Guest: Neil Sahota The jobs of tomorrow are being incubated right now.   Artificial Intelligence – AI – is already rapidly transforming our world. You have two years, maybe up to five, before it transforms your work, too. But IBM Master Inventor Neil Sahota sees hope, not gloom: throughout human history, technological transformations meant more and often better jobs. The key is to be ready, and Neil tells us how. Here's what Neil and host Maureen Metcalf cover: The five skills every job will require;The fact that we don’t teach three of those five skills in U.S. education; andThe top actions leaders need to take right now (because odds are you’re already behind the curve…and your competitors!).   Other episodes you'll enjoy: How to Own the AI Revolution – with Neil SahotaThe End of Jobs – with Jeff WaldThe Creative Mindset – with Jeff DeGraff   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   Neil's book, Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition, can be purchased here. Learn more about Neil on his website at NeilSahota.com. Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can follow her there at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf. She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Regenerative Learners: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:  Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor, author of the best-seller Own the AI Revolution, and a sought-after speaker. With 20+ years of business experience, he works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI.

Guest: Teuila Hanson Does your team feel like they belong in your organization? Do you?   At LinkedIn, that feeling of belonging is a critical part of workplace culture. And one way they accomplish it is by taking DEI to a whole new level: DIBs (Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging programs). Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson has seen remarkable success with it…so much so, LinkedIn happily shares techniques with other companies. It’s like an open source program for HR departments anywhere! What’s more, the benefits cascade into the community. Teuila brings us the details in this discussion with host Maureen Metcalf. Here's what Teuila and Maureen cover: Why LinkedIn looks at an employee’s entire career cycle, and how it helps them advance within the company;What DIBs means in practice; andHow HR innovations like this break generational cycles in and provide opportunities for families in poor socioeconomic conditions.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: Workforce Demographics & Inclusive Culture with Nadia Younes, Gamiel Yafai, & Louise CarvalhoDEI: Needed Conversations & Understanding – with Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluneyRecruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives – with Eric Douglas Keene   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   Information about the course Teuila mentioned about incorporating DIBs in your organization is online at https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advancing-a-dibs-strategy-in-your-organization/driving-transformative-change-in-your-deib-work?autoplay=true .   You can learn more about the business side of LinkedIn at https://about.linkedin.com/ . LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has written many books. Start with Masters of Scale about successful entrepreneurs. It’s available through Amazon at https://amzn.to/3MthBO1 (hardback) and https://amzn.to/4321yOp (Kindle) .   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.    She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.      Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Glass Hearts by Terri PaulThe Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinThe Sandman – Book 1 by Neil Gaiman & Sam Kieth   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko People We’re Linked To: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Teuila Hanson is the Chief People Officer at LinkedIn. In this role she leads the team responsible for hiring, developing and growing top talent, including all benefits, employee experience, and Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging programs. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Teuila was the executive vice president and Chief Strategy and People Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In this role, she led the strategy and people teams and served as chair of the bank’s management committee, creating an engaging workplace by driving bank strategy and integrating best practices in talent management, inclusion and diversity, learning and development, compensation and benefits, employee engagement and corporate culture. Teuila also held various leadership roles at AECOM Technology Corporation, a global professional services organization. Teuila earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sonoma State University, and her juris doctor degree from Golden Gate University School of Law. She is a licensed member of the California Bar.

Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Many CEOs and executives insisting on staff returning to the office full time are making decisions based on myths about hybrid work. The truth may surprise them – and you!   Dr. Gleb Tsipursky busts those myths with hard data and direct experience with 23+ organizations. The bottom line: for the majority of “office” workers, hybrid work benefits both wellbeing and productivity. With mental health concerns at an all time high world-wide, that’s a message more employers should be paying attention to. Here's what Gleb and host Maureen Metcalf cover: How hybrid work boosts not only boosts mental well-being and productivity, but employee retention and satisfaction, too;How to establish new norms for workdays that accommodate diverse lifestyles; andWhy workers feel social isolation in the office, too – and targeted strategies to combat it!   Other episodes you'll enjoy: The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias with Dr. Gleb TsipurskyBuilding a Culture of Brain Health, Growth & Effectiveness with Dr. JJ WalcuttLeading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   Gleb has written seven books. In this episode, he talked about Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams (Paperback: https://amzn.to/3MI2uSt  and Kindle version: https://amzn.to/3pQ5enr ). His other works include: -     Never Go with Your Gut The Blind Spots Between Us andPro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back into Politics with Tim Ward   You can also learn more about Gleb’s work on his company’s website: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/ .   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.    She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.    Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie BrownThe Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinThe Joker: An Origin Story by Louise Simonson & Luciano Vecchio   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Remotely Working Tirelessly Night & Day: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Dr. Gleb Tsipursky helps leaders use hybrid work to improve retention and productivity while cutting costs. He serves as the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. He is the best-selling author of 7 books, including Never Go With Your Gut and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams. His cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 650 articles in prominent venues such as Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Forbes. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting for Fortune 500 companies from Aflac to Xerox and over 15 years in academia as a behavioral scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and Ohio State. A proud Ukrainian American, Dr. Gleb lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Guest: Laura Fuentes Joy, learning, friendship: that’s how Laura Fuentes believes the ideal workplace should be. When she arrived at Hilton, Laura found a culture and leadership team that was thinking along the same lines. Since then, she’s been instrumental in guiding the growth of that culture into one of inclusion, wellness, growth, and purpose – the four pillars of Hilton. It’s just one way Laura and Hilton commit to the well-being of Hilton’s employees. The goal: make Thrive at Hilton something every employee feels every day. Laura shares that journey, which has plenty for you to learn from to make your organization a thriving place, too! Here's what Laura and Maureen cover: How Thrive at Hilton has 100-year-old roots, when Conrad Hilton shared his belief that travel is the key to world peace;The incredible value of a human-focused work culture; andHow that culture boosts the company: “If your team members feel respected and heard, that’s how they’ll make your guests feel, too.”  Other episodes you'll enjoy: Joy at Work! with Roxanne Brown & Edward CookFinding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul GibbonsHiring in the Great Resignation with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   You’ll find more information on Hilton at https://www.hilton.com. Go to the bottom of the homepage to find their business information. The Thrive at Hilton details Laura discussed are at https://jobs.hilton.com/us/en/benefits.   To learn more about Conrad Hilton’s vision for the Hilton hotels, check out his autobiography, Be My Guest.   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.    She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.      Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Hotel New Hampshire by John IrvingBecoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay JonesSnow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Suite Assistance Provided By: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Laura Fuentes is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Hilton with over two decades of experience in engineering, strategy consulting and human resources. Having worked in hospitality, financial services, and management consulting, Laura’s career reflects her global, cross-industry perspective in key business and talent areas. Throughout her tenure at Hilton, Laura has led efforts to build an award-winning culture at Hilton, being recognized by Fortune as the #1 Best Place to Work in the U.S. and by DiversityInc as the #1 Company on their 2021 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. Originally from Spain, she holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia, a M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She lives in Arlington with her husband and two sons.

Guest: Kvon Tucker If there’s one key thing that’s common to all effective leadership theories, it’s this: leadership is all about relationships. Kvon Tucker distilled this through both academic scholarship and real-world experience at Netflix, Google, and Amazon. Those companies remain high-performing outliers because of their unique leadership culture, and an emphasis on relationships (and writing!) are key. Losing sight of that leads to more than just sterile numbers on morale, low engagement, or layoffs. It leads to real pain for people, real depression, and – as Kvon saw – real suicide.   Kvon discusses all this, along with solutions for leaders who care, in this episode.   Here's what Kvon and host Maureen Metcalf cover: How an old school practice – writing – leads to innovation and better odds of project success;Why truly effective leaders understand the importance of relationships; andThe reasons that, even with all the trappings of success, your job can still leave you feeling miserable and depressed…and what to do about it.   Other episodes you'll enjoy: Building a Culture of Brain Health, Growth, & Effectiveness with Dr. JJ WalcuttLeading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil ClampittLeading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too! RESOURCES:   Kvon’s website has more information about his company and his work. You’ll find it at https://consciously.one/ .   If you’re in crisis or emotional distress, call the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. They have more information online, too, at https://988lifeline.org/ .   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.  Books we’re reading for personal development right now include: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew SolomonFuriously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny LawsonSpark: The Revolutionary News Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, MD   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Making Space for Podcast Awesomeness: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Kvon Tucker is the CEO and Founder of Consciously, a purpose-driven Executive and Leadership Coaching firm. Kvon is also a professionally trained Learning and Leadership Development expert. He has spent a third of his life dedicated to helping leaders, teams, and organizations learn, adapt, and transform. His favorite tagline is, “All I know is how to help people grow.” He has helped leaders at Netflix, Amazon, and Google adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale through experiential learning and leadership development coaching. Kvon also holds a Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (M.S. I-O) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Guest: Will O’Brien & Dave DuBose The labor shortage is not going away. Workers are more transient, looking for better pay, plus Amazon, Walmart, and other large online retailers are 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. Here's what Will, Dave, and Maureen cover: Why pay is only the beginning in forming long-term solutions to supply-chain labor;How Columbus, Ohio, represents the distribution issues retailers face; andWhy, regardless of the economy, the labor shortage is not going away.   Other episodes you'll enjoy: Supply Chain Innovation: Orders Can’t Be Filled with Stagnation with Mike McLellan of DHLEvolving Leadership to Navigate Disruptionwith Greg MoranAre You Disrupting, or Being Disrupted? with Mark Kvamme For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   Will and Dave are partners with True North Growth Partners; you can learn more at https://truenorthgrowthpartners.com/ . (We love their motto: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”)   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.    She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.      Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David MeyersThe Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinSnow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Central to Our Distribution: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Will O’Brien is a partner at True North Growth Partners where he works with organizations on the supply chain and operations sides of their business. He helps his clients overcome the things that hold back their growth and profitability. He has over 30 years of experience in supply chain and operations. He has held executive positions in both industry and consulting. As an executive at Lowe’s Home Improvement he helped to lead the development of the supply chain for that big box retailer during a period of rapid growth, from $35 billion to $50 billion in revenue. He also helped pioneer Lowe’s omni-channel fulfillment when its online sales were growing significantly. He successfully grew a mid-sized family-owned supply chain consulting firm by over 50%, expanded its markets, improved its pricing, reengineered its sales and business development organization and created career paths and professional growth for its associates.   Dave DuBose is a senior supply chain professional with strong cross-industry experience including retail, consumer products, resources and high-tech in the North American and global theaters. Dave has held executive positions in logistics and supply chain in industry as well as consulting and has more than 30 years of professional experience. DuBose delivers innovative results and can translate business strategy into operating strategy and tactics. He has deep expertise in end-to-end business operations and in deploying business solutions from strategy through implementation. Dave is on the  Columbus Roundtable, and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is active in speaking and writing about contemporary supply chain issues.

