Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

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The pace of change in the world is increasing exponentially. As COVID proved, leadership must evolve. And that gets to the heart of our mission: to bring you the latest thoughts on leadership so you can innovate, learn, and evolve...growing your team, your business, and yourself! This series features a new interview every week. Host Maureen Metcalf interviews world leaders, global business and NPO executives, thought leaders, and researchers in a wide range of industries. It’s a breadth of perspectives unavailable anywhere else. Become an innovative leader in your own right! Download the latest episode each Tuesday night on your favorite podcast platform.

Episodes

S8-Ep46: Opportunity in Uncertainty - with Dr. Ciela Hartanov

Featured Guest: Dr. Ciela Hartanov When you face uncertainty, how do you react? We’re biologically wired to meet uncertainty with concern, even panic or anxiety: it triggers our fight-or-flight response. But behind that veil of the unknown lies tremendous opportunity, and we can rewire our brains to look forward to it…to welcome uncertainty as fun and exciting. As Dr. Ciela Hartanov explains to host Maureen Metcalf, the key is to hack our own mindset to create a new mental framework. In the proc...

Nov 15, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast

S8-Ep45: Expecting the Unexpected: VUCA in Action at Red Roof

Featured Guest: George Limbert The pace of change in the world is rapidly increasing, and there’s no slowing it down. VUCA – a program developed by the U.S. military – is a way of identifying the disruptions of change…and, more importantly, of being ready for them. We’ve talked about the theory of VUCA before (see our interview with Chris Nolan posted September 6, 2022). In this episode, George Limbert talks about VUCA and its antidotes practiced in the real world. George is the head of Red Roof...

Nov 08, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast

S8-Ep30: Humbitious: How to Be Ambitious Without the Ego - With Amer Kaissi

Featured Guest: Amer Kaissi A major myth in politics and business is that arrogant, over-confident people are better leaders. But reality reveals the opposite: humility combined with ambition drives the best leadership performance – and that, in turn, improves the entire organization. Author and Trinity University professor Amer Kaissi discusses the details with host Maureen Metcalf. His new book, Humbitious , digs deep into the reasons the humble-yet-ambitious leader delivers the best results…f...

Nov 02, 2022•56 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast

S8-Ep44: Leading with Care in a Tough World

Featured Guest: Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt Only 15% of workers in the U.S. feel engaged with their jobs. That's just one job ill poor leadership spawns; bad leaders also cause turnover, absenteeism, and more. What is going wrong? Some leaders have the right beliefs and sentiments. Others may possess the right skills. Yet world-class leaders need BOTH the right beliefs and practices to address the current employee and organizational challenges. That ideal combination produces a leader who goes ...

Nov 01, 2022•57 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast

S8-Ep43: Joy at Work!

Featured Guest: Roxanne Brown and Edward Cook 85% of employees worldwide are not engaged in their workplaces. That takes an obvious toll on morale…and productivity. What can you do? Roxanne Brown and Edward Cook have some compelling answers. They cofounded The Change Decision, a change and culture consultancy focused on growing Joy at Work. Their mission sounds simple, but after decades of disengagement, there is both art and science in boosting your staff. They’ll explore insightful change lead...

Oct 25, 2022•59 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast

S2-Ep42: Leading with Story: Captivate, Convince, Inspire

Featured Guest: Paul Smith Paul discusses the power of stories for leaders. He shares his insights about what works, why it works, and how you will be more effective as a leader if you master the use of stories. Paul recounts a compelling story told by Bob McDonald, CEO of Proctor and Gamble, and connects it to a primary leadership and parenting lesson for him. Paul illustrates: 1. What a great leadership story is. 2. The primary elements of a story. 3. Why you should use stories to lead and sel...

Oct 20, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast

S7-Ep20: Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection

Featured Guest: Erica Dhawan In a world of work-from-home and so much of our personal interaction being digital, we need to understand what we are conveying by digital body language. Today, Erica Dhawan joins the show to share findings from her newest book – Digital Body Language – which decodes the new signals and cues of effective collaboration and teamwork in a digital-first human workplace. Listeners will learn to investigate and improve their own digital body language so that they can suppo...

Oct 20, 2022•52 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast

S4-Ep23: Leveraging Technology to Deepen Human Performance

Featured Guest: Brian Ferguson The greatest story of the 21st century is not technology, but how technology will be used as a tool for deepening the levels of human potential. Brian talks about his work leveraging the most proven performers, time-honored principles and cutting-edge technology to develop unique performance solutions for a wide range of “arenas” – from medicine to agriculture. He will discuss the following questions? 1. Why has "innovation" become such a buzzword in recent years? ...

Oct 20, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast

S5-Ep17: Improve Virtual Team Success by Leveraging Paradox

Featured Guest: Jean Brittain Leslie Organizations and the people working in them find themselves in environments that are increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). Under these conditions, tensions that are ongoing, and seemingly overwhelming can be difficult to understand, much less easy to address. These tensions show up in all facets of organizational life including leadership (control vs. empowerment), teamwork (task vs. relationships), strategy (competition vs. collab...

Oct 20, 2022•47 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast

S5-Ep16: Simplify Work: Crushing Complexity

Featured Guest: Jesse W. Newton We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, yet have not realized the significant productivity gains that previous revolutions delivered. Author and Global Management Consultant Jesse Newton believes this to be in part because of the debilitating complexity that organizations have created over their existence. He’s spent years specializing in unburdening organizations from paralyzing complexity. Growing complexity has traditionally been met with added...

Oct 20, 2022•48 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast

S4-Ep28: Should IT Executives Share their ’Soft Side’?

Featured Guest: David White As an IT Leader and someone who works in technology, David talks about why the soft side of what we do is a significant contributor to success. As technology leaders, we need a diverse set of skills including a heavy dose of soft skills to be a highly successful business leaders beyond our technical skills. These skills range from awareness and management or our mood, an ability to be present and focused and skills in establishing and managing a positive culture where...

Oct 20, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast