How Do You Greet Change?
Evin Shutt is the Chief Executive Officer of 72andSunny, a role she took on in March of 2020.
Taking on the senior leadership position of one of the world’s most creative and innovative companies at the very moment the world is shutting down will instantly reveal your relationship with change. Do you look for it and high five it?
Are You Really Here, In This Moment?
Lisa Kline is the Vice President of Communications for BreastCancer.org.
As a new definition of leadership rises from the disruption of the last two years, it’s worth pointing out that it contains one expectation that will accelerate the gap between the alright and the great leaders.
The expectation that you are present.
What Do You Want More Of In Your Life?
This week’s guest is Greg Hahn. He’s the Co-Founder & CCO of Mischief USA.
Life comes at us fast and in unexpected ways.
What we do with every day that we get is a choice between hoping for a better version of yesterday or acting to create a better tomorrow.
And the key to that is making sure we know what a better version of tomorrow will look like.
Where Does Work End And Life Begin?
Tiffany Rolfe is the Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA.
Tiffany’s email signature reads, Mom and Global Chief Creative Officer.
The day is not only for work. The day is for living.
What that means is entirely for you to decide.
Who Takes Care Of You?
Colleen DeCourcy has been named creative leader of the decade. She led Wieden and Kennedy to three consecutive Agency of the Year wins and her contribution to creativity has just been recognized by Cannes Lions with the Lion of St Mark Lifetime Achievement Award.
Today, three months into her version of retirement, her impact is everywhere.
How Many Ways Are You Looking At The Future?
Lori Bradley is the Vice President for Talent at Chewy.
Lori used the word experiment three times in about ten seconds.
Can you remember the last time that word was used in any leadership team meeting you’ve been part of in the last few months?
The future is waiting to be invented - by those who are brave enough to experiment.
Success Is Built On Hope. And The Determination To Do It On Your Terms.
This week’s episode is a re-run of one of my very earliest episodes. It’s a conversation I had with Nils Leonard in the summer of 2017.
Nils was on the show only a few weeks ago. But I’m airing this episode again now for a simple reason.
It’s a case study.
Are You Leading A Team Or A Group Of Individuals?
Joanna Coles is the CEO of Northern Star Acquisition Company, the former Chief Content Officer for Hearst Magazines, and former Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan.
Creative businesses win or lose based on how successfully they take disparate, talented individuals and combine them together to produce extraordinary outcomes. Whether that’s ads or code or clothes or cars or content or ideas.
As Joanna says, we’re moving into an era of heightened individualism.
Are You Imagining The Future Or Re-Building The Past?
Justin Spooner is the co-founder of Unthinkable - they describe themselves as a digital strategy and digital transformation company.
Transformation is a word that gets used a lot. It also gets practiced little. Mostly because it’s hard and expensive and, honestly, in some respects it’s frightening.
How Do You Define Impossible?
Faith Popcorn is the founder of the BrainReserve.
The cost of entry to becoming a leader is imagination. The weekly fee for membership in the club of great leaders is the capacity and willingness to keep seeking out the seemingly impossible and then finding a way to make it part of the expected.
How Do People See You?
Ellen Mirojnick is an award winning costume designer. During her career she’s worked with directing greats, from Steven Soderbergh, to Ridley and Tony Scott to Oliver Stone.
Ellen turns costumes into characters. How she does that is worth thinking about for every leader.
Who Do You Want On The Ride With You?
Nils Leonard is one of the co-founders of Uncommon London.
They say that life is a journey. And so is building a business.
Who gets to go on that ride is perhaps the most important decision that a leader makes.
Whether You Think You Can, Or You Think You Can't – You're Right.
Vincent Bragg and Joe Nickson are two of the co-founders of ConCreates. They started the company in federal prison where, as you’ll hear, you can learn a lot about business and even more about life.
Seeking The Truth.
Kerry Sulkowicz is the leadership confidant and psychiatrist. Kerry works with leaders across the world and is also president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
In most organizations, leaders sit or are placed on a pedestal. There is a structural hierarchy that directly affects the flow of information.
When we allow ourselves to believe that the structure itself provides us with all the information that we need, we run the risk of never knowing what we don't know.
A Story of Hope.
Michael Wolff is perhaps best known for Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which topped the New York Times best seller list for several weeks in early 2018.
If we have learned anything from 2020 and 2021, it is that we cannot know what 2022 will bring.
The story we tell future generations about how we met this moment will depend on how we approach what comes next.
With frustration and old rules.
Or with grace, originality and some humor.
Why Great Leaders Are Honest About Their Weaknesses And Their Strengths.
Judy Jackson is the Global Head of Culture at WPP which makes her responsible for providing the vision and strategy for building a culture that embraces 100,000 people.
There’s no one size fits all approach that satisfies that brief. It’s a role that requires a three dimensional view of human beings.
How Do You Want To Spend Your Time On The Planet?
Raja Rajamannar is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for Mastercard and is also President of the company’s healthcare business.
What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to spend your time on while you are alive?
These are questions that scare us.
But when we are willing to confront them, the answers unleash such reservoirs of possibility, that soon we cannot imagine why we lived for so long without the clarity and confidence they provide.
Why The Leadership Journey Starts With Honesty.
Chris Hirst is the Global CEO of Havas Creative.
Honesty about the challenges you're trying to overcome is where leadership begins.
So, trust yourself and start with truth.
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.
