Inspirational Insights to Action Podcast

Workplace Cultures: Practical Ways to Engage with Jo Wong Dan Szuc

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:54:10 GMT

UX consultants Dan Szuc and Jo Wong observe peer-to-peer connection sorely missing in workplace culture and discuss how a lack of empathy and poor conduct in business settings contribute to high disengagement rates. From a UX consultancy perspective, they point out the importance of collective responsibility, empathy, and human soft skills that are harder to master. Drawing parallels between workplace dynamics and their experiences in theater and education, their view offers a different way of seeing workplace culture and the need for a cultural shift toward intentional, meaningful interactions. Their books, 'Make Meaningful Work' and 'Make Meaningful Culture,' offer practical insights for fostering a healthier work environment.

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00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction

00:21 Discussing Workplace Culture and Disengagement

01:18 Dan and Joe's Journey in UX

02:42 The Importance of Empathy in the Workplace

05:15 Dan's Story: From Drama to Business Culture

06:54 Fundamentals of Successful Culture

12:13 Challenges in Modern Workplaces

19:39 The Role of Education in Shaping Culture

22:25 AI and the Future of Work

27:05 The Problem with Short-Termism and Attention Spans

28:01 Practical Approaches to Education

28:35 The Importance of Curiosity in Learning

30:08 Engagement and Responsibility in Schools

32:57 Avoidance and Responsibility in Workplaces

33:49 The Role of Process in Work Culture

35:16 Introducing the SPARKLE Framework

44:17 The Impact of Early Life Experiences

49:10 Promoting Meaningful Work and Culture

50:21 Final Thoughts and Resources

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https://www.makemeaningfulwork.com/books

https://www.amazon.com/dp/173792823X?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

https://www.makemeaningfulwork.com/about

Host Dawna Jones has been podcasting since 2008. She specializes in providing insights that make sense of everyday life and provides skills, and practices for visionary resilience and adaptive thinking. www.DawnaJones.com

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Liberating Your Unique Voice with Sam Kukathas

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:20:50 GMT

The world is transforming rapidly whether through tech or political disruption. Navigating the uncertainty and participating positively and constructively needs your voice to be free and liberated from the stories of the past.

Sam Kukathas, a transformational leader, academic, and energy healer, discusses the speed of sound frequency in releasing human and organizational potential. Sam shares his personal journey from being a philosopher grappling with depression and identity crisis to embracing transformational leadership and energy healing. He explains and gives a sampler of neuro-resonance optimization, so you can experience how sound frequencies can transmute emotional blocks and realize profound personal and collective transformation. The work has wider application so we talk about how it applies to corporate environments, politics, and societal systems, promoting a more coherent and compassionate world. This episode offers valuable insights for team leaders, project managers, and anyone grappling with what is going on in the world and what comes next as you choose your place in shaping what comes next.

Find Sam's website here: https://samkukathas.com/

And the work on Soul Purpose here: https://soulpurposeleaders.com/

We also talk about Sam's album on Bandcamp: https://samkukathas.bandcamp.com/album/being-one

Note to the listener: I do not have the perfect setup for podcasting. This work is mission-driven to takes place where ever I am. In the last 16-17 years of podcasting, I have recorded from the basement of the RSA in London, in coffee shops, on the streets in Davos, Switzerland during the WEF. This episode was recorded live so you'll hear my daughter's dog Eddy respond to the frequencies Sam expresses during the demo. Being perfect is not my goal. I will continue to bring forward insights that help people make life-affirming decisions and participate in a revitalized and unified state of the world.

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Exploring Team Perceptions with Mirror Mirror's Lindsay Uittenbogaard

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:27:14 GMT

We know people perceive things differently but why is it so difficult for people to communicate about that? Lindsay Uittenbogaard is the CEO and Founder of Mirror Mirror, a company focused on improving team effectiveness through perception comparison.

Her journey began in 2003 when she experienced communication challenges in a multinational energy company. These challenges led her to realize the widespread issue of organizational misalignment. It is evident in team dynamics and the aftermath of a failed transformation initiative when the social networks have been damaged by processes that ignore human connection. Lindsay's work restores that connection so teams and organizations can renew their trust in one another and do epic work.

The discussion offers actionable strategies for team leaders, project managers, and teams or organizations recovering from failed transformation initiatives. It emphasizes key methods to revitalize team dynamics, improve project outcomes, and navigate the challenges of transformative changes. You will gain insights into effective management practices, enhancing team collaboration, and steering teams towards success.

Mirror Mirror™ stands out from traditional team interventions because it focuses on what’s happening in the team, pinpointing real work issues and informing immediate action. It’s practical, easy to use, and scales well. It looks at the whole system, not just behaviors or preferences, and can connect with any team, not just leadership.

This episode is featured for two reasons: 1) perception filters or distorts meaning so being aware enough to stop, reflect, and explore, is a great way to elevate healthy communication and high-quality working relationships. 2) Dawna (me) supports Mirror Mirror's work because traditionally managed organizations are slow to adapt. Starting at the team level and grounding the work in personal and professional development raises the level of thinking and consciousness. Doing so releases energy stuck in tension and conflict allowing everyone to feel good about the work they are doing.

You can also watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/lEXJ1c65Td8

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Website: https://mirrormirroralignment.com/

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Beyond Performance with Dr. Rob Lion

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:57:58 GMT

Dr. Rob Lion of Black River Performance Management and Idaho State University talks about the longstanding divide between academic research and industry practice, emphasizing the challenges and benefits of integrating these two worlds. Using the example of motivation, our conversation illustrates the difference in approach and language between academia and industry. Because Rob is a researcher, we talk about the role of translational researchers in bridging this gap, the importance of refining language for specific contexts, and the impact of AI on HR practices, especially in talent acquisition. Naturally, we include leadership, organizational culture, and personal development within the workplace. Current with the political news and views preoccupying the world, we reflect on the significance of diversity of thought, the balance between performance and human flourishing, and the evolving role of HR in modern organizations.

Dr. Rob Lion (pronounced “Lee-own”) is a dynamic professor of human resource development at Idaho State University and the co-founder of Black River Performance Management, where his motto is "Work should fuel the spirit, not drain it." With over 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational development, and performance improvement, Rob is renowned for his innovative, people-first approach.

Holding a PhD in Training and Performance Improvement, he specializes in creating human-centric systems that drive growth and success within organizations. Rob leverages his deep understanding of human behavior and workplace psychology to simplify leadership complexities, equipping clients with science-backed strategies to enhance organizational culture and strengthen teams.

As a captivating speaker, Rob brings complex ideas to life with relatable stories, humor, and infectious energy. He has been featured on numerous podcasts, authored several academic papers, and is celebrated for bridging research with real-world practice. Whether addressing executives, leading workshops, or inspiring teams, Rob's passion for empowering individuals and transforming organizations leaves a lasting impression, making him a highly sought-after thought leader in his field.

Find Rob Lion at https://blackriverpm.com/

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Want a Successful 2025? Curtis Michelson's Insights on AI Challenges and Opportunities

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:46:09 GMT

Creative thinker /innovation facilitator Curtis Michelson explores crucial trends and predictions for 2025. Curtis shares his insights on generative AI, its impacts on various sectors, the concept of BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible), and how it updates VUCA to describe the contemporary world. The discussion highlights the ethical implications of AI, the need for creative and decentralized innovation, and the importance of slowing down to enhance strategic decision-making. Curtis provides a practical use of AI in education and explores how leaders can harness AI to support agility and resilience without sacrificing ethical integrity.

Find Curtis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtismichelson/

References mentioned:

"Co-Intelligence" book by Ethan Mollick https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/
Gen AI Card Deck by Alexandre Eichenstetter - Used for workshops and understanding AI concepts https://cards.ai-tinkerers.club/
BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible) concept - Coined by futurist Jamais Cascio https://ageofbani.com/
Custom GPTs by OpenAI - Mentioned as a tool for creating and storing AI prompts
Context Explorer: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-DKj02DkNp-context-explorer
Hyperbolizer: this is an actual prompt you can put into your own favorite tool (chatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) Test this out yourself. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c9rxnegcg7yerbe6dg7z2/
Hyperbolizer-Prompt.txt?rlkey=8ltey2fuq6jss1jpvnlqib5v1&dl=0
Led Zeppelin 4 album reimagined in 1940s style using AI - Mentioned as an example of AI's creative capabilities on YouTube https://youtu.be/gBOVr1zEvaE?si=RTc1FXgryyKt4OVd

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Expanding Consciousness & Survival Using Adversity

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:10:56 GMT

Could adversity and difficult challenges be a gift? Have you ever had things you’d go off the rails? Adversity can be the doorway to realizing higher levels of resilience, meaning and purpose that can bring people across generations together. I (Dawna Jones) started podcasting slightly before I lost my home in 2009 and hit the road. No fancy studio or equipment. Have mic will travel.

This highly disruptive chapter of life was preceded by my adventures as a world-wanderer, horse lover, and sensitive person with experience in shifting perspectives and learning from other species. In this episode, I look at how coyotes inspired me to adapt and step into a much deeper richer journey of self-actualization than I never would have chosen and how they can inspire humans to be more intelligent to survive and truly thrive as we collectively navigate a lot of uncertainty and growing complexity.

Whatever you’ve experienced in the world, it has been a training ground for mastering your emotions, converting trauma into usable energy (instead of chronic illness) and contributing to a level of collective intelligence leadership.

Transcending the tough stuff and redirecting traumatic experiences into creative initiatives.
Moving through fear to achieve a much bigger challenge. It is a choice to develop resilience.
Working with your emotions to maintain well-being and clear decision-making.
Restoring fear to its proper place so that you can access meaning, purpose and positive emotions that come with life: joy, happiness, and compassion.
Why expanding your consciousness brings more peace, less fear, and a deeper connection with the world.
The urgent need for self-aware, collaborative leaders to address today’s planetary challenges.

Gain valuable insights to improve overall well-being, navigate life's challenges with greater ease, and live a more fulfilling life while creating a world that runs on diversity and inspiration.

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What will the future look like?

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:20:44 GMT

Dawna Jones explores innovative approaches to solving complex global challenges. The discussion emphasizes the necessity of diverse, non-linear thinking and leveraging intergenerational wisdom to foster planetary consciousness and sustainability. Key topics include the importance of redesigning decision-making processes to be more creative, compassionate, and curiosity-driven; the role of ethical considerations in contrast to legal ones in municipal decision-making; and real-world examples of sustainable initiatives such as those by Novo Nordisk and Patagonia. The episode also delves into systemic change, the balance between big-picture and analytical thinking, and the significance of resilience and biodiversity. Personal anecdotes and historical perspectives highlight the interconnectedness of all life, emphasizing the need for visionary resilience and collective efforts to address environmental issues. Overall, the episode calls for collaborative, creative, and compassionate solutions to design a vibrant, sustainable future for all.

What will the future of the world look like?

00:48 Introduction: Exploring Human Potential

05:06 Challenges and Opportunities in Decision-Making

07:30 The Role of Generations and Leadership

22:43 Embracing Indirect Relationships and Sensory Intelligence

25:10 The Role of Younger Generations and Climate Activism

29:19 Visionary Resilience and Collective Action

Download the Imagining the Future worksheet based on Jane McGonagill's book Imaginable. It will be followed by an invitation to participate in a future scenarios web-iworkship in mid-November.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

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How Does the Enneagram Support Better Decisions? R. Karl Hebenstreit

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:48:35 GMT

My guest in this episode is R. Karl Hebenstreit who brings a long list of accomplishments to the conversation. Karl is a certified Executive Coach, Leadership/Team/Organization Development Consultant, and international speaker who has over 25 years of experience coaching leaders and their teams (from Individual Contributors to CEOs. He holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and authored three books: “The How & Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram” (now in its 3rd Edition), “Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision” (now available in English, Spanish, French, and Greek), and the newly-released “Explicit Expectations: The Essential Guide & Toolkit of Management Fundamentals.” Karl is an “International Enneagram Association (IEA) Accredited Professional with Distinction” and “IEA Accredited Professional/Provider/Teacher.”

We talk about:

· Understanding the Enneagram

· Challenges in Modern Business Practices

· The Oz Principle and Mindset Shifts

· Head, Heart, and Gut Leadership

· Exploring the Enneagram Types

· Understanding Organizational Culture Through Enneagram

· Hiring Bias and Personality Assessments

· Integrating Enneagram in Decision Making

· Enneagram's Role in Broader Worldview

· Children's Book: Teaching Enneagram Early

· Empowering Choices and Psychological Safety

Connect to Karl here: www.performandfunction.com

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Interrupting Violence-Breaking Transgenerational Patterns with Cobe Williams

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:58:15 GMT

Interrupting Violence: One Man's Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself follows Cobe as he undertakes his redemption journey, offering new hope for the nation’s most violent communities. As the country wrestles with the inequities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the complex intersections of urban violence, racial injustice, police brutality, and poverty in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, this book provides an inspiring blueprint. Cobe’s story demonstrates how the country can resolve the issues plaguing our inner cities, taking readers into an often misunderstood and misrepresented aspect of the Black experience in America. Released July 2, 2024 through Roman Littlefield Publishing.