Guest: Greg Moran Odds are Artificial Intelligence isn’t going to replace you at work. It’s going to join you.   Greg Moran sees AI integrating much the same way breakthrough technologies always have. It will help us be more efficient, and help leaders make better decisions. Of course, it’s not all rasterized rainbows and Unix unicorns; to thrive, people will have to be able and willing to continually learn new skills and processes. In short, the obsessively curious will rise to the top. Greg shares the details in this episode.   Here's what Greg and host Maureen Metcalf cover: How generative AI has already proven it can give you a competitive advantage by helping you make better, faster decisions on quality information, but……be careful! AI won’t make those decisions for you!Why continually growing, learning, and adapting are top skills for career success (and coasting at work is no longer an option).   Other episodes you'll enjoy: How to Own the AI Revolution with Neil SahotaThe Future Is Yours to Create with Rebecca RyanThe New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace with Greg Moran For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too! RESOURCES:   Greg is the former COO and currently a board member of Aware, which creates AI-infused solutions for collaboration platforms; you can learn more at https://www.awarehq.com. You can also connect with Greg on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsmoran.   A terrific book about the promise and pitfalls of the AI revolution is Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition; it can be purchased here.   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.  Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert HeinleinThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsI, Robot by Isaac Asimov   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Hybrids Before It Was Cool: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Greg Moran is a C-level digital, strategy and change leadership executive with extensive global operations experience. He led corporate strategy for Ford and designed the plan that Alan Mullaly used to turn around the company. Greg held C-level IT positions in app dev, infrastructure, and core banking applications at Ford, Nationwide Insurance, and Bank One/JPMC, respectively. He began his career in consulting with Arthur Andersen Accenture, working across industries with 100 companies over the course of a decade. He is passionate about leadership and culture, and teaches part time on the topic at Ohio University.

Guest: Ann Mukherjee Ann Mukherjee’s life is one of complete inspiration, both personally and professionally. Her mother was killed by a drunk driver when Ann was just 14; as an adult, she endured alcohol related violence.   Yet today, she leads the second largest wine and spirits company in the world. Far from a contradiction, it’s a calling – one which sees not just customers and ROI, but caring and ROR (Return on Responsibility). The two are intertwined; even as Pernod Ricard promotes safe, responsible drinking, their profits have soared.   Here's what Ann and host Maureen Metcalf cover: The changing role of leaders, especially CEOs;How Ann sees her work at Pernod Ricard not as a job, but as a calling; andThe important role of mentors for career success.   Other episodes you'll enjoy: Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu PalsuleLeading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil ClampittCareer Sponsorship with Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too! RESOURCES:   You can learn more about Ann’s company, Pernod Ricard, at https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en .  The organizations Ann mentioned include The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility ( https://www.responsibility.org/ ) and Women of the Vine & Spirits ( https://www.womenofthevine.com/cpages/home ).   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.  Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinSnow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko A toast to our podcast support team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Ann Mukherjee joined PRNA (Pernod Ricard) as CEO in December 2019. An industry outsider and woman of color, Ann is focused on delivering both ROI and ROR (return on responsibility). She’s advanced the business through ambiguity, driving a transformation rooted in the science of predictable consumer demand and guiding PRNA to record-breaking profits in 2021. Ann has launched award-winning brand campaigns and initiatives around consent, voting and hate speech. Ann has been recognized by Forbes 2022 ‘50 over 50’; Forbes’ Top 50 Most Influential CMOs; ADCOLOR’s Legend Award; and was inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame.

