Transformational Leadership with Henna Inam
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We are living in the decade of disruption. Henna Inam, author, executive coach and board member shares on-the-spot coaching exercises you can apply immediately to leadership challenges. Learn from experts about how to be an inspired and agile force for good in the midst of disruption.
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Nov 10, 2022
Episode 48 - A Daily Reflection Practice To Invite Flow And Renewal
In my work with my executive coaching clients, one of the most important aspects of sustainable change and getting into flow is to create daily habits that support our energy and focus. One of those habits that I encourage is daily reflection. The impact of a daily reflection exercise is to connect more deeply with ourselves and what matters.
In this podcast episode, I share two 5-minute guided coaching exercises. The first is a morning journaling exercise. It helps you create focus for yourself for a productive and energized day. It helps you focus your energy toward your purpose and aspirations. It helps you practice gratitude which has been shown to grow resilience.
The second is an evening journaling exercise. It helps you process your day so you are not bringing the stressors of the day to your home life. It helps you release challenging emotions, get new perspective, and bring a calmer and more compassionate you to the people and activities that matter at home. It also helps you practice self-compassion which has been shown to grow resilience, confidence, and connection.
My recommendation is to start with the morning practice. See if you can add it to an existing morning habit you have. Then add the evening practice.
If you decide to try this practice, I would welcome your feedback.
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Oct 26, 2022
Episode 47 - Team Practice for Collective Flow
Our current state of burnout is a call for us to evolve our leadership, individually and collectively. In my work with leaders and their teams, they are increasingly asking for ways to create more trust and connection so people can feel safety in navigating the challenges of disruption. The cause of burnout is lack of connection to ourselves, our individual and collective purpose, and the people we work with.
In this short podcast episode, I have created two practices for teams.
At the start is a 5-minute practice for teams to arrive and create the conditions for collective flow to happen: to bring their attention to now, to grow connection and trust, and to align on their intention for contribution toward collective goals. I recommend this as an essential practice. Many of my clients say it super-charges the quality of trust and ideas in the room.
The second practice (after a 30-second pause) is an optional 2-minute practice done just prior to aligning on next steps and concluding the meeting. It's a way to bring individual and shared attention to the learning and progress during the meeting, to drive clarity and commitment toward inspired and aligned action.
The topic of my next book is how teams can create breakthroughs in collective flow and I am looking for 15 mighty teams to be part of my Collective Flow Experiment. If your team chooses to use these practices, I would welcome your feedback on how this works for you.
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Oct 24, 2022
Dr. Keith Sawyer – How To Access Group Genius And Collective Flow
Many teams struggle with burnout, belonging, and breakthrough innovation. Silos, matrix reporting and disconnection get in the way of results. What if we could navigate some of our most important collective challenges by accessing collective flow? I sat down with Dr. Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius, who is a pre-eminent researcher on this topic and worked directly with the “father of flow”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Dr. Keith Sawyer, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of the country’s leading scientific experts on creativity. He has published 18 books and over 100 scientific articles. His research has been featured on CNN, Fox News, TIME Magazine, NPR, and other media. A popular speaker, he lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on creativity and innovation.
In this episode Keith discussed some of the most important activators of group flow based on his own experience playing in a jazz band as well as extensive study of improv actors and large teams and organizations that regularly create conditions for group flow. Some of the activators include meaningful shared goals and risks, close listening and attention, trust and connection among the members, blending of ego’s and giving up personal agendas. We discussed both the benefits and the challenges of this in leadership teams.
If this topic interests you, reach out as collective flow is the topic of my next book and I’m interested in working with leaders and teams who have high stakes challenges that need breakthrough thinking and alignment.
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)
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Oct 11, 2022
Andrew White – Leadership Transformation Requires A Bigger Purpose & Deeper Listening
Dr. Andrew White works globally with leaders to understand how they can transcend the internal and external strategic challenges they face to ensure they deliver sustainable high performance. His experience comes from being a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where he works with these leaders by directing the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, coaching several CEOs and their senior teams, and conducting research into leadership and transformation. is also a certified meditation teacher and has developed a toolkit of meditations tailored to the different situations leaders face.
