Best innovatingleadership Podcasts (2024)

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S10-Ep21: Leadership Lessons from Shark Tank...and Beyond 36:17

3h ago36:17

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Guest: Shaan Patel, CEO of Prep Expert Here’s an unexpected formula for success. Step 1: Get a lower score than expected on your SAT. Step 2: Parlay your disappointment into a multimillion dollar company. That’s how Shaan Patel’s leadership journey began. It included a victory on Shark Tank, mentoring from Mark Cuban, and earning an M.D. It’s not t…

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S6-Ep11: Shifting from Trusting Institutions to Trusting People 39:04

22h ago39:04

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Guest: Danièle Henkel, Knight of the Order of Merit & CEO of Daniele Henkel Enterprises What’s love got to do with leadership? Turns out: quite a lot! Danièle Henkel sees love in many ways: from passion for your work to genuine respect for the people around you. It’s another facet in building trust; in this case, though, the trust is in people rath…

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S10-Ep20: Break the Cycle - The Role of Trauma-Informed Leaders 35:52

7d ago35:52

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Guest: Stephanie Lemek, Founder: The Wounded Workforce Your staff are probably dealing with trauma: in the U.S. alone, 70% of adults faced at least one traumatic experience. Those experiences manifest in different ways in the workplace, from perfectionism to absenteeism. Our trauma reactions are as unique as our fingerprints. Being a trauma-informe…

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S6-Ep9: Leading Beautifully 41:54

8d ago41:54

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Guest: Nancy Adler, S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University There’s not just an art to leadership; art improves leadership! That’s the core point of Dr. Nancy Adler’s discussion in this episode. A consultant and professor at McGill University, she’s found that art enables leaders to shift perspectives more readily, thus seeing solution…

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S10-Ep19: Growing Up and Out: Development for Modern Leaders 43:49

15d ago43:49

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Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development Consultant Many leaders plateau: they hit a certain level, then stop growing or maturing as a leader. But even into late adulthood, we remain able to grow and develop. Indeed, some people thirst for that growth! Mike Morrow-Fox joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss post-conventional leaders – peopl…

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S6-Ep8: Leading Indigenous Clean Energy 37:39

18d ago37:39

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Guest: Chris Henderson, President of Lumos Clean Energy Advisors Indigenous voices are often left out of conversations on clean energy and climate change. Yet, their generations of environmental stewardship make them pivotal players in our energy future. Chris Henderson, a Canadian eco-entrepreneur and community leader, discusses the role of Indige…

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S10-Ep18: How Psychedelics Enhance Modern Leadership 40:37

23d ago40:37

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Guest: Paul F. Austin, CEO of Third Wave Why are C-suites adopting psychedelics? Some leaders say it gives them a competitive edge in innovation and thinking; others use psychedelics for stress relief and general mental health. Paul F. Austin reviews the science and the trends behind this movement. He joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss both how …

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S6-Ep7: Courageous Leadership Is Required to Address Global Issues 39:40

26d ago39:40

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Guest: Mike Gerbis, CEO of Delphi Politics and megaweather get all the attention on climate change, but the impacts on business are profound. The liabilities for business may rise faster than the temperature! So why are so many business leaders so far behind in dealing with it? As Oz’s Lion would say, it boils down to courage. The climate issue mea…

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S10-Ep17: Cultivating Conversation: How to Improve Leaders' Communication 37:48

29d ago37:48

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Guest: Amiel Handelsman, Elite Executive Coach We all know communication is key for leadership. But HOW we communicate is tougher. And one simple misunderstanding can make the difference between success and disaster. Guest Amiel Handelsman has observed and codified eleven concepts that will move your communications from good to great. He shares the…

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S10-Ep16: How Moonshots & Robots Put Packages on Your Porch 28:37

