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'.
How She Faced Her Monster In The Attic. And Won.
Jill Kelly is the Global CMO of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company.
The journey that brought her to this powerful position has been complicated and has forced her to confront threats both real and imagined.
How She Balances The Position And The Person.
Deidre Findlay is the Global CMO of Condé Nast.
Today, as a leader, it’s not just the job you’re selling, it’s the journey.
The journey you’re taking the business on.
And the journey you’re offering everyone who works for you.
How A Pandemic Tried To Destroy Her And Why It Failed.
Umber Ahmad is the founder of the rapidly growing bakery, Mah Ze Dahr.
Leadership is most visible when we are confronted by the twists and turns that life brings us.
When faced with these moments we quickly discover whether we are a leader in name only, or whether we are willing to confront the challenges of whatever lies ahead.
Why What Worked In The Past Isn’t Going To Work Anymore.
This week, I’m going to talk about one of the driving forces affecting modern creative leadership. Vulnerability. And the journey that some of the world’s most creative and innovative leaders are taking to bring all of themselves to their roles.
On Courage, Optimism And Listening As A Creative Act.
Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico are the founders of Johannes Leonardo.
Now, leaders are really going to have to lead.
Which makes Leo’s recognition of listening as a creative act, an invaluable building block in the road to the future.
What Makes A Leadership Team Work.
Emma Armstrong, Gabriel Schmitt, Michael Aimette and Todd Sussman are the leadership team of FCB New York.
Are you, as Emma describes, curious about the power of creativity and where the world is going next? And are you taking people on that journey of discovery and possibility?
Aligning Her Leadership With Her Life.
Gail Gallie is the Co-Founder of Project Everyone.
Their mission is to accelerate progress towards a fairer world by 2030, where extreme poverty has been eradicated, climate change is properly addressed, and injustice and inequality are unacceptable.
Gail’s own energy is infectious. Even across a Zoom from three thousand miles away, she lifted my sense of possibility.
Why She’s Optimistic And Skeptical About The Impact Of DE&I.
Keesha Jean-Baptiste is the Senior Vice President, Chief Talent Officer at Hearst Magazines.
Keesha is brilliant. She is brave. And she is black. And all three of those attributes make her an extraordinarily insightful and powerful advocate for the work that companies need to undertake if their workforces are truly going to reflect society.
Unlocking The Child Within All Of Us.
Julia Goldin is the Global Chief Product & Marketing Officer at The LEGO Group.
Encouraging the people around you to think and behave like children requires flexibility. On how you see them. And how you see yourself.
In a world that’s suddenly so serious, that seems risky.
On Starting And Ending And Starting Again.
Gerry Graf is the co-founder of Slap Global.
Gerry is best known as the founder of Barton F. Graf 9000 - which he built into one of the most acclaimed advertising agencies in America.
Looking At Life Through A Thousand Sets Of Eyes.
Michael Korda is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Simon & Schuster.
He has lived several lives in this one, and helped countless others tell the story of theirs.
Embracing Each Other’s Differences.
Justin Thomas-Copeland is the CEO of DDB, North America.
He’s a dynamic, charismatic leader with a long history of building successful businesses and creating change.
The lack of diversity among the senior leadership of American business is a systemic issue.
Changing it will require determination and trust at an unprecedented scale. It will require leaders who have the right intent.
Why Questions Are More Important To Him Than Answers.
Khurrum Malik is the Head of Global Business Marketing at Spotify.
Creativity is the most human - perhaps uniquely human - characteristic. It is revealed by a problem, powered by a tolerance for risk and scaled by the capacity to trust.
For every company, your growth potential and its trajectory is directly correlated to your leadership’s capacity to engender trust.
Why Experience Principles Are Critical To The Success of The Apple Stores.
Hashem Bajwa was the Director of Strategy at Apple.
This episode is a case study in managing change at enormous scale, to the highest standards and under the brightest of lights. It is filled with practical explanations that have helped create one of the most creative, innovative, visible and valuable businesses of any lifetime.
Why Living A Creative Life Is A Choice.
Laura Holson is a writer with The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley and powerful figures in finance and politics.
Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life.
How The Builder Of One Of The Coolest Brands Defines Success And Happiness.
Jesse Joeckel is the founder, owner and designer at Whalebone Creative. Based in Montauk, New York, Whalebone describes itself as a lifestyle brand that’s built around art, design, and surf culture.
Over the eleven years since he started Whalebone, Jesse has never strayed far from his definition of success.
Why She Doesn’t Wait For Permission.
Lisa Mehling is the owner of Chelsea Pictures.
In June, they were named the winner of the Palme D’Or as the Production Company of the Year at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
The power to unlock creative thinking and innovation depends on challenging assumptions and breaking down norms.
How they’re building a powerful partnership.
Nancy Reyes is the CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day New York and Chris Beresford-Hill is the agency’s Chief Creative Officer.
None us succeed alone. And the bigger the ambition, the more we need other people to reach it.
Successful and satisfying partnerships are rare. So rare, that when we find them we should take some time to understand why they work.
Why Loving Ourselves Makes Us Better Leaders.
Will Travis is the founder of Elevation Barn.
What do you want to do with your time here? What legacy do you want to leave behind?
Leadership is an opportunity to unlock the potential of people and to shape the world in the process.
One of those people whose potential you unlock, can be you.
Redefining the Status Quo.
David Kolbusz is the Chief Creative Officer at Droga5 in London.
In a world in which everything we thought we knew has been thrown up in the air, playing by an old set of artificial rules will get us to one place fast - a broken version of the past.
Leading the future starts when you imagine the world without rules. And let the most powerful force of all - your imagination - run wild.