In this episode, Andrew shared examples of leaders who are driving transformation across industries, bringing uncommon thinking. They are able to create breakthroughs because they combine a bigger purpose they care deeply about with the ability to listen deeply to different needs of stakeholders within an ecosystem. He shared insights about how all successful transformations require spaciousness and sensing into what is emerging, a clear and aligned plan, and also empathy to listen closely to the human resistance that often derails the plan. This deep caring and listening to the emotional journey of people participating in the change makes all the difference.
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Aug 30, 2022
Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn: The Power of Silence in The Midst of Disruption
What if the most serious personal and global challenges won’t be solved with more thinking or talking? What if human beings have access to deeper forms of intelligence that we have access to only in silence? Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz are the co-authors of the book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. Justin Zorn has served as both a meditation teacher and a senior policymaker in the US Congress. He is a Harvard-and-Oxford trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellbeing. Leigh Marz is a leadership and collaboration consultant with organizations including Harvard, Google, and IKEA. She has led a multi-year program teaching experimental mindsets to teams at NASA.
In this podcast we explore what we mean by silence, a form of pristine attention. Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a presence that brings us energy, clarity, and deeper connection. We explore why this is needed for us precisely as a solution to navigate disruption. In silence we have access to the knowing and deep intelligence that is already available to us, but is overshadowed by the noise of distractions, inner chatter, and disconnection. The authors invite us to remember our own experiences of silence and the clarity that came. They also share stories of individuals and teams that have used silence to find novel solutions. We also discuss practical ways to bring more silence to your work and life.
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Jul 25, 2022
Bob Anderson – Radical Agility: Accessing The Quantum Field To Create Collective Flow
Bob Anderson has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and personal mastery, and between competence and consciousness. The creator and author of The Leadership Circle Profile, an integrated and innovative leadership assessment tool, Bob is a true pioneer in the field of leadership development and research. Bob is also the author of Mastering Leadership, An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results and Scaling Leadership, Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most.
In our podcast, we discussed Bob’s deep work into the nature of reality informed by quantum physics. We discussed how we can each access the field of intelligent information that is available in the present moment to be agile to the changing and complex landscape we lead in. We are both convinced that this is the future of leadership and that we can evolve ourselves to develop our bandwidth to access new sources of insight and intuition, beyond our rational thinking mind. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone in the leadership development and learning community.
If this interests you we invite you to reach out and collaborate with us.
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Jul 4, 2022
Susan Cain – How Being With Our Bittersweet Emotions Brings Creativity and Connection
Susan Cain is the author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into 40 languages and spent seven years on the New York Times best seller list. Her record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 40 million times. And her new book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole opened #1 on the New York Times best seller list.
In this episode we spoke about how making room to be with bittersweet emotions, individually and collectively, opens up space for compassion, connection and creativity. She shared research studies and neuroscience around how human beings are actually wired for compassion and when we turn toward our loss and longing we can learn to thrive in the midst of disruption. She invites us as leaders to make room for these tougher emotions of grief and loss in the workplace and gives us specific practices to invite the creativity that we can have access to when we pause and make space for our humanity. You can learn more about her new book, course and sign up for her newsletter here: https://susancain.net/book/bittersweet/
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May 18, 2021
Kevin Cashman - Growth Agility: Preparing CEO's To Navigate the Unknown
Kevin Cashman is a best-selling author, global thought leader and CEO Coach, keynote speaker and pioneer of the ‘grow the whole person to grow the whole leader’ approach to transformative enterprise leadership. He is the founder of LeaderSource Ltd, and the Chief Executive Institute recognized as one of the top three enterprise leadership development programs globally. In 2006, LeaderSource was acquired by Korn Ferry, where Kevin is now Global Leader of CEO and Executive Development across 130 offices internationally that touch the lives of 100,000+ leaders monthly.
In this episode Kevin shared his personal experience of loss during the pandemic and what differentiates truly great leaders: "They have the unique ability to convert loss to learning that serves them and their ecosystem". He also shared the importance of an elevated mindset and "Being Mastery", how leaders confront challenges and bring compassion to pain and suffering, how they prepare to meet the unknown, and step up and step into purpose. "The growth of a CEO is critical to the growth of the organization...I view leadership as the force that can change everything for the better...ultimately we have to become ecosystem leaders".
His story-telling and Korn Ferry's 2-year research is sure to inspire you. Take a listen!
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May 7, 2021
Adam Symson - How CEO's Disrupt Themselves in Times of Disruption
Adam Symson is president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, the fourth-largest local TV broadcaster in the U.S. Prior to becoming CEO in August 2017, Adam was Scripps’ chief operating officer, overseeing the company’s broadcast TV, radio and digital media divisions.