1M ago28:37

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Guest: Steve Armato, VP of Middle Mile & Tech at Amazon Whether leaders accept or ignore new tech makes the difference between it disrupting their organizations – and transforming them. Amazon’s use of new technology is a clear and major component of its success. It’s a big part of what puts packages on your porch. And, as Steve Armato reveals, Ama…

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S6-Ep6: Attitudes on Leadership 23:43

1M ago23:43

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Guests: Lynn Shollen & Sam Wilson, researchers at Christopher Newport University and Swinburne University of Technology Odds are good you aren’t happy with our leaders. Less than 1/3 of Americans believe their leaders are effective. That’s according to the Leadership Attitudes Survey. Dr. Lynn Shollen joins us to share more of the results. Dr. Sam …

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S10-Ep15: Why Rare Leadership Is Well-Done at Omaha Steaks 50:57

1M ago50:57

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Guest: Nate Rempe, CEO of Omaha Steaks It’s an iconic success story with a menu of leadership lessons: Born from a family escaping oppression in 1917, Omaha Steaks transformed from a small butcher shop into a global brand synonymous with the finest steaks. They’ve stayed at the top because of their long history of leaders driven to innovate. CEO Na…

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S6-Ep5: Leader Character 42:28

2M ago42:28

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Guest: Dr. Mary Crossan, Distinguished University Professor at Western University You say you want to hire people with good character – but what does “character” mean? In this rediscovered episode, Dr. Mary Crossan of Ivey University defines exactly what leader character is, why it matters, and how to develop it. She’s found leader character is not…

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S10-Ep14: Forming Your Firm’s Ethics 48:12

2M ago48:12

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Guest: Greg Moran, Executive-in-Residence, Former Sr. Executive at Ford, Chase, Nationwide, and more Should you, or shouldn’t you? All ethics boil down to this simple question, but getting to the answer can be enormously difficult, especially when deciding for your business. But guest Greg Moran – a long-time C-suite resident – says you can ease th…

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S6-Ep4: Creating Peace in an Evolving & Interconnected World 42:53

2M ago42:53

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Guest: Mike Hardy, Founding Director of CTPSR In this rediscovered episode, guest Mike Hardy delivers an insightful update on the founding principles and advancements at the Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations at Coventry University. He delves into his own transformative journey towards embodying peace, serving as a beacon of inspiration. T…

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S10-Ep13: Economies of Skill - Moving to a Skills-Based Team 42:48

2M ago42:48

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Guest: Brian Richardson, Founder/CEO of Richardson Consulting Group How talented is your team? Without a skills-based system, you may never know…and never tap into the full potential your organization has. But companies that look at skills know who has the talent to best get the job done – and who can develop and grow to obtain those skills. That’s…

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S5-Ep40: WE Empower - The Women Winning the UN SDG Goals Challenge 26:33

2M ago26:33

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Guests: WE Empower Challenge winners Hadeel Anabtawi & Habiba Ali with Amanda Ellis While female entrepreneurs have made great strides in some countries, in the U.S. and other nations women still face significant barriers that just aren’t there for male-headed start-ups. Despite that, women leaders are making a difference by promoting positive chan…

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S10-Ep12: Tales from the Top - How Leaders Use Stories 48:12

2M ago48:12

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Guest: Dr. Tanvi Gautam, Senior Faculty at Singapore Management University How do you lead: with your head or heart? Left-brain or right? For the best leaders, the answer is “All of the above.” From the art of conversation to discovering (and sharing) your organization’s story, guest Dr. Tanvi Gautam talks with host Maureen Metcalf about her head-a…

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S5-Ep29: Effectively Addressing Values Conflicts 36:51

2M ago36:51

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Guest: John Heiser, former CEO of LabVantage We hear a lot about family values and personal values…but what about business values? And what happens when your company’s and personal values conflict? Values conflicts arise frequently in the workplace. Addressing them leads to a more engaged and satisfied workforce (who also drive superior performance…

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S10-Ep11: Noodling Solutions for Food Insecurity 45:46

