Inspirational Insights to Action Podcast (Dawna Jones)

Liz Alexander is a futurist with a mission to help people be in charge of change through realizing their potential. Similarly companies gain the edge when they become future smart rather than feeling like victims of changing market conditions or circumstances outside of their control.

Liz and Dawna talk about how you can prepare for the future when nothing is predictable and everything is complex. You'll hear about whether robotics is really a threat to jobs, why Japan is ahead of the game, the relevance of history to how trends develop, the value of rethinking self-imposed rules on about how the world works. Liz shares the story of an outlier who understood more than the experts in treating polio and why experts make mistakes. She poses the question: Should the C-suite be automated?

You will find more about Liz at LeadingThought.us.com. For her thought leadership book mentorship go to DrLizAlexander.com

intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero: www.markromeromusic.com Track is called Alignment. Mark's music has been verified by a physicist to restore balance and harmony (coherence) to your physical state. 

Host Dawna Jones provides decision-making insights to support personal to global change. Find her at FromInsighttoAction.com or on Twitter: EPDawna_Jones

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Dr. Katrin Muff is a force behind Business School Lausanne’s adoption of Holacracy and the design of the GapFrame for activating the contribution of regenerative business to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals and higher level strategy conversation.

In this program we talk about:

• The implementation of self-management (Holacracy) at Business School Lausanne 
• The limits of hierarchy in driving purpose
• The big insights and freedom gained from decentralized decision making
• The ups and downs of deliberately developmental organizations (Robert Kegan’s work)
• How a business school can walk its talk through reinventing itself and offer students experience with the unfolding real world
• How the GapFrame framework can be used by business and business schools to change the conversations (gapframe.org)
• Advice to recent graduates facing the question: What next? ‘Get a job’ or ‘do what I care about’

Go online to Business School Lausanne to take the 5 minute CARL quiz on your responsible leadership competencies. Are you up to speed?

Guest Dr. Katrin Muff is a thought leader in the transformative space of sustainability and responsibility at Business School Lausanne, where she acted as Dean from 2008-2015 until self-organization made such a title redundant. Under her leadership, the school focused its vision on entrepreneurship, responsibility and sustainability in education and research. Her business experience includes 10 years at ALCOA (GM in Russia, Industry Analyst for Global M&A in the U.S. and Business Analyst Europe), 3 years as Director, Strategic Planning EMEA at IAMS Europe (Procter & Gamble), and 3 years as a co-founder of Yupango, a coaching consultancy dedicated to start-ups and training management teams.

Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, decision-making and consciousness leadership guide, author of Decision Making for Dummies – an advanced guide to decision making in the 21st century. She prepares decision makers with the skills to read context and apply intuitive in balance with rational to make the best decisions in complex situations. On iTunes you’ll find Dawna Jones’s podcasts on https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1 Contact Dawna at www.FromInsightToAction.com or through LinkedIn.

Music intro is by Mark Romero Music. Mark’s music brings the body into a state of coherence. www.markromeromusic.com

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Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organization stimulated a lot of thought particularly in people working inside corporate aware that traditional patriarchal organizations could not serve the vision. Instead, creating the conditions for people and customers to flourish is the challenge facing startup founders. It comes with the caveat that scaling your learning and way of working with power and control is essential to scaling value. 

Susan Basterfield is host Dawna Jones's guest in this episode where they talk about prototyping, beyond a growth mindset, and explore what happens if you imagine a different relationship to work. 

Susan Basterfield has lived and worked in 20 different countries, Susan chose New Zealand as home in 2003 which is where she talks to Dawna in this episode. From working in multi-nationals she now serves the Enspiral Foundation as a Director and Catalyst, and does her work from within an Enspiral Livelihood Pod.

Catalyst and convener, she helps individuals and organizations release potential through participatory creation—unique manifestations of ways of working and being beyond traditional hierarchical models. These include ongoing experiments in Self-Management, Agile Beyond Tech, Deliberately Developmental Organizations, and Facilitative Leadership. She is a prolific writer and speaker, and has shared her experiences from India to Korea, Canada to Chile, Sweden to Australia and most places in between.

Susan is the creator and convener of the Practical Self Management Intensive at Leadwise Academy. She holds a BA in Communications, a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, and in 2015, received the Perkins Award for most exceptional body of work in the second cohort of Seth Godin’s altMBA.

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Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogged for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Writer, speaker, and change innovator, you can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)

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Rod Collins believes that we are in the midst of a epochal change. What does this mean to you? To jobs? To Workplaces? Tracing the path from bureaucracies, how power is being transferred to today’s peer to peer networks, Rod maps out changes to the fundamentals of social dynamics at work. Through original stories about Wikipedia, and Craigslist Rod provides insight into how an idea displaces a business without intending to.

You’ll hear:

• The 3 evolutionary laws of networks that operate in a hyperconnected world
• The 4 attributes required for collective intelligence to emerge
• The real meaning of digital transformation
• The two massive tasks facing society in response to digital revolution and the need for a new economy
• The larger implications of innovation on beliefs and health
• Why a universal basic income is a bad idea

Rod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, where we used the principles and the practices of Wiki Management to realize the greatest five-year growth period in the 54-year history of the business. Today he is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, an international management consulting firm. Author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014) Rod’s passion is to work with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod writes a monthly blog for the HuffPost Great Workplace Cultures. He’s done two episodes for Dawna’s other podcasts – The Evolutionary Provocateur. One is on the Death of Command and Control; the second on Wiki-management. 

Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body.

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In a unique conversation, Dr. Chris Laszlo, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit joins his father, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, who is internationally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. In this interview we talk about the conversation that took place in Lucca, Italy in the summer of 2016.

The New Paradigm Leadership Retreat and Summit, held in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on July 12 – 15, 2016, brought together over 40 scholars and practitioners from four domains: (1) the physical and biological sciences, (2) consciousness research, (3) medicine and well-being, and (4) business and management. Chris Laszlo,

The goal was to learn how to create a world that works for 100 percent of humanity and all life on earth, now and for future generations. Questions asked included: What is reality? What is consciousness and why is it the highest leverage point for human survival? What lies at the core of health and wellbeing? How can we strengthen our collective capacity to transform business into an agent of world benefit, one whose purpose is creating prosperity and flourishing for all life on earth!

In this conversation you’ll hear:

• What if business switched from ‘self-serving’ to higher service?
• About the shift toward a unified consciousness where we are more coherent in our interactions with each other and Nature
• Why “consciousness is the determining factor of how you see the world, of who you are, what the world is, and what we can do in the world” as Dr. Laszlo frames it.
• Rethinking what the bottom line really is.
• Why higher consciousness is the highest leverage point for transformational leadership in business.
• What is different?: Moving beyond a strategist perspective to view the macro, meso and micro foundations of leadership
• Crossing the ontological divide. (the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality.)

You’ll also hear the terms NDE (near death experiences) and OBE (out of body experiences) when we talk about the quantum field.

Ervin Laszlo, Doctorat d’Etat Sorbonne (1970) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Prize (2002), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milano (2014) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo has Honorary PhD’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary and is the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into twenty-four languages. He lives in Tuscany. Ervin Laszlo’s most recent book, What is Reality? Is now on Amazon

His son, Professor Chris Laszlo, provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies on sustainability for competitive advantage. He is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and has taught at INSEAD, CEDEP, Darden, Cornell, and many other leading business schools. He was an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials. Prior to that he spent five years with Deloitte consulting.

Chris is the co-author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (2014) Stanford Business Press, Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), Island Press.  

Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music.com

Host Dawna Jones specializes in insights for decision-making transformation and leadership. #author #facilitator, #speaker

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Colin Price is the executive vice president and global managing partner at Heidrick & Struggles, a pioneer in the fields of executive search, culture shaping and leadership consulting. Prior to that he served as chairman of Co Company, an organizational development consulting firm. Previously he led the worldwide organization practice at McKinsey & Co. for many years.

Colin has consulted with many of the world’s largest organizations and published on important business challenges of organization health and performance for 25 years. His focus is on developing organizations that can align, execute, and renew better and quicker than competitors. His body of work around building organizational health, purpose, culture, leadership, and capabilities has defined this arena of study and practice.

In this conversation with Dawna he talks about:

• The shift from linear thinking to working with complexity,
• How recent political events like Brexit and the election of Trump can be understood by recognizing increased complexity,
• Why complexity cannot be oversimplified,
• Why middle managers are resistant to change,
• Why high performing companies have a reduced management layer and what that means to organizational leaders explaining that to the managers affected by cost reduction realities,
• Why accelerating doesn’t mean doing the same things but faster,
• How complacency is created and what to do about it,
• What top performing leaders do better,
• The role of humility,
• 3 things companies can do to keep pace.

Colin has published widely, and is author and co-author of seven books, including Accelerating Performance: How Organizations can Mobilize, Execute, Transform, with Agility. He has presented at many prestigious conferences, including The World Economic Forum and the Harvard Roundtable series around the need to integrate thinking on organizational performance and health so that corporations can create an aligned, high-performance system.

Intro music intro is from Mark Romero Music from a track called Alignment. Mark is a former CEO of a semi-conductor company who returned to his passion of music. His music restores health and coherence to the human body. See more at www.MarkRomeroMusic.com 

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 Platforms are scaleable and powerful. No one knows that better than platform designer Simone Cicero who explains how platform design thinking enables self-organization giving it an edge over industrial models. The open source Platform Design Toolkit canvases allow you to:

• reduces the complexity of a problem
• gain the advantages of thinking of your business as a story
• switch the narrative to empowering ecosystem potential
• collaborate and compete in the same moment

In this conversation Simone Cicero explains how the Platform Design Toolkit:

• Connects platform thinking to learning
• Connects with the existing world of design thinking
• The outcomes the five design canvases generate: transactional and relationship
• The spectrum from vision-prototype-validation and growth hacking
• How platform design help health, for example, achieve more by spending less
• How platforms accelerate scaling
• Two ways to innovate the business of your company.

Simone Cicero is a self-starter, strategist, product and service designer interested in co-design, design thinking and innovation. He sees the reasons underpinning change and connects the dots to design relevant and consistent strategies and products. A Lean and Agile practitioner with experience in adapting methodologies, Simone runs workshops for strategy co-creation, product and service design and more. Coaching and participated learning are true paths to innovation.  A blogger and public speaker, Simone speaks about innovation, disruption, resilience and ecosystems. Under the Meedabyte banner, Simone’s content has been featured on forward thinking magazines and blogs such as: Repubblica, Domus, Shareable, Ouishare Media, and Les Echos.

Go to www.PlatformDesignToolkit.com to download what you need to think through your platform.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action program, designs creative ways to get tough conversations and tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body.

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Dr. Ervin Laszlo and Dawna talk about the evolution of human consciousness and business.

Humanity has arrived at what science terms a bifurcation- a radical change in the trajectory of a system. Linear evolution is at a transition point: collapse or transform into a holistic view consistent with the laws of complex systems. They discuss:

• Supercoherence: the state where personal coherence internally (heart and mind) is in a harmonic state with the outer world. 
• Reconnection to the wider system so that the intelligence that holds things together vibrationally is fully appreciated. 
• The new reality and map of consciousness. 
• Will we collectively take the path of transformation rather than that of extinction?

Dr.Ervin Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences. 

Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero: www.markromeromusic.com Track is called Alignment. Mark's music has been verified by a physicist to restore balance and harmony (coherence) to your physical state.  

Host Dawna Jones believes that humanity can be better in the world and that the ultimate calling is to expand consciousness and compassion to all life. She also believes that business can lead the way to restoring and regenerating ecological systems civilization relies on but has taken for granted.

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In Episode 8, you met Rich Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. and CEO of Menlo Innovations which is well known for it's great workplace. Agile Enterprise coach David Grabel and the HR Director for Vistaprint also met Rich at the Agile for Executives Forum. Several site visits later and a visit from Rich, and Vistaprint was on it's way to transformation. In this episode you'll hear David explain what they've learned and how they've moved forward. 

Also:

Why self management and self organization aren't synonymous.

In the conversation David mentions Doug Kirkpatrick. I interviewed Doug from MorningStar on my other podcast. You'll find the program on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. Tomatoes and Self-Management

Then I talk to Steve Denning, founder and facilitator (and Forbes Contributor) for the Learning Consortium, a peer to peer learning community engaging in site visits. You'll hear the 2016 report results and a reflection on the Drucker Forum recently held in Vienna, Austria. 

Steve talks about the threads that tie all these companies together. Why Spotify can learn from Riot Games and why logistics company CH Robinson also learned from Riot Games. 

Learn why bosses still exist in big companies and what makes them different from the traditional command and control role. You can find out more information on the Learning Consortium report from www.sdlearningconsortium.org 

Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music. Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, author and transformational guide for companies and people seeking to flow with change. #decisionmaking #leadership

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 Co-author of Freedom Inc., professor Isaac Getz talks to host Dawna Jones about his research and experience with transforming companies from traditional leadership, where the boss is right, to leadership free to contribute. Most organizations deny fundamental human needs seriously limiting performance and innovation. When employees have the freedom and ability to act in the best interests of the company, performance improves. But does more freedom mean even better performance? Dr. Getz shares examples of phenomenal business results from companies whose leaders built total freedom-of-initiative organizations. These leaders understand that three universal human needs—intrinsic equality, opportunity for growth, and self-direction—must be met for all employees. To nurture and sustain the freedom culture, these leaders share their vision of the company so that employees can “own” it.

