Leadership Development News

Noel Tichy is one of the greatest names in leadership. His most recent book is JUDGMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls (with Warren Bennis). Tichy, who was named one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BUSINESSWEEK and BUSINESS 2.0., is the founding editor and chief of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Join Noel Tichy with Dr’s Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler as he shares consulting experiences as a senior partner in Action Learning Associates, with clients including: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell.

Tom Heck is founder and president of International Association of Teamwork Facilitators (IATF). Tom is a veteran of the team and leadership development field and has trained leaders and Teamwork Facilitators from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Central & South America, and Australasia. The tools he’s developed (books, multimedia training CDs, teambuilding activities, audio programs, etc.) are used by facilitators, trainers and coaches to transform teams around the world. Tom started a website business called teachmeteamwork.com that has over a 40,000 person mailing list from 103 countries. Tom Lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and two children. He is the author of Duct Tape Teambuilding Games - 50 fun activities to help your team stick together.

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. The Novartis Chair was established to enable the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful business enterprises. Edmondson joined Harvard in 1996. Her research examines leadership influences on learning, collaboration and innovation in teams and organizations. She has published widely in academic journals and management periodicals and is the author of teaching cases on The Cleveland Clinic, Prudential Financial, Simmons Mattress Company, YUM brands, IDEO product design, and NASA's failed Columbia mission. Join us in today’s program to learn more about complex decision making.

Lain Hensley is the Co Founder and C.O.O. of Odyssey Teams, Inc. Lain and business partner Bill John started Odyssey Teams, Inc in 1991. Odyssey Teams, has created some of the most recognizable and cutting edge training programs in their industry teaching facilitation skills to internal trainers, developing programs for countless regional and global leadership teams, and leading teambuilding and motivational programs for many Fortune 500 companies. During this program we invite you to learn more about Lain Hensley and the very unique training mission he and the team at Odyssey have evolved for teaching the best of the best.

In this show Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Nadler interview Management GURU, Ken Blanchard. Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. Ken is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world and is respected for his years of groundbreaking work in the fields of leadership and management.

In today’s show we will look at Employee engagement and interview motivation expert Adrian Gostick. Adrian Gostick is the author of several bestselling books on corporate culture, including the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Carrot Principle. He also wrote the bestsellers The Integrity Advantage and The 24-Carrot Manager. His research on employee engagement has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN, “fascinating,” by Fortune magazine and “admirable and startling” by the Wall Street Journal. Adrian’s books have been translated into 20 languages and are sold in more than 50 countries around the world. As a leadership expert, he has appeared on numerous national television programs including NBC’s Today Show and has been quoted in dozens of business publications and magazines. Adrian is Vice President of the Carrot Culture division, the consulting and training arm of the O.C. Tanner Recognition Company.

Kevin is one of the leaders in the new field of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, which is generating a lot of interest in new findings that have previously been in the black box of the brain. He was recently interviewed by Wall Street Journal about managing the fear in the financial marketplace. He currently is the director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other. We will focus on some of his brain research on how automatic and controlled processes interact in producing emotion and emotion regulation, self-knowledge, feelings of social exclusion, attributions about other individuals, placebo effects and automat

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her honors include a Faculty of the Year Award, Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January, 2008 by Penguin Press and translated into 17 languages.

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR and CNN. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, schools, and non-profit organizations. He is the CEO of Aspirant, a global positive psychology consulting firm which researches positive outliers and helps organizations apply their human potential to discover where success and happiness intersect.

Pat is co-founder and moderator of the Women’s Executive Leadership Summit, now in its 7th year at the Center for Advanced Studies in Business at UW – Madison’s School of Business. Over the past 7 years, Pat has gained significant insights from the remarkable women and men who are leading change within their corporate cultures. Pat is a frequent speaker and advisor to executives in key leadership positions in business, education and government on aligning career and organizational success for themselves and those they lead. Co-author of The Best Work of Your Life, (Penguin Putnam), Pat has maintained an active commitment to improving the status of women in the workplace and beyond throughout her career. Pat previously chaired Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton’s Corporate Advisory Board. She did a regular segment on Wisconsin Public Radio for 7 years called Careertalk along with the co-author of her book.

Join best selling author Ariane de Bonvoisin as she shares her secrets from her book “The First 30 Days”. So why focus on the first thirty days? Ariane de Bonvoisin says despite the change — be it unpredictable or self-propelled — the first few days and weeks are often the hardest, most emotional time. It's when we have the most questions, emotions, doubts and fears, and when decisions need to be made. This is also the time when we are most in need of direction, information and support. Thirty days is enough to get started in the right way. We’ll share what makes change easier and why some people get through change better than others.

LESLIE MORGAN STEINER is the editor of the LA Times bestselling Mommy Wars and writes “On Balance,” the popular daily Washington Post on-line column about working motherhood. She is a frequent national television and radio guest on NBC’s Today Show, The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, and other programs. Steiner holds a BA in English from Harvard College and is a successful corporate executive with twenty years of marketing experience at Leo Burnett, Johnson & Johnson, and The Washington Post, where she was general manager. Leslie shares her many insights on the subject of internal struggles gained as a writer, a mother and an executive in her own right. Learn more from Leslie Morgan Steiner in today’s program including the subject of her new book, Crazy Love.

