Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract

Chester Elton has spent two decades helping some of the world’s most successful businesses engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. He joins Dan Pontefract on Leadership NOW and shares his insights on the current state of leadership and culture. Dubbed the “Apostle of Appreciation” by Canada’s Globe and Mail, “creative and refreshing‚” by the New York Times, and a “must read for modern managers” by CNN. Elton is co-author of multiple award-winning New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling leadership books including All In, The Carrot Principle, The Best Team Wins, and Anxiety at Work. His books have been translated in more than 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. Elton has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, CBS 60 Minutes, and is often quoted in Fast Company, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s #MG100 Global Coaches, member of Fast Company Impact Council, and he serves as a board member for Camp Corral, a non-profit for the children of wounded and fallen military heroes. Elton also serves as a leadership consultant to firms such as American Express, AT&T, Avis Budget Group, and Procter & Gamble. And, of course, he is the co-founder of the Culture Works with partner Adrian Gostick. For more than 20 years, The Culture Works® has helped organizations of all sizes create workplaces where employees are engaged, enabled, and energized through their books, speaking, coaching, and courses that focus on the employee experience. More about Chester Elton at https://chesterelton.com/ More about Dan Pontefract at https://www.danpontefract.com

Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract is pleased to invite Michael Bungay Stanier – MBS – but not that MBS – back to the show, the first two-time guest. Michael helps people know they’re awesome and they’re doing great. He’s perhaps best known for his book “The Coaching Habit,” which is the best-selling book on coaching this century. His recent books include “How to Begin,” which helps people find the clarity and courage to start something thrilling, important and daunting; and “The Advice Trap” – tame your inner Advice Monster so you can be more coach-like. MBS drops by the show to discuss his latest book, “How to Work with (Almost) Anyone,” which pretty much does what it says on the label. But wait, there’s more. Michael founded Box of Crayons in 2002, a learning and development company that has trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like in organizations from Microsoft to Gucci. He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University … where, as he claims, his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian … which is why he now lives in Toronto. More about Leadership NOW and Dan Pontefract at http://www.danpontefract.com More about "How to Work with (Almost) Anyone" and MBS at http://www.bestpossiblerelationship.com

CB Bowman: Known as the Courage Consultant, CB is the host of the very popular "Courage: To Leap & Lead" podcast, and is the CEO of the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. CB is a global "Certified Master Corporate Executive Coach" with experience working in marketing, coaching, and branding. CB join Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss her latest book, “Courage: to Leap and to Lead.” CB strongly believes that master-level corporate executive coaches have to be “enterprise-wide business partners™" with their clients, yes, full of courage. She is formerly head of branding for ready-to-eat cereals for General Foods. She was responsible for the visual impact of Post Cereals for iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, Golden Crisps, and Pebbles. CB was also responsible for their classic brands including Post Shredded Wheat, Grape Nuts, Shake N' Bake and Raisin Bran, and won several awards for product marketing and branding. Named one of the Power List of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership by Leadershum; Top 50 coaches in the world by Thinkers50; and Global Gurus also named her as one of the top 15 experts in branding. More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at https://www.danpontefract.com More about CB Bowman at https://courage-consulting.com/

As Transformation Leader at Mercer US and Canada, Melissa Swift is responsible for workforce transformation, HR transformation, HR digitization, DEI, and workforce analytics. Melissa drops by Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss her latest book, “Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace." As a recognized thought leader on the subject of the future of work post-covid, Melissa has been quoted on the subject in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Economist, The Washington Post, Axios, and The Daily Mail, and has appeared on NPR and Al-Jazeera English. Earlier in her career, Swift helped build businesses in the ESG transformation space, including launching the Sustainability Services and Cleantech practices at Deloitte, and conducting two landmark carbon credit derivatives trades at Deutsche Bank. Her latest book, "Work Here Now," explores different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we’ve created and endured over time. The book contains the following: 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace at organizational level 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace at team level A simple framework to help you make people-centered decisions More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at https://www.danpontefract.com More about Melissa Swift and Mercer at https://www.mercer.com/solutions/transformation/

In his nearly 27-year career with Procter & Gamble and Shell, Rahul Malhotra has led several multi-billion dollar, global businesses as P&L head, and helped lead several global brands. Rahul is currently the Global Head of Brand Strategy and Stewardship for the Shell Group, managing strategy and operations for a brand valued at US $50 billion. Under his leadership and tenure, Shell's brand value has grown by over +67% in the last 6 years. He is a recognized expert on defining and embedding Purpose into organizations. It's exactly why Rahul dropped by the Leadership NOW program -- to chat about all things related to purpose, including insights into Shell's implementation of organizational purpose. Rahul is a permanent resident of Singapore and active in the community, offering expertise to various organizations. One of his passions and expertise areas is to inspire organizations and young leaders in the private sector to be more purpose driven, leveraging their skills and resources to make a real difference to the people and ecology of the planet. More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at http://www.danpontefract.com More about Shell at http://www.shell.com

