Gallup research shows we are experiencing an employee engagement crisis (rates are at an 11-year low).

Today's guest, Julie Winkle Giulioni is the perfect person to help us address it!

Julie is a speaker, best-selling author, and champion of workplace growth and development. In this conversation, she shares:

• How to think differently about development and engagement
• One thing most leaders overlook (when it comes to growth and development)
• "Hidden-in-plain-sight" and budget-neutral ways to offer development
• Some great questions for receiving valuable feedback
• Engagement and development as it relates to remote and hybrid work
• A custom-trained ChatGPT to help you prepare and practice for hard conversations

This conversation has something applicable to everyone. But if you're a people leader in the workforce, the thoughts and ideas explored here are imperative (especially right now).

Listen in and let us know what resonates or what questions you have!

*For more information about Julie and to grab that pre-order bonus (until 9/24) for the latest edition of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, visit JulieWinkleGiulioni.com.

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Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development and helps executives and leaders optimize talent and potential within their organizations.

One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 speakers, she’s the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, translated into seven languages and coming out in its third edition in September. Her latest book, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive, has been recognized with Nautilus and Axiom Business Book Awards.

Julie is a regular columnist for Training Industry Magazine and SmartBrief and contributes articles on leadership, career development, and workplace trends to numerous publications including Fast Company and The Economist. Additionally, she partners with organizations worldwide offering her expertise in leadership and career development and designing award-winning bespoke development experiences.

For more information about Julie and to grab the latest edition of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go (which comes with access to that custom-trained bot), visit JulieWinkleGiulioni.com.

You can also connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.

This special episode shines the light on something we don't often talk about candidly... Experiencing grief and loss – and not just the negative aspects but how it can also be beautiful, freeing, and empowering.

Today's guest, Sue Deagle is a veteran c-suite executive, mother, and widow, rewriting the story of loss and vibrant living.

Losing her husband to a sudden heart attack when he was only 50 changed her worldview and she, in turn, wants to change people’s relationship to loss (whether they are the ones experiencing it or they're consoling someone else).

She shares about:
- navigating loss with children
- collaborative leadership
- the “veil of the ordinary” being removed
- preparing for loss and grief
- what to say and do when someone you know is grieving
- keeping loved ones' memories alive
- moving on with strength and purpose

"I want everyone who's experienced loss to live as vibrant a life as mine. It is possible and you are not alone."

This episode applies to everyone. It will make us better leaders, and consolers, and will come in handy the next time we experience a loss of our own.

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Veteran c-suite exec, mother, widow, rewriting the story of loss and vibrant living at The Luminist. She brings loss (in all its forms) out of the shadows, shining a light on the parts of the human experience we avoid at all costs, but are our greatest teachers for living a full, expansive, love-filled life.

Learn more: suedeagle.com
Sign up for The Luminist newsletter: theluminist.substack.com
Connect with her on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sue-deagle

Today’s guest, David Lahey is the Founder, President and CEO of Predictive Success (a company that focuses on assessment and analytics to support leadership development, talent acquisition, change management, and productivity in a variety of industries).

Join us for a discussion about:

- Empathy in the workplace
- Using data and AI to enhance your leadership skills
- The #1 reason Gen Z is leaving
- How to soften the blow of layoffs and terminations

“Managers can be upskilled to use objective data to manage, lead, and coach better… When you reduce drama at work, everything gets better.”

Listen in, and take your FREE predictive assessment here.

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David’s academic background includes an MBA graduate from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, Graduate coursework at Harvard University and Graduate Adult Education coursework at the University of Toronto. David has been specializing in predictive leadership development, talent acquisition, change management and productivity with analytics for over 25 years across a variety of industries.

Under David’s leadership, Predictive Success was awarded to three-time Profit 500 company status. His company was also named to The Globe and Mail’s Fastest Top 400 Growing Companies List in 2019. Before founding Predictive Success Corporation, David was a Global Leader of Financial Services at Microsoft and led record growth for international business units in The United States and Canada.