In this episode you will learn about the role of the ego as an enabler or leadership liability, why the CEO does not hold the power, a day in the life of a liberated organization, and lessons learned from over 300 liberated companies world-wide. You will also learn about the transformational journey leaders go on to leave behind the belief that they are the smartest person in the organization.

Isaac Getz, coauthor of Freedom, Inc., is a professor at the ESCP Europe Business School French campus, and was a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in Computer Science, obtained an MS in Management Science, and PhDs in Psychology and in Management. You can find Isaac Getz at http://freedomincbook.com/

 Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, an advanced book, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones.

Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)

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At the start of the internet age Traci Fenton and her team in college were thinking about democracy in the workplace. Not voting but democracy where workplaces could fully unlock and live their full potential. Out of that grew WorldBlu. Twenty years later WorldBlu offers the platinum standard and scorecard for replacing fear with freedom, attracting high level companies like Zappos, Simon Sinek’s Start with Why, Nearsoft (EP5) and Menlo Innovations (EP7).

In this episode you’ll hear and try on:

• 10 principles that need to be operational for any democracy to function
• The Freedom at Work Scorecard for companies of 5 or more
• The financial rewards of being a freedom-centric workplace
• How to apply the five step power question process
• What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
• Why now is the Democratic Age
• The level of fear in the C-suite and how to rise above it

Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, which has a vision to see one billion people working in freedom-centered organizations worldwide. WorldBlu was founded in 1997 and is the largest global network of companies committed to freedom and democracy in the workplace, with clients in over 80 countries globally representing over $30 billion in annual revenue.

WorldBlu's clients include such well-respected brands as Zappos, DaVita, HCL Technologies, WD-40, Great Harvest Bread Company, Menlo Innovations (EP7), Nearsoft (EP5), Geonetric and more.

Traci developed the ground breaking Freedom at Work™ model as well as the Freedom-Centered Leader™ and Freedom-Centered CEO™ certification programs and frequently coaches and consults with leaders of companies worldwide working to embrace a more freedom-centered model.

 Intro music is calibrated to bring you into alignment by Mark Romero music.com

Host Dawna Jones raises the accuracy and quality of decisions in complex environments by raising self-organizational awareness. Dawna is the author of Decision Making for Dummies (a sophisticated book on decision making) and has contributed a chapter to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Dawna also blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures. Contact Dawna through LinkedIn, Twitter: EPDawna_Jones or Facebook.com/FromInsightToAction.

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HR innovator Karen Rivoire guest hosts a conversation with author and change agent Richard Barrett, founder of the Barrett Values Center. In this conversation he talks about ego-soul dynamics as it relates to human and organizational health.

You will hear:

• About the role of a leader as a guardian of values
• The verticality of all life at different stages
• Emotions – what they are and how they serve you
• The ego’s need and soul’s desire
• The fundamental human needs companies often fail to meet
• Fulfilling fundamental human needs in teenagers
• Why Millennial is one of the most miss used terms
• How soul and psychology got separated and why it is time to bring it back
• About a 4th dimension
• A question around AI and soul

Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre®, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools® (CTT) which have been used to support more than 6,000 organizations on their transformational journeys. To date, more than 5,000 change agents, consultants and coaches have been trained by the Barrett Values Centre to use the Cultural Transformation Tools in over 50 countries. See www.values-centre.com

Listen to an earlier podcast Dawna did with Richard on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. 

Karen Rivoire, co-host for this episode, is a curious people pioneer activating the global human revolution inside companies. Passionate about aligning people’s experience with company purpose, she prefers to solve tough business challenges. Because she values difference, she disrupts unhelpful patterns responsibly and empowers people around a purpose-driven future. On top of her long experience in large and entrepreneurial world-class organizations she advises business leaders, tech founders and mentors at Microsoft Accelerator. Karen is bilingual French and English. Find her on LinkedIN.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and practitioner specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Find Dawna on T: EPDawna_Jones and LinkedIn.

Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)

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Katz Kiely is an award-winning expert in open-innovation, participatory systems design and digital engagement. She converts complex challenges into memorable experiences, smart solutions and strong innovative cultures. In this program, Katz and the host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones talk about the Burning Man social experience, using digital innovation to free human potential, and her startup BEEP. Katz's experience in large organizations such as the BBC and the UN shed real insight into why disengagement levels are high and how low expectations truly are. 

A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she is a regular speaker at global conferences including TED, SXSW and IBC and regularly writes for b2b publications on stuff like this: http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2016/8/18/recruit-change-agents-and-save-11-trillion.html#gs.Cja9aQU

Katz is a proud ambassador for the Burning Man Foundation.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in custom designing transformation experiences that merge the sciences with perception of the deep dynamics holding or supporting change. Her work leads to quantum culture change touching the personal and leadership levels through decision-making. 

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“Agile” has become a buzzword in the software development industry as well as the wider business landscape. And for good reason – several organizations have cited Agile principles as the influence behind results such as better financial performance, project success, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. In fact, 92 percent of executives said they believe organizational agility is critical to business success (Forbes/PMI). However, a deep understanding of Agile frameworks at the board-level is necessary in order for implementation to be effective. If this deep understanding is coupled with enthusiasm, CEOs and the C-Suite can initiate an overall digital transformation that directly impacts the bottom line and boosts the potential of every employee – and nobody knows this better than Dave West.

Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org and former VP and Research Director at Forrester Research for software development. Through his analyst work with several different organizations, Dave has experienced first-hand the barriers to agility and knows the steps that leaders need to take to become more agile.

Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.

In his position at Scrum.org, Dave works to carry out the organization’s goal of enabling teams to deliver software in a more effective way, raise the skill level of the software development industry, and in turn, influence the production of great software with the power to change the world. Prior to his work at Scrum.org, Dave led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. He also was Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies and Managing Director of the Americas at Ivar Jacobsen Consulting. 

Host – Dawna Jones

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant who works with progressive thinkers and bold leaders to elevate value at a human, organizational to global level. She has been a monthly blogger for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Business Expert Press just published Successfully Moving to an Executive Role. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)

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Over a casual dinner conversation organizational psychologist Andras Viscek learned that research work his father was doing provided insight into organizational change. Out of the conversation grew an invaluable tool for internal and external change agents: OrgMapper. In this conversation with show host Dawna Jones they discuss:

• What can pigeons teach us about how humans network and communicate
• 3 mistakes executives consistently make when directing organizational change
• How to increase the speed and engagement of organizational change by understanding who the real change agents are.

Andras Viscek, Co-Founder of Maven7, is a researcher, a management consultant and a trainer specialized in organizational and social network analysis with a solid background in change management, team and organizational development. He has a degree in work and organizational psychology from the Eötvös Loránd University of Science in Budapest. He is a board member at the Mérei Sociometric Workshop (a professional association for European sociometry practitioners), and has organized several related international events including Circuits of Profit 2011, a conference for business related SNA applications.

Andras is also the developer of OrgMapper, a web-based Organizational Network Analysis tool for internal and external change agents. He frequently holds OrgMapper Organizational Network Analysis certification trainings for change management and OD practitioners from various regions of the World. Before founding Maven7 with his partners, he gained vast experience as the head of several HR-focus international research projects regarding work stress, motivation, loyalty and employer branding. His specialities include: change management, organizational development, business process improvement, knowledge management, team development, KOL mapping, social media analysis and network data mining.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is specializes in personal organizational and global transformation strategies that engage the power of the human spirit guided by science. She wrote Decision Making for Dummies, blogged for Great Workplace Cultures on the HuffPo, and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Follow Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones or www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Wickedly complex problems such as the ones companies face and we face globally (climate change effects, poverty, economic inequality, health) demand a frank and yet hopeful look at how being better as humans can balance emerging application of AI and other disruptive tech. Host Dawna Jones brings forward a conversation with Michael Mainelli and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva who each bring a perspective that provide insight into what you can do and what business can do to stop throwing money and human potential away and start contributing to being better in and for the world.

The topic is timely given the selection of semi-finalists for the Global Challenges Foundation contest in designing better governance and decision making models to handle the complex issues globally. Though my submission was not selected, I still see the value of merging narrative (with Dr. Thomas Juli) with decision making and elevated consciousness, to support nations in being able to work with issues having many fast moving parts.

Guests:

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen. www.zyen.com

Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker & author -- specializing in reinvention. She oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment, & consulting. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.

Nadya has personally contributed to the development of more than 5,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries teaching courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the term embedded sustainability which has caught on to differentiate authentic commitment from superficial efforts to look responsible. You'll also find Nadya's insights via three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia & the US.

Show host Dawna Jones provides transformational insights to decision makers leading change in complex environments or issues. You'll find her at FromInsightToAction.com She has written or contributed to two books: Decision Making for Dummies and The Intelligence of the Cosmos and written for Business Expert Press on Moving Successfully to an Executive Role.

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As AI enters the home and workplace, drives our cars issues for governance arise. Guest Robbie Stamp talks to host Dawna Jones about the five areas where we can take responsibility for asking questions before making decisions. Do we employ protocols over rules? How do companies create the conditions for unethical decision making now? There is a risk that by failing to ask questions and explore to make a more conscious choice that decisions makers will fail to collectively accept responsibility for governance. Bias exists in AI. How do we monitor the roll out of AI to see that it is doing what we hope it can. Listen in to a fascinating conversation exploring AI, ethics and governance issues.

Robbie Stamp ie is Chief Executive of Bioss International, a company founded by Gillian Stamp. Bioss is a global network of organization and people development consultancies that work in the private, public and third sectors. Their work supports effective decision-making at all levels and helps clients develop and deliver on their strategies in an increasingly complex world. Bioss.com

Prior to this, Robbie was Chairman and Chief Executive of The Digital Village, a media company founded with the late Douglas Adams, which pioneered social networks to create content on the internet. He also created HandHeld History, a mobile phone content company.

Between 1995 and 2000, Robbie was CEO of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, the company he co-founded with the late Douglas Adams in 1995. The company created the computer game Starship Titanic and h2g2.com, the real 'Earth edition' of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was sold to the BBC. TDV, an early pioneer of online communities and user-generated content, was also involved in television, mobile Internet distribution, and e-commerce deals.

Host Dawna Jones offers intuitive insights giving forward looking decision makers and responsible leaders high leverage ways to transform, and reinvent in complex environments with greater clarity and accuracy. FromInsightToAction.com.

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The Imaginal Cells-Visions of Transformation was released by co-authors Kim Polman and Stephen Vasconcellos-Sharpe to activate engagement in wider change by ordinary people like you and me. It would not be the first time ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things like helping change how we care about each other and the shape of the economy and the impact on ecological health. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, the universality of the Golden Rule as a decision making principle becomes fundamental to shifting decisions to more ethical territory. The three requirements of the contemporary definition of the Golden Rule, the important role of the consumer in instigating and demanding change is a part of how anyone who cares can make a positive difference by doing things differently. Kim also speaks to the shift from the linear economy to the circular economy - essential for companies that wish to remain relevant and economically sustainable.

April 5th is Golden Rule day - an international day for restoring empathic connection and responsible decision making.

The book The Imaginal Cells includes contributing authors Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, Mohamed Yunus, Paul Polman, William McDonough, Johan Rockstrom, Thomas Lovejoy, Jonathon Porritt. You will find more information on the ReboottheFuture.org website.

Host Dawna Jones provides insights accompanied by advanced decision making awareness for clarity greater accuracy and increased responsiveness especially in complex environments.

Her transformational insights free personal and organizational potential to be more creatively responsive to high speed change. Speaker, author, strategist and educator. Author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos, and host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna works with diverse thinkers and travels the world.

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Clearlink attended the Mob Programming conference in 2017 and came away thinking folks there were either crazy or genius; possibly both. One year and a half later they had implemented mob programming, where a team writes the code rather then each person sitting in their cave. Learn from Torrey Powell, Nate Wixom and developer Charlie King how collaborative coding helped the company scale, the journey from Bare Bones Manifesto, from working in a Dev cave to working with others along with some tips for introducing a new way of working into the workplace. You'll also hear about the management issues that melt away when you give autonomy and trust to the team.

Torrey Powell is Tech Leader, Nate Wixom is Director Marketing Tech and Charlie King is Web Dev for Clearlink. Clearlink is a digital marketing and sales company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. www.Clearlink.com

This episode was recorded live on site at the Mob Programming conference 2018 in Boston, MA where host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones, was delivering a workshop on using conflict to expand skills. Find Dawna on LinkedIn or at her website: From Insight to Action

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Laurent Ledoux has been implementing what we now call participatory governance for years in the financial sector and in the public sector. Isaac Getz and Frederik Laloux are peers and it is thanks to Isaac that this episode talks about how to implement participatory governance in the public and private sector. Laurent brings practical how-to information on working with hierarchical constraints, distributing decision making and autonomy to the extent possible and on his role transforming companies to green-teal models(F. Laloux) and liberating leadership (Isaac Getz).

We talk about how to get started, the simplicity of principled decision making as a transformational means to create a psychologically safe workplace, how to respect the intrinsic equality of all through practical measures like cleaning up salary inequities, finding the sweet spot for personal growth, revamping training and a more human role for HR. What happens when you treat employees like adults? That's only one of many insights you'll hear in this episode where we also talk about the role of boundaries in achieving liberties and why working on yourself holds the highest power in transforming organizations. When Laurent talks about liberating organizations he means from the ego of managers. That's powerful and profound!

