Featured Guest: John Kilpatrick Traditional organizations follow a linear economy: everything flows one-way, from resource to product to consumer to trash. It’s often summarized by the mantra “take, make, waste.” That certainly doesn’t mitigate climate change, pollution, and other threats to humanity. Is there a better path that won’t disrupt our consumer-driven culture? John Kilpatrick heartily believes so. Just circle back to the economy of our great-great-grandparents: the circular economy. I...
Dec 16, 2022•50 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Guest: Christopher Washington, Franklin University Provost The pandemic didn’t destroy the old “normal.” COVID simply accelerated trends that were already underway. The best leaders see that, and are forging new paths to success for their organizations and their people. The tables turn in this episode, as regular host Maureen Metcalf becomes the guest, interviewed by ILI Fellow and Franklin University provost Christopher Washington. Drawing on her own extensive experience as well as the collecti...
Dec 16, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships—whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information by making assumptions. Gleb joins Maureen to discuss his book The Blindspots Between Us: How to Over...
Dec 16, 2022•58 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Ron Carucci Honesty is more than a character trait: it’s a muscle that has to be built to stay strong; honesty can be learned. Truth, justice, and purpose are “three sides of the same coin." Together, they mean honesty - to have honesty, you need all three; honesty means you have to say the right thing, do the right thing, and say and do them for the right reason...even when it’s hard. Based on a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 3,200 leaders, we can now prove under what c...
Dec 16, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Pete Martin If you're a leader of a business or non-profit, how you spend your time has a direct impact on the success of your organization. Focusing on just one big idea instead of scattershot-ting your attention keeps that impact positive. What you, as a leader, work on minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day matters—and either moves the needle and propels growth or constricts it. For instance, consistently and strategically choosing one “big idea” per month will move a busi...
Dec 16, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Kim Campbell, First Female Prime Minister of Canada "The future will spit on our graves." Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell doesn't mince words when she muses on the big issues facing the world today...and, particularly, what happens if we don't work to fix them now. From climate change to sexual harassment, host Maureen Metcalf draws remarkably candid perspectives from the only female to have served in Canada's top spot.
Dec 16, 2022•48 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Darren Chait There's one simple truth most working adults realize in their first job: meetings stink. Darren Chait is no exception. While he was an attorney, he recoiled at how inefficient and archaic lawyers' meetings are...then he had sticker shock when he saw the invoices and realized clients pay for that slow-paced inefficiency! That put him on the path to finding a better way for meeting. The result: Hugo, an online app that changes the way we think about meetings. On the wa...
Dec 16, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek Older generations view Gen Z as having their eyes glued to their smartphones. While those phones are a window on the world no other generation has encountered, it means they’re more likely to see the world for what it is, warts and all. And that exposure to the world and its diverse cultures makes Gen Z more ardent in resolving life-threatening issues like climate change and racism…driving them to make real life better. AnneMarie Hayek is returning to the show to ...
Dec 16, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Colonel Deb Lewis Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis - it’s a wonder we’re still standing. Too few of us have stress tools powerful enough to put stress to work for us so we can enjoy the journey. Once you’ve learned how to be mentally tough, you will use stress to your advantage. It becomes your superpower! Colonel Deb Lewis learned the importance of mental toughness as part of the very first class of women to graduate from West Point. The lessons...
Dec 16, 2022•53 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: William Bonvillian & Sanjay Sarma Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. From pre-K through college and on-the-job ""professional development,"" the United States' old-school education system simply isn't up to the task. Universities, for example, can no longer be havens of academic theory and football; enrollment will begin to trickle over the next decade as college grads become too unprepared for th...
Dec 16, 2022•47 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Mark Herschberg Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? Mark Herschberg is on the show to discuss his book The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He shares practical ideas from his book and his thoughts on leadership that will help you master these vital skills.
Dec 16, 2022•53 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Howard Tiersky Digital is at the center of most adults' lifestyles worldwide—and it's here to stay. (In fact, roughly 1/3 of people surveyed said they'd give up sex instead of their smartphone!) That has disrupted and changed the customer relationship. Customers today expect the brands they deal with to deliver outstanding and seamless digital experiences. If your brand is failing to thrive, odds are you're ignoring the marketplace changes digital has wrought. You must take what ...
Dec 16, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek AnneMarie Hayek joins the show to share insights from her new book, Generation We. In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Generation Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we should be hopeful. Zs are not naïve idealists. They’re hardened realists with a bold vision for how ...
Dec 16, 2022•55 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham We all have agreements. Some are overt, such as agreeing to make monthly payments when you get a mortgage to buy a house. And some are unconscious, like the agreement in sports that everyone on your team will work toward winning against the other team. We all have two ways of responding to those agreements. You have a Yes! response that aligns your purpose and unique contributions with the impact you can generate and the experience you can have. It's yours ...
Dec 16, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Dr. Jeff Hull In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if you are leading a team you must manage a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures have led to a seismic shift in terms of the tools needed to successfully manage and grow within a co...
