The Coca-Cola Compassion Lab
Katherine Twells
This podcast offers insight on the importance of leadership and connection as we build a new future together. The Compassion Lab is a program inside The Coca-Cola Company where we explore ways to be more emotionally agile, resilient, and adaptive. The podcast originated from a 9-year program called the Coca-Cola Leadership Summit and contains the original content from those speakers and interviews. Our guests range from executive to authors and thought leaders on how we can come together to create a better world. Compassion is about seeking to understand and realize that in our connection we experience and feel many of the same things. We are more alike then different and in finding our common ground we can make greater progress. Our conversations speak to business and life in general as we seek to increase our awareness, understanding and contribution to the greater whole that we all participate in. Our leaders discuss how their own journey and development has a ripple effect that impacts the culture of their organizations. We also explore ways to cultivate well-being so that we can thrive regardless of the changes around us. This content is relevant to anyone seeking wisdom on how live a more connected and compassionate life.
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Apr 22, 2021 • 56min
Service To Self Vs. Service To Others With Dr. W. Keith Campbell
In this age of social media, narcissism has become even more felt. It shows up not only as our personas online but also in business. If you're not aware, it could be impacting you negatively. Bringing new and important knowledge in this episode, Katherine Twells sits down with W. Keith Campbell, PhD. Dr. Campbell is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia and is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and four books, including his latest, The New Science of Narcissism, which he is going to share today. He discusses the different kinds of narcissism and how it shows up in business and in all of our relationships. He also brings a better understanding of how we can work together to mitigate some of the challenges that it brings and how we can also increase our self-awareness, knowing that we can create a better future not in service to self but to others. Join in on this discussion and gain fresh insights about narcissism so we can improve our lives and those around us as well.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 1min
A Reason To Believe With Olympian Sarah Wells
Everyone has their self-pursuits and goals to which they dedicate a decade or more of their lives to progressively step further and reach fruition. Believe in yourself, that is what you say to yourself to get that impulse of optimism and enthusiasm to strive further the challenging road ahead of you. But is it that easy to repeat it in chorus in your head? Sarah Wells, the Founder of The Believe Initiative, knows that exact sentiment. She had her cup of experience of setbacks and failure but was still able to triumph as an Olympic semi-finalist and life motivator. Join her in this episode as she shares her thought and experience covering self-motivation and how she rose to impediments. Learn how to gauge yourself and improve your self-worth.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Apr 1, 2021 • 37min
The Alchemy of Inclusion With Disney's Carmen Smith
Now, more than ever, the world has realized how important it is to enrich relationships, build communities, and move towards a collective goal. And one of the most notable objectives of humanity these days is to harness the magic of diversity and inclusion. How can we adapt to such a setting in today's struggling society? Joining Katherine Twells is Carmen Smith, sharing how they promote a diverse and equal culture at Disney by nurturing creativity, providing an immersive experience, and taking advantage of the lessons imparted by their film The Princess and the Frog. She also talks about how embracing vulnerability can lead to effective leadership, an important element in connecting people and breaking down barriers.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Mar 10, 2021 • 1h 1min
The Best Moments Are Off Script
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed many people to pivot in more ways than one, which paved the way to various personal discoveries and trials. For Ron Tite who does a lot of stand-up comedy, the art of improvisation guided him to become extra flexible in these chaotic times. Interestingly, this mindset led him to appreciate the silver linings of every challenging situation. He sits down with Katherine Twells to share how even going off script in a comedic performance leads to gold and what he learned from this experience when dealing with the world's current state. Ron also talks about how creativity can solve different problems, how hierarchal organizations kill fresh ideas, and the complex dynamics of building trust.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Jan 4, 2021 • 48min
Creative Troublemaking With Josh Linkner
