Jennifer Morgan runs a global multi-billion-dollar technology business spanning six continents and encompassing tens of thousands of people and customers. She believes the best leaders are perpetual learners, and she wants you to join her on a leadership journey as she takes you inside the room for authentic, candid conversations with some of the world’s top executives, biggest thinkers, and boldest change agents. You’ll hear from guests like Arianna Huffington, Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerc ...
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"Really excellent...insightful, personal, experiential, direct..." Gary Weber, Happiness Beyond Thought. The truly inspirational and utterly magnificent podcast series on spirituality and the cultural arts by The Poetry Of Illusion. A veritable feast. 14 episodes of literary and artistic magic!" The Culturium. "Utterly unique, intensely riveting and deeply profound podcast series. Highly recommended." Paula Marvelly, writer and filmmaker. "I feel at home listening to these podcasts, a world ...
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That’s a wrap! Season 1 of A Call to Lead is in the books. We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast’s first season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives on leadership this seas…
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This new episode of A Call to Lead has me in Singapore, sitting down in front of a live audience with one of the world’s most respected and popular global movie stars. Michelle Yeoh grew up in Malaysia and England, gained her early fame in Hong Kong action films, and went on to star in mega-hits such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a G…
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This latest episode features one of the smartest women in retail. Mercedes Abramo is the President and CEO of Cartier North America, and I had the opportunity to sit down with her at Cartier’s Hudson Yards boutique in New York City this past April. Growing up in a retail household (her dad was a senior executive at Lord & Taylor), Mercedes had her …
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Whether you're a Girl Scout or not (I am—once a Scout, always a Scout), my conversation with Sylvia Acevedo, the CEO of the Girl Scouts, is worth a listen. Sylvia has a remarkable path to success: As a young woman, she was discouraged from pursuing her interest in engineering. So what did she do? She went to school for engineering and became a rock…
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On this new episode of A Call to Lead, I sit down with someone out of my world, and probably out of your world too. Sarah Hauser is a champion windsurfer who knows a lot about leadership and navigating your ideal career. Sarah talks about how a missed deadline forced her to delay her plan to pursue a math degree and gave her an unplanned year off t…
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently sat down with me at A Call to Lead in Orlando. And on this week's podcast, we bring you the enlightening conversation. When the Prime Minister, who urged me to call him Tony, talks about the world or recalls his own experience as PM, he dispenses loads of wisdom about leadership. There's plenty in t…
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On this episode of A Call to Lead, you'll meet Karlie Kloss, a 26-year-old wonder who is building on her success as one of the world's top fashion models to expand her leadership platform and scale her social impact. She is teaching young women how to code at Kode with Klossy, her tech summer camps across the U.S. She is helping to discover the nex…
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We got a lot smarter after talking with Adam Grant on this new episode of A Call to Lead. You may know Adam from his best-selling books including Give and Take and Originals, and his hit podcast, WorkLife. Professor Grant's classes at Wharton are also wildly popular, which isn't surprising because he is one of today's smartest, freshest, and, yes, …
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Today on A Call to Lead, you'll meet Laura Dern, one of the world's great actors. Laura knows leadership. In films like Jurassic Park and Wildand TV shows like Enlightened and Twin Peaks, she has captured the complexities and vulnerabilities of strong women. In HBO's Big Little Lies, Laura's award-winning performance as Renata Klein is a study of a…
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Today on A Call to Lead, I talk with Jen Rubio, the inspiring co-founder, president, and chief brand officer of Away. Jen co-founded Away on the notion that luggage—holding many of life's most important things when we travel—had become commoditized. Away injects style and community into travel. Jen and I talked about building great brands and thriv…
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Today on A Call to Lead, we have a very special guest: Dr. Jill Biden. Dr. Biden’s Memoir, Where the Light Enters, was released earlier this month and I hosted her for a live discussion several months ago at SAP’s North America Headquarters near Philadelphia. During the eight years that Jill served in the Obama White House where her husband, Joe, w…
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I hope you enjoy Part 2 of my conversation with Malcolm Gladwell recorded during a recent live podcast taping. Celebrated journalist, best-selling author, and keen observer of the ways that people lead and succeed, Malcolm continues, in this Q&A portion of our discussion, to talk about how leaders, in every profession, should think about changing h…
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On this week's episode of A Call to Lead, I talk with Malcolm Gladwell, renowned journalist and best-selling author who is one of the world's foremost observers of how we live and work and lead. Malcolm has plenty to say, and it's all incredibly thoughtful, different, and relevant. He expounds on how people and businesses function amidst tech revol…
