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Carol Vallone Mitchell, Ph.D: The Unspoken Crisis of Male Leadership
If you’ve been with me a minute, you know that leadership paradigms are changing. Yet it’s causing an unspoken crisis for male leaders in particular. Being empathetic and showing vulnerability are not consistent with how men have been socialized or how many women leaders were…
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Shasta Nelson: Why Successful Leaders Encourage Work Friendships
Old School leadership thinking claims that work is work and personal is personal and never the two shall meet. However, how many of your friends resulted from work relationships? How much more joyful is the work when you know friends have your back? How much…
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Dave Zaboski: Creativity & Collaboration Lessons from Disney and Beyond
There is a lot of talk about how creativity and collaboration “should” be done these days. Some say processes are stifling. Others say you have to all be in the same office to collaborate effectively. Today’s conversation will offer you a different take on how…
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Marly Q Casanova: The Currency of Kindness & How to Avoid Burnout
People often confuse empathy and kindness so I spend many a keynote or leadership training session debunking the myths of empathy. My guest today, Marly Q Casanova, or Marly Q as she is known, is “Miami’s Top Kindness Influencer” whose talks and events have inspired…
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Dr. Peter Sear: What Elite Sport Teaches Us About Empathic Leadership
Athletes and legendary coaches from sport are often cited by leaders to motivate, inspire, and pull together as a team. But how many leaders actually practice and employ the skills these high-achievers leverage to be successful? In today’s sports landscape, coaches who have embraced emotional…
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Teri Schmidt: Empathy-Infused Team Building for Lasting Impact
When I say “team-building” or corporate training, do you say….ugh! Maybe you imagine sitting in a windowless conference room, or enduring an interminable video call that takes you away from the pile of work you need to get done – without offering anything of lasting…
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Brigette Iarrusso: Disrupting Toxic Business Models in the Online Space
We are not tied to harmful business and workplace practices. In fact, history shows us that we, as humans, work to improve things over time – look at laws against child labor, unsafe working conditions, and safety and truth in advertising regulations. Yes, capitalism and…
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Janice Munemitsu: The Kindness of Color
What do collaboration and empathy look like when lives and liberty are on the line, not just workplace culture? Today, you’re going to hear what happens when people come together across cultures to support each other – amidst a backdrop of World War, racism, fear,…
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Sam Fleischacker: Adam Smith on Empathy and the Free Market
Captains of industry and political pundits who believe the free market economy will save us all love to cite 18th-century social thinker Adam Smith and his book The Wealth of Nations. In it, he championed self-interest and a free market as a catalyst for societal…
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August Hot Take: Why Connecting Through Story Works So Well
We are too often sleepwalking through our lives. Rushing from here to there, where people we come in close contact with become mere extras in the screenplay of our day. But what if you could take some time and find a way to connect with…
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Joanna L. Cea: Beloved Economies
A beloved economy. Doesn’t that just sound like an economic ecosystem you want to be part of? Well, it can be. There are organizations out there who have innovated HOW they do work and broken out of business as usual – to stellar results. And…
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Lindsay LaShell: A Marketing Activist Blends Purpose & Profit
Want to save the world – & build a healthy profitable business? You can. My guest today, Lindsay LaShell, and I talked about everything purpose & profit! What is a marketing activist, how impact organizations can better leverage marketing to achieve goals, where folks go…
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