Lead & Follow offers a candid discussion of teamwork, collaboration, and professional development. Host Sharna Fabiano talks with educators, consultants, and professionals to explore the relational dance between leadership and followership, and how to become excellent in both roles.
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"Empowering Wellness, One Episode at a Time" Unlock the secrets to a healthier, more balanced life with Wellness Musketeers. Join our dynamic trio—a medical doctor, wellness expert, and economist with over 120 years of combined experience—as they delve into the latest health and wellness trends that impact you and your loved ones. From physical and mental health to overcoming drug addiction and loneliness, each episode offers diverse perspectives from leading experts in health and business. ...
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Children's Hospital Under Siege: MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn on the Human Toll of War
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What if a children's hospital became the target in a brutal conflict? In this powerful episode of the Wellness Musketeers podcast, we’re joined by MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a key figure in Ukrainian politics and an ardent advocate for reform and transparency. As the chairman of Ukraine's Freedom of Speech Committee, Yurchyshyn provides an unfiltered …
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Leading & Following in Community Settings - Eric Kaufman
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Leadership Educator and Scholar Eric Kaufman shares his observations of leading and following dynamics in a variety of community and volunteer settings, from civic organizations like Kiwanis Clubs to parent-teacher organizations to church governance bodies. Eric is a professor at Virginia Tech, where he coordinates a graduate…
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When Loneliness Strikes: Strategies for Wellness with Rita Abdallah
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What happens when loneliness becomes more than just a fleeting feeling? Join us as we uncover the complexities of loneliness in today's world with therapist and wellness expert Rita Abdallah. Through poignant stories from her practice, Rita illustrates the many faces of loneliness, from young adults struggling with romantic connections to middle-ag…
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Leading & Following in Improvised Music – Jane Bentley
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Dr. Jane Bentley is a percussionist and drum circle facilitator based in Glasgow, Scotland, specializing in rhythm, improvisation, group dynamics and communication skills. She completed a Ph.D on drum circle improvisation and facilitation, highlighting the effects of group music making on human wellbeing, and revealing its fa…
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The 4 Tiers of Followership - Eric McDermott
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Eric McDermott shares a framework he developed through his decades of professional experience called the 4 Tiers of Followership (or the 4 Tiers of Help). By day, Eric is an equity partner at a financial services firm with more than 60,000 clients. But behind the suit, in his other company, Eric was named "Best Business Influ…
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Followership at the Strategic Level – Paul McGachey
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Paul McGachey shares his theoretical research on Ira Chaleff's Courageous Follower model plus lots of terrific examples from his own professional work demonstrating what it takes to follow courageously at the higher levels of an organization, whether that's in the US military or in the business sector. Paul is a scholar-pract…
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COVID Chronicles: Personal Journeys, Long COVID, and Vaccination Insights with Dr. Richard Kennedy
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Ready to uncover the real stories behind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? Join us for a compelling episode of the Wellness Musketeers podcast, where Dr. Richard Kennedy, Ketil Hviding, David Liss, and Aussie Mike James share their personal experiences with the virus. From Dr. Kennedy's severe first infection to Aussie Mike's own surprising evasion of…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Focus your email. I recently received an auto-responder email message from a colleague that read, and I’m not kidding about this, QUOTE “I’m out of the office this week, and your message will be deleted. If you’d like a response, please re-send your message after next Monday when…
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Leading, Following, and Polarity Thinking - Lindsay Burr
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Lindsay Burr shares the tools of Polarity ThinkingTM as a way to understand, identify, and refine leadership and followership dynamics in any group or organization. Lindsay is CEO of the Yarbrough Group and based in Washington, DC. Her career has focused on helping people clearly see and then navigate the systems that they're…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Visual focus. In most Western contexts, eye contact signals to the other person that you are paying attention to them. A lack of eye contact can signal the opposite: disconnection, dismissal, or disinterest. Just think about the last time you tried to share information or ask a q…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Take turns. One summer I attended a large afternoon bbq, and a person I’d just met walked over and asked me about my work. Perfectly normal, right? But then he interrupted me before I could finish, and asked me another question. So, I started answering the new question, and then …
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Navigating the Maze of Addiction: Marcia Bremenour's Guide to Recovery and Hope