The Amazon link is: https://www.amazon.com/Interrupting-Violence-Journey-Streets-Himself/dp/1538166879/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And the book website is: https://www.interruptingviolence.com/

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Unlocking Higher States of Creativity and Productivity with Emotional Transparency

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:00:38 GMT

Stephane Segatori, the director of WeFlow Lab in Amsterdam, talks to Dawna about developing psychological safety via emotional transparency and maturity, self-awareness, and inner freedom. Stephane's experience in the corporate world informs his role as a facilitator and coach, emphasizing the significance of understanding oneself at a deeper level to navigate the complexities of life and business. This episode offers plenty of insights into designing workplace cultures that value emotional well-being in personal and professional life.

Key Highlights:

· Emotional Health and Self-Awareness: Insights into the importance of being comfortable with oneself and managing emotional health.

· Stephane Segatori's Journey: From a corporate career in business intelligence to becoming the director of WeFlow Lab Stephane brings vision to the work of WeFlow. WeFlow’s research and mission to elevate inner freedom through well-researched practices and spaces designed for individual and team growth.

· Integration of Business and Consciousness: Discussion on the hidden links between organizations, human potential, and states of consciousness, highlighting the relevance of these connections in today's business environment.

· Personal Growth and Mastery: Practical advice on gaining clarity and connection to one's true self, essential for making informed decisions and navigating future challenges.

· Psychological Safety as a function of practices, and the intentionally applied principles to gain the benefit of emotions in making rational and intuitive decisions.

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Are We Conditioned To Feel Helpless? Using Disruption for Fearless Growth

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:27:40 GMT

In this episode, we dive deep into what happens when companies say they want creative ideas but mean 'keep the status quo'. Drawing insights from Paul McCarthy's book "The Fired Leader," we explore the reality and challenges of being a disruptive leader in environments desperately needing to think differently if employee retention and workplace health are to be taken seriously. We talk about examining the high cost of poor leadership and the necessity of embracing disruption for long or short-term growth.

We discuss:

Micro-Management Pitfalls: The downside of micro-management and the irony of control in leadership.

Evolving Narrative of Leadership: Discussing the evolving narrative of leadership and its impact.

Toxic Leadership: What lies at the heart of toxic leadership and the illusion of control

Power of Vulnerability: Addressing misconceptions-the value of honesty

Catalysts for Growth: Using conflict and disruption as leadership and organizational growth catalysts. systemic challenges embedded in workplace cultures,

Neuroscience of Disruption: Exploring the neuroscience behind using disruption and its role in decision-making leadership.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone feeling the aftershock of the pandemic interruption or stopped by the confusion of delivering what was asked for only to find out it wasn't wanted.

Paul McCarthy is an author and global thought leader creating the conditions to reimagine, reinvent, and regenerate the future of leadership. Amongst a crowded space, Paul brings a unique, freshly disruptive, and bold, yet evidence-based, experiential, and experimental approach that is shifting the narrative within and beyond organizations about the future of leadership and work.

Paul’s career in management and leadership consulting spans over 25 years in over 100 organizations within over 10 industry sectors. Paul’s focus has been to develop leaders and their capacity, capability, and competency and he has supported thousands of leaders globally. He also supports clients in business transformation, organizational design and talent management. Paul still consults in a senior-level advisory and delivery role.

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Cultural Cohesion: Principles and Partnerships in Action with Silvia Fierascu

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:19:29 GMT

Timisoara, a city in Romania, bolstered by winning a bid through the EU, took on a grand experiment. My guest Silvia Fierascu, a network science researcher among other roles, was a part of that project. In this episode, we explore how political vision, open-mindedness and principles drawn from network science brought community organizations together to strengthen and grow cultural cohesion.

Working with organizations in a city with a population of 300,000, presented an opportunity to galvanize cohesion among cultural organizations that would normally compete for resources.

Can cooperation be better than competition when it comes to growth?

In the first 15 minutes we talked about:

Cultural Impact: The focus is on prioritizing cultural development as a driver for economic growth, improving quality of life, and integrating education to cultivate future cultural consumers and producers.
Institutional Support: The Center for Projects, an institution under the mayor’s office, leads the program implementation.
Principles vs. Beliefs: Principles, unlike beliefs, can be tested and are used to anchor actions and guide change, fostering collaboration and sustainability within the cultural ecosystem.
Recognition and Respect: The follow-up plan emphasizes recognizing and respecting the contributions of individuals and organizations, planning together to give meaning and purpose to their efforts.
Network Analysis: The methodology identifies key actors with significant influence over the ecosystem, fostering trust and collaboration for broader impact.
Reflection for Growth: A key recommendation is for 2024 to be a year of reflection to learn from experiences, ensuring continuous improvement and sustainability of the cultural initiatives.
Innovative Financing: Changes in cultural financing legislation made funding more sustainable and transparent, promoting collaboration and accessibility for vulnerable communities.
Public Debate and Inclusion: Public debates around art and inclusive cultural events were new and significant interventions that fostered community engagement and collaboration among cultural operators.

An individual’s emotional and mental health is informed or influenced by the health of the people in the community so strengthening cohesion increases resilience.

To connect with Silvia on LinkedIN: Silvia Fierascu

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Vulnerability: Moving through Fear to Inner Freedom with Garry Turner

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:21:47 GMT

Have you ever been told that vulnerability is a sign of weakness? Have you believed it? Garry Turner debunks the myth and shares his personal journey after saying yes to an inner recognition that something was missing from life. His exploration released him from old traumas, through to recovered energy and a freedom that energizes an unimaginable level of productivity and creativity.

Garry Turner guides the expansion of possibilities at the intersections of International Sales, People & Culture, Equity & Inclusion and Sustainability. Guided by a

major focus on serving, and seeking, to disrupt extractive industry mindsets and structures from the inside out and the outside in, Garry works on a 1-1 basis with executive and senior leaders, and with teams, as a Thinking Partner, International Speaker, and holding space for connection, co-creation, reimagining and exceptional performance.

Garry is also a content creator having hosted two podcasts, Value through Vulnerability and Activating Consciousness, writes blogs, and also hosts livestreams around a variety of deeply human and systemic topics. Garry's links are here: https://linktr.ee/HexoChangeGarryTurner See also Hegemony Revealed on YouTube.

These are times when true leaders accept the challenge of moving past fear to realize a much deeper adaptive capacity. Garry's experience illustrates what is possible when you refuse to let fear-based thinking set the limits for what you are capable of experiencing.

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Value through Vulnerability podcast Episode 45

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Nobody is Smarter Than Everybody with Rod Collins

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:52:56 GMT

Rod Collins is back! In this episode, the former COO of Blue Cross Blue Shield and futurist explores the critical shift from hierarchically structured authority to collective and collaborative networks. Learn the pitfalls of digital feudalism and how pioneering companies like Google have strayed from their original ideals.

This episode promises insights into leveraging collective intelligence for true innovation and the inevitable decline of traditional hierarchical models. Rod's book 'Nobody is Smarter Than Everybody' was published by guest Rod Collins. Listen to this compelling discussion on rethinking (and changing) how power is used as workplaces evolve to keep up with the digital era where no one person can solve anything. Diverse intelligence is needed. So is order, which is not to be confused with direction. You'll gain valuable insights for professionals, leaders, and anyone interested in the impact of collective intelligence and the evolution of organizational structures. A few highlights:

Leveraging collective intelligence: "Power with" rather than "power over" can amplify the collective intelligence of groups, leading to more innovative and effective outcomes.
The importance of autonomy and order: Hint: it is not either/or.
The implications of digital feudalism
The decline of hierarchical management structures
The necessity for companies to evolve

Rod's book is available through the usual outlets. https://rodcollins.net/

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From Abrupt Loss to Inspired Entrepreneur with Amanda Bauer-Frisch

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:23:46 GMT

Whether you are a business or at a personal level, how you deal with life's interruptions determines your emotional and mental health from that day forward. Transforming a tragedy into an inspired purpose is the choice Amanda Bauer-Frisch made when her husband died abruptly. In this episode, she takes us on a deep dive and explains how she moved through the difficult times and why she hangs out with people who can have difficult conversations.

Amanda Bauer-Frisch, a resilient serial entrepreneur and CEO of Enduring Legacy Company embarked on her journey after poignant personal experiences shaped her vision. Transitioning from a career in human resources to full-time parenting in 2020, Amanda channeled her spare time into crafting literacy tools inspired by her late husband’s teachings.

Her first business, Small Legacies, is a children’s gift brand that focuses on thoughtful, practical items that enhance a child’s development and peace within parents’ homes. Owning several other small businesses, all under the umbrella of Enduring Legacy Company, Amanda is a visionary entrepreneur dedicated to leaving a lasting impact through heartfelt, purpose-driven ventures that resonate with families worldwide.

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What is emerging in innovation for 2024 with Curtis Michelson

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:55:33 GMT

Innovation nerd and adaptive thinker extraordinaire Curtis Michelson provides an overview of what is emerging in 2024 based on signals he's picked up from his many communities. From Agile to organization network analysis to open innovation and more, you'll learn what is brewing inside edgy thinking communities.

Curtis Michelson is, in his own words a "serial failed entrepreneur, yet ever hopeful and optimistic". A longtime coach and complexity facilitator, Curtis works with clients on strategic business model deep dives and rethinks. His consultancy Minds Alert delivers on those transformation ambitions with 'design sprints' - short bursts of intense value discovery and validation. AI tools for generative thinking come along for the ride. The supporting innovation offering he created is INFOdj which aims to deliver just-in-time research insights to teams who are sprinting at those emerging edges of technology and business models.

Based in Orlando, Florida, he gives time locally to community projects focused on social justice, reframing historical trauma narratives and green economies.

Curtis's overview of who is doing the leading-edge thinking work has been summarized on this page: https://infodj.notion.site/Curtis-Forecasts-Futures-for-Innovation-in-2024-66f092cfa3174340828c98a4e2915f8f

His pick for a 2024 theme song is The Waters Of March · Susannah McCorkle

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Networks and the Future of Organizations with Jeffrey Beeson

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:57:05 GMT

What is the world asking for you to contribute? This and many other reflections pop up in the conversation with Jeffrey Beeson who explores what network science tells us about the future of organizations and what it means for leaders. Organizations are changing: their structure, thinking and internal roles. We talk about:

pioneering companies who reinvented themselves, shifts leaders need to make, the science and effectiveness of small teams, and how network science helps us understand human systems and organizations. As a followup to the previous episode, we also talk about collective intelligence.

Jeffrey’s career path inspired him to recognize the need to integrate the perspectives of strategy and organizational culture. He founded Ensemble Enabler to collaborate with organizations to foster agile organizational cultures and advance leadership at all levels of an organization. Through a unique collection of practices, Ensemble Enabler supports organizations to develop insights, acquire new knowledge, and implement new ideas through innovative approaches. Jeffrey co-founded the non-profit organization World Café Europe e.V. in 2007. Its vision …”is a Europe where citizens actively engage to find concrete solutions for the key issues of their time.”

You'll find his work on https://www.ensembleenabler.com/ in German and English

Thanks to Patricia Munro for the introduction.

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Self-Management & Collective Intelligence in Business Governance

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:30:05 GMT

Doug Kirkpatrick and Rod Collins combine expertise with self-managed governance and collective intelligence to provide a bridge between traditional business mechanisms with respectful approaches for intelligent people. Learn why the transformative concept of synergistic control, replaces traditional control mechanisms to engage collaborative achievement. We talk about the principles guiding self-managed companies, decision rights, and the heightened responsibility that accompanies this evolution.

The autonomy of choice: Your free will is applied within your organization and for selecting workplaces that fit you.
Leadership evolution: shift from dictatorial leadership to a facilitative approach.
Embrace collective intelligence, challenge conventional thinking, and prioritize understanding.

For Rod's article on Substack see https://rodcollins.substack.com/p/collective-intelligence-will-enable

Harnessing Agility - Embracing Possibilities

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From a Suicidal State to an Emmy-Harry Turner's Redemption

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:11:12 GMT

Harry Turner flew to the Peruvian Amazon to commit suicide but something happened while he was there that would change his life forever. Documented in the film Wild Cat, now streaming on Amazon Prime, Harry's experience with war, death, and school led him to discover and reconnect to himself. He had help in the form of two wild cats — ocelots. His experience with being their parent mimics the experience of any parent. The scene for this episode highlights the awareness of the return to being emotionally and physically healthy and assessing risks rooted in a sense of fearless living in the jungle.

You can find the documentary film on Amazon Prime.

