Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

Guest: Stephanie Lemek, Founder: The Wounded Workforce

Your staff are probably dealing with trauma: in the U.S. alone, 70% of adults faced at least one traumatic experience. Those experiences manifest in different ways in the workplace, from perfectionism to absenteeism. Our trauma reactions are as unique as our fingerprints.

Being a trauma-informed leader can help your team – and, ultimately, your organization. Guest Stephanie Lemek draws on her deep experience in HR to share how to shape a trauma-informed workplace.

Here's what Stephanie and host Maureen Metcalf cover:

1. The ways leaders can help team members deal with trauma…
2. …and the ways they shouldn’t – such as playing the role of therapist.
3. The seven principles of trauma-informed workplaces.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Remote Work & Mental Well-Being with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
• Informed Leadership: The Power of Trauma with Rachael Kelly
• Nurturing Peace from the Ashes of Violence with Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

To learn more about Stephanie’s work for trauma-informed workplaces, check her website at https://www.thewoundedworkforce.com.

More about CliftonStrengths, the assessment resource she mentioned, is available at https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx .

Her YouTube channel is The Wounded Workforce; you’ll find it at https://www.youtube.com/@TheWoundedWorkforce .

And the book Stephanie recommended is The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris. It’s in paperback at https://amzn.to/3w5TS2t, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3WoQWIO.

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Booking Producer: Jenna Reik

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About Our Guest:

Stephanie Lemek, with 16+ years of HR experience across diverse industries, founded The Wounded Workforce in 2023. Her mission is to cultivate trauma-informed workplace cultures. Observing a gap in support despite HR efforts, she embarked on creating solutions. Recognizing that over 70% of adults carry traumatic experiences into the workplace, she aims to equip leaders and HR professionals with tools to address these challenges. Stephanie's initiative stems from a passion for inclusivity and research, driven by a desire to ensure everyone has the necessary support to thrive in their professional environments.

Guest: Nancy Adler, S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University

There’s not just an art to leadership; art improves leadership!

That’s the core point of Dr. Nancy Adler’s discussion in this episode. A consultant and professor at McGill University, she’s found that art enables leaders to shift perspectives more readily, thus seeing solutions more effectively. That broadness of thought is more critical than ever: in the emerging business climate, what a leader knows is becoming far less relevant than the leader’s ability to shift perspectives and continually learn new suites of knowledge and skills.

Here's what Nancy and Maureen cover:

1. Why the vaunted MBA is becoming far less relevant in the C-suite;
2. Why leadership is an active verb – and why leadership titles are nouns losing their impact; and
3. How a pizza box became the most effective communication tool to break through a Congressman’s barriers.

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Art, Leadership…and the Art of Leadership with Ren Washington & Laura Gibson
• Tales from the Top: How Leaders Use Stories with Dr. Tanvi Gautam
• Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Learn more about Nancy’s intersection of art and leadership on her Galleries website at https://www.adlerartistry.com/galleries . She’s also written or edited several books, including International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior – in paperback at https://amzn.to/4blRSm9.

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. The Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8.You’ll find further details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Keeping Us in a Beautiful Workflow: Jenna Reik

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

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About Our Guest:

Nancy Adler is an inspiring leader who has worked with managers from around the world to create synergy among cultures, rather than building walls to keep out “difference” or to hide behind fears of inefficiency and prejudice. Nancy pioneered the fields for cross-cultural management, women leading worldwide, and the role of the arts in inspiring the best of what individuals and organizations have to offer to their organizations, their communities, and to the world. As an artist, she works to make the world more beautiful, even now when so many people focus on ugliness and dysfunction.

Dr. Adler is the S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University, where she conducts research on global leadership and cross-cultural management.

Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development Consultant

Many leaders plateau: they hit a certain level, then stop growing or maturing as a leader. But even into late adulthood, we remain able to grow and develop. Indeed, some people thirst for that growth!

