Leading Conversations

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stephen Josephs, co-author of Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change; and author of the e-book, Dragons at Work. Stephen believes that accomplishment and personal fulfillment go hand in hand. The people who fully engage in their roles because it’s an expression of their natural gifts and deeply held values are the people you want...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes don Miguel Ruiz, the international bestselling author of The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. His other books include: The Mastery of Love; The Voice of Knowledge; and The Fifth Agreement, co-authored with his son, don Jose. Born into a family of healers in rural Mexico, Ruiz was chosen to carry forward his family's centuries-old legacy of Toltec wis...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Marcia Wieder,CEO & Founder of Dream University®, and author of 14 books, including Making Your Dreams Come True®; Life is But a Dream; Dreams are Whispers From the Soul; and Doing Less and Having More. Marcia believes “there are the dreams we have for life and there are the dreams life has for us. Everything we live through, our greatest successes and most painful losses...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Margaret J. Wheatley, Ph. D., co-founder of Berkana Institute, a global charitable foundation dedicated to serving life-affirming leaders. Meg writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She is author of Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World and Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncert...

Cheryl welcomes Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest's leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development. He is author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, and author/co-creator of the Living Building Challenge, an international green building program. Jason is a leader in the global green architecture movement and chal...

Cheryl welcomes David Isaacs, co-creator of The World Café, and President of Clearing Communications, an international organizational renewal and communications strategy company. In his work with leaders worldwide, David is a “thinking partner” in the design of strategic conversations to generate collaborative learning and to engage challenges of unprecedented change and transformation in the work...

Cheryl welcomes John P. Milton, founder of The Way of Nature and Sacred Passage™. John is a pioneering ecologist, author, spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader, and counsel to leaders around the world. His most recent book, Sky Above, Earth Below: Spiritual Practice in Nature is a guide to cultivation of connection to pure source for purpose and creativity. John's work teaches...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes David Sibbet, author of Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance. He is a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking with more than 40 years of experience successfully incorporating visuals in meetings of all kinds. David believes that when teams work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Barry Braun, author of Do Less, Get More By Thinking Inside Out. Barry’s work is about enabling people to live more from their own sense of true self. When people are living and working with a sense of balance, purpose, and meaning, they are able to get more out of life without increasing the demands on their time and minds. In fact, it seems like less effort to do things....

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Staci Haines, founder of generationFIVE, a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations through survivor leadership, community organizing, & transformative justice approaches. Staci authored the worldwide acclaimed The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Childhood Sexual Abuse. Transformi...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stephen M. R. Covey & Greg Link, co-authors of Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, & Joy in a Low-Trust World.   The first job of a leader is to inspire trust, and the second is to extend it. So say Covey & Link. In Smart Trust, they tell us that a powerful, global renaissance of trust has begun. Sparked by recent world events, business ethics, and transparency enabl...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Luisah Teish, a writer and extraordinary storyteller, internationally known for her performances of African, Caribbean, and African-American folklore and feminist myth. She is author of Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World and Carnival of the Spirit. Teish connects us with the ancestors, bringing wisdom traditions and rituals to...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Toms CEO and co-founder of New Dimensions Radio and the New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network. For more than a quarter century, Michael has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called the Socrates of radio, he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Darcy Winslow, a pioneer and practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, and Founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective. The collective focuses on the development of practical yet aggressive strategies for organizations to create sustainable & regenerative business practices. Her expertise developed through years as a leader at Nike, a global organ...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Janet Attwood, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Passion Test - The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Life Purpose, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power. Janet asks: What One Thing Can Change Your Life? The answer: Passion. Passion is aligning your life with what matters most to you. When you have it, life is excit...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Senge, PhD., a Senior Lecturer at MIT, & founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL). He is author of many books including The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization; Presence: Human Purpose & the Field of the Future; and Necessary Revolution: How Individuals & Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable W...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Paul David Walker, Founder & CEO, Genius Stone Partners and author of Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations. Paul says that great leaders first learn to unleash their own genius, discover the genius in each of their team members, and then synchronize each person’s genius to create a high performance team. “It is not about, as most believe, having corp...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Terces & Matthew Engelhart, restaurateurs, organic farmers, teachers, & authors of Sacred Commerce: Business As A Path of Awakening. The Engelhart’s are known for their raw foods eateries, Café Gratitude, as their experiment in a business model called Sacred Commerce. They don’t see themselves as in the restaurant business, but in the transformation business. They believe...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Wrycza, founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness in Bali. Peter says: “In 1995 I stood in a grove of clove trees overlooking a river in a serene valley between the sea and the mountains and realized that this was my moment of choice. I could stick with my familiar work and territory in Europe. Or I could take the risk of buying land in a far-off place, and...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Gordon Davidson, co-founder & President of The Center for Visionary Leadership. He is author of Joyful Evolution, co-author of Spiritual Politics, The Practical Visionary, and Builders of the Dawn. Gordon has served as Executive Director of The Social Investment Forum and of The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. Gordon asks this: Would you like to experi...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Lynne Twist — global activist, fundraiser, consultant & author. She is Founder of Soul of Money Institute, author of The Soul of Money & co-founder of Pachamama Alliance. Rooted in a profound encounter with the Achuar people in a remote region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Pachamama Alliance seeks to change the dream of the modern world & bring forth an environmentally sustain...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Mike Dooley, author of the New York Times bestseller Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams and Manifesting Change: It’s That Easy. He was one of the featured teachers in the international phenomenon, The Secret. Mike is a former PriceWaterhouseCoopers international tax consultant, turned entrepreneur. He founded a philosophical Adventurers Club and tours th...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Stuart Lord, President of Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado. Naropa is a liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education by integrating the best of eastern & western traditions. Stuart’s leadership roles include Dartmouth & DePauw Universities, & executive director of the 1997 President’s Summit for America’s Future, working under General C...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes John Renesch, futurist, renowned global thought-leader & author who provokes people to think differently about work, leadership & the future. He has been called “… a true visionary who sees the potential to rise above our failings and take the next step in human evolution before our system collapses.” John’s latest book The Great Growing Up: Being Responsible for Humanity’...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Lynne McTaggart, award-winning journalist and author of six books, including the worldwide bestsellers The Field, The Intention Experiment, and The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us. Lynne McTaggart's latest book, The Bond offers a new story of life and the human experience – a blueprint for a better life. Based on the latest discoveries from the new sciences,...