Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

Send us a textMark Bowden is a world-renowned body language expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. Voted Global Gurus’ #1 Body Language Professional in the world, Mark’s unique GesturePlane™  system of nonverbal communication helps audiences maximize the power of using their own body language to stand out, win trust, and gain credibility every time they communicate. Founder of communication training company TRUTHPLANE®, Mark’s live and virtual keynote speeches and training prove invaluable to business leaders and teams from influential companies across the world including Zoom, Shopify, Toyota, KPMG, American Express, the US Army and NATO; and prime ministers of G7 nations. Mark has years of experience training business and political leaders across the globe on how to use their body language both live and over digital media most effectively for superior communication.  His bestselling books on body language and human behavior, translated into multiple languages, are: Winning Body Language; Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals; Tame the Primitive Brain; and Truth & Lies, What People are Really Thinking. Mark is a regular instructor for Canada’s #1-ranked EMBA program at Kellogg-Schulich School of Business, and he is President of the National Communication Coach Association of Canada. Mark’s highly acclaimed TEDx talk “The Importance of Being In-Authentic” continues to reach millions of people, as does his own YouTube Channel and the weekly YouTube sensation “The Behavior Panel” as featured on The Dr. Phil Show. He is a go-to media commentator on the body language of politicians, celebrities, and public figures, appearing regularly on CNN, CBS, and Global News, and he is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and GQ Magazine.A Quote From This Episode"The day after Diana was pronounced dead, Tony Blair came out immediately to the public and coined the term 'The People's Princess.' And then immediately made an announcement with his very classic, open body language. If you compare that to the royal family, the Queen of England isn't just a woman, mother, and grandmother. She represents the country. In fact, she is the country. The law says that.  If she doesn't come out and say something, the country is silent. Tony Blair's ratings go up massively, the Queen's ratings plummet,  immediately, because one was there and open, and one wasn't."Resources Mentioned In This ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a text"Our life is what our thoughts make it" - Dale CarnegieJoe Hart is the President/CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, a company whose founder pioneered the human performance movement more than 100 years ago and has continued to succeed and grow worldwide, through constant research and innovation building on its founding principles.Dale Carnegie has more than 3,000 trainers and consultants, operating in 200 offices in 86 countries around the world, impacting organizations, teams, and individuals. The Company’s client list includes more than 400 of the Fortune Global 500, tens of thousands of small to mid-sized organizations & over eight million individuals across the globe. Since joining Dale Carnegie in 2015 as its President/CEO, Hart has initiated many important changes which have accelerated the Company’s transformation, including a global cultural and change management initiative called “One Carnegie” which has increased internal team collaboration and customer focus, as well as strategic accounts by over 200%; a successful worldwide rebranding of the iconic Dale Carnegie name; and a dramatic digital transformation across the company’s global footprint from nearly 100% in-person delivery to more than 75% online and blended programs in less than nine months (as chronicled in a 2020 Forbes Interview). In 2019, CEO Forum Magazine named Hart one of 12 Transformative Leaders in the U.S. A visionary, risk-taking leader, Hart helped build two technology-based companies, including an e-learning business called InfoAlly. In 2005, Hart sold that company and became the President of a new company he helped form called Asset Health. Today, Asset Health is a privately held and fast-growing education technology, health promotion, and training company that serves Fortune 1,000 companies, major health systems, and other large businesses. Hart holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Wayne State University. He is an avid runner, having competed in many marathons including Boston, Chicago, New York, and Berlin, among others. Hart is married and has six children.A Quote From This Episode"I'm very proud of how that all came together. And again, it goes to the team and their ability to work together and to be unified in a common purpose."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeResource - Dale Carnegie Resources (podcasts, white papers, videos, webinars)Book - How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale CarnegieBook - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Tom Bateman is a professor emeritus with the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.  Tom’s academic field is organizational behavior, including topics like leadership, motivation, decision making, job stress, and teamwork. Tom was the founder and long-time director of UVA’s multi-disciplinary leadership minor open to students of all majors.Tom’s career-long research interests center around proactive behavior (including leadership) by employees at all levels. Being proactive means much more than just starting a task sooner rather than later; it means thinking about the future and acting strategically to change current trajectories to avoid future problems and create better futures. With that definition in mind, he has been writing about psychology and leadership in the domain of climate change and sustainability.Now semi-retired and living in Maine, Tom still gives talks, revises his management textbooks, and writes for Psychology Today, Greenbiz, and The Conversation. And he remains a devoted fan of his hometown Cleveland sports teams.Connecting with TomTwitter: @thomassbatemanLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-bateman-5734715A Quote From Tom's Writing"Your behavior is proactive when you choose it yourself rather than comply with external demands; you execute strategically more than mindlessly; you are future-focused rather than anchored in the present or past; and your intention is to change something for the better, thus to create a better future."