In this episode, Adam shares the story of what it is like to lead during the pandemic as CEO and how to make decisions in ambiguity. He also shares his experience of managing multiple stakeholders (employees, shareholders, the public at large, etc.) in a turbulent time, the importance of aligning with core values, and how we must disrupt ourselves in times of disruption. He and his team undertook a multi-billion dollar acquisition in the middle of the crisis because he is focused on the long-term. His leadership advice to his children: "It's not about how you succeed. It's about how you fail. It's what you do when you inevitably get kicked in the gut...how you persevere."
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Apr 28, 2021
Paddy Hull - Part 2: How Unilever Grows Future-Fit Leaders
Paddy Hull is the VP of Future of Work at Unilever. In this role, he is responsible for bringing Unilever’s social commitments on the Future of Work to life, to help people stay fit for work – now and in the future. He is leading a program to deliver on three commitments, equipping people for the future of work, pioneering new flexible employment options, and partnering with others to create jobs and skills for young people outside of Unilever.
In Part 2 of our conversation, we discussed how Unilever is thinking about bringing flexibility, purpose and sustainability to the career experiences of employees. As work becomes disrupted with the advent of artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies, the work humans will do is rapidly changing. This can create a lot of fear and anxiety. The antidote to this anxiety is to help people become future-fit through thinking incorporating their purpose, strengths and interests in their career planning. Paddy explains how Unilever leaders facilitate this transition for employees and how it's time for different and more flexible employment options that fit employees' needs. You're sure to leave this conversation inspired to bring this thinking to your workplace.
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Apr 21, 2021
Paddy Hull - Part 1: Growing Purposeful Leaders at Unilever
Paddy Hull is the VP of Future of Work at Unilever. In this role, he is responsible for bringing Unilever’s social commitments on the Future of Work to life, to help people stay fit for work – now and in the future. This involves delivering on three commitments: equipping Unilever people for the future of work, pioneering new flexible employment options, and partnering with others to create jobs and skills for young people outside of Unilever. He has identified his purpose as "To bring the essence of Pollyanna into the room". He sees this as bringing joy, creativity and innovation into everything he does.
In this episode (Part 1 of a two-part series) we spoke about Unilever's commitment to enabling over 60,000 associates to discover their own purpose and bring it to work. We spoke about the impact this has had on the workforce and how it fits in with Unilever's leadership values and purpose to make sustainable living commonplace.
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Mar 31, 2021
Carol Campbell – Stakeholder Capitalism: How Delta Airlines Practices Stakeholder Agility
Carol Campbell is Managing Director – Consumer Insight for Delta Air Lines, responsible for guiding and shaping long-term strategies to deliver world-class experiences for Delta’s customers. Under Carol’s leadership, the Consumer Insight team plays a critical role in helping Delta to understand what’s most important to customers in the present and anticipate expectations in the future. Carol joined Delta in 2018 after 22-years with the Walt Disney Company.
In this episode, Carol gave us a front-row seat view to how Delta Airlines managed the often competing needs of stakeholders (shareholders, customers, employees, communities) during the pandemic. Led by their purpose and core values, Delta leadership navigated tough decisions and doubled down on a culture of humility, deep listening to stakeholders and focus on restoring trust in travel. It's an inspiring and instructive story about how to manage the needs of our own stakeholders during rapidly shifting times of disruption.…
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Mar 8, 2021
Kevin Delaney - The Power of Purpose & How To Find Your Many Purposes
Kevin John Delaney is a voracious reader, night owl, musician, husband, father of three and lives by the words of Helen Keller, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” He is the Vice President of Learning and Development at LinkedIn and the author of A Life Worth Living – Finding Your Purpose and Daring to Live the Life You’ve Imagined. In 2008, Kevin suffered a series of health issues that left him in a coma, very close to dying. He received an organ transplant that saved his life and left him determined to live a life of purpose.
In this episode we discussed the power of being open to the many purposes in our daily lives. We don't have to wait for a bolt of insight to discover our true purpose in life. When we find ways to be useful to others which also bring us meaning, it is good for our own well-being as well as our impact in our workplace and community. This is also especially useful in times of disruption.