Help Harry with the Emerald Arch project at www.emeraldarch.org

Harry's documentary just won an Emmy award!!

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Working Directly with Trauma of Torture with Ihor Kozlovsky

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:34:02 GMT

Surprises that come with abrupt disruption can threaten the worldview relied on to make sense of the world. So what happens when not much makes sense anymore? In this episode, Ukranian theologian and passivist Ihor Kozlovsky talks about his experience recovering from torture and illegal imprisonment to share how to move through trauma that has become so ubiquitous in the world today. The episode features an intro with Liliya Sayvch, HR professional who hosted an expert panel on July 4th, 2023 to discuss how to remain Unbroken in tradition and spirit.

Mr. Kozlovsky was one of the panel experts. He speaks in Ukranian and interpreter Olesia provides the translation. This conversation is important because dark emotions and trauma can negatively impact decisions, leadership thinking, and our humanity at a time when being human is the primary differentiator from technology.

To provide a bit of an overview you'll hear:

4:08 Liliya Sayvch provides an update and sets the context for the discussion

9:00 3 things coming out of the expert panel on July 4th, 2023 that motivated the deeper conversation in this episode.

11:42 How has Mr. Kozlovsky processed his experience and made sense of his experience?

20:51 What kind of dark emotions stay with you and what can they teach?

25:46 What motivates soldiers? Hate or love?

28.31 When you are in dark places in your mind or surroundings how do you pull yourself out?

33:41 The three levels of intellectual abilities for overcoming trauma.

39:05 Finding a coherent sense of ourselves in the world around us.

40:51 What can Ihor's experience teach humanity about being compassionate and living on one planet?

46:42 Having survived a torturous experience do you retrieve meaning from the past or start anew?

1:00 The fourth layer of intellectual ability - social

1:06 Why these conversations matter today

1:11 The source: Emotional health and its relationship to polarization and conflict. A higher leadership call.

Ihor Kozlovsky references Fritz Perls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls

Links to Ihor Kozlovsky's story:

https://babel.ua/en/amp/news/98187-a-ukrainian-historian-religious-scholar-and-former-prisoner-of-the-dpr-ihor-kozlovsky-died

https://df.news/en/2023/09/06/acclaimed-religious-scholar-researcher-and-former-political-prisoner-ihor-kozlovsky-dies/

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A HR Professional's Journey From Refugee to Return to Ukraine with Liliya Savych

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:45:09 GMT

Liliya Savych was an HR professional working for a large corporation located in Kyiv when we recorded this episode. When Russians surrounded Kyiv she left the city and faced being a refugee without roots. Landing in Dublin she reclaimed her sense of self and then returned to Ukraine. Since this interview, Liliya has left corporate to work for a city in western Ukraine with the aim of bringing her international experience to a municipal workforce.

This episode explores how to move through adverse conditions, stay centered (or at least recover), and then make decisions charting a course of action to restore a sense of control and initiative to life and work. Contact Liliya through LinkedIn.

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Lisa Gill is turning self-managed teams from a good idea into reality

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:47:47 GMT

Lisa Gill is a self-managing organizations coach and trainer, writer, and Leadermorphosis podcast host talks about the inner work needed to lead effectively in self-managed organizations and in life. Leading courses globally with Tuff Leadership Training, Lisa trains people in the mindset and skills needed to lead in more involving ways, creating working climates built on trust and openness, as well as helping organizations introduce or develop self-managing teams. As the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, she interviews thought leaders and practitioners from all over the world about the future of work. Born in the UK, Gill grew up in Southeast Asia. She founded Reimaginaire to support organizations interested in new ways of working.

You'll hear:

About governance models
About the source and styles of leadership
Observable shifts in governance, leadership
Embracing conflict as a source of collaboration
The three shifts that need to happen to move from move to something that's more decentralized, more human, more adaptive.

Links: Leadermorphosis podcast; Book: Moose Heads on the Table: Stories about self-managing organizations from Sweden (with Karin Tenelius, 2020).

leadermorphosis.co; Medium blog

Learn more at tuffleadershiptraining.com

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Why Peer to Peer Change is more Effective Than Top Down Leadership with Dr. Leandro Herrero

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:45:34 GMT

Dr. Leandro Herrero is an organizational architect and regular speaker at the Organization Network Analysis Summit sponsored by OrgMapper.com in November of each year. Slightly irreverent and very honest, our conversation spans why peer-to-peer change works better than top-down when it comes to creating changes at scale. Thinking differently comes naturally to Dr. Leandro and his clients' benefit. His quest is to create Remarkable Organizations. A clinical psychiatrist and academic by background, Leandro moved into the corporate sector taking up senior leadership positions in several multinational companies both in Europe and the US. His behavioral sciences background is coupled with his hands-on management experience. He co-founded The Chalfont Project Ltd from where he developed innovative solutions to organizational design, culture, and leadership. From his large work with corporations, he pioneered Viral Change™, the new global standard for large-scale, peer-to-peer behavioral change. Leandro has written eight books on leadership and change, is an acclaimed speaker, and has a large community of followers on his “Daily Thoughts" blog and LinkedIn. I have his book The Flipping Point — short flips of perception that compel different thinking.

We talk about questions like: What are the preconceived notions that unconsciously would impact a change project? Does national culture have anything to do with change? How and why is peer-to-peer faster?

We bust the notions of how long it takes to shift an organization to responsive and adaptive.

Find more on: https://viralchange.com/resources/ and of course https://thechalfontproject.com/

He is discussing network science and organizational change with Andras Viscek from OrgMapper at the end of July. Register here.

Listen to Episode 96 with the Irish Health Service where Viral Change™ and network analysis released energy for adaptive responses.

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Sensory Intelligence with Annemarie Lombard

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:51:58 GMT

In epic 100th episode (for this podcast) Dawna speaks with Dr Annemarie Lombard who is the Founder and CEO of Sensory intelligence® Consulting. Sensory intelligence is something everyone has but may not be aware of despite how important it is to foresight, insights and maintaining a healthy workplace environment. Their mission? To help people be healthy, productive and happy.

We talk about:

Sensory processing styles - understanding sensory thresholds and how they influence productivity, wellbeing and relationships
Open plan office productivity - insights and strategies to balance collaboration and distraction
Relationships and teamwork - sensory diversity as a tool to display empathy and care and value diverse thinking and intelligences

Facilities are often viewed simply as structures to house people at work but they could be so much more when human needs are taken into account. Imagine a building or space design as a valued element of well-being! Though it's not too far-fetched it is also not valued enough! Listen in to this conversation where you learn about a hidden talent that can keep you healthy, and balanced.

Annemarie has a PhD in Occupational therapy, acquired through the University of Cape Town in 2012. She has 30 years of global experience in people development and learning and practiced as an occupational therapist for 15 years dealing with children with special needs, learning, and attention difficulties before starting Sensory intelligence®. She is the thought leader behind Sensory Intelligence®, a sensory processing subject expert, and the author of the book “Sensory Intelligence: Why It Matters More Than IQ and EQ”, published in 2007.

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Inspirational Insights Trailer

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:17:05 GMT

In a world of constant change and perplexing challenges, insights reveal the path to moving through a chaotic uncertain world with Zen-like mastery. Welcome to the Inspirational Insights podcast: Harnessing Agility, Embracing Possibilities— navigate the ever-evolving landscape in personal and business life with confidence and creativity.

Through powerful conversations and thought-provoking insights, we'll unlock the secrets to harnessing your vital adaptive spirit so you can adapt swiftly, discover your hidden capabilities, and utilize opportunities hidden in complex problems and tough situations. Join a journey of exploration, where we dive into the minds of brilliant thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who have adapted their thinking or practices as leaders and innovators in business and personal life. This is a time for self and collective leadership, to apply diverse thinking to a tough issue or massively transformation goal.

At a time when old systems are collapsing, it is up to us to design the world we want to be of benefit to all life. If you’ve ever asked yourself, how can I contribute to the design of the world, this podcast is intended to support your vision and active contribution.

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Jobs with No Boss with Dunia Reverter and Hugo Lopes

Mon, 22 May 2023 18:34:31 GMT

Dunia Reverter and Hugo Lopes both reached stages in their careers where working for a corporate was not the way forward. Combining their expertise and vision for work not limited by bureaucracy and control they have launched JobswithNoBosses.com and a crowdfunding campaign to help build it out. Serving an international audience, I'm happy to report three companies are in Canada which is exciting for me (as the show host) having run into managers guided by fear of losing control for the last twenty years! How we view control has been shifting from controlling others to controlling ourselves — a shift in self-leadership consciousness.

To support the crowdfunding campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jobswithnoboss#/

This episode is to support people who seek jobs where there is autonomy and respect for the talent people bring to work. There is hope!! For decision-makers in startups and growing companies, this episode is a reminder that decisions are best made in a distributed way to benefit from diverse and divergent thinkers.

For past episodes on:

Buurtzorg - healthcare company founded in the Netherlands: https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/376/revolutionizing-health-care-the-buurtzorg-way/ with Jos de Blok

W.L. Gore - leading in a bossless company with Michael Pacanowsky https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/381/leading-in-a-boss-less-company/

Letting go of Control with Kevin O'Brien - a leaders journey https://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/356/letting-go-of-control/

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Moving from force to radical purpose with Jose Leal

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 08:00:14 GMT

Jose Leal is an entrepreneur who reached the stage where corporate environments just didn't work. In this episode, we zoom way out to see the underlying intention of the systems that drive management and employee behavior, to see the roots. However, the simplicity of the solution takes a level of leadership consciousness and inner skills that can shift how people experience work. We cover why some won't make the shift, how young people are leading the way, and explore the honest emotion underpinning the systems in place.

Jose has founded or co-founded six companies. Autonet, his third startup, was acquired by a Canadian media conglomerate, where he became the vice president and GM of the English online division. During that time, Jose was also the vice-chair of the Canadian IAB and was highly involved in the industry. After a hiatus from the traditional startup scene, Jose co-founded Radical, a co-owned and co-managed organization helping people create organizations that meet their needs.

Jose has spent the last several years researching and studying what makes us human and what prompts us to certain actions and choices. "Our vision is a future where the traditional FIAT hierarchy no longer grinds people into submission but rather the new realities of co-management and co-ownership give people and organizations the opportunity to flourish."

The Radical Purpose app is free. Meet and greet your radical purpose.

https://profile.radicalpurpose.org/en/profile

https://www.radicalpurpose.org/

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Design for Identity with Jessica Bantom

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:01:08 GMT

As a designer, Jessica Bantom pays attention to details. Details matter particularly when it comes to connecting to different identities and how customers see themselves. Her newly released book, Design for Identity, aims at influencing design decisions that either bring people in or leave them out resulting in a loss of customers. After all, as Bruce Mau stated, it is not about the world of design, but about the design of the world we live in.

Jessica Bantom is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) practitioner and workplace strategist whose mission is to enable individuals to take immediate actions that create meaningful outcomes for historically excluded people. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Marymount University, Bantom is a skilled management consultant with over 20 years of experience, a compelling speaker, and a certified facilitator and coach with a passion for helping people and organizations activate the values of DEIB to become more culturally competent and thrive in our increasingly global economy. Bantom is also active in the interior design industry as an interior design and color consultant and as an engaged advocate committed to promoting DEIB in the industry and in practice. You can learn more about Jessica and her upcoming book, Design for Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World, at JessicaBantom.com.

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Human-centered Workplaces-The Irish Health Service

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:32:59 GMT

Healthcare services in many nations are under pressure to adapt their design to meet the challenges in today's world. Two exemplary leaders in this challenging field, Margaret Stone and JP Swaine of the Irish Health Service share their experience in working with organizational network analysis and other means to engage the power of people within the 147, 000 employee organization. Starting small and thinking big, both leaders bring leadership skills fit for complex systems.

Margaret Stone is a change maker, leader and believer in empowering staff through a social movement to shape the culture of a health service – and by translating values into behaviors. She has extensive experience in developing and leading programs to enable change in culture in the Irish Health Services. A Social Movement Change Leader and Viral Change fellow with a specific interest in developing and enabling people to their best abilities to improve Health Services.

JP. Swaine is the Culture Transformation Manager with HSE Culture & Engagement and leads nationally on the Values in Action movement in the Health Services in Ireland. Values in Action is a behavior-based social movement in the Irish Healthcare system. JPs diverse experience is grounded in understanding social systems and cognitive psychology. He has worked for many years in the Irish Community Mental Health Services and developed the First Fortnight social enterprise, Irelands Mental Health Arts Charity.

