We're All in This Together

My guest on today's podcast is Anne Robie. I met her at a Wisdom 2.0 conference. IBM hired Anne immediately after she finished her graduate studies and sent her to Raleigh, North Carolina. She later transferred to the San Francisco Bay area to become the Head of People for StubHub and to spend time with her ailing father. Anne has recently started Darshan Leadership Consulting, a private leadershi...

My guest on today's podcast is Stuart Crabb. Stuart and I met five years ago at a Wisdom 2.0 conference (notice a running theme?). At the time, he was working at Facebook and was kind enough to take a small group of us on a tour of the social media company's Palo Alto campus. As the Head of Global Learning, Stuart helped design and grow Facebook's Learning and Development program. When he started...

My guest on today's podcast is my friend Chantal Pierrat. Chantal and I first met at a Wisdom 2.0 conference a few years ago. I remember being struck by her passion and her authenticity. She was in the process of leaving her job at Sounds True Publishing to found her organization, Emerging Women. Chantal and I hit it off instantly and we began discussing, among other things, the importance of femi...

My guest on today's podcast is Jay Allen. Jay recently retired from his role as the Chief Administrative Officer at Charles Schwab, which is where he and I met a few years ago.   Schwab is one of my favorite clients and getting to know Jay and work with him and his team in recent years has been a real honor for me. He retired last year to keep a promise to himself. Early in his work life, Jay vowe...

My guest on today's podcast is my friend Michelle Gale. Michelle and I met at a Wisdom 2.0 conference back in 2011. Wisdom 2.0 is an organization that holds events all over the world which focus on bringing technology and mindfulness together. After working in sales, as a teacher, and as a recruiter, Michelle became a coach.  Her experience as both a recruiter and a coach led her to an opportunity...

My guest on today's podcast, Lisa Earle McLeod, is a good friend and the author of five books including Selling with Noble Purpose and Leading with Noble Purpose . Her consulting company created the concept of Noble Purpose which is a declarative statement about the impact an organization has on its customers. It incorporates telling the market what your company stands for and why your organizatio...

Today's guest, Melissa Daimler, is someone I've known for 15 years. She knows a ton about the coaching world because she was the very first employee of Coach University, which is one of the top coach training schools in the world. She moved from New York City, where she ran her own very successful coaching business and arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area in time for the dot-com boom. Melissa's d...

My guest on this podcast episode, Matthew Luhn, worked for over twenty years at Pixar - helping create the stories for some of the most successful animated films in history: including Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Cars, UP, and Finding Nemo.  Today, he is a keynote speaker and consultant to some of most influential businesses and brands in the world like Apple, Charles Schwab, Google, Adidas, Disney a...

My guest today, Bob Andrews, is someone I've known for many years.   He is a dear friend and someone I greatly appreciate.   Bob has had an interesting career - working as a teacher, then as a retail store manager, and ultimately building his career in the field of Human Resources.   He was the head HR for Jamba Juice and held various HR jobs at Gap Inc.   Bob is now working for himself, doing som...

Michael Bungay Stanier is my guest on this week's episode of my podcast. He is the author of many books including Do More Great Work and, his latest, The Coaching Habit . Michael's company, Box of Crayons, help organizations to do less good work and more great work.   What does Bring Your Whole Self to Work Mean to Michael? Michael references the insights in the book The Dark Side of the Light Cha...

Today I'm speaking with my friend, Eric Severson. Eric has been working and studying the field of Human Resources for over 25 years. He spent many of those years at Gap Inc., which is where we met.   At Gap Inc., he served as the co-CHRO in charge of global enterprise talent strategy and operations.  He is a leader who works to create culture and support the growth of talent.   In 2014, Eric was a...

Today I'm speaking with my friend Dr. Dacher Keltner, a professor at UC Berkeley who is also the co-founder and faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He is a renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotions and he studies awe, compassion, beauty and love. He just wrote a new book, The Power Paradox , and has also authored two previous books, B...

This is the very first episode of my new Bring Your Whole Self to Work Podcast. I really wanted to do something special for this first show and was so excited that my friend, the amazing Chip Conley, agreed to join me.    What I Know About Chip Conley Chip is a business leader, a thought leader, and a person I respect and admire a great deal. At 26, he started the Joie de Vivre – which became the...

So, why am I doing this new podcast? Well, during my 15 years of speaking, writing and coaching I've gotten to know some incredible business leaders, thought leaders and other fascinating people. As I started to work on my next book, Bring Your Whole Self to Work, I decided I wanted to interview some of these folks as research for the book.   Then I decided it would be cool to record these convers...