Getting to the Top: Five C-CRETS to be Sponsor-Ready

Ricky Robinson, Keith Powell, and Jenelle Jack of C-Crets share their insights on the podcast Career Sponsorship and Being Sponsor Ready and the attached article. What if connecting with just one person could turn your career around? It’s more than possible. Corporate executives find success all the time, doing exactly that. A chance meeting or […]

The 5 Main Reasons Why People Get Stuck and Stop Growing

Jared Graybeal shares insights about his book in the podcast The Self Help Book: Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing and the following article. Do you ever feel stuck in your own routine? If the feelings of momentum and growth seem elusive in your current life phase, you may be interested in learning how to […]

Leading in Emerging Industries

James Brenza wrote this week’s article as a companion to his podcast Leading in Emerging Industries. I recently shifted my business and technology leadership skills to a new industry. It is an opportunity to help a burgeoning industry improve operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes and help operational leaders be more effective. My career focus has […]

The Ecosystem Decision-Making Radar

Christoph Hinske, associate professor at SAXION University of Applied Sciences, with contributions from Tom Grote, Chief Catalyst at Edge Innovation Hub, shared their insights in the podcast, Applying Innovative Leadership Concepts and the following article that illustrates the concepts. Link to the entire interview: Making high-quality decisions in complex situations requires more than just knowing […]

The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace

Maureen Metcalf initially published this week’s article for the Forbes Coaches Council; It is a companion to her podcast with ILI Executive In Residence Greg Moran, The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace. Companies are taking a range of approaches to return to work. A Harvard Business School study on remote workers “showed that many […]

Workforce Education: A New Roadmap

William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma, authors of a new book from MIT Press, Workforce Education – A New Roadmap, share their insight in their podcast Workforce Education: A New Roadmap and the following article. The pandemic has forced the American workforce into a massive resorting.  Significant numbers of workers were forced to leave sectors like hospitality, […]

Mental Toughness: How to Use Your Stress for Good

Deb Lewis, founder of Mentally Tough Women (MTW), provides this week’s article as a companion to her podcast Mental Toughness: How to Embrace Stress for Greater Success. Have you ever felt that SPECIAL SATISFACTION when you achieve what others thought impossible? I graduated from West Point in the first class to EVER accept women.  174 […]

Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies

Eric Redmond, a twenty-year veteran technologist and author, provides this week’s article as a companion to his interview Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies. The following article has been adapted from the Deep Tech book. If you’ve seen 2008’s Iron Man, a movie that reinvigorated the superhero genre, you can probably picture the high-tech laboratory […]

Mindset Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

In the Innovating Leadership, Co-Creating Our Future interview this week, Maureen was joined by Sean Castrina, entrepreneur, podcast host, and author. In his interview, Mindset Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle, he and Maureen discuss Sean’s story and how he overcame setbacks, leadership lessons, and making a big change. This article is a guest […]

The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers & Agile Companies

Jeff Wald, founder of Work Market shares his insights in the podcast The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers & Agile Companies and the following article. Some people lead with their heart, some with their head.  Some leaders are “my way or the highway”, some are “we all move forward together”.  Every leader has […]

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Innovative Health Care Leadership

The article was published in an Appendix to the recently released Innovative Leadership in Health Care book by Maureen Metcalf of Innovative Leadership Institute and Erin S. Barry, M.S; Dukagjin M. Blajak, M.D., Ph.D.; Suzanna Fitzpatrick, DNP; Michael Morrow-Fox, M.B.A., Ed. S.; and Neil E. Grunberg, Ph. D. It provides healthcare workers with frameworks and […]

The Creative Mindset: Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation

Jeff DeGraff, author of The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills that Power Innovation, shares his insight on the podcast The Creative Mindset: Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation. The article is an edited excerpt from his book. Regrettably, swaggering catchphrases like “go big or go home” are commonly associated with creative thinking. Accordingly, most of […]