Dec 16, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Mike Zani Moneyball was just the tip of the iceberg. In that movie, a baseball team relies on performance data instead of scouts' intuition to build a winning club. The very same concept can forge a dream team in your own NPO or business. Sophisticated assessments, data, and software give CEOs and managers in any industry detailed insights into human behavior -- and, more critically, their team members' behavior. As CEO of The Predictive Index, Mike Zani has witnessed firsthand h...
Dec 16, 2022•48 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Paul Gibbons Conversations about meaning and purpose at work are very old and very new. Spirituality provides a lens for those discussions—a lens that is effective regardless of your team's religious preferences. From evangelical to atheist, a sense of mission and meaning are critical to well-being. Workplace spirituality helps us understand the issues underlying personal meaning in the workplace: fulfillment, engagement, purpose, leadership, and more. However, it also increases ...
Dec 16, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Dr. JJ Walcutt The power of mind over body goes back at least 2,000 years with the Stoics—but what about the power of the brain over both mind and body? To be competitive over the next decade, all organizations—non-profits, businesses, and especially the military—must not only help staff optimize their bodies for physical and mental health purposes; they also need to ensure that cognitive optimization is a major focus of staff development. Despite our hubris, the human brain is n...
Dec 16, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Jake Jacobs Change is now a constant in all organizations. Is there a way to make it easier? Jake Jacobs joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss his new book Leverage Change, and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations—at the individual, team or organizational levels. He shares practical actions leaders can take to achieve the much sought-after, but seldom accomplished, go...
Dec 16, 2022•50 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guests: Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell Rising up the corporate ladder is fraught with challenges. Those challenges -- both visible and invisible -- multiply for people of color, women, and others underrepresented in the executive suite. Mentors are fine, but an in-house sponsor can truly make the path smoother. Ricky Robinson and Keith Powell share why...not with theory, but hard-won practical advice from their own 20+ year journeys to C-suite success in some of the world's largest compa...
Dec 16, 2022•53 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Jared Graybeal In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout: Confidence Competence Clarity Character Connections and Commitment. This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement, and is designed to give you the perspective that works for your unique goals, no matter what’s going on in your life. Jared applied...
Dec 16, 2022•48 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Otto Scharmer Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolved human consciousness. Otto’s first book sold over 100,000 copies and to put that in context, the average self-published book sells 250 copies, and the average traditional book sells 3,000 copies in its lifetime. Otto joins Maureen to discuss his latest book: The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications, a book that meets a crucial need during this point in...
Dec 16, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Ty Montague Today’s most successful companies and leaders are StoryDoers, not storytellers. These leaders have clearly defined a higher purpose that frames their ultimate ambition and desired contribution to the world - and they orient every action they take in service of achieving this goal. Ty Montague joins the show to discuss what makes someone a Storydoer, why Storydoers are better leaders and tools leaders can use to become a Storydoer.
Dec 16, 2022•43 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Ron Riggio Great leaders are great learners” is often quoted but how can leaders implement this into their very hectic day? Ron has created a year-long leadership development guidebook that offers day-by-day instruction in short excerpts to provide leaders with knowledge and practical application ideas. Ron joins the show to discuss his new book “Daily Leadership Development,” his lifetime achievement award and his views on the current state of leadership.
Dec 16, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Roger Madison Diversity and inclusion are critical topics in not only the U.S. but the world right now. Roger Madison, Jr., founder and CEO of iZania, a company formed to connect Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and consumers online joins the show. Roger was previously a sales executive with IBM in South Africa and he will share about his experiences in South Africa and what he learned that can further diversity and inclusion in our world today.
Dec 16, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Robert Rosenberg Every entrepreneur dreams of expanding their business from around the corner to around the world. While today those dreams look doubtful, hope can be found from the story of a CEO who managed to do so despite decades of economic downturns, near bankruptcy, and constant change. Robert Rosenberg joins the show today to share insights and lessons learned from his experience taking Dunkin’ Donuts from 100 shops to 6,500 outlets. These lessons are also captured in his...
Dec 16, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney How can we change the way conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion are progressing towards productive, inquiring, learning experiences -- and ultimately creating a more just and equitable workplace and society? How can we understand the effects outside-of-work events have on people of color within work? Laura Morgan Roberts and Courtney McCluney join the show to share insights from their work, and to encourage leaders to exa...
Dec 16, 2022•48 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Mark Kvamme Business disruptions are occurring every day for entire business segments. Effective organizations are looking ahead to lead the disruptive efforts to set the new market. If you are not disrupting – you will get disrupted. Mark Kvamme joins Maureen to discuss how he works with organizations to identify opportunities and be the disruptor rather than being disrupted.
Dec 16, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Margaret Heffernan We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t allow that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Margaret Heffernan joins us to discuss her new book, Uncharted, How to Navigate the Future, in which she drew on a wide array of people and places to look at long-ter...
Dec 16, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Guest: Keith Tuffley What is the purpose of business in the 21st century? And what are the values and skills needed by business leaders in this new era of stakeholder value? Keith Tuffley joins Maureen to discuss these emerging topics and share his experience.
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