What Is Your Leadership For?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the Junior Senator from the State of New York.
Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why you’ve made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind.
What Do You Think And Why?
Tom O’Keefe and Jeff King are two of the four partners who have just merged their respective businesses, OKRP and Barkley.
When we are clear about why we think what we think, when we are free of insecurity or hubris or ego, then we can assess an alternative path with an open mind.
Mergers provoke the need to lead through this lens.
How Vulnerable Is Too Vulnerable?
Anselmo Ramos is the Co-Founder and Creative Chairman of GUT, a global independent creative agency that’s headquartered in Miami, and with six other offices around the world.
How vulnerable is too vulnerable?
The answer, of course, depends on the culture that you have created. If your culture is based on deep and enduring emotional trust, you give people the ability to show up as complex, multifaceted humans, to show up as whole beings.
Are You Conscious Of Your Choices?
Kara Swisher is the most effective and successful tech journalist of our lifetimes.
In a world of white men with giant bank accounts and even bigger egos, how did this 5 feet 2 inch, self-described, liberal lesbian mother of four, end up as the most influential and insightful reporter of the technology age?
As you’ll hear, Kara puts it down to curiosity, confidence, and understanding the choices available to her.
This week’s guest is Avery Baker. She’s the former President and Chief Brand Officer of Tommy Hilfiger.
Six months after she stepped down from her position at Tommy, we talk about her desire to empower others and why it's an essential skill to demonstrate as a leader.
We also discuss the new leadership paradigm that we have developed together for creative and innovative businesses. We call it 'Partnership Leadership'.
Vicki Maguire is the Chief Creative Officer of Havas London.
Vicki is clear about who she is and she’s driven to create an environment in which people can be authentic. She’s also clear what it means to be authentic.
We talked about what 2020 has taught her and which of the changes will stick around into 2021 and beyond.
Malcolm Poynton is the Global Chief Creative Officer of Cheil Worldwide.
In the early weeks of the pandemic, Malcolm got stuck in New Zealand while his family were in London. He experienced first hand one of the very best governmental responses and learned some leadership lessons that I suspect will prove timeless for all of us.
Mae Karwowski is the founder and CEO of Obviously. They describe themselves as a team of best in class marketers and technologists who are obsessed with pushing the cutting edge of influencer marketing.
When your company’s success depends on creating and maintaining virtual connections, how do you keep your own company physically connected when the world is pushing us apart?
Rich Bressler is the President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of iHeartMedia and iHeartCommunications.
In an environment crying out for certainty, how do you encourage experimentation and individuality? How do you produce original thinking and innovation?
And how do you create room for listening in a world filled with sound?
Justin Spooner is the co-founder of the London-based consultancy, Unthinkable Digital.
Justin knows more and thinks more than anyone I know about how people learn and how they connect.
In a world that has moved mostly online, that understanding has become essential not only for our business success but for our humanity - and increasingly for our sanity.
Frank Spotnitz is the founder and CEO of Big Light Productions.
I’m fascinated by the role that stories play in shaping society. They affect our personal lives, our politics and our businesses.
And I’ve never met an impactful leader who couldn’t tell a compelling story - about their vision for the future and why it matters.
What’s your story? And how do you tell it?
Nicki Sprinz is the managing director of B-corp digital product studio Ustwo. In the six years that she has been with the company, she has eradicated the company’s gender pay gap .
In an era in which we are faced with enormous challenges, challenges that some days seem insurmountable, Nicki’s story serves to me to as a reminder of what human beings are capable of.
And what women leaders are capable of.
Stephanie Nadi Olson is the founder and CEO of We Are Rosie.
If you were going to design a business to confront the challenges of these two viruses, WeAreRosie would be a pretty good blueprint to follow.
They are built to unlock the potential of people.
Marcel Marcondes is the U.S. Chief Marketing Officer for Anheuser-Busch.
We talked about what he’s learned about leading a culture that embraces minorities after experiencing racism in his own life.
And about the need to show up as a human being first and a leader second.
Stephen Garrett is a film and television producer.
He brings stories to life. And he has a rare gift for observing humanity.
As almost everything about our world seems to be changing by the minute, I talked to Stephen about the stories that will be told going forward, about who are today’s heroes and who are the enemies, and about how and when production will come back.
Pamela Culpepper; Erin Gallagher and Caroline Dettman are the founders of Have Her Back Consulting.
As leaders struggle to come to terms with simultaneously fighting these two viruses - corona and racism - what happens to the efforts to create gender equity, how do we design companies and society for the future and who risks getting left behind?
Justin Gignac is the co-founder of Working Not Working.
The talent supply chain has been designed to produce white candidates in disproportionately large numbers.
If you are really going to fix this problem, you’re going to have look for talent in different places, define a successful candidate in different terms, and hire in different ways.
John Couch is the VP of Product Design at Hulu and author of “The Art of Creative Rebellion: How to champion creativity, change culture and save your soul”.
He is also the child of an interracial marriage, at a time when interracial marriages were illegal.
He has suffered prejudice from both sides of his ancestry. And he has emerged, thoughtful, philosophical and committed to making a lasting difference.
Ian Davis is the Founder + Principal at Age Of The Creative.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, this podcast has been focused on how leaders are adapting to a global health pandemic.
But the death of George Floyd has finally and fully exposed what millions of people already knew. Another virus has already infected our society. Racism.
Today, leadership requires that you meet the challenges of both the coronavirus and of racism.
Carl Johnson is one of the founding partners and the Executive Chairman of Anomaly.
in these conversations, one thing’s becoming clear to me. The better leaders are moving faster. And as the saying goes, they’re not satisfied with predicting the future. They’re inventing it. The expectations for which have never been higher.
Adam Tucker is the Global Client Lead of Ogilvy and WPP.
Leadership is not about trying to be the loudest or the toughest or the smartest.
It is about caring about the people you lead. About being human.
Lisa Clunie and Jaime Robinson are the co-founders of JOAN.
I knew Lisa and Jaime before they knew each other. When they finally met, they each asked me to work with them to decide if they would be good partners for each other.
As you’ll hear, their chemistry was obvious immediately.
Gina Hadley is the co-founder of The Second Shift.
The pandemic is accelerating change across society. I personally hope that The Second Shift will help to bring about one of the most meaningful changes that could come from all this. Namely, the ability to connect companies with talented women who want to work on a more flexible basis.
Simon Cook is the Managing Director of Cannes Lions.
The annual Cannes Lions festival is formed by 20,000+ people coming together every June in the south of France and all that goes with that.
Except this year. When for the first time in almost 70 years, there will be no physical festival.
John Boiler, Glenn Cole, Matt Jarvis and Evin Shutt lead 72andSunny.
Partnerships are hard. In some cases they’re destructive.
This partnership is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
We talked about connecting and reconnecting, about resilience, and about reimagining the future.
