Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

S9-Ep13: Reality Lost - How Disinformation Shapes Your World

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; and
3) 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/3Z4xDlW
Information Wars: How We Lost the lobal Battle Against Disinformation by Richard Stengel at https://amzn.to/3yWvpu5 (paperback) and https://amzn.to/3yXN7O0 (Kindle)
 
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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 
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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. 

S9-Ep12: Onboard with Care: Welcoming a New Leader

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!   
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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.

S9-Ep11: You Are Enough, You Are Worthy: Leadership Lessons for Women

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!); and
What 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!  
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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 Butler
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez
 
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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
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com  
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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.

S9-Ep10: Bringing Healing Home - Healthcare Leadership

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!   
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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 
 
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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 
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Twitter: @IL_Institute 
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Instagram: @innovativeleader 
Website: InnovativeLeadership.com 
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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. 

S9-Ep9: Is Your Organization Designed for the Future?

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; and
The 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 Meyers
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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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 
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Instagram: @innovativeleader 
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com 
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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.

S9-Ep8: In Your Power

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; and
How 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!  
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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 Guin
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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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:
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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. 

S9-Ep7: Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook

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; and
The 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!  
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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 Mosley
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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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:
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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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.

S9-Ep6 - Women on the Rise: A Leadership Journey

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; and
Why 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!  
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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 Mosley
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman II: A Fairy Tale of New York by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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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:
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Twitter: @IL_Institute
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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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.

S6-Ep3: Rebalancing Society - Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, or Center

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; and
What can be done to restore balance and our cultural sanity .
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
Building Communities within Your Business – with Alice Yoo LeClair
Courageous Followership – with Neil Grunberg & Ira Chaleff
Facing Uncertainty: It’s VUCA – with Chris Nolan
 
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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 Wilson
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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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
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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.

S9-Ep5: Leading with Care and Purpose

Guests: Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
In this episode, Raj Sisodia and Sudhanshu Palsule explore the power of conscious leadership. With Conscious Capitalism, this can inspire a higher purpose for businesses, transcending the old Industrial Era story of profit-driven motives. The world has changed dramatically, but our leadership and business models have yet to catch up.
 
United in their belief that business can be a force of good, they share their research and personal journeys as they forged new leadership principles of purpose, wholeness, and healing.
Here's what Raj, Sudhanshu, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
The four pillars of 21st Century leadership (and business);
The importance of evolving from a shareholder mindset to a stakeholder mindset; and
How leaders and their organizations profit by combining the best of their masculine and feminine cultural energies.
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Should IT Executives Share their Soft Side? – with David White
- Joy at Work – with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cooke
- Leading with Care in a Tough World – with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
 
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!  
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RESOURCES:  
You’ll find more from Raj and Sudhanshu on their websites: ConsciousCapitalism.org and RajSisodia.com, or RehumanizingLeadership.com and SudhanshuPalsule.com respectively.
Both Raj and Sudhanshu have written many books. Raj’s include the seminal Conscious Capitalism, as well as Firms of Endearment, and Shakti Leadership.  Raj also blogs at ConsciousCapitalism.Typepad.com/conscious-capitalism.
Sudhanshu’s books include Rehumanizing Leadership and The Social Leader.
And for Adam Smith’s thoughts on the social obligations of capitalists, read his The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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 Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
 
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:  
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Our Consciously Caring Colleagues: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:  
Raj Sisodia is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj has a Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. His fifteen books include Conscious Capitalism (2013), Everybody Matters (2015), Firms of Endearment and The Healing Organization. Raj has worked with numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, BorgWarner, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart and McDonalds. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University and has served on the boards of Mastek and The Container Store. 
 
Sudhanshu Palsule is an award-winning educator, leadership philosopher, CEO advisor, author, and speaker. He is regarded as one of the leading thinkers in the fields of Transformative Leadership and Leading in Complexity. Author of several books, his latest book, “Rehumanizing Leadership” was published in 2020. Sudhanshu is a fellow at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also an Educator and Academic Director at Duke CE (part of Duke University, USA).  He has written several books including The Social Leader, Managing in Four Worlds, The Ecology of Organizations, Personal Growth, and Science, Technology, and Social Change. 