Mike Morrow-Fox joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss post-conventional leaders – people who have grown to a point where they can easily see the big picture, the ripple effects of decisions, understand complexity, and more. Best of all, he shares seven tips to use on your own leadership journey.

Here's what Mike and Maureen cover:

1. The three major markers of a post-conventional thinker;
2. Seven tips for forging ahead with your own growth; and
3. Why you get bored with tasks or jobs that used to excite you.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Do No Harm: Ethics for Leaders with Terri O’Fallon
• Bringing Clarity to Confusion with Terri O’Fallon & Kim Barta
• You’re an Executive, But Are You a Leader? with Sonya Shelton

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

The development thought leaders Mike mentioned include Bob Keegan, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bill Torbert, and Terry O'Fallon. Here’s a selection of their books to get you rolling on your development path:

• An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Bob Keegan.
• Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good) by Bob Keegan.
• Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement (Integral Publishers Dissertation) by Susanne Cook-Greuter.
• Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership by Bill Torbert.

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Keeping the Whole Team Beyond Convention: Jenna Reik

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

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About Our Guest:

Michael Morrow-Fox, MBA, EdS, is a consultant with the Innovative Leadership Institute experienced in health care, education, banking, government, and non-profit management.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and human resources operations, as well as and several years of full-time university teaching. Michael uses this background to blend his real-world understanding with current theoretical models helping his clients reach goals beyond their current thinking.

Michael has experience managing a 50 million dollar technology budget, helping a technology startup company get off the ground, overseeing an international nonprofit organization achieve ‘best place to work’ status, and leading organizational education for a city government. Michael’s strengths are not in what area he works, but in how he helps others work. Michael’s project management, process excellence, problem-solving, and human performance management skills help companies form truly innovative strategies.

Michael has served as a full-time university faculty at Capital University winning a Department of Education FIPSE Grant and George Mason Program Excellence Award, as the Director of Technology Strategy for the OhioHealth Hospitals, as the Vice President of Operations for a technology start-up serving American Express, as the Vice President of Talent Management Training and Development for the American Heart Association, and the Manager of Organizational Education for the City of Greensboro, North Carolina. Michael has held Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since 2002, he has worked on Six Sigma Black Belt initiatives since 1999 and has been a Six Sigma Green Belt since 2006. His Bachelor’s degree focused on Industrial Psychology and Employee Counseling, his MBA focus was on Organizational Leadership, his Educational Specialist Degree is in Educational Leadership, and Michael is working on his Doctoral dissertation in Educational Leadership.

Michael is a contributing author of Innovative Leadership for Health Care, Innovative Leadership Workbook for Emerging Leaders and Managers, and the Innovative Leader Guide to Transforming Organizations.

Guest: Chris Henderson, President of Lumos Clean Energy Advisors

Indigenous voices are often left out of conversations on clean energy and climate change. Yet, their generations of environmental stewardship make them pivotal players in our energy future.

Chris Henderson, a Canadian eco-entrepreneur and community leader, discusses the role of Indigenous communities in Canada's shift towards clean energy. In the process, renewable energy is enhancing social equity and fostering economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples.

Chris and host Maureen Metcalf delve into the broader implications of this shift, including environmental sustainability, technological innovation, and the global relevance of Canada's approach to clean energy.

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Non-Traditional Leadership Models for Our New Era with Nathan Eva & Nicole Ferry
• When Your Path Is Unclear: Embodied Leadership & Way-Showing with Donna Marie Laskin & Chellie Spiller
• Leaders in the Hot Seat with Kim Campbell

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Chris’ book, Aboriginal Power, is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3UmwANR .

The documentary series, Power to the People, has a website at https://powertothepeople.tv/ . Learn more about Chris’ work at the Indigenous Clean Energy website: https://indigenouscleanenergy.com/ . Lumos Clean Energy’s website is https://www.lumosenergy.com/ .

