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

Send us a textDr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an associate professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics. She is a fellow in the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the American Psychological Society (APS). She has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and she has presented her work at over 170 meetings around the world including the White House. Media outlets featuring Stefanie’s work include The Economist, Newsweek, Time, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, HuffPost, Washington Post, Quartz, Discover, CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC. She has appeared on Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, and CNN International.Learn More About Dr. Johnson's WorkDr. Stefanie K. Johnson - Leeds School of Business - University of Colorado, BoulderPersonal Website Book - InclusifyInclusify Leadership Matrix - Self-AssessmentQuotes From This Episode"The data used to derive most leadership theories and recommendations was collected by male researchers from male leaders, and it was analyzed and interpreted by mostly male scientists.""And even in terms of effectiveness, men and women are pretty similar. At least the most recent meta-analysis on the topic says, there's not a difference in effectiveness. And if there is a small difference in recent years, it actually favors women - that women are somewhat more effective than men.""Women's motivation for leadership doesn't tend to be one that's about having power over other people."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBook: What's Wrong With Leadership? by Ron Riggio (Ed.)Optimal Distinctiveness Theory - Brewer, M. B. (2003). "Optimal Distinctiveness, Social Identity, and the Self". In M. Leary and J. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of Self and Identity. (pp 480–491).TV Show: The Morning ShowBook: Catch and Kill by Ronan FarrowTV Show: Athlete A (Documentary on USA Gymnastics)♻️ 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.

Dr. David Day, a Psychology Professor, discusses the importance of leader development, identity, and investing in personal growth. He explores the dynamic relationship between leaders and followers, contextual approaches to leadership, and shares leadership lessons from 'The Black Jacobins' book. The podcast emphasizes the need for individuals to view themselves as leaders and the continual dedication to growth.

Send us a textAbout Lauren Bullock and Dan JenkinsLauren Bullock and Dr. Dan Jenkins are the founders of the Leadership Educator Podcast. Lauren is Assistant Professor for Instruction and teaches undergraduate leadership and public relations courses in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Dan is Department Chair & Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the Univesity of Southern Maine. His most recent books were co-authored with Kathy Guthrie - The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning and Transforming Learning: Instructional and Assessment Strategies for Leadership Education.Quotes from This EpisodeOn having conversations about difficult topics - "it's this mixture of efficacy, confidence, and vulnerability that you have to approach this work with. And also, sometimes it's acknowledging your own ignorance.""I mean, if you saw the Google Doc that I'm looking at it now, it's about 30-pages long. We'll never...there's not enough hours in our lives, to be able to interview all the different guests and to cover all the different topics that we have.""I think the biggest gap centers around the intersection with diversity, equity, inclusion, and leadership theories."Robert F. Kennedy Quote Eluded to by Scott“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, s/he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” (edited slightly)Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeLeadership Educator PodcastWe are the Leaders We've Been Waiting For: Women and Leadership Development in College by Julie OwenLeadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives by John P. DuganNational Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs Inter-association Leadership Education Collaborative (ILEC) Association of Leadership Educators ♻️ 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. Steve Kempster is a Professor of Leadership Learning and Development at Lancaster University. He is a prolific scholar and a systems thinker. His latest book, Good Dividends: Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose "explores how five dividends (based on five capitals) can be developed through attention to a sixth dividend (and sixth capital) – the dividend from our planet and communities."Dr. Kemspter's BooksGood Dividends: Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose by Steve Kempster, Thomas Maak, Ken ParryResponsible Leadership: Realism and Romanticism by Steve Kempster & Brigid Carroll Quotes from This Episode"We keep talking about leader/follower, but frankly in the organizational world, followers just do not exist. No one aspires to become a follower....think about leader/stakeholders. What would that relationship then offer? You start moving attention towards purpose, towards meaningful work, towards aspects that are deeply significant to people."“You can use capitalism to change capitalism. The biggest way forward for capitalism to change is leadership. It’s the most powerful mechanism on the planet, for social change. For good or for ill, there isn’t anything more powerful than leadership with the power it wields.”“It is corporates that have the scope to rescue humanity.”“Here is the important thing...the data shows us that when you link purpose, meaningful work, adding value to communities, positive social impact, you see profitability go up. And there’s loads of data that shows you that.”