The Wonder Dome

Paul Zonneveld and Mieke Jacobs are the co-authors of the recent book Emergent , which brings a systemic intelligence lens to the questions of how organizations get into and ultimately resolve complex challenges, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Paul and Mieke have both spent decades working with the question of how to help leaders and organizations thrive. What surprised me most about th...

Jackie Knechtel is a deeply loving, generous, and brilliant soul. We met at a training together, and from the moment I connected with her presence over Zoom, I said, this person has something happening that I want to know more about. In the months since, we’ve been able to talk about the meaning of life and the future of humanity, and we pretty quickly realized that we needed to just go ahead and...

Laura Cortese is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, singer, fiddler, and all-around ultra-talented artist. We have such an awesome conversation about where her music comes from. Her music threads together darkness and light, stillness and motion, joy and sorrow. It’s beautiful. I also had the good fortune of working briefly with Laura and her partner, Kristin Andreassen (who I hope to also get on the...

As you'll hear in our conversation, Eddie Turner is an incredibly dynamic and charismatic human being who spends a lot of time and energy working with the question of how leaders lead. He's the author of 140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders . He is the founder of the Leadership Excelerator. And he’s the host of the award-winning Keep Leading podcast.  During his journey helping...

Gregory Koufacos is the author of the recently released book The Primal Method , which distills his approach to helping men of all ages, particularly young men, work with addiction, move past a place of stuckness or self-doubt and step wholeheartedly into life. He is a believer, and he's made me a believer, in the power of therapy rooted not just in talk, but rooted in action, in our bodies,...

I'm finding it hard to put into words how special this conversation with Lee Chambers was for me. I know I say that about every episode :-) but this one truly was. Lee is an environmental psychologist and well-being consultant. As the founder of Essentialise , he helps bring well-being to the workplace. He's also part of a movement in his hometown of Lancashire, England to bring well-bei...

Aaron Finbloom is delightfully hard to pin down. I experience him as a sort of entrepreneur-philosopher-trickster, sitting at this beautiful intersection where a penetrating inquiry into the nature of existence meets an unerring drive to create, to express, to play. His work with The Deep Play Institute and The School of Making Thinking brings artists, scholars, and change-agents together in unexp...

My first guest to kick off 2021 is Chris Herndon , founder of Growth Mindset Coach and director of coaching for Lucidly , a company working to democratize coaching for all. But as you’ll quickly hear in this conversation, Chris is someone who lives outside labels. And he invites his clients, his peers, and his community members to step outside those labels with him to create new, more expansive an...

What does it mean to make choices from a place of wisdom, particularly when you're in a position of power? That's at the center of conversation today with Devin Martin , co-founder of Lifestyle Integrity Coaching . The headline of Devin's work is bringing wisdom to power, and he recognizes that the fate of our humanity and our planet hinges on the decisions that we in positions of p...

My guest today is Di Ciruolo. She's a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility consultant with an incredibly inspiring personal story. She helps individuals and organizations look deeply at the cultures they're creating and how to shift those cultures towards a place where true diversity becomes possible.  She's the author of the forthcoming book Ally Up , which is designed t...

My guest today is Christina Frei , creator of the Innate Marketing Genius program. From the moment we met, Christina instantly tuned in to what it was I was doing in the world. I felt a kinship with her, and it struck me that she was more than just an expert on marketing (which she is, btw). She's a deeply attuned, spiritual, and creative soul who recognizes that marketing isn't about th...

My guest today is a dear friend of mine, Dr. Max Klau. We met nearly a decade ago at a songwriting class at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, when Max was studying for his doctoral degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He's an author, coach, speaker, scholar, leadership development consultant, and a damn good songwriter. He recently published a book called Race and Social Change: A Ques...

The dynamic, award-winning concert pianist Asiya Korepanova has been immersed in music since she was 4 years old. Since moving to the states from Russia in 2012, she's played at Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection, the International Miami Piano Festival, and countless others. She's the only pianist currently performing Franz Liszt's 24 Etudes as a single program, and one of the f...

