E80 – Systems Thinking featuring Simon Kardynal
In this episode, you’ll be hearing from me, and I'll be talking about systems thinking, discussing what systems thinking is, why it's important, and how it can be applied to various fields.
While most emerging leaders haven’t heard of systems thinking, I guarantee most team members have considered systems thinking in some fashion during their professional lives.
E79 - Make the Mistakes, Be Yourself, Be Tenacious featuring Ron Nussbaum
Leaders are going to make mistakes. That’s a fact.
But mistakes are only the beginning, it’s what we do with our mistakes is what defines us as leaders.
And if you’re thinking you’ve heard this message quite often on this podcast, well, that’s because we can never be reminded too much that we will make mistakes.
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Ron Nussbaum, a fellow podcast host and the founder and CEO of Nuttnest, who will talk about making mistakes, and what he did with this knowledge.
E78: How You Can Do It All featuring Erica Rooney
How often have you heard that you can’t do it all?
I’m here to tell you, that’s Bullshit.
You CAN do it all. It’s about balance, patience, self-reflection, and honesty.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Erica Rooney, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Executive Coach and Chief People Officer - who will share her personal and professional journey, using her examples to help us understand how we can do it all.
Bonus Episode – Staff Matters featuring Bonnie Low-Kramen
THE STAFF. They are called the backbone, right arms, eyes, ears, face, lifeblood, heart, and even the soul of their organizations.
If these indispensable people are so vital to the running of companies, why is our modern workplace broken? And most importantly, how can it be fixed and by whom?
Staff Matters answers these questions by pulling back the curtain on the hard truths and offering solutions to the workplace’s toughest challenges. From communication breakdowns and siloed staff to dysfunctional systems, toxic work environments, and inadequate training, common issues are complicated by the rise of a remote workforce. Shining a light on the stories of staff at all levels, this book offers case studies and real-world examples to make workplace issues come alive and provides actionable tools for the staff to use in approaching these challenges head-on.
Developed through Bonnie’s more than fifteen hundred conversations with Executives, HR professionals, Recruiters, Executive Assistants, and leadership experts, there is no other book that provides this unique perspective of firsthand insight into the workplace.
Her new book, Staff Matters: People- Focused Solutions for the Ultimate New Workplace, is a revolutionary and thoughtful approach to bridging the gaps between staff to fix what’s broken in the post-pandemic world.
E77: Leading During a War featuring Dave Blundell
History is full of people who rose to the challenges of leadership. And the war in the Ukraine is no different. Time and time again, stories are emerging of ‘average’ people stepping into leadership roles because they saw a need, they felt a call to action.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Dave Blundell, the Executive Director of Hungry For Life Canada (HFL). Dave will talk about his personal and professional leadership experiences and how, as the ED for HFL, he has witnessed young people fill leadership roles simply because, in their words, ‘someone had to”.
E76 - Front-line Leadership featuring Gretchen Reid
Emerging leaders lead by getting down and dirty, enacting the organizations directives, leading and facilitating from a position that is entrenched in the front lines.
But how can emerging leaders be sure they are leading and managing as best as possible?
In this episode, you’ll hear from Gretchen Reid, a Leader Architect, founder and CEO of Integrated Growth, a leadership and organizational development consultancy since 1998. Gretchen will talk about how to lead change from the front lines, using her personal and professional experiences to offer insight and advice to those leaders who are deep in the trenches.Emerging leaders lead by getting down and dirty, enacting the organizations directives, leading and facilitating from a position that is entrenched in the front lines.
Bonus Episode – The Cost of Service featuring Martine Roy and CWO (Ret’d) Necole Belanger
These brave women will talk about the personal and professional cost to serve, forced to hide in plain sight, all the while living in an environment that didn’t want them. Martine and Necole will share their stories, their pain and anguish, their triumphs and their failures, so todays leaders learn from the mistakes of the past.
E75 - Key Indicators for Leaders featuring Renée Safrata
In this 75th episode, you’ll hear from Renée Safrata, Founder and CEO of Vivo Team Development, where we will talk about the constants in leadership themes. We will discuss why these points are so important for all leaders, following up with offering practical advice for emerging leaders to employ the most common leadership themes.
