Inspirational Insights Podcast - Insight To Action

“In any given moment we have two options. To step forward into growth or step back into safety.” Abraham Maslow On my second trip to Europe between university semesters, I met an older woman on the train who had never been to London. She lived 30 km away in a village. I had just traveled around the world for a year with my family and on a three-month wander through Europe following the sun. Later...

What insights can a former gang member bring to toxic workplace environments? According to Tech Report intimidation, harassment, physical violence, or threatening, troublemaking behavior at work spans the spectrum from verbal abuse to physical fighting and even murder. “Violence or harassment at work has been experienced by 743 million people or 23% of all employees around the globe .” That is sig...

Stéphane Segatori is the Co-Founder and Director of the We-Flow Lab in Amsterdam. With a background in Business Intelligence & MBTI Coaching, Stéphane studied the hidden links between organizations, human potential, and states of consciousness. Toxic bosses and workplace environments signal power corrupts those who have not moved past their emotional wounds. Patrick Lencioni listed the Five Tempta...

It took a long time to figure out I thought differently. After finding no meaning in words like ‘foster’ or ‘enhance’ I find it disturbing to see both words in active use by mainstream thinking AI. It was with great relief that I came across the work of Paul McCarthy and his book The F.I.R.E.D. Leader. Disruption can happen when a pandemic generates lockdowns, when technology replaces a business m...

Timisoara, a city in Romania, bolstered by winning a bid through the EU, took on a grand experiment. Could partnerships and a principled approach strengthen cultural cohesion? It so happens that a resident of the city is also fluent in network science and its principles. On a different podcast episode, Silvia shared how network science applies to dealing with corruption where removing the person,...

Brene Brown’s December 23, 2010 TED talk on The Power of Vulnerability attracted 64,845,208 views (as of today) and made vulnerability cool. So why is it stigmatized as a weakness in business environments? Leaders like Garry Turner are changing all that. Guided by a vision for inner freedom and expression of the highest potential in each person and company, my conversation with Garry is upfront an...

Returning guest and author Rod Collins shares insights that began in his first year of college with a professor who dropped his students into an experience. The lessons learned informed Rod’s executive style and what Rod calls synergistic power. The world we live in is moving beyond traditional ways of running organizations. Historically hierarchy is used to structure authority and in business has...

Innovation nerd and adaptive thinker extraordinaire Curtis Michelson provides an overview of what is emerging in 2024 based on signals he's picked up from his many communities. From Agile to organization network analysis to open innovation and more, you'll learn what is brewing inside edgy thinking communities. Curtis Michelson is, in his own words a "serial failed entrepreneur, yet ever hopeful a...

What is the world asking for you to contribute? This and many other reflections pop up in the conversation with Jeffrey Beeson who explores what network science tells us about the future of organizations and what it means for leaders. Organizations are changing their structure, thinking, and internal roles. We talk about: * pioneering companies who reinvented themselves, * leadership opportunities...

At 18 Harry Turner graduated from high school facing the tough question: now what? School had not been kind to him, a typical experience for kids who are more sensitive to the subtleties of life. He signed up for the military, and after six months was sent to Afghanistan. In the first week, a soldier died in his arms. One theory is that a shock to worldview is one source of PTSD. because our world...

In the second of three episodes on moving through difficult experiences, Ukranian theologian and passivist Ihor Kozlovsky talks about his experience recovering from torture and illegal imprisonment. HR professional Liliya Sayvch hosted an expert panel on July 4th, 2023 to discuss how to remain Unbroken in tradition and spirit. If you haven’t listened to her episode, she provides a short introducti...

Liliya Savych is an HR professional who was working for a large Ukraine-based corporation located in Kyiv when we recorded this episode. When Russians surrounded Kyiv she left the city and faced being a refugee without roots. Landing in Dublin she reclaimed her sense of self and then returned to Ukraine. Since this interview, Liliya has left corporate to work in Lviv in western Ukraine with the ai...