Laurent Ledoux has twenty-five years general management experience as CEO, BU Manager, HRM, Financial Director; in private, public & not-for-profit sectors; for small, medium or large (1.000 +) organizations; in Western & Eastern Europe, and Africa; ten years experience in reinventing (Laloux) & liberating (Getz) organizations: as CEO; led 3 TEAL turn arounds. Has taught executive classes & facilitating public events (mainly on business ethics, CSR & leadership) for ten years. He is fluent in seven languages. In this conversation he talks about his time at the Federal Ministry of Mobility and Transportation implementing autonomy and participatory governance. His current focus is on transforming companies and turning around companies in crisis ethically and through principles that generate psychological safety.

Dawna Jones, podcast host, provides insight to business decision makers to strengthen accuracy and opportunity for greater agility in complex environments. She brings a holistic view and profound insights to leaders and decision-makers in complex situations.

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In 2014 at the Business as Agents of World Benefit conference in Cleveland's Case Western University a design lab launched Aim2Flourish. Business students and schools all over the world gathered stories of companies who were doing things differently. As of this episode one thousand stories have been gathered. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Claire Sommer - the Director of Aim2Flourish - shares:

The story of an innovative bakery providing brownies in Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

What business students are learning in answer to the question: Can business really marry profit and purpose?

One Swiss health agency's approach to decreasing isolation.

How gathering inspiring stories changes the lives and mindset of business students.

Closing the schism between business just being made for profit and the potential to do good in the world.

How a strengths based approach shifts focus and outlook.

Claire Sommer is a professional writer who has taken on the role of Director of AIM2Flourish, an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University. Learn more at AIM2Flourish.com. Roberta Baskin, the previous director, was a guest on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast, Dawna's previous podcast.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems by working with the human spirit and tech. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics; perceiving systems together with transformational know-how result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #podcaster

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Last year the Global Challenges Foundation launched a contest for the design of a better governance model for handling the tough issues posing the greatest risk to the survival of humanity and the health of the earth. Sponsored by Swedish billionaire Laszlo Szombatfalvy the prize fund of $5 million inspired responses from 2700 participants from 122 nations world-wide. The award of 3 finalists out of 14 identified took place May 27-29th in Stockholm. Dawna was there participating in the workshops with other committed change agents from countries all over the world.

In this episode, Dawna shares what happened, what is next and what kinds of conversations took place. For more information go to the https://globalchallenges.org/ website.

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Host Dawna Jones is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, speaker, and designer of transformational processes particularly in complex systems.

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The Global Challenges Foundation inspired change agents worldwide to collaborate on a fresh strategy and approach for facing the biggest risk humanity faces. No group illustrates that better than impACT, a global network of social entrepreneurs who are combining their vision to achieve what most would prefer to think is impossible.

In this discussion with host Dawna Jones you will meet:

Matiullah, a visionary Afghan who believes in Entrepreneurship and social change,

A'laa, a young Lebanese entrepreneur on a social mission,

Nicole, a published author, social entrepreneur, co-founder of the impACT movement and guest expert on the topic of power dynamics in the international context at Freie University in Germany and,

Tobias whoworks as advisor innovation manager at GIZ, a German enterprise providing international cooperation and development services, while pursuing a startup that connects the private sector with academia. Views expressed are his own.

Together they share with you the origins of impACT and its role in offering a fresh narrative for young people infused with positive energy and hope through social entrepreneurship succeeding in different contexts world-wide, conflict, post-conflict and no conflict.

Less than a year old, imPACT is rapidly building momentum toward being a force in citizen engagement and in particular, in the role of entrepreneurs in to provide power to the people, especially minorities who are becoming role models for leadership. Diversity makes it work. For more info go to: https://m.facebook.com/impACTheworld/

Host Dawna Jones designs change strategies that reach deep into intrinsic motivations to transform from one state to a higher state restoring ethical decisions and care for all life. #decisions #conscious leadership #transcendence

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Dennis Wittrock of encode.org shares a case study of Hypoport, a fintech company that opted to implement Holacracy. Despite the assumption that Holacracy is flat and unstructured it is the opposite. Dennis walks us through the process of moving from deciding on self-management to implementing it in a company with many moving parts, growing through acquisition and diverging cultures. What each self-managed governance model brings is an explicit structure that enables stronger peer-to-peer relationships. Included in Holacracy and Sociocracy 3.0 is using tensions as a means to work with conflicting zones. Related interviews are found on my previous podcast either on iTunes or the last twenty are posted on www.management-issues.com/eprovoc and on EP15 of this podcast with Tom Tomison.

Dennis Wittrock, M.A., Holacracy Coach at Hypoport, partner at encode.org, founder of Integral Europe, founder and former co-director of the IEC 2014 and 2016, served 5 years as CEO and board member of Integrales Forum and the Integral Academy in Germany. His purpose is to create spaces for the emergence of integral consciousness. www.integral-con-text.de Our conversation took place just before the European Integral Conference.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics and perceiving systems result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #facilitator #podcaster

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Companies world-wide are adopting agile for development and to accelerate adaptability to business conditions. Seen from a traditional view of how things get done, Agile appears to take short cuts or take longer when a short cut will do. Authors of Agile Methods for Safety Critical Systems Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker combine their diverse areas of expertise to reduce safety risks in the medical device field.

 The insights offered in this conversation inform change agents why Agile is a mindset and why it makes self-management easier to implement well. With host Dawna Jones, Brian and Nancy also explain what differentiates Agile implemented well from ‘fake’ Agile, where the vocabulary is learned but the practices stay rooted in traditional management styles.  Offering plenty of real examples of companies built to adapt quickly Nancy and Brian have learned how to spot companies that are pretending from companies committed to reducing risk and increasing collaboration.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an electronics and software engineer for medical, aerospace, industrial applications. She was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems work. Nancy has been coaching Agile teams and managers since 1998.

Brian Shoemaker is an independent validation consultant to FDA-regulated companies, with a background in medical devices, clinical diagnostics and software quality management.

Nancy’s Website:  (Lean-Agile Partners)http://leanagilepartners.com

Brian’s website: (ShoeBar Associates) http://www.shoebarassoc.com/

Book web site:http://agilemethodsforsafetycriticalsystems.com

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Dawna can be contacted through www.FromINsighttoAction. T: EPDawna_Jones or on LinkedIn.

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Beyond Budgeting Round Table offers companies exploring how to transform their company governance a place where they can find engaging workplaces, individual autonomy and peer-to-peer support. Franz Röösli explains the background of the Beyond  Budgeting Round Table, a practitioner and science community that  has developed the Beyond Budgeting approach in the last twenty years as a pioneering agile mindset and a framework for action. With host Dawna Jones they also talk about the need for mature leaders who are conscious enough (age is irrelevant), to inspire their organizations for a transformative journey into a  future to stay viable and relevant. In that part they also include the finance sector a bit more specifically.

Prof. Franz Röösli, Ph.D. is head of the Center for Enterprise Development at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He researches, teaches and advises companies in the fields of organizational design, leadership and strategy.

At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (www.bbrt.org), an international practitioner and research community that deals with questions of future-oriented leadership and organization and has developed the Beyond Budgeting leadership and organizational approach.

Before joining university, Franz Röösli worked for many years in management positions in SMEs and large companies. See https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/zue/upload/Beyond_Budgeting_as_a_mindset_and_a_framework_for_action.pdf for more information.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in releasing imperceptible blocks to company transformation while advancing leaders decision making skills and mindset to lead transformation successfully.

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Anurag Maloo is an an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect. In this episode he interviews the host of the Evolutionary Provocateur and the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones on her personal journey, sacrifices, the meaning of friends and staying true to purpose. In early 2002-2004 Dawna shifted her role from facilitating change to facilitating leadership and broader consciousness to support ethical decision making. Things did not go according to plan but the experience has been mind expanding and a process of aligning with personal power. Anurag and Dawna chat about the personal story people don't often see behind the scenes.

Dawna Jones specializes in seeing what others don't - insights that allow for a shift in perspective, clearing of blocks and barriers to human and organizational potential. She is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo and co-author of From Hierarchy to High Performance. Her work engages deeper aspects of human intelligence to move collectively forward on the large complex issues that face companies and the planet through ethical decision-making and bold leadership.

Find Dawna on Twitter at EPDawna_Jones, LinkedIN and FromINsightToAction.com

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How can living without a home for nine years restore a broader consciousness level and be at peace. Author, speaker, podcast host, workshop leader in the field of transformational insights three months ago landed a home after nine years of homelessness and nomadic wandering. This is what she learned and how it is relevant to business.

This episode takes you into the story of treating yourself as a startup by exploring

1. What Otto Scharmer's leading from the emergent future looks like when you are nomadic
2. How societal expectations and the weight of judgement suppress human potential and true leadership
3. What steps help to work with resilient moments and avoid depression
4. Why the three areas of balance in a startup applied to being human and finding your way in uncertain confusing territory
5. What do you do when the rules of the game of life prove to be wrong.

On the second of two personal episodes Dawna walks you through how she became homeless and why it served to return her to a unified place of consciousness and be at peace with chaos.

"Knowledge and expanded consciousness exists outside of belief"

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Anurag Maloo is an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect who supports entrepreneurs inspired by hope to transcend very challenging conditions to rebuild economies. Regional Manager for South & Central Asia with Techstars and Startup Weekend, he is responsible for the cultivation and sustained growth of vibrant startup ecosystems in India, SAARC nations (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives) and Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). He is incredibly passionate about fostering entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem, grassroots leadership, and building strong collaborative startup communities. 

In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Anurag shares what makes him tick and how he approaches communities and people ready to do something different even when in the context of war or conflict.

None of this is easy which is why Anurag attracts people who hold hope for a better future, and willing to do what it takes. In some countries living is high risk illustrated by the recent death of Startup Grind's Chapter host in Mogadishu Somalia, Mohamed Sheikh Ali, who was gunned down. As chapter host he did inspiring work to support entrepreneurs.

Facing To tough situations takes courage, vision and empathy in order to work together to create better options that transcend existing conditions. Yet that is what it takes in emerging economies and for citizens in countries working to a future with greater hope. If you haven't already listened to the impACT interview please do.

You will find Anurag Maloo on social media channels listed here: tps://about.me/anuragmaloo

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights that activate the power of the human spirit to work creatively with designing a future with hope and connection to what matters.

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Afghanistan is associated with conflict world-wide yet inside young entrepreneurs are laying the foundation to restore hope and prosperity through entrepreneurial initiatives. The co-founders of a co-working space in Kabul, Sher Shah Rahim and Matiullah Rahmaty share the opportunities on the path. They talk about the solution to funding shared with startups worldwide and provide insights into what is needed to support their success. Matiullah is also a co-founder of impACT, another episode on this podcast.

Matiullah Rahmaty is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum, cofounder of impACT – a social entrepreneurship network for countries in conflict or post conflict and cofounder of CoWorthy and Brightpoint. Sher Shah Rahim is CEO of a private company called IAP, Co-founder of Tamveel and CoWorthy and is also on a Jury at World Summit Awards UN. You can learn more about them through their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/coworthy/

Any authors or generous people willing to help fill the CoWorthy library please contact Mati and Sher through Facebook or contact Dawna for the mailing address.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights and decision-making leadership.

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While people flee violence in their home nations, young people are pressured to join in leaving many to conclude they are the perpetrators. Saji Prelis breaks open a lot of assumptions about the source of conflict, who the victims are statistically, and sheds light on how technology has formed a violence of exclusion particularly in the key decisions impacting the lives of young people. Young people are choosing to stay in their home nations, even in the face of peril to build a future of hope from within. In this conversation you will hear their stories and what is being done around the world for humans to do a better job of handling their differences.

Guest Lakshitha Saji Prelis is the Co-Chair, UN-INGO-Donor Inter-Agency Working Group, Youth and Peacebuilding; Director, Children & Youth Programs, Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. Six years ago he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-INGO--Donor working group on Youth and Peacebuilding that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Prior to joining SFCG, he was the founding director of the Peacebuilding & Development Institute at American University where he co-developed training curricula exploring the nexus of peace building with development.

Find the resource list here: http://www.frominsighttoaction.com/flipping-negativ…ce-truth-podcast/

Saji Prelis has served as an adviser to governments and governmental agencies in over a dozen countries. He has also played an advisory role to the Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Ministers on youth and peacebuilding. In June 2017, Mr. Prelis received the distinguished Luxembourg Peace Prize for his Outstanding Achievements in Peace Support. Follow him on Twitter: @Networkforyouth

Links mentioned in this episode include: Search for Common Ground: https://www.sfcg.org/

SFCG tools and resources: https://www.sfcg.org/children-and-youth/

Soliya: https://www.soliya.net/

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Battle4Humanity is a social movement and mobile game that takes you into superhero zone by participating in making the world better. Complete a mission and transform your community. Jessica Murrey is the inspiration behind Battle4Humanity. She talks to Dawna about the three key ways ordinary people can team up to do extraordinary things.

Jessica Murrey is an awarding-winning communications specialist and common ground activist. She is the creative mind behind Battle for Humanity, a mobile game designed to forge real-life heroes. Jess specializes in social change communication, awareness campaigns, and getting in the audience’s head. At age 24, She received a Northwest Regional Emmy for Community Service for her lead role in “Don’t Turn Away,” an anti-child abuse media campaign. Months later, her PSA “Meth Mirror” won Oregon Association of Broadcasters' Award for “Best PSA 2012”. Since then, she spent four years running Search for Common Ground’s global communication department. During that time, she established new organizational branding, messaging, internal systems of content gathering and distribution, and strengthened programs’ capacity in storytelling, social media, and brand creation. She has developed communication strategies and awareness campaigns for projects from Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria to Myanmar, and major international events like the Global Forum on Youth Peace and Security. Most recently, Jessica returned from giving a Social Change Communication training in Colombia around mobilizing citizens towards reconciliation in a post-conflict situation. 