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Embark on a transformative journey with Marcia Bremenour, a highly experienced therapist in addiction care, who shares her profound insights into America's drug addiction crisis and the courageous path to recovery. This episode offers an honest look at the societal tremors caused by substance abuse, evolving trends in addiction. With Marcia, we unt…
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Connected Social Conversations – Dan Istrate
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Actor/Director Dan Istrate shares his thoughts on presence, connection, and social leading and following. Dan grew up in Romania and has lived for the past 25 years in the United States. He’s had thousands of both painful and hilarious experiences of language and culture translation and mis-translation, working on both stage …
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Power & Influence of Global Followership - Yulia Tolstikov-Mast
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, Ph.D. shares the concept of a global follower and especially of global followership as a force of power that can and does influence the far-reaching decisions of global leaders. Yulia is a global leadership and followership expert, an award-winning international leadership scholar, and an educator. Her s…
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Followers Navigating Ethical Dilemmas - Kyle Payne
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Dr. Kyle Payne, a strategic talent development leader based in Chicago, describes his recent study exploring how professional engineers navigate ethical dilemmas. Kyle has fifteen years of experience driving process improvement and behavior change through training, coaching, and consulting. In his research, he focuses on unet…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Hi Everyone, this is Sharna. I’ve spent the beginning of the year in a resting phase with the podcast, letting the new season slowly take shape in my mind. New episodes are coming soon, in early March, and I’m hoping this little preview will give you a sense of how I’m thinking about season 3 as a collection of conversations.…
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The Tango of Life: Leadership, Followership, and Social Dynamics with Sharna Fabiano
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Discover the unexpected wisdom of tango with Sharna Fabiano, an renowned tango artist and author, who speaks on the dance's profound reflection of life's social intricacies and leadership roles. Your episode host, Ketil Hviding, reflects on his journey through martial arts and tango and what the dance has taught him about the subtle art of leading …
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Embrace Serenity with Pearl Kuebel's Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation
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Discover a tranquil realm of self-love and acceptance with Pearl Kuebel, who leads you on a 15-minute symphony of the soul in our latest episode. Pearl's soothing voice serves as a beacon, illuminating the path to self-discovery, as we learn to embrace every sensation and breath with open arms. This auditory voyage promises not only a deep dive int…
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Three Compelling Ideas for 2024 - Sharna Fabiano
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Send Fan Mail by Text! In this short, end-of year episode, host Sharna Fabiano reflects on season 2 and shares three compelling lead and follow ideas to try out in your own life and work in 2024. Please send feedback on Season 2 along with suggestions for Season 3 directly to Sharna at sharna@sharnafabiano.com. Special thanks to Glover Gill for pro…
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Toxic Followership and Definitions of Power - Wendy M. Edmonds
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Dr. Wendy M. Edmonds is Interim Chair of the Management, Marketing, and Public Administration Department in the College of Business at a Historically Black University, and Co-Chair of the Global Followership Conference 2024. Her research focus is on toxic followership (people following bad people). She is an author, and inter…
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Behind the Curtain: The Unique Role of Standardized Patients in Medical Education with Katie Culligan
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Do you want to peek behind the curtain of the medical world? You're in the right place. We've got a special treat for you today in the form of our guest, Katie Culligan, a professional actor turned standardized patient. Katie brings to light how she and her colleagues play a crucial role in shaping medical practitioners' skills through simulating v…
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Leadership & Followership in the British Army – Langley Sharp
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Langley Sharp is the former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, responsible for championing leadership excellence across the British Army. After graduating from Sandhurst two decades ago, his career in the Parachute Regiment, which included operational command at every rank, saw him deployed to Northern Ireland, Macedonia…
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Smart Followership for Talent Development - David Elser
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Send Fan Mail by Text! David Elser, author of Doing the Chores, shares his concept of smart followership through personal stories of growing up on a small family farm in northwest Ohio. David is a learning and development professional based in Coldwater Lake, Michigan who has over 30 years of experience in the transportation industry. He works with…
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Followership-Centric Organizations - David Scott
