GREAT Leadership

This week’s guest is Trynka Shineman, CEO of Vistaprint. Join us as we look at how to modernize an organization and some things Vistaprint has been doing to shake things up. Some of the topics we touch on include getting rid of the annual performance review, using Kanban boards, implementing Vista Breaks, rearranging their office layouts, implementing agile methodologies in HR, and much more.Whether you are a small company that is scaling fast or a large organization trying to keep up with the current pace of change, this is a great episode to listen to.

Today we have a very special guest, Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of America. Frances truly is an extraordinary lady! Today we are talking about how she got her start, changes she has seen over the course of her career, why she is optimistic about the future, her advice to leaders and much, much more.

Harriet Harty is the CHRO for Allstate Insurance Company. She is responsible for developing their talent strategy and the tools and programs to enable the enterprise to attract, develop and retain engaged and talented employees.

Today’s guest is Mary Czerwinski the Research Manager at the Visualization and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft. Artificial emotion intelligence really is a fascinating field and has a lot of implications and applications in the world of AI and smart assistants. Today we get to hear all about this emerging area along with real life examples of how it is being used. Mary and I also explore virtual and augmented reality, big data, and potential challenges and concerns for the future of artificial emotion intelligence.

This week’s episode features Gordon Wright, Senior VP and Global WorkPlace Practice Director at HOK, one of the leading Architecture/Engineering/Design companies. We are talking about how AI and VR are playing a role in office design, the impact companies can have on a community, smart buildings and much more.