Episodes
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Sarah R. Moore: It’s Possible to Parent AND Lead without Punishment- the Brain Science Behind It
Parenting has so many parallels with team leadership and after today’s episode, you’ll be better equipped to raise healthy, emotionally connected kids AND be a stronger leader that enables your team to collaborate and perform more effectively. Today, my guest parenting coach Sarah R. Moore shares insights from her new book Peaceful Discipline: Story Teaching,…
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Aransas Savas: Forget Journey Mapping: Define a More Valuable Customer Experience
Your customer is the lifeblood of your company. We hear this over and over again. Yet, companies don’t do a great job of crafting a customer experience that actually meets our needs, values our time, and helps us achieve our goals. Customer experience is all the rage – why do so many companies get it…
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November Hot Take: How Gratitude Leads to Empathy
The reports are in. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are hearing more and and more about how having an attitude of gratitude enhances our lives – and our performance. In this November Hot Take episode, Maria shares about how embracing gratitude will not only strengthen your empathy, but how it can help…
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Dia Bondi: How to Ask Like An Auctioneer
When we think of making big asks that will catalyze us into a new role, more funding, or higher pay, we tend to ask small for fear of hearing a dreaded NO. But today’s guest, Dia Bondi, explains the role empathy plays in making big asks – and why you actually want to reframe the…
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Dr. Michelle Zhou: Empathic AI is Real and It’s Here – But We Need Everyone Involved!
Much of the AI you hear about these days is about large language models trained to look for commonalities and best next guesses. This causes a lot of fear around how AI will be abused – Will the bots take over? Are the inputs unbiased and accurate? Will my teenager cheat on his school essay?…
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Dr. Rebecca Eldredge: Helping Leaders Manage Burnout, Overwhelm, and Compassion Fatigue
Leaders are crunched right now. Many are valiantly trying to adopt empathetic and Compassionate Leadership models to adapt to what employees on the market demand new models of leadership that are more human, but some still struggle to balance that with making tough business decisions, setting boundaries, and achieving high-performance standards – serendipitously, the subject…
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October Hot Take: Why We Need Empathy NOW
You may not know this, but you possess a superpower. One that helps you connect and engage with almost anyone and become a stronger leader, create a thriving culture and build business value. And the great news is, this superpower is innate to us as humans. But sometimes, for some of us, well, the power…
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Carol Vallone Mitchell, Ph.D: The Unspoken Crisis of Male Leadership
If you’ve been with me a minute, you know that leadership paradigms are changing. Yet it’s causing an unspoken crisis for male leaders in particular. Being empathetic and showing vulnerability are not consistent with how men have been socialized or how many women leaders were advised to lead. But that ain’t gonna fly anymore in…
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Shasta Nelson: Why Successful Leaders Encourage Work Friendships
Old School leadership thinking claims that work is work and personal is personal and never the two shall meet. However, how many of your friends resulted from work relationships? How much more joyful is the work when you know friends have your back? How much more engaged are you? After all, you often see coworkers…
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Dave Zaboski: Creativity & Collaboration Lessons from Disney and Beyond
There is a lot of talk about how creativity and collaboration “should” be done these days. Some say processes are stifling. Others say you have to all be in the same office to collaborate effectively. Today’s conversation will offer you a different take on how collaboration can actually lead to the most creative solutions on…