Send us a textLaura Guilliam manages leadership research and development projects at Progressive Insurance. Her primary interest is the individual and cultural impact of emotionally intelligent leaders—creating and sustaining positive organizational relationships within virtual and in-office work environments. Laura brings 26 years of practitioner experience to the ongoing study of organizational development and change. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Akron, a Master of Science in Project Management from Boston University, and a Master of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University. She also earned a certificate of Appreciative Inquiry in Positive Business and Societal Change and a certificate in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and Executive Coaching at CWRU. Laura is currently working on her Executive Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership from Benedictine University, Chicago.Quotes From This Episode(Regarding Progressive) "We are a company that believes relationships are the core of everything. ""I love supporting leaders. I think it’s one of the hardest, most selfless jobs, and I love supporting people who’ve invested and said, 'I want to lead people.' So that’s what I’ve made my mission, and I will always serve that group.""Our interactions have positive and negative charges; our words have positive and negative charges, our gestures have positive and negative charges. If you’re responsible, and you care about the relationships, you will mindfully pay attention to how many of those you deliver.” "So these are kinds of things that we're teaching, in our virtual leadership...it's virtual 101 - pay attention to the positive and negative that you deliver day-in and day-out to your people because they're getting bombarded with negative all day long. So what are you doing to help them get through that?""So this is really important in the leadership, really important in the virtual space, to pay attention to these most positive and, and negative charges, rarely will you lay your head down at night and say, 'Gosh, today was completely neutral, I had neither good nor bad.'""There's so much fantastic work done in the academic field that needs to get in the hands of practitioners. ""We're coming up with creative ways to stay connected and build our relationships. So I'd like to tap into that and see how leaders are getting creative.""The one thing that COVID didn’t take from us was relationships. And so that’s what we have. And that’s what we’re left with, and obviously, it’s a passion point of mine...How do I help my leaders protect those relationships?"Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Hidden BrainThe Overwhelmed BrainThe Daily - The New York TimesDo You En♻️ 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 textCatherine M. Rymsha, EdD,  is a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on leadership. Catherine spent more than ten years in marketing and communication leadership roles ranging from marketing healthcare conferences to writing speeches on payment card security. She now leads learning and development for a software company. Between her academic and professional experience, she has taught courses on leadership, feedback, and career to global leaders across an array of industries. Catherine's WorkBook - The Leadership DecisionTed Talk -  Want to become a better leader? Here's how. Just listen.Quotes From This Episode"Establishing a leadership brand is similar to that of a corporate brand.""Once you make that decision, to be a leader you need to think about your life overall.""A lot of times leaders fail to get feedback on how others perceive their brand.""A very wise thing for leaders to be aware of is that it's okay to show vulnerability...it can be a way for leaders to connect in a different way...and can speak volumes for their brand."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeResource: Project Implicit at HarvardShow: Surviving Death♻️ 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 textBrad Jackson is Associate Dean of Strategic Engagement at Waikato Management School in New Zealand. He also serves as Professor of Leadership and Governance. Jackson has published several books — Management Gurus and Management Fashions, Organisational Behaviour in New Zealand, Demystifying Business Celebrity, and Revitalising Leadership. He has also co-edited the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Major Works in Leadership. He is a former co-editor of the journal, Leadership.Select Publications by Dr. Brad JacksonBook - A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying LeadershipBook -  The Hero Manager - Learning from New Zealand's Top Chief ExecutivesArticle - The Power of Place in Public Leadership Research and DevelopmentQuotes From This Episode"If you want to get to know a place, try to change something.""I suppose as you go through your career, particularly as you get towards the twilight phase of your career, you tend to think...'Hang on, where did this all start?', and you start to go back to your original passions and interests.""What I’ve been quietly and slightly more noisily doing recently is looking at what I call a 'geography of leadership.'""You’re encouraged to talk about your Mountain and your River. And as someone who’s sort of moved around an awful lot, I must admit, I really struggle with the question - 'What is my Mountain and my River?' The whole idea is that these are critical advocates for who you are and what you’re about, and what you stand for.""And of course, the key task of leaders is to create the kind of collaborative governance structures that sustain, but then the collective leadership that keeps the momentum."