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Season 6 Episode 24

Guest: Antoinette Braks

The world is becoming increasingly complex, disruptive, and interconnected. Antoinette Braks joins Maureen to discuss how we need later-stage leadership capacity to transcend the turmoil and lead others in transformative efforts to create a new, more sustainable society, economy, and planet. This requires vertical learning to later stages of development, especially to a stage called Strategist or Synergist, where there are less than 10% of executive leaders. Vertical learning takes the lid off our growth potential.

Featured Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships—whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information by making assumptions. Gleb joins Maureen to discuss his book The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships and the skills to help you debias—to stop, pause, and objectively observe situations before jumping to conclusions about others’ motives.

Season 6 Episode 18

Guest: Mitch Russo

Building a community around products and/or services is essential and when done properly can be immensely rewarding but leaders must take the time to do it correctly. Mitch Russo joins Maureen to discuss how leaders must spend the time to deeply understand what their tribe members want and need, then devise a way to give it to them, while providing a path to evolve individually and together as a group. Good leaders will stay focused on being a true leader and LEAD with vision, personality and purpose.

Season 6 Episode 28

Guest: Christopher Washington

In celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Innovating Leadership, Co-creating Our Future, Maureen is joined by Dr. Christopher Washington to both look back at the last five years of shows and look forward at the opportunities and challenges facing our leaders. Maureen and Christopher will recap the biggest takeaways from the guests in the past 5 years.

Guest: Dale Meyerrose

The Pandemic, Activism, and Workforce Dynamics due to Political Decisions are three of the top issues leaders of today’s organizations must be considering as each can have major implications on the organization if not handled properly. Dr. Dale Meyerrose joins me today to provide guidance to today’s leaders through some of the points leaders must be aware of when facing each of these three hot issues.

Season 6 Episode 35

Guest: Steve Terrell

In our current world, businesses are operating in a constantly changing environment and leaders are facing situations they have never had to deal with before. Having a Learning Mindset, an attitude that predisposes you to be open to new experiences, to believe you can and will learn, and to intentionally grow and develop from your experience, and exercising the Learning Practices are essential to becoming an innovative leader in today’s highly chaotic environment. By doing so, leaders can create an ongoing positive cycle of learning and performance that creates better performance and higher levels of learning. Steve Terrell, President of Aspire Consulting, joins Maureen to discuss the Learning Mindset and the Learning Practices from his book “Learning Mindset for Leaders.”

Season 6 Episode 39

Guest: David Nour

For most people and businesses, growth is linear, but some relationships can dramatically change our direction and ultimate destination – these are the Curve benders. How does strategic business relationships enable business model innovation? How does unplanned events such as COVID-19 become an impetus to rethink, reimagine, if not reinvent key parts of your business? How is agile alignment critical for leaders to balance speed and agility with patience to make the best decisions possible with their available data? David Nour joins Maureen to discuss these pressing questions leaders are facing in our rapidly changing environment.

Guest: Christopher Washington

Each year Maureen publishes a synthesis of the interviews she hosted and discuss the main themes she is hearing in the past year as well as in her consulting work with senior executives around the world. She has now completed more than 150 interviews. This interview is a synthesis of what she is taking away as key themes for leaders and executives to focus on for 2018 – 2022. This is a rolling synthesis, she will update it again in 2019 with new themes. Christopher Washington, PhD, hosts this show and discusses what he is seeing as a board member of Global Ties and EVP/CEO of Urbana University. The goal of this conversation is that listeners have a clearer understanding of the global leadership trends and what they might do personally to prepare themselves and their organizations to respond.

Guest: Terri O’Fallon

During this show, Terri, Kim and Maureen talk about the interconnection between organizational issues and levels of developmental maturity. The conversation focuses on three types of issues and how they map to maturity as well as approaches to address them: 1. Existential, the group is moving to a new developmental level. How does it look for the organization? How do you see individuals? Do you have recommended course of action to help move forward? 2. Breadth, the group has the necessary philosophy and capacities at the level they are at, but they don’t have the skills they need. How does it look for the organization? How do you see individuals? Do you have recommended course of action to help move forward? 3. Shadow, the group has an adequate developmental level and skills but they have group shadow material that is holding them back. Let’s revisit what is shadow material? How should the team work to address it?

Season 4 Episode 43

Guest: K. R. Ravi

In a time where companies are competing aggressively for talent, Mr. Ravi talks about what Larson and Toubro (L&T) did in their recent talent initiative to support significant business growth and meet the objective of running increasingly complex initiatives. L&T takes pride in ‘imagineering’ which, coupled with employees’ commitment, has made them transform from Construction space to Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Company with proven track record of executing complex mega projects each exceeding USD 2 Bn. L&T won the top award from the global Training and Development Association for their demonstration of enterprise-wide success as a result of talent development (BEST award 2018). Mr. Ravi led the initiatives that earned the award. He talks about how his team used talent development as a strategic business tool to drive success. He will give us details about the talent development program that earned L&T the #23 ranking in the world for the BEST award.