2M ago45:46

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Guest: Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh (CEO & Founder of Borealis Foods) Solving a major crisis sometimes requires reframing it. For Reza Soltanzadeh, working with Doctors Without Borders exposed him to global hunger—but he saw one solution by reframing the problem as global malnutrition. That set him on a path of high innovation, resulting in a ramen noodle …

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S5-Ep11: More Women on Boards 37:38

2M ago37:38

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Guests: Marlene Janzen Le Ber and Lynne E. Devnew (Researchers at Brescia University College & University of Phoenix) We judge female leaders differently than men; we’ll decry a woman exec displaying the exact same behavior as a male. The challenges keeping women from the C-suite and board room are systemic and complex – but the process really star…

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S10-Ep10: How Influence Leads to Great Leadership 50:11

3M ago50:11

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Guest: Brian Ahearn, Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE Employee engagement at work continues to nosedive. So how can you motivate your team? Show them you care! That’s just one tool in the influence toolkit guest Brian Ahearn shares with Maureen Metcalf in this episode. Influencing people is a critical art in motivating people to engage i…

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S5-Ep9: Global Leadership - Research, Practice, & Development 34:45

3M ago34:45

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Guests: Allan Bird & Joyce Osland It’s hard enough leading a small local team; imagine running a team that stretches across continents! That’s exactly what global leaders must do. But from what motivates people to varying labor laws, cultures vary wildly around the planet, so leadership styles must adapt with them. How can a global leader do it all…

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S10-Ep9: Competent Boards by Choice, Not Chance 45:20

3M ago45:20

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Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen Does your board of directors have the slightest clue what to do with AI? As AI creeps into your organization, your board has a fiduciary duty to determine its parameters in the workplace AND in the boardroom…such as figuring out how much information is relevant, and whether it’s trustworthy, misinformation, or just way m…

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S5-Ep8: Democracy on the Run 47:36

3M ago47:36

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Are leaders letting democracy die? Less than half of the world’s nations are full-fledged democracies today. That’s down from just 20 years ago. Part of the problem is a nation’s democratic death usually isn’t dramatic or sudden; it’s often a series of subtler, slower moves such as only appointing loyalists to cabinet posts and judgeships, or threa…

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S10-Ep8: Love at First Slice - Pizza & Passionate Leadership 45:18

3M ago45:18

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Guest: Tom Krouse Lots of leaders claim their products are made with love. Donatos Pizza means it: they practice Agape Capitalism. As CEO Tom Krouse explains in this episode, Agape Capitalism puts a love of humanity at the center of their company processes and revenue generation. Its origins are rooted in founder Jim Grote’s observations as a teen …

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S5-Ep7: Transformational Leadership & Ethics 42:47

3M ago42:47

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Guest: Ron Riggio Are great leaders born, or forged? Ron Riggio followed up on the four-decade-long Fullerton Longitudinal Study to uncover the childhood characteristics that indicated later leadership qualities. Those results further informed his work on transformational leadership. He discusses his findings with host Maureen Metcalf…as well as th…

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S10-Ep7: Dispensing Wellness - Walgreens' Rx for Healthcare 36:44

3M ago36:44

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Guest: John Driscoll What’s the surest way people will follow you into battle? Show you care — about them and their families. That’s a major lesson John Driscoll learned in the Army…and it’s served him well in the private sector, including his current role at Walgreens, where he’s focused on improving service to patients in the healthcare industry.…

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S5-Ep39: Focus on Women & Leadership 39:07

3M ago39:07

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Guest: Parminder Vir At the 4th Women and Leadership Conference, participants spent three days discussing and debating ways women’s leadership potential can be unleashed: developed, energized, and liberated in the workspace. Parminder Vir took part, and discusses the results…along with her own experiences as a female leader through four decades of …

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S10-Ep6: Climate Change - Leaders in the Hot Seat 52:02