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Keeping Our Energy Flowing Unimpeded: Jenna Reik

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

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About Our Guest:

Chris Henderson is a Canadian eco-entrepreneur, community leader and environmental innovator. For the past 40 years, he has led and been at the forefront of ground-breaking Canadian enterprises and local/national business, social and ecological initiatives which have global impact and resonance. Chris is a trusted and insightful commentator on economic, environment and energy issues that respect the Planet, and generate enduring outcomes for corporations, communities and Canada. Chris’ prime current role in advising and equipping Indigenous peoples and communities to develop and own clean energy projects to catalyze social development, economic opportunity and to combat Climate Change. His first book Aboriginal Power was published in 2013. Chris is the President of Lumos Energy, Executive Director of the Indigenous Clean Energy Social Enterprise, Founder of The Delphi Group, and Board Chair of the Globe Series.

Guest: Paul F. Austin, CEO of Third Wave

Why are C-suites adopting psychedelics? Some leaders say it gives them a competitive edge in innovation and thinking; others use psychedelics for stress relief and general mental health.

Paul F. Austin reviews the science and the trends behind this movement. He joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss both how and why senior executives are moving these substances from taboo to corporate practice…and he provides important guidelines and limits on their use.

Here's what Paul and Maureen cover:

1. How the link between leadership and psychedelics formed;
2. The five key elements to look for in a responsible facilitator; and
3. Though rare, the need to be aware of potential dangers.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

- Fringe or Mainstream? Leaders Explore Psychedelics with Paul Austin

- Changing Leadership Mindsets: Psychedelics with Ehren Cruz

- The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Paul has more information on his organization’s website: https://thethirdwave.co/ . Their integrative training website is https://psychedeliccoaching.institute/ . Paul’s book, Mastering Microdosing, is on Amazon in paperback at https://amzn.to/3w0tLdc, and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/49KVdcH .

Here are the websites for the two corporate benefits organizations for psychedelics in employee benefit plans: Enthea (https://www.enthea.com) and TARA Mind (https://taramind.com) .

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI; the Kindle version is available at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Mindfully Minding their Minds: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

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About Our Guest:

Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics, and is the author of Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life.

As the founder of Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured inForbes,Rolling Stone, and theBBC’s Worklife.

Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.

Guest: Mike Gerbis, CEO of Delphi

Politics and megaweather get all the attention on climate change, but the impacts on business are profound. The liabilities for business may rise faster than the temperature! So why are so many business leaders so far behind in dealing with it?

As Oz’s Lion would say, it boils down to courage. The climate issue means challenging the status quo, which upsets stockholders focused on short-term profit. Mike Gerbis, a CEO who HAS challenged the status quo, tells host Maureen Metcalf that businesses need courageous leadership to address climate change and other pressing global issues.

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• The Circular Economy: Better for Earth, Better for Business with John Kilpatrick
• Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell
• Climate Change: Leaders in the Hot Seat with the Right Honourable Kim Campbell

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

You can learn more about the organizations Mike leads or works with on their websites. Delphi is at https://delphi.ca/about-us/ . Globe Series is at https://www.globeseries.com/ . And Canada’s Leading Change is online at https://leadingchangecanada.com/ .

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Courageously Keeping the Rest of Us In Line: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

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About Our Guest:

Mike Gerbis is CEO of a constellation of organizations that includes The Delphi Group, GLOBE Series, EXCEL Partnership and Leading Change and shares a common purpose: to achieve a sustainable, prosperous and socially just future in a generation. Mike works closely with Canadian and international leaders on issues related to climate change, corporate sustainability, cleantech and innovation, and the green economy. In addition to his 30 years of experience in sustainability consulting and events, Mike also engages and educates youth and business leaders through guest lectures and presentations as well as through initiatives such as SHAD Valley International and TEC Canada.

Guest: Amiel Handelsman, Elite Executive Coach

We all know communication is key for leadership. But HOW we communicate is tougher. And one simple misunderstanding can make the difference between success and disaster.

Guest Amiel Handelsman has observed and codified eleven concepts that will move your communications from good to great. He shares them with host Maureen Metcalf in this episode.