Guest: Paul Austin You never know where the next big breakthrough in leadership research will come, so we’re going to sporadically feature outlier ideas, research from the fringe. Today is our first foray, as we investigate the role psychedelics can play in leadership development.   Struggling with the dichotomy of legality and morality, Paul Austin found himself on an unexpected journey of self-discovery – a journey that led him to establish Third Wave, a platform dedicated to using psychedelics to unlock leadership potential and transform paradigms. As Paul says to host Maureen Metcalf, “If I could focus my time and energy on one thing that would move the needle the most, it would be intentional psychedelic use by the leaders who are creating the paradigms of tomorrow." Here's what Paul and Maureen cover: How intentional microdoses of psychedelics can propel leadership development;Why the proper setting and having an expert facilitator for guidance is absolutely critical; andHow CEOs and other leaders are already using psychedelics to help them problem-solve in today’s new normal of chaos and disruption.   Other episodes you'll enjoy: Leading with Care & Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu PalsuleBringing Clarity to Confusion with Terri O’Fallon & Kim BartaIntegrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership with Dr. Maryanna Klatt For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   If you have questions, and you’d like Paul to answer them in an upcoming podcast, e-mail them to us at Inquiries@InnovativeLeadership.com .   Paul’s web page contains the resources he mentioned in the interview; it’s https://thethirdwave.co/.   Paul has also written a book on the healing and development use of psychedelics. Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life is available on Amazon (Kindle version).   The seminal books by other researchers Paul mentioned are James Fadiman’s The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide  (Kindle: https://amzn.to/410wL3g) and Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Kindle: https://amzn.to/3KRgSGU).   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.    Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos CastanedaThe Doors of Perception by Aldous HuxleyX-Men Archives #3: Legion by Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Podcasting in Alternate Realities: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics. As the founder of Third Wave, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC's Worklife. Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration. Learning how to master this skill will be crucial in the story of humanity’s present-future evolution.

Guest: Mike McLellan Supply chain disruptions: they’ve been at the top of the list for leaders’ anxiety in nearly every sector for years. Will it ever get better?   Yes – if you’ve learned lessons from COVID and other supply chain disrupters. That’s the advice Mike McLellan has for leaders. A vice president of operations for DHL Supply Chain, Mike discusses the innovations DHL and others are implementing: from rapid responses to exoskeletons for warehouse workers. If your organization relies on supplies – and few organizations don’t – this is a must-listen episode! Here's what Mike and host Maureen Metcalf cover: How COVID-19 exposed weaknesses that had been brewing in the supply chain for years;Why having a single-source supplier looks great on the balance sheet, but is quite costly in reality; andThe critical role of resilience for companies’ future survival.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption with Greg MoranLeading in Circles: The Inevitable Circular Economy with Christoph HinskeAre You Disrupting, or Being Disrupted? with Mark Kvamme   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!   RESOURCES:   Details on tech innovations, sustainability, and other programs Mike mentions are on DHL’s website at https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered.html . To dig even deeper, read DHL: Three Letters that Shrank the World by Jane Chung for Kindle at https://amzn.to/3MgwHIa .   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.    She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here. Most relevant for today’s interview is the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations. The Guide is available now on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3KufXMg , and the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/3U7MzyK .      Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David MeyersBatman/Catwoman by Tom King & Clay MannThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinSnow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Professional Podcast Disrupters: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

Guest: Dr. Ciela Hartanov Change is accelerating. Volatility continues unabated. And no business is immune. What’s a leader to do?   Develop foresight and become future-ready, of course!  Ciela Hartanov joins us in this episode to detail her practical process for developing foresight. As a futurist, she’s developed many tools for probing potential paths’ future outcomes. She’s distilled those tools into her foresight process. That, in turn, helps leaders adapt their mindsets, enabling them to make their organizations future ready. Here's what Ciela and host Maureen Metcalf cover: The definition of foresight, and what it means for businesses;How future-ready capabilities increase profitability and growth potential; andQuestioning whether organizations really need a C.E.O. at the top.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together with Margaret HeffernanFinding Peace When in Conflict – with Lord John Alderdice (excerpt of full interview referenced by Maureen in today’s podcast)Opportunity in Uncertainty – with Dr. Ciela Hartanov (her first appearance on our show!)   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too! RESOURCES:   Here is Dr. Hartanov’s email address: ciela@humcollective.co . You can also learn more about her consulting, research, and other work at www.humcollective.co.   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.  Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay Jones at https://amzn.to/3MamuwOFuture Shock by Alvin Toffler at https://amzn.to/3KiRWYsConnections by James Burke at https://amzn.to/3GpWdav   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Future-Ready Friends: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Dr. Ciela Hartanov is a futurist, organizational psychologist, human behavior expert, writer, and thinker dedicated to reinventing work. She helps leaders create a revolution inside the modern workplace, one aimed at breaking a system that promotes work practices that have existed since the industrial era. She was part of the founding team of The Google School for Leaders and Head of Next Practice Innovation and Strategy at Google, where she developed projects designed to shape the future of leadership and work. She currently runs humcollective, a boutique strategy and innovation firm that helps companies, executives, and teams make sense of the forces shaping the future and prepare strategically.