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Jan 7, 2021
Joe Whittinghill - Growth Agility: How To Create Agile Cultures At Scale
Joe Whittinghill is the Corp Vice President of Talent, Learning, and Insights for Microsoft. Joe leads a team responsible for activating culture and learning, building world-class leaders, and enabling the workforce of the future for Microsoft. Joe has expertise in strategy, organization development, learning, executive development, the neuroscience of leadership, and culture activation.
In this episode, Joe shares the story of Microsoft's business and culture transformation, partnering with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. He shares how growth mindset has been a proven driver of Microsoft's transformation. The underpinnings of the business and culture transformation is personal transformation and a new set of leadership principles. Here are Microsoft's three principles: leaders create clarity, leaders generate energy, leaders deliver (multi-stakeholder) success. These principles are driven by proven neuroscience of human performance. Take a listen into our conversation about the thre…
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Dec 17, 2020
Sarah Devereaux – Growing Change – Agile Leaders At the Speed of AI
Sarah Devereaux has spent the last 14 years in the Learning and Leadership Development space at Google. Some of her more recent roles included: Head of Executive Development Programs, Head of Strategic Initiatives for The Google School for Leaders, and Global Lead of the g2g (Googlers-to-Googlers) program. She has a keen interest in the future of work and leadership and a passion for learning and helping individuals and organizations to realize their full potential.
In this episode, Sarah shared lessons learned from creating the g2g program with over 11,000 people across the globe (about 10% of the workforce of 100.000+ at Google) teaching and learning from each other. If you want to create a peer teaching and learning network, listen to Sarah share both the benefits of and their failures along the way. We also spoke about how Google develops change-ready leaders. The executive leadership program helps leaders to upgrade their operating system (for humans this is our consciousness) to…
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Nov 23, 2020
Simon Brown – Learning Agility: Growing Curious Leaders for The Future of Work
Simon Brown is Chief Learning Officer for Novartis, a leading global medicine company based in Switzerland focused on reimagining medicine. He is also author of the Amazon-bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’. He is leading the strategy for Novartis to ‘Go Big on Learning’ in support of the company-wide culture transformation to become ‘Curious, Inspired and Unbossed’.
In this episode we spoke about Simon's new book and the steps each one of us can take to become more curious and learning agile. Simon shared the importance of learning in the future of work where most skills will be obsolete in 10 years (many in as few as three years). We also spoke about how we can create cultures of safety in teams for a world that is more disrupted and unpredictable, so people bring their naturally curious selves to their workplace.
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Nov 22, 2020
Jim Loehr – Leadership Character: The #1 Driver of Sustained Success
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and Co-Founder of the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. He is also the author of 17 books including his most recent Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy. In this book he examines the relationship between character and leadership and the timely importance of writing and living your own personal credo. From his more than 30 years of experience and applied research, Dr. Loehr believes the single most important factor in successful achievement, personal fulfilment and life satisfaction is the strength of one’s character. Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement.
In this episode, we explored how discovering our leadership character through personal reflection is a key anchor for us particularly in times of disruption. His research from the J&J Human Performance Institute shows that character is the #1 driver…
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Nov 18, 2020
Atul Khosla-Creating Human-Centered Organizations
Atul Khosla is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Talent, Learning & Organization Effectiveness at Mondelēz International. Atul's international HR experience, spanning more than 25 years and three continents, has been primarily focused on driving large scale transformation, strategic Organizational Development and Talent Management initiatives. Atul’s passion is to bring back humanity in leadership.
In this episode, Atul shares his personal story of evolution to becoming a more human-centered leader. He also shares how he and his team are evolving how potential and performance are measured and rewarded for the 70,000 leaders at his company, to shape a human-centered culture.
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Nov 18, 2020
Kurt Harrison — How to Grow Sustainable Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism
Kurt Harrison is a Partner for Russell Reynolds and Co-Head of the Global Sustainability Practice. In this role, Kurt specializes in executive assessment and succession planning advice for clients. Russell Reynolds is a global leadership advisory and search firm with 46 offices in 26 countries. This perspective from their website inspired me: “Sustainability has emerged as the defining issue of our time. There is now an urgent need for a new type of business leader—one who can deliver financial success while also making the long-term sustainability and resilience of our world a top priority. We call these people sustainable leaders.”
In our podcast interview, we talked about what sets these sustainable leaders apart: multi-level systems (ecoystem) thinking, inclusion mindset, ambition & ability to drive change, and long-term view. We also spoke about the gap between our need for these leaders and the current availability of sustainable leaders, how to embed sustainable leadershi…
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Nov 17, 2020
Noam Bardin – Stakeholder Agility: How to Create A Community of Ecosystem Partners
Noam has served as CEO of Waze since March 2009, building the company to become one of the world's most talked-about startups through its acquisition by Google. Noam continues to lead the global Waze team within Google to help users around the world enjoy faster, safer drives. He also led the launch of Waze Carpool - the company’s carpooling initiative aimed at taking cars off the road to dramatically reduce traffic - which, in 2019 alone, reduced CO2 emissions equivalent to planting 420,000 trees. Waze fosters a community of over 140 million monthly active users and 500,000 volunteer map editors who work to improve the Waze experience and deliver the mission.
In this episode we spoke about how organizations partner with their stakeholders to create impact in their ecosystem. Hint: it's about partnership and finding common goals. It's also about how we understand and care for the needs of our ecosystem partners. Noam is a great story-teller, listen to the Waze story.
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Sep 10, 2020
Shelley Zalis – Stakeholder Agility: How Shared Purpose Creates Collective Action
Shelley Zalis is an internationally renowned thought leader for advancing equality in the workplace and is the CEO of The Female Quotient. As the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, she changed the game, helped elevate feminine values in the workplace and has devoted herself to becoming a mentor and role model to women and leaders in her industry. She is co-founder of #SeeHer, a movement led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to increase the accurate portrayal of women and girls in advertising and media.
In this conversation, we spoke about how she created The Female Quotient and how it brings together communities of women at 70 global events each year to enable us all to reach for equality in the workplace. We also spoke about what it takes to create communities of stakeholders across an ecosystem to enable collective action (hint: it’s about heart and inspiration).
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Sep 6, 2020
Michael Bush – How Trust Creates Agile Teams & How To Create Trust in Virtual Teams
Michael Bush is the global CEO of Great Place to Work® a people analytics and consulting firm with operations in more than 60 countries. Through certification programs, Great Place to Work® recognizes outstanding workplaces and produces Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the World’s Best Workplaces™ list, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women™ list, the Best Workplaces for Diversity™ list and dozens of other distinguished workplace rankings around the world. The company’s mission is to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™ by the year 2030.
In this episode, we spoke about the importance of trust in creating not just a great place to work, but also in creating more agile teams and organizations. We also spoke about how to create this kind of trust, particularly when so many of us are working virtually in these times. Michael speaks passionately about how his growing up in a working-class family sha…
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Aug 12, 2020
Abbe Luersman – How To Build An Agile Organization
Abbe Luersman is the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) for Royal Ahold Delhaize, an international retailing group with strong local consumer brands in Europe and the United States – €63bn in revenue, 383,000 associates and serving over 50 million customers in-store and 20 million online weekly. Prior to joining Ahold, Abbe spent 6.5 years with Unilever where she held two distinct roles, SVP Unilever Europe and SVP HR Transformation & Strategy. She is Co-Chair and on the Board of Directors for Gartner’s CHRO Global Leadership Board. She has lived on 4 continents, run 25 marathons and loves sports, travel, and movies. Abbe is married to her husband, Paul – just celebrating their 19 year wedding anniversary…. and they have a 16-year-old daughter named Emma, who is their best little coach.
In this episode we spoke about how Ahold-Delhaize was able to respond with great agility to the pandemic, hiring 45,000 furloughed workers from other companies and ensuring the health and sa…
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Aug 12, 2020
Listen with Empathy
In a time of unprecedented change and disruption increasingly leaders need to manage emotional wellbeing, our own and that of others we work with. In my book "Wired for Disruption", I describe neuro-emotional agility as the ability to move ourselves and others from a state of threat to a state of curiosity and creativity. We do this by activating the empathic neural network in our brain.
In this unscripted live coaching, one of our leadership community members LaToia volunteered to be coached for the podcast. I used Listening at Level 3 (one of the 15 accelerators of agility in my book) and asking open ended questions. Take a listen. My hope in doing these live unscripted coaching podcasts is to help you learn and practice these tools for yourself to help you grow in your own ability to be agile.