Here's what Amiel and Maureen cover:

1. The ways changing your conversation style can change people’s minds (including your own!);
2. The importance of “The Pause,” and how that moment of silence can save your message; and
3. Why you should assume the person you’re talking to knows more than you do.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Reimagining American Identity with Amiel Handelsman and Jewel Kinch-Thomas
• Using Storytelling to Elevate Leadership with Chris Nolan
• Communication Skills Every Leader Needs with Jonathan Reitz

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Amiel’s new podcast is How My View Grew; check it out at https://howmyviewgrew.com.Details about his coaching work are on his website at https://amielhandelsman.com.

He’s also written several books; Practice Greatness complements this podcast episode perfectly. It’s available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3Wjh6wP and on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3W1JDGS.

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Communicating with Cosmic Clarity: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

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About Our Guest:

Amiel Handelsman is the host of How My View Grew, a podcast that dives deep into humanity’s challenges by looking at big thinkers who have changed their minds. As a writer and podcast guest, he explores the human dimension of complex global challenges like democracy, the Middle East, climate change, the culture wars, and “race.” In his professional practice, Amiel helps executives and teams navigatecomplexity and grow a bit along the way. His clients use newconversation habits to make clear commitments, deliver what they promise, and do this with more ease. Amiel has written five books includingPractice Greatness,Reimagining American Identity,andHow to be an Anti-race Antiracist. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two sons.

Guest: Steve Armato, VP of Middle Mile & Tech at Amazon

Whether leaders accept or ignore new tech makes the difference between it disrupting their organizations – and transforming them.

Amazon’s use of new technology is a clear and major component of its success. It’s a big part of what puts packages on your porch. And, as Steve Armato reveals, Amazon wants to share that tech with others. Steve is their VP of Middle Mile and Tech. In this episode, he talks about the ways Amazon shares AI and other technologies – and how they develop that new technology in the first place.

Here's what Steve and Maureen cover:

1. The techniques Steve uses with his team to foster new innovations from the bottom up;
2. How the resulting innovations help people beyond his team, from employees system-wide to customers; and
3. Steve’s own remarkable journey at Amazon, taking him from intern to Vice President.

Dive deeper into Amazon’s leadership lessons with these episodes:

• To Err Is to Innovate with Beryl Tomay
• Delivering the Future: Amazon’s Innovation Culture with David Carbon, John Love, Dr. Vin Gupta, & Tye Brady
• Leadership Is Relationships with Kvon Tucker

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

(Information requiring higher security clearance than you have): Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

Theme music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.

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About Our Guest:

Steve Armato isVice President, Amazon Transportation Services and Technology. His team workswith over 50,000 service partners – many of whomare small-and medium-sized businesses – enabling them to grow their businesses by transporting items on behalf of Amazon.

With over two decades of experience at Amazon, Steve has a passion for innovating on behalf of customers, particularly at the intersection of technology, science, and operations. Prior to his current role, he spent a decade in Amazon’s Fulfillment and Supply Chain Optimization group, building large-scale predictive systems and optimization algorithms to optimize Amazon’s inventory supply chain. Steve holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.

Guests: Lynn Shollen & Sam Wilson, researchers at Christopher Newport University and Swinburne University of Technology

Odds are good you aren’t happy with our leaders. Less than 1/3 of Americans believe their leaders are effective.

That’s according to the Leadership Attitudes Survey. Dr. Lynn Shollen joins us to share more of the results. Dr. Sam Wilson chimes in to reveal insights from the Australian Leadership Index. The two studies had remarkably similar findings.

The bottom line: most of us feel our leaders are too far removed from the everyday experiences of ordinary people.

So what can leaders do about it? Listen in to find out!

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ .

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Onboard with Care: Welcoming a New Leader with Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont
• The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele
• Ignite Your Leadership Game with Dre Baldwin

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

The website for Sam’s research with the Australian Leadership Index is https://australianleadershipindex.org/ . You can subscribe to their newsletter there, too.