Learn more about Battle4Humanity at http://www.Battle4Humanity.com

This is a time when more than ever together we can strengthen our humanity in the face of forces that would suppress it. Taking charge of how each person responds to conflict constructively will make a difference to how we treat and see each other in the world. - Dawna Jones

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Great work cultures don't just happen. As a leading indicator of adaptability, paying attention to the six components of great work cultures helps you and your company avoid the slippery slope into confusion that takes place when company growth fails to match cultural health. Author of Great Mondays, Josh Levine, talks to host Dawna Jones about why relationships are synapses of culture, why culture is bigger than ping pong tables, and how to design your culture to engage. Part workbook, Josh also offers a framework for continuously evolving immediately applicable.

Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.com

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Have you ever walked into a workplace, perhaps yours, and felt 'off'? Or noticed that you feel better when you're not at work? Architects Ricardo Peralta and Vladic Roskin are dedicated to changing that feeling by designing workspaces people love. By paying attention to sound, light, flow, green spaces and the tone and mood, they've found that companies benefit. In this conversation we talk about environmental physics and how you design workspaces as a strategic decision.

Healthy human interaction relies not just on personal and interpersonal skills but also on the way the space supports interaction. In Decision Making for Dummies I included the reported statistic from a large drug manufacturer that decision-making speed and accuracy improved 47% when consideration was given to people flow.

Vladic Roskin  is an architect who believes that, at its best, architecture has the unparalleled ability to implicitly influence our behaviours - how we feel, think and engage with others. He is the co-founder at design and innovation consultancy Places People Love that supports leaders in transforming their organizations, environments and people by understanding human interactions with technology, culture and physical space. Fascinated by the various ways our built environment can stimulate a deeper engagement with ourselves and others, Vladic has cultivated a deep passion for human nature enriched by nearly a decade of architectural design experience. His collaborations with renowned architects, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social enterprises resulted in successful projects in the private and public sphere.

Vladic holds a masters degree in engineering sciences and architecture and is on a life-long quest to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. His work is supported by a decade of research and personal experiences living across cultures, travelling to awe-inspiring places and encounters with visionary individuals.

Ricardo Peralta is an architect and an urban planner passionate about integrating different disciplines with ancient wisdom to create spaces that nurture and heal. His explorations have led him from design to interdisciplinary healing forms; from organizational strategy to deeper practices of spiritual development. He has participated in the design of numerous large-scale projects, residential and commercial developments, office complexes, eco-resorts, eco-communities, and retreat centers. He was also part of a team that created three entirely new cities based on an innovative holistic approach to urban planning and wellbeing.

Ricardo sees architecture as an instrument to connect to one's soul and spirit, enjoys life's celebration, treasures the warmth of a hug, and strives to live a life rooted in the wisdom of the heart. Ricardo has consulted for projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe.

He is the other co-founder at design & innovation consultancy Places People Love. 

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Bill Sanders is the founder and managing director of Roebling Strauss, a business transformation and process innovation consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. A co-author of From Hierarcy to High Performance Bill specializes in helping operations adapt and implement strategy. In this episode he and host Dawna Jones explore the challenges and ways to implement a strategy for addressing digital transformation so that a company can remain viable as the economic and market environment changes. They also talk about how companies place additional stress on employees by being unaware of the complex interrelationships embedded in the demands to deliver, remain agile and perform the day to day in the face of metrics that work against implementation.

They explore:

1. The importance of paying attention to digital transformation.
2. Why much human potential is not being tapped by existing company practices and how to change that
3. Why being busy doesn't drive productivity or priorities
4. How to ensure strategy does not get buried by day to day
5. Where the conflict in priorities exists between day to day and digital transformation.

Prior to establishing Roebling Strauss, Bill held executive positions at Publicis Dialog and Real Branding. Bill was a founding member of ROCG Consulting, and helped launch and later ran the first ecommerce site for Mattel Interactive.

Bill has helped more than 200 organizations, including such global brands as Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Mills, Lipton, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and WebEx. He’s conducted business in three continents, is a past president of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, and has published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and provides commentary in the media on issues in organizational culture, productivity, and innovation.

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Doug Kirkpatrick was part of MorningStar Self-Management when it began and is a pioneer in restoring autonomy to work. How work gets done is undergoing a makeover as complexity pressures companies to rely less on authority and more on engagement. We talk about the role of free will, the use of power in traditional versus self-management governance, overall trends going on in the world, and why self-management practices benefit traditional companies as well.

With the move to #HumansFirst and a logical and sensible approach to treating people as adults comes a higher level of explicit commitments to how decisions are made, and how initiative is required and supported. Doug's insights give anyone dissatisfied with their working environment a way to move forward no matter what role you are in.

Doug's latest book is the No Limits Enterprise published by Forbes and available on Amazon world-wide and Barnes and Noble plus regular book sellers.

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Host is Dawna Jones - FromInsightToAction.com

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Paul Tolchinksy is a co founder of the European Organizational Design Forum and managing partner of Performance Design Associates, a small boutique international consulting firm based in Scottsdale Arizona. His extensive experience in organizational design incorporates the early work done in Whole Scale Change. Clients bring him in when they want to hear the truth and are ready to move forward.

Paul and Dawna had this conversation in Madrid, Spain at the Choices Conferences hosted by Cocoon Projects in October 2019.

We talk about the difference between design and development, when organizational design applies, how to know when (or if) to stop paying attention, communication and decision-making.

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Tom van der Lubbe is the cofounder of Viisi, a Dutch mortgage advisory firm on a mission to change finance. Powered by intrinsic inspiration, Tom and his colleagues have drawn from self-management pioneers and alternative models to craft a way of working and serving that is unique to Viisi and the financial sector.

Every inspired, purpose driven business has a compelling Why sourced in the life experience of the founder and Viisi is no exception. Tom shares his pivotal epiphany during the episode. For more on Viisi see https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/ Tom can be found on LinkedIn. You can also read about the visit Corporate Rebels made to Viisi in their blog post Employees First, Customers Second, Shareholders Last.

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Co-founders of Corporate Rebels Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar quit their jobs and went wandering to seek out companies where work was fun and brought creative value to the world. Building their Bucket List they visited manufacturing, retail, financial services plus a company doing the most innovative transformational work in Spain; a company that had successfully transformed seventy companies. In Pim's conversation with Dawna you'll learn what makes a transformation from traditional management to self-management successful, the focus self-managed companies have that releases freedom to employees and insights to apply to your workplace. Corporate Rebels have released a book called, wait for it! Corporate Rebels. Learn more at Corporate-Rebels.com.

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Host is Dawna Jones who supports leaders at all levels in going beyond limits and working with blind spots.

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While the world is grappling with Covid-19 and the widespread interruption, decisions are being made. Some are compassionate and some make things worse. John O’Grady is a 30-year vet with the US military. Military training and experience is made for Coronavirus like environments where there is a high level of uncertainty, you’re working with unknown variables, ambiguity and dynamic situations. 

In this discussion with Dawna, Colonel O' Grady demonstrates box breathing and talks about the neuroscience-based tools used whether dealing with your teenage daughter or in combat environments. We talk about how this applies to executive decisions today and why this is a golden moment for every person to adapt to a changing decision-making context that won't return to business as usual. 

John is now the Founder and Owner of, O’Grady Leadership Consulting Services, where he works with high performing and high potential individuals, executives, coaches, players, teams and organizations to become the very best version of themselves. Find him at strategicleadersacademy.com Email john.ogrady@strategicleadersacademy.com

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Front line workers who face risk every moment and people who depend on certainty for their personal security had the rug pulled out with COVID. Apart from shining the light on systemic issues, like the readiness of the health care system, there is a personal cost and opportunity. Terry Earthwind Nichols is the founder of Evolutionary Healer. He has developed a back door method for neutralizing trauma that bypasses the typical defence systems protecting the wound. We talk about the role of indigenous traditions in understanding trauma and the value of clearing out the emotional hard drive to achieve more functionality. Terry's books are on Amazon. The one he mentions in the conversation is Profiling for Profit.  His website is  www.evolutionaryhealer.com 

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Well known Polish internet entrepreneur Marek Zmysłowski documents the wild ride of starting up companies in Poland and in Nigeria. Fortunately he has a fairly high level of comfort with chaos. The author of Chasing Black Unicorns talks about the value of crisis, and the worst setback he's experienced out of many. He shares information he learned about the biology of executive decision-making and weighs in on the question, Does Africa need aid post-Covid? We also talk about the value of crisis and learning from working in a foreign culture working with different unwritten rules. All proceeds from sales and speaking about the book go to charity. See http://www.ChasingBlackUnicorns.com for more information.

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Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta is the author of Sand Talks: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In this conversation Dawna talks to Dr. Yunkaporta about complexity, diversity, the structure of commerce, the butterfly effect of Dutch explorers landing at Cape York; and that's just to get started. The source of trauma, role of authority, distributed cognition and more in an engaging exchange that we hope you'll find interesting. Dr. Yunkaporta is from the Apalech clan in Western Cape York, Northern Queensland. Sand Talks is available now through online booksellers.

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Richard Atherton, host of the Being Human, First Human podcast and Dawna talk about what he's learned from his guests about a range of topics: dealing with Covid, complexity, how grounding and other outlier concepts bring stability to people and how all this helps in his work supporting companies and executives through transformation. Find Richard at https://www.firsthuman.com/meet-the-team/ 

Richard Atherton interviewed Dawna on Being Human Episode #105: Life Interrupted https://youtu.be/LOsIoDwjUpE

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Raised in Alaska, Shannon Huffman Polson climbed Denali at age 19 then went on to become one of the US Army's first female attack helicopter pilots. In this episode, she talks about what grit is, decision making leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the difference between purpose in the military and purpose in the corporate world and why we need everyone's capacity to contribute at the table. Now. 

Head over to ShannonPolson.com or thegritinstitute.com for more information.

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Jan De Visch is an executive professor of Organizational and Human Capital at Flanders Business School whose research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure and sustainable growth. His work assesses the extent to which top teams can flexibly adapt their business models and strategy execution to changes in their environment. As founder and managing director of ConnectTransform, his practice focuses on strengthening collaborative intelligence using levers for strategy execution. https://connecttransform.be/

Jan has developed two products: The Thinking Game found on the website and the Dynamic Collaboration Software App https://dynamiccollaboration.app/

In this conversation, Jan talks about "we" spaces, human development as a determinant for collaboration and transformation, explaining the nuances of transforming and execution in organizations. Inspired by individuals sourced in complexity, epistemology, process consultation and constructive adult development, Jan links those inspirations directly to the work of adapting to dynamic conditions. His new book is Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams. Springer, 2020.

• Twitter: @jandevisch
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-de-visch-469580/

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Teams need diversity and care to perform well says Diana Larsen. In this conversation Diana talks about the relevance of Agile Fluency beyond the boundaries of teams reaching into social issues like racial inequity. Diana talks about fear being the driver of American business culture and conflict avoidance the greatest threat to society. In avoiding the trust and skills to learn from conflict is the US escalating the tension to violence? In the context of a pandemic and forest fires in Oregon, Diana shares her view on how what is being on with teams applies to wider issues.

Find Diana at AgileFluency.org

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Host: Dawna Jones

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Andrew Holm Julian Wilson and Dawna Jones met in 2015 when Dawna was nomadically wandering Europe in search of management innovators. The morning spent resulted in their first podcast so in this one, after the publication of book #2 Dawna and Andrew dive deeper into the temptations of transformation, how to meet the messiness of switching out a business model while measuring increases to customer service, quality, price and value.  Steering their decisions using data, we talk about the dangers of relying on data alone, and the man in the mirror conversations when self-leadership and self-management meet.  Designed on the building blocks of natural systems we cover how Matt Black achieved a 500% in productivity while believing it wasn't possible. 

Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/500-transformed-productivity-self-leading-organisation-ebook/dp/B08HJLWHXH

And the first interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-road-to-self-management/id1006636782?i=1000441169724

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In the first of this series on using Covid to advance business thinking and doing, High Performance Story founder Cameron Powell draws on his own experience with adversity, and the importance of meaning, to explain why the way companies search for talent actively filters out talent, as well as diversity and innovation - and why adversity is a good teacher for unpredictable times. “You can’t find the growth mindset of innovators,” he says, “from the fixed mindset of today’s hiring.”

In this provocative, contrarian, and wide-ranging conversation, you’ll learn:

• Why the capacity to manage scary uncertainty - evident in the courageous non-conformity of artists, deep readers, meditators, and entrepreneurs - is absolutely critical to creativity and innovation
• Why we should focus on underlying strengths - strategy, empathy, problem-solving - instead of taking lazy shortcuts of asking for specific credentials
• Why the self-employed are masters at the self-engagement and autonomous work that’s crucial to working remotely
• Why using applicant tracking systems to scan resumes can be “the biggest con” in talent, offering us the illusion we’ve discerned things worth discerning
• Why “prior experience” ignores learning in, passion for, or even success in an experience - but actively filters out diversity of thought and innovation
• Why HR needs more of just about every background but MBAs and people with HR credentials
• Why cover letters should ask candidates to focus on how they get into the Flow state

Cameron is a founding member of Humancentric Labs, a consultancy specializing in freeing up human potential for maximum worker engagement and productivity. Cameron has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Cameron recently published Ordinary Magic: Promises I Made My Mother Through Life, Illness, and a Very Long Walk.