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeJournal - The Journal of Management and Organization - Tribute to Ken PerryConcept - Keith Grint’s four lenses of leadership (A quick reference)Film - NomadlandEpisodes Mentioned in This EpisodeTed Baartmans - ♻️ 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 textWhat do all of these have in common? Join us for a fun and engaging conversation about the intricacies of leadership learning and education. Wax on, wax off.Dr. Bob Reimer is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the United States Air Force Academy where he helps students, faculty, and staff discover performance possibilities that they are missing. Bob holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Penn State with a focus on enhancing workplace performance to include leadership and talent management. Bob is certified to administer and interpret assessments to help individuals and organizations succeed. Bob has applied experience advancing the performance of global companies, government organizations, professional associations, and educational institutions. Select Articles by Dr. ReimerLeadership Development: Observations on Practicum as a Team-Based ApproachThe Impact of Using a Survey Framework in Leadership Education: Is More BetterSituational Obstacles to Enacting Transformational Leadership in Military OrganizationsGetting What you Inspect, Not What You Expect: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Leadership Assessment MethodologiesQuotes From This Episode"I think one of the great challenges that I see today...we've seen a great proliferation of leadership, ideas, plans, programs, products, you name it...but as a discipline...we don't really have objective standards." "I think one (challenge) is we're wrestling with this idea of what 'evidence-based' looks like.""Our identities always exist in a system.""When a student comes to understand leadership, as a solution to the problem of bringing people together to do things collectively, then that changes their perspective on what leadership is...I don't have to be the team leader, to have a role in influencing how my teammates come together, and we work interdependently to get work done.""My students remind me on a daily basis that they don't necessarily want to study leadership as a topic. But every single one of them is actively engaged on a daily basis with practicing leadership. My job as an educator and as a director, when I work with faculty who are teaching these courses, is creating environments where we can really tie together the knowledge with the skills and the abilities that really matter to the student."Resources Mentioned in This Episode♻️ 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"If we are going to achieve freedom we’ve got to engage in action programs to make that freedom possible. Let nobody fool you about this. Freedom is never voluntarily given to the oppressed by the oppressor." - Martin Luther King, Jr.Jim Robenalt is an author, historian, and attorney. He's a partner in Thompson Hine's Business Litigation practice group and has been named as one of America's Leading Lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. Jim has consistently been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers® through a process that includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Jim has partnered with John Dean, Nixon's White House Counsel, to create a national continuing education program entitled "The Watergate CLE."Select Publications by Jim RobenaltWebsite/Podcast: Ballots and BulletsBook: Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 ClevelandBook: January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever  - with John DeanThe Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War - with John DeanArticle:  What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in CommonArticle: How HUD Nominee Marcia Fudge Can Undo the Damage Nixon Did CLE Program: The Legacy of Watergate: Ethics of Representing an Entity Under the Current Model Rules Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeSpeech: Malcolm X: Ballot or BulletSpeech: Martin Luther King, Jr.: April 26, 1967 in Cleveland, OhioSpeech: Robert Kennedy: April 4, 1968Film: One Night in Miami Harvard Business Review Case: ♻️ 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 textWhat's hot in the world of teams? Remote work. Virtual leadership. Teaming from a distance. David Burkus' new book Leading From Anywhere explores critical insights about doing this work well. About DavidDavid Burkus is the best-selling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed more than two million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and the US Naval Academy. His most recent book is Leading From Anywhere.David's Publications and WebsiteLeading From AnywhereThe Myths of CreativityUnder New ManagementFriend of a FriendPick a FightDavid's WebsiteQuotes from This Episode"I’m trying to drag good ideas out of the ivory tower and drag them over to the corner office.""There is one thing that everybody listening to this should do. And that is an exercise I call a Team Working Agreement, which is basically our rules for how we're going to conduct business over the next six months""People don’t want to join a company, they want to join a crusade. They want to join a cause. They want to join something that makes them feel their day to d♻️ 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 textHow can you work to be a better leader every day of 2021? My guest gives us 365 steps to get you there.About Dr. RiggioRonald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Riggio is the author of more than a dozen books and more than 100 research articles and book chapters in the areas of leadership, assessment centers, organizational psychology, and social psychology. He's served on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, Group Dynamics, and Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.Explore Ron's WorkRon's Latest Book - Daily Leadership Development: 365 Steps to Becoming a Better Leader Ron's Website and his blog at Psychology TodayQuotes From This Episode"You know, this is a journey, not a destination.""This book (Daily Leadership Development: 365 Steps to Becoming a Better Leader) could be something that you could go back to throughout your leadership career because the final few weeks are really about thinking about the end of  your leadership in terms of, 'what's your leadership legacy?'" Question: What does President-Elect Biden need to do to move past some of the challenges that are inherently baked into the role he's about to assume? - "I've done a lot of thinking about this. I think the number one issue is divisiveness."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook - The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker  Book - The Bass Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications by Bernard M. Bass  and  Ruth Bass Book - Inclusify by Stefanie Johnson Frontline Documentary - A Class Divided - Jane Elliott’s lesson in discriminationBook - ♻️ 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 textKen Accardi is the CEO of Ankota. He's a technology executive with a broad experience base. Ken has served as CEO, CTO, CIO, VP of Business Solutions, Director of R&D, and VP of Process/Quality. He teaches at Babson College and has several specialties, including healthcare (specifically avoiding preventable hospitalizations for elderly at-risk populations), new product introduction, software engineering management, value innovation, product management, lean Six Sigma, quality management, strategic planning and execution, software pre-sales, professional services, technology training, and acquisition integration. Quotes from This Episode"Because when you do try to plan, let's say, six months of work all on day one, it's really impossible to know all the things that you need. And you've likely thought of things that you could live without. And so having this agile methodology lets you solve all those problems."(regarding Agile) - "There are a lot of points for celebration. Every two weeks, you have something new out and something to be proud of as a team."(regarding Agile) - "There are people who are going to write code, there are people who are going to make sure that the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) or to the customer's expectation, there are people who are going to test the code, and you want them all working together, sort of like a jazz group - they all seem to be jiving together. And everybody's contributing and doing their part. And in the end, you get something really beautiful out of it.""My definition of culture is what people do when nobody's telling them what to do." Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeWebsite - Agile ManifestoVideo - Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1 & Part 2  Organizaton - Buurtzorg  and its founder, Jos de BlokBlog Post - USS University by Scott Galloway Podcast - Freakonomics Radio Podcast - The Moth Radio Hour Book - Robot-Proof by Joseph Auon Article - China: Starting in 2019 AI Will be Including in High-School CurriculaBook - Learning Agile: U♻️ 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 textTed Baartmans consults leaders, government officials, and international boards in their presence and communication. He studied geography and cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht and public administration and government communication at the University of Leiden. He also studied crisis communication at Northwestern University. Ted’s clients are found around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe as well as North and South America. They include leaders, general staff, and boards for companies, government, and NGOs. He also works with several associations and societies in fields such as education, research, environment, government, healthcare, politics, and logistics. About Ted BaartmansThe Leadership GroupLinkedInQuotes From This Episode"If I take these three steps: understanding, acceptance, and respect, then it's easy to connect to any leader in any position.""It’s all about being valued and respected.""The only issue in my work is building trust... how to build trust, and to make it sustainable.""My approach to culture is also looking for commonalities...with this belief, you always will find commonalities instead of differences. And then you have an entrance to drink a cup of tea in a tent and to start a negotiation.""I learned over all these years, everything is always connected to something else or has angles that were not seen before.""People like to be appreciated. All people."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook: Leadership by James MacGregor BurnsBook: Reunited States of America by Mark GerzonBook: Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life by Robert C. Solomon and Fernando FloresBook: The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All by Martin Sandbu Article: Van Quaquebeke, N., Henrich, D. C., & Eckloff, T. (2007). “♻️ 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. Stratton is the Dean of the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College & State University and also serves as the president of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS). He's an accomplished academic leader and teacher-scholar with experience in private and public higher education. Micheal's expertise lies in the theoretical and practical application of organizational leadership, including workplace culture, power and politics, group dynamics, shared governance, and stakeholder relations. About MichealLinkedInGeorgia College and State UniversityManagement and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS)Quotes from This Episode"Being a first-generation college student and growing up in a working-class family in the mountains of Maine...going to college itself was a stretch.""Management and study of the organization is a liberal art...you know the complexity of human existence and organizations are social phenomena.""At Georgia College, I think the opportunities are endless. Not just collaborating within the university, but collaborating within the system...potential like three plus three programs - a Bachelors of Science in Business and a JD program at another university?""Higher education cannot survive in its silo...as a unit, as an institution, or in its ecosystem. Ecosystems are going to have to come together and merge. I'm not afraid of it. There's no discipline that I know of that has a monopoly on the complexities of human existence."Regarding MOBTS - "As a 47-48-year-old organization, we need to recruit the next generation of management educators, and we need to retain them, and show them how important our organization is."Resources Mentioned in EpisodeVanilla Ice - Ice Ice BabyThe CrownThe QueenThe Queen's GambitThe MandalorianThe Best of Car Talk 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.