Jose Leal is an entrepreneur who reached the stage where corporate environments just didn't work. In this episode, we zoom way out to see the underlying intention of the systems that drive management and employee behavior, to see the roots. However, the simplicity of the solution takes a level of leadership consciousness and inner skills that can shift how people experience work. We cover why some...

Design for Identity with Jessica Bantom As a designer, Jessica Bantom pays attention to details. Details matter particularly when it comes to connecting to different identities and how customers see themselves. Her newly released book, Design for Identity , aims at influencing design decisions that either bring people in or leave them out resulting in a loss of customers. After all, as Bruce Mau s...

Season 6, Ep. 96 Healthcare services in many nations are under pressure to adapt their design to meet the challenges in today's world. Two exemplary leaders in this challenging field, Margaret Stone and JP Swaine of the Irish Health Service share their experience in working with organizational network analysis and other means to engage the power of people within the 147, 000 employee organization....

This episode features the art of cultivating transformations with author Jardena London. My guest, Jardena London, is a consultant (the good kind), author, speaker, and CEO of Rosetta Agile. She has spent the last 30 years finding ways to transform organizations so that our souls can flourish, while financials thrive. Her book “Cultivating Transformations: A Leader’s Guide to Connecting the Soulfu...

When Ozlem Brooke Erol left IBM, she knew it was an opportunity to find happiness at work, to live from a higher place and sense of purpose. With one foot in Turkey and the other in the US, SoCal, Ozlem has been taking the message and skills of living and working from a sense of purpose to companies seeking to keep talent. Find her at Purposeful.business or on LInkedIN. Get full access to Navigati...

Driving value through clarity on who you are, what truly matters is what differentiates a company from the crowd. Brand strategist and author Marilijn Boumeester talks to Dawna about integrity, values, leadership, and other soft concepts hard to bring to a meaningful level of experience. The character of leaders, stewardship management, and the value of reflection for insight and clarity are a few...

Recently Global Senior Director of Culture Transformation in a Fortune 500 corporation, Nicolas or Nico Petit has pioneered innovative approaches to culture change, applying peer-to-peer behavioral science principles, and orchestrating a community of 1200 influencers worldwide. Passionate about people and data, he led a culture transformation program for GSK, a science-led global health company. W...

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a critically important tool for understanding how to use data for better workplace relationships, culture, and decisions. Michael Arena, VP of Talent and Development for Amazon Web Services turns data into a bridge for connecting humanity to better ways of working, deciding, and relating to one another. A keynote speaker at the Organizational Network Analys...

Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. In this conversation with Dawna Jones, they explore the great mystery and methods for working with people who do not like each other. Adam's is a leading organizer, designer, and facilitator of processes through which business, gover...

In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, we are joined by WhatIF Foods CEO Chris Langwallner! Chris discusses how to create a regenerative business by taking sustainability to the next level: energizing and empowering farmers with insurance crops helps to diversify the food we consume and how we consume them. Thinking globally and acting locally can have huge impacts on how small bus...

VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the conditions of today's leadership environment. Nick Horney, author of recently published VUCA Master: Developing Leadership Agility Fitness for the New World of Work (2021) and special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai talk about: The value of a shared language when working with VUCA conditions Anticipating change as an outlook on life The pillars...

Two CEOs, both serial entrepreneurs and global citizens, of two different companies, jump on this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, to share what they have learned developing tech solutions to improve decision-making. Meeting for the first time, Soushiant Zanganehpour referred to as Soush, from SWAE, and Kelly Max, from SOLVV, share their pivots, insights, and experience. Each is guid...

In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, Dawna Jones is joined by Tim Gieseke to discuss regenerative agriculture and restoring environmental values. Food, fiber, and feed contribute as much value as air and water, and Tim is working to change these perspectives. Land management is changing with generational shifts. We talk about environmental roles and the challenges of soil regener...