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Featured Guests: Trista Bridges & Donald Eubank

Sustainability is now a business-critical issue. Companies and industries that don’t embrace it will be left behind. In fact, we are already starting to see this. Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank join the show today to discuss their new book Leading Sustainability: The Path to Sustainable Business and How the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Changed Everything, which is the culmination of 18 months of research from around the world. In their research, they found that bold leadership and innovation are two key common elements that enable the success of sustainability strategies and actions.

Season 7 Episode 42

Guest: Mark Herschberg

Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? Mark Herschberg is on the show to discuss his book The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He shares practical ideas from his book and his thoughts on leadership that will help you master these vital skills.

Season 7 Episode 48

Guest: AnneMarie Hayek

Older generations view Gen Z as having their eyes glued to their smartphones.  While those phones are a window on the world no other generation has encountered, it means they’re more likely to see the world for what it is, warts and all.  And that exposure to the world and its diverse cultures makes Gen Z more ardent in resolving life-threatening issues like climate change and racism…driving them to make real life better.

AnneMarie Hayek is returning to the show to continue our conversation about her research of GenZ.  In her book, Generation We, she joins forces with thousands of Zs to tell their powerful story—a story that impacts all generations.  In her return visit, we discuss how leaders we can attract and lead Gen Z, how Gen Z’s unparalleled exposure to diversity shapes their priorities, and how this generation will impact the arc of humanity for generations to come.

Season 7 Episode 40

Guest: AnneMarie Hayek

AnneMarie Hayek joins the show to share insights from her new book, Generation We.  In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Generation Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we should be hopeful. Zs are not naïve idealists. They’re hardened realists with a bold vision for how we can transition, re-create, and progress. Generation We is your invitation to see the future they will create as it’s unfolding

Season 7 Episode 38

Guest: Dr. Jeff Hull

In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if you are leading a team you must manage a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures have led to a seismic shift in terms of the tools needed to successfully manage and grow within a company: charisma and strategic thinking abilities now matter less than qualities such as vulnerability and relatability. Jeff Hull joins Maureen to discuss the research he has done on the art and science of leadership in a changing world that is featured in his book, Flex.

Featured Guest: Mike Zani

Moneyball was just the tip of the iceberg.  In that movie, a baseball team relies on performance data instead of scouts’ intuition to build a winning club.  The very same concept can forge a dream team in your own NPO or business.

Sophisticated assessments, data, and software give CEOs and managers in any industry detailed insights into human behavior — and, more critically, their team members’ behavior.  As CEO of The Predictive Index, Mike Zani has witnessed firsthand how the application of data and science can impact, and completely change, the way we function in our professional lives. In his new book, THE SCIENCE OF DREAM TEAMS: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness, Zani details a data-driven approach to talent strategy that makes hiring, motivating, and managing people more efficient and effective than ever.  From coaching a U.S. Olympic team to founding an investment firm, he knows first hand how assessments can build a dream team.

Season 7 Episode 35

Guest: Dr. JJ Walcutt

The power of mind over body goes back at least 2,000 years with the Stoics—but what about the power of the brain over both mind and body?

To be competitive over the next decade, all organizations—non-profits, businesses, and especially the military—must not only help staff optimize their bodies for physical and mental health purposes; they also need to ensure that cognitive optimization is a major focus of staff development. Despite our hubris, the human brain is not equipped to handle the deluge of data that is coming, much less the constant upskilling requirements that are emerging already. Dr. JJ Walcutt joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss Accelerate, a program that helps organizations get on the right track toward building a culture of brain health, growth, and effectiveness. The military is paying attention; should your organization, too?

Season 7 Episode 34

Guest: Jake Jacobs

Change is now a constant in all organizations.  Is there a way to make it easier?  Jake Jacobs joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss his new book Leverage Change, and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations—at the individual, team or organizational levels.  He shares practical actions leaders can take to achieve the much sought-after, but seldom accomplished, goals of successful change management.

Featured Guest: Greg Moran

The pandemic accelerated discussions and forecasts about the future of work.  But there’s a relative dearth of study about the future of leadership.  This is a critical gap:  as work changes, leadership must also change to ensure organizations can meet their objectives. After all, effective change always starts at the top.  It is essential for leaders to “innovate how they lead” to keep pace, but what does that mean? Greg Moran joins host Maureen Metcalf to explore the changes leaders need to make, both in how they think about and how they perform the essential work of leadership.

Season 7 Episode 27

Guest: Colonel Deb Lewis

Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis – it’s a wonder we’re still standing. Too few of us have stress tools powerful enough to put stress to work for us so we can enjoy the journey. Once you’ve learned how to be mentally tough, you will use stress to your advantage. It becomes your superpower!

Colonel Deb Lewis learned the importance of mental toughness as part of the very first class of women to graduate from West Point.  The lessons learned there, and in her subsequent Army career, inspired her to develop her unique Mentally Tough Women program to teach people how to handle stress, not simply de-stress.  She joins the show to share her experiences, and how you can learn to effectively use stress to your advantage, too.