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Cultivating Transformations with Jardena London

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:37:25 GMT

The Inspirational insights podcast is about leading the shift into the future by seeing through diverse perspectives, in relation to what the world of business and beyond needs now in order to regain adaptive agility. This episode features the art of cultivating transformations with author Jardena London. Jardena is a consultant (the good kind), author, speaker and CEO of Rosetta Agile. She has spent the last 30 years finding ways to transform organizations so that our souls can flourish, while our financials thrive. Her book “Cultivating Transformations: A Leader’s Guide to Connecting the Soulful and Practical”, supports this mission by drawing a straight line between the processes we use, the way we feel, and the results we get so we nourish our souls while producing thriving financial outcomes.

Find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jardena/ or her website at https://www.JardenaLondon.com

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Can understanding worldviews reduce polarization? With Kathy Jourdain

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:47:54 GMT

Kathy Jourdain and Jerry Nagel cofounded Worldview Intelligence as an antidote to fragmentation and polarization, inspiring hope and courage for the conversations needed now and for the future. Understanding worldview gives people the power to transform – themselves, their relationships, workplace cultures, and outcomes. Kathy co-authored Building Trust and Relationship at the Speed of Change, the first book describing Worldview Intelligence and its efficacy.

Her work with clients and stakeholders includes strategic direction and operational planning, innovation, community, and cross-cultural engagement, leading change, and building team coherence.

Kathy’s memoir, Embracing the Stranger in Me: A Journey to Openheartedness, has been hailed as a deeply authentic sharing of the journey that has shaped who she is today. Kathy lives in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada.

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Network Science, FabLab and Anti-corruption-A Conversation with Dr. Silvia Fieruascu

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:40:06 GMT

Dr. Silvia Fierascu is an international researcher, trainer and consultant in applied network science. She is Head of OrgMapper Academy at Maven7 Network Research Inc., Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Philosophy and Communication Sciences at West University of Timișoara, Romania, and Founder and Director of a research, development, and innovation lab in social sciences, FabLab - Social Fabrics Research Lab. She earned a PhD in Political Science with a specialization in Network Science from Central European University, and in the past 10 years she has been applying network and data science for positive social impact in business, government, civil society and academia.

She helps organizations translate complex problems into solutions for organizational development, change management, better communication, good governance, public policy, and social impact. In this episode, we talk about the application of network science to understanding organizations, anti-corruption and another current project she has called FabLab!

The insights shared are relevant to anyone curious about how things run beneath the lines of assumptions and serve as a basis for inspired policy and persistent curiosity. Registration is free for the ONA Summit November 16-18th.

Links to subjects covered in our conversation:

- ONA Summit 2022: www.onasummit.com

- OrgMapper: www.orgmapper.com

- FabLab: https://bit.ly/fablab_uvt

- Corruption Risks in Public Procurement Country Profile: https://sites.google.com/e-uvt.ro/silviafierascu/research/state-capture-country-profiles?authuser=2

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Personal Agility with Maria Matarelli and Peter Stevens

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:00:37 GMT

Personal agility is a project inspired by agile philosophy and adapted to how you lead your life. Authors and coaches Maria and Peter talk about the experience people have had working with Personal Agility, and how one simple question opens up reflection, focus and action.

Maria Matarelli is an Executive Agile Coach, Consultant to the Fortune 100, and an international best-selling author. Maria and her team consult businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million-dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion-dollar organizations. Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink and co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy and Personal Agility Institute.

Peter B. Stevens is an Executive, Coach, Author, and Certified Scrum Trainer. He most recently served as Chief Agility Officer at Vivior AG, the Swiss digital health startup, and is co-founder of Agile-Executives.org, Personal Agility Institute, and World Agility Forum. He is an instrument-rated pilot, speaks 4 languages, and lives in Zurich, Switzerland with his family and 3 cats.

Their book is being published by the Business Agility Institute which also publishes the high-quality Emergence magazine. Subscribe and use the code Dawna to receive 10% off.

Personal Agility release date is November 1st, 2022.

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Reinventing Business Schools with Yorkville U's Julia Christensen-Hughes

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:24:36 GMT

In this episode, Julia Christensen Hughes provides an update on the Global Responsible Leadership Initiative's work and speaks to the challenges and the imperative for business schools to reinvent themselves to meet the demands of a changing world and values. The transactional nature of higher education is pivoting to a transformational approach plugged into the context of large global issues like climate change and biodiversity but changing the orientation will take faculty who are fluent in seeing systems and comfortable with being persistently curious.

As President of Yorkville University, Dr. Julia Christensen Hughes plays a ground-breaking role in Canadian higher education, leveraging the full potential of the university’s flexible, accessible and exceptionally small class setting to maximize innovation and student success. Previously on faculty with the University of Guelph, Christensen Hughes has 25 years of progressive academic leadership experience, first as a professor, then as the Founding Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics.

Her published works include the co-edited books: Taking Stock 2.0: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge; Handbook of Human Resource Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries; Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; and Curriculum Development in Higher Education: Faculty-Driven Processes and Practices.

In 2015, Christensen Hughes addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the 700+ international business school signatories to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. She has also received numerous recognitions, including a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award; the Sheffield Award for Excellence in Research from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education; a YMCA Women of Distinction Award; and the University of Guelph’s John Bell Award for distinguished educational leadership.

Find Julia's book on Amazon: Taking Stock 2.0: Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Share this episode with someone you feel will benefit. Special advice for students and faculty is included.

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2 out of 4 of Dawna's books: Decision Making for Dummies, From Hierarchy to High Performance (co-authored with Ozlem Brooke Erol, Doug Kirkpatrick, and others from the Great Work Cultures Network

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Audio: My audio went wonky on this episode so I'm grateful to www.auphonic.com for the use of their app to help with recovery.

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Purpose as a Superpower for People and Planet with Ozlem Brooke Erol

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:09:56 GMT

Ozlem Brooke Erol recognized from her time with IBM that it wasn't enough to go to work every day without some sense of why - a purpose. Moving from her homeland in Turkey to the US offered the opportunity to take purpose to heart. After being surrounded by unhappy people at work, in 2003, she started her first business to guide professionals in having more fulfilling careers. She recognizes the role of leaders in creating inspirational and purpose-driven environments and how that contributes to resiliency from a personal and business experience. She is a best-selling author, speaker, trainer, podcaster, blogger, and facilitator.

Contact her at purposeful.business. Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemerol

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2/4 Books: Decision Making for Dummies, From Hierarchy to High Performance (co-authored with Ozlem Brooke Erol, Doug Kirkpatrick and more from the Great Work Cultures Network

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Returning to the Heart of Business with Marilijn Boumeester

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:31:05 GMT

Driving value through clarity on who you are, what truly matters is what differentiates a company from the crowd. Brand strategist and author Marilijn Boumeester talks to Dawna about integrity, values, leadership, and other soft concepts hard to bring to a meaningful level of experience. The character of leaders, stewardship management, and the value of reflection for insight and clarity are a few of the topics discussed. Marilijn is a brand strategist and change strategist based in Amsterdam. Her work and the conversation touch on what you do as an entrepreneur or company in a new era with your values and the role change plays in dealing with complexity.

We had a lot of fun collaborating on a complexity quiz published in her freshly published book Van hoofdkantoor naar hartszaak. Yes, it is in Dutch but the conversation isn't. Join us for a bit of a fun fireside type of conversation.

Contact Marilijn Boumeester at https://buroboumeester.nl/ or on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/marilijnboumeester

References: Marilijn mentions Rajeev Peshawaria https://rajeevpeshawaria.com/ and Joseph (Jay) Bragdon and his latest book Economies that Mimic Life. Jay is also interviewed in EP4 of this podcast and in the early part of the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes.

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Deeper Leadership to Restore Humanity to Workplaces with Nico Petit

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 03:45:05 GMT

Recently Global Senior Director of Culture Transformation in a Fortune 500 corporation, Nicolas or Nico Petit has pioneered innovative approaches to culture change, applying peer-to-peer behavioral science principles, and orchestrating a community of 1200 influencers worldwide. Passionate about people and data, he led a culture transformation program for GSK, a science-led global health company. Working with Maven7, Nico led a team handling that transformation using the powerful tool Organizational Network Analysis. If the times do not demand it, using organizational network analysis to leverage the accuracy of decision-making definitely raises the leadership bar to a deeper level. Bringing the practical experience of working with the GSK vaccine division to launch a culture transformation program, Nico explains the shift in leadership needed to work cooperatively with 1000 influencers identified through peer-to-peer nomination.

The complexity of the world and organizations offers an opportunity to move past leadership as a position of authority or knowing the right answer. It is about listening and observing through a deeper level of leadership to bring the whole person to work, impacting wellbeing, innovation, diffusion, and delivery. In 2021, Nico launched Humanize, a consultancy boutique aimed at reshaping company cultures and leveraging the power of data to help organizations put humanity back at the center of their operating models.

In this episode, I mention the interview done with Hilton Barbour. Find that here; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-transformation-championing-catalytic-change-gsk-barbour/ More links to resources will be provided in an upcoming Substack Navigating Uncertainty newsletter. Also, check OrgMapper.com for more information.

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Networks Beneath the Surface with Michael Arena, Amazon Web Services

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:23:06 GMT

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a critically important tool for understanding how to use data for better workplace relationships, culture, and decisions. Michael Arena, VP of Talent and Development for Amazon Web Services turns data into a bridge for connecting humanity to better ways of working, deciding, and relating to one another. A keynote speaker at the Organizational Network Analysis Summit hosted by OrgMapper and the team led by Andras Viscek, Michael's passion for data and desire to make optimal decisions benefiting talent and connection stood out. Jump into the conversation where we look at the ways in which understanding networks help leaders move past snap judgments when the environment is complex, to arrive at a more enlightened view.

Author of Adaptive Space and a big fan of ONA, Michael brings a passion and engineer's mind to understanding data and how it can connect people and their collective strength. Michael Arena is the vice president of talent and development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for global talent practices, leadership development, learning, organizational effectiveness, new employee success strategies conducting organizational research to facilitate growth and innovation of AWS. Before that, he was chief talent officer for General Motors Corporation (GM) responsible for enterprise talent management, cultural transformation, leadership development, talent acquisition, and people analytics. His book Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies Are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations, shares how employees can disrupt their workplaces to increase flexibility and adaptive capacity.

The Sloan article Michael refers to in this interview is located here: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/use-networks-to-drive-culture-change/

The ONA Summit was put on by OrgMapper.com. OrgMapper.org is referenced in the podcast. Contact the OrgMapper folks at .com.

Two other episodes to fill in more details are the ones with Maya Townsend and Andras Viscek. Maya's is EP77 and Andras's is EP38.

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2022 Trailer

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 04:07:24 GMT

Inspirational Insights Podcast is guided by the intent to inspire you, whether at home or work to trust more, fear less so you and we can collectively use these times to tap into your deeper self, reinvent workplace relationships, connect to nature’s principles, rethink how power is used, and solve the world’s largest problems from local to global. In this series you’ll meet change-makers who look past surface impressions, stay curious, exploring before deciding. Hosted by organizational ecologist Dawna Jones and author of Decision Making for Dummies, you will gain insights into how to navigate uncertainty with zen-like ease. Support the program through Acast: https://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast

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Facilitating Breakthroughs Between People Who Don't Like Each Other - Adam Kahane

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:20:27 GMT

Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. In this conversation with Dawna Jones, they explore the great mystery and methods for working with people who do not like each other. Adam's is a leading organizer, designer, and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address such challenges. They talk love, justice, and more while referencing Adam's latest book Facilitating Breakthroughs. His previous book, Solving Tough Problems, is referenced by Nelson Mandela as “This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.”

www.reospartners.com/adamkahane

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Regenerative Business in Action with WhatIF Foods Chris Langwallner

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 02:10:20 GMT

In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, we are joined by WhatIF Foods CEO Chris Langwallner! Chris discusses how to create a regenerative business by taking sustainability to the next level: energizing and empowering farmers with insurance crops helps to diversify the food we consume and how we consume them. Thinking globally and acting locally can have huge impacts on how small businesses are working to regenerate hope for the future. Chris also talks about expanding your reach while still taking care of your employees. Human connection is key!

Chris offers:

The key to converting from linear thinking about how business gets done to a system-wide impact view.
How he prioritizes his time given the demands.
Why community relations are critical for everyone, including the business, to succeed.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in starting up companies worldwide. His expertise and unique perspective explain why he has bitten of the challenge of running a regenerative company in the food sector.

This episode includes a discount code for the Business Agility Institute's Emergence magazine by using DAWNA.

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VUCA Masters! Leadership Agility Fitness with Nick Horney and Dr. Kozhi Makai

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:24:49 GMT

VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the conditions of today's leadership environment. Nick Horney, author of recently published VUCA Master: Developing Leadership Agility Fitness for the New World of Work (2021) and special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai talk about:

The value of a shared language when working with VUCA conditions
Anticipating change as an outlook on life
The pillars of fitness agility in working with VUCA conditions
The origins and applicability of VUCA to the boardroom now
The practical application of being VUCA fit as a leader

Dr. Horney founded Agility Consulting in 2001 and has been recognized for innovations in organizational and leadership agility, including The AGILE Model®, VUCA Masters™, Leadership Agility Fitness™, After Action Agility™ and Talent Portfolio Agility™. He also sits on the editorial board for the Business Agility Institute.

