Send us a textAs one of the inaugural faculty members of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, one of the first institutions in the world with a multidisciplinary faculty devoted to the study of leadership, Dr. Gill Hickman joined forces with her colleagues to build a leadership studies program from the ground up. She is a former board member of the International Leadership Association and the recipient of several awards, including the ILA's Leadership Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Richmond's Distinguished Educator Award. She has authored many publications including Leading Organizations: Perspectives for a New Era and Leading Change in Multiple Contexts, Invisible Leadership, and her most recent book, When Leaders Face Personal Crisis: The Human Side of Leadership.  Connecting with GillOn LinkedInWebsiteQuotes From This Episode"As soon as they said the buses were integrated...I thought 'I'm going to try this'...and I got on with a friend and we sat on the front seat. And people started talking about us and saying we didn't belong there. And literally, a woman hit me with her umbrella and told me to move and get off. And I did not do it.""The first day they said the lunch counters were integrated in Birmingham (unbeknownst to my parents) I decided, I'm going to sit down at the lunch counter.""Georgia Sorenson and I were at the Kellogg Leadership Studies project and we were all talking about leadership with James McGregor Burns, and all the other scholars, and people were arguing about the leader and what the role of the leader is, and on and on... Georgia and I looked at each other and said, 'we're kind of sick of this argument. We're all focused on the leader. What about, what about everybody else? What about people being inspired because they really believe in what they're doing?' And that's that was the start of our conversation about the common purpose as the leader, in other words, invisible leadership."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeArticle: Invisible 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 textDavid Rae is the President & Co-Founder of 503 Media & Events - an organization that believes in moments, not things.  The 503 team is comprised of creative technologists and plays in the digital, strategy, brand content, and experiential space. David is also the Curator of TEDxPortland which is focused on connecting thinkers and doers committed to "ideas worth spreading" in the Rose City. Connecting with David503 Media & Events WebsiteTEDxPortland WebsiteLinkedIn: David RaeQuotes From This Episode"I’m a creative at heart. I love art.  I love experience.  I love storytelling. And a drug for me is creating indelible moments for people to enjoy. For people to collect moments and not things. So I’ve always had a passion for putting people in the room and creating an arena or vessel in which people can connect and get to the core of meaningful relationships. That’s just, that’s the juice for me.""We're in this fun office space. And I have pennants all over in the rafters of my office...and one of the pennants is 'figure it out.' So I look at 'figure it out' every day. I look at 'let it go.' I look at 'worry will trap you.' I look right above me is 'give a damn.' I mean,  I just need those kinds of motivational quips and quotes to keep me trucking.""I wake up in the morning and ask these questions of myself: 1) Does it serve the team? 2) Does it serve the business? 3) Does it serve the community? and 4) What can I personally do better to help in each of those?""TEDxPortland is a lightning bolt of joy and ideas and inspiration for this town. The city has embraced it from day one."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeeCornell - Diversity & Inclusion certificateGreenlights by Matthew McConaugheyMasterclassAbout 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. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connect with Your Host, Scott AllenScott's other Podcast - The Captovation Podcast♻️ 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. Bruce Avolio has published 12 books and over 150 articles on leadership and related areas. In 2012, Bruce was identified as being in the top 25 management scholars over the last 50 years regarding scholarly citations of his work. In 2017, Bruce was recognized as being among the top 70 most highly cited researchers in the United States in Economics and Business and among the top 3,000 across all sciences around the globe (Thompson Reuters). He was listed this past year at the #18 spot on the all-time most highly cited industrial and organizational psychology researchers over the last 100 years. Dr. Avolio has consulted with hundreds of organizations around the globe in the design and delivery of transformative leadership development systems. Bruce was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and Gerontological Society. His latest book is Organizational Transformation: How to Achieve it One Person at a Time. Learn More About Bruce's WorkBruce Avolio at Google ScholarBook: Full Range Leadership DevelopmentBook: Leadership Development in Balance: Born/MadeQuotes From This Episode"What I would consider, maybe still the holy grail, around leadership development is our perspective-taking capacity." "So if I were to create what I call a "gamulation," for engaging people in their own development, what would that look like? It would be a series of scenarios and challenges."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook: Immunity to Change by Kegan and LaheyBook: In Over Our Heads by Robert KeganBook: The Map by Eigel and KuhnertBook: Learning as Transformation by Jac♻️ 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"I’m very proud and satisfied that I’ve walked the path of that middle ground. Which is both being a practitioner as well as a scholar."Dennis C. Roberts is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He last served as Assistant Vice President of Education for Qatar Foundation (QF). During his seven years with QF, he worked with Qatari and expatriate colleagues to create the student development and support services for its branch universities at Education City in Doha, Qatar. Before working abroad, he was Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Miami University. He is past president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). He has been a member and presenter at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the International Leadership Association. He has authored six books and over 50 book chapters and other articles on student affairs, student learning, and leadership.Learn More About Denny's WorkBook: Student Leadership Programs in Higher Education (1981)Book: Deeper Learning in Leadership: Helping College Students Find the Potential WithinBlog: Pursuing Leadership by DennyBlog: Global Student AffairsSocial Media: Denny on TwitterQuotes from This Episode"I think a characteristic of people who are more inclined to really engage in leadership is curiosity...it’s not a big word. It’s not complicated, but it’s simply being curious about your surroundings, about other people, and about other cultures.""A translator and integrator. That’s who I’ve always been.""Musicians are a fantastic example of complicated leadership because you’re dealing with trying to create a voice so that others will understand. You’re trying to bring disparate instruments and perspectives together. You’re trying to push the envelope without going so far that you turn people off."