Alain Hunkins is a leadership expert who connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. He is the author of Cracking The Leadership Code and his work has been published in Fast Company, Forbes, and Business Insider. He joins us on this episode to discuss what’s wrong with the command and control model of management, how his experience with an election loss at a non-profit organization set him on his path to studying and teaching leadership, and the Three C’s you can leverage to cultivate a culture of collaboration at your organization.
Lessons in Managing Energy
Molly Fletcher spent two decades as one of the world’s only female sports agents. Hailed as the “female Jerry Maguire” by CNN, Molly has been featured in ESPN, Fast Company, Forbes, and Sports Illustrated and is the author of five books including Fearless At Work, The Business of Being the Best, and The 5 Best Tools to Find Your Dream Career. On this episode, we discussed with Molly the difference between managing your energy and managing your time as well as lessons in peak performance she learned from working with hundreds of sports biggest names.
How to Be True to Yourself in Leadership
Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty-year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership. In this episode, we discuss how people with the best intentions “go to the dark side” and how leaders can combat this by cascading a culture of honesty throughout their whole organization. We also learned from Ron why he’d rather take advice from his younger self than give it as well as what he means when he says: “You can’t be true to yourself until you are true about yourself.”
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What’s So Funny About Leadership?
Andrew Tarvin is the world’s first Humor Engineer teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. He has worked with thousands of people at 200+ organizations, including P&G, GE, and Microsoft. He is a best-selling author, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and TEDx, and has delivered programs in 50 states, 18 countries, and 3 continents. In this episode, we discuss with Andrew the communication superpower that comes with embracing the funny, why humor at work is more about levity than laughs, what his biggest comedy bomb taught him, and how he decided to leave his stable career to embrace entrepreneurship.
Humility and Curiosity in Leadership
Liz Kislik is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is a TEDx speaker on conflict in the workplace, and has served as adjunct faculty at Hofstra University and New York University. She joins us on this episode to discuss the value and necessity of humble leadership, how she approaches coaching leaders (it doesn’t include telling them what to work on!), and the practices she looks for in developing leaders. We also learn about her career journey and the one necessity she has found that allows anyone to learn any leadership skill.
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Building Comfort with Ambiguity
Noah Rabinowitz is the Chief Learning Officer at Intel. On this episode, we discuss his career journey, the lessons he’s learned along the way, and what advice he has for others looking to develop their leadership skills. Noah shared with us the three buckets they use to organize their learning strategy and how they have shifted to see the challenges of the last year as opportunities.