Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

Featured Guest: Gregory Milano A leader’s lust for short-term profit often means pulling tomorrow’s results into today’s reports. Those intentions may be well-meaning, intending to please shareholders and the board. But they can result in bankrupting the future. After all, if you’re crediting next quarter’s returns into this quarter, how will you make next quarter look as appealing? It’s unsustain...

Featured Guest: Ben Marcovitz Most often, when employees are labeled as underperforming, leaders write them off. When such an employee inevitably leaves (or is forced out), you’re potentially giving your competition top talent…because with the right approach, those employees can become motivated high-performers. Ben Marcovitz, CEO of the Rise Institute, believes expecting radical growth from strug...

Featured Guest: Jonathan Reitz Communication is key to effective leadership.  You may have the best vision in the history of humankind – but if you can’t communicate it to others, you’ll never come close to achieving your goals. Good leaders know this; that’s why Googling leadership communication skills results in literally billions of results! Sorting through those hits could take a lifetime. For...

Featured Guest: Rod Lacey simPRO’s approach to the Great Resignation is simple: empower employees.  And learning how to direct that empowerment is simple, too:  listen to staff.  Employees will tell you what they need, and want!  This employee empowerment prepares simPRo for the future of work. In this episode, simPRO’s Chief People Operations Officer, Rod Lacey, shares insights into how the emplo...

Featured Guest: Dr. Maryanna Klatt It’s no secret that the well-being of your workforce directly affects the well-being of your entire organization. Prior to the pandemic, most corporate wellness programs focused on physical fitness.  The stresses of COVID quarantining, though, showed that mental health is every bit as important. Integrative medicine ties both physical and mental health together,...

Featured Guest: Gary Bolles Work isn’t what it used to be. Even before COVID and the Great Resignation, a seismic shift began shaking in the workplace:  not just how we work, but why we work.  Prior generations worked mainly for money; today’s younger generations work mainly for mission (and hope the pay will follow). How can a leader lead a workforce that’s so varied in why, where, and how they w...

Featured Guest: Neil Sahota Many people fear the Artificial Intelligence revolution that’s underway.  But like every other major societal revolution in human history, you can play it to your favor.  The key?  Innovative thinking.  In reality, these upheavals create newer, better jobs for people – though, from the sabot to the Luddite, people who don’t think differently, innovatively, even disrupti...

Featured Guest: Nell Derick Debevoise If you don’t know your own purpose, can you really get behind your organization’s purpose? Nell Derick Debevoise found that a critical component of success is knowing how your personal purpose intersects with your organization’s purpose.  That holds true for the individual members of your team, too:  if you understand what their personal or professional purpos...

Featured Guests: Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas America’s racial reckoning is underway, yet continues to be hotly debated. One novel approach comes from leadership consultants Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas: frame it as a hero’s or heroine’s journey. The answer is surprising, simple – and makes a great deal of sense in fostering reckoning…then reconciliation.  The same core princ...

Featured Guests: Kevin Cassidy & Christopher Washington  Formed in the aftermath of World War I, the International Labour Organization has evolved along with the workforce as part of the League of Nations and the United Nations. The ILO studies the environment for workers from a tripartite perspective:  from labor itself, from business, and from government. All three are necessary to create optima...

Featured Guest: George Limbert Helping nurses and doctors during the pandemic. Assisting first responders as towns recover from natural disasters. Joining the fight against human trafficking. Red Roof’s evolution as a corporation is more than just another branding story. New president George Limbert firmly believes leaders must guide their organizations into always doing what is right: for custome...

Featured Guest: John Kilpatrick Traditional organizations follow a linear economy: everything flows one-way, from resource to product to consumer to trash. It’s often summarized by the mantra “take, make, waste.” That certainly doesn’t mitigate climate change, pollution, and other threats to humanity. Is there a better path that won’t disrupt our consumer-driven culture? John Kilpatrick heartily b...

Guest: Christopher Washington, Franklin University Provost The pandemic didn’t destroy the old “normal.”  COVID simply accelerated trends that were already underway.  The best leaders see that, and are forging new paths to success for their organizations and their people. The tables turn in this episode, as regular host Maureen Metcalf becomes the guest, interviewed by ILI Fellow and Franklin Univ...

Featured Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships—whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information...

Featured Guest: Ron Carucci Honesty is more than a character trait: it’s a muscle that has to be built to stay strong; honesty can be learned. Truth, justice, and purpose are “three sides of the same coin." Together, they mean honesty - to have honesty, you need all three; honesty means you have to say the right thing, do the right thing, and say and do them for the right reason...even when it’s h...

Featured Guest: Pete Martin If you're a leader of a business or non-profit, how you spend your time has a direct impact on the success of your organization. Focusing on just one big idea instead of scattershot-ting your attention keeps that impact positive. What you, as a leader, work on minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day matters—and either moves the needle and propels growth or constricts...

Featured Guest: Kim Campbell, First Female Prime Minister of Canada "The future will spit on our graves." Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell doesn't mince words when she muses on the big issues facing the world today...and, particularly, what happens if we don't work to fix them now. From climate change to sexual harassment, host Maureen Metcalf draws remarkably candid perspectives from t...

Featured Guest: Darren Chait There's one simple truth most working adults realize in their first job:  meetings stink.  Darren Chait is no exception.  While he was an attorney, he recoiled at how inefficient and archaic lawyers' meetings are...then he had sticker shock when he saw the invoices and realized clients pay for that slow-paced inefficiency!  That put him on the path to finding a better...

Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek Older generations view Gen Z as having their eyes glued to their smartphones.  While those phones are a window on the world no other generation has encountered, it means they’re more likely to see the world for what it is, warts and all.  And that exposure to the world and its diverse cultures makes Gen Z more ardent in resolving life-threatening issues like climate...

Featured Guest: Colonel Deb Lewis Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis - it’s a wonder we’re still standing. Too few of us have stress tools powerful enough to put stress to work for us so we can enjoy the journey. Once you’ve learned how to be mentally tough, you will use stress to your advantage. It becomes your superpower! Colonel Deb Lewis learned the importance o...

Featured Guests: William Bonvillian & Sanjay Sarma Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. From pre-K through college and on-the-job ""professional development,"" the United States' old-school education system simply isn't up to the task.  Universities, for example, can no longer be havens of academic theory and football...

Featured Guest: Mark Herschberg Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? Mark Herschberg is on the show to discuss his book The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He shares practical ideas from his book and his thoughts on leadership that will help you m...

Featured Guest: Howard Tiersky Digital is at the center of most adults' lifestyles worldwide—and it's here to stay. (In fact, roughly 1/3 of people surveyed said they'd give up sex instead of their smartphone!) That has disrupted and changed the customer relationship. Customers today expect the brands they deal with to deliver outstanding and seamless digital experiences. If your brand is failing...

Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek AnneMarie Hayek joins the show to share insights from her new book, Generation We.  In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Generation Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we...

Featured Guest: Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham We all have agreements.  Some are overt, such as agreeing to make monthly payments when you get a mortgage to buy a house.  And some are unconscious, like the agreement in sports that everyone on your team will work toward winning against the other team. We all have two ways of responding to those agreements. You have a Yes! response that aligns your purpose...