My guest today is Nathan Shultz . He's a coach who helps founders and executives make high impact changes in their lives and careers by connecting purpose and profit. He's a part of the broader Conscious Capitalism movement that's taking root in our country, which I think is all for the better. He also brings light into the world through his men's work with a group called Evrym...

Dr. Srini Pillay is without a doubt one of the most dynamic, brilliant, multi-talented human beings I've had the good fortune to bring on the show. When I think about the life that I'm trying to build for myself, Srini is one of these icons or models that draws me forward. He's an author, a psychiatrist, a brain researcher, a virtual reality entrepreneur, a leadership expert, an acc...

Ray Nayler has been widely hailed as one of the up-and-coming masters of speculative fiction. He has published over fifty stories in preeminent magazines across the realms of science fiction and fantasy, and he is also an established poet, mystery and crime thriller novelist, and comic book author. Not to mention his daily life as a husband, father (of both humans and cats), and as a multi-lingual...

Paul Hansen is the lead singer, songwriter, and bandleader for local indie-folk heroes, The Grownup Noise. I've known Paul for over ten years. Not only is he one of the biggest guys I’ve ever met (standing at roughly six and a half feet tall), he has the big heart and soul to match. He is an incredibly sensitive and nuanced songwriter who tells stories like a painter, with images and impressi...

My guest today is the speculative fiction author, futurist, and polymath, Ken Liu . Ken has one of the most beautiful minds I've ever encountered. As a novelist and storyteller, he's claimed just about every award there is here in America for his groundbreaking work in the realms of fantasy and science fiction. He's also received top genre honors in Japan, Spain, France, and many ot...

I've known Kade Friedman for roughly 20 years, and they are without a doubt, one of the most creative, enthusiastic, inspiring, and original people I've ever met. Kade is a master teacher. A teacher's teacher. As a professor of inclusion at NYU, Kade helps prepare other teachers to serve students of all ability levels. They also consult with educational organizations across the glob...

Kim Loh is a conflict resolution and negotiation specialist, leadership coach, and co-author of the book Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart. Kim cut her teeth as a lawyer in London and Singapore, learning how to negotiate high stakes disputes in international and corporate fields. But she quickly realized that she wasn't satisfied with these ways of resolving...

Craig Chavis Jr. is unstoppable. As a business coach, he specializes in helping people with day jobs launch profitable businesses and successfully transition into full-time entrepreneurship. On a personal level, he's a successful serial entrepreneur, a foodie, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, a former D1 collegiate athlete, and he received his BSBA from Samford University and MBA from the Un...

Robert Mulhall is a lifelong explorer and transformational leader. He currently serves as the Vice President of programming and business strategy for the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health . I've had the privilege of working with Kripalu and its RISE program for several years now, and the moment I met Robert I knew he would serve as a powerful steward for this incredible organization. Our con...

Michael Stern is a social innovator, a spiritual teacher, and a leadership coach for the next generation of leaders in the world. He is also student of Integral theory, a framework for understanding human nature, the world, the universe, and everything in it. He's spent much of his life immersing himself in different world views: traveling in Spain, kickboxing in Thailand, studying Buddhism i...

Rayshauna Gray has one of the most beautiful minds I've ever encountered. She's a public historian, truth-teller, creator, and entrepreneur who has partnered with organizations like Google, General Assembly, the Obama Foundation, and dozens of other nonprofits, universities, and community organizations to help them face history with clear-eyed compassion. I first got to hear her speak at...

Dr. Richard Schwartz transformed my life. I know that's a bold claim. But if I had to locate the single experience that's had the most profound and lasting impact in my work and life, it was the week I spent studying with Dr. Schwartz. He is the founder of Internal Family Systems, a pioneering model of psychotherapy that has become widely used, particularly when dealing with trauma. It i...