Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

Featured Guest: Dr. Jeff Hull In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if you are leading a team you must manage a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures...

Featured Guest: Mike Zani Moneyball was just the tip of the iceberg.  In that movie, a baseball team relies on performance data instead of scouts' intuition to build a winning club.  The very same concept can forge a dream team in your own NPO or business. Sophisticated assessments, data, and software give CEOs and managers in any industry detailed insights into human behavior -- and, more critica...

Featured Guest: Paul Gibbons Conversations about meaning and purpose at work are very old and very new. Spirituality provides a lens for those discussions—a lens that is effective regardless of your team's religious preferences. From evangelical to atheist, a sense of mission and meaning are critical to well-being. Workplace spirituality helps us understand the issues underlying personal meaning i...

Featured Guest: Dr. JJ Walcutt The power of mind over body goes back at least 2,000 years with the Stoics—but what about the power of the brain over both mind and body? To be competitive over the next decade, all organizations—non-profits, businesses, and especially the military—must not only help staff optimize their bodies for physical and mental health purposes; they also need to ensure that co...

Featured Guest: Jake Jacobs Change is now a constant in all organizations.  Is there a way to make it easier?  Jake Jacobs joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss his new book Leverage Change, and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations—at the individual, team or organizational levels.  He...

Featured Guests: Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell Rising up the corporate ladder is fraught with challenges.  Those challenges -- both visible and invisible -- multiply for people of color, women, and others underrepresented in the executive suite.  Mentors are fine, but an in-house sponsor can truly make the path smoother.  Ricky Robinson and Keith Powell share why...not with theory, but hard-won pr...

Featured Guest: Jared Graybeal In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout: Confidence Competence Clarity Character Connections and Commitment. This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement, and is designed to give you the...

Featured Guest: Otto Scharmer Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolved human consciousness. Otto’s first book sold over 100,000 copies and to put that in context, the average self-published book sells 250 copies, and the average traditional book sells 3,000 copies in its lifetime. Otto joins Maureen to discuss his latest book: The Essentials...

Featured Guest: Ty Montague Today’s most successful companies and leaders are StoryDoers, not storytellers. These leaders have clearly defined a higher purpose that frames their ultimate ambition and desired contribution to the world - and they orient every action they take in service of achieving this goal. Ty Montague joins the show to discuss what makes someone a Storydoer, why Storydoers are b...

Featured Guest: Ron Riggio Great leaders are great learners” is often quoted but how can leaders implement this into their very hectic day? Ron has created a year-long leadership development guidebook that offers day-by-day instruction in short excerpts to provide leaders with knowledge and practical application ideas. Ron joins the show to discuss his new book “Daily Leadership Development,” his...

Featured Guest: Roger Madison Diversity and inclusion are critical topics in not only the U.S. but the world right now. Roger Madison, Jr., founder and CEO of iZania, a company formed to connect Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and consumers online joins the show. Roger was previously a sales executive with IBM in South Africa and he will share about his experiences in South Africa and what he...

Featured Guest: Robert Rosenberg Every entrepreneur dreams of expanding their business from around the corner to around the world. While today those dreams look doubtful, hope can be found from the story of a CEO who managed to do so despite decades of economic downturns, near bankruptcy, and constant change. Robert Rosenberg joins the show today to share insights and lessons learned from his expe...

Featured Guest: Laura Morgan Roberts & Courtney McCluney How can we change the way conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion are progressing towards productive, inquiring, learning experiences -- and ultimately creating a more just and equitable workplace and society?  How can we understand the effects outside-of-work events have on people of color within work?  Laura Morgan Roberts...

Featured Guest: Mark Kvamme Business disruptions are occurring every day for entire business segments. Effective organizations are looking ahead to lead the disruptive efforts to set the new market. If you are not disrupting – you will get disrupted. Mark Kvamme joins Maureen to discuss how he works with organizations to identify opportunities and be the disruptor rather than being disrupted.

Featured Guest: Margaret Heffernan We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won’t allow that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, and even genetics won’t tell you everything you want to know. Margaret Heffernan joins us to discuss her new book, Uncharted, Ho...

Featured Guest: Keith Tuffley What is the purpose of business in the 21st century? And what are the values and skills needed by business leaders in this new era of stakeholder value?  Keith Tuffley joins Maureen to discuss these emerging topics and share his experience.

Featured Guest: Helle Bank Jorgensen How do you get a corporation to change its views on society and the environment? Start with its board of directors. They determine the heart and soul of an organization. That’s vital now, with companies around the world examining environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the wake of 2021’s COP26 summit in Glasgow.  It’s quite possible to achieve both...

Featured Guest: Greg Moran Greg Moran joins Maureen to discuss the challenges organizations are facing during the months of working from home and how his organization, Aware, is helping companies track employee engagement and satisfaction without invasion of privacy. They also discuss the seven leadership mindsets and behaviors required to adjust to the disruptions leaders are facing. Leaders need...

Featured Guest: Valrie Grant & Christopher Washington Research has shown that diversity at every level of leadership leads to a more successful organization. In the first segment, Dr. Christopher Washington of Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio, joins Maureen to discuss the importance of J.E.D.I. (just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments) S.P.A.C.E. (supportive, purposeful, acco...

Guest: Deborah Haven A change mindset is here to stay. Implementing change takes high energy, an abundance of patience and extreme flexibility. United States Navy Rear Admiral Deborah Haven, Retired, joins the show to discuss her experience in leading change and working in an uncertain environment as well as the lessons she has learned that can be translated to situations all leaders face.

Featured Guest: Darcy Winslow The need for system leaders, system literacy and collaboration are more important than ever. The field of ‘awareness-based systems change’ is growing, and there are many very accessible ways to engage. Darcy joins Maureen to discuss taking a more holistic, or systems approach, does not require a PhD in Systems Dynamics - anyone can become a systems thinker and have a...

Featured Guests: Trista Bridges & Donald Eubank Sustainability is now a business-critical issue. Companies and industries that don't embrace it will be left behind. In fact, we are already starting to see this. Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank join the show today to discuss their new book Leading Sustainability: The Path to Sustainable Business and How the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)...

Featured Guest: Brian Ferguson The COVID pandemic has elevated a long-overlooked narrative: we ask A LOT of the nurses, doctors, and frontline medical staff who shepherd our communities in times of public health crisis. And while they are required to step into unknown, high-pressure + high-stress work, we do not equip them with the same tools for resilience and recovery that we do for professional...

Featured Guests: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty and CIO Doug McCollough In a time when people are sharing more of their personal struggles, we talk to Congresswoman Beatty and Doug McCollough about their struggle and more importantly how they navigated those struggles so that she could make their greatest impact on the world. Congresswoman Beatty not only overcame, she changed the people’s view of wha...

Featured Guest: Barbara Kellerman Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. Barbara joins the show today to discuss her views on leadership education, what it takes to build highly effective leaders and her...