Fearless Creative Leadership

'The Buddhist'. Mark is the CEO of COMMON - a company that accelerates the launch and growth of businesses that take care of the planet and all the creatures on it. He has grown up with and lived with tension in multiple forms and has been on a journey to discover his through line. My conversation with Mark made me think about my own through line.  I hope it does the same for you. I talked to Mark about becoming a Buddhist, about leading from behind and about his fear of what’s possible.  

A five minute edited highlight of our full-length conversation

'The Problem Finder'. Dan Pink is a rare combination. A powerful storyteller with an extraordinary eye for patterns and truth in a white-out blizzard of data and possibilities.  His books have been a big part of my personal journey.   His most recent book is called, When - the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing You'll find all his books at DanPink.com Dan and I talked about when he realized he was a writer, about why writing a book is like a marriage and about how he helped me put a room full of 200 people to sleep.

A five minute edited highlight of our full length conversation.

'The Leader Builder'. Lori Bradley is the Executive Vice President of Global Talent Management for PVH Corp. PVH owns Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Husen and Speedo among other brands. Lori holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organization Psychology and no one that I know, knows more about leadership assessment and development, succession management, and organization design. She also has a masters in English Literature. Lori and I talked about the relationship between fear and creativity, about the importance of experiments in complex organizations, and about the role creativity played in getting her kicked out of vacation bible school.  

A five minute edited highlight of our full length conversation.

'The Diversity Leader'. Singleton Beato is the personification of a leader determined to create a better future for everyone. She is the Chief Diversity & Engagement Officer at McCann Worldgroup, a position she came to after seven years as the Executive VP, for Diversity Strategy and Talent Development at the 4As. She is a thought leader in the issues that create the absence of diversity in organizations, and she’s an expert in the behaviors and practices that organizations must embrace if they want to develop workforces that reflect society. During our conversation, she talked about the role that her race played in her upbringing, about why she waited until she was 32 to go to college, and about how to create environments that embrace differences. It was a timely conversation when we recorded it a couple of weeks ago. It has become even more relevant in the aftermath of the announcement of TimesUp Advertising.  

A five minute edited highlight of our full length conversation.

'The Freelance Leader'. This week, my conversation with Justin Gignac,  co-founder of Working Not Working - an online marketplace for creative freelancers.  Our conversation was recorded on-stage at the 4as Talent2030 Conference. At some points, you’ll hear us discussing a chart. The graphic of that chart is included in the transcript of this episode at the FearlessCreativeLeadership website. Justin Gignac has been a cheerleader, a professional mascot and an entrepreneur. We talked about what it was like to grow up as the son of a clown, about the extraordinarily simple idea that was the genesis of WNW, about the army he’s building, and about what we should be teaching our children.

A five minute highlight of our full conversation.