Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

Guest: Carsten Engel There’s a big gap between resources and patient needs in the healthcare sector. That’s just one area of healthcare requiring change; without it, lives truly do hang in the balance.   Carsten Engel and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare have studied healthcare systems around the globe extensively, and they have practical solutions for patients, practitioners, a...

Guests: Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera “What do you expect with a woman?”   That’s the attitude our guests encountered on their leadership journeys – but, as Georgia O’Keefe said, “It takes a kind of nerve…and a lot of hard, hard work.” That nerve is exactly what Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera developed. It served them well, with both becoming the first woman president of their respect...

Guests: Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry Your leadership training may be missing the mark.   That’s because most programs develop you as an individual – but, in reality, we work with other leaders in addition to our own teams. In fact, the most effective organizations foster collective leadership. Our guests Nicole Ferry and Nathan Eva point out that the best collective leadership incorporates multip...

Guest: Christopher Washington What will affect your leadership the most in 2024? We’ve identified seven trends you’ll have to contend with through the coming year. Christopher Washington (Provost & EVP of Franklin University) interviews ILI’s CEO, Maureen Metcalf, to get the details on all seven. Knowing them will help your organization navigate the destabilizing effects of those trends…and ta...

Guest: Sheri Bachstein Can your business weather the storm? We mean that quite literally!   There’s not a business on the planet that isn’t impacted by weather at some level. Leaders must prepare their organizations for what’s to come. It’s not just obvious climate change decisions, like making sure you don’t build that new factory in a hurricane hotspot. It’s little things, too, like a grocer sto...

Guest: Beverley McLachlin Making decisions can be the toughest part of a leader’s job. Judges up the ante; their decisions can literally mean the difference between life or death.   Beverley McLachlin was the Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court. In this episode, she reflects on her leadership journey — from a farm in rural Alberta to the top court in the land. That journey has powerful perspec...

Guest: Mike Hardy Leading the world into peace is so monumentally difficult, it’s never been done (Rome’s propaganda about the Pax Romana aside!). But understanding how leaders have brought regional peace, and ends to war, has been done – and more than worthy of study. Guest Mike Hardy founded the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University.  He’s also the board chair of th...

Guest: Beryl Tomay One of the biggest keys to success is failure. It seems counterintuitive, but the reality is we ALL make mistakes. Highly successful leaders embrace stumbles and fumbles, and learn from them. As Beryl Tomay points out, that’s especially true at Amazon. Their innovation culture is so highly effective because Amazon learns from each step, good or bad, and builds from it. Indeed, s...

Guests: Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan Women account for more than half of the world’s population – a little more than half in the United States. Yet they still make up far less than half of leadership roles…despite getting higher education degrees far more than men. Why? That’s what guests Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle Tan unpack. In this episode, they explore how women’s career journey...

Guest: Suchi Srinivasan AI is disruptive. It’s already disrupting society, and is disrupting business faster than the internet did. It’ll disrupt you, too. But is that bad…or good?   The answer is up to you. Guest Suchi Srinivasan of Boston Consulting Group shares her comprehensive view of the effects of AI on business now – and in the near future. The bottom line? Artificial intelligence is a too...

Guest: Greg Moran When your competitor’s (or CEO’s) decisions don’t make sense, pause: there’s something to learn there. What do they know that you don’t? That’s just one insight guest Greg Moran offers about dealing with the irrational in your organization. Sometimes a decision is just bad; but more often than not, it’s been made from a perspective or with information you don’t see. And that pers...

Guest: Brad Jackson Theory is one thing. Practice is another. That’s just as true of leadership coaches and their theories as with any science. Guest Brad Jackson understands that, and works to put leadership theory into real-world contexts so it can be truly useful.   That’s the focus of his book: Revitalising Leadership – Putting Theory and Practice into Context . It argues that the universal pr...

Guests: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy Seeing your family members tortured and murdered will have a major influence on your leadership mindset. But not necessarily in the ways that you think.   Hyppolite Ntigurirwa survived the Rwandan genocide as a child. Growing up, he thought of vengeance and retribution. But after encountering exceptional kindness, his mindset shifted – and he now leads...