Special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai came to the US from Zambia, acquired his doctorate, then joined the US military. He is a VUCA master in every way. Combine Kozhi's real-world experience with Nick Horney's depth of experience in organizational dynamics and leadership agility and it all becomes real and doable at a time when advancing executive skills for VUCA conditions are essential.

The production of this episode is supported by the Business Agility Institute. Subscribe to the Emergence magazine and get a 10% discount using the code DAWNA. That's me! Please share, comment and rate the Inspirational Insights podcast on iTunes, Spotify and your usual platform. Intro music by Mark Romero Music

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Two CEOs working on tech solutions for better decision-making exchange learning

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:59:33 GMT

Two CEOs, both serial entrepreneurs and global citizens, of two different companies, jump on this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, to share what they have learned developing tech solutions to improve decision-making. Meeting for the first time, Soushiant Zanganehpour referred to as Soush, from SWAE, and Kelly Max, from SOLVV, share their pivots, insights, and experience. Each is guided by a different focus but the same goal. How do we upgrade democracy? Soushiant from SWAE and Kelly from SOLVV share their respective experiences in mitigating bias, using data, inviting trust, and engaging users. Tune in for an entertaining discussion on how apps can support social advancement at the personal, company, and governance levels.

At the 8-minute mark, Kelly refers to the DACH market which is shorthand for Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH).

Kelly Max mentioned a SOLVV social podcast that offers perspectives on making democracy work. That link is here: https://solvv.com/solvv/how-to-start-a-revolution-to-make-democracy-work-for-the-21st-century

And another Solvv introducing the SOLVV Social Podcasting: https://solvv.com/solvv/what-is-solvv

Two more links to SOLVVS Medium articles further explain the concept:

A New Way To Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/a-new-way-to-podcast-introducing-solvvs-on-demand-social-podcasting-app-59e672e4c288
What is Social Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/what-is-social-podcasting-71e130d568a6

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Feet on the Ground - Regenerative Agriculture with Tim Gieseke

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:58:57 GMT

In this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast, Dawna Jones is joined by Tim Gieseke to discuss regenerative agriculture and restoring environmental values. Food, fiber, and feed contribute as much value as air and water, and Tim is working to change these perspectives. Land management is changing with generational shifts. We talk about environmental roles and the challenges of soil regeneration. Moving forward has its challenges, but business agility is possible in agriculture!

Tim Gieseke has followed a life and career path around agriculture and environmental issues. He returned to the farm he grew up on and began farming part-time in 1996. He started with row crops and recently converted to a regenerative rotational grazing system. Since 1996 he has also earned an MS in environmental sciences, and worked as a local conservationist, federal farm policy analyst, and owns a consulting business. He also authored three books that cover the spectrum of ecological economics, ecosystem service market development, and shared governance for sustainable working landscapes. He is currently working with a network of a dozen professionals to design an online natural capital accounting system; which he sees as the future foundation to manage and value our landscapes.

Episode sponsored by the Business Agility Institute's Emergence magazine.

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The Futures Project with Dr. Julia Stamm

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:52:40 GMT

How do you want to see your country, the world, nature, planet, people, context, interaction? And how does what you are working on actually contribute to achieving it? These are the questions The Futures Project asks. The challenges humanity face, demand diverse voices and expertise from many corners so pre-Covid international policy advisor Dr. Julia Stamm pulled together The Futures Project. When Covid hit, the organization carried on receiving over 600 applications from change agents worldwide, who keep working to bring solutions that last with or without a pandemic to catalyze inspired innovation. As a policymaker, Dr. Stamm reflects on what it takes to replace short-term focus with an appreciation of the big picture. Her extensive experience in national and international academic institutions and international organizations gives her a unique perspective on where gaps in perception and action intersect.

Julia founded The Futures Project in autumn 2019. She has long-standing leadership and management experience in national and international academic institutions and international organisations, such as COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. In 2017, Julia set up and ran the G20 Think Tank Summit Global Solutions. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland, Australia, a member of the Hertie School Alumni Council and its Academic Senate and a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum for the Future in Nuremberg, Germany.

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Reclaiming Control of Your Personal Health with Olu Ogunlela

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:13:49 GMT

If Covid19 shook up your sense of control over your health and well being you're not alone. Entrepreneur and former professional athlete Olu Ogunlela is the CEO and inspiration behind Liferithms — health tech that allows you to make better choices, get help, and the right kind of support. With health care institutions overwhelmed and beyond burnout in some cases, the opportunity for individuals and companies to design healthier decision-making environments is here. We talk about how and why data-driven decisions can progressively build better habits for strengthened resilience, recovery, and self-efficacy.

Olu Ogunlela is a certified life coach, retired pro-endurance athlete, and co-founder of Liferithms. Olu has 13 years of research experience in the area of behavioral psychology. He has trained individuals and groups on goal achievement and led several corporate training interventions on productivity, time management, work-balance, and peak performance. He also created training materials and developed new methodologies for achieving life, time, and energy management within a framework that was used in the development of the Liferithms platform. Find Olu here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogunlela

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Liberating Education through Technology and Vision with Dwayne Matthews

Fri, 14 May 2021 19:54:40 GMT

Dwayne Matthews has a way of bringing data and visionary insights into the room that flips assumptions about what you think you know about how kids learn. As institutions like education struggle to adapt to the speed of new tech, and disruptions like a global pandemic that force adaption and new ways of working vision is necessary to prepare incumbents and consumers of the system for a better way to get things done. Why do things like Singapore? Why are there more phones in action than are connected to the internet? What happens when students self-direct their own learning and teachers serve as resources, enablers, and sounding boards? These and other questions are explored in this episode.

Find Dwayne at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/ or Tomorrow Now Lab at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/tomorrownow where he asks the question: Are we preparing students for 2019 or 2030?

Dwayne Matthews is a Chief Innovation Evangelist, and Future of Education Strategist who helps school boards, educators and parents understand new and evolving themes in the 21st century, the future of work to prepare children to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital information-driven world. As an XPrize Connect Advisory Board member through the XPrize Connect Future of Learning Lab his goal is to help learners worldwide reach their full potential through an equitable and sustainable future for education and technology.

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Designing the Emerging Future with Ksenia Benifand

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:58:02 GMT

Ksenia Benifand and Dawna Jones talk about how to design for a better future with less waste and more opportunity. The conversation connects Ksenia's work with diverse stakeholders to gain deeper insights about user & ecosystem needs, pinpoint strategic interventions, co-design solutions, and facilitate iterative prototyping, in order to bring a collective vision to tangible on-the-ground projects.

Keywords: circular economy, design change, pandemics, archetypes of emerging future and opportunities that go with it.

Ksenia Benifand has spent her life and professional career navigating liminality - the transitory, in-between state, characterized by ambiguity, messiness, and hybridity. She has been exploring the "edges of change" to gain deeper insights into the drivers of socio-cultural, political, environmental and technological changes and developments. By exploring and experimenting with different narratives, lifestyles and practices, she has gained a unique perspective. Not afraid to test her ideas, she spent over a year living zero-waste and actively participating in and building the sharing economy as part of her research and solution design for transitioning consumer behaviours towards Circular Economy business models. She plays in various contexts to study how human needs, limitations, and capabilities adapt to new and unexplored environments while building community resilience.

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Insights Hidden in Organizational Networks - Maya Townsend

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:36:37 GMT

Beneath the surface executives and employees see, runs a hidden network of real influence. Episode 77 with Maya Townsend explores how dynamic these networks are, why this is valuable to decision-makers in dispelling bias, revealing emergent strategy and engaging more power from inside the company.

Guest Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources, helps individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in our networked world. She works with corporations, communities, and nonprofits to help develop strategy, mobilize networks, and influence change. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM), her writing on networks, change, and business ecosystems have appeared in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other publications. She is a certified Deep Democracy practitioner and leads professional chocolate tastings in her free time.

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Roche Sweden's Transformation Journey with Christian Feinberg

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:21:32 GMT

Global pharmaceutical company Roche tasked its global affiliates with transforming their operation giving them the freedom to decide how to and how much. Roche Sweden Transformation Lead Christian Feinberg talks about how they iteratively shifted from command-and-control to an environment that allowed people at all levels of operations to bring their best self to work.

Christian Feinberg is the transformation lead and current enabling team coach for multiple therapeutic areas at Roche Sweden. Before Roche, Christian was part of Pfizer / Pharmacia Pharmaceutical for eight years. His personal mission is to support and develop people to be their best selves in order to deliver outstanding value for Swedish patients. Our conversation covers principles, the power of purpose and the systems and processes that had to change to allow people to be engaged in all conditions.

Aso watch the webinar sponsored by CRISP Sweden, hosted by Mathias Holmgren that inspired this conversation with Christian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPqBYpXwko

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Digital Transformation in HR and Beyond

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:54:26 GMT

Soumyasanto Sen is an Advisor and Leader in Digital HR, Workforce Transformation, Technologies, and Analytics, ranking among the top global Influencers and thought leaders in HR Technology, Transformation, and People Analytics. A well-known keynote speaker, Soumya is also the Founder of the Management Advisory firm People Conscience based in Frankfurt, Germany and the author of Digital HR Strategy: Achieving Sustainable Transformation in Digital Age and co-author of The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society. Soumyasanto lays out the blindside and missing gaps organizations face in adapting to digital transformation - an opportunity to think and do things differently.

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Making Sense of 2020- Insights and Opportunities in 2021

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:32:53 GMT

Each person, each company responded differently to 2020. In this special episode, Dawna reflects back on what a global pandemic invites us to do as decision-makers, whether it is personal, or in a business professional role.

She covers linear decision making, bifurcation, shifting consciousness, the value of adapting to work with complex systemic issues and the opportunities ahead to develop resiliency and self-efficacy.

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How to Hire for the Meaning and Self-Engagement that Make Us Resilient in Pandemics and at Work

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:20:00 GMT

In the first of this series on using Covid to advance business thinking and doing, High Performance Story founder Cameron Powell draws on his own experience with adversity, and the importance of meaning, to explain why the way companies search for talent actively filters out talent, as well as diversity and innovation - and why adversity is a good teacher for unpredictable times. “You can’t find the growth mindset of innovators,” he says, “from the fixed mindset of today’s hiring.”

In this provocative, contrarian, and wide-ranging conversation, you’ll learn:

Why the capacity to manage scary uncertainty - evident in the courageous non-conformity of artists, deep readers, meditators, and entrepreneurs - is absolutely critical to creativity and innovation
Why we should focus on underlying strengths - strategy, empathy, problem-solving - instead of taking lazy shortcuts of asking for specific credentials
Why the self-employed are masters at the self-engagement and autonomous work that’s crucial to working remotely
Why using applicant tracking systems to scan resumes can be “the biggest con” in talent, offering us the illusion we’ve discerned things worth discerning
Why “prior experience” ignores learning in, passion for, or even success in an experience - but actively filters out diversity of thought and innovation
Why HR needs more of just about every background but MBAs and people with HR credentials
Why cover letters should ask candidates to focus on how they get into the Flow state

Cameron is a founding member of Humancentric Labs, a consultancy specializing in freeing up human potential for maximum worker engagement and productivity. Cameron has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Cameron recently published Ordinary Magic: Promises I Made My Mother Through Life, Illness, and a Very Long Walk.

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Using the Covid Interruption to Rethink and Cocreate Resilience and Adaptive Ability

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:38:44 GMT

COVID 19 is a wake-up call that reminds us that we are part of the living system and it is showing us how ill prepared we are to adapt to uncertainty. While some companies have taken the higher ethical road, others have made short-term decisions that will likely not recover from. We are at a critical time to adapt our intelligence, to meet the complexity of these issues and the uncertainty of them.

The COVID virus has exactly the same characteristics as climate change does. COVID is much more immediate, but it's having exactly the same impact on how decisions get made and whether they get made understanding impact and system-wide effects. It has an impact on strategy, how we think about where we're going and what we're doing. It has an impact on humanity and the relationship between humanity and the living world, which is a profound and critically important connection that is long been broken.

We are in the midst of what is known as a systems level bifurcation.

Systems theorist. Ervin Laszlo says we are at a split in the evolutionary trajectory. I quote,

"there are laws of complexity, including laws of the evolution of complexity that apply to all systems. A nonlinear system level transformation called a bifurcation is one such law. A bifurcation indicates a change, a radical change in the evolutionary trajectory. Of the system, but a time will come when such a linear evolution is no longer possible. The system faces a stark alternative, transform or collapse. This is the point of bifurcation."

This is the moment that we are in. It's an exciting time because it invites us to change our decision-making from linear, which has caused enormous waste and a negative impact on society to impact based decision-making based on recognizing and respecting the systemic effects. It is having an impact on the assumptions that we make underlying how we hire people, how, people are treated.