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Send Fan Mail by Text! David Scott is a PhD Researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is exploring Followership Salience as a factor of Leadership in Organisations, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Business at Leeds Trinity University. In this episode, he shares his concept of followership as informal leadership, and hi…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Christian Monö is a Speaker, Author and Sweden’s first and only followership expert. In this episode, he shares what he has discovered in more than 15 years exploring what he calls “natural followership." We discuss how our human ancestors self-organized in egalitarian band societies, and also how the leadership industry is a…
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Followership for Social Good - Fatema Haque and Dorine Lawrence-Hughes
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Send Fan Mail by Text! This episode is a conversation about integrated leadership-followership education, featuring both Fatema Haque, Academic Program Manager & LEO Adjunct Lecturer at the Barger Leadership Institute at the University of Michigan, and also Dorine Lawrence-Hughes, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Michi…
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Followership in the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University - Erica Dawson
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Send Fan Mail by Text! I speak with Erica Dawson, Professor of Practice and Nancy and Bob Selander Executive Director of the Engineering Leadership Programs at Cornell University. Erica’s Montana upbringing instilled in her a deep sense of connection to the mountains and outdoors. But her thirst for adventure was too big even for the Big Sky State,…
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Followership and Strategic Process - David Leitner
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Dr. David Leitner has spent the last 15 years as a followership, leadership, and strategy educator. In this episode, he shares his passion and perspective on followership and leadership not only interpersonally but also as a way of analyzing relationships between states, communities, or companies. Dr. D not only teaches these…
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Celebrating Followers in Spiritual Life, Business, and Governance - Nixon Jallo
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Nixon Jallo is Husband, Father, Chief Executive of FOLDEVIN Consults Ltd., Bishop of Supernatural Love Ministries, Rector of Agape Bible College, Writer and Researcher based in Jalingo, Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria. He speaks about teaching followership in both faith communities and business communities, how followership d…
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Embracing the Mat: Sa'idah Zeinab Durkee on the Transformative Power of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
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What happens when a world-class athlete shares her journey into the intricate domain of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? We find out as we chat with the incredible Sa'idah Zeinab Durkee, also known as the Ginja Ninja. With a brown belt to her name, Sa'idah's deep dive into the sport is more than just about acquiring the belt or winning competitions. It's about…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Choose an inner orientation. This technique is also called choosing a mindset or an intention. I’m calling it an inner orientation because I want you to use it as a deliberate and methodical way to orient to people and situations you are in. Most of the time, our inner state is r…
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HR Perspective on Followership and Leadership Training - Julie Newman
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Julie Newman, a Certified Human Resources Leader in Ontario, Canada, shares her experience coordinating a recent implementation of leadership and followership training for a nonprofit client. Julie is a well-rounded HR professional with 15 years of experience in all areas of HR, from building organizational culture, performan…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Deepen your breath. Many of us are in the habit of shallow breathing, sometimes called chest breathing, where the collarbones and sometimes shoulders move up and down with each inhale and exhale. Because of tension in the muscles, or sometimes just because of the general speed of…
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Training Everyone in Both Leadership and Followership – Samantha Hurwitz
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Together with her partner in all things, Marc Hurwitz, my guest Samantha Hurwitz is co-author of the game-changing book Leadership is Half the Story and co-founder of the innovative training and development company FliP University, based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Samantha and Marc are also co-founders of the Global Follow…
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Simultaneous Leading and Following in Complex Organizations - Chris Fuzie
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Dr. Chris Fuzie, owner of CMF Leadership Consulting, talks through the development and delivery of his Effective Followership training program and how it works in combination with leadership training. We also discuss how most employees in large complex organizations are actually leading and following at the same time, whether…
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Taking Control: Understanding and Combating Prostate Cancer with Dr. Richard Kennedy MD
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Can you imagine taking control of your health and arming yourself against prostate cancer? That's what we promise you'll learn from this episode of Micro Musketeers Moment. Our co-host, Dr. Richard Kennedy MD, offers a wealth of knowledge from his 36 years of clinical experience in primary care, and he shares this with us in a captivating conversat…
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Followership Training in Healthcare Teams - Erin Barry