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On this new episode of A Call to Lead, you'll meet Dana Perino. Dana has seen leadership from some very interesting and unique vantage points. She served as the first female White House press secretary in a Republican administration for President George W. Bush. Today, Dana is a bestselling author, mentor, podcast host, anchor of Fox News' The Dail…
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On this week's episode of A Call to Lead, you'll meet Bob Nardelli, who has an extraordinary breadth of expertise from a series of CEO jobs: GE Power Systems, then Home Depot, and then Chrysler. Bob, who spent three decades at GE, has an incredible perspective on business, operations, and leadership in times of disruption. Here, he shares lots of g…
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On this week's A Call to Lead, we bring you one of the greatest entrepreneurs and business builders the world has ever seen: Sir Richard Branson. I had the pleasure of talking with Sir Richard at a recent event hosted by SAP Qualtrics. We discussed what makes a great, creative leader and the gaps in consumer experience he saw and exploited in build…
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On this week’s episode of A Call to Lead, you'll meet Van Le, Co-Founder of Xinja. I sat down with Van on a recent trip to Australia, where Xinja is the country's first "neobank," empowering customers to bank 100% digitally, via a mobile app. Van is an expert on mobile technology and customer experience. She also has an inspiring personal story. Sh…
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This week on A Call to Lead, you'll meet Julie Sweet, who is CEO of Accenture North America. Julie's story is remarkable. She was raised by hard-working parents who told their daughter that she could do anything. Julie ran with that ethos all the way to Columbia Law School and a partner position at law giant Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Then she did so…
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This week, A Call to Lead takes us to São Paolo, Brazil, where I sat down with João Paulo Ferreira, the CEO of Natura, a fast-growing multi-billion-dollar beauty company that is both innovative and purpose-driven. João Paulo, a globetrotting former Unilever executive who goes by JP, drives purpose in so many ways—in the products Natura sells, in th…
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In the latest episode of A Call to Lead, I sat down with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who has seen it all in the tech and startup worlds. Sukhinder was an early leader at Google, where she headed Asia-Pacific and Latin America operations. She went on to run startups that merged tech and fashion (Polyvore and Joyus) before taking the helm of StubHub, th…
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In this week's episode of A Call to Lead, I sit down with Bobbi Brown, who started a cosmetics business in her home three decades ago, sold it to Estee Lauder, and stayed on board to build Bobbi Brown Essentials into a billion-dollar global brand. So Bobbi knows how to lead inside a giant corporation and, since she left Estee Lauder and is now back…
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On this week's episode of A Call to Lead, my guest is Bianna Golodryga. Bianna is the co-anchor of CBS This Morning—and a woman with a fascinating path to success. Bianna was born in Russia, grew up in Texas, and spent her early career as a business news journalist, telling stories about CEOs and world-changing entrepreneurs. Over the years at CNBC…
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Our new episode of A Call to Lead is my interview with Stacey Cunningham. Stacey started at the New York Stock Exchange as an intern, quit to go to culinary school, did a stint at rival NASDAQ, returned—and rose through the ranks to become the NYSE’s first-ever female president. That’s an unconventional path to the top job (yes, “president” is the …
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Today we're bringing you a A Call to Lead Classic—one of my favorite interviews that I've done at Call to Lead at SAP's annual Sapphire Now conference. My guest is Walter Isaacson. Talking with Walter is always head-spinning and enlightening because he is the foremost expert on leaders who also happen to be the world's smartest people. Walter's spe…
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In this week's A Call to Lead I talk with Simon Sinek. You may know Simon from his TED Talks, which are viral phenoms, or his best-selling books. Start With Why, his first book, is a guide to discovering and honing purpose to help build extraordinary teams. In his upcoming and fifth book, The Infinite Game, Simon explains how to lead in a world whe…
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This week on A Call To Lead, I talk with one of my favorite leadership philosophers, Frances Frei. Frances is a TED Talk phenomenon, a professor at Harvard Business School, and a former executive at Uber. She's a fount of wisdom on developing great teams, maximizing your own performance, and building trust in a world that’s devoid of it. Here are j…
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On this week's episode of A Call To Lead, I talk with Gary Vaynerchuk, digital marketing expert, social media guru, and one of the most energetic and candid leaders I know. Gary and I talked about everything from staying current in an app world to embracing your shortcomings in order to advance your career—and of course, we talked about building gr…
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In this very first episode of my new podcast A Call to Lead, I talk with Arianna Huffington—serial entrepreneur, Uber board member, author, and leadership expert. Arianna shares her unique perspective on a broad range of subjects, from connecting people (she's a master) to building businesses (she's created many, including Thrive Global) to underst…