In this series, I'll be introducing and interviewing different people bringing different perspectives on what opportunities business has and you have to really adjust thinking to adapt to the complex times were in and to take advantage of the moment to co-create better solutions that allow for humans to bring them whole selves to work, to express their talent, their creative talent, and to work with complex issues, respecting their character and their nature. Complex issues do not respond well to linear approaches. I invite you then to join as we learn from this simple virus which may have brought enough of a pattern interruption to allow us to rethink and reinvent what we want in the world and to co-create it together.

My name is Dawna Jones. You can find me on LinkedIn at DawnaHJones or on From insight to action.com

My work involves adapting decision-making to meet complex situations, emergent strategy where we don't have a clear picture of the end point anymore, transforming organizations using complexity principles, which are far more effective and provoke, different ways of thinking and ways of making sense of situations.

Join me on this series.

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500%: How Two Pioneers in Self-Leadership Achieved an Unbelievable Increase in Productivity

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:09:52 GMT

Andrew Holm Julian Wilson and Dawna Jones met in 2015 when Dawna was nomadically wandering Europe in search of management innovators. The morning spent resulted in their first podcast so in this one, after the publication of book #2 Dawna and Andrew dive deeper into the temptations of transformation, how to meet the messiness of switching out a business model while measuring increases to customer service, quality, price and value. Steering their decisions using data, we talk about the dangers of relying on data alone, and the man in the mirror conversations when self-leadership and self-management meet. Designed on the building blocks of natural systems we cover how Matt Black achieved a 500% in productivity while believing it wasn't possible.

Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/500-transformed-productivity-self-leading-organisation-ebook/dp/B08HJLWHXH

And the first interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-road-to-self-management/id1006636782?i=1000441169724

Podcast Intro music courtesy of Mark Romero Music. Alignment.

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Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:49:47 GMT

Teams need diversity and care to perform well says Diana Larsen. In this conversation Diana talks about the relevance of Agile Fluency beyond the boundaries of teams reaching into social issues like racial inequity. Diana talks about fear being the driver of American business culture and conflict avoidance the greatest threat to society. In avoiding the trust and skills to learn from conflict is the US escalating the tension to violence? In the context of a pandemic and forest fires in Oregon, Diana shares her view on how what is being on with teams applies to wider issues.

Find Diana at AgileFluency.org

Intro music by Mark Romero at MarkRomeroMusic.com

Host: Dawna Jones

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Dynamics of Collaboration with Jan De Visch

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:33:07 GMT

Jan De Visch is an executive professor of Organizational and Human Capital at Flanders Business School whose research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure and sustainable growth. His work assesses the extent to which top teams can flexibly adapt their business models and strategy execution to changes in their environment. As founder and managing director of ConnectTransform, his practice focuses on strengthening collaborative intelligence using levers for strategy execution. https://connecttransform.be/

Jan has developed two products: The Thinking Game found on the website and the Dynamic Collaboration Software App https://dynamiccollaboration.app/

In this conversation, Jan talks about "we" spaces, human development as a determinant for collaboration and transformation, explaining the nuances of transforming and execution in organizations. Inspired by individuals sourced in complexity, epistemology, process consultation and constructive adult development, Jan links those inspirations directly to the work of adapting to dynamic conditions. His new book is Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams. Springer, 2020.

Twitter: @jandevisch
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-de-visch-469580/

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The Grit Factor with Shannon Huffman Polson

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:26:49 GMT

Raised in Alaska, Shannon Huffman Polson climbed Denali at age 19 then went on to become one of the US Army's first female attack helicopter pilots. In this episode, she talks about what grit is, decision making leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the difference between purpose in the military and purpose in the corporate world and why we need everyone's capacity to contribute at the table. Now.

Head over to ShannonPolson.com or thegritinstitute.com for more information.

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Observations on COVID, Complexity and Care w Richard Atherton

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:11:25 GMT

Richard Atherton, host of the Being Human, First Human podcast and Dawna talk about what he's learned from his guests about a range of topics: dealing with Covid, complexity, how grounding and other outlier concepts bring stability to people and how all this helps in his work supporting companies and executives through transformation. Find Richard at https://www.firsthuman.com/meet-the-team/

Richard Atherton interviewed Dawna on Being Human Episode #105: Life Interrupted https://youtu.be/LOsIoDwjUpE

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How Indigenous Wisdom Can Save the World with Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:56:57 GMT

Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta is the author of Sand Talks: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In this conversation Dawna talks to Dr. Yunkaporta about complexity, diversity, the structure of commerce, the butterfly effect of Dutch explorers landing at Cape York; and that's just to get started. The source of trauma, role of authority, distributed cognition and more in an engaging exchange that we hope you'll find interesting. Dr. Yunkaporta is from the Apalech clan in Western Cape York, Northern Queensland. Sand Talks is available now through online booksellers.

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Intro music by Mark Romero Music

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Chasing Black Unicorns with Entrepreneur Marek Zmysłowski

Fri, 15 May 2020 18:37:56 GMT

Well known Polish internet entrepreneur Marek Zmysłowski documents the wild ride of starting up companies in Poland and in Nigeria. Fortunately he has a fairly high level of comfort with chaos. The author of Chasing Black Unicorns talks about the value of crisis, and the worst setback he's experienced out of many. He shares information he learned about the biology of executive decision-making and weighs in on the question, Does Africa need aid post-Covid? We also talk about the value of crisis and learning from working in a foreign culture working with different unwritten rules. All proceeds from sales and speaking about the book go to charity. See http://www.ChasingBlackUnicorns.com for more information.

The podcast intro music is generously provided by Mark Romero of Mark Romero Music. Mark's music restores coherence to the body.

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Recovering from COVID Trauma with Terry Earthwind Nichols

Fri, 01 May 2020 23:37:50 GMT

Front line workers who face risk every moment and people who depend on certainty for their personal security had the rug pulled out with COVID. Apart from shining the light on systemic issues, like the readiness of the health care system, there is a personal cost and opportunity. Terry Earthwind Nichols is the founder of Evolutionary Healer. He has developed a back door method for neutralizing trauma that bypasses the typical defence systems protecting the wound. We talk about the role of indigenous traditions in understanding trauma and the value of clearing out the emotional hard drive to achieve more functionality. Terry's books are on Amazon. The one he mentions in the conversation is Profiling for Profit. His website is www.evolutionaryhealer.com

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Uncertainty+Ambiguity: Lessons from US Military with Colonel John O'Grady

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:02:14 GMT

While the world is grappling with Covid-19 and the widespread interruption, decisions are being made. Some are compassionate and some make things worse. John O’Grady is a 30-year vet with the US military. Military training and experience is made for Coronavirus like environments where there is a high level of uncertainty, you’re working with unknown variables, ambiguity and dynamic situations.

In this discussion with Dawna, Colonel O' Grady demonstrates box breathing and talks about the neuroscience-based tools used whether dealing with your teenage daughter or in combat environments. We talk about how this applies to executive decisions today and why this is a golden moment for every person to adapt to a changing decision-making context that won't return to business as usual.

John is now the Founder and Owner of, O’Grady Leadership Consulting Services, where he works with high performing and high potential individuals, executives, coaches, players, teams and organizations to become the very best version of themselves. Find him at strategicleadersacademy.com Email john.ogrady@strategicleadersacademy.com

Opening music is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: Music for Peak Performance

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Self-Management Around the World with Pim de Morree

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:47:17 GMT

Co-founders of Corporate Rebels Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar quit their jobs and went wandering to seek out companies where work was fun and brought creative value to the world. Building their Bucket List they visited manufacturing, retail, financial services plus a company doing the most innovative transformational work in Spain; a company that had successfully transformed seventy companies. In Pim's conversation with Dawna you'll learn what makes a transformation from traditional management to self-management successful, the focus self-managed companies have that releases freedom to employees and insights to apply to your workplace. Corporate Rebels have released a book called, wait for it! Corporate Rebels. Learn more at Corporate-Rebels.com.

Intro music is by Mark Romero of Mark Romero Music

Host is Dawna Jones who supports leaders at all levels in going beyond limits and working with blind spots.

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Viisionairs Changing the World of Finance - Tom van der Lubbe

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:36:55 GMT

Tom van der Lubbe is the cofounder of Viisi, a Dutch mortgage advisory firm on a mission to change finance. Powered by intrinsic inspiration, Tom and his colleagues have drawn from self-management pioneers and alternative models to craft a way of working and serving that is unique to Viisi and the financial sector.

Every inspired, purpose driven business has a compelling Why sourced in the life experience of the founder and Viisi is no exception. Tom shares his pivotal epiphany during the episode. For more on Viisi see https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/ Tom can be found on LinkedIn. You can also read about the visit Corporate Rebels made to Viisi in their blog post Employees First, Customers Second, Shareholders Last.

Intro music on the podcast is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: a short clip from a harmonic track called Alignment.

The host, Dawna Jones, can be found on LinkedIN.

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Adapting Organizations Through Org.Design with Paul Tolchinsky

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:06:44 GMT

Paul Tolchinksy is a co founder of the European Organizational Design Forum and managing partner of Performance Design Associates, a small boutique international consulting firm based in Scottsdale Arizona. His extensive experience in organizational design incorporates the early work done in Whole Scale Change. Clients bring him in when they want to hear the truth and are ready to move forward.

Paul and Dawna had this conversation in Madrid, Spain at the Choices Conferences hosted by Cocoon Projects in October 2019.

We talk about the difference between design and development, when organizational design applies, how to know when (or if) to stop paying attention, communication and decision-making.

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The No Limits Enterprise with Doug Kirkpatrick

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 23:05:40 GMT

Doug Kirkpatrick was part of MorningStar Self-Management when it began and is a pioneer in restoring autonomy to work. How work gets done is undergoing a makeover as complexity pressures companies to rely less on authority and more on engagement. We talk about the role of free will, the use of power in traditional versus self-management governance, overall trends going on in the world, and why self-management practices benefit traditional companies as well.

With the move to #HumansFirst and a logical and sensible approach to treating people as adults comes a higher level of explicit commitments to how decisions are made, and how initiative is required and supported. Doug's insights give anyone dissatisfied with their working environment a way to move forward no matter what role you are in.

Doug's latest book is the No Limits Enterprise published by Forbes and available on Amazon world-wide and Barnes and Noble plus regular book sellers.

Intro music is by Mark Romero Music.

Host is Dawna Jones - FromInsightToAction.com

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Operational Implications of Digital Transformation with Bill Sanders

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:10:28 GMT

Bill Sanders is the founder and managing director of Roebling Strauss, a business transformation and process innovation consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. A co-author of From Hierarcy to High Performance Bill specializes in helping operations adapt and implement strategy. In this episode he and host Dawna Jones explore the challenges and ways to implement a strategy for addressing digital transformation so that a company can remain viable as the economic and market environment changes. They also talk about how companies place additional stress on employees by being unaware of the complex interrelationships embedded in the demands to deliver, remain agile and perform the day to day in the face of metrics that work against implementation.

They explore:

The importance of paying attention to digital transformation.
Why much human potential is not being tapped by existing company practices and how to change that
Why being busy doesn't drive productivity or priorities
How to ensure strategy does not get buried by day to day
Where the conflict in priorities exists between day to day and digital transformation.

Prior to establishing Roebling Strauss, Bill held executive positions at Publicis Dialog and Real Branding. Bill was a founding member of ROCG Consulting, and helped launch and later ran the first ecommerce site for Mattel Interactive.

Bill has helped more than 200 organizations, including such global brands as Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Mills, Lipton, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and WebEx. He’s conducted business in three continents, is a past president of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, and has published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and provides commentary in the media on issues in organizational culture, productivity, and innovation.

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Designing Workplaces to Support Healthy Human Interaction- Ricardo Peralta and Vladic Roskin

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 03:06:33 GMT

Have you ever walked into a workplace, perhaps yours, and felt 'off'? Or noticed that you feel better when you're not at work? Architects Ricardo Peralta and Vladic Roskin are dedicated to changing that feeling by designing workspaces people love. By paying attention to sound, light, flow, green spaces and the tone and mood, they've found that companies benefit. In this conversation we talk about environmental physics and how you design workspaces as a strategic decision.

Healthy human interaction relies not just on personal and interpersonal skills but also on the way the space supports interaction. In Decision Making for Dummies I included the reported statistic from a large drug manufacturer that decision-making speed and accuracy improved 47% when consideration was given to people flow.

Vladic Roskin is an architect who believes that, at its best, architecture has the unparalleled ability to implicitly influence our behaviours - how we feel, think and engage with others. He is the co-founder at design and innovation consultancy Places People Love that supports leaders in transforming their organizations, environments and people by understanding human interactions with technology, culture and physical space. Fascinated by the various ways our built environment can stimulate a deeper engagement with ourselves and others, Vladic has cultivated a deep passion for human nature enriched by nearly a decade of architectural design experience. His collaborations with renowned architects, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social enterprises resulted in successful projects in the private and public sphere.