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Jul 30, 2020
Bruce Broussard – How Leading With Purpose Aligns Stakeholders
Bruce Broussard is President and CEO of Humana, a Fortune 50 company with $65 Billion in revenues and 46,000 team members. Under his leadership, Humana has created an integrated care delivery model with a focus on improving health outcomes, lowering costs, and creating a personalized member experience. Bruce also plays a leadership role in the Business Roundtable, which is driving stakeholder capitalism. He is a member of the Board of Directors of KeyCorp and the World Economic Forum Health Governors Board.
In this episode, we spoke about his humble beginnings (he was the first in his parents' families to go to college), how his values were shaped by crucible experiences, and the role of a CEO in being an agent for all stakeholders. He also spoke about how his values help him make tough decisions balancing multiple stakeholder needs.
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Jul 23, 2020
Tami Simon - Listening to Purpose & The Inner MBA
At age 22, Tami Simon started Sounds True, now a multimedia publisher, with a dream, a tape recorder, and a guiding mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Over its 35-year history, Sounds True has produced over 3,000 titles and been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies.
In this episode, we spoke about devoting ourselves to living a life of purpose, how to listen to our inner guidance and intuition, and why we each need an Inner MBA so we can be a force for good in times of disruption.
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Jul 9, 2020
Tanuj Kapilashrami – Reimagining Leadership For An Unpredictable World
Tanuj Kapilashrami is the Group Head of Human Resources for Standard Chartered Bank, a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Tanuj built her career at HSBC where she worked across multiple HR disciplines in many of their footprint markets - Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, India and London.
In this episode we spoke about how leaders today need to be willing to be vulnerable to admit they don't have all the answers (in a highly unpredictable world) and find the best ideas from deeper in the organization. We also spoke about how Standard Chartered Bank is driving culture change through making it safe to talk about failure.
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Jul 1, 2020
Ruchika Sikri – Why Employee Well-Being Matters in Times of Disruption
Ruchika Sikri is the Head of Well Being Learning Programs and Strategy at Google. She leads a powerful community of 350+ Googlers across 130+ office locations to bring secular and science-based Mindfulness and Compassion Learning programs to 120,000+ Googlers globally. Her daily meditation and yoga practice is grounded in increasing clarity in mind, purity in heart, and sincerity in action.
In this episode, we talked about the one simple habit every leader needs to learn to promote well-being on their teams. We also talked about a crucible experience for Ruchika that has shaped her thinking about what matters in work and life. You're sure to leave inspired from our conversation.
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Jun 29, 2020
Aamir Paul – How To Create An Agile & Purpose-Driven Company
Aamir Paul is the US Country President for Schneider Electric. In his role, he leads the commercial teams to deliver best in class solutions for Schneider Electric’s partners and customers across the company’s Energy Management and Industrial Automation portfolio.
In this episode, we spoke about how Schneider Electric has responded with agility to the pandemic, how it is disrupting the market to bring energy efficiency and sustainability as well as new models of working. You can learn more about his leadership philosophy in this article about Schneider Electric’s recognition in Fortune’s 2019 “Best Places to Work”
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Jun 10, 2020
Compassion – How To Grow Compassion For Yourself and Others
Times of disruption can create fear, anxiety, and stress. This leads to dysfunctional leadership behaviors. We have to intentionally shift our mindsets and biology to be collaborative, connected, curious, and creative. As I write about in my book Wired for Disruption, our neuro-emotional agility is at the core of leadership required in times of disruption. This requires us to practice compassion for ourselves and others to develop new neural networks in our brain.
This short mindful coaching exercise will help you rewire your brain for greater empathy and compassion. It does this by activating the empathic neural networks in the brain so we can feel more connected to others and be more agile to change. Research shows that micro-moments of connection with others improve our immune system functioning and our impact.
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Jun 4, 2020
Vernice Jones – How To Share Your Story & Listen Deeply To Others
Vernice Jones is a Director and faculty for adult development at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is an Associate at Cultivating Leadership, a global, deliberately developmental, complexity-based organization. She is a master certified coach and a close friend. In this episode, we tackle a courageous conversation about racism in America.
As Vernice shares upfront, this episode is about the experience of one person. It's also about a collective experience of trauma and what it takes to heal it. We discuss what it's like to be the mother of two African American boys, fearing for their lives. We discuss the role of leaders in times of crisis: to know that they are not seeing the full picture, to reach out to listen, to be curious about the experience of others, to dig deep for what matters, to engage in and be moved by pivotal conversations so new solutions can emerge.
