Interconnected Individuals

Jeff interviews Laura Prisc, an Organization Leadership and Executive Coach as well as the author of Conscious Leadership: Are Your Leaders Wide Awake? Laura talks about Individual Empowerment and how she utilizes the diagnostic tool Strength Finders for self-discovery and Consciousness Leadership for team building and leadership development. 

Some of the topics Jeff and Laura also discuss:

• Collaboration as a way to approach life and work. (1:30)
• Laura’s career and background, and a few stories about her life. (2:50)
• How Laura defines “empowerment mentoring” and her use of Strengths Finder in the mentoring world. (7:50)
• The characteristics people have to overcome to become “empowered” and what it really means to be empowered. (10:44)
• A fresh interpretation of empowerment, and how to feel it for yourself. (13:15)
• Why Laura loves Strengths Finder and how she uses it. (15:00)
• Examples of what a Strengths Finder profile might illustrate. (16:30)
• The concept of “confident vulnerability”. (20:20)
• The definition of “consciousness leadership”. (21:30)
• What makes for a good leader in a new organizational paradigm? (24:30)
• Building emotional intelligence. (29:30)
• What does “consciousness leadership” as a tool. (30:55)
• Laura’s Podcast, Making Space For Conversation That Matter. (34:30)

Jeff interviews Dart Lindsley, Google and former-Cisco Organization Design and Talent Executive in a second interview to discuss how to justify employee engagement to management. Dart also explores what it means to feel "whole and alive" at work.

Some topics covered by Jeff and Dart include:

• Dart Reminds us of his Management Philosophy and addresses what managers and employers have historically gotten wrong. (1:20)
• How the culture at the companies Dart has been a part of contributes to “degrees of freedom” and employee engagement. (9:20)
• What “Workers as Customers” really means, and how to persuade management to invest in the concept and redefine the mission of the work unit. (14:00)
• Jeff’s observation that to date workers have been looked at as an expense, not an investment (or customer). (20:00)
• What it means to be whole and alive as a worker and the value component relative to being 'disengaged' at work. (22:15)
• Can workers really rise to the level to be “whole and alive” and also create enough value for the enterprise to thrive? Do millennials entering the workforce right from school have a different set of expectations? (27:40)
• The intangible things that improve relationships with workers but don’t cost the organization very much. (32:30)
• The transition from college to full-time employment. (35:00)
• A summary of what impact Dart would like to see happen for our individual work experiences and how to find what we want in career navigation. (37:30)

Jeff interviews Ninh Tran, Co Founder at Hiretual to discuss how Hiretual is using AI to screen and recruit talent for major companies and organizations. Ninh will discuss hiring trends, the talent recruiting process, and how individuals can improve online reputation and presence. He will also discuss the skills gap that you can actively work on to increase your market value and become more competitive for recruiters.

Some topics covered by Jeff and Ninh include:

• the nature of online recruiting, how it has evolved over time, and how his company helps organizations in talent search. (1:30)
• emergent opportunities in fast-growing fields. (6:15)
• which professional characteristics and skills of individuals are most in-demand by recruiting organizations he works with. (10:20)
• Ninh's views on the future of HR. (12:35)
• Ninh's advice for those who want to get recognized and be more highly valued in the online job market (15:30)
• the do’s, don’ts, and merit of using videos in recruiting. (19:15)
• Ninh's passions and personal goals about and how it impacts his life and work. (24:40)

Jeff interviews Robert “Kim" Wilson, author of “They Will Be Giants: 21st Century Entrepreneurs and the Purpose-Driven Business Ecosystem.” Kim is an executive high-achiever and business innovator with a proven track record working with large, global enterprises as well as start-up entrepreneurs. Kim’s business solution of Ecosystems is an agile, adaptable approach thru which any business leadership team can improve value creation and innovation.

Jeff and Kim discuss the distinction between a network and a purpose-driven business ecosystem as well as Kim’s seven principles for creating and flourishing a business ecosystem.

Some topics covered by Jeff and Kim include:

• The definition of a purpose-driven ecosystem and how it differs from a professional network (1:23) 
• Exercise as a metaphor for purpose-driven activity (11:30)
• A detailed description of principles and practices that will help your ecosystem create real value (12:00)
• A short summary of each principle for listeners to jot down as a note (25:00)
• Advice Kim has as a first step for those who want to improve their professional network and build a purpose-driven ecosystem (27:49)
• Why is this personally important to Kim (31:20)