Leading Up With Udemy

Are you prepared to thrive at your first job or internship? Get ready to navigate the workplace with Shannon Lewandowski, Development Program Director at Great American Insurance Group. This week’s conversation dives into the common skills gaps for new college graduates, how to navigate the corporate environment, and how to find joy at work. From her own journey of transitioning from social work to the insurance industry, Shannon tells us how taking risks and embracing new challenges shaped her career trajectory and growth.Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

How you communicate is at the cornerstone of how you build trust, leverage influence, and find success in the workplace.This week on Leading Up, we are talking to an expert on the foundations of leadership communication. Deborah Grayson Riegel is an executive coach, consultant, and keynote speaker. She teaches leadership communication at The Wharton School, Duke’s Fuqua School, and Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program. She writes for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Inc. Magazine. Her most recent book is titled, “Go to Help: 31 Strategies to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help.”Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

Integrating leadership with continuous learning is challenging for professionals as they work towards the next level of their career. It’s especially vital for those who push themselves to the brink of burnout. For those looking to pass the torch, this means making it safe for high-achieving individuals to rest. It also means making it safe for them to fail and learn valuable lessons.This week on the podcast, Merck Chief Learning Officer Johann Laville joins us to break down his takes on creating space for curiosity, and communicating effectively in the midst of setbacks, conflict, and constant change.Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

Leaders often feel inundated with information. In those moments, it’s hard to make choices, and even harder to be heard from within the swell of emails, chat channels, and social posts. How does a person find their way, and identify their own voice?This week on the podcast, we welcome Dorie Clark, professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and author of best-selling titles The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out. Dorie tells us her strategies around making informed decisions, choosing to be bad at things, networking without feeling icky, and pivoting on feedback to find new perspectives.Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

People often change faster than the organizations they work for, and when cultural shifts meet shareholder interests, the perception is more of a clash than a compromise. But what if those ideas could converge in a place of shared understanding and shared benefit?Layli Miller-Muro is a purpose and impact strategist named by Goldman Sachs as one of the Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs. In this episode, she shares how serving others makes you a better leader. We unpack her extensive work in human rights and ESG, as well as examine her methodologies for fostering inclusive and equitable work environments. Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

As leaders, we have the momentous task of maximizing human potential from ourselves and our teammates. This can be a daunting task. How do we even get started?Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts joins us this week to break this down. She is an organizational psychologist who specializes in strength-based practices. She is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the Wharton School. She is also the author of The Alignment Quest Toolkit. Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

If there’s one constant throughout our careers, it’s change. Over the past few years, the way we work has evolved dramatically from in-person to distributed work. Arguably, there's one skill you need to hone more than any other in order to keep up with rapid change: Communication, the ability for nothing to get lost in translation. This week on the podcast, we're talking to Molly Nagler, the Chief Learning Officer at PepsiCo, where she is responsible for the learning strategy, covering more than 300,000 global employees. Previously, she ran executive education at the Yale School of Management and the University of California, Berkeley. She shares her tips for courageous conversations, building authentic relationships, and setting positive examples as a leader. Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses. But as leaders, how do we bolster our weak points and build off of our strengths?That’s what we dive into this week with our guest, Kristi Burnham. She is the Vice President, Employee Engagement and Development at UNICEF USA. She has worked for the humanitarian organization for more than two decades, and she got her start in leadership with the Girl Scouts. We cover how to capitalize on your strengths, leading in a social impact organization, and why a manager is the most important role in any organization. Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

When was the last time you talked about your broader career vision in a one-on-one? This week on the podcast, we’re talking about why it’s so important for managers to have big picture career conversations with their direct reports.Siya Raj Purohit discusses her tips and tricks to coach teammates and develop a strong career vision. Purohit is the Global EdTech& Workforce Development Category Lead at Amazon Web Services, where she coaches team members to follow their unique career pathways.Purohit’s strong career vision has shaped many of her professional steps, starting at age 19 when she wrote a book about the skills gap in the field of engineering. She has worked throughout the EdTech industry at Udacity and Springboard, and she is also the Co-founder and General Partner at Pathway Ventures.Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

Leadership is a lifelong practice. When practiced well, your leadership skills can completely transform your mental health, business performance, community engagement, and home life. This is what Stew Friedman calls Total Leadership. Stew founded The Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project at The University of Pennsylvania. He has authored several bestselling books, including Total Leadership and Leading the Life You Want. According to The New York Times, Friedman inspires “rockstar adoration from his students.”Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.