Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek AnneMarie Hayek joins the show to share insights from her new book, Generation We.  In this book, she joins forces with thousands of Generation Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. From new ideas on capitalism, politics, and climate change to education, gender, race, and work, AnneMarie explains how Gen Z thinks, what they envision, and why we should be hopeful. Zs are not naïve idealists. They’re hardened realists with a bold vision for how we can transition, re-create, and progress. Generation We is your invitation to see the future they will create as it’s unfolding.

Featured Guest: Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham We all have agreements.  Some are overt, such as agreeing to make monthly payments when you get a mortgage to buy a house.  And some are unconscious, like the agreement in sports that everyone on your team will work toward winning against the other team. We all have two ways of responding to those agreements. You have a Yes! response that aligns your purpose and unique contributions with the impact you can generate and the experience you can have.  It's yours to choose.  Your Yes! always generates net-positive value and your No! always generates net-negative value—your choice.  Jim Ritchie-Dunham joins Maureen to explain the science behind our Yes!

Featured Guest: Dr. Jeff Hull In the past, to move up the corporate ladder and succeed at the top, you simply had to set goals, motivate the troops, delegate to underlings, and groom a successor. Now, if you are leading a team you must manage a kaleidoscope of people from a variety of cultures, across a range of ages, all of whom are wired together 24/7. These changing demographics and structures have led to a seismic shift in terms of the tools needed to successfully manage and grow within a company: charisma and strategic thinking abilities now matter less than qualities such as vulnerability and relatability. Jeff Hull joins Maureen to discuss the research he has done on the art and science of leadership in a changing world that is featured in his book, Flex.

Featured Guest: Mike Zani Moneyball was just the tip of the iceberg.  In that movie, a baseball team relies on performance data instead of scouts' intuition to build a winning club.  The very same concept can forge a dream team in your own NPO or business. Sophisticated assessments, data, and software give CEOs and managers in any industry detailed insights into human behavior -- and, more critically, their team members' behavior.  As CEO of The Predictive Index, Mike Zani has witnessed firsthand how the application of data and science can impact, and completely change, the way we function in our professional lives. In his new book, THE SCIENCE OF DREAM TEAMS: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness, Zani details a data-driven approach to talent strategy that makes hiring, motivating, and managing people more efficient and effective than ever.  From coaching a U.S. Olympic team to founding an investment firm, he knows first hand how assessments can build a dream team.

Featured Guest: Paul Gibbons Conversations about meaning and purpose at work are very old and very new. Spirituality provides a lens for those discussions—a lens that is effective regardless of your team's religious preferences. From evangelical to atheist, a sense of mission and meaning are critical to well-being. Workplace spirituality helps us understand the issues underlying personal meaning in the workplace: fulfillment, engagement, purpose, leadership, and more. However, it also increases worries about values conflicts and how well organizations handle that. There are many ways to help the process go smoothly. 40-year career veteran Paul Gibbons joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss the spirituality of work and leadership for leaders and organizations.

Featured Guest: Dr. JJ Walcutt The power of mind over body goes back at least 2,000 years with the Stoics—but what about the power of the brain over both mind and body? To be competitive over the next decade, all organizations—non-profits, businesses, and especially the military—must not only help staff optimize their bodies for physical and mental health purposes; they also need to ensure that cognitive optimization is a major focus of staff development. Despite our hubris, the human brain is not equipped to handle the deluge of data that is coming, much less the constant upskilling requirements that are emerging already. Dr. JJ Walcutt joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss Accelerate, a program that helps organizations get on the right track toward building a culture of brain health, growth, and effectiveness. The military is paying attention; should your organization, too?

Featured Guest: Jake Jacobs Change is now a constant in all organizations.  Is there a way to make it easier?  Jake Jacobs joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss his new book Leverage Change, and how leaders can use the concept of leverage to achieve faster, easier, better results related to all change work they are doing in their organizations—at the individual, team or organizational levels.  He shares practical actions leaders can take to achieve the much sought-after, but seldom accomplished, goals of successful change management.

Featured Guests: Ricky Robinson & Keith Powell Rising up the corporate ladder is fraught with challenges.  Those challenges -- both visible and invisible -- multiply for people of color, women, and others underrepresented in the executive suite.  Mentors are fine, but an in-house sponsor can truly make the path smoother.  Ricky Robinson and Keith Powell share why...not with theory, but hard-won practical advice from their own 20+ year journeys to C-suite success in some of the world's largest companies.

Featured Guest: Jared Graybeal In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout: Confidence Competence Clarity Character Connections and Commitment. This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement, and is designed to give you the perspective that works for your unique goals, no matter what’s going on in your life. Jared applied these principles to his own life.  He joins Maureen to discuss the book, and how listeners can re-energize, so they never stop growing.

Featured Guest: Otto Scharmer Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolved human consciousness. Otto’s first book sold over 100,000 copies and to put that in context, the average self-published book sells 250 copies, and the average traditional book sells 3,000 copies in its lifetime. Otto joins Maureen to discuss his latest book: The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications, a book that meets a crucial need during this point in history in helping us bring necessary changes to our foundational systems from a place of deep consciousness and perspective taking from all key stakeholders – including the future as a key stakeholder.