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Send Fan Mail by Text! My guest Erin Barry is currently working on her PhD in Health Professions Education focusing on leadership and followership within healthcare teams. She shares her observations of how meaningful and flexible followership impacts the quality of care delivered to patients, as well as the necessity of regular peer feedback and p…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is Tune in. You’ve probably heard many times that active listening is an important skill for just about anything, including leadership and followership. Tuning in does include listening with your ears, but it’s much more than that. It’s more like listening with your whole body, dire…
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Leading and Following in 4-H Youth Programs (USM Part 2) - Maddie Gray
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Send Fan Mail by Text! This week on the podcast, I speak with Maddie Gray, a Leadership & Organizational Studies major at the University of Southern Maine and a member of this year’s USM Collegiate Leadership Competition team. She has been involved with 4-H for fifteen years, competing in public speaking competitions and building her leadership and…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead and follow coaching tip for today is make meeting agendas and make them great. One reason we tend to complain about meetings is that they feel like a waste of time. I know that when I don’t have any meaningful way to participate, or the topic isn’t relevant to me, I can’t get out of the room fast enough, and if I’m …
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Learning games for better leadership and smarter followership - Fran Kick
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Fran Kick is an author, educational consultant, and professional speaker who works with corporate and educational organizations that want to develop better leadership and smarter followership for faster long-term results. As a company owner, entrepreneur, and consultant, Fran combines his master’s degree and clinical backgrou…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! If you’re a strongly narrative thinker, you may respond to any kind of question by telling a story. That usually starts by providing considerable background information and then describing what happened in chronological order. Stories are definitely a crucial part of how we learn, but they can also be time-consuming and there…
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Leadership and Followership at an Architectural Design Firm (JCU Part 3) - Michael Christoff
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Michael Christoff, Senior Associate and Practice Leader for Architecture at Vocon, shares his insights about leadership and followership roles in the flow of organizational work and on design projects specifically. Michael graduated from Kent State University with his Master in Architecture and from John Carroll University wi…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead & follow coaching tip for today is Stretch Before Meetings Pre-meeting stretches, especially if you can stand up to do them, wake up your body so that you can connect more easily and more quickly to other people. Just 15 seconds is enough! One the reasons the quick stretch works is that when you sit still for long p…
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Workplace Wellness: Insights from an Occupational Medicine Physician
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In this episode of Wellness Musketeers Moment, we are honored to host Dr. Linda Holifield-Kennedy, a renowned occupational medicine physician with over 17 years of experience in civilian employee health services at the Pentagon, and as a first responder to victims of 9-11, currently serving as the Senior Medical Advisor for the U.S. Department of H…
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Send Fan Mail by Text! Your lead & follow coaching tip for today is Dress Comfortably This tip comes straight from my training as a social dancer, which includes a big focus on subtle non-verbal communication. To understand why this might be important in a professional context, think about communication in a very broad sense, not only as the words …
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Integrating Followership into Leadership Education Programs (USM Part 1)- Dan Jenkins
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Send Fan Mail by Text! I speak with Dan Jenkins, Professor of Leadership & Organizational Studies at the University of Southern Maine about his collaborative work integrating specific methods for training followership into leadership programs, and tracking the impressive results! Dan received his doctorate in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphas…
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Leadership, Followership and Emotional Intelligence (IWU Part 3) - Yolonda Tonette Sanders
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Send Fan Mail by Text! I speak with Dr. Yolonda Tonette Sanders, who shares her recent dissertation research on connections between followers' emotional intelligence and their followership styles, and what this means for leaders in organizations of all kinds. Dr. Sanders is an Ohio native, co-founder of Traction, an organizational change consulting…
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Reciprocal Leadership and Followership Keeps us Human (JCU Part 2) - Grace Wright
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Send Fan Mail by Text! I speak with Grace Wright, board president of the Euclid Hunger Center and community resource manager at University Settlement, a social service agency serving the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. She has worked in hunger relief services for the last 12 years, managing hunger centers in the Greater Cleveland ar…
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Welcome to Wellness Musketeers! In this episode, we feature a guided walking meditation, led by Xiaolin Wang. Xiaolin is a renowned meditation teacher who has dedicated her life to helping people find peace, balance, and happiness through mindfulness practices. She has studied and practiced meditation for over 20 years, drawing on various tradition…
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