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Guests: Terri Bettinger & Greg Moran

We have been hearing from everyone that we are living in disruptive times. The question for many of us becomes – what does this really mean for me and what can I do. During this show, Terri Bettinger and Greg Moran join Maureen to explore disruption, what factors allow an organization to create sustainable disruption and how companies and leaders can create organizations that are truly disruptive.

Guest: Terri O’Fallon & Kim Barta MA

Ethics, which is a fundamental aspect of all spiritual paths, includes the elements of emotional, social, behavioral, intellectual, and moral intelligence. Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta, join Maureen to discuss their view that any path that leads to growth in these aspects are spiritual. This perspective allows us to see how each of these areas grow and develop and mature leaders and help them support social structures that hold organizational integrity.

Season 5 Episode 48

Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox

In order to exhibit all the great leadership behaviors that have been learned from reading great books, attending inspiring conferences and listening to innovating podcasts, leaders must have a leadership maturity that will facilitate the alignment of their aspirations with their behaviors. Mike Morrow-Fox joins Maureen to discuss leadership maturity, what we know about it and how leaders can evolve their leadership maturity.

Guest: Greg Moran & Nicholas Papanicolaou

Leaders are faced with more change than any other tie in history. Navigating the fourth industrial revolution and responding to complexity that is accelerating – it is critical for leaders to identify new opportunities on the horizon and manage their risk so they can deliver the best outcome for their organization as well as for them as leaders. Greg Moran talks about his career choices and pivots moving from large consulting to take a key role steering Ford out of crisis to a venture funded start-up. At each career stage, he optimized his decisions based on his life situation and personal values. Nicholas Papanicolaou then shares his career journey and choices. Like Greg, Nicholas made choices that optimized for his life situation at the time. He worked for Aristotle Onassis, started a shipping business, ran Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd and became the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (The Ecumenical Order).

Guest: Kate Terrell

During the course of our careers we face a series of challenges in our personal and professional lives. Kate talks about how she navigated her Stage 4 cancer diagnosis while holding a significant leadership role. She discusses her personal and professional journey. She has Five Lessons in resilience that she wished my younger self knew. Whether an individual is just starting out in her career or is trying to find his Ikigai, (A Japanese concept that means “a reason for being.”), Kate’s lessons are applicable: 1. What would you do if you weren’t afraid? 2. Focusing on what you can control 3. The days may be long, but the years are short 4. Practicing the art of gratitude 5. Paradigms can put you in handcuffs – explore other perspectives Kate hopes that her triumphs and failures will help individuals realize that they can live a life of resiliency and internal prosperity.

Guest: Cheryl Heller

Business strategist and designer Cheryl Heller shares her system for putting social design into action to solve seemingly intractable problems facing business, governments, foundations and social organizations. “Social design is about changing people’s perceptions about what they believe is possible and can work together to create,” says Heller, who chairs the first MFA Program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. “It instills a belief in human creativity and builds the capacity for communities to imagine new realities.” It runs counter to the conventional wisdom that our future is best left in the hands of experts who believe they have all the answers in advance. In complex social systems, navigating in uncertainty and chaos, plans don’t work, only networked innovation and experimentation does.

Featured Guest: Jesse W. Newton

We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, yet have not realized the significant productivity gains that previous revolutions delivered. Author and Global Management Consultant Jesse Newton believes this to be in part because of the debilitating complexity that organizations have created over their existence. He’s spent years specializing in unburdening organizations from paralyzing complexity. Growing complexity has traditionally been met with added structures, processes, committees and systems. As a result, organizations often become a complicated mess, clouding strategic focus, slowing innovation and breeding complacency. In his new book, Simplify Work: Crushing Complexity to Liberate Innovation, Productivity, and Engagement, Newton delivers a newfound clarity on the case for simplification and the steps organizations and individuals need to take to unleash their potential.

Featured Guest: Jean Brittain Leslie

Organizations and the people working in them find themselves in environments that are increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). Under these conditions, tensions that are ongoing, and seemingly overwhelming can be difficult to understand, much less easy to address. These tensions show up in all facets of organizational life including leadership (control vs. empowerment), teamwork (task vs. relationships), strategy (competition vs. collaboration), structure (centralize vs. decentralize), and in the individual (work vs. home). These conflicting demands, when pursued jointly, are often referred to as paradoxes. Reframing these tensions beyond either/or problems in need of a single solution enables us to produce an outcome that is superior to tackling one demand at a time. Jean explains how to work with paradox and apply these tools to improving virtual team success. She draws on the rich research she conducted to provide solutions.

Guest: Edward Trolley

In a world where jobs are changing dramatically and there is a shortage of skilled workers, training can be a strategic business enabler, yet most companies don’t have the expertise and competence to provide training that effectively and efficiently meets the needs of their businesses. Employee development is a critical element for all companies and companies need the right people, processes, technologies and methodologies to keep their talent current. How can organizations make the change such that L&D is delivering measurable business value to their companies at acceptable costs? Ed talks about the books he co-authored and contributed to: Running Training Like A Business: Delivering Unmistakable Value, and the three ASTD published books, Building Learning Capability Through Outsourcing, Lies About Learning and More Lies About Learning as he explores the history of training outsourcing and the growing need to get it right as a business enabler and for the right ROI.

Guest: Timothy J. Tobin

Leadership is an acquired skill, requiring rigorous training, not unlike attaining physical fitness. Just as you can’t wake up one day and decide you will achieve all your fitness goals in a day, it’s necessary to make a commitment to leadership excellence and then execute a disciplined plan with specific targets. Tobin Draws on personal experience, the experiences of others, as well as adult learning and development and leadership research, as he shares the lessons he’s learned in his new book PEAK LEADERSHIP FITNESS: Elevating Your Leadership Game. Focusing on the intersection of physical and leadership fitness, the book helps identify where to get started and which activities will guide and support the ongoing journey toward peak fitness. Like physical fitness, your journey to peak leadership fitness begins with a commitment and requires action. It is not a single, discrete activity. It is a mindset of continuous improvement,