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Guest: Dr. John C. Cavanaugh

John discusses new ways of going to college and “doing college”. Aspects of college that people will find familiar and some different. These differences now mean we have robust options to map skills to jobs. This can start in middle school through college to companies. We need skills across the pipeline that are thinking about the broader pipeline. We need everyone around the table to create alignment. John shares his thoughts on the following questions: 1. What are you most hopeful about regarding higher education in the future? 2. What skills do you see as required for the 21st century economy? Debunk the myths about what is available especially if we consider lifelong learning. 3. What are the delivery mechanisms that will support this education in a quality manner? 4. How do you balance cost of education, speed of education change, and quality? 5. You talk about testing of new approaches, what do you mean by this? 6. How should parents and students rethink education?

Guests: Geoff Fitch & Terri O’Fallon, Ph.D.

This is the second interview exploring the idea of Level 5/Teal organizations. During this discussion, we delve more deeply into how we can foster the development of these leading edge capacities. Further exploring organizational shadow and integrative thinking, we will look at case studies, practical examples and interventions that support level 5 leadership and organizational development. ● Why are trust and safety important quality in teal organizational culture? ● Are level 5/ teal capacities skills that we can learn or do we just have to “be” a level 5 / teal leader? ● Exactly how can organization and leaders become more adaptive? ● What is organizational shadow? Why is it important? How can we identify it and work with it? ● What are organizational polarities and how to teal leaders and organization deal with them that goes beyond decision making or multiple bottom line? This exploration is important for leaders aspiring to reshape their organizations.

Guest: William E. Smoyer, M.D.

In an era where we are facing major changes to our medical system, with medical costs as high at 20% of GDP, Bill is a leader who is working to address this challenge. On this show, we talked about the need for physician leadership because of the dramatic changes required in the health field. Bill will talk about some of those changes and a program he created that moves us toward that solution. The conversation includes: 1. Why do you think leadership matters for physicians at this point in history? 2. Tell us about the Learning from every patient program? 3. Why is this program so important? 4. How will it change the practice of medicine? 5. How will it impact the average consumer – what will it do to my experience when I go to the Dr.? Bill offers compelling solutions to current challenges and also talks about the difficulty in implementing major changes in organizations.

Guest: Travis Rosser

Many companies are facing a serious challenge in navigating the increased impact online platforms have to disrupt businesses – either enabling them or upending them. Kajabi is such a platform. During this interview, one of the founders, Travis Rosser and Maureen Metcalf discuss how Kajabi can be leveraged across a broad range of applications to support organizational and individual success. Kajabi offers a cost effective solution to building online training content that can be used to help companies connect and support clients, onboard employees, educate internal staff, educate clients and patients and many more applications. We hope this conversation challenges you as a listener to consider how you can use this or other platforms to enhance how you train internal staff and build stronger relationships with your customers. If you are thinking of starting a business, Kajabi is a great place to explore your ideas and test market receptivity.

Guest: JJ DiGeronimo

In an era where companies understand that diverse talent adds value to the culture and the bottom line, many companies are struggling to find and retain this talent, especially in STEM fields. JJ talks about the importance of attracting women to STEM jobs and yet, for many people this is a black box. She discusses how the organization she started to addresses this question and shares what she has learned with you including why it matters and what you can do. • Why did you start Tech Savvy Women? • Why is diverse talent important for the IT industry and your company? • How can you find diverse talent? • How do women show differently than men when interviewing? • How can you retain and foster diverse talent?

Guests: Christopher Cooke & Sheila Cooke

This interview has 3 objectives: 1; discuss their latest work on Human Emergence; 2. explore how holistic informed practices are starting to emerge; and 3. provide a brief overview of the work Christopher and Sheila are doing development of skills and capabilities to facilitate and coach the implementation of holistic practices. We explore: 1. What is the leadership thinking required to address today’s “wicked problems” 2. What is a holistic worldview? How is it connected to solving “wicked problems” 3. How do we stimulate the development and realization of this worldview? 4. How are holistic management and Solonics (from prior interview) integrated to create this new holistic offering? 5. Explain some specific examples of how people develop this holistic worldview 6. How might our listeners go about developing a holistic worldview themselves?

Guest: Karen Sands

Karen believes that “visionaries do indeed have wrinkles,” and that “older women will lead the way into the future as they meet the Greatness Challenge of our AGE. Women will shift the story on the leading edge of business, as innovative social entrepreneurs, change makers, leaders, and discerning, high-value consumers.” She fully owns her “destiny more than ever before: to empower people to rock their AGE; to help women especially, and the men that love them, to experience the power of Agelessness, so to shape a new story for our times.” “By the year 2020, 76 % of Americans will be 50 years or older. With age comes many challenges, but also a heightened appreciation for life along with a greater thirst for meaning in work and relationships.” As business leaders, we need to understand this demographic and how it impacts our workforce, marketplace, and clients. Karen talks about the Longevity Economy, the new story of aging across generations, and the potential business impact of new opportunities and challenges as our workforce changes. We need to have thoughtful strategies to navigate the new terrain of the future.

Guest: Buddy Teaster

As leaders, many of us ask ourselves questions about how we can contribute to address some of the challenges the world is facing beyond our businesses with our very limited time. How do we select organizations that are trustworthy and well run and actually make a measurable impact on the long-term viability of the people they help? What can we learn about leadership overall from a well-run social enterprise that recently underwent a turnaround? 1. Let’s explore Soles4Souls – it looks like you are leveraging the model of doing well by doing good. Can you share more about the org and the changes you and your team have made since you took your CEO role. 2. How has the s4s micro enterprise model has evolved to increase impact…and why we haven’t changed faster 3. How do you measure impact in places where getting data (quantitative and qualitative) may be too expensive to gather? 4. How is partnership central to working globally in supporting entrepreneurship to help disrupt poverty?

Guest: Artie Isaac

On this show, we talk about leader development from many angles. One highly effective approach is participating in peer groups to build these skills and receive the challenging feedback executives require and often don’t get from within their organization. These groups are proven effective when they are structured and facilitated well. For Artie, in all his interactions, he seeks this outcome: that all people can find their way to a group of peers, because in business, family, and geopolitically — people are at their best when they regularly receive the caring challenge of peers. We discuss: 1. Artie’s experience with peer leadership development groups? 2. What is most effective and why? 3. What is least effective and why? 4. If you were asked to design a program with limited constraints – what would it look like? 5. What is the effect on the members? How soon? 6. What in your background makes you apt for leading peer groups? 7. Why do you do it? What motivates you?

Guest: Dwight Smith

Dwight has achieved a great level of success as a leader running a company and sitting on several high-profile boards. He shares how his vision and values helped him achieve his success across a broad range of organizations. He discussed how he moved through his career and who helped him accomplish this success. His humility is a trait that stands out as a key factor enabling him to build the trust necessary for successful leaders. He shares what he looks for in emerging leaders and leaders when he is making hiring and succession decisions as well as when he mentors the next generation of leaders. In the final segment He talks about a program very important to him, My Special Word, designed for the children who will be our future leaders and workforce. His values extend beyond his current roles, they pervade all of his actions in his corporate life, his board work and in his high impact volunteer work that will extend to children around the world!