Vladic holds a masters degree in engineering sciences and architecture and is on a life-long quest to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. His work is supported by a decade of research and personal experiences living across cultures, travelling to awe-inspiring places and encounters with visionary individuals.

Ricardo Peralta is an architect and an urban planner passionate about integrating different disciplines with ancient wisdom to create spaces that nurture and heal. His explorations have led him from design to interdisciplinary healing forms; from organizational strategy to deeper practices of spiritual development. He has participated in the design of numerous large-scale projects, residential and commercial developments, office complexes, eco-resorts, eco-communities, and retreat centers. He was also part of a team that created three entirely new cities based on an innovative holistic approach to urban planning and wellbeing.

Ricardo sees architecture as an instrument to connect to one's soul and spirit, enjoys life's celebration, treasures the warmth of a hug, and strives to live a life rooted in the wisdom of the heart. Ricardo has consulted for projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe.

He is the other co-founder at design & innovation consultancy Places People Love.

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Forward Future Work Cultures for Great Mondays with Josh Levine

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:28:34 GMT

Great work cultures don't just happen. As a leading indicator of adaptability, paying attention to the six components of great work cultures helps you and your company avoid the slippery slope into confusion that takes place when company growth fails to match cultural health. Author of Great Mondays, Josh Levine, talks to host Dawna Jones about why relationships are synapses of culture, why culture is bigger than ping pong tables, and how to design your culture to engage. Part workbook, Josh also offers a framework for continuously evolving immediately applicable.

Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.com

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Battle4Humanity-Engaging Young People in Tackling Big Issues

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:58:25 GMT

Battle4Humanity is a social movement and mobile game that takes you into superhero zone by participating in making the world better. Complete a mission and transform your community. Jessica Murrey is the inspiration behind Battle4Humanity. She talks to Dawna about the three key ways ordinary people can team up to do extraordinary things.

Jessica Murrey is an awarding-winning communications specialist and common ground activist. She is the creative mind behind Battle for Humanity, a mobile game designed to forge real-life heroes. Jess specializes in social change communication, awareness campaigns, and getting in the audience’s head. At age 24, She received a Northwest Regional Emmy for Community Service for her lead role in “Don’t Turn Away,” an anti-child abuse media campaign. Months later, her PSA “Meth Mirror” won Oregon Association of Broadcasters' Award for “Best PSA 2012”. Since then, she spent four years running Search for Common Ground’s global communication department. During that time, she established new organizational branding, messaging, internal systems of content gathering and distribution, and strengthened programs’ capacity in storytelling, social media, and brand creation. She has developed communication strategies and awareness campaigns for projects from Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria to Myanmar, and major international events like the Global Forum on Youth Peace and Security. Most recently, Jessica returned from giving a Social Change Communication training in Colombia around mobilizing citizens towards reconciliation in a post-conflict situation.

Learn more about Battle4Humanity at http://www.Battle4Humanity.com

This is a time when more than ever together we can strengthen our humanity in the face of forces that would suppress it. Taking charge of how each person responds to conflict constructively will make a difference to how we treat and see each other in the world. - Dawna Jones

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Flipping Negative Stories About Young People and Violence into the Truth

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:24:16 GMT

While people flee violence in their home nations, young people are pressured to join in leaving many to conclude they are the perpetrators. Saji Prelis breaks open a lot of assumptions about the source of conflict, who the victims are statistically, and sheds light on how technology has formed a violence of exclusion particularly in the key decisions impacting the lives of young people. Young people are choosing to stay in their home nations, even in the face of peril to build a future of hope from within. In this conversation you will hear their stories and what is being done around the world for humans to do a better job of handling their differences.

Guest Lakshitha Saji Prelis is the Co-Chair, UN-INGO-Donor Inter-Agency Working Group, Youth and Peacebuilding; Director, Children & Youth Programs, Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. Six years ago he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-INGO--Donor working group on Youth and Peacebuilding that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Prior to joining SFCG, he was the founding director of the Peacebuilding & Development Institute at American University where he co-developed training curricula exploring the nexus of peace building with development.

Find the resource list here: http://www.frominsighttoaction.com/flipping-negativ…ce-truth-podcast/

Saji Prelis has served as an adviser to governments and governmental agencies in over a dozen countries. He has also played an advisory role to the Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Ministers on youth and peacebuilding. In June 2017, Mr. Prelis received the distinguished Luxembourg Peace Prize for his Outstanding Achievements in Peace Support. Follow him on Twitter: @Networkforyouth

Links mentioned in this episode include: Search for Common Ground: https://www.sfcg.org/

SFCG tools and resources: https://www.sfcg.org/children-and-youth/

Soliya: https://www.soliya.net/

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How Young Entrepreneurs are Rebuilding Afghanistan's Economy

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:06:14 GMT

Afghanistan is associated with conflict world-wide yet inside young entrepreneurs are laying the foundation to restore hope and prosperity through entrepreneurial initiatives. The co-founders of a co-working space in Kabul, Sher Shah Rahim and Matiullah Rahmaty share the opportunities on the path. They talk about the solution to funding shared with startups worldwide and provide insights into what is needed to support their success. Matiullah is also a co-founder of impACT, another episode on this podcast.

Matiullah Rahmaty is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum, cofounder of impACT – a social entrepreneurship network for countries in conflict or post conflict and cofounder of CoWorthy and Brightpoint. Sher Shah Rahim is CEO of a private company called IAP, Co-founder of Tamveel and CoWorthy and is also on a Jury at World Summit Awards UN. You can learn more about them through their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/coworthy/

Any authors or generous people willing to help fill the CoWorthy library please contact Mati and Sher through Facebook or contact Dawna for the mailing address.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights and decision-making leadership.

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Supporting Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones & Emerging Economies- Anurag Maloo

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:33:38 GMT

Anurag Maloo is an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect who supports entrepreneurs inspired by hope to transcend very challenging conditions to rebuild economies. Regional Manager for South & Central Asia with Techstars and Startup Weekend, he is responsible for the cultivation and sustained growth of vibrant startup ecosystems in India, SAARC nations (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives) and Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). He is incredibly passionate about fostering entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem, grassroots leadership, and building strong collaborative startup communities.

In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Anurag shares what makes him tick and how he approaches communities and people ready to do something different even when in the context of war or conflict.

None of this is easy which is why Anurag attracts people who hold hope for a better future, and willing to do what it takes. In some countries living is high risk illustrated by the recent death of Startup Grind's Chapter host in Mogadishu Somalia, Mohamed Sheikh Ali, who was gunned down. As chapter host he did inspiring work to support entrepreneurs.

Facing To tough situations takes courage, vision and empathy in order to work together to create better options that transcend existing conditions. Yet that is what it takes in emerging economies and for citizens in countries working to a future with greater hope. If you haven't already listened to the impACT interview please do.

You will find Anurag Maloo on social media channels listed here: tps://about.me/anuragmaloo

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights that activate the power of the human spirit to work creatively with designing a future with hope and connection to what matters.

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How 9 Years of Homelessness Evolved My Consciousness - Dawna Jones

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:14:37 GMT

How can living without a home for nine years restore a broader consciousness level and be at peace. Author, speaker, podcast host, workshop leader in the field of transformational insights three months ago landed a home after nine years of homelessness and nomadic wandering. This is what she learned and how it is relevant to business.

This episode takes you into the story of treating yourself as a startup by exploring

What Otto Scharmer's leading from the emergent future looks like when you are nomadic
How societal expectations and the weight of judgement suppress human potential and true leadership
What steps help to work with resilient moments and avoid depression
Why the three areas of balance in a startup applied to being human and finding your way in uncertain confusing territory
What do you do when the rules of the game of life prove to be wrong.

On the second of two personal episodes Dawna walks you through how she became homeless and why it served to return her to a unified place of consciousness and be at peace with chaos.

"Knowledge and expanded consciousness exists outside of belief"

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Sticking to Purpose with Dawna Jones and Anurag Maloo

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:48:36 GMT

Anurag Maloo is an an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect. In this episode he interviews the host of the Evolutionary Provocateur and the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones on her personal journey, sacrifices, the meaning of friends and staying true to purpose. In early 2002-2004 Dawna shifted her role from facilitating change to facilitating leadership and broader consciousness to support ethical decision making. Things did not go according to plan but the experience has been mind expanding and a process of aligning with personal power. Anurag and Dawna chat about the personal story people don't often see behind the scenes.

Dawna Jones specializes in seeing what others don't - insights that allow for a shift in perspective, clearing of blocks and barriers to human and organizational potential. She is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo and co-author of From Hierarchy to High Performance. Her work engages deeper aspects of human intelligence to move collectively forward on the large complex issues that face companies and the planet through ethical decision-making and bold leadership.

Find Dawna on Twitter at EPDawna_Jones, LinkedIN and FromINsightToAction.com

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Beyond Budgeting with Franz Röösli

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:52:21 GMT

Beyond Budgeting Round Table offers companies exploring how to transform their company governance a place where they can find engaging workplaces, individual autonomy and peer-to-peer support. Franz Röösli explains the background of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, a practitioner and science community that has developed the Beyond Budgeting approach in the last twenty years as a pioneering agile mindset and a framework for action. With host Dawna Jones they also talk about the need for mature leaders who are conscious enough (age is irrelevant), to inspire their organizations for a transformative journey into a future to stay viable and relevant. In that part they also include the finance sector a bit more specifically.

Prof. Franz Röösli, Ph.D. is head of the Center for Enterprise Development at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He researches, teaches and advises companies in the fields of organizational design, leadership and strategy.

At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (www.bbrt.org), an international practitioner and research community that deals with questions of future-oriented leadership and organization and has developed the Beyond Budgeting leadership and organizational approach.

Before joining university, Franz Röösli worked for many years in management positions in SMEs and large companies. See https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/zue/upload/Beyond_Budgeting_as_a_mindset_and_a_framework_for_action.pdf for more information.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in releasing imperceptible blocks to company transformation while advancing leaders decision making skills and mindset to lead transformation successfully.

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Counterintuitive Insights into Why Agile Reduces Risk

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:03:00 GMT

Companies world-wide are adopting agile for development and to accelerate adaptability to business conditions. Seen from a traditional view of how things get done, Agile appears to take short cuts or take longer when a short cut will do. Authors of Agile Methods for Safety Critical Systems Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker combine their diverse areas of expertise to reduce safety risks in the medical device field.

The insights offered in this conversation inform change agents why Agile is a mindset and why it makes self-management easier to implement well. With host Dawna Jones, Brian and Nancy also explain what differentiates Agile implemented well from ‘fake’ Agile, where the vocabulary is learned but the practices stay rooted in traditional management styles. Offering plenty of real examples of companies built to adapt quickly Nancy and Brian have learned how to spot companies that are pretending from companies committed to reducing risk and increasing collaboration.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an electronics and software engineer for medical, aerospace, industrial applications. She was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems work. Nancy has been coaching Agile teams and managers since 1998.

Brian Shoemaker is an independent validation consultant to FDA-regulated companies, with a background in medical devices, clinical diagnostics and software quality management.

Nancy’s Website: (Lean-Agile Partners)http://leanagilepartners.com

Brian’s website: (ShoeBar Associates) http://www.shoebarassoc.com/

Book web site:http://agilemethodsforsafetycriticalsystems.com

Intro music is by Mark Romero Music.com

Dawna can be contacted through www.FromINsighttoAction. T: EPDawna_Jones or on LinkedIn.

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Implementing Holacracy with Dennis Wittrock

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:04:57 GMT

Dennis Wittrock of encode.org shares a case study of Hypoport, a fintech company that opted to implement Holacracy. Despite the assumption that Holacracy is flat and unstructured it is the opposite. Dennis walks us through the process of moving from deciding on self-management to implementing it in a company with many moving parts, growing through acquisition and diverging cultures. What each self-managed governance model brings is an explicit structure that enables stronger peer-to-peer relationships. Included in Holacracy and Sociocracy 3.0 is using tensions as a means to work with conflicting zones. Related interviews are found on my previous podcast either on iTunes or the last twenty are posted on www.management-issues.com/eprovoc and on EP15 of this podcast with Tom Tomison.

Dennis Wittrock, M.A., Holacracy Coach at Hypoport, partner at encode.org, founder of Integral Europe, founder and former co-director of the IEC 2014 and 2016, served 5 years as CEO and board member of Integrales Forum and the Integral Academy in Germany. His purpose is to create spaces for the emergence of integral consciousness. www.integral-con-text.de Our conversation took place just before the European Integral Conference.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics and perceiving systems result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #facilitator #podcaster

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Social Entrepreneurship Driving Global Change - Meet impACT

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:00:00 GMT

The Global Challenges Foundation inspired change agents worldwide to collaborate on a fresh strategy and approach for facing the biggest risk humanity faces. No group illustrates that better than impACT, a global network of social entrepreneurs who are combining their vision to achieve what most would prefer to think is impossible.

