Episode 45: Empowering Teams in Times of Crisis

Sue Bethanis hosts Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of the leadership book, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You.

Frances X. Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School. She recently served as Uber’s first Senior Vice President of Leadership and Strategy to help the company navigate its very public crisis in leadership and culture. Frances regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for improved performance. Her TED Talk on the topic of building trust has logged over four million views.

Anne Morriss is a highly sought-after leadership coach and the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator that works to help more and varied leaders thrive. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to Fortune 50 executives to public-sector leaders building national competitiveness. Anne has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises, serving most recently as CEO and founder of GenePeeks, which addressed the urgent need for better personal health information.

They discuss:

• How leaders can maximize trust and minimize stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
• How to unleash the full potential of leaders to increase safety and inclusion in the workplace
• How to bring out the best in people who are different than you
• Practical tools based on their work in companies such as Uber and Walmart