Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future

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Interviews with leaders on the edge: the outliers who see leadership in a very different light than quarterly results. These are the innovators who are creating a new future for businesses, governments, and NPOs.

Host Maureen Metcalf interviews C-level executives, business owners, and other leaders who realize that traditional business practices and management practices have limited effectiveness. These outliers -- and the consultants and researchers who study them -- reveal the innovations they developed and practice to nurture people, care for the environment, AND boost their organizations' performance. These are the world's innovating leaders!

Maureen is an expert in her own right: the founder of the Innovative Leadership Institute, a leadership consultant, and author of an award-winning series of books on innovating leadership in various sectors.


93 Pieces

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Caption: Neil Grunberg
Guest Neil Grunberg of the Uniformed Services University found major shortfalls in med schools in leadership training -- yet many doctors end up be...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 45:56
Caption: Mark Shapiro, Toronto Bluejays President & CEO
Leadership plays a vital role in professional sports, not just the corporate boardroom. Mark Shapiro, CEO of the Toronto Bluejays, shares his lead...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 45:47
Caption: Dr. Mary Jo Burchard studies leadership and trust.
As a society, we face a dramatic loss of trust in each other and in our institutions. This reduction in trust impacts everything from people's inab...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2021
  • Length: 50:42
Caption: Amanda Ellis is a founding member of the Financial Alliance for Women.
GEGI is an international index analyzing gender equality. We discuss the results of the latest index to learn how women fare across the 158 nation...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 43:49
Caption: Rich Fernandez
Only 15% of American employees are fully engaged with their work. That leads to low productivity, high turnover, and more. What can leaders do? ...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 42:36
Caption: Liane Davey - The Watercooler Psychologist
We naturally avoid conflict -- but doing that at work can have devastating results. In fact, conflict can be productive...and beneficial in the wo...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 45:17
Caption: Erica Dhawan, author of "Digital Body Language"
In an age where most business communication comes through text messages, e-mails, and Zoom meetings, body language all but disappears. Yet over 70...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 49:03
Caption: Jonathan Reitz
There's a world of difference between being a manager and a leader -- especially for your team. Jonathan Reitz joins Maureen to discuss how coachi...

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 48:35
Caption: Jeff DeGraff: The Dean of Innovation
Creativity and innovation are fundamental aspects of being human. A civilization can’t advance without them. Yet in the workplace, particularly i...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 45:31
Caption: Eric Douglas Keene
Diversity in the workforce is a major goal for many organizations -- yet HR teams often have difficulty meeting those goals. Eric Douglas Keene spe...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:51
Caption: Author Jeff Wald
Will automation put you out of a job? Quite possibly, but it's likely to create a new job for you, too. That's been the pattern as businesses ado...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 46:46
Caption: Serial Entrepreuneur Sean Castrina
The stereotype of an entrepreneur pushes mindset as a business-starter's primary characteristic. But launching a successful business takes a LOT m...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 46:51
Caption: Technologist Eric Redmond
Deep tech describes capabilities that were impossible yesterday, barely feasible today, but tomorrow will be so pervasive it will be hard to imagin...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 44:38
Caption: Col. Deb Lewis, founder of the Mentally Tough Women program
Women (and men) face unhealthy stress and anxiety on a daily basis - it’s a wonder we’re still standing. Few of us have stress tools powerful enoug...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:51
Caption: MIT Professors Sanjay Sarma and William Bonvillian: their research shows America's education system is not up to the task of keeping our workforce relevant to the modern workplace.
Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the updated skills and training. We need a roadmap for a new wor...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 46:57
Caption: Greg Moran: How does leadership change to keep pace with the future workplace?
There's lots of discussion on the future of work, but very little about the future of leadership. As work changes, leadership must also change to e...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2021
  • Length: 50:09
Caption: SAXION University professor Christoph Hinske created a visual model for leaders to understand how their values affect their leadership behavior.
Several of the Innovative Leadership Institute’s certified facilitators have taken the concepts that they learned from a 9-month program and applie...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 48:17
Caption: James Brenza, head of Greenest Grow, faces unique challenges leading his start-up through an emerging agricultural industry.
Emerging Industries often lend a new twist on businesses: they allow the opportunity to relook at old practices, and can lead to innovation in the ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 49:12
Caption: Author Jared Graybeal saw firsthand how six simple principles can keep a person's mind growing throughout their life.
In "The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing," author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of cons...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 47:32
Caption: Ricky Robinson rose to the position of CHRO in a billion-dollar corporation...after learning how an in-house sponsor was better than a mentor in helping climb the corporate ladder.
The leadership journey can be a difficult one with unseen challenges that ruin reputations. Skilled people can be left wondering what went wrong if...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 52:46