Do Good To Lead Well with Craig Dowden

How can business leaders ensure that the culture they build within their organization is not only strong and cohesive, but reflects the values they originally set out to encapsulate? Join us, as Alim Somani answers this question and many more.

What You’ll Learn:

• The importance of asking the best questions rather than having the right answers.
• Propagating value sets throughout your organization that align with not only your company’s mission, but all stakeholders involved.
• The three most important attributes of a leader: curiosity, empathy and resilience, and how they can evolve your business.

Who is Alim Somani?

Alim is a business leader with a focus on digital transformation. Alim is the founder of Infusion, which later sold to Avanade. Alim’s a recipient of Canada's top 40 under 40 award. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alim was recruited by Hatch Digital, a company that helps organizations digitally transform their businesses.

Follow Alim:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimsomani/?originalSubdomain=ca

More of Do Good to Lead Well:

Website: https://craigdowden.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdowden/

Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, an innovative New York City-based leadership development and executive coaching firm. A member of Marshall Goldsmith’s MG 100 Coaches, Todd was nominated in 2021 by Thinkers50 as one of eight global finalists for their Distinguished Achievement Award in Leadership. Todd is a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, as well as a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Lastly, Todd is a TEDx speaker and the author of the groundbreaking book, VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life, which was published in 2020 by Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster. In this episode, Todd speaks on diversity in leadership, how to give feedback, and getting out of your comfort zone.

This week, Craig sits down with President and CEO of LifeLabs Medical Laboratory, Charles Brown, to discuss the importance of good leadership during challenging times. Since joining LifeLabs in 2018, Charles has worked to evolve the company into a commercially driven organization that brings customer-centered value to market. By showcasing the possibility of delivering value-based outcomes, Charles empowers his employees to make a difference and facilitate innovative change. During COVID, Charles’ leadership empowered the team to quickly pivot and adapt to respond to the pandemic by providing essential COVID-19 testing, while maintaining full operation of lab testing and diagnostic work. Charles was named one of the Top 100 Innovation CEOs by World Biz Magazine in 2022 and Top 25 Biotechnology CEOs by the Healthcare Technology Report in 2021 and 2022. Tune in to join this fascinating conversation about leadership, business and innovation.

What You'll Learn:

• The importance of learning
• Staying positive for your team
• Using social media responsibly
• Channeling empathy
• Leaving things better than you found them

This week, Craig sits down with Jim Detert to explore the topic of courage. Jim is a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business and the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Jim's research focuses on workplace courage, improvement-oriented voice (why people speak up or stay silent at work) and ethical decision-making and behavior. He believes systemic change is impossible without individual change from top to bottom in organizations. That’s why he focuses on helping people honestly examine themselves, what drives them and holds them back and what skills they must develop and personal commitments they must make if things are going to be different. When research-based theories are applied through innovative experiential learning, people build confidence in their ability to say and do the right things despite risk. Choosing Courage represents nearly two decades of learning how to help people on this journey. Tune in to find out how to be mindful with the language you use, be an effective leader and choose courage.

Anne Whelan is principal shareholder and CEO of Seafair Capital, a growth-focused company with investments in community, behavioral health services, technology, e-learning and corporate services. Anne also serves as a corporate director of CSA Group and Nova Leap Health. She was appointed to the Bank of Canada’s Board of Directors in June 2018. Anne has been nationally and regionally recognized for her business and community contributions. She was named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful women in 2016 and 2021. In 2019, she was awarded the Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2017. She was named Startup Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year for an outstanding contribution to Canadian entrepreneurship. Anne was also named Atlantic Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year in 2014 and was inducted into Atlantic Business Magazine’s Top 50 CEO Hall of Fame in 2015. In this episode, Craig and Anne have a fascinating conversation about breaking biases, finding your authentic self and establishing core values.