Human Capital Leadership

In this HCI Podcast "Throwback Tuesday" episode, Dr. Westover talks with Patricia Carl about EQ, emotional intelligence, and leading with compassion and intentionality (original aired May 25, 2020).  See the video here: https://youtu.be/vtgJbOSbsVk. Patricia Carl (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciacarl/) is president of Highland Performance Solutions, LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/company/highlandperformancesolutions/). She is an executive coach and consultant, and former Chief Human Resources Officer for both public and private equity backed companies. She partners with leaders, teams and organizations to drive business outcomes, and has worked with clients across industries, from companies such as Microsoft, Target Corporation, Deloitte, Citadel to Silicon Valley start-ups. She has guest lectured at academic institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, and her insights have been regularly featured in Forbes, Real Leaders and other publications. She holds leadership roles with not-for-profit boards and organizations and is an angel investor in multiple technology companies. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Marcus Buckingham, researcher and bestselling author who pioneered strengths-based management, appears via an HBR video about employee engagement. He introduces the composite 'Barbara' and shares findings from a 19-country study. Short segments discuss how teams drive engagement, the power of side hustles, remote work plus belonging, and how leaders can create conditions for more engaged people.

As part of our "Inspiring TED Talks" series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways, Dr. Westover explores Simon Sinek's famous 2014 TED Talk, " Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe?" See the video and details here: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_why_good_leaders_make_you_feel_safe   TED Talk Overview: "What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it's someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety — especially in an uneven economy — means taking on big responsibility."   Simon Sinek (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsinek/) is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon has devoted his professional life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do. Simon is the author of multiple best selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, and The Infinite Game.  See more at https://simonsinek.com/about/simon-sinek. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Frank DeSocio about his leading an organization during a global pandemic. See the video here: https://youtu.be/wnPauPTiQu4. Frank DeSocio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-desocio-42818a5) is the executive director of The Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA). As the executive director of the BPAA since July 2014, DeSocio’s mission is to ensure that the 3,400-plus members of the BPAA have the tools and guidance to run successful bowling centers around the country, as well as continue to innovate to make bowling an even more fun experience than ever before for people of all ages. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Eric Pfeiffer about establishing a leadership culture to engage Millennial and Gen Z workers. See the video here: https://youtu.be/J3xIohzEFLE. Eric Pfeiffer (http://linkedin.com/in/eric-pfeiffer-53964b173) is a leadership coach who works with leaders and  teams to increase personal and organizational health to  maximize performance and productivity. After spending  almost two decades improving the operational leadership  culture of hundreds of organizations, Eric knows the bottom-line value of building the most important part of any business  platform - the people. A small investment in the leadership  culture of any organization is guaranteed to pay incredible  dividends. He currently is working with leaders and  organizations in the construction, hospitality, restaurant, financial, pharmaceutical and professional athletics industries. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As part of our "Forbes Minute" series, spotlighting thought-provoking Forbes videos and their key takeaways, Dr. Westover explores Hal Gregersen's recent Forbes video, "The Four Behaviors of Innovative Leaders." See the full video and all of the details here: https://youtu.be/gmkcGqZIZp8. Drucker’s keen insight about the power of questions has long been a guiding inspiration for Hal Gregersen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/halgregersen/). An innovation and leadership guru, Hal is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. While Hal’s expertise expands across all areas of innovative leadership, asking the right questions cuts deeply across all of his work. He challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act to build a better, more creative world. To grasp how leaders find and ask the right questions – ones that disrupt the world – Hal’s new book, “Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life” (Harper Collins, coming out later this year), builds on 200+ interviews with renowned business, technology, education, government, social enterprise, and artistic leaders. This question-centric project surfaces crucial insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -“Bursting the CEO Bubble: Why Executives Should Talk Less and Ask More” (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) – explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don’t know they don’t know – before it’s too late. The second article from the project – “Better Brainstorming: Focus on Questions, Not Answers, for Breakthrough Insights” (March/April 2018 Harvard Business Review) – outlines how his unique Question Burst™ method can help anyone solve problems faster and better by asking nothing but questions about a vexing challenge for four fast and furious minutes. Hal is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience “Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making.” The course draws on Hal’s two passions – photography and innovation–to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked consistently as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Hal regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars and transformational coaching experiences. He also works with a diverse set of companies to help them master the challenges of innovation and change, from Chanel to IBM to the World Economic Forum. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Michelle Tremblay about combatting bullying and creating a respectful workplace culture. See the video here: https://youtu.be/nNG_4syivyY.  Michelle Tremblay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelletremblay/), founder of MPower Lives Company, is located in the Tri-Cities area in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland.  She has worked with over 15,000 participants nation wide and is highly recognized as a powerful speaker, great motivator and compassionate leader.   She is dedicated, committed, and inspired to mpower change in the workplace, schools and community at large through mental and physical health and wellness strategies, mindfulness and social and emotional learning. She believes each individual can feel valued, confident, and responsible through the proper tools, support and workplace conditions. Her corporate work haslead her to present to clients such as Work Safe BC, Van-Cities, Fraser Valley Child Development Centres, CPHR, School Districts and Non-for-Profit Agencies. Michelle holds a 2nd Degree Black Belt with 18 years of Karate training and is a director on the board of the Iamsomeone Organization to end bullying.   For over the last 9 years her work has also consisted of teaching, mentoring and coaching children and youth with bully prevention training in school and after school programs, non-for-profit agencies, recreation centres, private organizations, personal and group coaching clients.    Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Di-Ann Eisnor about her company, Core, a new construction labor marketplace. See the video here: https://youtu.be/ACLpxizMkCA. Di-Ann Eisnor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianneisnor/) is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder CEO of Core (https://www.bycore.com), a newly launched construction labor marketplace supporting the construction workforce of the future. A third-time start-up CEO, angel investor, and powerhouse female business leader, Di-Ann comes from a family of tradesmen and truckers whom she finally gets to serve full-time.   Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Podcast "Throwback Tuesday" episode, Dr. Westover talks with Lee Eisenstaedt about effective leadership characteristics, particularly the importance of self-awareness and humility (originally aired 5/20/2020).  See the video here: https://youtu.be/9rOykZumTes. Lee Eisenstaedt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeeisens...) brings more than 35 years of diverse leadership, finance and operations experience to the clients of the Leading With Courage® Academy (https://www.lwcacademy.com/).  The CFO of SC Johnson has described Lee as a well-rounded businessman because he’s “…worked for more than two companies, in more than two functions, in more than two countries.”   Lee focuses on helping individuals and teams, in employee- and family-owned organizations, realize peace of mind and confidence from being more effective leaders and managers.  This is accomplished with the leadership workshops and assessments and a process for succession planning offered through the Leading with Courage®Academy which are based on his fourth book, Leading With Courage:  The Nine Critical Behaviors of Effective Leaders and Managers (June 2019).  Prior to founding Leading With Courage® Academy, Lee was a founding partner of L. Harris Partners, LLC, during which time he surveyed/interviewed several thousand clients of professional services firms.  He has been a Chief Operating Officer of a Top 5 and a Top 50 CPA firm.  Lee spent the majority of his career, 22 years, with the SC Johnson family of companies –including the consumer products company, the SC Johnson family office, and Johnson Outdoors, Inc. – in the U.S. and Western Europe, frequently as the“right hand” to the leader of the division, subsidiary or country to which he was assigned.  During his two European assignments with SC Johnson, Lee lived and worked in Paris, France for five years and had responsibility for finance, accounting, logistics, IT and customer service in five countries within the European Union. Lee also spent six years with Baxter International, Inc. in various finance and accounting positions. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this HCI Webinar, Dr. Westover talks with Chris McGoff about leading during a crisis and fostering a healthy corporate culture. See the video here: https://youtu.be/3QXB4h5YXxE.   Chris McGoff (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismcgoff/ ) is a business builder, best-selling author, and advisor to business leaders throughout the world. He has founded, partnered, and invested in several companies in industries ranging from service and product companies to real estate and cloud based solution providers. He sits on boards and participates in venture funding to emerging companies. Over the past 35 years Chris has helped hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of people thrive in the chaos of the modern business environment. Chris likes to say, “If you do something long enough, you eventually figure it out.” Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.