Guest: Tara McGowan Misinformation and disinformation have become the lifeblood of social media – even some cable channels hungry for ratings. But, as a leader, you need hard facts and straight information.   How did we get here, and what can you do to find the good data your decisions need? Tara McGowan, founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, notes that propaganda and disinformation have always existed…but social media’s algorithms have amplified it exponentially, creating hard echo chambers that can be hard for truth to get through. And, she says, that puts not just your business at risk, but democracy itself. Fortunately, she has some solutions!   Here's what Tara and host Maureen Metcalf cover:  How social media algorithms work – and revolutionized the spread of misinformation;Ways leaders can recognize disinformation and halt its spread; and3) Simple steps we can all take to be media literate.   Other episodes you'll enjoy:  You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women with Besty Myers- Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with Kim Campbell- Democracy: Are We a Brittle Twig or Supple Bamboo? with Matt Qvortrup   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too!    RESOURCES:    More information on Courier Newsroom is available at their website: https://couriernewsroom.com/ .   Tara’s website tracking election campaign spending and digital strategies is https://fwiwmedia.com/ .   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.     She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.       If you’d like to learn more about journalism, try these books:  Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism by Brooke Kroeger (hardback = https://amzn.to/3lsU4DE , Kindle = https://amzn.to/3JynXKM )With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Murrow by Norman Finkelstein at https://amzn.to/3Z4xDlWInformation Wars: How We Lost the lobal Battle Against Disinformation by Richard Stengel at https://amzn.to/3yWvpu5 (paperback) and https://amzn.to/3yXN7O0 (Kindle)   -----------------------    OUR PODCAST TEAM:    Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf  Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko  Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko  (Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson  CONNECT WITH US:   Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership   YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership   Twitter: @IL_Institute   Mastodon: @InnoLeader   LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2   Instagram: @innovativeleader   Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com   Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!   -----------------------    About Our Guest:      Tara McGowan is the founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom and CEO of Good Information Inc, a civic incubator that invests in immediate solutions to counter disinformation online. A former political strategist with an early career in journalism, Tara has seen firsthand how America’s information crisis has contributed to the rising threat of authoritarianism and the deterioration of social trust.

Guests: Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont   More than 40% of new leaders fail within 18 months. Why?    Don’t blame the leader; look at the organization instead! Most organizations don’t onboard a new leader well, if at all. They assume a person’s success at one company will automatically transfer to theirs – but there are far too many variables at play to bank on that. Instead, an onboarding plan that goes beyond HR protocols and benefits sign-up is necessary: a plan that considers company culture, history, team dynamics...even quality of life differences if the new leader is coming from out of town!    Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont of Connect the Dots share tips, tricks, and outright wisdom from years of experience helping organizations maximize the success of their new leaders.    Here's what Brenda, Erika, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:  The three main components of a good onboarding plan; Why overlooking help with personal transitions – including spouse and children – is a key reason for new leaders leaving your organization; and Why how you handled your workforce during the COVID pandemic is the ultimate litmus test for a leader considering your job offer.   Other episodes you'll enjoy:  Hiring for Keeps: The Rise of Recruiter.com - with Evan Sohn A Cure for Toxic Leadership – with Raj Subrameyer Hiring in the Great Resignation – with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley    For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!      ----------------------    RESOURCES:    To learn more about Erika & Brenda’s company, Connect the Dots, visit https://connectthedotsconsulting.com/ .  They’ve also written two books together as further resources for you:  Solving Employee Performance Problems  at https://amzn.to/3LbelrG   And   Perfect Phrases for New Employee Orientation and Onboarding at https://amzn.to/3FgqmIJ .  In addition, Erika also wrote The Talent Selection and Onboarding Pocket Tool Kit at https://amzn.to/3ZCDWOp  , and Brenda wrote the Talent Assessment and Development Pocket Tool Kit at https://amzn.to/3YG62Y3 .     Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here .  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .    Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:  Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David Meyers  The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez    -----------------------    OUR PODCAST TEAM:    Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf  Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko  Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko  People We Onboarded to Our Podcast without Them Knowing: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson    CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------      About Our Guests:    Brenda Hampel co-founded Connect the Dots Consulting in 2006, having already gained a national reputation as a leadership team session and discussion expert.  From day one, Brenda dedicated Connect the Dots to providing Real Leadership, meaning custom-crafting Leadership Solutions to a client’s unique, specific, real-life leadership needs. That focus has only grown, for today Brenda and her team service a wide range of companies with a tailored, custom approach to leadership building and related services that help transform companies and the leaders at their helm.    Erika Lamont is an executive coach, author, speaker and founding partner of Connect the Dots Consulting. Connect the Dots is a boutique management consulting firm deep expertise in leadership onboarding, coaching and team effectiveness. Erika brings a distinctive blend of operational experience and leadership development skills to her client base. Erika has held leadership roles inside large organizations such as Riverside Methodist Hospital (part of the OhioHealth Corporation), and Bath & Body Works, a division of The Limited, Inc.—experience that has been advantageous to her coaching practice.   Erika is a Master Certified Executive Coach (MCEC) and an active member of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches.  She is also a certified coach for Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching and blends her own leadership experiences with the proven methods of best-practice coaching.

