you get a corporation to change its views on society and the environment? Start with its board of directors. They determine the heart and soul of an organization. That’s vital now, with companies around the world examining environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the wake of 2021’s COP26 summit in Glasgow. It’s quite possible to achieve both profit and environmental sustainability, but that requires deep thinking. A board must ask direct qu...
Dec 16, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Greg Moran Greg Moran joins Maureen to discuss the challenges organizations are facing during the months of working from home and how his organization, Aware, is helping companies track employee engagement and satisfaction without invasion of privacy. They also discuss the seven leadership mindsets and behaviors required to adjust to the disruptions leaders are facing. Leaders need to act more like scientists than experts. They need to change what they expect of themselves (minds...
Dec 16, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Valrie Grant & Christopher Washington Research has shown that diversity at every level of leadership leads to a more successful organization. In the first segment, Dr. Christopher Washington of Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio, joins Maureen to discuss the importance of J.E.D.I. (just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments) S.P.A.C.E. (supportive, purposeful, accountable, collaborative, and evaluative practices). The second segment features Valrie Grant, the Man...
Dec 16, 2022•47 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Guest: Deborah Haven A change mindset is here to stay. Implementing change takes high energy, an abundance of patience and extreme flexibility. United States Navy Rear Admiral Deborah Haven, Retired, joins the show to discuss her experience in leading change and working in an uncertain environment as well as the lessons she has learned that can be translated to situations all leaders face.
Dec 16, 2022•41 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Darcy Winslow The need for system leaders, system literacy and collaboration are more important than ever. The field of ‘awareness-based systems change’ is growing, and there are many very accessible ways to engage. Darcy joins Maureen to discuss taking a more holistic, or systems approach, does not require a PhD in Systems Dynamics - anyone can become a systems thinker and have a positive impact in the systems in which they work and live.
Dec 15, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Trista Bridges & Donald Eubank Sustainability is now a business-critical issue. Companies and industries that don't embrace it will be left behind. In fact, we are already starting to see this. Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank join the show today to discuss their new book Leading Sustainability: The Path to Sustainable Business and How the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Changed Everything, which is the culmination of 18 months of research from around the world. In thei...
Dec 15, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Brian Ferguson The COVID pandemic has elevated a long-overlooked narrative: we ask A LOT of the nurses, doctors, and frontline medical staff who shepherd our communities in times of public health crisis. And while they are required to step into unknown, high-pressure + high-stress work, we do not equip them with the same tools for resilience and recovery that we do for professional athletes and elite military units. Brian Ferguson joins the show to discuss how Arena Labs is focus...
Dec 15, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty and CIO Doug McCollough In a time when people are sharing more of their personal struggles, we talk to Congresswoman Beatty and Doug McCollough about their struggle and more importantly how they navigated those struggles so that she could make their greatest impact on the world. Congresswoman Beatty not only overcame, she changed the people’s view of what it was to be a successful black woman and she mentored women to make sure the pipeline behind her ...
Dec 15, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Barbara Kellerman Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. Barbara joins the show today to discuss her views on leadership education, what it takes to build highly effective leaders and her new book Leaders Who Lust.
Dec 15, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Aline Kamakian Thriving during a crisis is a challenging feat for any leader. Aline Kamakian shares with listeners not only how she encountered the difficult decisions that many faced in the hospitality industry due to the pandemic but she was also forced to deal with the destruction of one of her restaurants during the massive blast that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, in August of 2020. Aline joins the show to share her story, how she adapted to the crises her business endured and...
Dec 15, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Mark Shapiro, Toronto Bluejays President & CEO We think of "leadership" as a topic for the military, governments, and the corporate boardroom. However, innovative leadership benefits us in every sector, including professional sports. The president and CEO of the Toronto Bluejays, Mark Shapiro, joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his approach to effective leadership -- and approach tempered and proven through the disruption his team faced getting the game through the COVID pan...
Dec 15, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Tom Grote and Christoph Hinske Many -- perhaps too many -- corporations think they're transforming their business models...but in reality continue to do the same old stuff; they just put fancy new words around it. Innovative leaders focus more on real systemic change than on the vocabulary. Many of those change leaders take lessons learned from organizations such as the Innovative Leadership Institute, merge them into their business models, and develop unique new ways of improve...
Dec 15, 2022•49 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Greg Moran The pandemic accelerated discussions and forecasts about the future of work. But there's a relative dearth of study about the future of leadership. This is a critical gap: as work changes, leadership must also change to ensure organizations can meet their objectives. After all, effective change always starts at the top. It is essential for leaders to "innovate how they lead" to keep pace, but what does that mean? Greg Moran joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore the cha...
Dec 15, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Eric Redmond Deep tech describes capabilities that were impossible yesterday, barely feasible today, but tomorrow will be so pervasive it will be hard to imagine we ever lived without it. In this early stage of the digital age, understanding how deep tech is disrupting the world is no longer a competitive advantage—it's a matter of survival. Eric Redmond joins us to discuss his new book, Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything. Eri...
Dec 15, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Sean Castrina Disruption to the norm, unexpected events, uncertain times: these are part of life, not just limited to pandemic times. These disruptions force companies to rethink how they have done business, and how they can continue to stay in business. Leaders are daily faced with tough decisions on how to lead in this new and different environment. Sean Castrina launched over twenty successful companies. He joins the show to discuss his story of overcoming a setback, how he mo...
Dec 15, 2022•47 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Jeff Wald The world has witnessed three-step functions in technological change: mechanization, electrification, and computerization. These industrial revolutions led to massive increases in productivity and thus we need far fewer workers. With each of these technological breakthroughs, the power balance between companies and workers shifted heavily to companies. The abuses of that power by companies instigated employee unrest. Counterbalancing forces rose to constrain companies’ ...