Christian Stadler is a Professor in Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. Prior to, he was at University of Bath School of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Innsbruck University. Christian joins Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss the relationship between strategy, culture, leadership, job hopping, and hope. Christian addresses fundamental strategic questions that enable companies to grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors. In his book Open Strategy. Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite he explains how companies can craft strategy in a new unconventional way, one tailor-made for today's faster, more volatile business environment. His work has been featured thousands of times in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week, the BBC, amongst others. Christian's research examines how organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantage. He is particularly interested in questions related to 1) learning and innovation, as well as 2) diversification. In 2021 Thinkers50 shortlisted Christian for the Strategy Award and in 2013 placed him on the Thinkers50 Radar List. More about Dan Pontefract at http://www.danpontefract.com More about Christian Stadler at http://www.christianstadler.org

Mitch Joel is Co-Founder of ThinkersOne - a platform that empowers companies with personalized and bite-sized thought leadership from the best Thinkers in the world. Mitch joins Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss the new platform. He has been called a visionary, digital expert and community leader. He is also an entrepreneur, investor, author, trusted advisor, chronic reader and passionate speaker who connects with people worldwide by sharing his insights on business transformation, innovation and marketing. Prior to ThinkersOne, Mitch spent close to three decades in the technology and media industry as both an executive and entrepreneur. This included publishing music magazines, launching a record label, building out media sales at one of the first search engines, marketing one of the first mobile content publishing platforms, and eventually building, running and selling his own agency to WPP - one of the world's most valuable marketing and communications holding companies. In that role, he was President of a global marketing agency operating in 25 countries with close to 3000 employees. Mitch is also a bestselling business book author. His first book, Six Pixels of Separation named after his successful blog and podcast is a business bestseller. His second book, CTRL ALT Delete was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Amazon. More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at http://www.danpontefract.com More about ThinkersOne and Mitch at http://www.thinkersone.com and http://www.mitchjoel.com

Renown author, speaker and strategist, Nilofer Merchant, drops by the Leadership NOW show to discuss her latest venture, The Intangible Labs. Launched in partnership with Tim Kastelle, The Intangible Labs offers a new lens, a mathematical model, and related practice so organizations (whether public, private, profit, non-profit, small, and large) can measure and thus tune the actions that create value for all their stakeholders. As the name suggests, the goal is to create many learning labs while the Intangible Labs will serve as a hub. Over time, insights will be codified into software, usable as an ESG standard. The Intangible Labs: defining the metrics of 21st Century Value Creation. Nilofer is ranked as one of the top management thinkers in the world by @Thinkers50, as well as HR magazine., Her operating heft as a tech executive (Apple, Autodesk, goLive and more) lends all these big ideas fidelity; she's been personally involved in shipping over 100 products netting $18 Billion in revenues. She's authored three books on how value creation grows in distributed networks through shared purpose. Her most recent is the "Power of Onlyness," that spot in the world only you stand in, a function of your distinct history and experiences, visions and hopes for which she also landed the notable Future Thinker Award. The very best companies hire her to inspire and advise. Those who want to do more than manage today but create—or rather co-create—the future. More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at http://www.danpontefract.com More about Nilofer Merchant at http://www.nilofermerchant.com or https://theintangiblelabs.com/

Sally Helgesen is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She has been inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide. She is also ranked number 3 among the world’s thought leaders by Global Gurus. Sally drops by Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss her latest book, "Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace" The book offers practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. It soared to Amazon’s number one top-seller in its field in the first week of publication. "Rising Together" builds on Sally’s remarkable success with How Women Rise, co-authored with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, which examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women as they move forward in their careers. Rights have been sold in 23 languages. Other books include "The Female Advantage," "Thriving in 24/7" and "The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations." For over 30 years, Sally has delivered workshops and keynotes for companies, partnership firms and associations, working in 37 countries around the world. More about Dan Pontefract and Leadership NOW at https://www.danpontefract.com More about Sally Helgesen at https://sallyhelgesen.com/

He’s called “Electric Bill” for a reason. Bill Williams is on a mission to shock us out of our static daily routines, known for his unique brand of electrified methodologies for the workplace. Electric Bill drops by Leadership NOW with Dan Pontefract to discuss his latest book is titled “Electric Life: 12 Microsteps to Pay Attention, Be Brilliant and Go Deep.” Bill’s honest, succinct, and enthusiastic approach to leadership has inspired and reshaped countless national organizations over the span of thirty years. Whether coaching an individual over Zoom, or speaking to rooms of more than a thousand delegates, Bill’s impact is equally felt. His power comes from hearing “No” and reformulating it as “Not Yet.” Bill is the principal and president of the boutique leadership development firm, The B4 Group Inc, and the host and brand ambassador for The Art of Leadership Summit and The Art of Leadership for Women. Bill caters his solution-based strategies to individuals and corporations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Visit http://www.danpontefract.com for more information about Dan and the Leadership NOW program. Visit https://www.billgwilliams.com/ for more information about Bill and his book.