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COVID 19 is a wake-up call that reminds us that we are part of the living system and it is showing us how ill prepared we are to adapt to uncertainty. While some companies have taken the higher ethical road, others have made short-term decisions that will likely not recover from. We are at a critical time to adapt our intelligence, to meet the complexity of these issues and the uncertainty of them.

The COVID virus has exactly the same characteristics as climate change does. COVID is much more immediate, but it's having exactly the same impact on how decisions get made and whether they get made understanding impact and system-wide effects. It has an impact on strategy, how we think about where we're going and what we're doing. It has an impact on humanity and the relationship between humanity and the living world, which is a profound and critically important connection that is long been broken.

We are in the midst of what is known as a systems level bifurcation.

Systems theorist. Ervin Laszlo says we are at a split in the evolutionary trajectory. I quote,

"there are laws of complexity, including laws of the evolution of complexity that apply to all systems. A nonlinear system level transformation called a bifurcation is one such law. A bifurcation indicates a change, a radical change in the evolutionary trajectory. Of the system, but a time will come when such a linear evolution is no longer possible. The system faces a stark alternative, transform or collapse. This is the point of bifurcation."

This is the moment that we are in. It's an exciting time because it invites us to change our decision-making from linear, which has caused enormous waste and a negative impact on society to impact based decision-making based on recognizing and respecting the systemic effects. It is having an impact on the assumptions that we make underlying how we hire people, how, people are treated.

In this series, I'll be introducing and interviewing different people bringing different perspectives on what opportunities business has and you have to really adjust thinking to adapt to the complex times were in and to take advantage of the moment to co-create better solutions that allow for humans to bring them whole selves to work, to express their talent, their creative talent, and to work with complex issues, respecting their character and their nature. Complex issues do not respond well to linear approaches. I invite you then to join as we learn from this simple virus which may have brought enough of a pattern interruption to allow us to rethink and reinvent what we want in the world and to co-create it together.

My name is Dawna Jones. You can find me on LinkedIn at DawnaHJones or on From insight to action.com

My work involves adapting decision-making to meet complex situations, emergent strategy where we don't have a clear picture of the end point anymore, transforming organizations using complexity principles, which are far more effective and provoke, different ways of thinking and ways of making sense of situations.

Join me on this series.

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Each person, each company responded differently to 2020. In this special episode, Dawna reflects back on what a global pandemic invites us to do as decision-makers, whether it is personal, or in a business professional role.

She covers linear decision making, bifurcation, shifting consciousness, the value of adapting to work with complex systemic issues and the opportunities ahead to develop resiliency and self-efficacy.

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Soumyasanto Sen is an Advisor and Leader in Digital HR, Workforce Transformation, Technologies, and Analytics, ranking among the top global Influencers and thought leaders in HR Technology, Transformation, and People Analytics. A well-known keynote speaker, Soumya is also the Founder of the Management Advisory firm People Conscience based in Frankfurt, Germany and the author of Digital HR Strategy: Achieving Sustainable Transformation in Digital Age and co-author of The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society. Soumyasanto lays out the blindside and missing gaps organizations face in adapting to digital transformation - an opportunity to think and do things differently.

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Global pharmaceutical company Roche tasked its global affiliates with transforming their operation giving them the freedom to decide how to and how much. Roche Sweden Transformation Lead Christian Feinberg talks about how they iteratively shifted from command-and-control to an environment that allowed people at all levels of operations to bring their best self to work.

Christian Feinberg is the transformation lead and current enabling team coach for multiple therapeutic areas at Roche Sweden. Before Roche, Christian was part of Pfizer / Pharmacia Pharmaceutical for eight years. His personal mission is to support and develop people to be their best selves in order to deliver outstanding value for Swedish patients. Our conversation covers principles, the power of purpose and the systems and processes that had to change to allow people to be engaged in all conditions.

Aso watch the webinar sponsored by CRISP Sweden, hosted by Mathias Holmgren that inspired this conversation with Christian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPqBYpXwko

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Beneath the surface executives and employees see, runs a hidden network of real influence. Episode 77 with Maya Townsend explores how dynamic these networks are, why this is valuable to decision-makers in dispelling bias, revealing emergent strategy and engaging more power from inside the company.

Guest Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources, helps individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in our networked world. She works with corporations, communities, and nonprofits to help develop strategy, mobilize networks, and influence change. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM), her writing on networks, change, and business ecosystems have appeared in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other publications. She is a certified Deep Democracy practitioner and leads professional chocolate tastings in her free time. 

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Ksenia Benifand and Dawna Jones talk about how to design for a better future with less waste and more opportunity. The conversation connects Ksenia's work with diverse stakeholders to gain deeper insights about user & ecosystem needs, pinpoint strategic interventions, co-design solutions, and facilitate iterative prototyping, in order to bring a collective vision to tangible on-the-ground projects.

Keywords: circular economy, design change, pandemics, archetypes of emerging future and opportunities that go with it.

Ksenia Benifand has spent her life and professional career navigating liminality - the transitory, in-between state, characterized by ambiguity, messiness, and hybridity. She has been exploring the "edges of change" to gain deeper insights into the drivers of socio-cultural, political, environmental and technological changes and developments. By exploring and experimenting with different narratives, lifestyles and practices, she has gained a unique perspective. Not afraid to test her ideas, she spent over a year living zero-waste and actively participating in and building the sharing economy as part of her research and solution design for transitioning consumer behaviours towards Circular Economy business models. She plays in various contexts to study how human needs, limitations, and capabilities adapt to new and unexplored environments while building community resilience.

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Dwayne Matthews has a way of bringing data and visionary insights into the room that flips assumptions about what you think you know about how kids learn. As institutions like education struggle to adapt to the speed of new tech, and disruptions like a global pandemic that force adaption and new ways of working vision is necessary to prepare incumbents and consumers of the system for a better way to get things done. Why do things like Singapore? Why are there more phones in action than are connected to the internet? What happens when students self-direct their own learning and teachers serve as resources, enablers, and sounding boards? These and other questions are explored in this episode.

Find Dwayne at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/ or Tomorrow Now Lab at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/tomorrownow where he asks the question: Are we preparing students for 2019 or 2030?

Dwayne Matthews is a Chief Innovation Evangelist, and Future of Education Strategist who helps school boards, educators and parents understand new and evolving themes in the 21st century, the future of work to prepare children to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital information-driven world. As an XPrize Connect Advisory Board member through the XPrize Connect Future of Learning Lab his goal is to help learners worldwide reach their full potential through an equitable and sustainable future for education and technology.

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If Covid19 shook up your sense of control over your health and well being you're not alone. Entrepreneur and former professional athlete Olu Ogunlela is the CEO and inspiration behind Liferithms — health tech that allows you to make better choices, get help, and the right kind of support. With health care institutions overwhelmed and beyond burnout in some cases, the opportunity for individuals and companies to design healthier decision-making environments is here. We talk about how and why data-driven decisions can progressively build better habits for strengthened resilience, recovery, and self-efficacy.

Olu Ogunlela is a certified life coach, retired pro-endurance athlete, and co-founder of Liferithms. Olu has 13 years of research experience in the area of behavioral psychology. He has trained individuals and groups on goal achievement and led several corporate training interventions on productivity, time management, work-balance, and peak performance. He also created training materials and developed new methodologies for achieving life, time, and energy management within a framework that was used in the development of the Liferithms platform.  Find Olu here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogunlela

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How do you want to see your country, the world, nature, planet, people, context, interaction? And how does what you are working on actually contribute to achieving it? These are the questions The Futures Project asks. The challenges humanity face, demand diverse voices and expertise from many corners so pre-Covid international policy advisor Dr. Julia Stamm pulled together The Futures Project. When Covid hit, the organization carried on receiving over 600 applications from change agents worldwide, who keep working to bring solutions that last with or without a pandemic to catalyze inspired innovation. As a policymaker, Dr. Stamm reflects on what it takes to replace short-term focus with an appreciation of the big picture. Her extensive experience in national and international academic institutions and international organizations gives her a unique perspective on where gaps in perception and action intersect.

Julia founded The Futures Project in autumn 2019. She has long-standing leadership and management experience in national and international academic institutions and international organisations, such as COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. In 2017, Julia set up and ran the G20 Think Tank Summit Global Solutions. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland, Australia, a member of the Hertie School Alumni Council and its Academic Senate and a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum for the Future in Nuremberg, Germany.

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In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, Dawna Jones is joined by Tim Gieseke to discuss regenerative agriculture and restoring environmental values. Food, fiber, and feed contribute as much value as air and water, and Tim is working to change these perspectives. Land management is changing with generational shifts. We talk about environmental roles and the challenges of soil regeneration. Moving forward has its challenges, but business agility is possible in agriculture!

Tim Gieseke has followed a life and career path around agriculture and environmental issues. He returned to the farm he grew up on and began farming part-time in 1996. He started with row crops and recently converted to a regenerative rotational grazing system.  Since 1996 he has also earned an MS in environmental sciences, and worked as a local conservationist, federal farm policy analyst, and owns a consulting business. He also authored three books that cover the spectrum of ecological economics, ecosystem service market development, and shared governance for sustainable working landscapes. He is currently working with a network of a dozen professionals to design an online natural capital accounting system; which he sees as the future foundation to manage and value our landscapes.   

Episode sponsored by the Business Agility Institute's Emergence magazine.

Music by Mark Romero Music

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Two CEOs, both serial entrepreneurs and global citizens, of two different companies, jump on this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, to share what they have learned developing tech solutions to improve decision-making. Meeting for the first time, Soushiant Zanganehpour referred to as Soush, from SWAE, and Kelly Max, from SOLVV, share their pivots, insights, and experience. Each is guided by a different focus but the same goal. How do we upgrade democracy? Soushiant from SWAE and Kelly from SOLVV share their respective experiences in mitigating bias, using data, inviting trust, and engaging users. Tune in for an entertaining discussion on how apps can support social advancement at the personal, company, and governance levels.

At the 8-minute mark, Kelly refers to the DACH market which is shorthand for Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH).

Kelly Max mentioned a SOLVV social podcast that offers perspectives on making democracy work. That link is here: https://solvv.com/solvv/how-to-start-a-revolution-to-make-democracy-work-for-the-21st-century

And another Solvv introducing the SOLVV Social Podcasting: https://solvv.com/solvv/what-is-solvv

Two more links to SOLVVS Medium articles further explain the concept:

1. A New Way To Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/a-new-way-to-podcast-introducing-solvvs-on-demand-social-podcasting-app-59e672e4c288
2. What is Social Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/what-is-social-podcasting-71e130d568a6

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VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the conditions of today's leadership environment. Nick Horney, author of recently published VUCA Master: Developing Leadership Agility Fitness for the New World of Work (2021) and special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai talk about:

• The value of a shared language when working with VUCA conditions
• Anticipating change as an outlook on life
• The pillars of fitness agility in working with VUCA conditions
• The origins and applicability of VUCA to the boardroom now
• The practical application of being VUCA fit as a leader

Dr. Horney founded Agility Consulting in 2001 and has been recognized for innovations in organizational and leadership agility, including The AGILE Model®, VUCA Masters™, Leadership Agility Fitness™, After Action Agility™ and Talent Portfolio Agility™.  He also sits on the editorial board for the Business Agility Institute.

Special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai came to the US from Zambia, acquired his doctorate, then joined the US military. He is a VUCA master in every way. Combine Kozhi's real-world experience with Nick Horney's depth of experience in organizational dynamics and leadership agility and it all becomes real and doable at a time when advancing executive skills for VUCA conditions are essential.

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In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, we are joined by WhatIF Foods CEO Chris Langwallner! Chris discusses how to create a regenerative business by taking sustainability to the next level: energizing and empowering farmers with insurance crops helps to diversify the food we consume and how we consume them. Thinking globally and acting locally can have huge impacts on how small businesses are working to regenerate hope for the future. Chris also talks about expanding your reach while still taking care of your employees. Human connection is key!

Chris offers:

• The key to converting from linear thinking about how business gets done to a system-wide impact view.
• How he prioritizes his time given the demands.
• Why community relations are critical for everyone, including the business, to succeed.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in starting up companies worldwide. His expertise and unique perspective explain why he has bitten of the challenge of running a regenerative company in the food sector.

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Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. In this conversation with Dawna Jones, they explore the great mystery and methods for working with people who do not like each other. Adam's is a leading organizer, designer, and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address such challenges. They talk love, justice, and more while referencing Adam's latest book Facilitating Breakthroughs. His previous book, Solving Tough Problems, is referenced by Nelson Mandela as “This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.”

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Inspirational Insights Podcast is guided by the intent to inspire you, whether at home or work to trust more, fear less so you and we can collectively use these times to tap into your deeper self, reinvent workplace relationships, connect to nature’s principles, rethink how power is used, and solve the world’s largest problems from local to global. In this series you’ll meet change-makers who look past surface impressions, stay curious, exploring before deciding. Hosted by organizational ecologist Dawna Jones and author of Decision Making for Dummies, you will gain insights into how to navigate uncertainty with zen-like ease. Support the program through Acast: https://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast

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Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a critically important tool for understanding how to use data for better workplace relationships, culture, and decisions. Michael Arena, VP of Talent and Development for Amazon Web Services turns data into a bridge for connecting humanity to better ways of working, deciding, and relating to one another. A keynote speaker at the Organizational Network Analysis Summit hosted by OrgMapper and the team led by Andras Viscek, Michael's passion for data and desire to make optimal decisions benefiting talent and connection stood out. Jump into the conversation where we look at the ways in which understanding networks help leaders move past snap judgments when the environment is complex, to arrive at a more enlightened view.

