Understanding Employee Experience in Real-Time with Aware

Greg Moran, a C-level digital, strategy, and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience provided this article as a companion piece to his podcast What Your Team REALLY Thinks…in Real Time!     Current Challenge Most companies have no way of understanding how topics, messaging, internal/external events are truly impacting our employees and culture. […]

The Power of Praise: Making People’s Performance Positive

Benjamin Marcovitz, a leadership expert and the founder and CEO of the Rise Institute, shared this article as a companion to his podcast The Power of Praise: Making People’s Performance Positive. Typically, when an underperforming employee isn’t improving despite your best efforts, the next move is to transfer or terminate them. But what if you […]

Long-term Benefits of Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Stress, Burnout

Maryanna Klatt, Director of the Center for Integrative Health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, provided this article as a companion to her podcast Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership. A new study is one of the first to show sustained benefits more than a year after completing a voluntary 8-week Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) intervention […]

Your Grit (Perseverance and Passion): 4 Levels

Jim Ritchie-Dunham, president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity and co-author of Ecosynomics: The Science of Abundance shares this article as a companion to his podcast The Power of Passion & Perseverance: Four Levels of Grit. In this podcast, Freakonomics UChicago economist Steven Levitt explores “grit” with Grit UPenn psychologist Angela Duckworth. Characterizing grit as perseverance and passion, they explore different ways people think […]

New to Foresight? Start Here.

Rebecca Ryan, a top 50 professional futurist, economist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur, shares this article as a companion to her podcast The Future Is Yours to Create.    The most common question I’m asked is, “You’re a futurist? What is that?” Here’s my attempt to break it down in everyday terms. What do futurists do? Professional futurists […]

We’re at a Pivotal Time in Human History: Welcome to VUCA MAX

Chris Nolan is a multiple Emmy Award-winning director, creative director, marketing strategist, branding story expert, and author who provided this article as a companion to his podcast  Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA.    In the mockumentary/rockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap”, the lead guitarist character, Nigel Tufnel, tells the director of the film that he’s gone beyond […]

The Future of Work In Four Words

Rod Lacey, Chief People Operations Officer at SimPRO, provided this article as a companion piece to his podcast Employees: Empowered!  Welcome to another edition of the Connex Executive Insights Series, produced in collaboration with Connex Partners, an invitation-only executive network that brings industry leaders together from the worlds of HR and Healthcare. Connex Members are […]

Your AI HR Partner: Welcome To 21st Century Job Recruitment

Neil Sahota, IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) AI Advisor, author of the book Own the A.I. Revolution, and Professor at UC Irvine provided this article as a companion piece to his podcast How to Own the AI Revolution. In the near future, we will have AI bosses. What most of us do not realize, […]

Growing a Powerhouse City: Leading Together

Kenny McDonald, President and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, a civic organization of Columbus’ top business leaders, shares his experience growing Columbus, Ohio. This podcast, Growing a Powerhouse City: Leading Together, was conducted at the CIO Tomorrow Conference, where Kenny was a keynote speaker. This article was written by Maureen Metcalf, CEO of the Innovative […]

Hiring for Keeps: The Rise of Recruiter.com

Evan Sohn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Recruiter.com provided this article as a companion to his podcast,  Hiring for Keeps: The Rise of Recruiter.com.    In 2019 the average cost to hire an employee was $4,129. In 2021 it was $4,425. Based on the BLS data the total cost to hire employees in 2019 […]

Innovative Leadership: Moving Beyond Resilience To Antifragility

Greg Moran, a C-level digital, strategy, and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience, shares his experience in this podcast, Recession Prep 101:  Planning Is Everything. This article is written by Christoper Washington, a learning ecosystem designer who serves as Executive Vice President and Provost of Franklin University Over the past two years, the […]

Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership

Amer Kaissi, a professional speaker and certified executive coach, shares content from his most recent book, from which this article is taken, “Humbitious: The Power of low-ego, high-drive Leadership.” in this article and his podcast, Humbitious: How to be Ambitious Without the Ego.    Based on the extensive research published in the last 10 years, […]