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May 29, 2020
Purpose – How To Find Your Purpose
Did you know that being connected to purpose can actually help us and our teams to be agile? It’s also good for our well-being as we feel more connected, curious, and collaborative with others. Each of us can find ways to be purposeful in times of disruption. Do you know what yours is?
In this short audio coaching exercise, you will discover how to connect your strengths, your energizers, and stakeholder needs to enable your best contribution during times of disruption. Any time you find yourself stuck or struggling, come back to this exercise, and you will learn something new.
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May 28, 2020
Raj Sisodia – How Business Can Be A Force For Good
A thought leader of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is the FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business at Babson College. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Conscious Capitalism and co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015). Raj has published 11 books and is on the Board of Directors at The Container Store.
In this episode, Raj talks about his own personal healing journey, and the importance of each leader healing personal trauma so they know how to balance power with love and caring for all their stakeholders. One of my favorite quotes from our podcast: "We are here to take care of each other on this planet and business is a way to do that at scale. if I start a company with the right set of values and then a sense of purpose, then it can literally be an instrument of caring for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people."
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May 25, 2020
Jimmy Parker – How To Grow Leaders At Scale
Jimmy is the Director of Organizational Development at The Home Depot. He loves helping leaders get better what they do and has created Home Depot’s executive development programs for all VPs and SVPs. He has over 20 years of experience using innovative techniques to develop leaders, teams, and organizations faster and better than conventional approaches will allow. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, has a master’s degree in organizational development, and is pursuing a PhD in adult development with an emphasis on creating advanced leadership cultures.
In this episode we talked about the importance of leaders creating both challenge and support for their people to help them grow. Jimmy also shared how the leadership programs he creates have a Do-Discuss-Document cycle. Leaders grow by doing something challenging, discussing it with their colleagues to get others’ perspectives, and documenting their learning.
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May 24, 2020
Charlene Li – How To Be a Positive Disruptor
For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Open Leadership and the co-author of the critically-acclaimed book Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She founded Altimeter Group, an analyst firm that was acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in business, Charlene is an expert on digital transformation.
In this episode we talked about three mindset shifts leaders in organizations need to make to lead effectively in disruptions: openness, agency and bias for action. We spoke about what leadership is. It’s not about hierarchy. Leadership is simply a relationship between people who aspire to lead and create change and people who are inspired to follow them. Here is one of my favorite quotes from her latest book. You can get a free copy here.
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May 23, 2020
Bill Joiner – How To Grow & Develop Ourselves and Others
Bill Joiner is a senior leadership and organization development consultant, and an executive coach, with several decades of experience in the field. He earned his doctorate in this field at Harvard University. He is the lead author of Leadership Agility and is considered a global thought-leader on this topic. Learn more about his work on his website.
In this episode, we talked about how leaders can discover their growth edge, grow themselves, and create the conditions for others to grow. We talked about how times of ambiguity and disruption require a different level of development of leaders and how reflective action can help us develop.
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May 23, 2020
Harry Kraemer – How To Lead With Values
Harry Kraemer is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International, a multi-billion-dollar global healthcare company. He is a professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is also an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in the United States where he consults with portfolio CEOs. His third book is “Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-based Life.”
In this podcast Harry shared some war stories of tough decisions he had to make as a CEO. He shared his 40-year long practice of self-reflection and questions he asks himself every day. We also spoke about the importance of values in helping align stakeholders when tough decisions need to be made.
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May 20, 2020
Ravin Jesuthasan – The Future of Work, Teams and Leadership
Ravin Jesuthasan is an author, futurist and managing director at Willis Towers Watson. Ravin has collaborated extensively with the World Economic Forum and is a regular presenter at its annual meeting in Davos. Ravin was named to the Thinkers 50 Radar Class of 2020. He has also been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, one of the top 8 future of work influencers by Tech News and one of the top 100 HR influencers by HR Executive. Connect with him here.
In this episode, we spoke about how the future of work will be shaped by organizations needing to be agile in business models, work being done by fluid teams coming together to solve problems rather than rigid organization structures, and leaders learning to motivate through clarity of purpose rather than hierarchical power. We also spoke about the importance of upskilling ourselves to continuously learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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May 19, 2020
Otto Scharmer – How To Co-Create With Stakeholders in Your Ecosystem
Otto Scharmer is an action researcher who co-creates innovations in learning and leadership. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. Most recently, Otto and his colleagues launched GAIA (Global Activation of Intention and Action), a free, online, learning journey, geared toward profound civilizational renewal.
In this episode, Otto and I talked about how quality of leadership matters most in times of disruption. This is because when things are uncertain, leaders create clarity and act with purpose to shape the emerging future. We talked about how leaders bring alignment among stakeholders through deep listening and values-clarifying dialogue, and thus shape a better future for an ecosystem.
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May 19, 2020
Amanda Blake – How To Use Your Body’s Intelligence For Emotional Agility
Amanda Blake has devoted her life to the spread of one simple message: when you learn how to access the intelligence hidden in sensation, you open the door to more meaning, greater courage, deeper connection, and more powerful leadership than you ever thought possible. Download the free Stress to Serenity Guide and open that door for yourself.
In this podcast episode, we talked about the power of our embodied presence — how our nervous system and physiology impacts our habitual leadership behaviors. She gives us specific tools we can use in times of stress to intentionally shift our physiology and move purposefully toward our most inspired selves.
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May 19, 2020
Garry Ridge – How To Grow Highly Engaged Leaders
Garry O. Ridge is Chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy called ‘Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A.’ ”
In this episode, we spoke about Garry's passion for growing people. As CEO he has helped to drive a 10 fold increase in valuation by creating a people-focused culture where managers are called coaches and people innovate, are engaged, and grow.
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May 17, 2020
Kristin Neff – How Self-Compassion Grows Resilience
Kristin Neff is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion over fifteen years ago. She has co-developed an empirically supported training program called Mindful Self-Compassion, and is author of the books Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook, and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals.
In this podcast we spoke about how over 2,600 research studies on self-compassion show the benefits of it for improving resilience, helping us to be more agile in stepping outside our comfort zone, sustaining compassion for others, and even potentially lengthening life. Learn more about Kristin Neff's work at her website.
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May 10, 2020
Jennifer Garvey Berger – How To Grow Learning Agility By Noticing Mindset & Bias
Jennifer is the founder and CEO of cultivating leadership. She coaches, teaches, writes, and speaks about leadership and complexity in her work with clients. In her three books, Jennifer tries to bring the most helpful ideas from psychology and complexity into everyday use so they can change people's lives.
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May 4, 2020
Richard Boyatzis – What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Being Agile To Change
Richard Boyatzis is the Distinguished Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior, Psychology and Cognitive Science at the Case Western Reserve university. His books include the international bestseller Primal Leadership with Daniel Goldman and Annie McKee. His latest book is called Helping People Change.
In this timely podcast, we talk about how disruptions can create threat states in the body. Dr. Boyatzis shares neuroscience research about how we can help ourselves become more agile to change by activating the empathic neural networks in our body. He also shares quick practices to help your team adapt to and be creative in times of change.
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Apr 9, 2020
John Baldoni – How To Offer Grace in Challenging Times
John Baldoni is an internationally recognized executive coach and educator and the author of 14 leadership books published in 10 languages.
In this podcast episode, we talk about his new book “Grace” and how Grace is especially needed in these times of disruption. Here is more about John Baldoni and his outstanding book Grace.
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Mar 31, 2020
How To Be A Resilient Leader
We’re in a situation where we can’t predict from day to day what will happen with the pandemic. We can’t predict nor control actions global leaders will take. Plans help. Pivoting is what saves the day when things change rapidly. And pivoting requires that we tap into our most resilient selves.
This exercise will help you connect with values important to you. Find purpose where you’re planted. You can then call that leader forth in your everyday actions. It will also activate your parasympathetic nervous system and grow immunity.
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Mar 31, 2020
How To Have A Focused, Productive and Purposeful Day
*These are extraordinary times. These times of disruption can also create the transformational leader within each of us.
*Here is a short audio coaching exercise that helps you connect with yourself and create a day of focus and purpose. Listen to it first thing every morning and as often as you’d like during the day.
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Mar 31, 2020
How To Grow Empathy and Compassion
Acknowledging fear, pain, sadness, and the beautiful messiness of our human emotions is hard. Connecting with emotion also connects to compassion for ourselves and others. Take the time to get present to the human being in front of us. We don’t know what they’re going through.
This exercise is to grow our capacity for empathy and compassion (for others and ourselves).
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