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Season 6 Episode 52

Guest: Christopher Washington

Christopher Washington joins Maureen to discuss the Leadership Trends for 2021 and Beyond.

Guest: Eric Douglas Keene

There are lots of reasons to attract and retain diverse leaders and workforce ranging from expanding the talent pool, improved understanding of customer base, improved productivity, and greater innovation and creativity are just a few. During this interview, he shares his experience on how companies can attract and retain a diverse talent pool in leadership roles and why they should. Discussion includes: 1. Why does recruiting diverse talent matter? What is the business case? 2. How do you define diverse? Different looks, gender, points of view, economics? 3 Most of your recruiting is focused on senior leadership roles, why are companies investing so heavily in building diverse leaders? 4. What are the biggest challenges you see in attracting diverse executives in different industries? 5. After you hire diverse leaders, what do companies need to do to retain them? 6. Tell me about your company tag line: “Diversify Access to Executive Talent.”

Season 6 Episode 22

Guest: Christoph Hinske

Systems Innovation, including systems thinking & dynamics, is one of the most essential skill sets in the 21st century. Christoph Hinske joins Maureen to discuss how the basics can be learned in under 10 minutes and applied to your own projects in under 4 hours. Do not believe in people who state: “You have to have a high IQ, use expensive programs and study for years to use systems stuff. Without this, you will never be able to lead in, sensitive, messy and highly ambiguous environments.”

Season 6 Episode 16

Guest: Paul Gibbons

With great power comes great responsibility. Our spiritual evolution and collective wisdom struggle to keep pace with the power granted by our technological evolution. Harnessing the good business does by scaling science for the benefit of humanity, through creating communities where people can learn—and contribute more than they could alone—and by furthering human flourishing are among noblest aims we may pursue. In this show, Paul Gibbons joins Maureen to discuss the future toward which business is leading us, in 2030,and how it is the backdrop to our change. We have in our hands, as citizens and as business leaders, the power to do great good by pointing business toward our most inspirational and useful aims and leading those changes with passion and reason.

Guest: Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Dr. Ciaramicoli’s will talk about his book: The Soulful Leader. He provides poignant and practical examples of his ground-breaking AIE (authenticity, integrity and empathy) leadership platform for leaders in all industries to help them successfully optimize the potential of employees. AIE leadership produces an environment where staff members grow to respect each other while producing on the highest possible level. Dr. Ciaramicoli has developed this approach during 35 years of consulting with and counseling leaders in business, education, politics, and on athletic teams. His communication and leadership groups have been ongoing for over 30 years, which has allowed him to study the personal characteristics that lead to excellent leadership skills. His pioneering approach offers new promise to a society struggling with fear and doubt about those in powerful positions.

Guest: Dwight Smith & Stephen D. Steinour

We live in a world where about half of the population is uncomfortable following people different than they are. This is challenging because research tells us that diverse people create better business results. In this show, we will talk to Steve Steinour and Dwight Smith about the power of words and how both of them are changing organizational culture through the power of words and aligned action.

Guest: Mark Palmer & Belinda Gore

Situational analysis is one of the five key elements of Innovative Leadership. Being effective at situational analysis means you are able to evaluate four key elements of any organizational situation: 1. your personal values and thoughts 2. your behavior 3. the organizational culture 4. the organizational systems and processes As leaders we are continually responding to changing and competing demands and situations. It is important to have an holistic framework that allows us to evaluate the situation and align each of the key elements. We use situational analysis in a broad range of circumstances ranging from validating key decisions to evaluating opportunities. This tool increases leadership effectiveness and also allows them to act with higher level of authenticity and presence. During the conversation, presence is a major theme. By understanding what is happening and who we are as well as what we value, we are liberated to be who we are authentically.

Guest: Dr. Dale Meyerrose

The workforce is changing rapidly and finding the right talent is a continual challenge for leaders. To complicate matters, technology is changing the nature, if not the definition, of work. The general technologies related to AI and machine learning are seen as having the most potential to influence these workforce dynamics. Dr. Meyerrose will bring clarity to these rapidly evolving concepts and developments with which leaders will have to deal sooner rather than later.

Guests: Will O’Brien & Dave DuBose

The labor shortage is not going away, workers are becoming more transient and Amazon is continuing to drive up competition for distribution center (DC) employees. So, most DC operators resort to wage increases and retention bonuses as the quick solution to this really challenging people problem. Will O’Brien and Dave DuBose joins the show to share the better answer, which is a set of more robust solutions that better serve the operators’ longer-term needs and mitigate their dependence on short-lived “quick fix” wage and bonus answers that everyone else is chasing.

Guests: Mike Davis & Mark James

Junior Achievement is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year. It has combined a proven track record of delivering powerful content with new groundbreaking approaches for delivery including partnering with businesses, educators, government, and the community to prepare young people for success in their lives and careers. It serves as a case study for disruption. It is finding novel ways to solve education and workforce development challenges that face our communities today and going forward. 1. JA is finding solutions that integrate education, business, government, and non-profit sectors to develop K-12 grade students who will make up the workforce of the future. 2. JA is delivering programs that prepare young adults to be job ready upon graduation from high school. They are piloting programs that integrate industry specific skills and soft skills. This program is delivered by aligning the needs of businesses, educators and students.