Kenny McDonald is the President and Chief Economic Officer of Columbus 2020, an economic development organization for the 11-county Columbus, Ohio region. This initiative was started back in 2010 by a team of more than 20 economic development experts who wanted to actively do something to improve their area after the ‘07-’08 recession.
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Today’s guest is Greg Hanover, CEO of LiveOps a virtual call center company that has been around for 18 years. Today we are talking about how to effectively lead a virtual team. Greg, who leads a team of 14,000 independent contractors who work from home, has valuable insight into how to communicate, train, collaborate, and motivate a team you cannot see.
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This week I am joined by two guests, Dr. Marc Brackett and Dr. Robin Stern from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Our discussion today centers on emotional intelligence--what it is, why it is so important, how we can practice it and much more. This is a conversation everyone needs to hear because emotional intelligence is critical for leaders and individual contributors. It affects every aspect of the workplace including collaboration, communication and engagement not to mention aspects of our personal lives as well. I hope after listening to our conversation you will be able to implement some of the ideas and concepts we talked so that you can improve your own emotional intelligence.
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Today’s guest is Red Hat’s Chief People Officer, DeLisa Alexander. Red Hat practices something called Open Leadership a concept they implemented a few years ago that has radically changed how the company operates. They found that traditional, top down, hierarchical leadership did not work for them and they knew they had to try something different. In today’s discussion you will hear what open leadership is and specifically how it is practiced at Red Hat. We also talk about how Red Hat gets their employees involved in creating a statement of purpose for the company, how they deal with change, insights on their crucial conversations and influencer training programs, and much more.
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This week's guest is Cal Newport, author of the new book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Cal has never owned a social media account, he doesn't surf the web like most of us, and he goes long periods of time without his phone and in today's discussion you will learn why. You will also hear the three principles of digital minimalism, how you can start implementing digital minimalism in your life, strategies I personally use to manage my technology usage, and whether or not Cal is worried about the future.
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Join me as I speak with today’s guest, Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Box. The company was started back in 2005 while Aaron was still in college. At the time it was him and one other person. Now, 14 years later they have 2000 employees and 90,000 customers around the world. But it wasn’t an easy journey. You will hear how the company got started, how Aaron deals with rejection, how to create a culture where employees can speak up at work, how Aaron’s leadership style has changed over the years and much more.
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This week’s guest is bestselling author, Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas has written twenty books, including his newest one, Team Human, which is the main topic of our discussion. Join us as we discuss why humans are being devalued in the digital age, Douglas’ problem with Facebook, Twitter and Google, why being human is a team sport, what he would change about the school systems and much more.
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Today’s guest is Loren Shuster, Chief People Officer at the Lego Group. Lego has been around for 86 years, but as you will hear in today’s discussion, they are not staying static. They are redesigning their leadership models, they are experimenting with People Analytics, they are finding ways to apply robotics, AR, and VR into the Lego play experience and much more. You will hear how Lego uses storytelling to engage employees, what their offices look like, the job description of a play agent, and he gives us a look at some of the unique workplace practices inside of Lego.
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This week’s guest is Karen Carter, CHRO and Chief Inclusion Officer at Dow Chemical. Join us as we talk about why more companies are hiring non-HR people to work in HR, how Dow measures diversity and inclusion (D&I), how D&I impacts engagement, advice to employees working at companies who aren’t doing enough for D&I and much more.
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Join me this week as I speak with Dave Kozel, EVP and CHRO of PVH Corp, one of the largest global apparel companies. In our conversation today you will hear about some of the company’s programs and incentives--including PVH University and PVHU on Demand. You will hear how Dave deals with being told ‘no’, his advice to HR professionals and managers on how to get new programs in place, what to do as an HR professional if an employee tells you they are unhappy and much more.
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