When Everyone Wins with Judy Ryan: Shifting Power-Over & Under to Power Within & Between

Starting and growing a business is not always easy to do and especially today when the speed of change is accelerating, things are getting more complex and new technologies seem to throw a monkey wrench into the works. The greatest way to ensure your business grows well and in the healthiest possible direction is by making sure you put in place the best, most conscious and evolved workplace cultur...

There is much hate in the world and sadly a lot of it has been justified in a name of, and in the twisted use of, religion. When this happens people of faith often get confused, discouraged, shut down, or worse become adversarial with others. This is a travesty when they might otherwise co-create kind caring, trustworthy, win/win collaboration with one another. When faith becomes interfaith partne...

Imagine an organization with overwhelming challenges, the need to be upgraded in just about every possible way, and that must shift from struggling to thriving. Such an organization must be led by a transformational leader! This leader must have courage, skills and determination to overcome obstacles and inspire excellence. This leader must also bring passion and conviction to the job of improving...

Today, we are exploring a new phrase: the Hyperadaptive Organization. My guest, Melissa Reeve, coined this phrase and it is the central focus of her essential new book,  Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Organization to Become an AI-Native Enterprise . With 80% of AI initiatives failing to deliver on their promise, Melissa steps in to give leaders a practical framework. She defines a Hyperadaptive...

Transformational leaders are passionately convicted about inspiring and motivating their people through healthy culture practices so they achieve meaningful, positive change and exceed expectations. The excellence they create is palpable in the relationships, productivity and engagement of their staff. Such leaders hold a compelling vision for developing leadership in everyone in the workforc...

The title of this episode is Creating Win/Win Where it Seems Least Likely! That’s because when win/win dynamics are created and power is expanded and then used to foster the good of many, this gives everyone hope about what’s possible where it might seem impossible! It also highlights what conditions and conversations are needed to get such a win/win result when it seems the least like...

Unlocking potential requires we understand what causes potential to expand and what causes it to contract. Many people don’t focus on the condition of human potential nor the role they play in shaping it, even though the health and development of people and their environment are foundational to an organization’s competitive advantage and the ability to achieve its business objectives....

In the book The Body Keeps the Score , author Bessel Van Der Kolk lays out plentiful evidence for widespread and often unrecognized instances of trauma in the lives of the vast majority of everyday people. In his research, he describes big T trauma, easily recognized by many people as experiences like war, sexual and other physical abuse, addiction, and extreme neglect to name just a few examples....

Empowering Leaders. Transforming Organizations. Inspiring Change. Visionary leaders who lead by building healthy connections and providing generous compassion,  are highly influential. They inspire individuals and teams, they drive meaningful change, and they break through where complacency otherwise predominates. That’s because the mind alone, without input from the heart and soul...

What the world needs right now, especially at this time, are solutions that are only possible through individual empowerment that leads to trustworthy collaboration and civic engagement. This requires an understanding of the conditions and conversations that create a civil society in which people show up as the best they can be.   Unfortunately, most pe...

What are the conditions and conversations that ensure people become confident and committed to creating caring collaboration and positive teamwork, where everyone wins and supports wild success in one another? Equally important is recognizing what conditions and conversations hinder these dynamics and outcomes. Knowing the difference between toxic conditions and ways of communicating that mus...

Wherever people and organizations retain outdated and toxic culture practices that result in win/lose dynamics, everyone pays a price. Most people constrict in such environments and are stunted in their development. They fail to bloom into their greatest potential to be creative, innovative and empowered. These potentialities are crucial at this time in order to meet current&nb...

  Creating a Culture Where People Stay and Thrive with guest Doug Less   Creating a healthy culture where people stay and thrive only happens when it is consciously created. Leaders must adopt certain conditions, cultivate conversations, and set up specific support processes so people build trust, collaborate effectively, think critically and develop social and emotional i...

The title of this episode is Creating Win/Win Where it Seems Least Likely! That’s because when win/win dynamics are created and power is expanded and then used to foster the good of many, this gives everyone hope about what’s possible where it might seem impossible! It also highlights what conditions and conversations are needed to get such a win/win result when it seems the least like...

I met my guest when he read one of my articles and then shared one of his own called An Open Letter to Business Leaders – Please Embrace Humanity . In a more recent article, he wrote these words: “I know what humanizing behavior looks like. It’s uplifting, empowering, kind, compassionate, and constructive. I also know what dehumanizing behavior looks like. It’s cruel, vindi...

Many people lose themselves in relationships. They clue into what’s expected and begin to compromise their own priorities and sense of self in order to maintain a bond in which they’ve become attached. Over time, the love offered loses its meaning and value, and the sense of self takes too many hits. Sometimes people decide it’s just better to be alone because at least then we ca...

In this episode, we explore how the use of power can be used to control and dominate or to encourage, guide and support. Control tactics (some of which are not considered to be so, or critically challenged) are widely promoted and endorsed as conventionally acceptable in many homes, schools, and organizations - but at what cost? The hits to internal motivation, wellbeing, exploration, discove...

In the culture transformation work of my company LifeWork Systems, we consider leadership development to be the development of leadership in every person, in every role. We also consider servant leadership to mean a way of operating in which everyone serves one another in every direction from CEO to front-line staff and back again. Who better to understand this than a man who k...

What happens when a commitment to ethical and spiritual beliefs and practices required for a win/win culture are at odds with default to status quo bottom line considerations? How is this navigated in order to satisfy business owners and investor alike? When investors or business owners want to make people, purpose and principles the top priority, with botto...

In the work of my company LifeWork Systems, we start by explaining to people that the root cause of all struggles within people and between people comes from a sense of shame and inferiority feelings. As children, we have large and small T trauma -  experiences that often strengthen the idea that we are not seen, safe, nor can we count on being soothed and supported!....

For too long, women have been silenced, overlooked, and dismissed. But what is the true cost of their absence in critical conversations and leadership roles? In this episode of Something to Say , host Jamie Shae dives into the deep societal impact of women’s voices being suppressed and the urgent need for change. Joining her is Judy Ryan, an award-winning thought leader and culture transform...

  In the early days of LifeWork Systems, we prioritized working with children, teens and young adults, delivering massive multi-year, multi-school, award-winning school reform projects to them and their parents, teachers, school principals and staff, often at some of the most at-risk St. Louis schools. Our goal was to help them become responsible, internally motivated...

When Everyone Wins is about creating win/win relationships in our personal and professional lives. This requires a shift from power-over and power-under to shared power in which people have developed power-within and generously offer power-between and power-for one another. Shared power is the only reliable path to mutual respect, high trust and rich collaboration. In this interview, Alyssa H...

When leaders and their staff are misaligned, work satisfaction diminishes, and business results suffer. This is the reality in many organizations today. Despite their best efforts, people at all levels and in every role often dig in their heels, resist, and feel helpless to address frustrations. Quality and commitment suffer with some people disengaging partially or even participating in sabotagin...

Join us for a powerful and timely conversation with Felix Nater, workplace violence prevention expert and security consultant, as we explore how fostering a Win/Win Culture can transform conflict, reduce violence, and build stronger, more caring communities. Discouraging problems that we both encounter and raise awareness of, that cause people to hire us What happens when these things are not talk...