Author of Adaptive Space and a big fan of ONA, Michael brings a passion and engineer's mind to understanding data and how it can connect people and their collective strength. Michael Arena is the vice president of talent and development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for global talent practices, leadership development, learning, organizational effectiveness, new employee success strategies conducting organizational research to facilitate growth and innovation of AWS. Before that, he was chief talent officer for General Motors Corporation (GM) responsible for enterprise talent management, cultural transformation, leadership development, talent acquisition, and people analytics. His book Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies Are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations, shares how employees can disrupt their workplaces to increase flexibility and adaptive capacity.

The Sloan article Michael refers to in this interview is located here: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/use-networks-to-drive-culture-change/

The ONA Summit was put on by OrgMapper.com. OrgMapper.org is referenced in the podcast. Contact the OrgMapper folks at .com.

Two other episodes to fill in more details are the ones with Maya Townsend and Andras Viscek. Maya's is EP77 and Andras's is EP38.

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Daniel Ospina is a chef who turned his attention to social systems, the reinvention of democracy and our relationship with power. Organizational designer, he looks deeper to work with diversity as a perspective shifting value to R&D. 

Daniel is an organisation designer, working through his company, Conductal. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Said Business School (Oxford University) and co-founder of a community for cross-disciplinary experimentation called Crossmodalism. See Conductal.org for more information. 

Host Dawna Jones is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Recently Global Senior Director of Culture Transformation in a Fortune 500 corporation, Nicolas or Nico Petit has pioneered innovative approaches to culture change, applying peer-to-peer behavioral science principles, and orchestrating a community of 1200 influencers worldwide. Passionate about people and data, he led a culture transformation program for GSK, a science-led global health company. Working with Maven7, Nico led a team handling that transformation using the powerful tool Organizational Network Analysis. If the times do not demand it, using organizational network analysis to leverage the accuracy of decision-making definitely raises the leadership bar to a deeper level. Bringing the practical experience of working with the GSK vaccine division to launch a culture transformation program, Nico explains the shift in leadership needed to work cooperatively with 1000 influencers identified through peer-to-peer nomination.

The complexity of the world and organizations offers an opportunity to move past leadership as a position of authority or knowing the right answer. It is about listening and observing through a deeper level of leadership to bring the whole person to work, impacting wellbeing, innovation, diffusion, and delivery. In 2021, Nico launched Humanize, a consultancy boutique aimed at reshaping company cultures and leveraging the power of data to help organizations put humanity back at the center of their operating models.

In this episode, I mention the interview done with Hilton Barbour. Find that here; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-transformation-championing-catalytic-change-gsk-barbour/ More links to resources will be provided in an upcoming Substack Navigating Uncertainty newsletter. Also, check OrgMapper.com for more information.

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Driving value through clarity on who you are, what truly matters is what differentiates a company from the crowd. Brand strategist and author Marilijn Boumeester talks to Dawna about integrity, values, leadership, and other soft concepts hard to bring to a meaningful level of experience. The character of leaders, stewardship management, and the value of reflection for insight and clarity are a few of the topics discussed. Marilijn is a brand strategist and change strategist based in Amsterdam. Her work and the conversation touch on what you do as an entrepreneur or company in a new era with your values and the role change plays in dealing with complexity.

We had a lot of fun collaborating on a complexity quiz published in her freshly published book Van hoofdkantoor naar hartszaak. Yes, it is in Dutch but the conversation isn't. Join us for a bit of a fun fireside type of conversation.

Contact Marilijn Boumeester at https://buroboumeester.nl/ or on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/marilijnboumeester

References: Marilijn mentions Rajeev Peshawaria https://rajeevpeshawaria.com/ and Joseph (Jay) Bragdon and his latest book Economies that Mimic Life. Jay is also interviewed in EP4 of this podcast and in the early part of the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes.

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Ozlem Brooke Erol recognized from her time with IBM that it wasn't enough to go to work every day without some sense of why - a purpose. Moving from her homeland in Turkey to the US offered the opportunity to take purpose to heart. After being surrounded by unhappy people at work, in 2003, she started her first business to guide professionals in having more fulfilling careers. She recognizes the role of leaders in creating inspirational and purpose-driven environments and how that contributes to resiliency from a personal and business experience. She is a best-selling author, speaker, trainer, podcaster, blogger, and facilitator.

Contact her at purposeful.business. Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemerol

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2/4 Books: Decision Making for Dummies, From Hierarchy to High Performance (co-authored with Ozlem Brooke Erol, Doug Kirkpatrick and more from the Great Work Cultures Network

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In this episode, Julia Christensen Hughes provides an update on the Global Responsible Leadership Initiative's work and speaks to the challenges and the imperative for business schools to reinvent themselves to meet the demands of a changing world and values. The transactional nature of higher education is pivoting to a transformational approach plugged into the context of large global issues like climate change and biodiversity but changing the orientation will take faculty who are fluent in seeing systems and comfortable with being persistently curious.

As President of Yorkville University, Dr. Julia Christensen Hughes plays a ground-breaking role in Canadian higher education, leveraging the full potential of the university’s flexible, accessible and exceptionally small class setting to maximize innovation and student success. Previously on faculty with the University of Guelph, Christensen Hughes has 25 years of progressive academic leadership experience, first as a professor, then as the Founding Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. 

Her published works include the co-edited books: Taking Stock 2.0: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge; Handbook of Human Resource Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries; Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; and Curriculum Development in Higher Education: Faculty-Driven Processes and Practices.   

In 2015, Christensen Hughes addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the 700+ international business school signatories to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. She has also received numerous recognitions, including a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award; the Sheffield Award for Excellence in Research from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education; a YMCA Women of Distinction Award; and the University of Guelph’s John Bell Award for distinguished educational leadership.  

Find Julia's book on Amazon: Taking Stock 2.0: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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Personal agility is a project inspired by agile philosophy and adapted to how you lead your life. Authors and coaches Maria and Peter talk about the experience people have had working with Personal Agility, and how one simple question opens up reflection, focus and action.

Maria Matarelli is an Executive Agile Coach, Consultant to the Fortune 100, and an international best-selling author. Maria and her team consult businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million-dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion-dollar organizations. Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink and co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy and Personal Agility Institute.

Peter B. Stevens is an Executive, Coach, Author, and Certified Scrum Trainer. He most recently served as Chief Agility Officer at Vivior AG, the Swiss digital health startup, and is co-founder of Agile-Executives.org, Personal Agility Institute, and World Agility Forum. He is an instrument-rated pilot, speaks 4 languages, and lives in Zurich, Switzerland with his family and 3 cats.

Their book is being published by the Business Agility Institute which also publishes the high-quality Emergence magazine. Subscribe and use the code Dawna to receive 10% off.

Personal Agility release date is November 1st, 2022.

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Dr. Silvia Fierascu is an international researcher, trainer and consultant in applied network science. She is Head of OrgMapper Academy at Maven7 Network Research Inc., Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Philosophy and Communication Sciences at West University of Timișoara, Romania, and Founder and Director of a research, development, and innovation lab in social sciences, FabLab - Social Fabrics Research Lab. She earned a PhD in Political Science with a specialization in Network Science from Central European University, and in the past 10 years she has been applying network and data science for positive social impact in business, government, civil society and academia.

She helps organizations translate complex problems into solutions for organizational development, change management, better communication, good governance, public policy, and social impact. In this episode, we talk about the application of network science to understanding organizations, anti-corruption and another current project she has called FabLab!

The insights shared are relevant to anyone curious about how things run beneath the lines of assumptions and serve as a basis for inspired policy and persistent curiosity. Registration is free for the ONA Summit November 16-18th.

Links to subjects covered in our conversation:

- ONA Summit 2022: www.onasummit.com

- OrgMapper: www.orgmapper.com

- FabLab: https://bit.ly/fablab_uvt

- Corruption Risks in Public Procurement Country Profile: https://sites.google.com/e-uvt.ro/silviafierascu/research/state-capture-country-profiles?authuser=2

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Kathy Jourdain and Jerry Nagel cofounded Worldview Intelligence as an antidote to fragmentation and polarization, inspiring hope and courage for the conversations needed now and for the future. Understanding worldview gives people the power to transform – themselves, their relationships, workplace cultures, and outcomes. Kathy co-authored Building Trust and Relationship at the Speed of Change, the first book describing Worldview Intelligence and its efficacy.

Her work with clients and stakeholders includes strategic direction and operational planning, innovation, community, and cross-cultural engagement, leading change, and building team coherence.

Kathy’s memoir, Embracing the Stranger in Me: A Journey to Openheartedness, has been hailed as a deeply authentic sharing of the journey that has shaped who she is today. Kathy lives in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada.

Kathy@WorldviewIntelligence.com

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The Inspirational insights podcast is about leading the shift into the future by seeing through diverse perspectives, in relation to what the world of business and beyond needs now in order to regain adaptive agility. This episode features the art of cultivating transformations with author Jardena London. Jardena is a consultant (the good kind), author, speaker and CEO of Rosetta Agile. She has spent the last 30 years finding ways to transform organizations so that our souls can flourish, while our financials thrive. Her book “Cultivating Transformations: A Leader’s Guide to Connecting the Soulful and Practical”, supports this mission by drawing a straight line between the processes we use, the way we feel, and the results we get so we nourish our souls while producing thriving financial outcomes.

Find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jardena/ or her website at https://www.JardenaLondon.com

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Healthcare services in many nations are under pressure to adapt their design to meet the challenges in today's world. Two exemplary leaders in this challenging field, Margaret Stone and JP Swaine of the Irish Health Service share their experience in working with organizational network analysis and other means to engage the power of people within the 147, 000 employee organization. Starting small and thinking big, both leaders bring leadership skills fit for complex systems.

Margaret Stone is a change maker, leader and believer in empowering staff through a social movement to shape the culture of a health service – and by translating values into behaviors. She has extensive experience in developing and leading programs to enable change in culture in the Irish Health Services. A Social Movement Change Leader and Viral Change fellow with a specific interest in developing and enabling people to their best abilities to improve Health Services.

JP. Swaine is the Culture Transformation Manager with HSE Culture & Engagement and leads nationally on the Values in Action movement in the Health Services in Ireland. Values in Action is a behavior-based social movement in the Irish Healthcare system. JPs diverse experience is grounded in understanding social systems and cognitive psychology. He has worked for many years in the Irish Community Mental Health Services and developed the First Fortnight social enterprise, Irelands Mental Health Arts Charity.

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As a designer, Jessica Bantom pays attention to details. Details matter particularly when it comes to connecting to different identities and how customers see themselves. Her newly released book, Design for Identity, aims at influencing design decisions that either bring people in or leave them out resulting in a loss of customers. After all, as Bruce Mau stated, it is not about the world of design, but about the design of the world we live in.

Jessica Bantom is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) practitioner and workplace strategist whose mission is to enable individuals to take immediate actions that create meaningful outcomes for historically excluded people. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Marymount University, Bantom is a skilled management consultant with over 20 years of experience, a compelling speaker, and a certified facilitator and coach with a passion for helping people and organizations activate the values of DEIB to become more culturally competent and thrive in our increasingly global economy. Bantom is also active in the interior design industry as an interior design and color consultant and as an engaged advocate committed to promoting DEIB in the industry and in practice. You can learn more about Jessica and her upcoming book, Design for Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World, at JessicaBantom.com.

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Jose Leal is an entrepreneur who reached the stage where corporate environments just didn't work. In this episode, we zoom way out to see the underlying intention of the systems that drive management and employee behavior, to see the roots. However, the simplicity of the solution takes a level of leadership consciousness and inner skills that can shift how people experience work. We cover why some won't make the shift, how young people are leading the way, and explore the honest emotion underpinning the systems in place.

Jose has founded or co-founded six companies. Autonet, his third startup, was acquired by a Canadian media conglomerate, where he became the vice president and GM of the English online division. During that time, Jose was also the vice-chair of the Canadian IAB and was highly involved in the industry. After a hiatus from the traditional startup scene, Jose co-founded Radical, a co-owned and co-managed organization helping people create organizations that meet their needs.

Jose has spent the last several years researching and studying what makes us human and what prompts us to certain actions and choices. "Our vision is a future where the traditional FIAT hierarchy no longer grinds people into submission but rather the new realities of co-management and co-ownership give people and organizations the opportunity to flourish."

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Dunia Reverter and Hugo Lopes both reached stages in their careers where working for a corporate was not the way forward. Combining their expertise and vision for work not limited by bureaucracy and control they have launched JobswithNoBosses.com and a crowdfunding campaign to help build it out. Serving an international audience, I'm happy to report three companies are in Canada which is exciting for me (as the show host) having run into managers guided by fear of losing control for the last twenty years! How we view control has been shifting from controlling others to controlling ourselves — a shift in self-leadership consciousness.

To support the crowdfunding campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jobswithnoboss#/

This episode is to support people who seek jobs where there is autonomy and respect for the talent people bring to work. There is hope!! For decision-makers in startups and growing companies, this episode is a reminder that decisions are best made in a distributed way to benefit from diverse and divergent thinkers.

For past episodes on:

Buurtzorg - healthcare company founded in the Netherlands: https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/376/revolutionizing-health-care-the-buurtzorg-way/ with Jos de Blok

W.L. Gore - leading in a bossless company with Michael Pacanowsky https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/381/leading-in-a-boss-less-company/

Letting go of Control with Kevin O'Brien - a leaders journey https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/356/letting-go-of-control/

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In a world of constant change and perplexing challenges, insights reveal the path to moving through a chaotic uncertain world with Zen-like mastery. Welcome to the Inspirational Insights podcast: Harnessing Agility, Embracing Possibilities— navigate the ever-evolving landscape in personal and business life with confidence and creativity.