4M ago52:02

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Guest: Kim Campbell Climate change is already hitting businesses’ bottom lines – and those business costs are only beginning. As guest Kim Campbell – the former Prime Minister of Canada – points out, we hit this tipping point through poor corporate leadership in the past. The question now is: what can today’s leaders do about it? Kim has some stats…

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S4-Ep9: The Dance Between Leadership & Followership 45:21

4M ago45:21

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Guests: Margaret Heffernan & Ira Chaleff What we need from leaders today is vastly different than even a decade ago. That change began years ago; the pandemic merely accelerated it. The reason is simple: turbulence and uncertainty are now chronic conditions. Now, guest Margaret Heffernan says, leadership is about building organizations that thrive …

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S10-Ep5: Can You Hear Her Now? 40:22

4M ago40:22

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Guest: Celina Caesar-Chavannes What’s your secret identity? Our true selves are often buried so deeply that they’re a secret to us. It’s hard enough to lead authentically when you don’t know who you are – but how can you motivate your team if you don’t know who they really are, either? The key is the praxis of humanization, a way of helping your co…

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S5-Ep9: Ethics and Problem-Solving -- Leadership Theory & Practice 44:19

4M ago44:19

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Guests: Joanne Ciulla & Keith Grint Why do so many leaders have trouble acting ethically? For nearly three decades, Joanne Ciulla has focused her research on ethics in leadership. Even though the framework for ethics is over 2,400 years old, our definition of being ethical holds firm today. Why is it taking so many leaders so long to catch on? Her …

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S10-Ep4: Law & Order...& Leadership 39:53

4M ago39:53

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Guests: Rob Elkington & Les Sylven To serve and protect: servant leadership takes on a whole new meaning for a law enforcement leader. Society’s expectations for policing have changed radically – for example, up to 80% of what officers do overlaps with what social workers do! Add calls for reduced funding, labor shortages, brutality…and gone are th…

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S10-Ep3: Curing Complexity in Healthcare 37:55

4M ago37:55

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Guest: Carsten Engel There’s a big gap between resources and patient needs in the healthcare sector. That’s just one area of healthcare requiring change; without it, lives truly do hang in the balance. Carsten Engel and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare have studied healthcare systems around the globe extensively, and they have pr…

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S10-Ep2: It Takes Nerve 43:48

4M ago43:48

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Guests: Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera “What do you expect with a woman?” That’s the attitude our guests encountered on their leadership journeys – but, as Georgia O’Keefe said, “It takes a kind of nerve…and a lot of hard, hard work.” That nerve is exactly what Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera developed. It served them well, with both bec…

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S10-Ep1: Non-Traditional Leadership Models for Our New Era 38:48

4M ago38:48

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Guests: Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry Your leadership training may be missing the mark. That’s because most programs develop you as an individual – but, in reality, we work with other leaders in addition to our own teams. In fact, the most effective organizations foster collective leadership. Our guests Nicole Ferry and Nathan Eva point out that the be…

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S9-Ep54: Leadership Trends for 2024 40:50

5M ago40:50

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Guest: Christopher Washington What will affect your leadership the most in 2024? We’ve identified seven trends you’ll have to contend with through the coming year. Christopher Washington (Provost & EVP of Franklin University) interviews ILI’s CEO, Maureen Metcalf, to get the details on all seven. Knowing them will help your organization navigate th…

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S9-Ep53: Over the Weather - Leadership at the Weather Channel 50:07

5M ago50:07

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Guest: Sheri Bachstein Can your business weather the storm? We mean that quite literally! There’s not a business on the planet that isn’t impacted by weather at some level. Leaders must prepare their organizations for what’s to come. It’s not just obvious climate change decisions, like making sure you don’t build that new factory in a hurricane hot…

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S9-Ep52: Leading the Court - Canada’s First Female Chief Justice 29:00

5M ago29:00

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Guest: Beverley McLachlin Making decisions can be the toughest part of a leader’s job. Judges up the ante; their decisions can literally mean the difference between life or death. Beverley McLachlin was the Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court. In this episode, she reflects on her leadership journey — from a farm in rural Alberta to the top cour…

