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Guest: Chris Cooper 

Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do. With many businesses failing in their first few years, failure to do some of these things may even lead to the failure of your business. Chris talks about how to turn good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do. Chris co-wrote The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) with Dr Steve Levinson, a clinical psychologist based in Minnesota, what inspired the book and collaboration. We will discuss: 1. What stops people getting the things they want to done? 2. How should people go about setting clear intentions? 3. Strategies in the book to help us to get more done? 4. What strategies Chris personally applies and how they help him? During this interview, Chris will share actionable ideas!

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. We discuss the following: 1. How can your process help those aspiring to level 5 leadership to redefine success for themselves and their organisations? 2. How do the 4 C’s (consciousness, capabilities, cultures and creations) impact leadership development? 3. In your fourth book “The Great Shift- Catalysing the Second Renaissance”, you sketched out a BIG VISON for the future of business and human civilisation in 2050. How close have we come to actually realizing that vision? 4. You write and speak about co-creating a thriveable future by 2050. In your book Synergise! you have set out Six Pathways to the future that leaders and organisations can position themselves on. What are they?

Guest: Chris Cebollero

Chris was on the ground navigating the crisis in Ferguson leading the Christian Hospital EMS (CHEMS) . During this conversation, well discuss the Ferguson uprising as the backdrop to discuss the importance of a leadership vision, clear communication, clear roles and responsibilities and strong leadership that is learning on the ground as a volatile situation evolves and changes. Chris walks us through how the situation unfolded and the leadership challenges the emergency response team leaders faced. He gives a behind the scenes look at what happened, what worked and what the emergency responders learned from this uprising. He then ties the lessons learned from this event to overall leadership lessons.

Guest: Diane Mulcahy

Oprah-reviewed author, Forbes Top-10 business school lecturer and author of The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, talks about why companies need to value employees for their ideas and results, not time in the office and about her book. The Gig Economy transforms the way we work by disconnecting work from an office. Independent consultants, contractors, and freelancers are judged by their results and output – no matter how, where, or when they are produced – not on the time they spend in their office chair, or whether they work from 9 to 5 every day. 1. What exactly is the gig economy and how did we get here? 2. Is shifting more of the organization’s work to gig work a viable strategy to create strategic advantage for many companies? 3. How do companies get started ? 4. How do companies track results and impact?

Guest: Tamara Kleinberg

Tamara’s life is about breaking through the status quo for game-changing results –and, that’s what her clients learn how to do, too! During this show, we talk about some of the key elements that enable her clients to be successful and how those same elements can become barriers if not attended to. As we talk about the rate of change and the need to innovate – Tamara is an expert in the art and science of innovation – not just changing products but also culture and mindset. We explore: 1. What is your biggest pet peeve about only special people innovate? 2. When is it time to innovate? 3. Why do some organizations excel at developing great ideas but they can’t put them into practice? 4. Why as leaders do we need to go beyond lip service and give them tools? 5. What tools do you provide through your launchstreet platform? 6. What is an innovation quotient and an innovation archetype? How do I use this information to help position people in innovation roles?

Guest: Dr. James Moeser

During this interview, Dr. Moeser talks about how he grew within his career from earning a PhD in Musical Arts to becoming Chancellor of UNC. James chronicles his career from being an early civil rights advocate as an undergrad through the challenges of balancing being a world class musician to a senior university leader. He shares his unexpected success and also his unexpected losses. Through each step he looked to mentors and learned from role models (positive and negative) to shape his own leadership style. He also drew from his role as a church organist. He draws from the experience of developing buy-in to build involvement from volunteer church choirs. This is a wonderful opportunity to share the career journey with the Chancellor of one of the nations top universities.

Guest: Dr. Wiley “Chip” Souba

We would like listeners to walk away with a clearer understanding of the role leadership plays in the practice and administration of medicine. This show will provide recommendations about what can physicians can do to prepare for the changes in the medical ecosystem and become a more effective leaders? Topics include the following discussions: 1. You’ve served as Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Chair of Surgery at Penn State, and then VP for Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine first at OSU and then most recently at Dartmouth. Now you spend most of your time studying, writing about and teaching leadership. You’re especially interested in the idea of leading yourself. Tell us about it. 2. You’ve been saying for several years that we need to change the way we think about leadership in health care and you give a talk titled “Flipping the leadership paradigm.” Tell us about that.

Guest: Mark Palmer & Belinda Gore

Resilience is a key foundation to personal and organizational success. This interview focuses on individual resilience. The conversation is designed to help you expand your understanding of resilience overall, how it connects to stress, how it is connected with success, how to measure it and what to do to build it. This dynamic conversation starts with resilience basics — exploring the four main components:

a. Physical well-being

b. Manage thinking

c. Purpose and emotional intelligence

d. Manage connections.

We then move to a conversation about how to measure individual resilience and understand the resilience gap between the individual’s capacity and requirements. Once you understand your resilience gap, it is time to set about creating solutions in each of the four main areas to manage your resilience so that you can lead effectively in times of ongoing change and occasional chaos.

Guest: John Maketa & David Annunziata

In their new book, Leading with Vision, the authors explore trends in executive development and understand how creating a compelling vision allows businesses to engage the ever-elusive Millennial, effectively developing a framework and an actionable blueprint to help leaders nurture talent more effectively. They outline four approaches to leadership to create a compelling vision that others will unite around: Courage, clarity, connectedness, and culture. When brought together, these calculated leadership principles form a powerful strategy to create your compelling company vision. They will discuss: 1. Are millennials prepared to lead? 2. What is going on with women in leadership roles? 3. Who is in control, employers or employees? 4. Is employee turnover preventable? 5. Do they use assessments in the selection process? 6. How can our government attract and retain the next generation of A-players? What factors would help the government create a compelling vision?

Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox

We have talked extensively about the leadership skills required to handle the increasingly complex work challenges with an accelerating rate of change, interconnected workplaces across the globe and increasing pace of technology. A key question for companies who believe they need to develop leaders to remain competitive is what is required beyond what we are already doing? We explore: 1.What is vertical development? 2.Why does it matter? 3.How does it relate to leader 2050? 4.Can you explain the process? 5.Can you give some examples of specific tactics? 6.What can companies do to leverage this as part of a comprehensive leadership development program? Mike and Maureen explore how vertical development is required to build the mindset and competencies leaders require to navigate this complexity and create long term thriving enterprises.