It is tempting to look at innovation as the province of big minds, big corporations and their ilk, but each of us has the capacity to tap into our creative powers and do little breakthroughs every day. There is no better time than now to look inside, to see what we can bring forth to evolve our world into a better place. Joining Katherine Twells on the show to awaken this tremendous creative capacity within us is the creative troublemaker himself, Josh Linkner. Josh is a keynote speaker and bestselling author of a number of books on creativity and innovation. Right now, he is working on his latest creation: Big Little Breakthroughs – an opus that democratizes the concept of innovation and empowers ordinary people like you and I to achieve dramatic results through simple, creative tweaks. Listen in and learn how our little light bulb moments can actually save the world and how we can build that creative muscle inside of us to become more intentional in coming up with those moments.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Oct 30, 2020 • 49min
Discovering Your Authentic Voice With Davin Youngs
These days, it can be so easy to get inundated by the rapid change happening in the world that we end up forgetting who we are. Bringing you back to your center to discover your authentic voice, Katherine Twells invites Davin Youngs, a Somatic Voicework teacher and the founder of Davin Youngs Voice, in this episode. Working to move people into self-discovery and elevation, Davin offers us some much-needed insights, especially as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the great social changes happening around us. He shares with us the ways we can stay present at the moment and maintain a mindset of discovery. He helps us find harmony in a changing world by tapping into our authentic and unique voice, courageously going to the path where we can confidently take risks and flourish.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Oct 5, 2020 • 45min
Winging It With Emma Isaacs
So often, we feel the need to have all the answers. For Emma Isaacs, however, sometimes all it takes is to wing it and trust in ourselves and take bold steps forward into what we want to create. Emma is an Australian entrepreneur and the owner and Global CEO of Business Chicks, Australia's business women's community. She sits down with Katherine Twells today to talk about the concepts from her brand new book called Winging It and how she's had to pivot and do some different things to thrive during a really challenging year.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Sep 25, 2020 • 59min
Walking The Razor’s Edge With Peter Sheahan
In this rapidly changing world, corporations and communities are but two sides of one coin. To solve higher order problems, they must work with each other, not against each other. How can these two parties play their respective roles in the common struggle for the common good? This is but one of the big topics tackled in this wide-ranging conversation between Kathy Twells and Peter Sheahan, a top-rated keynote speaker, innovative business thinker and thought leader, and Group CEO of Karrikins Group. Kathy and Peter also talk about other thought-provoking topics in the corporate leadership sphere, including ambition, alignment, change, personal development, presence and social impact. Whether you’re a top executive mulling over how to lead your corporation to be a leader of change, or a middle manager wondering what role you could possibly play in all this transformation, this episode is a must-listen.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 6min
Discovering The Track Of Your Life With Boyd Varty
Born and raised at Londolozi Game Reserve in the South African wilderness in a family of conservationists, Boyd Varty grew up with lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants, speaking the local language and learning how humans and nature can naturally and beautifully co-exist. Boyd is a wildlife and literacy activist and a lion tracker, life coach, storyteller, and author. On today’s podcast, he joins Katherine Twells to talk about how you can discover the track of your life and find your authentic path. He also shares some deep insights that can guide us, especially as we navigate these uncertain times.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
Aug 24, 2020 • 51min
The Exploration of Uncertainty with Pico Iyer
Even before uncertainty became a buzzword, we have had to deal with it every day, but the situation we are facing now forces us to take a harder look at it and accept its reality. This conversation between Kathy Twells and Pico Iyer, a writer and travel enthusiast, is an exploration of uncertainty – an inquiry on how we can navigate the unfamiliar landscape of the world during COVID-19. As a traveler, Pico knows that more often than not, the best and worst things happen to you when you’re not exactly on the beaten path. Sometimes, you just have to let life run its course and not beat yourself up for things you cannot control. This theme of surrendering to life pervades much of this discussion, but it’s not as simplistic as it sounds. You’ll have to listen to know more. This episode is a powerful one and something that we all need to hear as we face this uncertainty together.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