Guest: Betsy Myers We may gripe about the pandemic, but it gave us one very positive change for women in the workplace: flexibility. It also highlighted for everyone that old-school leadership won’t cut it anymore. Betsy Myers says head and heart leadership is the model for today’s leaders. It fuses data-driven strategies and decisiveness with qualities such as warmth, compassion, empathy, and collaboration. In short, the head sets the purpose for an organization, but the heart engages your people to follow and bring their best selves to the team.  Here's what Betsy covers with host Maureen Metcalf: Change is inevitable…so successful leaders embrace it;The impacts of holding on to an old-school leadership style (and why it’s the #1 cause of leadership failure!); andWhat Head-and-Heart Leadership really means.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: - Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook – with Carolyn Buck Luce - ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses – with Pauline Koelbl - Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!   ----------------------   RESOURCES:   Betsy’s book, Take the Lead, is available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3lbMWv6. The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/3YEb1Za. Her website is betsymyers.com.                      Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.   Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinSnow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Taking the Lead (and the office doughnuts): Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US: Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership   YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership   Twitter: @IL_Institute   Mastodon: @InnoLeader   LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2   Instagram: @innovativeleader   Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com   Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!   -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Betsy Myers is on a mission to improve leadership by developing leaders and teams who infuse passion and purpose into their organizations by leading from both the head and the heart. Betsy’s insightful keynotes and workshops have inspired and offered practical guidance to executives and managers around the world who want to level up their leadership, retain top talent, and achieve results in the modern workplace.     Betsy is a renowned expert on emerging leadership trends and women’s leadership and is the author of Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. She currently serves on the Council on Advancing Women in Business for the Export-Import Bank of the United States and has extensive experience in the corporate world, government settings, and in higher education.     Previously, she was founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University and executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School. A senior adviser to two U.S. presidents, Betsy served as President Clinton’s Advisor on Women’s Issues and was Chief Operating Officer of President Obama’s 2008 National Presidential Campaign. She also held leadership roles in the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Guest: Anne Klibanski  Healthcare begins and ends in the home. At least, it should: you’re more likely to heal a bit faster and your outlook tends to be brighter at home instead of a hospital. Further, COVID revealed and amplified medical staff burnout and other issues already brewing in our healthcare system.  It’s overwhelming for most healthcare leaders, but our guest – Dr. Anne Klibanski – tackles these issues head-on. The president and CEO of Mass General Brigham, she and her team created, and continue to develop, groundbreaking solutions for their hospitals...and, more importantly, their patients. In this episode, Anne shares those solutions and the challenges they present for leaders with host Maureen Metcalf.    Here's what Anne and Maureen cover:  The lack of patient beds and other resources COVID made clear (but remain today); What healthcare leaders can do to resolve those issues; and Why the old status quo for American healthcare won’t work anymore, along with the newer, better methods Mass General Brigham is creating and using.   Other episodes you'll enjoy:  High Performance Medicine: Healthcare & Innovation with Brian Ferguson Innovative Leadership for the Healthcare Industry – with Neil Grunberg (Hospital) Hiring in the Great Resignation – with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley    For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!    ----------------------    RESOURCES:    Information on Dr. Kilbanski and her team is available at https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/ .    Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written two books on healthcare and physician leadership: the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Physician Leaders and the Innovative Leadership Workbook for Health Care.    Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:  The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard Cytowic, MD This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson    -----------------------    OUR PODCAST TEAM:    Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf  Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko  Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko  Podcast Surgical Team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson  CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadership.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------    About Our Guest:    Dr. Anne Klibanski is President and CEO of Mass General Brigham, a Boston-based integrated healthcare system that includes internationally known Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, nationally recognized specialty hospitals, seven community hospitals, a health insurance company, physician networks, community health centers, home- based care, and long-term care services.   Dr. Klibanski’s vision for Mass General Brigham is to build the integrated academic health care system of the future with patients at the center, by transforming care, improving outcomes, and expanding impact locally, nationally, and globally. She has led clinical integration of services across the system, spearheaded the development of new digital platforms to achieve digital care, and overseen the increased investment in leading-edge research since assuming the role in 2019.

Guests: Mark Palmer & Eddie Moore Forget about future ready; you’re not ready for now!   Most leaders operate at a disadvantage: they don’t have a formal blueprint of their organization. Yet organizational design is vital if you want to be ready for whatever the future brings to your business. From your supply chain to internal communications, organizational design is far, far more than an org chart. In this episode, guests Eddie Moore and Mark Palmer explain how absolutely vital design is in making your business future-ready! Here's what Mark, Eddie, and Maureen cover: What organizational design really is;How succession planning is built in to the very fabric of design; andThe many ways org design future-proofs your team.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: - The Essentials of Theory U with Otto Scharmer - Hiring in the Great Resignation: Developing Your Culture, Communications, and Pipeline in a Crisis with Michelle Sanchez-Bickley - Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Twitter, too! RESOURCES:   You can learn more about Eddie and Mark at their respective websites: http://emooreconsulting.com/ and https://www.hire-direction.info/ or https://www.jobfitcalculator.com/ , respectively.   Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.  She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.  Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Hello, I Must Be Going: The Mostly True Story of an Imaginary Band by David MeyersThis Here Flesh by Cole Arthur RileyAdventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Better Podcasters by Design: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US:  Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership  YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership  Twitter: @IL_Institute  Mastodon: @InnoLeader  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2  Instagram: @innovativeleader  Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!  -----------------------   About Our Guests:   Mark Palmer is a thought leader, author, consultant, and entrepreneur specializing in organization change management, leadership development, strategic performance, and workforce solutions innovation. He is a co-founder and managing partner for Hire Direction, a data-driven organization solutions consultancy and 2022 recipient of Forbes America’s Best Management Consulting Firms.   Mark was co-founder and Chief Product Officer for LaborGenome, and lead innovator for talent alignment modeling technologies. He is co-creator of the Position Success Indicator (PSI) and DEV:Q (Development Quotient) organizational performance metrics. Mark is also an advisor and consultant with the Innovative Leadership Institute (ILI), focusing on leadership coaching, team building, and organizational effectiveness. He was a founding member and facilitator for Integral Institute, an international think-tank created to combine progressive organizational research with practical applications in both the public and private sector.   Mark has over 25 years of experience working with clients to optimize strategic alignment, team effectiveness, and organization systems.     Edmund (Eddie) Moore is a seasoned professional with over 24 years of experience working in and consulting to Fortune 100 and 500 companies in a wide range of industries and in diverse roles. Eddie brings a unique mix of creative energy, intelligence, and pragmatism to solve your leadership challenges.  His approach to strategic planning, organization design and change management are based on over 20 years of consulting and corporate experience.  His diverse background allows him to draw from the various disciplines of psychology, organization effectiveness, marketing, technology, finance and communications to design and facilitate leadership conversations and work processes tailored to your needs and the ability of your team.

