Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott Allen

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Nadia Taranczewski holds a Master of Psychology, Master Certified Coach, executive coach, keynote speaker, and author of Conscious You: Become the Hero of Your Own Story. She has worked as a coach and organizational developer since 2001.

Her company, ConsciousU, makes culture change scalable through its blended learning online-based coaching programs. By combining individual consciousness development and social learning in groups and teams, they support organizations in reinventing themselves as Conscious Tribe.
She is a curious and voracious learner and has studied with some of the best coaches and experts worldwide. Nadja lives in Berlin, Germany, with her wife, loves to travel the world by home-exchanging, and is currently working on her forthcoming book, The Conscious Tribe Playbook.

For more than a decade, Valerie Livesay, Ph.D. has been thinking about and inquiring into the phenomenon of fallback­­––when, despite our optimal developmental capacities, what we often refer to as our developmental center-of-gravity—we make meaning, feel, and act from a smaller, less complex, less capable form of mind.
As Chief Illuminator at Ghost Light Leadership, Valerie accompanies individuals through their discovery of self, using the analogy of theater to set the stage for their historical and unfolding story. Through her writing, speaking, coaching, and workshop offerings, Valerie invites the many characters that comprise the full ensemble of one’s self to dance together to better meet their intentions. She is the author of Leaving the Ghost Light Burning: Illuminating Fallback in Embrace of the Fullness of You in which she reveals both the despair and ecstasy that accompany a knowing of the fullness of one’s allowing the reader to find the fullness of themselves in the journey of development and the experience of being human.

A Quote From Nadia's Website

• "A Conscious Tribe is a thriving organization whose members engage in inner work, see the big picture, nurture deep relationships, and practice conscious rituals."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The New Comedy Bible by Carter
• Book: Venomous Lumpsucker by Beauman
• Podcast: The Rest is History

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Register for ILA's 26th Global Conference in Chicago, IL - November 7-10, 2024.

About Scott J. Allen

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My Approach to Hosting

• The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

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Laura Guilliam manages leadership research and development projects at Progressive Insurance. Her primary interest is the individual and cultural impact of emotionally intelligent leaders—creating and sustaining positive organizational relationships within virtual and in-office work environments. Laura brings 26 years of practitioner experience to the ongoing study of organizational development and change.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Akron, a Master of Science in Project Management from Boston University, and a Master of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University. She also earned a certificate of Appreciative Inquiry in Positive Business and Societal Change and a certificate in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and Executive Coaching at CWRU. Laura is currently working on her Executive Ph.D. in Values-Driven Leadership from Benedictine University, Chicago.
Quotes From This Episode

• (Regarding Progressive) "We are a company that believes relationships are the core of everything. "
• "I love supporting leaders. I think it’s one of the hardest, most selfless jobs, and I love supporting people who’ve invested and said, 'I want to lead people.' So that’s what I’ve made my mission, and I will always serve that group."
• "Our interactions have positive and negative charges; our words have positive and negative charges, our gestures have positive and negative charges. If you’re responsible, and you care about the relationships, you will mindfully pay attention to how many of those you deliver.”
• "So these are kinds of things that we're teaching, in our virtual leadership...it's virtual 101 - pay attention to the positive and negative that you deliver day-in and day-out to your people because they're getting bombarded with negative all day long. So what are you doing to help them get through that?"
• "So this is really important in the leadership, really important in the virtual space, to pay attention to these most positive and, and negative charges, rarely will you lay your head down at night and say, 'Gosh, today was completely neutral, I had neither good nor bad.'"
• "There's so much fantastic work done in the academic field that needs to get in the hands of practitioners. "
• "We're coming up with creative ways to stay connected and build our relationships. So I'd like to tap into that and see how leaders are getting creative."
• "The one thing that COVID didn’t take from us was relationships. And so that’s what we have. And that’s what we’re left with, and obviously, it’s a passion point of mine...How do I help my leaders protect those relationships?"

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• The Hidden Brain
• The Overwhelmed Brain
• The Daily - The New York Times

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Dr. Tom Bateman is a professor emeritus with the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Tom’s academic field is organizational behavior, including topics like leadership, motivation, decision making, job stress, and teamwork. Tom was the founder and long-time director of UVA’s multi-disciplinary leadership minor open to students of all majors.
Tom’s career-long research interests center around proactive behavior (including leadership) by employees at all levels. Being proactive means much more than just starting a task sooner rather than later; it means thinking about the future and acting strategically to change current trajectories to avoid future problems and create better futures. With that definition in mind, he has been writing about psychology and leadership in the domain of climate change and sustainability.

Now semi-retired and living in Maine, Tom still gives talks, revises his management textbooks, and writes for Psychology Today, Greenbiz, and The Conversation. And he remains a devoted fan of his hometown Cleveland sports teams.
Connecting with Tom

• Twitter: @thomassbateman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-bateman-5734715

A Quote From Tom's Writing

• "Your behavior is proactive when you choose it yourself rather than comply with external demands; you execute strategically more than mindlessly; you are future-focused rather than anchored in the present or past; and your intention is to change something for the better, thus to create a better future."