S9-Ep4: Intentional Leadership in a New Work World

Guest: Monique Jefferson
Are you a hybrid leader yet?
 
That’s what today’s work world demands. Most workers prefer work from home. Others prefer to be in the office. Still others like hybrid work: a combination of both. In this episode in our Connex Partners Executive Insights series, we ask—How do you lead people with such opposing preferences? And how do you accommodate the breadth of diversity in the workforce?
 
Monique Jefferson says the answer lies in being intentional. The Chief People Officer of NYC’s Community Preservation Corporation successfully guides her leaders into intentionality and inclusivity. Done well, your team will have purpose, passion, and perspective…all of which lead to greater morale and loyalty. She shares her methods with host Maureen Metcalf.
Here's what Monique and Maureen cover:
The path to being an intentional leader in today’s hybrid work environment;
Why flexibility ranks higher than compensation in importance to today’s workers; and
The Three Ps, and their importance to your team…and you .
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
The New Role of Leadership in a Hybrid Workplace – with Greg Moran
Five Trends to Know: Leadership in 2023 – with Christopher Washington
Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Executives – with Eric Douglas Keene
 
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!  
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RESOURCES:  
Monique Jefferson is on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-d-jefferson-sphr-shrm-scp-8120712.  Information on Monique’s 3-P haven, the Community Preservation Corporation, is at https://communityp.com/.
Information about this episode’s sponsor, Connex Partners, is at https://www.connexpartners.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: https://amzn.to/3C4eSX0.
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:  
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Our Intentional Podcast Support Team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com
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About Our Guest:  
Monique Jefferson is an expert in human capital management with an instinct for determining the impact of organizational change, particularly on marginalized groups. She is a results-oriented, proven human resources executive with over 20 years of global experience in the financial services, legal, Insurance, media, non-profit and professional services industries. Her primary areas of expertise include talent and performance management, compensation, leadership development, diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, talent acquisition, executive coaching, cultural change, employee engagement, training, and employee and labor relations.
 
Monique currently serves as Chief People Officer of Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) (a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) within the multi family affordable housing sector) where she develops the human resources strategic plan and builds a culture that will enable CPC to attract, engage, grow and retain a high-performing, diverse workforce.  Monique previously served as the Chief Human Resources Officer of New York Public Radio, the second largest public media company in the U.S., where she led a culture transformation and implemented the first Race Equity Action plan for the organization.

S7-Ep31: Leading in Emerging Industries

Guest: James Brenza
By their very nature, emerging industries (such as EVs, private spaceships, and cannabis) present unique leadership challenges – and opportunities – rarely encountered in long-established businesses.  In addition to general entrepreneurism, you’re creating something new for the marketplace…and forging the team to shepherd it.
 
Emerging industries often lend a new twist on old businesses: they allow the opportunity to relook at established practices, sparking innovation in the business sector. James Brenza joins the show to discuss his venture into an emerging industry -- and how that provided him with new challenges as well as the possibilities of new solutions.
Here's what James and Maureen cover:
How disruptions in your personal life can spark your drive into new kinds of business;
Ways to navigate the uncertainty of cutting-edge industries when legislation isn’t consistent across the country; and
Why standards and technology remain vital components in emerging industries.
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
Leverage Change: Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results - with Jake Jacobs
Opportunity in Uncertainty – with Dr. Ciela Hartanov
Building Trust in Uncertainty – with Dr. Mary Jo Burchard
 
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RESOURCES:  
More about James Brenza’s agritech firm is online at https://greenest-grow.com/ . You can also connect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenestgrow/ .
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 Wilson
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:  
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Emerging Podcast Pioneers: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
CONNECT WITH US:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Innovativeleadership
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Website: InnovativeLeadership.com
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About Our Guest:  
James Brenza is an information technology and analytics leader with 20 years of diversified experience and success in delivering analytical, functionally rich, complex solutions. He is a hands-on leader who carefully balances strategic planning, business communications and technical delivery. He has extensive experience with motivating mixed-shore teams to deliver high quality, flexible results. James’ academic foundation includes 3 degrees: Information Technology, Finance, and an MBA. He complemented his technical skills with a Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Qualification and PMP certifications. He applies that foundation to solving problems in banking, insurance, retail, distribution, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and public service. He has also been involved in the startup community by serving on advisory boards and as CDO.