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Guests: David Chrislip & Ed O’Malley

The Kansas Leadership Center was established in 2007 to develop civic leadership across the state. Through its work, KLC aspires to transform the civic culture of Kansas. This requires developing civic leadership on a large scale. KLC now directly trains 2,000 people a year while thousands more have access to its leadership framework and curriculum. The organization’s programs operate from the premise that civic leadership must become more purposeful, provocative, and engaging to make progress on the state’s adaptive challenges. During this informative discussion, David and Ed talk about the center, its framework and the principles. Leadership is not exclusive to those with authority or expertise; anyone can exercise leadership at any time. It is an intentional activity that can be learned. Progress starts with the individual and must engage others. In this way, civic leadership becomes a means for sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.

Guest: Rick Crossland

As part of the thought leader series, Rick talks about his book, The A Player. He shares his key findings about what organizations are doing and not doing that impact their ability to attract and retain the best employees. Here are some of the topics Rick and Maureen discuss during the interview: 1. What is the definition of an A Player, and what differentiates them from a B or C Player? 2. I don’t think I want a B or C Player piloting my next airline flight or performing my next surgery. Why then do managers and business leaders tolerate B Players on the team? 3. What happens to the B and C Players? Can they be coached into become A Players? How long does it take? 4. What if my C Players become B players. Isn’t that good (enough)? You will walk away with a clearer understanding of what “A Players” are and how to create an environment where your organization attracts and retains them.

Guests: Barbara Marx Hubbard & Marc Gafni

One of the most dangerous problems we face in the world is extremism on behalf of belief. In many cases, extremists convince themselves that another faith or political system or individual is ‘evil’, and that they are justified in destroying them by any means necessary. During this conversation, Maureen we will talk to Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard about the smear campaign Marc and the Center for Integral Wisdom. What emerged was a much more hopeful conversation. They are modeling the behaviors they teach as they confront this challenge and they are working to leverage what would for others be a crippling crisis and share with others the culture of collaboration and unique contribution to a conscious world. They are talking about an evolution of our culture! For me this is a story of personal resilience and how they used a crisis to precede transformation. They were both required to model the concepts they were teaching in a very personal way and they are here to share their story.

Guests: Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk & Dr. Rustin Moore

During this show, we explore the impact of mental health concerns in the general workplace and or veterinarians and vet students. Mental health costs are on the rise and we see statistics that as much as 40% of the population will be personally impacted by a mental health issue during some point in their lives. This show is designed to remove the stigma about getting help and equip colleagues and bosses have some idea for addressing it. We discuss: 1. General data on prevalence of mental health issues within the general population? 2. Veterinary data on prevalence of mental health issues within profession and veterinary students 3. Factors to these issues in society in general 4. Recommendations to identify issues and address them. Mental health is still a stigma in many environments and as long as it is, people will continue to suffer in some cases without treatment and impact the overall productivity and satisfaction of their colleagues and client

Guest: Farah Amir & Fabienne Perlov

As part of our series from the Global Ties US conference, this interview features two women who run Global Centers; for Georgia Council for International Visitors and the San Diego Diplomacy Center. As citizens and leaders, we work in a global economic system. Aside from preference or opinion, it is imperative for us to continue to build our understanding of the global systems and the people who participate. Global Ties is an organization whose vision is: peaceful, prosperous world where individuals build enduring relationships through international exchange; and whose mission is to strengthen relationships between individuals and nations by making international exchange programs more effective. This show focuses on how two cities are accomplishing this mission. Many citizens will not leave the US and yet these programs help them develop international relationships and build a global acumen. This is the foundation of citizen diplomacy.

Guest: Guru Vasudeva

As a CIO with Nationwide Insurance, Guru shares his experience changing how the culture of IT to accomplish their mission. He discusses what they are doing to build a culture of continuous learning and innovation as they continue to expand the scale their agile and lean roll-out. Guru shares how the implementation has evolved since it was initiated in 2009. He compares how they began their journey and what they are doing now to continue to expand the scale as well as continue to evolve the leadership behaviors, mindset and organizational culture. He will discuss specific examples of how they have shifted how leaders behave and think about their work as leaders. Additionally, he explores several specific steps they have taken to expand their culture of learning including what is taught, who teaches and how the team self manages their own learning choices.

Guest: Belinda Gore

Part of the challenge in building innovative leadership is learning to become more introspective and how to put that introspective knowledge into practice. Looking inside yourself—examining the very makeup of your inner world—enables you to function in a highly grounded way, rather than operating from reactive habits and biases that simply lead to more uninformed or unconscious decision making. One way to observe this is by examining qualities intrinsic to your inner being, described as types, which reflect the basic makeup of your personality. The Leader Personality Type plays a critical role in how you see the organization and also how you provide guidance. It is an essential foundation of your personal makeup and greatly shapes your leadership effectiveness. During this interview, Belinda and Maureen will discuss how to use the Enneagram to prepare leaders to improve their self-awareness AND their leadership effectiveness.

Guest: Terri O’Fallon

In complex adaptive systems, those required to meet many of the challenges we currently face, leaders and organizations need to co-evolve to ensure their ability to respond to the opportunities and challenges. During this conversation, Terri and Maureen explore how individuals and organizations evolve. It starts with the question of how individuals “grow up” as leaders. They then map this same framework to exploring how organizations evolve. Terri presents a brief overview of the StAGES model, using it to frame to conversation about how a developmental model can be used to better understand the idea of organizational evolution. This is particularly useful when individuals use the developmental tools they employ for their own development to help the organization mature. While this sounds like even more work for busy leaders, this is the focus that enables them to create systems that are truly adaptive.

Guest: Michael Sayre

If we look at the continuum of leaders through the comparison of phones, at one end you have the flip phone and at the other you have the smart phone. Where do you fall on the continuum? How do you even know? During this show we will talk about the 7 characteristics of Leadership 2020 and give examples of what those specific behaviors look like in practice based on the experience of our guest, Mike Sayre. To continue the phone analogy, updating your phone means a change in hardware and software. To update yourself as a leader, you need to update your mindset and behavior. Mike will talk about both his mindset and his behaviors during difficult business transitions. These behaviors were published in the book Leadership 2050.

Guest: Dr. Robin Lincoln Wood

As a futurist and leadership scholar, Robin has worked for decades dedicated to understanding how leaders develop and transform their organizations, communities and ultimately the world to thrive. During this interview, Robin discusses his latest book – Synergise – 21st Century Leadership. Robin starts by describing the book and why it is so important during our current era. This discussion explores among other topics, why it is important to move beyond basic sustainability toward thriving. He then talks about one of the frameworks in the book focused on developing organisation, called 6C’s: Context, Combinations, Constraints, Containers/Platforms, Catalysts, and Connections. Robin explains the “6C” model and gives examples of how he uses it to help organizations move to thrivability. This book and conversation are intended to provide tools for busy leaders to use in navigating their biggest challenges.