Through powerful conversations and thought-provoking insights, we'll unlock the secrets to harnessing your vital adaptive spirit so you can adapt swiftly, discover your hidden capabilities, and utilize opportunities hidden in complex problems and tough situations. Join a journey of exploration, where we dive into the minds of brilliant thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who have adapted their thinking or practices as leaders and innovators in business and personal life. This is a time for self and collective leadership, to apply diverse thinking to a tough issue or massively transformation goal.

At a time when old systems are collapsing, it is up to us to design the world we want to be of benefit to all life. If you’ve ever asked yourself, how can I contribute to the design of the world, this podcast is intended to support your vision and active contribution.

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In epic 100th episode (for this podcast) Dawna speaks with Dr Annemarie Lombard who is the Founder and CEO of Sensory intelligence® Consulting. Sensory intelligence is something everyone has but may not be aware of despite how important it is to foresight, insights and maintaining a healthy workplace environment. Their mission? To help people be healthy, productive and happy.

We talk about:

1. Sensory processing styles - understanding sensory thresholds and how they influence productivity, wellbeing and relationships
2. Open plan office productivity - insights and strategies to balance collaboration and distraction
3. Relationships and teamwork - sensory diversity as a tool to display empathy and care and value diverse thinking and intelligences

Facilities are often viewed simply as structures to house people at work but they could be so much more when human needs are taken into account. Imagine a building or space design as a valued element of well-being! Though it's not too far-fetched it is also not valued enough! Listen in to this conversation where you learn about a hidden talent that can keep you healthy, and balanced.

Annemarie has a PhD in Occupational therapy, acquired through the University of Cape Town in 2012. She has 30 years of global experience in people development and learning and practiced as an occupational therapist for 15 years dealing with children with special needs, learning, and attention difficulties before starting Sensory intelligence®. She is the thought leader behind Sensory Intelligence®, a sensory processing subject expert, and the author of the book “Sensory Intelligence: Why It Matters More Than IQ and EQ”, published in 2007.

Learn more at http://sensoryintelligence.com

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Dr. Leandro Herrero is an organizational architect and regular speaker at the Organization Network Analysis Summit sponsored by OrgMapper.com in November of each year. Slightly irreverent and very honest, our conversation spans why peer-to-peer change works better than top-down when it comes to creating changes at scale. Thinking differently comes naturally to Dr. Leandro and his clients' benefit. His quest is to create Remarkable Organizations. A clinical psychiatrist and academic by background, Leandro moved into the corporate sector taking up senior leadership positions in several multinational companies both in Europe and the US. His behavioral sciences background is coupled with his hands-on management experience. He co-founded The Chalfont Project Ltd from where he developed innovative solutions to organizational design, culture, and leadership. From his large work with corporations, he pioneered Viral Change™, the new global standard for large-scale, peer-to-peer behavioral change. Leandro has written eight books on leadership and change, is an acclaimed speaker, and has a large community of followers on his “Daily Thoughts" blog and LinkedIn. I have his book The Flipping Point — short flips of perception that compel different thinking.

We talk about questions like: What are the preconceived notions that unconsciously would impact a change project? Does national culture have anything to do with change? How and why is peer-to-peer faster?

We bust the notions of how long it takes to shift an organization to responsive and adaptive.

Find more on: https://viralchange.com/resources/ and of course https://thechalfontproject.com/

He is discussing network science and organizational change with Andras Viscek from OrgMapper at the end of July. Register here.

Listen to Episode 96 with the Irish Health Service where Viral Change™ and network analysis released energy for adaptive responses.

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Lisa Gill is a self-managing organizations coach and trainer, writer, and Leadermorphosis podcast host talks about the inner work needed to lead effectively in self-managed organizations and in life. Leading courses globally with Tuff Leadership Training, Lisa trains people in the mindset and skills needed to lead in more involving ways, creating working climates built on trust and openness, as well as helping organizations introduce or develop self-managing teams. As the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, she interviews thought leaders and practitioners from all over the world about the future of work. Born in the UK, Gill grew up in Southeast Asia. She founded Reimaginaire to support organizations interested in new ways of working.

You'll hear:

1. About governance models
2. About the source and styles of leadership
3. Observable shifts in governance, leadership
4. Embracing conflict as a source of collaboration
5. The three shifts that need to happen to move from move to something that's more decentralized, more human, more adaptive.

Links: Leadermorphosis podcast; Book: Moose Heads on the Table: Stories about self-managing organizations from Sweden (with Karin Tenelius, 2020). 

leadermorphosis.co; Medium blog

Learn more at tuffleadershiptraining.com

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Liliya Savych was an HR professional working for a large corporation located in Kyiv when we recorded this episode. When Russians surrounded Kyiv she left the city and faced being a refugee without roots. Landing in Dublin she reclaimed her sense of self and then returned to Ukraine. Since this interview, Liliya has left corporate to work for a city in western Ukraine with the aim of bringing her international experience to a municipal workforce.

This episode explores how to move through adverse conditions, stay centered (or at least recover), and then make decisions charting a course of action to restore a sense of control and initiative to life and work. Contact Liliya through LinkedIn.

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Surprises that come with abrupt disruption can threaten the worldview relied on to make sense of the world. So what happens when not much makes sense anymore? In this episode, Ukranian theologian and passivist Ihor Kozlovsky talks about his experience recovering from torture and illegal imprisonment to share how to move through trauma that has become so ubiquitous in the world today. The episode features an intro with Liliya Sayvch, HR professional who hosted an expert panel on July 4th, 2023 to discuss how to remain Unbroken in tradition and spirit.

Mr. Kozlovsky was one of the panel experts. He speaks in Ukranian and interpreter Olesia provides the translation. This conversation is important because dark emotions and trauma can negatively impact decisions, leadership thinking, and our humanity at a time when being human is the primary differentiator from technology.

To provide a bit of an overview you'll hear:

4:08 Liliya Sayvch provides an update and sets the context for the discussion

9:00 3 things coming out of the expert panel on July 4th, 2023 that motivated the deeper conversation in this episode.

11:42 How has Mr. Kozlovsky processed his experience and made sense of his experience?

20:51 What kind of dark emotions stay with you and what can they teach?

25:46 What motivates soldiers? Hate or love?

28.31 When you are in dark places in your mind or surroundings how do you pull yourself out?

33:41 The three levels of intellectual abilities for overcoming trauma.

39:05 Finding a coherent sense of ourselves in the world around us.

40:51 What can Ihor's experience teach humanity about being compassionate and living on one planet?

46:42 Having survived a torturous experience do you retrieve meaning from the past or start anew?

1:00 The fourth layer of intellectual ability - social

1:06 Why these conversations matter today

1:11 The source: Emotional health and its relationship to polarization and conflict. A higher leadership call.

Ihor Kozlovsky references Fritz Perls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls

Links to Ihor Kozlovsky's story:

https://babel.ua/en/amp/news/98187-a-ukrainian-historian-religious-scholar-and-former-prisoner-of-the-dpr-ihor-kozlovsky-died

https://df.news/en/2023/09/06/acclaimed-religious-scholar-researcher-and-former-political-prisoner-ihor-kozlovsky-dies/

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Harry Turner flew to the Peruvian Amazon to commit suicide but something happened while he was there that would change his life forever. Documented in the film Wild Cat, now streaming on Amazon Prime, Harry's experience with war, death, and school led him to discover and reconnect to himself. He had help in the form of two wild cats — ocelots. His experience with being their parent mimics the experience of any parent. The scene for this episode highlights the awareness of the return to being emotionally and physically healthy and assessing risks rooted in a sense of fearless living in the jungle.

You can find the documentary film on Amazon Prime.

Help Harry with the Emerald Arch project at www.emeraldarch.org

Harry's documentary just won an Emmy award!!

See www.wildcatdocumentary.com

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Doug Kirkpatrick and Rod Collins combine expertise with self-managed governance and collective intelligence to provide a bridge between traditional business mechanisms with respectful approaches for intelligent people. Learn why the transformative concept of synergistic control, replaces traditional control mechanisms to engage collaborative achievement. We talk about the principles guiding self-managed companies, decision rights, and the heightened responsibility that accompanies this evolution.

• The autonomy of choice: Your free will is applied within your organization and for selecting workplaces that fit you.
• Leadership evolution: shift from dictatorial leadership to a facilitative approach.
• Embrace collective intelligence, challenge conventional thinking, and prioritize understanding.

For Rod's article on Substack see https://rodcollins.substack.com/p/collective-intelligence-will-enable

Harnessing Agility - Embracing Possibilities

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What is the world asking for you to contribute? This and many other reflections pop up in the conversation with Jeffrey Beeson who explores what network science tells us about the future of organizations and what it means for leaders. Organizations are changing: their structure, thinking and internal roles. We talk about:

pioneering companies who reinvented themselves, shifts leaders need to make, the science and effectiveness of small teams, and how network science helps us understand human systems and organizations. As a followup to the previous episode, we also talk about collective intelligence.

Jeffrey’s career path inspired him to recognize the need to integrate the perspectives of strategy and organizational culture. He founded Ensemble Enabler to collaborate with organizations to foster agile organizational cultures and advance leadership at all levels of an organization. Through a unique collection of practices, Ensemble Enabler supports organizations to develop insights, acquire new knowledge, and implement new ideas through innovative approaches. Jeffrey co-founded the non-profit organization World Café Europe e.V. in 2007. Its vision …”is a Europe where citizens actively engage to find concrete solutions for the key issues of their time.”

You'll find his work on https://www.ensembleenabler.com/ in German and English

Thanks to Patricia Munro for the introduction.

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Innovation nerd and adaptive thinker extraordinaire Curtis Michelson provides an overview of what is emerging in 2024 based on signals he's picked up from his many communities. From Agile to organization network analysis to open innovation and more, you'll learn what is brewing inside edgy thinking communities.

Curtis Michelson is, in his own words a "serial failed entrepreneur, yet ever hopeful and optimistic". A longtime coach and complexity facilitator, Curtis works with clients on strategic business model deep dives and rethinks. His consultancy Minds Alert delivers on those transformation ambitions with 'design sprints' - short bursts of intense value discovery and validation. AI tools for generative thinking come along for the ride. The supporting innovation offering he created is INFOdj which aims to deliver just-in-time research insights to teams who are sprinting at those emerging edges of technology and business models. 

Based in Orlando, Florida, he gives time locally to community projects focused on social justice, reframing historical trauma narratives and green economies.

Curtis's overview of who is doing the leading-edge thinking work has been summarized on this page: https://infodj.notion.site/Curtis-Forecasts-Futures-for-Innovation-in-2024-66f092cfa3174340828c98a4e2915f8f

His pick for a 2024 theme song is The Waters Of March · Susannah McCorkle

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Whether you are a business or at a personal level, how you deal with life's interruptions determines your emotional and mental health from that day forward. Transforming a tragedy into an inspired purpose is the choice Amanda Bauer-Frisch made when her husband died abruptly. In this episode, she takes us on a deep dive and explains how she moved through the difficult times and why she hangs out with people who can have difficult conversations.

Amanda Bauer-Frisch, a resilient serial entrepreneur and CEO of Enduring Legacy Company embarked on her journey after poignant personal experiences shaped her vision. Transitioning from a career in human resources to full-time parenting in 2020, Amanda channeled her spare time into crafting literacy tools inspired by her late husband’s teachings.

Her first business, Small Legacies, is a children’s gift brand that focuses on thoughtful, practical items that enhance a child’s development and peace within parents’ homes. Owning several other small businesses, all under the umbrella of Enduring Legacy Company, Amanda is a visionary entrepreneur dedicated to leaving a lasting impact through heartfelt, purpose-driven ventures that resonate with families worldwide.

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Rod Collins is back! In this episode, the former COO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and futurist explores the critical shift from hierarchically structured authority to collective and collaborative networks. Learn the pitfalls of digital feudalism and how pioneering companies like Google have strayed from their original ideals.

This episode promises insights into leveraging collective intelligence for true innovation and the inevitable decline of traditional hierarchical models. Rod's book 'Nobody is Smarter Than Everybody' was published by guest Rod Collins. Listen to this compelling discussion on rethinking (and changing) how power is used as workplaces evolve to keep up with the digital era where no one person can solve anything. Diverse intelligence is needed. So is order, which is not to be confused with direction. You'll gain valuable insights for professionals, leaders, and anyone interested in the impact of collective intelligence and the evolution of organizational structures. A few highlights:

•  Leveraging collective intelligence: "Power with" rather than "power over" can amplify the collective intelligence of groups, leading to more innovative and effective outcomes.
• The importance of autonomy and order: Hint: it is not either/or.
• The implications of digital feudalism
• The decline of hierarchical management structures
• The necessity for companies to evolve

Rod's book is available through the usual outlets. https://rodcollins.net/

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Have you ever been told that vulnerability is a sign of weakness? Have you believed it? Garry Turner debunks the myth and shares his personal journey after saying yes to an inner recognition that something was missing from life. His exploration released him from old traumas, through to recovered energy and a freedom that energizes an unimaginable level of productivity and creativity.

