Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract

Robert Pasin, CEO of Radio Flyer Inc., has embraced innovation and change to elevate the legacy brand synonymous with its little red wagons. Robert joins Dan Pontefract on Leadership NOW to discuss his leadership style and how it has helped to resurrect the Radio Flyer Inc. company and brand. Robert heads Radio Flyer Inc., founded in 1917. Radio Flyer is an iconic brand that holds a special place...

DB Bedford is the CEO and founder of iNeverWorry Consulting, a company that specializes in Emotional Intelligence training staff and leadership on how to effectively manage their behavior and make better personal decisions to achieve positive results. DB sits down with Dan Pontefract on Leadership NOW to discuss his latest book, "30 Days to Emotional Wellness" and all things emotional intelligence...

Glain Roberts-McCabe is the founder and President of The Roundtable, a company that helps leaders navigate change, disruption and growth by building the mindsets and behaviours that matter most. Glain sits down with Dan Pontefract to chat about what she thinks are the critical issues that will face leaders and organizations in 2023. She is a sought-after expert in the field of group coaching, work...

Adam Kreek is one of North America’s top Executive Business Coaches, who specializes in leadership development, strategic planning and values driven achievement. He sits down with Dan Pontefract on Leadership NOW to discuss facets from his bestselling book, "The Responsibility Ethic," which teaches us the how of self-leadership. There are several juicy facets that Dan and Adam get into including v...

In this episode of Leadership NOW, Dan takes the microphone solo to provide some insights on his very crappy 2022, which then leads to a special announcement. "Work-Life Bloom" is Dan Pontefract's fifth book. It will be published in October 2023. Listen in as Dan connects a few work-life dots while providing a sneak-peek overview of the book.

Terence Mauri is a UK-based writer, speaker and mentor: a global expert who helps business leaders innovate, adapt and succeed in the age of disruption in which massive yet hard-to-predict upheavals are expected. In this Leadership NOW discussion with Dan Pontefract, Terence and Dan discuss the elements of risk, agility, curiosity, and identity as it pertains to cultures of conformity and the futu...

Aaron Hurst is a globally recognized systems entrepreneur who has used the science of purpose to change the way we work and serve. He is the Founder of Imperative, a venture-backed startup offering an enterprise-wide solution for employee connection and team building. Their industry research is incredibly good, too. Aaron sits down with Dan Pontefract to catch up on all things purpose, but also th...

Michael Griffiths is a senior partner, principal, and lead in Deloitte’s Workforce Transformation practice; specifically leading Deloitte’s Workforce Development market offerings. In this episode of Leadership NOW, Michael and Dan Pontefract discuss the shift to a skills-based organization. There are some fascinating points raised—including what comes first: the chicken, the egg, or both? Michael...

Ravin Jesuthasan is a recognized futurist, global thought leader and bestselling author on the future of work and human capital. He has led multiple research efforts on the global workforce, the emerging digital economy, the rise of artificial intelligence and the transformation of work. Ravin sits down with Dan Pontefract to discuss the shift from jobs to skills. Ravin is the Global leader of Tra...

Ron Carucci has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. With experience in more than 25 countries on four continents, he helps organizations articulate strategies...

Carolyn Stern is a certified Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Development Expert, professional speaker, and university professor. In this episode of Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract, they discuss Carolyn's new book, "The Emotionally Strong Leader: An Inside-Out Journey to Transformational Leadership." Carolyn’s emotional intelligence courses and modules have been adopted by top universities...

Charity Lumpa is an accomplished executive and leader with decades of working experience in the insurance, banking, tourism and telecommunications industries. She is the founder and managing director of an investment consultancy and a philanthropic foundation, and board chairperson of a leadership company focused on coaching leaders in Africa. In this Leadership NOW episode with Dan Pontefract, Ch...

Roger Martin is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford. In 2017, he was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. In this engaging talk with Dan Pontefract, Roger discusses his newest book, "A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiv...

Tiffani Bova is the Chief Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book "GROWTH IQ." A celebrated keynote and member of the Thinkers50 list, Bova inspires people to think forward, be bold and take action. In this discussion with Dan Pontefract, the discussion centers around the customer and employee experience: are we getting it right? Bova was named one o...

Alan Mulally is the former president and CEO of The Ford Motor Company, serving as its most senior leader between 2006 and 2014. Before that and for over 30 years, Mulally held roles at Boeing, including executive vice president of the Boeing Company and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. To say that Mulally has been at the helm of two of America's most important and prominent brand...

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success. She has been named to Time Magaz...

Kerry Brown is a strategist and thought leader on the future of work, change management, learning, workforce adoption, talent and organizational development helping organizations strategize and achieve organizational success and navigate the intersection of people and technology. Kerry has worked in senior roles at firms such as SAP, Coca-Cola, and CSR among others. Kerry possesses a track record...

Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former unit head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership in turbulent times, having studied and written about the topic for the past twenty-five years. Gulati’s latest book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, shows h...

Eloise Skinner is an author, teacher, therapist, and the founder of two educational businesses: The Purpose Workshop and One Typical Day. Eloise was born in East London, studied at Cambridge and trained at Oxford. She started out in corporate law, spent a year training in a monastery community(!) and now focuses on education, social impact and integration by living with intention, integrity and pu...

With over 27 years’ experience in the advertising, marketing and print industry, Geoff Josey is an overachiever. He has been an account executive, entrepreneur, sales manager, director and business development manager in various organizations, possessing a strong print/digital advertising media skillset. But Geoff recently had an epiphany. He desired more purpose in his life. Geoff set sail in ear...

The general state of society’s unhappiness appears to be growing, and there seems to be no end in sight. One question that continues to cause alarm is whether technology—and the use of smartphones in particular—is the cause of such mounting unhappiness. Dr. Kostadin Kushlev, an Assistant Professor and Researcher at Georgetown University, investigates how constant connectivity affects societal’s he...

As a professor at the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and for +25 years as a Fellow and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, Dr. Karl Moore spends a lot of time interacting with the current and future leaders of our world...CEOs and millennials/Zs. Starting with his Ph. D. Karl has studied CEOs and how they lead and develop strategies. At McGill, he...

An accomplished executive and trusted advisor to seven CEOs, Jim Reid has navigated significant change and immense pressure to build winning teams that outperform competitors. He has coached, advised and developed thousands of aspiring leaders as CHRO in organizations such as Rogers Communications, Husky Injection Molding Systems and MDS. Originally trained as a military pilot, Jim built his exper...

A leadership thinker and practitioner, Céline Schillinger has been recognized multiple times for her innovative engagement initiatives in the corporate world. After a plentiful business career across several continents, Céline now runs her own consultancy, We Need Social and is the author of her first book, "Dare to Un-Lead: The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World." Céline helps org...

Andrew Barnes is the co-founder and CEO of GO1.com, one of the world's largest onboarding, compliance, and professional development platforms. He is a Rhodes Scholar, has a Masters in Science and Education from Oxford University, and a PhD in Business Strategy from Queensland University. Go1 is a fascinating company, one that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and...