Dr. Mary Uhl-Bien, a prominent leadership scholar and Professor at Texas Christian University, discusses the intricacies of complexity leadership. She shares insights on how leaders can adapt to technological changes and global disruptions, particularly highlighted by the shift to remote work during the pandemic. Uhl-Bien emphasizes the importance of relationship-oriented leadership in navigating societal tensions and harnessing conflict for positive outcomes. She also reflects on how personal and professional realms are intertwined in today's complex world, urging leaders to embrace this dynamic for growth.

Send us a textDr. Ralph Gigliotti is Director of Leadership Development and Research at the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers. He serves as a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Ph.D. program in Higher Ed at Rutgers. His research and consulting explore the intersection of organizational communication, leadership, and crisis communication. He's also a National Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and serves on the Board for the Network for Change & Continuous Innovation in Higher Education.Book and Publications by Dr. GigliottiCrisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and Practice Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence: A Theory of Resonance, Activation, and Cultivation Leadership: Social Influence in Personal and Professional Settings A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education: Core Concepts, Competencies, and Tools Quotes From This Episode"With an eye towards innovation, and an eye towards learning, and an eye towards transformation, we can all learn together through this, we can heal together through this, and we can come out of this stronger than we may have been and more unified than we may have been going into this.""And when we look at leadership through a broader lens, and it's not just the messag♻️ 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. Corey Seemiller is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations at Wright State University. She is a leading expert on Gen Z and a prolific scholar in the space of leadership education. She's been interviewed by NPR, The New York Times, Newsy, Cheddar, Bloomberg and is the author of  Generation Z Goes to College, Generation Z Leads,  Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Generation Z Learns,  and The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook.Links to Corey's WorkCorey's Website  Student Leadership Competencies Ted Talk - Generation Z: Making a Difference Their WayCreating a Taxonomy of Leadership Competency Development The Common Language of LeadershipQuotes from This Episode"When I got into this generational work, I wanted to have a positive spin on it, especially as an educator.""It's really an interesting journey to be along for the ride with this young generation as they're experiencing the same things I am, but in a very different way. And in a very different context.""...this is just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of a Gen Zer saying, 'I don't trust leaders to make decisions that are in my best interest. I don't trust the system. I'm going to just go ahead and start doing things that I think are going to make a difference because that's the only power and agency that I have.'""I'm going to be curious to track that over this election, and certainly the next couple of years to see if their notion of creating change involves basically playing within the existing systems, as well as working around them. I think that there they ♻️ 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. Linda L. Moore is a licensed psychologist practicing in Kansas City, Missouri. She is President of Linda L. Moore and Associates, which offers individual and group therapy, executive coaching, management consulting, and presentations for organizations and associations around the country. Dr. Moore writes and publishes on women and power, leadership, and stress management.Books/Resources by Dr. Linda MooreDr. Moore's WebsiteBook - Release from Powerlessness: Take Charge of Your Life  Book - What’s Wrong With Me? Maybe Not That Much Book - Your Personal Stress AnalysisQuotes from This Episode"Many years ago, Dr. Rosabeth Kanter wrote a book called Men and Women of the Corporation...The most profound takeaway from that book is nothing will change until there are greater numbers of women in corporations and that we will continue to be discriminated against and not taken seriously until numbers increase. I think we're experiencing that increase in numbers.""My basic message to women leaders, whether they're looking at college presidencies, or whether they are wanting to run an organization is, 'please if there's one thing I want you to do it is to stop being nice.'" "So my common comment is, there is no such thing as balance, quit trying to achieve it. It will never happen and instead, work toward the concept of an integrated life."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeMen and Women of the Corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Article: The solo woman in a professional peer groupScholar: Deborah Tannen Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant  The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Lukianoff & Haidt Managing Transitions by Bridges & Bridges ♻️ 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 textLarry Cassesa is the Director of Sales, Marketing, and Product for Abicor Binzel USA and Canada. He started his career and sales and moved into a leadership position after the 2008 financial crisis. He's led a global team through the implementation of the Salesforce CRM and many cross-functional projects. We explore Larry's experience on the front lines of leadership.Quotes from This Episode"My job is to clear obstacles.""True empathy is exhausting... it takes a lot of energy.""My job is to protect all those other people in the culture. So you have to make those tough decisions, you have to have those tough conversations.""Your job is not necessary to have all the solutions or answers...but to work with them to find those solutions.""I'd much prefer to be a facilitator than a top-down sort of leader. I think it's more productive that way."Resource Mentioned in This EpisodeInfinite Game by Simon SinekVerbal Judo by George ThompsonExtreme Ownership by Jocko WillinkThe Like Switch by Jack SchaferSapiens by Noah HarariThe Goal by  Eliyahu M. GoldrattGood to Great by Jim CollinsOther Episodes Mentioned In This ConversationDiane DixonBarbara KellermanDavis Rosch ♻️ 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 textDiogo Seixas is a speaker, author, educator, and a Ph.D. candidate at Southern Illinois University.  He is the founder of Ride Academy and he works with young people to help them think about their future. Diogo has a passion for helping others find their dreams. He's a positive force with an intense desire to help others.Quotes From This Episode"You can really learn leadership if you do this right... and because I saw myself changing, my friends changing, I decided that that was something that I wanted to pursue.""I knew that I wanted to help people. I didn't know, how. When I learned about leadership - that became a passion and I connected both things.""That's my call to action...I had to do something about it. Because I was only talking about it. I was only telling people, 'hey, this is why you should have a dream.' But I never taught them how to have a dream.""I want people to stop and evaluate what's happening. Now. Then go and make a conscious decision of what comes next."Diogo SeixasBook: Enjoy the Ride: Reflections and exercises to get to know yourself better, make conscious decisions, and enjoy the journey to your dreams.Ride AcademyWatch his Ignite Talks - Dream UpLinkedinOrganization Mentioned in This EpisodeAIESEC Brasil Junior  EWB - Engineer Without Borders Brazil Collegiate Leadership CompetitionResources Discussed in This EpisodePodcast: Leadership Educator PodcastBook: The Leadership Challenge TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity?SIU - Leadership Development ProgramDiogo's Watching and Listening to...FreindsThis is UsSuitsNPR - Life KitOther Podcast Guests Mentioned In This EpisodeDavid Rosch♻️ 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 textMike Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University.  