“In my experience, out of all of this, the most difficult part of business leadership is getting their heads around purpose.”Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeFirms of Endearment by Rajendra Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth, & David Wolfe Responsible Leadership by Thomas Maak & Nicola M. Pless  Gallup - Employee EngagementA Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book Abou♻️ 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 textSara Safari is on a mission. She is an author, speaker, climber, educator, and Ph.D. candidate; and an inspiring woman actively making a difference in the world. Her goal is to climb The Seven Summits and has dedicated her life to empowering women around the world.Quotes from This Episode"I announced that I'm going to go back to my training for Everest again, but this time, I'm going to raise $1 per foot of any mountain I climb to provide education for these girls.""I was just tired. I was sick. I was coughing. I just wanted to go back home. And I would think of the moment when I saw two lines of girls and they were looking at me like I'm going to fix their life for them. And I would just imagine those girls, and I couldn't quit. I just had to take the next step.""Everything started breaking down. Pieces of ice were falling down the mountain and the noise it made was like a rocket taking off.""The girls are so confident. They're just amazing. I'm in awe of their confidence and the way they are. So I go to them for motivation now, even if it might seem like I'm inspiring them, they're inspiring me all the time."Learn More About Sara SafariWebsite: Sara SafariWebsite: Empowering Nepali GirlsBook: Above The Mountain's ShadowTED Talk: Climb Your EverestHer Mission: The Seven SummitsResources Mentioned in this EpisodeBook: We Are The Leaders We've Been Waiting For by Julie OwenBook: SapiensBook: AttachedBook: Talking to StrangersFilm: EverestFilm: MeruPh.D. in Leadership & Change at Antioch University Quotes Mentioned in this Episode"The hardest person you will ever lead is yourself" - Bill George ♻️ 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. Barbara KellermanBarbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and three degrees from Yale University: an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies and both an M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright Fellowships. Kellerman is a co-founder of the International Leadership Association (ILA).Quotes from This Episode“How do you talk about leaders or leadership without talking about followers or followership? How do you talk about leaders and followers together, without situating them in the contexts?”“People have been at this for at least 50 years since the so-called leadership industry was founded. Yes, I do call it that, because I think of it as largely a money-making proposition.”“People have been struggling with the issue of definitions, particularly of the word leader or leadership...what is a leader? The way I define it is completely different from the way virtually every one of my colleagues at Harvard defines it.”“In some cases, they say we’re training leaders, and other cases they say we’re educating leaders, and other cases, they’re saying we’re developing leaders. Nobody ever bothers to distinguish among those three verbs. What do you mean when you say you’re educating? What do you mean when you say you’re training?”“So the business schools are not very different now from the schools of government, and they are light years away from the military.”Dr. Kellerman's Website/Selected BooksWebsite: Barbara Kellerman New Book: Leaders Who Lust: Power Money Sex Success Legitimacy LegacyBook: Professionalizing Leadership Book: Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence - Book: Followership Book: Bad Leadership Book: Leadership: M♻️ 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. Craig E. Johnson is professor emeritus of leadership studies at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. Craig served as director of the George Fox Doctor of Business Administration program and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, ethics, management, and communication. While he has retired from full-time teaching, he serves as an adjunct professor and continues to publish thoughtful and engaging texts on the topic of organizational and leadership ethics.Quotes from This Episode"I call privilege the evil twin of power. If you have more power, you typically have more privilege.""You cast a shadow if you’re inconsistent, and you also cast a shadow if your loyalties are to yourself and not in the right place."“It’s not enough just to have good character. Particularly in a large organization, people don’t know you personally. So you have to be active in terms of shaping the organizational culture.”(The work of Brown and Trevino) "really opened up a lot of research, which has revealed that ethical leaders finish first, not last.""It’s not selfish to find out your calling or vocation or where you can best serve because that’s where you’re going to best serve as a leader.”Dr. Johnson's TextbooksMeeting the ethical challenges of leadership: Casting light or shadowOrganizational Ethics: A Practical ApproachResources Mentioned in this EpisodeBrooks, D. (2013).  The road to character.  New York: Random House.Brown, M. E., Trevino, L. K., & Harrsion, D. A. (2005).  Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97, 117-134.  Giridharadas, A. (2018).  Winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world.  New York: Knopf. Koehn, N.(2017).  Forged in crisis: The power of leadership in turbulent times.  New York: Scribner.Padilla, A., Hunter, S. T., & Tate, B. W. (2012).  The susceptible circle: A taxonomy of followers associated with destructive leadership.  Leadership Quarterly, 23, 897-917.  Palmer, P. (1996). Leading from within. In L. C. Spears (Ed.), Insights on leadership: Service, stewardship, spirit, and servant-leadership (pp. 197–208). New York: Wiley, p. 200.Towles, A. (2016). A gentleman in Moscow.  