Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S2-Ep4: Story Telling: Increase Communication Effectiveness by TEDx Expert

Guest: Ruth Milligan 
Ruth talks about her work with TED and how she helps leaders build stories as a foundation for effective communication.She answers the questions:1. What is different about TED events from other formats that makes it so compelling?2. What makes a talk TED-like?3. What preparation is required to give a TEDx or TED-like talk (they are so short after all)?4. How did you get involved in TED?5. How has it influenced your business or speaker coaching methodology?

S2-Ep3: Nonprofit Leadership - Keys to Success for Nonprofit Leaders and Their Board Members

Guest: Dani Robbins 
Dani has served as an Executive Director, coached boards and now teaches at The Ohio State University focusing on nonprofit leadership. During this discussion she will answer several questions that relate to being effective either as a nonprofit leader or board member.
1. What is a nonprofit? (short answer)2. You and I wrote a nonprofit leadership book together – why did you invest your time to do this?3. What do you want leaders to understand about effective nonprofit?4. What is a typical nonprofit structure?5. What is the role of a nonprofit Board?6. What should you know if you’re invited to serve? Is that different than what you should know if you’re already serving?7. If you want to get involved in a nonprofit, either in Board leadership or as volunteer or staff, where should you to start?

S2-Ep2: CEO Perspective on Building a Vibrant Organization

Guests: Jim Ritchie Dunham, Annabel Membrillo & Ana Claudia Goncalves
Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Annabel Membrillo and Ana Claudia Goncalves discuss Organizational Vibrancy. This body of work is making a great impact in entire organizations and in pockets of organizations around the world.  It has helped them identify where they excel and what gets in the way of their teams bringing about the innovative solutions they say they want and need to have a thriving organization. Questions to be discussed: 1. What is vibrancy? 2. How do agreements fit into this equation? 3. As the CEO of an international organization – what question were you looking to answer when you starting considering assessments? 4. Why the vibrancy assessment? 5. What value did you get? 6. What were the leadership qualities required to successfully implement the changes recommended to create a highly vibrant organization?

S2-Ep1: Executive Perspective: Board Membership

Guest: Scott Caine
Scott talks about the value of nonprofit board membership in leadership development, ideas for securing board roles and nonprofit board participation foundational information.He answers the following questions:1. What does it mean to serve on a board? Give us an example of the range of activities involved?2. When you think about high-functioning boards what are one to two things that distinguish them?3. How do you select a board in which to participate?5. What are some must know topics for board participation?5. What are the benefits to the leader and the community when they chose to serve on a board?

S1-Ep25: Book Discussion: The Science of Organizational Change

Guest: Paul Gibbons
Paul talks about his new book, The Science of Organizational Chance focused on large scale change and also to the concepts of agility and anti-fragile. These are foundational concepts for leaders looking to build organizations that are able to respond quickly to predicted and unpredicted change.He will answer the following questions:1. Why did you write The Science of Organizational Change?2. What are the 3 biggest ideas from the book that readers should pay close attention to?3. You talk about evidence-based management in the book - what do you mean by that?4. Why is anti-fragility an important concept for understanding complex systems?

S1-Ep23: Executive Perspective: Exceptional Nonprofit Leaders

Guest: Charles Gehring & Dr. Rustin Moore
Many of us have structured giving plans to maximize our donations based on causes we believe in. By listening to this show, you will have an understanding of what exceptional nonprofit leaders are doing (CEO and University Dean). Both of these leaders are providing highly innovative services to meet community needs and collaborating to ensure people and pets in Columbus, Ohio receive care. 1. What characteristics are you most proud of as leaders? 2. You both offer creative services that are best in class in the US and highly innovative - please share more about what you do and how you fund your services 3. How are LifeCare Alliance and the College of Veterinary Medicine partnering to ensure seniors are able to care for their pets. 4. Many of our listeners are corporate leaders – what would you like your corporate counterparts to know about nonprofit leadership? Some of these counterparts also serve on nonprofit boards – what do you wish board leaders were thinking about?

S1-Ep22: Tool Series: Principles of Reciprocity and Liking

Guests: Brian Ahearn & John Petrucci
Brian will kick off the tool series talking about using liking and reciprocity as key elements in the larger field of persuasion. Brian shares his experience with multiple clients using the Cialdini method. He talks about reciprocity as a concept then provides rich examples to illustrate reciprocity and make it practical for leaders to apply.
Brian will answer the following questions: 1. In leadership why are relationships so important in today’s business environment? 2. Let’s talk more about liking and reciprocity Starting with liking, how can people get others to like them more? 3. How can a leader use reciprocity to be more effective? 4. Let’s talk about how a leader can engage reciprocity further. Can you share some examples? 5. When it comes to liking some leaders believe it’s not their job to be liked, just to produce results. Why would someone with that attitude want to engage liking?

S1-Ep21: Executive Perspectives: CEO of NexDefense

Guest: Michael Sayre
"Mike talks about his keys to success and about his current company, NexDefense. In an environment where cyber security is a hot topic, Mike’s company is positioned to help resolve one of their biggest risk elements. Mike will share his insights about being an executive and growing NexDefense.I selected Mike as my guest today because he has been a role model for me for many years. He consistently demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence combined with a level of analytical rigor that makes him unique in my experience in growing and turning companies around. 1. What is NexDefense and what needs does it fill/problems does it solve in the marketplace? 2. What attracted you to this company? 3. You have been CEO and/or President of multiple companies that you have led through major transformations – what would you want to share with our leaders about your most valuable lessons in this process? 4. What is the culture and how does that contribute to success?"

S1-Ep20: CIO Perspective - Building toward the ’C’ suite

Guest: Angelo Mazzocco
"I selected Angelo because he has the rare distinction of being both CEO and CIO so he has a perspective on leadership from both roles. He is also a true thought leader in our community. He has been a university adjunct faculty and facilitates a large CIO forum and CIO Tomorrow conference. He is the “go to guy” for many leaders in our community and beyond.
Angelo talks about his keys to success. He shares his insights and growth path very candidly. He talks about his fears and motivations for growth in a manner executives rarely share.
1. What differentiates you from the other successful CIOs? 2. What experiences did you have in life and how did you navigate them to position yourself for leadership success? 3. You were a highly successful CEO of a tech company then you moved back to being a CIO – why the shift when the company was posting record growth and profits? 4. What advice do you give young leaders as they manage their careers?"

S1-Ep19: Igniting a New Era - Thought Leadership and Innovation

Guests: Christopher Cooke & Sheila Cooke
Christopher and Sheila Cooke share an overarching purpose — “one viable planet”. They are focused on the release of latent capacities that equip humanity to cope with complexity and forge a world that works for all life. Together they lead 5 Deep, a specialist training and advisory company that is focused on igniting the new era through Thought Leadership, Innovation and Change. 5 Deep offers a principle-based approach that is outlined scientifically and validated through repeatable experience, with a focus on change management through leadership development, process optimization, and cultural facilitation, including the provision of supporting training and organizational development. 1. Why does the topic matter? Leadership and business effects everything. Our history, our future our lives. 2. What do we do? Seek out underutilized capacities in population today and grow those that can join on the mission 4. How do we do it? Create life conditions for people to thrive.