Garry Turner guides the expansion of possibilities at the intersections of International Sales, People & Culture, Equity & Inclusion and Sustainability. Guided by a

major focus on serving, and seeking, to disrupt extractive industry mindsets and structures from the inside out and the outside in, Garry works on a 1-1 basis with executive and senior leaders, and with teams, as a Thinking Partner, International Speaker, and holding space for connection, co-creation, reimagining and exceptional performance.

Garry is also a content creator having hosted two podcasts, Value through Vulnerability and Activating Consciousness, writes blogs, and also hosts livestreams around a variety of deeply human and systemic topics. Garry's links are here: https://linktr.ee/HexoChangeGarryTurner See also Hegemony Revealed on YouTube.

These are times when true leaders accept the challenge of moving past fear to realize a much deeper adaptive capacity. Garry's experience illustrates what is possible when you refuse to let fear-based thinking set the limits for what you are capable of experiencing.

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Timisoara, a city in Romania, bolstered by winning a bid through the EU, took on a grand experiment. My guest Silvia Fierascu, a network science researcher among other roles, was a part of that project. In this episode, we explore how political vision, open-mindedness and principles drawn from network science brought community organizations together to strengthen and grow cultural cohesion.

Working with organizations in a city with a population of 300,000, presented an opportunity to galvanize cohesion among cultural organizations that would normally compete for resources.

Can cooperation be better than competition when it comes to growth?

In the first 15 minutes we talked about:

• Cultural Impact: The focus is on prioritizing cultural development as a driver for economic growth, improving quality of life, and integrating education to cultivate future cultural consumers and producers.
• Institutional Support: The Center for Projects, an institution under the mayor’s office, leads the program implementation.
• Principles vs. Beliefs: Principles, unlike beliefs, can be tested and are used to anchor actions and guide change, fostering collaboration and sustainability within the cultural ecosystem.
• Recognition and Respect: The follow-up plan emphasizes recognizing and respecting the contributions of individuals and organizations, planning together to give meaning and purpose to their efforts.
• Network Analysis: The methodology identifies key actors with significant influence over the ecosystem, fostering trust and collaboration for broader impact.
• Reflection for Growth: A key recommendation is for 2024 to be a year of reflection to learn from experiences, ensuring continuous improvement and sustainability of the cultural initiatives.
• Innovative Financing: Changes in cultural financing legislation made funding more sustainable and transparent, promoting collaboration and accessibility for vulnerable communities.
• Public Debate and Inclusion: Public debates around art and inclusive cultural events were new and significant interventions that fostered community engagement and collaboration among cultural operators.

An individual’s emotional and mental health is informed or influenced by the health of the people in the community so strengthening cohesion increases resilience.

To connect with Silvia on LinkedIN: Silvia Fierascu

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In this episode, we dive deep into what happens when companies say they want creative ideas but mean 'keep the status quo'. Drawing insights from Paul McCarthy's book "The Fired Leader," we explore the reality and challenges of being a disruptive leader in environments desperately needing to think differently if employee retention and workplace health are to be taken seriously. We talk about examining the high cost of poor leadership and the necessity of embracing disruption for long or short-term growth.

We discuss:

Micro-Management Pitfalls: The downside of micro-management and the irony of control in leadership.

Evolving Narrative of Leadership: Discussing the evolving narrative of leadership and its impact.

Toxic Leadership: What lies at the heart of toxic leadership and the illusion of control

Power of Vulnerability: Addressing misconceptions-the value of honesty

Catalysts for Growth: Using conflict and disruption as leadership and organizational growth catalysts. systemic challenges embedded in workplace cultures,

Neuroscience of Disruption: Exploring the neuroscience behind using disruption and its role in decision-making leadership.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone feeling the aftershock of the pandemic interruption or stopped by the confusion of delivering what was asked for only to find out it wasn't wanted.

Paul McCarthy is an author and global thought leader creating the conditions to reimagine, reinvent, and regenerate the future of leadership. Amongst a crowded space, Paul brings a unique, freshly disruptive, and bold, yet evidence-based, experiential, and experimental approach that is shifting the narrative within and beyond organizations about the future of leadership and work. 

Paul’s career in management and leadership consulting spans over 25 years in over 100 organizations within over 10 industry sectors. Paul’s focus has been to develop leaders and their capacity, capability, and competency and he has supported thousands of leaders globally. He also supports clients in business transformation, organizational design and talent management. Paul still consults in a senior-level advisory and delivery role.

More information on Paul can be found here: https://www.paulmacleadership.com or via email, paul@paulmacleadership.com 

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Stephane Segatori, the director of WeFlow Lab in Amsterdam, talks to Dawna about developing psychological safety via emotional transparency and maturity, self-awareness, and inner freedom. Stephane's experience in the corporate world informs his role as a facilitator and coach, emphasizing the significance of understanding oneself at a deeper level to navigate the complexities of life and business. This episode offers plenty of insights into designing workplace cultures that value emotional well-being in personal and professional life.

Key Highlights:

·      Emotional Health and Self-Awareness: Insights into the importance of being comfortable with oneself and managing emotional health.

·      Stephane Segatori's Journey: From a corporate career in business intelligence to becoming the director of WeFlow Lab Stephane brings vision to the work of WeFlow. WeFlow’s research and mission to elevate inner freedom through well-researched practices and spaces designed for individual and team growth.

·      Integration of Business and Consciousness: Discussion on the hidden links between organizations, human potential, and states of consciousness, highlighting the relevance of these connections in today's business environment.

·      Personal Growth and Mastery: Practical advice on gaining clarity and connection to one's true self, essential for making informed decisions and navigating future challenges.

·      Psychological Safety as a function of practices, and the intentionally applied principles to gain the benefit of emotions in making rational and intuitive decisions.

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 Interrupting Violence: One Man's Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself follows Cobe as he undertakes his redemption journey, offering new hope for the nation’s most violent communities. As the country wrestles with the inequities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the complex intersections of urban violence, racial injustice, police brutality, and poverty in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, this book provides an inspiring blueprint. Cobe’s story demonstrates how the country can resolve the issues plaguing our inner cities, taking readers into an often misunderstood and misrepresented aspect of the Black experience in America. Released July 2, 2024 through Roman Littlefield Publishing.

The Amazon link is: https://www.amazon.com/Interrupting-Violence-Journey-Streets-Himself/dp/1538166879/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And the book website is: https://www.interruptingviolence.com/

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My guest in this episode is R. Karl Hebenstreit who brings a long list of accomplishments to the conversation. Karl is a certified Executive Coach, Leadership/Team/Organization Development Consultant, and international speaker who has over 25 years of experience coaching leaders and their teams (from Individual Contributors to CEOs. He holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and authored three books: “The How & Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram” (now in its 3rd Edition), “Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision” (now available in English, Spanish, French, and Greek), and the newly-released “Explicit Expectations: The Essential Guide & Toolkit of Management Fundamentals.” Karl is an “International Enneagram Association (IEA) Accredited Professional with Distinction” and “IEA Accredited Professional/Provider/Teacher.”

We talk about:

·     Understanding the Enneagram

·     Challenges in Modern Business Practices

·     The Oz Principle and Mindset Shifts

·     Head, Heart, and Gut Leadership

·     Exploring the Enneagram Types

·     Understanding Organizational Culture Through Enneagram

·     Hiring Bias and Personality Assessments

·     Integrating Enneagram in Decision Making

·     Enneagram's Role in Broader Worldview

·     Children's Book: Teaching Enneagram Early

·     Empowering Choices and Psychological Safety

Connect to Karl here: www.performandfunction.com

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Dawna Jones explores innovative approaches to solving complex global challenges. The discussion emphasizes the necessity of diverse, non-linear thinking and leveraging intergenerational wisdom to foster planetary consciousness and sustainability. Key topics include the importance of redesigning decision-making processes to be more creative, compassionate, and curiosity-driven; the role of ethical considerations in contrast to legal ones in municipal decision-making; and real-world examples of sustainable initiatives such as those by Novo Nordisk and Patagonia. The episode also delves into systemic change, the balance between big-picture and analytical thinking, and the significance of resilience and biodiversity. Personal anecdotes and historical perspectives highlight the interconnectedness of all life, emphasizing the need for visionary resilience and collective efforts to address environmental issues. Overall, the episode calls for collaborative, creative, and compassionate solutions to design a vibrant, sustainable future for all.

What will the future of the world look like?

00:48 Introduction: Exploring Human Potential

05:06 Challenges and Opportunities in Decision-Making

07:30 The Role of Generations and Leadership

22:43 Embracing Indirect Relationships and Sensory Intelligence

25:10 The Role of Younger Generations and Climate Activism

29:19 Visionary Resilience and Collective Action

Download the Imagining the Future worksheet based on Jane McGonagill's book Imaginable. It will be followed by an invitation to participate in a future scenarios web-iworkship in mid-November.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

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Intro music provided by Mark Romero Music. Track is called Alignment

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Could adversity and difficult challenges be a gift? Have you ever had things you’d go off the rails? Adversity can be the doorway to realizing higher levels of resilience, meaning and purpose that can bring people across generations together. I (Dawna Jones) started podcasting slightly before I lost my home in 2009 and hit the road. No fancy studio or equipment. Have mic will travel.

This highly disruptive chapter of life was preceded by my adventures as a world-wanderer, horse lover, and sensitive person with experience in shifting perspectives and learning from other species. In this episode, I look at how coyotes inspired me to adapt and step into a much deeper richer journey of self-actualization than I never would have chosen and how they can inspire humans to be more intelligent to survive and truly thrive as we collectively navigate a lot of uncertainty and growing complexity.

Whatever you’ve experienced in the world, it has been a training ground for mastering your emotions, converting trauma into usable energy (instead of chronic illness) and contributing to a level of collective intelligence leadership.

• Transcending the tough stuff and redirecting traumatic experiences into creative initiatives.
• Moving through fear to achieve a much bigger challenge. It is a choice to develop resilience.
• Working with your emotions to maintain well-being and clear decision-making.
• Restoring fear to its proper place so that you can access meaning, purpose and positive emotions that come with life: joy, happiness, and compassion.
• Why expanding your consciousness brings more peace, less fear, and a deeper connection with the world.
• The urgent need for self-aware, collaborative leaders to address today’s planetary challenges.

Gain valuable insights to improve overall well-being, navigate life's challenges with greater ease, and live a more fulfilling life while creating a world that runs on diversity and inspiration.

I also announce the upcoming beta program called Revive and Restore which I'm inviting ten people to participate in. Here's the waitlist link: https://sunny-originator-4963.kit.com/c1ba69eb16

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Intro music provided by Mark Romero Music. Track is called Alignment

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Creative thinker /innovation facilitator Curtis Michelson explores crucial trends and predictions for 2025. Curtis shares his insights on generative AI, its impacts on various sectors, the concept of BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible), and how it updates VUCA to describe the contemporary world. The discussion highlights the ethical implications of AI, the need for creative and decentralized innovation, and the importance of slowing down to enhance strategic decision-making. Curtis provides a practical use of AI in education and explores how leaders can harness AI to support agility and resilience without sacrificing ethical integrity.

Find Curtis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtismichelson/

References mentioned:

• "Co-Intelligence" book by Ethan Mollick https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/
• Gen AI Card Deck by Alexandre Eichenstetter - Used for workshops and understanding AI concepts https://cards.ai-tinkerers.club/
• BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible) concept - Coined by futurist Jamais Cascio https://ageofbani.com/
• Custom GPTs by OpenAI - Mentioned as a tool for creating and storing AI prompts
• Context Explorer: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-DKj02DkNp-context-explorer
• Hyperbolizer: this is an actual prompt you can put into your own favorite tool (chatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) Test this out yourself. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c9rxnegcg7yerbe6dg7z2/
• Hyperbolizer-Prompt.txt?rlkey=8ltey2fuq6jss1jpvnlqib5v1&dl=0
• Led Zeppelin 4 album reimagined in 1940s style using AI - Mentioned as an example of AI's creative capabilities on YouTube https://youtu.be/gBOVr1zEvaE?si=RTc1FXgryyKt4OVd

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Dr. Rob Lion of Black River Performance Management and Idaho State University talks about the longstanding divide between academic research and industry practice, emphasizing the challenges and benefits of integrating these two worlds. Using the example of motivation, our conversation illustrates the difference in approach and language between academia and industry. Because Rob is a researcher, we talk about the role of translational researchers in bridging this gap, the importance of refining language for specific contexts, and the impact of AI on HR practices, especially in talent acquisition. Naturally, we include leadership, organizational culture, and personal development within the workplace. Current with the political news and views preoccupying the world, we reflect on the significance of diversity of thought, the balance between performance and human flourishing, and the evolving role of HR in modern organizations.

Dr. Rob Lion (pronounced “Lee-own”) is a dynamic professor of human resource development at Idaho State University and the co-founder of Black River Performance Management, where his motto is "Work should fuel the spirit, not drain it." With over 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational development, and performance improvement, Rob is renowned for his innovative, people-first approach.

Holding a PhD in Training and Performance Improvement, he specializes in creating human-centric systems that drive growth and success within organizations. Rob leverages his deep understanding of human behavior and workplace psychology to simplify leadership complexities, equipping clients with science-backed strategies to enhance organizational culture and strengthen teams.

As a captivating speaker, Rob brings complex ideas to life with relatable stories, humor, and infectious energy. He has been featured on numerous podcasts, authored several academic papers, and is celebrated for bridging research with real-world practice. Whether addressing executives, leading workshops, or inspiring teams, Rob's passion for empowering individuals and transforming organizations leaves a lasting impression, making him a highly sought-after thought leader in his field.

Find Rob Lion at https://blackriverpm.com/

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