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S5-Ep12: Reflecting on Leadership & Peace-Building 40:39

5M ago40:39

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Guest: Mike Hardy Leading the world into peace is so monumentally difficult, it’s never been done (Rome’s propaganda about the Pax Romana aside!). But understanding how leaders have brought regional peace, and ends to war, has been done – and more than worthy of study. Guest Mike Hardy founded the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Cov…

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S9-Ep51: To Err Is to Innovate 32:09

6M ago32:09

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Guest: Beryl Tomay One of the biggest keys to success is failure. It seems counterintuitive, but the reality is we ALL make mistakes. Highly successful leaders embrace stumbles and fumbles, and learn from them. As Beryl Tomay points out, that’s especially true at Amazon. Their innovation culture is so highly effective because Amazon learns from eac…

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S5-Ep6: Women’s Leadership Journeys 42:36

6M ago42:36

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Guests: Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan Women account for more than half of the world’s population – a little more than half in the United States. Yet they still make up far less than half of leadership roles…despite getting higher education degrees far more than men. Why? That’s what guests Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle Tan unpack. In this ep…

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S9-Ep50: Humans in the Loop - AI’s New Business Models 47:16

6M ago47:16

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Guest: Suchi Srinivasan AI is disruptive. It’s already disrupting society, and is disrupting business faster than the internet did. It’ll disrupt you, too. But is that bad…or good? The answer is up to you. Guest Suchi Srinivasan of Boston Consulting Group shares her comprehensive view of the effects of AI on business now – and in the near future. T…

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S9-Ep49: The Rationale of Irrationality 42:24

6M ago42:24

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Guest: Greg Moran When your competitor’s (or CEO’s) decisions don’t make sense, pause: there’s something to learn there. What do they know that you don’t? That’s just one insight guest Greg Moran offers about dealing with the irrational in your organization. Sometimes a decision is just bad; but more often than not, it’s been made from a perspectiv…

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S5-Ep5: Revitalizing Leadership - Putting Theory & Practice into Context 46:08

6M ago46:08

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Guest: Brad Jackson Theory is one thing. Practice is another. That’s just as true of leadership coaches and their theories as with any science. Guest Brad Jackson understands that, and works to put leadership theory into real-world contexts so it can be truly useful. That’s the focus of his book: Revitalising Leadership – Putting Theory and Practic…

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S9-Ep48: Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence 34:23

6M ago34:23

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Guests: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy Seeing your family members tortured and murdered will have a major influence on your leadership mindset. But not necessarily in the ways that you think. Hyppolite Ntigurirwa survived the Rwandan genocide as a child. Growing up, he thought of vengeance and retribution. But after encountering exceptional kind…

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S5-Ep4: Evidence-Based Best Practices for Leadership Development 43:10

6M ago43:10

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Guests: Gama Perruci, Sadhana Warty Hall & Karen Ford Are you spending a hefty budget on leadership training, and wondering if it’s worth it? You’re far from alone. According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 billion on leadership-based curriculum…and many wonder about the results. McKinsey re…

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S9-Ep47: Coming Soon to a Business Climate Near You! 59:50

6M ago59:50

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Guest: Matthew Griffin Feeling uncertain about the future as a leader? You have good reason: a staggering 55% of a company’s fate lies beyond the CEO’s grasp. In fact, 40% of CEOs believe their companies won’t survive the next decade. So what can you do? Futurist Matthew Griffin shares his insights in this episode — with game-changing strategies th…

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S5-Ep3: How Do Leadership and the Environment Connect? 41:57

7M ago41:57

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Guests: Rian Satterwhite & Kathleen Allen Leadership is changing in so many ways, in large part because our environment is changing in so very many ways. That’s true of the business climate as much as nature’s environment. Are the two related? Absolutely, according to guests Kathleen Allen and Rian Satterwhite. From both Kathleen’s senior organizat…

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