David has trained over 3,000 leaders in The Predictive Index Software, is a guest lecturer at Queen's University, and is a best-selling author of “Predictive Success- Evidence Based Hiring” (Wiley 2009) and more recently “From Hire to Inspire” (ECW Press, Toronto 2020).

Learn more about Predictive Success at predictivesuccess.com.

In this conversation, we talk to business mentor and consultant, Illana Burk about your life's work and leadership impact.

We get into:

- what makes true leadership unique
- how crisis illuminates if you were "made for this"
- why "scalability" is broken
- how we weaponize coaching
- the one thing we should ask leaders (but never do)

“Leadership is a tool like a hammer, you can build beautiful things or bludgeon somebody to death with it.”

Join us for a fun conversation about big-picture leadership impact and wrestle with your answers to the questions Illana said were “some of the best she'd ever been asked on a podcast.”

We need you out there leading because “good leadership and good skills proliferate at any level.”

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Illana Burk has been a business mentor and consultant for more than fifteen years. She specializes in guiding clients from doing good work to leading good work using profitable, proven, values-driven business strategies for making culture changes a reality.

As host of The Good Business Podcast, Illana makes smart, experienced business learning available to as many people as possible. Illana has an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise and has worked with hundreds of business leaders across a wide range of industries all over the world proving that when good humans learn leadership, the whole world gets better.

You can learn more about Illana and her work at yourlifesworkshop.com or connect with her on social (she’s @illanaburk in all the places).

Crisis communication, and this conversation, are so important because everybody thinks they’re good at crisis management but nobody knows what they’re actually going to be like until they’re in one.

And while we can't prevent crises from happening, we can predict and mitigate them.

Join me as I speak to top Public Relations Executive, Adele Gambardella, and former FBI Hostage Negotiator, Chip Massey about:

- How stressful situations are relative
- The hardest crisis to handle
- How to "enjoy" crisis (as much as possible, given the circumstances)
- The one thing you need to avoid in a crisis
- Tips for dealing with difficult people (from those who know--see former job titles above!)

Adele and Chip also graciously shared a couple of free resources with our listeners, you can grab them and/or check out their book, Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation, here: convincingcompany.com/crisis/

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Adele Gambardella, honored as “a woman who means business,” has over 20 years of experience owning and managing her own private Top PR firm in Washington DC. She has run PR campaigns for US President Joe Biden, the CEO of Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson, and many more.

Adele has spearheaded major crisis PR campaigns for brands such as SAP, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson. She has also been invited to speak at the United Nations twice, where she gave 2 speeches on crisis communications.

Adele is a co-author of Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation and maintains her writing chops as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines. She has taught crisis communications and business at Princeton, Cornell, George Mason, and Georgetown Universities.

An Ex-FBI hostage negotiator and special agent for 22 years, Chip Massey investigated 9/11 terrorist attacks and led the New York FBI Office’s Crisis Negotiations Team—in
all five boroughs.

As the Co-Owner of the Convincing Company, he teaches executives and their teams how to apply the FBI’s techniques to every workplace scenario. Clients include C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, including Facebook, Samsung, and Goldman Sachs. Chip is the co-author of Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results
in Any Business Situation.

A natural communicator and teacher, Chip has trained FBI agents, police officers, and various federal officials in hostage negotiation techniques, de-escalation, and other law enforcement issues. Additionally, he has taught thousands of military personnel and civilians at West Point, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and other high-profile colleges.

You can learn more about them and their book at convincingcompany.com/crisis/.
Or, connect with them on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/convincingcompany/.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jim Sellner about navigating (or as he says, surfing) personal crisis, as well as the phases of crisis (and what comes after).

We also get into empathetic communication, healthy confrontation, and some incredibly useful phrases to initiate it.

Coming from a behavioral psychologist and scientist who has navigated two kidney transplants, the wisdom he shares from what he's learned will help us all "use our heartbeats" wisely – if you want to know what that means, you've gotta listen in!

