R.O.G. Return on Generosity

80. Sharon Browning - Listening: An Act of Love (Listening) “It's a very tiny thing, but it is foundational to all relationships. It's foundational to social change and transformation. We're not moving anything unless we listen. It really is a macro skill that very often gets treated as a micro skill. I love it because it's small.” Guest Info: Sharon Browning, Esq. coordinates JUST Listening, a so...

79. Fred Maahs - Universal Design for Leadership “My utopia is someday, we're not going to be having this conversation. Access - just is. People with disabilities - just are, and everything is normalized…People with disabilities aren't, “the others”. We're not just a slice of the demographic. We're just part of society and not thought of differently.” Guest Info: Fred Maahs, Jr. is a passionate an...

78. Tiffany Yu - Disability Is Not a Bad Word   ​​”Just because I exist means that I have a gift to impart on the world . . . It hurts my heart that so many of us feel devalued because of the way that our body and our mind works differently. And I think that the challenge for companies is how can you find what that gift is?” Guest Info: Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-wi...

77. Fausta Ballesteros - Communities of Contagious Compassion   “It (generosity) is contagious, right? It's a pay it forward.  When someone is generous with me, you want to do it to others.. You find yourself wanting to be better, to be more generous to others, to give back.” Guest Info: Fausta Ballesteros is the VP of Culture Experience Cognizant Softvision. She manages the global employee, candi...

76. Darlene Chapman-Holmes - Faster Together “Get out of your comfort zone, because you can't grow unless you stretch.” Guest Info: Darlene Chapman-Holmes is the Director of Development at Women Business Collaborative where she creates partnerships for sponsors, advisory and leaders council and manages client accounts. The WBC is a network of leaders who work toward achieving parity with Equal Pos...

75. Shirley Powell - Listen Without Judgement “Do you care more about the relationship or do you care more about being right?” Guest Info: Shirley Powell is Senior Vice President of Communications at Cox Automotive, a global automotive services and software company whose vision is to transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of family-owned Cox Ent...

74. Debbie Epstein Henry - Take Smart Risks "You want to pay a lot of attention to what does interest you…is there a market need? Are you the type of person to fill whatever niche it is? What are other people seeking you out to do? That's enormously valuable because you're then assessing, what am I bringing to this?” Guest Info: Debbie Epstein Henry is an expert, best-selling author, public speake...

73. Karen Bennett - Show Up On Time “What generosity is..it's how you have willingness and desire to help others. And help is, frankly, in the eye of the beholder. Generosity is the willingness to make yourself available, whatever that looks like to what the recipient needs. So for me, generosity and the workplace honestly starts with time.” Guest Info: Karen Bennett is Executive Vice President an...

72. Michael Hudson - Lessons Earned “The earned lesson point is one of these things that I think goes to how I believe we all need to be constantly and continuously improving, constantly assessing, evaluating, constantly asking ourselves what did that mean?” Guest Info: Michael Hudson is currently "The Professor" at Aspire Leadership, LLC. Aspire Leadership delivers transformational leadership dev...

71. Cianna Stewart - Dying Kindly “If you think about the impact that your death will have on the people that you leave behind, the people that you say that you love, then, you want that to be as good an experience as it can be in a really bad circumstance.” Guest Info: Cianna P. Stewart produces and hosts Dying Kindness, a podcast for people who are going to die someday. The goal is to help peopl...

70. Lisa Chang - The Personal Investment of Gratitude “You're human and humans cannot feasibly do all the things that you were trying to do at the same time.” Guest Info: Lisa Chang is the Global Chief People Officer for The Coca-Cola Company, overseeing the company’s talent and people strategies, culture, and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. In her role, which she has held since 2019, she...

69. Jeff Christian - The Power of Pizza “We put extra pressure on ourselves to have to do everything, to want to do everything. And if we can take that step back and realize, let me focus on what's truly essential in my life. And then to develop that gift and share it with the world and then allow.” Guest Info: Jeff Christian is a husband, father, registered nurse, basketball coach, podcast host o...