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Announcing a brand new leadership podcast from Jennifer Morgan, President and Executive Board Member at SAP.By Jen Morgan
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The final episode of the first series of Sing The Body Electric features art collector, patron and recently retired President of Le Bon Marché Group in Paris, Philippe de Beauvoir, discussing abstraction changing perception, the freedom in abstraction, art as evolution and how to open to abstract art.An audio series of extras and deleted scenes fro…
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Episode 13 of the inspirational podcast on art, creativity and philosophy, again features the French artist and cinéaste, Véronique Aubouy speaking on the freedom of time in film, improvisation, intuition, the value of constraint, fearlessness and Proust's enduring relevance. An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documentary feature…
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This week's episode of the inspirational podcast on art, creativity and philosophy, features the French artist and cinéaste, Véronique Aubouy and her revolutionary film, Proust lu. An extraordinary 22 year project to film Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documentary feature film, The Poetr…
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast Gary Weber called, "Really excellent...insightful, personal, experiential, direct..." (Gary Weber - “Happiness Beyond Thought”).We have saved you a seat at a Shakespeare and Company tea party to hear your host, Panmelys, read her luminous "Honest Song's Measure" and be followed by René Agostini's readin…
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This week's episode of Sing The Body Electric, the inspirational podcast on art, creativity and philosophy, is a special invitation to a Shakespeare and Company Tea Party. Panmelys will give a euphoric reading of Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas, and René Agostini will share a rare discovery. An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documenta…
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Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast on art, creativity, philosophy and spirit.Episode nine takes us to Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris. Join Panmelys, legendary host of the Sunday afternoon tea parties, for a tour of history and wonder, and then climb the stairs to the third floor, to George Whitman's old apartment, and meet his…
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Welcome to this week's episode of Sing The Body Electric featuring poet, visionary artist and host of the legendary Shakespeare and Company tea parties, Panmelys. Episode eight: a pot of gold, express yourself as you want to, the art that changes lives, the esoteric feeling of something else, the vision, art to transcend self, I loved the wind.An a…
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Welcome to this week's episode of Sing The Body Electric featuring writer and Professor of Rhetoric and Political Thought at Sciences Po Paris, Lex Paulson. Episode seven: Fraoch Eilean, words as talismans, the value of memorising verse, Bloom, poetry was song, the white bird, the sacred feminine.An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from th…
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Welcome to this week's episode of Sing The Body Electric. An inspirational podcast on art, philosophy and spirit. Episode six:falling down, what inspires you, the world is despairing, having a passion, emerging from depression, don't identify with anything, carry the book and write your dreams, your own tea party. Sing The Body Electric is an audio…
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Welcome to this week's episode of Sing The Body Electric. A podcast on art, creativity and spirit. Episode five: inner work, the Greek's four sacred paths, everyone's a poet, poets are born, the few that count, language as a sacred instrument, the critic, the silence of the non-creating mass.Sing The Body Electric is an audio series of extras and d…
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Episode four of Sing The Body Electric - dropping preconceptions and opening to non representational art, heart opening, gaining access to spirit, identity, the poet’s role, the inner identity, the rise of the sacred feminine, Pandora’s box. An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documentary feature film, The Poetry Of Illusion tinyu…
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast Gary Weber called, "Really excellent...insightful, personal, experiential, direct..." (Gary Weber - “Happiness Beyond Thought”).Episode three of Sing The Body Electric is a magical transmission of poetic wisdom and restorative wonders. From René's opening words, summoning the very heart essence of R?m?,…
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Join a salon of inspired artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and philosophers as they share the very source of their creativity in an inclusive, uplifting celebration of the transformative power of art.Episode two: Visions, art and ethics, the malevolent audience.An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documentary feature film, The Po…
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Join a salon of inspired artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and philosophers as they share the very source of their creativity in an inclusive, uplifting celebration of the transformative power of art. An audio series of extras and deleted scenes from the documentary feature film, The Poetry Of Illusion, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/49617Featuring t…
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