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Book: Making Things Happen at Work by Sharon Parker and Uta Bindl
• Book: Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future by Margaret Heffernan
• Podcast: Hopecast by Jane Goodall
• Book: Think Again by Adam Grant
• Book: The New Climate War by Michael Mann

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership.

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Karl W. Kuhnert, Ph.D. is Professor of the Practice of Organization and Management in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Karl’s research focuses on how leaders cognitively, interpersonally, and emotionally develop over the life course. Karl has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, 13 book chapters and made over 100 conference presentations, and served on numerous editorial and review panels. He teaches industrial and organizational psychology, leadership, organizational change, and professional ethics. Karl has won numerous awards for teaching and research. Karl also regularly teaches leadership development in the Executive Ed. Programs at Emory, UCLA, HEC Paris, and UGA. He has served as a consultant with many large and small corporations, non-profit and government organizations including, United Parcel Service, The U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Siemens, The Jet Propulsion Lab, Cox Automotive, The Federal Reserve, Federal Home Loan Bank, The Robert Wood Foundation, Carnival Cruise Line, AECOM, and The American Cancer Society.
Keith Eigel, Ph.D. is the founder of The Leaders Lyceum (lye-see-um), an organization dedicated to leveraging challenges to accelerate the leaderʼs journey to sustained effectiveness. He is co-author of a forthcoming book on personality, leader effectiveness, and leveraging the diversity of perspective for team performance called The Vehicle. Over the last twenty-five years, his research and writing have had a global reach, being cited in academic and best-selling publications on 5 continents. Keith and his team have honed a developmental curriculum that extends and leverages over sixty years of research to help executive and next-generation leaders measurably advance leader maturity, the best predictor of a leader’s effectiveness. Thousands of leaders from dozens of industries have been transformed by their experiences with The Leaders Lyceum. Additionally, he'sbeen an executive coach to several C-Level Fortune 50 leaders and University Presidents.
A Quote From This Episode

• "The higher the level of vertical development the more effective you are in all aspects of life and leadership. In fact, no single factor better predicts you’re effectiveness than where you are on your vertical journey."

Resources

• Article: Transactional and transformational leadership: A constructive/developmental analysis by Kuhnert and Lewis
• Article: Authentic development: Leadership development level and executive effectiveness by Eigel and Kuhnert
• Book: The Map by Eigel and Kuhnert
• Book: In over our heads by Robert Kegan
• Podcast: Growing as Grownups

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership.

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Since 2005, Amy Elizabeth Fox has served as one of the founders and Chief Executive Officer of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm. For the last twenty years, she has been a leadership and culture change advisor to eminent professional services firms and Fortune 500 companies and facilitated immersive executive development programs for senior leaders.

Mobius offers top team intervention, business mediation, executive coaching, and personal mastery programs aimed at unlocking potential and building deeper trust, intimacy, and connection within a company’s top tier. Mobius also sponsors a professional development arm for maturing transformational practitioners called The Next Practice Institute and has an e-learning arm entitled Mobius Touch.

Since 2013, Mobius has partnered with the premier leadership advisory firm, Egon Zehnder, to offer sessions for leaders worldwide. Amy is the lead faculty for the quarterly Discovery program offered jointly to N-1 leaders. Further, she has guided programs for long-standing clients while overseeing the evolution and expansion of Mobius.

Amy is considered an expert in healing individual, family, and collective trauma and has been a pioneer in introducing trauma-informed development and psycho-spiritual principles into leadership programs. In addition to her work with Mobius, Amy is a senior student of mystical teacher Thomas Huebl, serving as part of his online faculty team and lead faculty for his two-year Timeless Wisdom Training. Amy and Thomas are guiding a first-of-its-kind year-long certification in Trauma Informed Consulting and Coaching. Amy is also on the African Leadership Institute's Desmond Tutu Fellows program faculty at Oxford.

Before starting Mobius, Amy worked as a trainer for Vantage Partners, as a senior executive in Wellspace, and as the Dir. of Public Affairs for the Cathedral of St John the Divine, where she supported Paul Gorman, Carl Sagan, and Al Gore in a decade long effort to engage the American faith communities in responding to climate change and environmental degradation.

A Quote From This Episode

• "Leaders have to be intentional about the self-care practices that may have been neglected in the past but are now critical to being in performance-ready shape to lead others.”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Learning Event: The Next Practice Institute
• Book: Winning From Within by Erica Ariel Fox
• Television Show: Bridgerton

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Register for ILA's 26th Global Conference in Chicago, IL - November 7-10, 2024.

About Scott J. Allen

• Website
• Weekly Newsletter: The Leader's Edge

My Approach to Hosting

• The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration