Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S2-Ep46: How Do Leaders Live In Possibility?

Guest: Paul Pyrz
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Paul to talk about his ongoing impact in with young and emerging leaders focusing on identifying what is possible in their lives and bringing that possibility into action. By shifting mindset to what is likely given our limitations to what is possible, leaders generate significantly greater and more fulfilling results. Questions we explore: 1.Why is it so hard to “live in possibility” these days? 2.What does it mean to “live in possibility”? 3.What is the importance of adopting an attitude of possibility? 4.How did you come to adopt this sort of thinking? 5.How can I help my team embrace living in possibility? 6.How does living in possibility connect to leadership? Why is the connection important? 7.Why do people typically dismiss those that have this attitude?

S2-Ep45: Executive Insights: Lessons Learned from a High Impact Career

Guest: Carla Paonessa
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Carla to talk about her ongoing impact in innovating organizations from the employee level, leadership level and board level. As we talk about how leaders innovate themselves and their organizations, Carla is one of the people I look to share significant insight! I consider her my model. • How did you get started with your career? • You were an early woman in a male focused industry – can you give us some insight about how you navigated this situation? What factors allowed you to blaze trails for people like me who followed and had an easier time because of your work • You were one of the key founders of the Change Management and Leadership practice at Accenture please share some thoughts about how you helped facilitate the innovation of that practice. • You retired from Accenture and moved on to the next phase of your career and you now serve on several boards including LeaderShape. What guidance can you share?

S2-Ep44: CEO and Master of Reinvention - A Physician Story

Guest: Robert Falcone
Bob takes on large roles to solve complex problems mainly in the space of health care. His ability to evolve as a leader is at the core of what will be required for leaders going forward – especially in the health care field. During this conversation Bob and Maureen talk about Bob’s path from artist to trauma surgeon to CEO to the Veteran’s administration to running a medical association. Since this show is about helping leaders create their own personal innovation strategy, Bob’s journey is a particularly interesting one because it highlights multiple successful reinventions. For physicians and physician leaders it may be even more interesting because of the volume of change facing the medical industry overall. Bob talks about his overall journey including knowing when to leave and his own internal thought process and motivations.

S2-Ep43: Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results

Guest: Victor Prince
Victor talks about the power of applying the “Leadership Matrix” -the box- to team management. He will describe what it is, how it works, and how it will help you get the best out of yourself and your team. 1. Who should read Lead Inside the Box? What problem does it help them solve? 2. How do you help people solve that problem? 3. Walk us through the different parts of the Leadership Matrix? 5. What are the four boxes and how do you use this tool -box- to allocate leadership time by group? Victor provides great insights about how this structure helps managers and leaders think through what employees need using a framework to categorize where they are right now. This tool can also help shift people to become more productive.

S2-Ep41: Driving Transformation Success Requires A Trustworthy Leader

Guest: Michael Sayre
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Mike because he has transformed several companies – mostly building for sale-exit. He is known for his ethical and caring approach to driving results over the past decades. In a time where people struggle to finding their own approach – Mike has lived his values and delivered strong results. Mike will discuss: 1. His approach to transformation across multiple industries 2. Common themes 3. Leadership qualities required for successful transformation 4. His collaboration on the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations - award winning guide 5. Key take-aways from his recent executive roles Mike provides great insight into what has made him successful. While a leader who is behind the scenes rather than grabbing credit - he is the quiet and stable force that ensures difficult challenges are resolved and companies thrive.

S2-Ep40: The Vitality Map: The Foundation for Effective Leadership

Guest: Deborah Zucker
As part of the thought leader series, talks about the importance of vitality to leadership effectiveness. Physical health and vitality provide leaders a strong foundation to meet the challenge of stressful jobs and full lives. Deborah Zucker discusses how vitality connects to leadership then walk through the 9 keys to deep vitality with concrete examples. The discussion moves beyond a sole focus on physical health as the only key to vitality and explores topics such as living a life that is aligned with purpose. She explores concepts like curiosity and experimentation that enable leaders to craft programs that support their personal vitality and commitments. Her approach makes vitality practical for busy leaders who know they need to do more but can’t find an approach that works with their busy lives.

S2-Ep39: Twelve Characteristics of Great Leaders

Guest: Mike Figliuolo
As part of the thought leader series, Mike will share his insights about the 12 characteristics of great leaders and what makes them great. He will share his personal experiences as well as the work is doing with clients. He will answer the following questions. • Are great leaders made or born? • You write that many if not most of us are good leaders, but few are truly great. Given that accurate self-analysis is very difficult, how do you know how good of a leader you really are? • Of the 12 characteristics of great leaders that you cite in your article, which ones really resonate with you personally? In other words, which one or two do you consider the most important features of top leaders?

S2-Ep38: Shaping Companies to Navigate Industry Transitions

Guest: Joe Gallo
As effective leaders, it is critical to recognize and anticipate market shifts and proactively position companies to be nimble, but stable, during these times. Joe Gallo is known for his ability to shape companies to thrive in the face of industry transition. He is also community focused – building community partnerships. During the interview we explore Joe’s experience with large scale industry change and how community involvement has contributed to the success of the Dispatch Printing Company. We discuss: 1. The bulk of you career has been spent in companies and industries that were either emerging like the internet or changing like media. What qualities do you think are most important to drive change in this environment? 2. Your work at the Dispatch Printing companies leverages the community as a whole – building on public and private partnerships – can you share some of that work and why you think it contributes to a healthy ecosystem and translates to business success?

S2-Ep37: Global Leadership - Insights and Recommendations

Guest: Cynthia Cherrey
We are at a fulcrum point in our history and in this unique time – we need effective global leadership. During this discussion we will discuss leadership from global and local perspective and explore the international leadership association and its contribution to the research and practice of international leadership. Cynthia lives and works at the intersection between research, teaching and the practice of leadership. Her passion is connecting each of these important disciplines to improve the outcomes for each. She will share her insights and answer some important questions: We need to think globally – what is driving the requirement and becoming a global society Diverse perspectives are required help address issues that require different points of view – how do we navigate the future? How do we become the change we create? What are the competencies? Is there a roadmap? How do you as listener get to make an impact? What is the ILA?

S2-Ep36: Intelligent Community Forum: Creating Intelligent Sustainable Communities

Guests: Robert Bell, John Jung & Louis Zacharilla
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a global network of cities and regions with a think tank at its center. Its mission is to help communities use information and communications technology (ICT) to create inclusive prosperity, to tackle social and governance challenges and to enrich their quality of life. The ICF think tank studies how Intelligent Communities use ICT to succeed in the broadband economy. As effective leaders, it is critical to attend to the geographic environment and the ecosystems in which we live and work and explore how this ecosystem impacts the success of the organization and the leader. During the interview, the founders share: 1. Why they started the ICF 2. How do organizations benefit from being located within intelligent communities? 3. What is a healthy ecosystem? 4. What is the difference between a smart city and an intelligent city? 5. Why should leaders contribute to community building?