Guests: Gama Perruci, Sadhana Warty Hall & Karen Ford Are you spending a hefty budget on leadership training, and wondering if it’s worth it? You’re far from alone. According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 billion on leadership-based curriculum…and many wonder about the results. McKinsey reports "There is no silver bullet for successfu...

Guest: Matthew Griffin Feeling uncertain about the future as a leader? You have good reason: a staggering 55% of a company’s fate lies beyond the CEO’s grasp. In fact, 40% of CEOs believe their companies won’t survive the next decade. So what can you do? Futurist Matthew Griffin shares his insights in this episode — with game-changing strategies that will reshape the way you perceive your own futu...

Guests: Rian Satterwhite & Kathleen Allen Leadership is changing in so many ways, in large part because our environment is changing in so very many ways. That’s true of the business climate as much as nature’s environment. Are the two related? Absolutely, according to guests Kathleen Allen and Rian Satterwhite. From both Kathleen’s senior organizational perspective and Rian’s academic research...

Guest: Alvaro Luque Innovation is key to success in our changing world. And avocados are the key to innovation! They’re a superb example, at least. By fostering innovation, Alvaro Luque — president and CEO of Avocados From Mexico — boosted the overall market for avocados in the United States. And that market is still growing. One major move involved the Super Bowl, a move no one in the produce sec...

Guests: Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller What can the Maori traditions of New Zealand teach you about leadership? Recorded at the 2018 International Leadership Conference in West Palm Beach, this episode explores embodied leadership and way-showing. With influences from Maori culture, guests Donna Laskin and Chellie Spiller reveal way-showing and embodied leadership as ideal practices for...

Guests: David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, and Tye Brady Do you want to foster a work environment that sparks innovation and fuels creativity? You can learn from Amazon’s success! In this episode, Amazon execs David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, and Tye Brady discuss how the e-commerce giant delivers the future through its highly successful innovation culture – using examples of new devel...

Guest: John, Lord Alderdice, Peer in the House of Lords Wars are raging again, yet peace IS possible. Getting there provides invaluable lessons for leaders dealing with conflict everywhere, whether it’s in the workplace or the battlefield. John, Lord Alderdice, has helped peace happen.   From the Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles and brought peace to Northern Ireland, to understanding...

Guest: Paul Gibbons What happens when you apply hard science to leadership? A lot of truths turn out to be unfounded myths.   Paul Gibbons, who strides both the corporate and consulting worlds, dug deep to uncover those myths, particularly as they affect change management. From flaws in personality assessments to the ineffectiveness of adapting to learning styles, Paul reveals many of the major wo...

Guest: Neil Sahota You need help with AI. Artificial intelligence requires developing a new set of ten leadership skills. And fast! Do you know what they are? Neil Sahota and Maureen Metcalf do. They share them in this episode, along with the risks you face if you don’t reskill your leadership team. For example, up to 1/3 of workers using ChatGPT don’t tell their bosses. And that opens your compan...

Guest: Kim Campbell, First Female Prime Minister of Canada As our world is changing at a rapid pace and our leadership strategies are changing, what does this mean for women in leadership? In this program, we will be discussing the changes of women in leadership with an experienced leader who has had significant worldwide leadership roles. Right Honourable Kim Campbell will share her insights from...

Guest: Jacob Morgan There is strength in vulnerability. It sounds like a Zen master’s saying, but it’s a fundamental truth of today’s workplace: leaders who display vulnerability have greater success.   But there are five different aspects to vulnerability, and Jacob Morgan shares them with host Maureen Metcalf. The loud, short-tempered leader who pretends to know it all is outdated and now hinder...

Guest: Ron Heifetz In times of change, people often try to hold onto the values of their culture that have had personal meaning and significance to them. When dominant cultures are confronted with stresses, they are called to examine their values and take on very difficult integrative work. The leadership required must point out values their cultural values; in the United States, for example, one...