Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S5-Ep7: Transformational Leadership and Ethical Considerations

Guest: Ronald E. Riggio
As a prolific author on leadership - Ron talks about his longitudinal study and his work with transformational leadership and ethical considerations of a leader. During a time where we need leaders to transform their organizations while behaving ethically, this interview offers must know content. 1. What is a transformational leader? As we consider the definition today - is transformational leadership what we thought years ago? 2. How do we define organizational ethics and leadership ethics? 3. What is the interplay between transformational leadership and ethical leadership? Ron shares critical information for leaders, scholars and educators to understand.

S5-Ep6: Womens Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Perspectives

Guests: Lisa DeFrank Cole & Sherylle J. Tan
During this interview, the editors of the new book Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives (2019) discuss the latest research and novel perspectives. If you are interested in learning what is new in women's leadership, this is a great interview! Questions include: 1. Why is important to look at women and leadership? 2. What makes women's leadership journeys different from men's? 3. What was your goal in writing/editing the book: 4. Why is it important to hear personal stories, in addition to research, about women and leadership? 5. How have recent events highlighted the importance of research on women and leadership?

S5-Ep5: Revitalizing Leadership: Putting Theory and Practice into Context

Guest: Brad Jackson
Brad talks about his book: Revitalizing leadership – Putting Theory and Practice into Context. He connects leadership theory and practice with context. It argues that the universal prescriptions favoured by most leadership scholars ignore the reality that context always matters in leadership practice – and in leadership theorizing too. Addressing this gap, the book offers a novel framework that enables the development of context-sensitive leadership theory and practice that directs attention to the key challenges for leadership in different organizational contexts. It involves developing a specific purpose for leadership in a given context, as well as formulating the values, norms and domains of action that guide leadership efforts in that context. Determining these various matters then informs the role, responsibilities, rights, behaviors and attributes relevant to leaders and followers for that context, and the focus, purpose and boundaries of the leader-follower relationship.

S5-Ep4: Evidence Based Best Practices for Leadership Development

Guests: Gama Perruci, Sadhanna Warty Hall & Karen Ford
According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 Billion dollars on leadership-based curriculum, with the majority of those dollars being spent on “Leadership Training.” According to McKinsey, "there is no silver bullet for successfully developing leaders—more than 40 key actions must be taken to increase chances of success to 80 percent" As a leader interested in developing or as an organizational leader interested in developing people working for you, it is important to have good information about how to select a leadership development program. There are plenty of opportunities to spend your money from one day classes to online programs to comprehensive university programs - how do you make the best decision to ensure you are investing your time and money wisely and that you have a high probability of success from your investment. This interview explores how to develop a broad range of leaders at all levels of an organization.

S5-Ep3: How do Leadership and The Environment Connect?

Guest: Rian Satterwhite & Kathleen Allen
Our guests represent multiple frameworks on leadership and the environment. They would like leaders to consider the biosphere as one of the primary frames of leadership. During the interview, they discuss how to apply these frameworks in practice in ways that are practical. Kathy's book: Leading From The Roots is about nature inspired leadership lessons that help us create more generous, resilient and sustainable organizations (sustainable including kind to the earth). They describe their independent work and how they approach this complex set of challenges we currently face. Kathy coming from organizational perspective with senior leaders and Rian with university students. Like a forest, diversity in approach strengthens the field of study and impact they will both make. Both of our guests co-chair the ILA sustainability leadership group. They have a strong commitment to build people teaching and leading in this area.

S5-Ep2: Embodied Leadership and Way Showing For When the Path Is Unclear

Guest: Donna Ladkin & Chellie Spiller
This interview explores two critical topics, Embodied leadership and way showing along with ethics. Way showing and embodied leadership include practices for leaders to consider when they are navigating uncharted territory where the path forward is unclear. Ethics, as we have seen over the past years, are critical to build trust and inspire followership. We would like you to walk away with a sense of hope that you as leaders have the ability to amplify your impact. We offer new insight in embodied experience and different ways of knowing and pushing back from “tired” frameworks of leadership as well as a fresh view on ethics. This discussion is designed to help you learn to find your “way” in times where there is no prescribed path ahead. This body of work draws in part from the Maori lineage. It is interesting to listen to well respected leadership researchers explore the combination of ancient traditions and current leadership practices.

S5-Ep1: Situational Analysis - Increase Presence and Effectiveness

Guest: Belinda Gore & Mark Palmer
Situational analysis is one of the five key elements of Innovative Leadership. Being effective at situational analysis means you are able to evaluate four key elements of any organizational situation: 1. your personal values and thoughts 2. your behavior 3. the organizational culture 4. the organizational systems and processes As leaders we are continually responding to changing and competing demands and situations. It is important to have an holistic framework that allows us to evaluate the situation and align each of the key elements. We use situational analysis in a broad range of circumstances ranging from validating key decisions to evaluating opportunities. This tool increases leadership effectiveness and also allows them to act with higher level of authenticity and presence. During the conversation, presence is a major theme. By understanding what is happening and who we are as well as what we value, we are liberated to be who we are authentically.

S4-Ep50: Executive Mobility: CIO Story of Career Building

Guest: Venki Rao
Many companies are trying to recruit executives to address the labor shortage. Years ago, many men moved several times in their careers – my father was one of them. We are seeing the rate of movement decline. Venki talks about his transition from GE and how he is applying that experience to CAS in playing a foundational role in their transformation. There are many factors to consider for dual career families before relocating. Venki talks candidly about what made his shift work. He discusses factors such as: 1. Opportunity to make an impact 2. Autonomy to operate independently 3. Timing with family 4. Willingness to travel on the part of both working spouses 5. Community - ease of living and working If you are considering career mobility as an option to enhance your career, this interview provides some unique insight into how one senior executive evaluated his range of options to identify a great career building opportunity.

S4-Ep49: Empowering Yourself and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Guest: Rebecca Hall Gruyter
With Rebecca’s experience leading women’s empowerment network and extensive work with entrepreneurs, she will share her story of overcoming challenges and stepping forward in her life to make her unique impact in the world. Her journey involved overcoming significant fear and changing her thinking about who she was and what she should be doing in the world. She needed to address these fears and like most of us manage through her fear about each of her next steps. With each next step, she fought, bargained then surrendered to what she was being called to do in the way she was being called. Each step allowed her to get closer to her "why" in life - her authentic purpose. Rebecca's story is inspirational on many levels and gives practical guidance for moving forward to live your highest impact life.

S4-Ep48: Choosing to Make an Impact: Activists Tell Their Story

Guests: Tom Grote & Rick Neal
As we look at the challenges we see in the world, it is easy to become disillusioned. Depending on geographic location, you are likely facing some type of disruption. As people who want to make a difference, how do you know where to focus your energy? Tom and Rick say yes to challenge. Separately, have done humanitarian work in Africa, formed an LGBTQ state-wide advocacy organization in Ohio and many other acts of advocacy large and small. As a married gay couple and adopted parents of two daughters, they talk about their recent activism and how what they have chosen to say yes to is informing the arc of their lives as well as the lives of the people their work touches. Rick recently ran for political office in the US. They talk about how this "yes" impacted their families and how it creates new opportunities for both of them going forward. They inspire the question what will you say yes to?