Dec 15, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Eric Douglas Keene Diversity recruiting and retention is a hot topic in HR departments and the board room. Their DEI initiatives often fall short, though; many organizations don’t understand the nuances of recruiting, nor how to navigate the complexities of retention. Ensuring candidates and organizations create the best experiences and a path for mutual success isn't difficult. Eric Douglas Keene joins Maureen to discuss changes occurring in the world of diversity recruiting, wi...
Dec 15, 2022•54 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Jeff DeGraff Everyone can be creative in their own way. Creativity skills can be learned and developed. The creative process is iterative: we typically fail many times before we succeed. We learn from those failures and approach the next experiment with new information and an improved understanding. Yet it can be different in the workplace; particularly in large organizations, the innovative leader is often pushed down by stagnant thinking up the chain. Jeff DeGraff joins Maureen...
Dec 15, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Jonathan Reitz Coaching skills are not just for the life coach or the executive coach, they are every leader’s secret weapon. Managers can become the leaders that are needed when they understand how to use coaching skills that put the development of their team as the top priority and multiply their impact. Want to move from managing your team to leading your team? Coaching skills are the key. Jonathan Reitz joins Maureen to share how managers can move toward leading by learning s...
Dec 15, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Liane Davey Business today is more competitive than ever; staying ahead requires you to make tough calls, face hard choices, and work through conflict. But productive conflict is so rare. Why? Because productive conflict requires a different mindset, new skills, and repeatable processes -- none of which come naturally. Liane Davey joins Maureen to discuss building a productive conflict culture.
Dec 15, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Rich Fernandez and Peter Weng Even before Covid-19, employees reported record rates of burnout and stress; Gallup studies show only 15% of employees are fully engaged at work. Organizations need well-being development for their employees. It is essential for today’s workplaces to provide well-being support, every bit as much as traditional professional development. Supporting the long-term mental health of your team can mean the difference between an engaged, collaborative and p...
Dec 15, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros Gender inequality around the world has many facets: archaic laws that codify sexism, male control of joint income and household assets, exclusion from governance, trafficking and violence against women, denial of education and adequate health care, and gender segregation in the work force, to name a few. The Gender Equality and Governance Index (GEGI) taps into some of the world’s best datasets to analyze gender discrimination on a global ...
Dec 15, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Dr. Mary Jo Burchard As a society, we're facing a growing lack of trust. We're losing trust in each other, and in our institutions. The impacts ripple through our personal lives and through the nation -- reflected in how difficult it is for both parties to come together in Congress for the greater good. It's also led to an increase in mental illness and suicide. Dr. Mary Jo Burchard shares her personal experiences with this lack of trust to demonstrate how important building trus...
Dec 15, 2022•49 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Neil Grunberg Universities and medical schools do a wonderful job preparing their students for medical procedures, but the often-missed crucial element for great health care is leadership training. Neil Grunberg joins host Maureen Metcalf to share his experiences, and how the leadership framework he developed with Maureen can build the leadership skills needed by medical staff to make our healthcare system stronger. Neil has seen the gaps firsthand; he's a professor at the Unifor...
Dec 15, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Valerie Biden Owens, First Female Presidential Campaign Manager It’s said that leaders are made, not born. That’s certainly true of the Biden family. Although Joe Biden is in the spotlight as the 46th President of the United States, his three siblings are all leaders in their own right, too. And Joe’s sister Valerie Biden Owens says that forging of strong leadership began in childhood with deep family values. Valerie joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss her book, Growing Up Bide...
Dec 13, 2022•25 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Pat Dambe De Beers Vice President Pat Dambe takes a case study approach to the private and public sector partnership between De Beers and the government of Botswana on sustainability and corporate citizenship. She discusses her personal and corporate story and the courage required to contribute responsibly to the communities in which she works and resides. Pat’s story offers a model for a company and a country to create an interconnection that transcends the challenges both face ...
Dec 13, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Christoph Hinske Can you survive in the new economy? As the supply chain disruptions have shown, our current economic model is very linear. One kink in the chain can cascade through our whole system, nationally and globally. And our linear economy assumes unlimited resources to keep production going to start the chain. But unless we start mining asteroids soon, Earth has finite resources…and climate change is reducing even those (for example, where do we get wood as forests conti...
Dec 06, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Ren Washington and Laura Gibson Though we rarely think of it, there are strong connections between art and leadership. Art sets the environment and tone of the workplace; in your business or home office, it sets the tone of any conversation -- and sends a strong message of who you are, as a person and as a leader. The type of art around your team also shapes the kind of creativity and problem-solving they'll generate. The Center for Creative Leadership has used and studied art a...
Nov 30, 2022•54 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Diane Rosenfeld People like to think humanity is at the top of cultural achievement, the pinnacle of evolution’s craftwork. But one glance at the daily headlines proves we have problems. Lots of problems. Across all nations, there’s one glaring problem that hits hard over half our population: sexism. From subtle misogyny to outright violent abuse, women continue to be left on the outside of patriarchies…of a man’s world. That’s not the case with bonobos. They’re our close evoluti...
Nov 22, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: John Reid Adulthood is kryptonite. We’re all born with superpowers. Curiosity is the most easily recognizable. As children, we’re flooded with it. But as adults, instead of being rewarded for having a million questions, we’re expected to have the answers. Leaders, in particular, believe they should have all the answers. Your superpowers are still there, and truly great leaders know how to unlock them. John Reid will help you rediscover yours, too! Author of The Five Lost Superpow...
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