Guest: Sharon Melnick Pushy. Manipulative. Lofty. We have a lot of negative views for powerful leaders – but that’s not what real power is about. When a leader is in their power, they raise everyone around them. It’s the difference between simply having power, and being IN your power. With her latest book, In Your Power, Sharon Melnick explores the ways women leaders, in particular, both grow and leak their power. She discusses those, as well as how turning down an invitation to the White House led to her epiphany about giving away your personal power, in this episode. Here's what Sharon and Maureen cover: How and why we can redefine power as a force for good;The three ways in which we’re not in our power; andHow burnout results not just from overwork, but from being underpowered, too.   Other episodes you'll enjoy: - The Women’s Power Playbook with Carolyn Buck Luce - ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women with Pauline Koelbl - Power, Charisma, & Hormones: Science Studies Leadership with John Antonakis   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!   ----------------------   RESOURCES:   Learn more about Sharon and her work at InYourPowerBook.com & SharonMelnick.com. She’s also written several books: the subject of this interview In Your Power, as well as earlier works including Success Under Stress and Confidence When It Counts. Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0.   Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThis Here Flesh by Cole Arthur RileyAdventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko People in their Podcast Power: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US: Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership Twitter: @IL_Institute Mastodon: @InnoLeader LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2 Instagram: @innovativeleader Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating! -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Between ever changing work practices, and the elusive act of fulfilling personal and professional demands, leaders are having to navigate a new world of challenges and strike the right tone of balancing completion with compassion. Dr. Sharon Melnick introduces the idea that power is the underlying issue in many of the trends we see among employees, and that leaders who use their power for the good of all can create team members who are loyal, inspired, and accountable.  What Dr. Melnick sees from having coached and trained over 40,000 professionals is that leaders already have so much more power than they realize or are using.       As a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach, Sharon combines proven leadership best practices with behavior change methods she developed through 10 years of psychology research at Harvard Medical School. Sharon has spoken at over 200 retreats and leadership conferences around the world (as well as presenting at the White House, the United Nations, and at West Point). She hosts the popular podcast, The Power Shift.

Guest: Carolyn Buck Luce Live an epic life.   That’s the goal Carolyn Buck Luce advises you to have. In this episode, she shares ways to make that happen…and how that path started for her. Eight year old Carolyn Buck Luce was inspired by John F. Kennedy's call to service, and decided to take responsibility for answering it even though she was only in elementary school. She created her first Decade Game, a plan for the next ten years of her life. Despite the pre-internet turmoil of the 1960s, she was determined to follow her purpose and make a difference in the world. She used the Decade Game to understand the power of leadership and the importance of courage, vulnerability, and trust. And, critically, she observed that women give away much of their power – not just in the board room, but beginning as children in primary school.   That served to motivate her even more. Carolyn continues her mission, and still uses her Decade Game in her journey to becoming an organizational shaman inspiring humans to live epic lives. Here's what Carolyn and Maureen cover: What, exactly, the Decade Game is – and how to play it;Why truly courageous leaders use their power for good; andThe importance of having purpose.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: - Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule - Storydoers: Leaders with Higher Purposes with Ty Montague - Finding Meaning, Joy, & Purpose in What You Do with Paul Gibbons   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!   ----------------------   RESOURCES:   Carolyn’s latest book is Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook. She’s also written a fascinating book on our medical system: Reimagining Healthcare: Through a Gender Lens.   More about her life-steering Decade Game is online at www.mydecadegame.com, and the Power Playbook at www.epicwomensplaybook.com. Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.   Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter MosleyThis Here Flesh by Cole Arthur RileyAdventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Epically Powerful Podcast Players: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US: Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership Twitter: @IL_Institute Mastodon: @InnoLeader LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2 Instagram: @innovativeleader Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating! -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Carolyn Buck Luce is one of America’s most respected and accomplished voices on Women’s Leadership and their relationship with power. She is the author of the recently published EPIC! The Women’s Power Play Book.  A gifted strategist and executive coach, Carolyn has spent the last five decades of her career building highly effective cultures, businesses, teams, and leaders in both the public and private sectors. From a diplomat in the USSR, to a Wall Street Banker, to healthcare futurist and management consultant, throughout her career, Carolyn has focused on helping courageous leaders make the difference they dream of.