E72a – Digging Deeper Into Resilience featuring Dawn Whyte
In this episode, you’ll hear Dawn Whyte, an air traffic controller and aviation career coach, who will dive deeper into resilience, it’s power, it’s strength and weaknesses, all to explain why resilience is so important. Dawn will also offer some examples of personal and team resilience, offering emerging leaders some more tools for the leadership toolkit.
E72 – Building Your Resilience featuring Dawn White
Today we explore building resilience in ourselves and our teams. We are joined by Dawn Whyte, an air traffic controller and aviation career coach. She has spent the past three decades helping leaders in aviation and the broader business world to work on cultivating genuine connection in their teams, and she joins the show to talk about resilience.
In this conversation we explore the link between vulnerability and resilience, what Dawn has learnt from her own journey, and how growing as a leader is a journey, not a destination.
E71 - Positional Leadership and the Scarf Doctrine featuring Anna Marenick
How can we use positional leadership techniques to become better leaders for our people?
Anna Marenick is the vice president of people, culture and belonging at Nova Scotia Health.
She has also taught classes on strategic communications at the Nova Scotia Community College as well as teaching strategic human resource management at SMU NBA program.
In today’s conversation we look at how the choices we make as leaders influence the people around us, advice to emerging leaders, and how to not become the boss that people can’t stand.
E70 - Bullying in the Workplace featuring Bonnie Low-Kramen
Workplace bullying is a real thing, so how can we as leaders create safe spaces where everyone can feel welcome? Find out how from today’s guest, Bonnie Low-Kramen. She is a TEDx speaker, teacher, and founder and CEO of Be the Ultimate Assistant, a curated training solution for corporate leaders and assistants creating synchronous and thriving work environments. Bonnie is also the author of the forthcoming book, Staff Matters.
Bonus Episode: Home Ownership and Ourboro Leading the Way featuring Alex Kjorven
Is it possible to make money and make a change in society?
Today’s guest Alex Kjorven, Chief Product Officer at ourboro, has dedicated her career to working with businesses and organizations that are using business tools to solve social and environmental challenges. Alex is a social entrepreneur lecturer at the University of Toronto and a seasoned manager in the profit and non-profit spaces.
Episode 69 - Leadership Fails Can be Our Leadership Wins Part Two
Welcome to the second half of our conversation with the five leaders as we unpack more stories around failure, dealing with imposter syndrome, working with introverts, extroverts and ambiverts, servant leadership, and so much more. In this very rich conversation, we also discuss some final thoughts about dropping the mask and helping each other to be our most authentic selves.
Episode 68: Leadership Failures Can be Our Leadership Wins Part One
This conversation has been split into two parts.
In this first half, our guests reflect on their first-time leadership roles and they candidly open up about the mistakes they made. We also talk about asking your team the question “What do you need to succeed?”, how to move away from the traditional ‘authoritarian’ mindset, setting mental health boundaries, and the difference between stopping vs quitting.
E67 - The Three F's featuring Renée Safrata
Renée Safrata, Founder and CEO of Vivo Team Development, joins the show to share the integral leadership tools that are rarely used properly by the most experienced leaders. Over the past 30+ years Renée has worked with thousands of companies and executives throughout North America and Europe, helping them to connect, adopt new behaviours, and become confident members of highly functioning teams.
Episode 63 - Coaching for Leaders featuring John Robertson, Eh!
Passio Fidelis, or, passionate faithfulness. The ability to be true to yourself and your goals as you lead.
This phrase is the guiding principle that our guest uses as he coaches leaders from the trenches, helping them be the most effective and robust leaders possible
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from John Robertson, a fellow Canadian, Ottawa resident, and (Founder and President of FORTLOG Services), who will offer advice and practical tools to help emerging leaders be their best coaches, ensuring we can all be passionately faithful to, and for, our teams.
Episode 66: Emotions and Leadership featuring Jo Wheatley, Emotions Coach
Today’s guest, Jo Wheatley, a global award-winning Emotions Coach and Co-Founder of In Good Company, shares how emotions are not detrimental to your leadership abilities. Jo coaches CEOs – and those on a CEO pathway – who are seeking alignment of their emotions to their outer achievements. She is also the co-host of the No 1 UK Careers podcast 'The Coaching Crowd' and author of ‘Deciding to Coach’.