WiseTalk

Sue Bethanis hosts Chris Nadherny, a nationally recognized C-level recruiter. Chris spent 30 years with Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive search firm. His executive search clients included leading Fortune 500 companies, private equity portfolio companies, and later stage start-ups. Along the way, he counseled and helped guide the careers of several thousand executives—ranging from CEOs to...

Sue Bethanis hosts Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research interests also span issues of...

Sue Bethanis hosts David Rogers, professor at Columbia Business School and the author of The Digital Transformation Playbook . David is a globally-recognized leader on digital business strategy. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, CNBC, Marketplace, Channel News Asia, and in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Economist. His most recent research with Columbia’s Center on Gl...

Sue Bethanis hosts Andrea Lieberstein, a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor. Andrea has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 25 years. She leads mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat cente...

Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. David Carbonell, Founder and Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias, and the “coach” at www.anxietycoach.com, a self-help website for people troubled by fears and phobias. Dr. Carbonell is a recognized expert in this field and has conducted training and seminars for a variety of professional groups, including the A...

Sue Bethanis hosts Sue Rasmussen, an expert in productivity and the international best-selling author of My Desk Is Driving Me Crazy: End Overwhelm, Do Less, and Accomplish More. Sue Rasmussen shows women entrepreneurs how to end overwhelm, do less, and accomplish more – so they can achieve the success they want and make the difference they really want to make. She’s a professional coach who has w...

Sue Bethanis hosts Brigid Schulte, the director of The Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America. Brigid is a journalist and author who writes widely for publications including The Washington Post, Slate, Time.com, The Guardian, Forbes, Fast Company, and many others. She was a long-time staff writer for The Washington Post where she won a number of reporting and writing awards an...

Sue hosts Bonnie St. John, a Paralympic Ski Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, a highly sought after keynote speaker, a Fortune 500 leadership consultant, and dubbed “one of the five most inspiring women in America,” by NBC Nightly News. The celebrated author of seven books, Bonnie co-authored her latest work, MICRO-RESILIENCE: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, & Energy, with her husband,...

Sue hosts Daniel Friedland, MD., an internationally recognized thought leader on stress, resilience, mindfulness and the neuroscience of leadership. He is the author of Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership. Daniel helps you make a shift that could transform stress, overwhelm and burnout to become a more energized, compassionate, values-b...

Sue hosts Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, and best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change. Michelle helps shift you towards more positive, solution-focused communication, ultimately leading to a decrease in the negative effects of stress. Michelle and Sue discuss how to: + Make yourself immun...

Sue Bethanis hosts Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, founder of CSE Consulting and the author of the upcoming book, Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction. Cheryl teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and has won several journalism awards for her investigative stories about international politics, business and economics. Cheryl and...

Sue hosts Dr. Derek Roger, Founder and Director of the Work Skills Center and co-author of Work Without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success. Drawing on his expertise in personality, psychometrics and neuroscience, Derek initiated an innovative program of research on stress and health at the University of York, where he established the internationally-renowned Stress Research U...

Sue Bethanis hosts Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the author of The Disruption Dilemma. While Joshua’s research interests are varied, he has developed specialties in the nature of technological competition and innovation and economic growth, industrial organization and regulatory economics. Joshua and Sue discuss: + The...

Sue Bethanis hosts Cat Lee, Head of Partner Marketing at Pinterest. Known as one of the most innovative platforms in the world, Pinterest has revolutionized how people discover products and content, and how customers engage with businesses. Cat provides an insider’s view on how Pinterest has become an extremely disruptive social media powerhouse while building 100 million users. Cat and Sue discus...

Sue Bethanis hosts Terence Mauri, a top leadership expert and author of The Leader’s Mindset: How to Win in the Age of Disruption. Terence inspires new leadership thinking and powerful shortcuts to help you disrupt your industry, your organization and, ultimately, yourself. Sue and Terence discuss: + Pathways to discover your leadership purpose + How to act brave and decisively in the face of adve...

Sue hosts Julie Williamson, Chief Growth Enabler for Karrikins Group. Julie and Sue discuss her newest book co-authored with Peter Sheahan, Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice, and how to: + Identify your most valuable edge of disruption + Become the disruptor not the disrupted + Initiate change within an organization + Become a thought leader in y...

Sue hosts Janet Crawford, CEO of Cascadance, Inc. and co-author of Leadership Embodiment. As a scientist and pioneer in the application of social neuroscience to corporate culture, Janet has two decades of experience working Fortune 500 companies with her client organizations spanning the who’s who of Silicon Valley. Janet and Sue discuss: + The Biological Basis for Fear – What is our brain doing...

Sue hosts clinical psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson. Professor Robertson discusses his new book, The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper, a revelatory study of how and why we react to pressure in the way we do, with real practical benefits to how we live.