Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

S9-Ep19: Leadership Is Relationships

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; and
The 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 Walcutt
Leading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
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:  
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 Solomon
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
Spark: The Revolutionary News Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, MD
 
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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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).

S5-Ep36: Lasting Solutions for Distribution Center Labor Shortages

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; and
Why, 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 DHL
Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption with Greg Moran
Are 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, 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 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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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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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.

S9-Ep18: Working Together: Leading a Hybrid AI-Human Workforce

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 Sahota
The Future Is Yours to Create with Rebecca Ryan
The 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 Heinlein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
 
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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Hybrids Before It Was Cool: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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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.

S9-Ep17: When Tragedy Informs Responsible Leadership: The C-Suite Journey of Pernod Ricard’s CEO

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; and
The important role of mentors for career success.
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
Leading with Care and Purpose with Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
Leading with Care in a Tough World with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
Career 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 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
A toast to our podcast support team: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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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.

S9-Ep16: Fringe or Mainstream? Leaders Explore Psychedelics

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; and
How 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 Palsule
Bringing Clarity to Confusion with Terri O’Fallon & Kim Barta
Integrating 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 Castaneda
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
X-Men Archives #3: Legion by Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz
 
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
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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.

S9-Ep15: Disruption No More: DHL’s Supply Chain VP on Future-Proofing Your Business

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; and
The critical role of resilience for companies’ future survival.
 
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
Evolving Leadership to Navigate Disruption with Greg Moran
Leading in Circles: The Inevitable Circular Economy with Christoph Hinske
Are 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 Meyers
Batman/Catwoman by Tom King & Clay Mann
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
Professional Podcast Disrupters: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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S9-Ep14: Prepare for the Future with Foresight

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; and
Questioning 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 Heffernan
Finding 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/3MamuwO
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler at https://amzn.to/3KiRWYs
Connections by James Burke at https://amzn.to/3GpWdav
 
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
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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.

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
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 Betsy 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 (https://amzn.to/3Z4xDlW)
Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation by Richard Stengel at https://amzn.to/3yWvpu5 (paperback) and https://amzn.to/3yXN7O0 (Kindle)
 
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf 
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko 
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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, available at https://amzn.to/3ZCDWOp, and Brenda wrote The Talent Assessment and Development Pocket Tool Kit, available 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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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf 
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko 
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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: Top Leadership Lessons for Women from a Senior White House Advisor

Guest: Betsy Myers, former Senior White House Advisor
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
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!  
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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: Groundbreaking Solutions in Healthcare from Mass General Brigham’s CEO

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 
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! 
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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 
Mastodon: @InnoLeader 
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2 
Instagram: @innovativeleader 
Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com 
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating! 
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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.