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Dr. Jim’s core purpose is to bring out the genius in you. With over 40 years of experience working with and training countless business leaders and entrepreneurs, his no-nonsense approach and ability to keep things simple inspire changes in behaviors that yield significantly better results.

As EVP, People Analytics & Talent Activation at Vivo Team, Dr. Jim’s team holds multiple gold awards from the internationally renowned Brandon Hall Group.

A respected leader, author, and speaker known for his innovation in people analytics in L&D, he has published many articles and eBooks including “Leadership for Einsteins: How Smart Leaders Bring Out the Genius in People” and “Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance.”

Having first trained and worked as a city planner, Jim later joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia where he went on to obtain an MA and Ph.D. in psychology. His unique psychological/behavioral perspective provides Vivo Team with a solid, practical philosophy.

You can connect with Jim on LinkedIn (/drjimsellnerphddipc).

In this episode, we talk to brilliant return guest and organizational health and teamwork specialist Faith Clarke about celebrating difference, shifting the narrative of cultural norms, and creating a restorative work culture.

All of the data says that environment trumps individual effort every day of the week (when it comes to results). So how can we remove things that harm and habituate things that actually feed people’s souls?

"A restorative work culture is a culture people don’t have to recover from."

We have to give space to the full human at work so we can have the capacity of the full human at work. What we’ve been doing is stripping humans down to machines – and that model is no longer working for most people, teams, or companies.

Listen in for a conversation that is full, rich, necessary, and will keep you thinking about when, where, and how to change things to our benefit.

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Organizational health and teamwork specialist, Faith Clarke is committed to helping business leaders cultivate a values infused, inclusive culture where people feel like they belong so that they can deliver on their business and social impact promises. Faith is particularly passionate about inclusion for BIPOC and neurodistinct individuals, grounded in her experience as a Caribbean immigrant and as a mother of neurodistinct humans.

Faith’s background in computer engineering, doctoral research in teamwork and numerous experiences with organizations who care about their social impact helps her curate a high-touch, systematic approach to building strong teams. This approach has helped her clients improve operations, maximize productivity and increase their revenue.

Faith is a published researcher and author. She has contributed widely to publications and online shows in the US and UK, and delivers workshops and lectures in a variety of academic and professional settings.

To learn more about Faith and her work, visit faithclarke.com or connect with her on social. If this conversation resonated, you may be interested in her Restorative Culture Assessment and Design Session (focused on restorative culture topics and based on current organizational needs).

For more info/to see if it’s a fit for your organization, schedule a quick coffee chat at https://calendly.com/faithclarke/connect.

In this episode, I chat with licensed clinical psychologist, pioneering researcher, and author, Dr. Yosi Amram about spiritual intelligence.

We dive into what it is and how to activate and develop it, as well as:
- Finding your North Star
- Our interconnectedness and interdependence
- Shifting priorities
- Leaning into evolution and growth
- Why all of this matters at work and in leadership

"When we understand our interconnectedness and interdependence, we start caring for the totality that we’re in...

Leaders with SQ have teams with more commitment, higher morale, lower turnover, and who produce better financial results...

It transforms our lives (if we let it)."

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Yosi Amram, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, and an executive coach catering to CEOs, entrepreneurs, and other influential leaders. He has coached over 100 CEOs many of whom have built companies with thousands of employees and revenues in the billions. Previously a founder and CEO of two companies that he has led through successful IPOs.

Holding an MBA from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Sofia University in Clinical Transpersonal Psychology, Yosi is a pioneering researcher in the field of spiritual intelligence whose research received over 1000 academic citations. He is the author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership: How to Inspire by Being Inspired.

Yosi is committed to enabling individuals to unlock their potential through spiritual intelligence, which grows out of a profound connection to the core of one’s existence – their spirit, where inspiration and their deepest interconnectedness reside – that enriches their overall functioning, improves their effectiveness as leaders, and enhances their wellbeing as humans.

You can learn more about his work at yosiamram.net and/or connect with him on social (LinkedIn or Facebook, he also has a YouTube channel: Awakening Spiritual Intelligence).