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeSAP Insights - Blank CanvasSAP Insights - The PassionatesChicago Symphony OrchestraAbout 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. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connect with Your Ho♻️ 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 textGary Lloyd has led organizational change initiatives for nearly thirty years. Over the last decade, he has also helped professionals make personal and career changes in his role as a member of Warwick Business School's Executive Coaching Panel and as a steering committee member for its mentoring program. He spent most of his career in banking and financial markets. However, through his consulting and coaching work, he has also worked with clients in manufacturing, construction, logistics, food processing, and IT services.Learn More About Gary's WorkBook: Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at workWebsite: Gardeners Not MechanicsQuotes From Gary's Book"The world of work is an ecosystem of interdependent organisations, groups, and individuals. So, if you want to make a sustainable change at work, you are more likely to succeed if you approach your change as a gardener, not a mechanic.""Mechanics rely on predictability. They assume that the same inputs produce the same outputs, time after time. A car, for example, will perform as predicted on a tarmac road.""Gardeners know that their environment is unpredictable, with much of it outside their control. Gardeners, therefore, take small steps towards a bigger goal. They experiment to find out what works and what doesn't and continually adjust to what they find out."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBooks: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment & Thinking Fast & Slow Books: How Emotions Are Made & Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Book: Livewired Book: Think Again Podcast: SidewaysDocumentary: The Mole AgentAbout 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. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connect with Your Host, Scott AllenScott's other Podcast - The Captovation PodcastLinkedInWebsite♻️ 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. Dennis Tourish is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of the journal Leadership, and the author of several books including The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership, published and Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research. He is a proponent of the Responsible Research of Business and Management Network an organization that envisions a world where business and management research is used in practice to improve the lives of people. Learn More About Dennis' WorkArticle: The Triumph of Nonsense in Management StudiesBook: Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research Dennis Tourish at Google ScholarQuotes From This Episode"Too much of our research has driven around what statisticians call p-hacking, where you keep on running statistical analysis beyond the point of reason to torture the data into confessing.""It’s entirely possible to have a satisfactory and interesting career without ever publishing an article in the Academy of Management Review. And very few academics will do it. So by that standard, we are all pretty much failures.""I think it’s more important to have an enjoyable career, to do work that matters to us, and remain interested, focused, and curious, above all be curious, throughout our academic careers.""The world is moving fast and our scholarship needs to reflect that in a more timely manner than it does. I don’t mean that we should cut corners on our work. But we can certainly offer interesting ideas in a more timely manner than we seem to have been doing in the past."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeResponsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM)♻️ 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 textWhy does she engage in the work? For Dr. Jackie Bruce, it's crystal clear - and it's inspiring. "For me, the 'Why' is that we are creating a more equitable, more just, more liberated community. That's the point...not just to improve the bottom line...but so that every single person can be the person they were meant to be. That's the point." Her clarity struck me in a powerful way. Dr. Jackie Bruce is an Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Programs  Agricultural & Extension Education and Undergraduate Coordinator, Leadership in Ag & Life Sciences Minor at North Carolina State University. She resides in the department of Agricultural & Human Sciences and teaches courses in leadership development & qualitative research methods, and advises undergraduate and graduate students. She serves as the Co-Director of the Oaks Leadership Scholars Program, is an Equal Opportunity Institute Graduate Scholar, and an LGBT Center Advocate. She enjoys great discussions and direct action related to creating more inclusive communities. Jackie is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Leadership Education and is honored to work with a vibrant community of leadership scholars and practitioners.Learn More About Jackie's WorkJournal of Leadership EducationDr. Bruce at Google ScholarQuotes From This Episode"The moment when we acknowledge that anybody can be a leader is huge.""As the conversations become more complex, as the world becomes closer, as the problems become more nuanced...the old stuff maybe doesn't fit anymore.""When I think about why we do this...why do I go into the classroom every day to educate young people on leadership? For me, the 'Why' is so that we are creating a more equitable, more just, more liberated community. That's the point...not just to improve the bottom line...but so that every single person can be the person they were meant to be. That's the point.""My K-12, educator friends use the phrase 'you got to Maslow before you can Bloom." It's the idea that we have to have those basic needs met. Kids have to be fed, sheltered, and clothed. They have to feel like they belong. They have to feel secure. And then we can start teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeIbram X. Kendi  - How To Be An Anti-Racist Podcast: Pod Save AmericaPodcast: Coffee Break ItalianWebsite: Crooked MediaAb♻️ 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 textStretch your mind and explore the world of integral leadership! This quote stood out for me - I have a lot to learn! "Instead of looking at linear causality  ('well, we’ll have to figure out who’s to blame'), people can start to see that there are multiple considerations, multiple influences, systemic ways of looking at things. That has been one of the core elements of integral leadership."Dr. Jonathan Reams has an insatiable