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBook: Making Things Happen at Work by Sharon Parker and Uta BindlBook: Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future by Margaret Heffernan Podcast:  Hopecast by Jane GoodallBook: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Assegid (AZ) Habtewold is a transition and transformation strategist at Success Pathways, LLC (www.successpws.com). AZ has over 20 years of international leadership experience in both classroom and virtual environments serving diverse clients in government agencies, corporations, and community organizations in the US and overseas. Dr. Habtewold specializes in designing leadership cohort programs for emerging, middle, and senior leaders. He has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, a Master’s in Computer Science, and a Doctor of Strategic Leadership. AZ also has certifications such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Instructional Systems Design (ISD). He is a member of the International Leadership Association and the host of the "Pick Yourself Up" show that airs on MMCTV Channel 16.  AZ has published six books:Overcoming 1st Timer Syndrome in Leadership (Amazon’s #1 Best Seller)Unchain Your GreatnessThe Highest Level of GreatnessSoft Skills That Make or Break Your SuccessThe 9 Cardinal Building Blocks for Continued Success in LeadershipRedefining LeadershipA Quote From This Episode"Many organizations just promote people and see whether they sink or swim...A lot of people making their first-time opportunity to lead are suffering."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeFilm: The Edge of PurposeBook: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World  by EpsteinBook: Dare to Lead by Brene BrownAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership.  ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textHappy New Year!Brendan Newton is a husband, father, ex-professional bodyboarder, mental health awareness advocate, and recruitment manager for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME). AIME builds “Unlikely Connections for a Fairer World.” Brendan’s intense approach to the ocean translates into all aspects of his life–a life devoted to his family, inspiring others, and serving the disadvantaged.  He is also the host of The Grey Space podcast which is about "healing loudly by addressing mental health & trauma, gently, yet openly... A space to be honest."Learn More About AIMECase Study: Harvard Business Case on AIME Report: KPMG  Economic Evaluation of AIME MentoringPodcast: AIME's founder Jack Manning Bancroft on Tyson Yunkaporta’s PodcastVideo: The Imagination FactoryVideo: AIME's ValuesVideo: AIME's Value of FailureA Quote From This Episode"Our current systems value the capacity to meet results immediately. That's a really difficult thing for someone who has been put on the margins for the first 10 years of their life–through no fault of their own."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBook: CHERUB by Robert Muchamore Movie: Dear Rider: The Jake Burton StoryJohn Wooden Quote: "If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."About The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Connect with Scott AllenWebsite ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textListen to Episode #1 of Phronesis. David Rosch was my first guest - I Have a FearDr. David Rosch is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more about David's work by visiting the Journal of Leadership Education - David Rosch, Google Scholar - David Rosch, or Illinois Leader Lab. Quotes from This Episode"I would like to start a conversation in our field - "What does it really mean to be an effective leader in a way that we can all get around some agreement?"(In part, our work is about) "Trying to help leaders and emerging leaders see things in new, more complex, more mature ways."(Leadership scholars are) "all using different vocabulary to talk about not identical concepts, but overlapping concepts, it would be good to start talking about, well, what do we mean in a disciplined way?""We're not teaching students how to make more effective meaning of what's going on in front of them so that they can apply the concepts in their actual life, on a minute-to-minute basis.""Most introduction to leadership courses are really an introduction to the history of leadership studies."Resources Discussed in This EpisodePodcast - The Lowe PostPodcast - Growing as Grown Ups Podcast - Keith Eigel/Robert KeganAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Connect with Scott AllenWebsite ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Ron Heifetz, a leading authority on leadership and founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard, shares invaluable insights on adaptive leadership education. He emphasizes the learning power of real-world experiences and the importance of addressing conflict with empathy and trust. Heifetz introduces the concept of 'brave spaces' for meaningful discussions and explores the lessons from nature that can inform ethical leadership. With reflections on creativity, he advocates for embracing mistakes as crucial to growth in leadership and education.

Send us a textReo is a leadership developer and researcher. His dream is to strengthen world peace by promoting leadership not only at an individual level but also at a systemic level. He teaches adaptive leadership using the case-in-point pedagogy in the U.S.A. and Japan. His research focus is on the intersection of leadership development and adult development. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego, the oldest doctoral program in leadership studies in the U.S.A. He is also a Researcher at Keio University, one of the premier universities in Japan. Reo is a certified scorer of Robert Kegan’s Subject-Object Interview and a trained facilitator of the Immunity to Change and the case-in-point pedagogy. Reo is one of the founding members of the International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) in Japan. iCLA was established in Yamanashi in 2015 to educate future global leaders from Japan through an innovative liberal arts curriculum with a world-class Japan Studies Program.  Before iCLA, he was Research Associate in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and conducted a comparative analysis of leadership development in the U.S.A. and Japan.Reo has various leadership experiences as an entrepreneur. In 2001 he founded a digital marketing firm, Dentsu Razorfish (formerly called Digital Palette) in Tokyo and Osaka, and had served as Chief Executive Officer for nine years. During the period, he formed a capital alliance with Razorfish in the U.S.A. and served on the Razorfish global leadership team for three years. He also served on the Board of Directors of Cyber Communications, the largest internet media agency in Japan, and Fractalist China, a leading mobile marketing company in China.Reo holds an M.P.A. in Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School, an M.B.A. in Marketing Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in Japan.A Quote From This Episode"In a sense, I was not mature enough to deal with the complexity of the challenge I faced as a leader."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeReo's Website Resource: Minds at WorkResource: Action Inquiry LeadershipBook: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textBill Torbert is a founding board member of Global Leadership Associates and Amara Collaborative, as well as Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College.  Recent recognitions include: the 2010 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management; the 2012 re-publication of his 2005 HBR article “Seven Transformations of Leadership” as one of the Harvard Business Review’s top ten leadership reads ever; the 2013 Center for Creative Leadership Walter F. Ulmer Jr. Award for Career Contributions to Applied Leadership Research; and the 2014 Chris Argyris Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management. Between 1978-2008, Torbert served first as BC’s Carroll School Graduate Dean and later as Director of the PhD Program in Organizational Transformation – the MBA program rising from below the top 100 to 25th nationally during his deanship.  With regard to scholarship, Torbert’s 2004 Berrett-Koehler book, Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (still in print and now translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Russian) presents his theories, cases, surveys, and lab and field experiments about developmental transformation at both the personal and organizational levels, as well as within science itself, undergirded by an action research process exercised in real-time, everyday life, called "Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry." Torbert’s eleven other books and more than 80 articles and chapters include the national Alpha Sigma Nu award-winning Managing the Corporate Dream (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987), and the Terry Award Finalist book The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry (Sage, 1991).  His latest book, co-authored with action inquiry colleague Hilary Bradbury, is entitled Eros/Power: Love in the Spirit of Inquiry (Integral Publishers, 2016).  Torbert received a BA, magna cum laude, in Political Science & Economics and a Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences, both from Yale University, holding a Danforth Graduate Fellowship during his graduate years.  He founded the Yale Upward Bound (War on Poverty) program and the Theatre of Inquiry and taught at Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard prior to joining the Boston College faculty in 1978.  Most of all, though, Bill takes great pleasure and pride (not to mention occasional pain) in the ongoing development of his closest friends and colleagues, of his three sons, Michael, Patrick, and Benjamin, and of their children.His latest book is Numbskull in the Theater of Inquiry.A Quote From This Episode"So horizontal learning is absolutely a key element of learning. But it isn't the most fundamental kind of learning. The mos ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textKarl W. Kuhnert, Ph.D. is Professor of the Practice of Organization and Management in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Karl’s research focuses on how leaders cognitively, interpersonally, and emotionally develop over the life course.  Karl has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, 13 book chapters and made over 100 conference presentations, and served on numerous editorial and review panels.  He teaches industrial and organizational psychology, leadership, organizational change, and professional ethics.  Karl has won numerous awards for teaching and research. Karl also regularly teaches leadership development in the Executive Ed. Programs at Emory, UCLA, HEC Paris, and UGA. He has served as a consultant with many large and small corporations, non-profit and government organizations including, United Parcel Service, The U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Siemens, The Jet Propulsion Lab, Cox Automotive, The Federal Reserve, Federal Home Loan Bank, The Robert Wood Foundation, Carnival Cruise Line, AECOM, and The American Cancer Society.Keith Eigel, Ph.D. is the founder of The Leaders Lyceum (lye-see-um), an organization dedicated to leveraging challenges to accelerate the leaderʼs journey to sustained effectiveness. He is co-author of a forthcoming book on personality, leader effectiveness, and leveraging the diversity of perspective for team performance called The Vehicle.  Over the last twenty-five years, his research and writing have had a global reach, being cited in academic and best-selling publications on 5 continents. Keith and his team have honed a developmental curriculum that extends and leverages over sixty years of research to help executive and next-generation leaders measurably advance leader maturity, the best predictor of a leader’s effectiveness. Thousands of leaders from dozens of industries have been transformed by their experiences with The Leaders Lyceum. Additionally, he'sbeen an executive coach to several C-Level Fortune 50 leaders and University Presidents.A Quote From This Episode"The higher the level of vertical development the more effective you are in all aspects of life and leadership. In fact, no single factor better predicts you’re effectiveness than where you are on your vertical journey."ResourcesArticle: Transactional and transformational leadership: A constructive/developmental analysis by Kuhnert and LewisArticle: Authentic development: Leadership development level and executive effectiveness by Eigel and KuhnertBook: The Map by Eigel and KuhnertBook: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.