Lynn’s research is online, too, at https://cnu.edu/las/ . The group’s e-mail address is [email protected] .

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Prodding Us with Attitude: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

X/Twitter/Whatever New Name It Has This Week: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

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Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

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About Our Guest:

Dr. S. Lynn Shollen is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and department chair in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University, a public liberal arts institution in Newport News, Virginia, in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Higher Education Policy and Administration. Her research interests include identity and the faculty to administrator transition, identity and perceptions of leadership, leadership identities construction, and teaching about women and leadership.

Dr Sam Wilson Senior Lecturer in Leadership in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is also co-director of the Thriving in Society 4.0 program of the Social Innovation Research Institute and Deputy Director of the Social Psychology of Innovation Research Group, also at Swinburne. He earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne in experimental social psychology. His research interests span psychological studies of the future self to large, national studies of community beliefs about leadership for the greater good in the government, public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Guest: Nate Rempe, CEO of Omaha Steaks

It’s an iconic success story with a menu of leadership lessons: Born from a family escaping oppression in 1917, Omaha Steaks transformed from a small butcher shop into a global brand synonymous with the finest steaks. They’ve stayed at the top because of their long history of leaders driven to innovate.

CEO Nate Rempe joins host Maureen Metcalf to unpack the leadership methods that foster such long-lasting success – methods you can adopt, too.

Here's what Nate and Maureen cover:

1. How vertical integration and horizontal leadership combine to make an organization both strong and resilient, even in a crisis;
2. Why storytelling is the secret sauce in truly great leadership; and
3. The role playing guitar in a rock band has in maintaining leadership perspective!

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Love at First Slice: Pizza & Passionate Leadership with Tom Krouse
• Noodling Solutions for Food Insecurity with Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh
• Achieving Employee-Centric Leadership: A Leader’s Food for Thought with Heather Krentler

For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn. We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Twitter, too!

RESOURCES:

Learn more about Omaha Steaks on their website: https://www.omahasteaks.com/.

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Hardback (https://amzn.to/48Doh6j) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/48YCRF4)
• Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First by Martha Piper & Indira Samarasekera. Paperback (https://amzn.to/3tOtzg4) and audiobook (https://amzn.to/41OYdT5)
• Jilly Truit murder mysteries by Beverley McLachlin:
  • Full Disclosure – https://amzn.to/46TxW6Q (paperback) https://amzn.to/46VDL3Q (audiobook)
  • Denial – https://amzn.to/46YCbhs (paperback) https://amzn.to/3GJc0AA (audiobook)
• Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity by Sherylle J. Tan & Lisa DeFrank-Cole

NOTE: As an Amazon partner, we may make a small commission from books you buy through these links.

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Assistant Editor & Raconteur: Luigi Morelli

Always Serving Food for Thought: Jenna Reik & Mike Morrow-Fox

Theme Music by Pavel Bekirov from Pixabay.

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube: @InnovatingLeadership

Threads: @innovativeleaders

Twitter: @IL_Institute

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/ILI-LinkedIn2

TikTok: @innovativeleadership

Website: InnovativeLeadershipInstitute.com

Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating!

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About Our Guest:

Nate Rempe is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Omaha Steaks. He is the first person outside of the Simon family to serve as President & CEO in more than 100 years.

Nate previously served the company as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining the Omaha Steaks team, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Nebraska Book Company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and completed his graduate education at Creighton University, where he later joined the Executive Faculty in the Department of Information Science & Technology. He has also held various independent advisory board positions including one at ClassBundle, LLC (a Nelnet company) and is a named inventor on four United States patents directed to technology and business processes.

Beyond his passion for food (and steak, in particular), Nate has a long track record of nurturing and inspiring others to become better leaders. His unique abilities and strengths motivate high-performing teams and drive business success. Nate balances his professional success with what he describes as his most rewarding role of dedicated husband and father.