Innovating Leadership: Shorts

The Benefits of AI Coming True

Dave Levy shares the promise of AI -- and the ways those benefits are coming true now, including:- Empowering decision-makers with better data- Speeding up research- Personalizing services (and making them more convenient), especially in dealing with government, and- Converting ideas into action.
Dave is the Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), playing a direct role in making AI more focused on people. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/AWSandAI-YT , or listen to the podcast at https://bit.ly/AWSandAI .

AI Isn't Ready for HR Prime Time

Although Artificial Intelligence is making fast inroads into business, HR departments are often lagging behind. Sander van 't Noorende, the CEO of multinational HR firm Randstad, says it's for good reason: AI still doesn't understand human nuance, which is vital in the hiring process.
Learn more in our full interview with Sander; the podcast is available on Podbean at https://bit.ly/PayWithPurpose, and on YouTube at https://bit.ly/PayWithPurpose-YT.

When Leaders Dare to Fail

When was the last time you heard a senior executive say, “I screwed up?”
 
It’s exceedingly rare – and it’s holding organizations back. Why? Because, as guest Tammy Alvarez – the CEO of Career Winners Circle – points out, you can’t succeed without failure. In fact, you’re likely to learn more from failures than successes! Tammy has more details in this excerpt from our interview.
 
The full interview will be available starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 5/21/24) as a regular podcast on Podbean at  https://bit.ly/CareerSteer.

The Leadership Trap -- and a Solution

We’ve seen the leadership trap a lot in CEOs post-COVID: they’re too set in their old status quo. Being static or stagnant in your beliefs traps you in the past, unable to respond successfully to new issues.
 
But our guest, Shaan Patel (CEO of Prep Expert), says the solution is simple: adopt a mindset of nimbleness and agility. Curiosity, too: take a look at  new tech, for example, and consider how it fits in your organization’s mission.
 
Listen to our full interview with Shaan on our podcast platform at https://bit.ly/PrepExpert.

The Four Principles of Trauma-Informed Leaders

Guest: Stephanie Lemek, Founder: The Wounded Workforce
Up to 70% of your workforce faced at least one trauma and its aftermath. That affects their work...but leaders aren't equipped to be therapists. What can you do? In this video, Stephanie Lemek, founder of The Wounded Workforce, highlights the four things every leader can do: - Be informed - Be aware - Avoid re-traumatizing and - Actively minimize further harm. She goes into deeper detail in our full interview. You'll find it on our Podbean podcast at https://bit.ly/Trauma-Informed-Leader .

Up and Out: Defining How Leaders Grow

Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development Consultant
Teachers want their students to have horizontal and vertical development. But leaders need to grow like this, too. So what are they?
In this clip from our interview with Michael Morrow-Fox, he explains the basics. Check out the full interview in our Podbean podcast at https://bit.ly/BeyondConvention. Mike provides more detail on horizontal and vertical development, and we discuss what it means to be a post-conventional leader.

Cali Sober's Appeal to Leaders

Have you heard of Cali Sober? It’s gaining popularity with leaders, although it’s been around for years. As health – mental and physical – becomes a bigger priority in C-suites, leaders are looking for less toxic ways to destress than drinking alcohol.
With Cali Sober, execs are turning to psychedelics instead. In this video, Paul Austin, the CEO of Third Wave, explains further.
For our full exploration of the growth of psychedelics in the C-suite, listen to our full interview with Paul on our Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future podcast; it's on Podbean at https://bit.ly/CiceroToCEO!

How to Pause a Heated Conversation

Arguments at work seem inevitable -- but you can easily defuse them by cooling down a heated discussion before it explodes. The key? Take a pause. In this video, elite executive coach Amiel Handelsman offers three very distinct ways you can smoothly take that pause. It's part of our longer interview with him about helping leaders communicate better. You'll find it on our podcast platform with Podbean at https://bit.ly/TalkInMind .

How to Make Your Team Future Ready

If your employees aren't ready for the future, your organization isn't, either. Tech companies like Amazon can't afford that -- so they create their future by preparing their employees. Steve Armato, Amazon's VP of Middle Mile and Tech, explains a few of the ways their teams get ready for the future: with upskilling, training, education, and empowerment. The result? About half of Amazon's new innovations come from the bottom up, rather than top down. Learn more in our full interview, "How Moonshots and Robots Put Packages on Your Porch." It's here on YouTube in our "Full Interviews" section, and as a podcast on Podbean at https://bit.ly/RobotBallet .

Omaha Steaks' Secret Sauce: Make It Your Competitive Advantage

GUEST: Nate Rempe, Omaha Steaks CEO
Omaha Steaks has led their market for over a century. CEO Nate Rempe says maintaining that lead for the next century requires several ingredients in their secret sauce for success...especially horizontal leadership. It creates cohesive leadership teams, connecting across lines of business. Nate explains more in this excerpt from our full interview.