Guest: Reta Jo Lewis "It's not just about the the betterment of you and your family. It's about the betterment of the community." That is one of the core values that helped guide Reta Jo Lewis through an eventful leadership journey, culminating in her current role as president and chair of the board of the Export Import Bank of the United States — the first African American to accomplish this. She is a passionate advocate for women in entrepreneurship and has a long history of working in politics and law.   In this episode, she shares more about her amazing leadership path (including time with Nelson Mandela), and how that can help you in your own career journey.    Here's what Reta Jo and host Maureen Metcalf cover: The importance of feeling you’re working for something bigger than just yourself;Having confidence that the skills and knowledge you have now prepared you for your next career opportunity; andWhy forging a network and relationships with peers, mentors, and role models is so important to developing as a leader.  Other episodes you'll enjoy: - ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses – with Pauline Koelbl - Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellise & Augusto Lopez-Claros - Winning in the Face of Adversity: Overcoming Challenge with Grace – with Joyce Beatty & Doug McCollough     For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!   ----------------------   RESOURCES:   You can learn more about Reta Jo’s agency and her work there at www.exim.gov . Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here . She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .   Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter MosleyThis Here Flesh by Cole Arthur RileyAdventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Their Podcast Journey Is Just Beginning: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US: Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership Twitter: @IL_Institute Mastodon: @InnoLeader LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2 Instagram: @innovativeleader Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating! -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Ms. Lewis is a senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in international affairs, legal, public policy, business and regulatory affairs, and subnational diplomacy.    On February 9, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Reta Jo Lewis as EXIM’s President and Chair of the Board of Directors. Ms. Lewis was most recently a Senior Fellow and Director of Congressional Affairs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to her time at GMF, she served as the first-ever Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs under Secretary Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State during the Obama-Biden Administration. As Special Representative, Lewis was the chief diplomat in charge of the international efforts to build and support strategic relationships between the federal government, state and local leaders, and their foreign counterparts. In 2013, she was awarded the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award.    Ms. Lewis was the first Black woman to serve as Vice President and Counselor to the President at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She led the Chamber’s initiatives focused on fostering strategic alliances between small businesses, especially women- and minority-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and executives. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Member of the Board of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security. Ms. Lewis received a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, an M.S.A.J. from American University, and a B.A. from the University of Georgia. She is a native of Statesboro, Georgia.

Guest: Henry Mintzberg There’s a lot of chaos for leaders to deal with, and it’s been pushing us out of balance for decades. Henry Mintzberg has had enough. Enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right, as well as the leadership paralysis in the political center. The world we live in needs a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience. But Henry doesn’t complain: he crafts solutions. In this episode, he presents host Maureen Metcalf with an integrative framework for a comprehensive way forward. It’s based on his book, Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center. Here's what Henry and Maureen cover: Why the internal threats to democracies and our individual self-denigrations are tied to the same root cause;How imbalance wreaks havoc on our lives and leadership; andWhat can be done to restore balance and our cultural sanity .   Other episodes you'll enjoy: Building Communities within Your Business – with Alice Yoo LeClairCourageous Followership – with Neil Grunberg & Ira ChaleffFacing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA – with Chris Nolan   For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!   ----------------------   RESOURCES:   Henry’s book discussed in this episode is Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center. It’s available here . He’s written quite a lot; some of his other books include Simply Managing, Bedtime Stories for Managers, and The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning. You can also learn more about Henry and his activities at CoachingOurselves.com and through his blog at Mintzberg.org . Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here . She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0 .   Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include: The Bassoon King by Rainn WilsonThis Here Flesh by Cole Arthur RileyAdventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson   -----------------------   OUR PODCAST TEAM:   Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko Constantly Rebalancing Far Too Many Duties: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson CONNECT WITH US: Facebook: facebook.com/Innovativeleadership YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership Twitter: @IL_Institute Mastodon: @InnoLeader LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2 Instagram: @innovativeleader Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating! -----------------------   About Our Guest:   Henry Mintzberg is a writer and educator, mostly about managing originations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies, which is his current focus. Henry sits in the Cleghorn Chair of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in Montreal. He has authored 20 books, including Simply Managing and Bedtime Stories for Managers, which have earned him 20 honorary degrees. Henry co-founded the International Masters Program for Managers as well as a venture CoachingOurselves.com, novel initiatives for managers to learn together from their own experience, the last in their own workplace. Henry may spend his professional life dealing with organizations, but he spends his private life escaping from them—mostly in a canoe, up mountains, and on a bicycle. You can find out more about his adventures on mintzberg.org, which includes his blog.