He served on the faculty at Harvard Business School and as a visiting professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author or co-author of numerous Harvard Business Review Case Studies and the best selling simulation, the Leadership and Team Simulation - Everest. His books include Unlocking Creativity, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An Answer, and Know What You Don't Know.Quotes from This Episode"I think it's really important for students to be immersed in actual managerial problems.""I'm very curious. It's interesting to watch how some organizations have really thrived during this pandemic. Some of it seems to me about how organizations mobilized and were led.""Yes, there is disagreement, and you have to work through it. That's the whole point. We want people to speak candidly, respectfully, but candidly...and so the more practice we get, the better. And the beauty of a simulation is, there's nothing actually at stake, right?""I study failures. I've never gone away from that. And I don't know what it is, call me strange. I do get obsessed with the stories of failures. I just think there's so much to learn that I didn't know."Michael's Books/WebsiteUnlocking CreativityWhy Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An AnswerKnow What You Don't Knowwww.professormichaelroberto.comA Sample of Michael's Case StudiesLeadership and Team Simulation - EverestBP and the Gulf of Mexico Oil SpillMcDonald's: Super-Sized TroublesTrader Joe'sColumbia's Final MissionResources Mentioned In This EpisodeGrant by Ron ChernowMedici the Magnificent ♻️ 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 textProfessor Mike Hardy is founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He also serves as the board chair of the International Leadership Association. Following overseas postings in the Arab world and Asia, Mike's work focused on working with difference and with inter- and intra-community relations. His particular interest was with disconnected and underemployed young people. Mike has been twice awarded the Order of the British Empire for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue.Learn More About the International Leadership Association (ILA)2020 Conference - November 5-9, 2020RegistrationQuotes From This Episode"What sort of world do we want to emerge into?""So in order to answer the question - what sort of world do you want? - you have to be clear about the nature of the world we've got. How many of your politicians talk about how quickly they want to return to normal? 'Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to normal?' I don't, because the normal I experienced in 2019 was not a good place. So we hope we could define a future which was slightly different, slightly recast recalibrated for the needs of ordinary people.""I'm now in a community that cares about change for the better. And that's a good community to be in."(On the ILA Staff) - "We have a tiny staff for the amount of noise they make. And I just always want to take the opportunity to celebrate the fact that we have them. And it's their work that is going to lead to the amazing conference next month."Articles/Books by Dr. HardyHardy, M. (forthcoming 2021) Leadership, dialogue and disconnections. Cambridge University Press. Hardy, M., and Hussain. S., (2019) Dialogue in a Rapidly Changing World: Practitioner Assessments of the Potency of Intercultural Dialogue for Improving Social Cohesion, Journal of Dialogue Studies (7), 9-26. Hardy, M., and McIlhatton, D. (2019). Decision-Theoretic Behavioural Analytics: Risk Management and Terrorist Intensity Behavioural Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (RIRT).Hardy, M.  (2017). Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Fundamentalism and Western Islamaphobia. Jessica Kingsley. (Independent Authors’ Bronze Award for Social Sciences)   Resources Mentioned In This EpisodePolitical Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nat♻️ 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. Jay Conger holds the Henry R. Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. As an executive educator, coach, and program designer, he has worked with over five hundred organizations in his twenty-five year career. An outstanding teacher, Financial Times and other business periodicals ranked him as one of the world’s top management educators. He works with individuals and organizations to create unique learning environments that accelerate and celebrate the potential of leaders.Quotes From This Episode“Situation setting is your ability to be very observant and read your boss quickly.”“There are going to be two or three high-visibility projects that the boss will be assessed on. So the subordinate (i.e., the potentially high potential) makes certain to contribute in a significant way to those two or three outcomes.”“Bosses have a couple of stylistic imperatives which they may not articulate to you.”“So in the first 30 to 90 days, your new boss has already assessed you - 'are you meeting my style?'"Books By Jay CongerThe High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay A. Conger and Allan Church The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers Into Leaders by Jay A. CongerCharismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness by Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage Hardcover by Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger Books Mentioned in This EpisodeEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake  ♻️ 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. Kathy L. Guthrie is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Guthrie also serves as the director of the Leadership Learning Research Center and coordinates the Undergraduate Certificate in Leadership Studies.  Dr. Guthrie has authored and co-authored more than 30 refereed journal articles, six book chapters, two books, and co-edited three monographs and an additional book. The winner of multiple awards and honors, Kathy is an editorial board member of the Journal of Leadership Education and Journal of College and Character. Books and Publications by Dr. Kathy GuthrieTransforming Learning  and The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning by Kathy Guthrie and Dan JenkinsMarvelous & Kind Kloey, Marvelous & Kind Kloey: Feels Thankful, Marvelous & Kind Kloey: Learns About Leadership by Kathy Guthrie and Danielle N. Seago New Directions for Student LeadershipChanging the Narrative: Socially Just Leadership Education by Kathy L. Guthrie and Vivechkanand S. Chunoo Thinking to Transform and Thinking to Transform Companion Manuel by Jillian M. Volpe White, Kathy L. Guthrie, and Maritza TorresAuthors and Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeLeadership on the Line and ♻️ 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.