curiosity about the essence of human nature and how to cultivate this essence in the service of leadership. He is a professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he teaches and researches leadership development, coaching, and counseling. He serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Praxis and Research. He is also a co-founder of the European Center for Leadership Practice and the Center for Transformative Leadership. Jonathan’s Ph.D. is in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University.Jonathan practices the cultivation of leadership through consulting and leadership development program design and delivery. He brings awareness-based technology to this work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges. Learn More About Jonathan's WorkArticles by Jonathan Videos of JonathanJonathan's WebsiteQuotes From This Episode(On consciousness) "the simple four-quadrant map where there’s the interior subjective world, but there’s also the external behavior of individuals. Then there’s the collective interior of how culture shapes how we show up as individuals, but there are also external systems, institutions, rewards, and all those kinds of things. So all of this helped me see that there’s more to it than just consciousness. There are interdependencies between these things. And nobody was really talking about this in terms of leadership.""One that has been foremost in my thinking and work is really this developmental notion that we mature, as we grow older, and that the structures or forms or ways you can characterize that maturity, don’t stop just because our bodies stop growing.""In terms of leadership, I’ve seen some things that a friend of mine would call 'proto-integral' - you see people who are starting to put more pieces together."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeFuture Trends in Leadership Development by Nick Petrie♻️ 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 textThis quote will stick with me - "Who you are is how you lead." It's one of those phrases that says so much with very few words. Elegantly simple and powerful.  In this episode, Dr. Doug Lindsay and I discuss so many fun topics - Space Force, technology,  the intersectionalities of our work, and his role as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Character and Leader Development.Dr. Doug Lindsay is an experienced leader, communicator, team builder, and coach with a demonstrated track record working in the military, higher education, and consultation in different domains. He is skilled in organizational development and change, leader and leadership development, building high-performance teams, executive coaching, and assessment. He currently works as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Character and Leader Development at the Center of Character and Leadership Development (United States Air Force Academy). Doug conducts research in leadership, applied psychology, behavioral science, and experimental psychology.Learn More About Doug's ProjectsDoug Lindsay at Google ScholarJournal of Character and Leader DevelopmentQuotes From This Episode"Character is not a task, your character is endemic to who you are.""At the Journal of Character and Leader Development...we love to be necessarily different. Because while we’re based out of a military service Academy, the Air Force Academy, we don’t want to be relevant just to the military, just to the Air Force, we want to be able to contribute to the large community of leadership and character development. And so we’re necessarily different in the fact that we tend to focus more on the applied side of things, the 'so what' aspect.""We talk about leadership in the military like it’s something totally different than leadership in higher education. There are differences...but maybe 70 to 80% of effective leadership is cross-domain. Do you communicate? Do you take care of your people? How are you making decisions? Are you inclusive? Are you building diverse teams?""So that 'who I am is how I lead' is not just a thought process, it’s about what I do. And when our intent and our actions align, that’s where we start to get into those ideas of authenticity. Am I who I say I am? Am I showing up how I intend to show up at work?"Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Culture Code by Dan Coyle♻️ 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 textThis is the quote that really stood out from my conversation with Dr. Jeanie Forray.  I love the notion of 'serendipitous transitions.' "My lived experience has been one of serendipitous transitions. And what I mean by that is that I can look back at moments in my life and say, 'Oh, that was a transition point. And they always led to an opportunity that I could not have foreseen if I had been thinking about what do I want to do next."Jeanie M. Forray is Professor of Management in the College of Business at Western New England University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations in the Ed.D. program of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Forray served as President of the Western New England University Faculty Senate from 2019-2021, chair of the Management Department from 2007-2015, founded and served as director of the Sophomore Experience Abroad Program from 2010-2014, and co-chaired the university-wide President’s Task Force on Internationalization from 2007-2008.  Dr. Forray received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in organization studies (OB/OT). She is a Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management and a Fellow and past President of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. She has received the Erskine Teaching Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand three times, where she conducted teaching workshops for doctoral students and collaborated with university faculty on new pedagogical approaches for active learning classrooms.Dr. Forray is the founding co-editor of Management Teaching Review, the founding editor of Organization Management Journal, and serves currently as co-editor of Journal of Management Education.Learn More About Jeanie's ProjectsDr. Jeanie Forray at Google ScholarSeneca ConsortiumQuotes From This Episode"We don’t always think about what leaving looks like.""I have found through my own lived experience that letting go is as important to the act of leadership or having made a contribution than maybe the contribution itself.""I’ve always liked the term of 'reinventing' because it makes those transitions...exciting. It’s a little scary, too.""If you don’t institutionalize things, they don’t stick. And institutionalizing is a different aspect of leadership than innovating. So if you do have time, you can innovate and institutionalize.""We say that leaders are mentors, but sometimes we have to learn how to step back. Our children grow up, our colleagues grow more mature, organizations shift and change. If we leave the leadership position...then we need to pay a little more attention to what that looks like."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodePod Save♻️ 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.