Interconnected Individuals

Jeff interviews Laura Prisc, an Organization Leadership and Executive Coach as well as the author of Conscious Leadership: Are Your Leaders Wide Awake? Laura talks about Individual Empowerment and how she utilizes the diagnostic tool Strength Finders for self-discovery and Consciousness Leadership for team building and leadership development.

Some of the topics Jeff and Laura also discuss:

• Collaboration as a way to approach life and work. (1:30)
• Laura’s career and background, and a few stories about her life. (2:50)
• How Laura defines “empowerment mentoring” and her use of Strengths Finder in the mentoring world. (7:50)
• The characteristics people have to overcome to become “empowered” and what it really means to be empowered. (10:44)
• A fresh interpretation of empowerment, and how to feel it for yourself. (13:15)
• Why Laura loves Strengths Finder and how she uses it. (15:00)
• Examples of what a Strengths Finder profile might illustrate. (16:30)
• The concept of “confident vulnerability”. (20:20)
• The definition of “consciousness leadership”. (21:30)
• What makes for a good leader in a new organizational paradigm? (24:30)
• Building emotional intelligence. (29:30)
• What does “consciousness leadership” as a tool. (30:55)
• Laura’s Podcast, Making Space For Conversation That Matter. (34:30)

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Jeff interviews Eilif Trondsen, formerly with SRI and Strategic Business Insights (SBI). Eilif is both an international innovation consultant and futurist. He discusses EdTech, trend-spotting, and how to build your own professional network for a purpose-driven Echosystem.
Some topics discussed include:

• The current state of EdTech where Eilif believes the industry is headed (1:45)
• The opportunities emerging worldwide for people to jump into EdTech as providers and users (5:30)
• How individuals should prioritize their own continuous learning and what criteria should they use to decide what to learn and where to learn it (7:45)
• Suggestions for how someone could stay ahead of the curve when planning their learning (11:30)
• The values that motivated Eilif's work and how he made career transitions (15:15)
• What advice Eilif has for those who want to improve their professional network and develop an ecosystem (19:30)
• How Eilif decides who are the right people to trust and collaborate with (23:00)
• Advice for mentoring others (26:45)
• Eilif’s journey to America (29:15)
• How to evaluate companies you might want to work for (31:50)

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Jeff Interviews Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, about his views on the future of AI, Google’s role in creating the tools for improving collective intelligence and group/individual performance, and workforce readiness through continuous learning and up-skilling.
Some of the topics Jeff and Vint discuss include:

• Challenges and opportunities being created AI becomes more prevalent (1:28)
• Google and Alphabet, Inc raising the collective intelligence and being a force for good (6:25)
• The importance of “learning to learn” and what it means for individuals and their careers (17:00)
• How individuals can translate learning experiences into value creation (22:45)
• How technology change affects our work experience (26:30)
• The evolution of a generation of “Internet Natives” and their skills (31:50)

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Jeff Saperstein interviews Giovanni Rodriguez, founder of Silicon Valley Story Lab, to discuss how to develop an organization narrative from a values driven perspective as well your own professional narrative for social media to improve your own sense of purpose, networking and reputation.
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Jeff Saperstein interviews Luke Iorio, President of IPEC on the subjects of Values and Energy. Luke describes a values based career and how it leads to happiness. He also explains how the Energy Leadership Index tool help clients and coaches to focus on attitudes, hindrances, stress, and energy enhancers and depleters.
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