James Gottfurcht, Ph. D., is an internationally recognized money coach and keynote speaker. He is President of Psychology of Money Consultants, a Los Angeles firm, where he coaches financial service and mental health professionals and helps individuals and couples in his specialty. He is a pioneer in the field and has been practicing for over thirty years. In 1982, he developed The Psychology of Money Profile which is a standard and is used with professionals and the public to assess ten psychological money skills associated with financial success. He is also a clinical psychologist specializing in challenges with money, career, relationships, and stress. He is a popular media guest who has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, and the BBC and in Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, etc. He is on the faculty of UCLA Extension and the College of Executive Coaching. He has also written a chapter in Dr. Stephen Covey’s and Dr. Ken Blanchard’s book, Blueprint for Success.

Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. His new book is “Not Everyone Gets a Trophy.” He has been called the new Tom Peters by many who have seen him speak. Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a management guru and was included in a Financial Times listing of the world's greatest management thinkers. And in January 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International's most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. Past winners have included Marcus Buckingham, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Blanchard, and Tom Peters.

Dr. Don Kennedy is a board certified family physician, author, professor, lecturer, and certified coach. He is the recognized world expert on longevity and smoking cessation and his unique Smoking Bahbit™ program has helped hundreds beat nicotine addiction. He has practiced family and geriatric medicine for twenty five years Dr. Kennedy is a Diplomat of the American College of Family Medicine, holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from Stetson University, He has been a staff writer for Life Now magazine and has spoken for companies such as Merck, Schering-Plough, Younglife, Rotary International, and Pfizer. His radio show, You Are the Doctor, was the first interactive programs of its kind . His delightful new book, 5 AM & Already Behind, was written to teach the need to change now, not later. It is a story about Mike and uses a workbook format to teach us the Bahbit™ system Dr. Kennedy has used it to create immediate change and improve the health of thousands of patients.

Dr. Jeff Auerbach is the founder and president of the College of Executive Coaching, the leading training institute in post-graduate training in Executive Coaching. He is a master certified coach (MCC) from the International Coaching Federation. and he has been an Executive Coach and Trainer for over 14 years. Dr. Auerbach started the College of Executive Coaching in 1995 and has been a leader and instrumental in training over 3000 mental health professionals in coaching techniques. Dr. Auerbach has presented topics on coaching to the International Coach Federation, Coach University, and the School for Professional Psychology. Dr. Auerbach has a Ph.D. in Psychology from California Graduate Institute and an M.A. from Antioch University. He has been a licensed psychologist in California since 1992. .Dr. Auerbach has written Personal and Executive Coaching, The Complete Guide for Mental Health Professionals.

Yvette A. Hyater-Adams, is a successful entrepreneur whose history includes being a top executive in financial services and retail. She leads a talented team of consultants at Prime Directive Consulting Group Inc., a management consulting & executive coaching firm focused on building strategies that integrate diversity and inclusion in the workplace, As a poet, Yvette’s approach to working with top business leaders through transformative narratives, underscores her premise “Change your underperforming and limiting belief story into a thriving success story--and practice mindful habits that will make it happen”. Yvette is a pioneer in the emerging field of transformative language arts where she contributes to the success of others by training coaches in working with these methods. Join Ms. Hyater-Adams as she shares insights on the tools and techniques you too can learn to apply in support of this unique field of executive development.

David Veillette, President/CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Western Regional Medical Center, Arizona, is past President/CEO of The Indiana Heart Hospital, a fully digital heart hospital and was President/CEO of CardCon, Inc. a consultation firm specializing in Healthcare development and implementation of new facilities. Veillette, with more than 35 years of experience in healthcare, received national recognition winning the 2004 Louis Sullivan Award from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, which recognizes individuals for their leadership, vision, and achievements in advancing the overall quality and efficiency of healthcare. David’s book “Hospitals in Crisis, a digital solution” focuses on the future of healthcare and smart organizations. Join innovator and digital hospital expert, David Veillette as he shares the secrets of leadership required to succeed in the future of healthcare.

As Vice President of Collaborative Growth James applies his expertise in developing emotional effectiveness to help public and private sector leaders expand the depth of their influence, anticipate change, and respond to it resiliently. James is a thought leader in providing Emotional Intelligence training and tools. He is the coauthor of Emotional Intelligence in Action, The Emotionally Intelligent Team, A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence. James and Collaborative Growth helps leaders, teams, and senior management measurably increase their effectiveness, using the EI assessments: TESI®, the Bar-On EQi®, and EQ 360®, along with other assessments. James educates coaches on how to develop the insightful interpretation and application of EQ results. He also works as a consultant and contract mediator for federal agencies. Listen to learn how to grow your Team’s EI.

As co-founder of the Human Performance Institute, Dr. Jim Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of business, sport, medicine, and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and Army Special Forces. He is the author of several books on mental and physical training for peak performance, including the Power of Full Engagement (2003) and “Power of Story”, which we will focus on today. Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline withTed Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the OprahWinfrey Show. Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology. Come listen and learn about your story.