68. Sabrina Bailey - How Can I Help? “Instead of a handout, a hand up. And what I mean by that is truly allowing we've got one employee in country (where we have a non-profit), truly allowing her vision to be cast. Our only role as the not-for-profit is to come alongside and to mentor, to coach, to guide and leadership philosophy.” Guest Info: Sabrina Bailey is the Global Head of Wealth Solutions...

67. Dave Raymond - F.U.N. with the Phillie Phanatic “A lot of the parts of my message for building on sustainable happiness go right to my clients about creating a valuable character brand because at the end, or as you said, a living breathing brand extension in the end, uh, this is a vehicle to be able to connect to your constituents, your fans.” Guest Info: Moving directly from college student t...

66. Thomasina Williams  - Taking Space “There's something about being outside in nature. If you can't go outside, just walk around the floor..movement. It's in our bodies and we've got to somehow get that anxiety and that tension out of our bodies.” Guest Info: Thomasina Williams partners with families to develop leaders. Working at the intersection of family business, family systems, and leadersh...

65. Denny Nealon - View From the Arena “A leadership culture where it's a servant leadership kind of culture, where leaders are looking out for the benefit of their teams and the organization.” Guest Info: Denny Nealon is the Chief Executive Officer for Barclays US Consumer Bank (USCB) and Barclays Bank Delaware (BBDE) where he is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of Barclays’ c...

64. Shannon Cassidy - Year in Review Guest Info:   Shannon Cassidy is a certified Executive Corporate Coach and a renowned authority on behavioral modification and communication. The small incremental changes she teaches and incorporates into her presentations are as easily and instantly executable, as they are effective.   She is the founder, president, and driving force behind bridge between inc...

63. Bill Strahan - Allowance of Micro-Failures “I think the number one thing is the allowance of micro failures. The allowance of small mishaps with neither the sense that they're being cataloged or that they're being stored. Or that they are being levered in a particular meeting or particular project in, in general.” Guest Info: Bill Strahan leads the Human Resources function for Comcast Cable. H...

62. Joze Piranian - Radical Self-Acceptance “The fear of being rejected or being judged for sounding different, got in the way. And that's an interesting parallel that can be understood through one of my favorite metaphors that I speak about in my talks. And that's the idea that everyone stutters. That inner stutter could be the fear of rejection. The fear of failure or the fear of even the fear o...

61. Dr. Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo  - Practicing Medicine and Self-Love "We have a lot of women who are moving out of caring for in medicine because one, the places they've been taught are the quote unquote safe places at larger institutions are really difficult. And then, we've a lot of times have been taught that we can't actually create our own spaces, you can't build your own practice it's gonna...

60. Jerry Won - Authentic Storytelling “To tell people, ‘Hey, I think your story matters. And I want to use my platform, which is a privilege that I have to be able to share your story with other people.’ There's no better than that. I think is the most humbling thing that anybody can hear. For somebody to say, I think your story matters because for so long we all deal with imposter syndrome and s...

59. Shakeel Bharmal - Quality Questions “Everyone's got a different motivation…For some, I could see that it was a desire for human connection. It was, they wanted to be able to work with other people like them that cared about similar things and be part of a community of people that was giving and caring. So that was what they wanted. Others wanted a greater meaning from their life…To contribute...

58. Deborah Hart - Seeking Feedback “I don't think of myself as anything to do with my title. But that means something to people. When you call and you take time out of your day, that they consider very busy to ask them how they are.” Guest Info: Married to Shel, they are proud parents to twins, Axel & Soleil. And she is a Stepmom to: Dylan, Ashley, and Austin. In the community, Debbie enjoys volu...

57. Wade Thomas - Heart-Based Culture “When you handle that at a heart-based way, we help learn, help them learn from mistake. You move past the finger, pointing to what do we learn? That's where we really get to innovation because we can really wrap it up around that kind of failure to handle it in a compassionate and empathetic way.”  Guest Info: Wade Thomas is the founder and principal of Aim t...

56. Mia Ives-Rublee - Accessible Voices “If you are an organization that wants to be extremely open and welcoming to the disability community, you shouldn't go for the bare minimum. You should be attempting to be as accommodating and open as possible because that's going to bring in more talented individuals who are excited about working at your location.” Guest Info: Mia Ives-Rublee is the direct...