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'.
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.
Rosemarie Ryan is the co-founder of co:collective. co: describes themselves as a creative and strategic transformation partner for purpose-led businesses.
They are some of the best strategic problem solvers and business builders I know.
Emma Cookson is a partner at You & Mr Jones.
Before that, Emma was the chairman of BBH New York.
She’s one of the clearest thinkers that I know.
Greg Hahn was, until recently, the Creative Vice Chairman of BBDO Worldwide, and the Chief Creative Officer of BBDO New York.
He is not the first leader to lose their job as a result of the pandemic, and he will not be the last.
Greg talked about the shock of getting fired, about how he unlocks creativity in others and about how he’s looking at the future.
David Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Squarespace.
David talked about the importance of creating opportunities for spontaneity, about getting away from a meeting culture, and about where ideas come from.
Jonathan Mildenhall is the founder of TwentyFirstCenturyBrand and the former CMO of AirBnB.
Jonathan talked about the enormous difficulties of navigating a young business through these extraordinary times, about how brands need to come together to be relevant in the new society, and about why leaders need to take care of themselves as well as everyone else.
Susan Credle is the Global Chief Creative Officer of FCB.
Susan talks about why she sees people taking more chances, about the importance of setting some structure to each day and about why a generous mindset matters more than ever.
Brad Hiranaga of General Mills is one of the most human leaders I know.
Brad talks about casting the right personalities as well as the right skills in a virtual office, about the need to take time to connect with people on a personal level, and about how companies will need to evolve if they’re to become part of the new society that is already being formed.
Nils Leonard is the co-founder of Uncommon.
Nils describes the role of leaders in moments like this as dealers in hope.
We also talked about recognizing the energy that different people bring and tapping into that. About the benefit of giving people time to focus. About what’s going to happen to society’s complacency. And why, to quote Virginia Wolf, “you can’t find peace by avoiding life”.
Mindy Grossman is the CEO of WW - formerly Weight Watchers.
Mindy is one of the clearest, and most effective leaders I’ve ever met.
We talked about hiring for culture, about practicing offense versus defense in times of crisis and about empowering other people to lead.
With this episode, we’re launching Season 2 - which we’ve sub-titled, “Leading In the Time of Virus”.
These are shorter, focused conversations in which we discover how some of the world’s most innovative and creative leaders are adapting their leadership to our new reality.
Karim Bartoletti is a partner in Indiana Production - a multimedia production company. He is living in Milan at the epicenter of the region hardest hit by the virus so far.
I recorded this episode just over 2 week ago. Before the world changed. It’s a conversation with Madeleine Grynsztejn - the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Over the last few days, I’ve thought a lot about whether to publish this episode because so much of what we talked about seems at first glance to be from a different reality.
But I think, it’s an important interview for a couple of critical reasons.
Madeleine talks about the role of art and the role of museums in both reflecting and shaping society. About the importance of constantly looking for the things that we don’t know, for breaking our own assumptions of what happens next.
Suddenly, that feels like the most important question for us to start raising as leaders.
Cecile Richards is the co-founder of Supermajority, which describes itself as a new home for women's activism that is fighting for gender equality. Before that, she spent 12 years as the President of Planned Parenthood, a that provides to 2.5 million women annually.
Public service and activism are part of Cecile’s DNA.
Her mother — Ann Richards — shattered conventional wisdom when, as a woman and a Democrat, she was elected Governor of Texas in 1990.
In the seventh grade, Cecile was taken to the principal’s office for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War.
In the eighth grade, she brought food to the strikers on a picket line in her hometown of Austin.
Her first job after college, was as a union organizer in New Orleans, helping hotel workers trying to get by on minimum wage.
Cecile has been called “the most badass feminist EVER” and “The heroine of the resistance”.
Anne Devereux-Mills is the founder of Parlay House, which describes itself as a modern salon for women. Their mission is to provide a safe and supportive environment in which women can have authentic conversations and build meaningful relationships.
Anne has been the CEO of multiple companies. She’s also a wife, a mother and a four-time cancer survivor.
This episode is called, The ‘How Do I Spend My Time’ Leader.
Carter Murray is the global CEO of FCB. He is 6’7” and shows up larger than that. In his own words, he lives on the front foot, charging forward.
But the truth is more complex.
When he took the job 7 years ago, the agency was named DraftFCB and was seen by most observers as a turnaround. Others wondered if the world needed FCB anymore.
But some people had a different view. The people that still worked there.
This episode is called “The Listening Leader”.
