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July 2026 Hot Take: Connection, Hope
Connection isn’t a nice-to-have. It is the thing – the whole thing. And right now, in a world that seems to be working overtime to divide us, finding our people and building our communities might just be the most radical, most hopeful, and frankly most…
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What Does It Mean to Be Human? Ep 2: We Know We’re Going to Die
In a world racing toward smarter machines, empathy speakers and authors Rob Volpe and Maria Ross get curious in this limited subseries about what only humans can feel, do, and be — and why that’s our greatest competitive advantage. Enjoy this limited subseries on The…
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Aubrey Morgan Yee: Radical Collaboration to Create Alternate Futures
What if the future of leadership isn’t about scaling faster or competing harder, but about finding empathy and remembering what it truly means to be human? Aubrey Morgan Yee invites us into a radically different way of thinking about leadership, collaboration, and the futures we’re…
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What Does It Mean to Be Human? Ep 1: The Aware Animal
In a world racing toward smarter machines, empathy speakers and authors Rob Volpe and Maria Ross get curious in this limited subseries about what only humans can feel, do, and be — and why that’s our greatest competitive advantage. Enjoy this limited subseries here on…
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Moshe Engelberg: Leading with Love Leads to Success
What if I told you that the most powerful force in business isn’t strategy, innovation, or tech: it’s love? Every great leader you admire already practices it. They might call it something else: respect, compassion, trust, purpose. Yet, underneath it all, it’s love, the energy…
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Terri Givens: Reckoning: Creating Positive Change through Radical Empathy
Join this deep conversation about what empathy really looks like in our institutions, our communities, and our leadership—especially at a time when empathy feels both urgent and under pressure. Dr. Terri Givens has been doing this work long before it became a headline or a…
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Meghan French Dunbar: Work Isn’t Working for Anyone Right Now
If work feels harder than it should—more exhausting, more fragmented, more misaligned—it’s probably not because people are failing. It’s because the system is. Meghan French Dunbar, has spent her career studying organizations like an anthropologist, looking beneath policies, perks, and performance metrics to understand why…
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Robert Coleman, Ph.D: Only 14% Get Empathy Training — and It’s Costing You Everything
The data proving empathy is smart business has always been there, it’s all we talk about here – but now it’s bigger, broader, and more impossible to ignore than ever. Dr. Robert Coleman is Director of Research and Thought Leadership at Dale Carnegie and Associates,…
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Mitch Shepard: Unfiltered! The Leadership Gender “Rules” That Hurt EVERYONE
What if the biggest thing holding leaders back isn’t a lack of ambition or skilL but outdated operating systems we’ve never questioned? Mitch Shepard lives at the intersection of truth-telling, leadership, and systems change. She’s an Applied Behavioral Scientist, Chief Truth Teller, and CEO of…
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David Grossman: Why “Good Enough” Leadership Is Your Biggest Risk
Most leaders think they’re doing fine. Their teams think otherwise. And that gap – hiding in plain sight across organizations everywhere – is exactly what my guest today has spent his career trying to close. David Grossman is one of America’s foremost authorities on leadership…
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Dr. Jay Jakub: Economic Mutuality and the Empathy of Purpose
What if business wasn’t just about profit, but about creating mutual value across stakeholders and communities that would actually DRIVE more profit? That’s the question driving today’s guest, Dr. Jay Jakub. Jay is the Executive Director of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation. Jay is no stranger…
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Dr. David Bray: From Bioterrorism to AI — Why Empathy Is Your Best Strategy in a Chaotic World
Dr. David Bray is one of those rare humans who has done so much, across so many high-stakes arenas, that his bio almost reads like fiction. David is Chair of the Accelerator at the Loomis Council and a Distinguished Fellow with the Stimson Center. He…
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