New York: Penguin.  Quotes Mentioned in this Episode“A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being - conditions♻️ 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 textSharna Fabiano helps individuals and teams strengthen their communication skills, from the perspective of both leadership and followership skills. Her background as an internationally touring instructor of tango partner dance gives her unusual insight into the nuances of teamwork and collaboration. We had a really fun conversation and I loved hearing her perspective - it's fresh, innovative, and thought-provoking.Quotes from This Episode“In my in my world, like, if you’re not connected, then you can’t do anything together - that’s meaningful.”“If we’re going to have people called leaders, then we’re going to have people called the followers and those people have to be equally valued, but we have to recognize that they have a choice.”“And both people (leader and follower role) have to have those skills, distinct but complementary skills, in order to dance together in order to improvise, in order to have the beautiful transcendent experience that we all aim for every night and chase for years.”“We say that leaders ‘invite.’ That’s their main job to ‘invite’ either to invite you to dance or to invite you to take a step to the right or invite you to express this sharp accent. They’re offering a whole string of invitations, that gives you the opportunity to dance with them. And then we say that the follower ‘responds.’”“So when once you get to that level, the creative level, the experience is that the roles sort of dissolve.”Additional ResourcesLeadership and Followership: What Tango Teaches Us About These Roles in Life Sharna’s Website Sharna’s Blog Free e-book - Leadership & Followership: Social Dance Principles That Elevate Professional Relationships Other Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeIra Chaleff - The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders  Ibram X. Kendi  - How To Be An anti-Racist Robin DiAngelo - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism ♻️ 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. Karen Giliam is Agency Chief Learning Officer & Organization Development Lead, NASA. In addition to her work at NASA, Dr. Gilliam has served as a faculty instructor, business owner, published author, and elected politician. She is also the grandmother of 12 and great grandmother of two. We explore a number of topics including self-knowledge, hope, empathy, storytelling, voice, and choice.Quotes from This Episode"What can I do, continue to do, or start doing, that keeps me on that inward journey of being all that I can be? Doing all that I was meant to do? And then, 'how can I apply that learning in my work?'""What occurs to me is that we haven't taught people how to examine their life, how to examine who they are...""One thing I find is critically important is that whole notion of voice...and what are you giving your voice to? Or for? On behalf of? And what does that mean to you? And how does that further your values? How does that honor your values?""What do you choose to do? What do you choose to do with the emotions that you're feeling? What do you choose to do to honor your values? What do you choose to do to be that voice on behalf of connecting others? On leading in a way that honors your values?""What do you want to leave this Earth knowing you contributed? And if it's for a single person, that's huge. If it's for a group or a community? Wow."Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeDr. Karen Gilliam - Finding Your Voice in a World That Needs ItJoan Southgate - Walking the Route of the Underground RailroadOther Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeBrené Brown - Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts  Brené Brown - Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand AloneDaniel Kimble  - Unshakeable Influence: Mastering the Inner Game of LeadershipQuotes Referenced by Dr. Gilliam"Develop a capacity to shine a light on yourself. The more we observe ourselves, the more we are aware of how the lens we see through affects our behavior toward other people." — Jennifer Mieres, MD"We♻️ 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 textJulie Owen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, where she coordinates the leadership studies major and minor and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program and Women and Gender Studies. Owen authored more than 30 publications, including serving as co-editor of the Handbook for Student Leadership Development, and editor of  Innovative Learning for Leadership Development (New Directions for Student Leadership Series No.1).Quotes from This Episode"Instead of telling girls, they're being bossy, what if we reframe that as the nexus of leadership?""How do we help girls and women align their confidence and their capacity?""So this is messed up. We have to stop doing that. We have to stop having these comparative kinds of binary approaches to leadership because it makes for a precarious pedestal.""Stop talking about feminine ways of leading and start looking at feminist leadership where you actually own your story, and how you acknowledge power in leadership." Owen Related Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeWe Are The Leaders We've Been Waiting For by Julie Owen (30% discount if ordered by June 30, 2020. Code = SPR30)Julie Owen - Faculty PageJulie Owen on Twitter - @julie_gmuOther Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeQueen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman Mindset by Carol DweckCritical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership: New Directions for Student Leadership, by Daniel Tillapaugh & Paige Haber-Curran Gender and Leadership: A Call to Action by Heather D. Shea & Kristen A. Renn♻️ 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.