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'.
What Makes Leaders Three Dimensional.
Stephanie Mehta is the Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company.
Leadership today is a three dimensional role, powered by a leader's ability to use influence and in which they are the visionary, guide, architect, storyteller, as well as the supporter of multiple constituencies.
Why We Should Imagine The Unimaginable.
Faith Popcorn is a futurist. To many of us she is the original and still the best.
Life is short. And unpredictable. And we have much less control over it than we think.
Leadership is an opportunity to make a difference while we’re here.
How She Is Teaching Women to Take Risks.
Jenny Just is the co-founder of PEAK6 Investments.
She’s been described as the most successful business woman you’ve never heard of.
How This Optimist Found His Breaking Point
Charlie Cole is the CEO of FTD.
As you’re about to hear, Charlie is a high energy leader. Relentlessly positive, endlessly optimistic. He took over a bankrupt company in the early days of a pandemic.
Charlie discovered something brand new about himself in the middle of all that. That he has a breaking point.
Why a Company’s Values Really, Really Matter.
Dave Gilboa is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. Books have been written about the strategic steps they have taken to grow this business. But I wanted to understand the personal journey that led to him starting this company and how he, his co-founder Neil Blumenthal and their senior leadership team are adapting to the challenges of our new world. What guides them today?
Why Luck Should Be Part of Your Company’s Strategy.
Andy Nairn is the co-founder of Lucky Generals.
Andy has been named the top brand strategist in the UK for the last three years and has also been named one of the top 5 creative people in world advertising.
Andy has just written a book called Go Luck Yourself, which discusses the role luck can and should play in unlocking creative thinking and innovation.
A Leadership Mediatation.
Some people have suggested that every few weeks they’d like me to put a broader context around what I’m learning about leadership, both from these conversations and from my own work. How do the leaders who are best at unlocking creativity and innovation in the people that work for them, do that?
So, let’s start here. What is leadership?
Why Asking ‘How Are You?’ Is Not Enough.
Greg Lyons is the Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo, North America.
Greg lost his wife, Andrea in December of 2016. Before she died, she gave him and their two children three pieces of advice. There is nothing more important than family and friends. Your health is critical. And spend time doing what you love.
What Happened When He Slowed Down.
Nils Leonard is the co-founder of Uncommon, the London-based Creative Studio. They were just named Agency of the Year by Campaign UK.
He believes that, 'Good things happen to people who do stuff’. He’s got enviable energy. And he’s in a hurry.
How To Build Trust With A Team You Rarely See In Person.
Heidi Hackemer is the Executive Creative Director of OATLY! North America.
Original thinkers aren’t interested in being told what to do. They want to be convinced. Which means that the key to successful leadership of the most talented people depends on a fundamental requirement.
Do they trust you?
How To Create Engagement In A Hybrid Office.
Marc Pritchard is the Chief Brand Officer of Procter & Gamble.
He focuses every day on being useful to the people around him. And that allows him to see the world through an invaluable lens. Theirs.
How To Pass ‘The CEO Test’.
Adam Bryant is the Managing Director of the Americas at Merryck. Adam is also a noted author, and before joining Merryck, was a writer and journalist for the New York Times. He is perhaps best known for his column, the Corner Office, in which he interviewed over 500 CEOs. He is an extraordinarily astute observer of leadership.
How Being Vulnerable Has Made Her A Better Leader.
Susan Credle is the Global CCO of FCB.
The leaders that have risen from the experiences of the last 12 months have done so because they showed up with openness, with honesty and with courage. They were vulnerable. They were human.
Why You Need To Be Able To Look Back and Forward.
Welcome to Season 3, which we’re calling, “Leading The Future”.
How do leaders lead when none of us have ever been here before?
Joanna Coles has been an observer and shaper of society and culture for most of her professional life.
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?