In this discussion with host Dawna Jones you will meet:

Matiullah, a visionary Afghan who believes in Entrepreneurship and social change,

A'laa, a young Lebanese entrepreneur on a social mission,

Nicole, a published author, social entrepreneur, co-founder of the impACT movement and guest expert on the topic of power dynamics in the international context at Freie University in Germany and,

Tobias whoworks as advisor innovation manager at GIZ, a German enterprise providing international cooperation and development services, while pursuing a startup that connects the private sector with academia. Views expressed are his own.

Together they share with you the origins of impACT and its role in offering a fresh narrative for young people infused with positive energy and hope through social entrepreneurship succeeding in different contexts world-wide, conflict, post-conflict and no conflict.

Less than a year old, imPACT is rapidly building momentum toward being a force in citizen engagement and in particular, in the role of entrepreneurs in to provide power to the people, especially minorities who are becoming role models for leadership. Diversity makes it work. For more info go to: https://m.facebook.com/impACTheworld/

Host Dawna Jones designs change strategies that reach deep into intrinsic motivations to transform from one state to a higher state restoring ethical decisions and care for all life. #decisions #conscious leadership #transcendence

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Global Challenges-Designing a Better Future

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:55:08 GMT

Last year the Global Challenges Foundation launched a contest for the design of a better governance model for handling the tough issues posing the greatest risk to the survival of humanity and the health of the earth. Sponsored by Swedish billionaire Laszlo Szombatfalvy the prize fund of $5 million inspired responses from 2700 participants from 122 nations world-wide. The award of 3 finalists out of 14 identified took place May 27-29th in Stockholm. Dawna was there participating in the workshops with other committed change agents from countries all over the world.

In this episode, Dawna shares what happened, what is next and what kinds of conversations took place. For more information go to the https://globalchallenges.org/ website.

Intro music to the podcast is contributed by Mark Romero Music.

Host Dawna Jones is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, speaker, and designer of transformational processes particularly in complex systems.

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Aim2Flourish-Stories of Business Innovators with Claire Sommer

Sat, 19 May 2018 00:12:54 GMT

In 2014 at the Business as Agents of World Benefit conference in Cleveland's Case Western University a design lab launched Aim2Flourish. Business students and schools all over the world gathered stories of companies who were doing things differently. As of this episode one thousand stories have been gathered. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Claire Sommer - the Director of Aim2Flourish - shares:

The story of an innovative bakery providing brownies in Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

What business students are learning in answer to the question: Can business really marry profit and purpose?

One Swiss health agency's approach to decreasing isolation.

How gathering inspiring stories changes the lives and mindset of business students.

Closing the schism between business just being made for profit and the potential to do good in the world.

How a strengths based approach shifts focus and outlook.

Claire Sommer is a professional writer who has taken on the role of Director of AIM2Flourish, an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University. Learn more at AIM2Flourish.com. Roberta Baskin, the previous director, was a guest on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast, Dawna's previous podcast.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems by working with the human spirit and tech. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics; perceiving systems together with transformational know-how result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #podcaster

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Participatory Governance Starts with Autonomy with Laurent Ledoux

Fri, 04 May 2018 21:54:56 GMT

Laurent Ledoux has been implementing what we now call participatory governance for years in the financial sector and in the public sector. Isaac Getz and Frederik Laloux are peers and it is thanks to Isaac that this episode talks about how to implement participatory governance in the public and private sector. Laurent brings practical how-to information on working with hierarchical constraints, distributing decision making and autonomy to the extent possible and on his role transforming companies to green-teal models(F. Laloux) and liberating leadership (Isaac Getz).

We talk about how to get started, the simplicity of principled decision making as a transformational means to create a psychologically safe workplace, how to respect the intrinsic equality of all through practical measures like cleaning up salary inequities, finding the sweet spot for personal growth, revamping training and a more human role for HR. What happens when you treat employees like adults? That's only one of many insights you'll hear in this episode where we also talk about the role of boundaries in achieving liberties and why working on yourself holds the highest power in transforming organizations. When Laurent talks about liberating organizations he means from the ego of managers. That's powerful and profound!

Laurent Ledoux has twenty-five years general management experience as CEO, BU Manager, HRM, Financial Director; in private, public & not-for-profit sectors; for small, medium or large (1.000 +) organizations; in Western & Eastern Europe, and Africa; ten years experience in reinventing (Laloux) & liberating (Getz) organizations: as CEO; led 3 TEAL turn arounds. Has taught executive classes & facilitating public events (mainly on business ethics, CSR & leadership) for ten years. He is fluent in seven languages. In this conversation he talks about his time at the Federal Ministry of Mobility and Transportation implementing autonomy and participatory governance. His current focus is on transforming companies and turning around companies in crisis ethically and through principles that generate psychological safety.

Dawna Jones, podcast host, provides insight to business decision makers to strengthen accuracy and opportunity for greater agility in complex environments. She brings a holistic view and profound insights to leaders and decision-makers in complex situations.

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Increasing Quality Skills and Collaboration Through Mob Programming-The Clearlink Experience

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:35:00 GMT

Clearlink attended the Mob Programming conference in 2017 and came away thinking folks there were either crazy or genius; possibly both. One year and a half later they had implemented mob programming, where a team writes the code rather then each person sitting in their cave. Learn from Torrey Powell, Nate Wixom and developer Charlie King how collaborative coding helped the company scale, the journey from Bare Bones Manifesto, from working in a Dev cave to working with others along with some tips for introducing a new way of working into the workplace. You'll also hear about the management issues that melt away when you give autonomy and trust to the team.

Torrey Powell is Tech Leader, Nate Wixom is Director Marketing Tech and Charlie King is Web Dev for Clearlink. Clearlink is a digital marketing and sales company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. www.Clearlink.com

This episode was recorded live on site at the Mob Programming conference 2018 in Boston, MA where host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones, was delivering a workshop on using conflict to expand skills. Find Dawna on LinkedIn or at her website: From Insight to Action

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Imaginal Cells with Kim Polman

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 01:50:14 GMT

The Imaginal Cells-Visions of Transformation was released by co-authors Kim Polman and Stephen Vasconcellos-Sharpe to activate engagement in wider change by ordinary people like you and me. It would not be the first time ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things like helping change how we care about each other and the shape of the economy and the impact on ecological health. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, the universality of the Golden Rule as a decision making principle becomes fundamental to shifting decisions to more ethical territory. The three requirements of the contemporary definition of the Golden Rule, the important role of the consumer in instigating and demanding change is a part of how anyone who cares can make a positive difference by doing things differently. Kim also speaks to the shift from the linear economy to the circular economy - essential for companies that wish to remain relevant and economically sustainable.

April 5th is Golden Rule day - an international day for restoring empathic connection and responsible decision making.

The book The Imaginal Cells includes contributing authors Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, Mohamed Yunus, Paul Polman, William McDonough, Johan Rockstrom, Thomas Lovejoy, Jonathon Porritt. You will find more information on the ReboottheFuture.org website.

Host Dawna Jones provides insights accompanied by advanced decision making awareness for clarity greater accuracy and increased responsiveness especially in complex environments.

Her transformational insights free personal and organizational potential to be more creatively responsive to high speed change. Speaker, author, strategist and educator. Author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos, and host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna works with diverse thinkers and travels the world.

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AI, Ethics and Governance with Robbie Stamp

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:46:39 GMT

As AI enters the home and workplace, drives our cars issues for governance arise. Guest Robbie Stamp talks to host Dawna Jones about the five areas where we can take responsibility for asking questions before making decisions. Do we employ protocols over rules? How do companies create the conditions for unethical decision making now? There is a risk that by failing to ask questions and explore to make a more conscious choice that decisions makers will fail to collectively accept responsibility for governance. Bias exists in AI. How do we monitor the roll out of AI to see that it is doing what we hope it can. Listen in to a fascinating conversation exploring AI, ethics and governance issues.

Robbie Stamp ie is Chief Executive of Bioss International, a company founded by Gillian Stamp. Bioss is a global network of organization and people development consultancies that work in the private, public and third sectors. Their work supports effective decision-making at all levels and helps clients develop and deliver on their strategies in an increasingly complex world. Bioss.com

Prior to this, Robbie was Chairman and Chief Executive of The Digital Village, a media company founded with the late Douglas Adams, which pioneered social networks to create content on the internet. He also created HandHeld History, a mobile phone content company.

Between 1995 and 2000, Robbie was CEO of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, the company he co-founded with the late Douglas Adams in 1995. The company created the computer game Starship Titanic and h2g2.com, the real 'Earth edition' of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was sold to the BBC. TDV, an early pioneer of online communities and user-generated content, was also involved in television, mobile Internet distribution, and e-commerce deals.

Host Dawna Jones offers intuitive insights giving forward looking decision makers and responsible leaders high leverage ways to transform, and reinvent in complex environments with greater clarity and accuracy. FromInsightToAction.com.

Intro music is by Mark Romero Music. Mark's music is known to create coherence/harmony for listeners.

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Wicked Problems and Conscious Decision Making

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:58:04 GMT

Wickedly complex problems such as the ones companies face and we face globally (climate change effects, poverty, economic inequality, health) demand a frank and yet hopeful look at how being better as humans can balance emerging application of AI and other disruptive tech. Host Dawna Jones brings forward a conversation with Michael Mainelli and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva who each bring a perspective that provide insight into what you can do and what business can do to stop throwing money and human potential away and start contributing to being better in and for the world.

The topic is timely given the selection of semi-finalists for the Global Challenges Foundation contest in designing better governance and decision making models to handle the complex issues globally. Though my submission was not selected, I still see the value of merging narrative (with Dr. Thomas Juli) with decision making and elevated consciousness, to support nations in being able to work with issues having many fast moving parts.

Guests:

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen. www.zyen.com

Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker & author -- specializing in reinvention. She oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment, & consulting. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.

Nadya has personally contributed to the development of more than 5,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries teaching courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the term embedded sustainability which has caught on to differentiate authentic commitment from superficial efforts to look responsible. You'll also find Nadya's insights via three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia & the US.

Show host Dawna Jones provides transformational insights to decision makers leading change in complex environments or issues. You'll find her at FromInsightToAction.com She has written or contributed to two books: Decision Making for Dummies and The Intelligence of the Cosmos and written for Business Expert Press on Moving Successfully to an Executive Role.

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What can pigeons teach us about how humans network? With Andras Viscek

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:24:56 GMT

Over a casual dinner conversation organizational psychologist Andras Viscek learned that research work his father was doing provided insight into organizational change. Out of the conversation grew an invaluable tool for internal and external change agents: OrgMapper. In this conversation with show host Dawna Jones they discuss:

What can pigeons teach us about how humans network and communicate
3 mistakes executives consistently make when directing organizational change
How to increase the speed and engagement of organizational change by understanding who the real change agents are.

Andras Viscek, Co-Founder of Maven7, is a researcher, a management consultant and a trainer specialized in organizational and social network analysis with a solid background in change management, team and organizational development. He has a degree in work and organizational psychology from the Eötvös Loránd University of Science in Budapest. He is a board member at the Mérei Sociometric Workshop (a professional association for European sociometry practitioners), and has organized several related international events including Circuits of Profit 2011, a conference for business related SNA applications.

Andras is also the developer of OrgMapper, a web-based Organizational Network Analysis tool for internal and external change agents. He frequently holds OrgMapper Organizational Network Analysis certification trainings for change management and OD practitioners from various regions of the World. Before founding Maven7 with his partners, he gained vast experience as the head of several HR-focus international research projects regarding work stress, motivation, loyalty and employer branding. His specialities include: change management, organizational development, business process improvement, knowledge management, team development, KOL mapping, social media analysis and network data mining.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is specializes in personal organizational and global transformation strategies that engage the power of the human spirit guided by science. She wrote Decision Making for Dummies, blogged for Great Workplace Cultures on the HuffPo, and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Follow Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones or www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Steps That CEOs & the C-Suite Can Take to Boost Agility with Dave West

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:31:18 GMT

“Agile” has become a buzzword in the software development industry as well as the wider business landscape. And for good reason – several organizations have cited Agile principles as the influence behind results such as better financial performance, project success, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. In fact, 92 percent of executives said they believe organizational agility is critical to business success (Forbes/PMI). However, a deep understanding of Agile frameworks at the board-level is necessary in order for implementation to be effective. If this deep understanding is coupled with enthusiasm, CEOs and the C-Suite can initiate an overall digital transformation that directly impacts the bottom line and boosts the potential of every employee – and nobody knows this better than Dave West.

Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org and former VP and Research Director at Forrester Research for software development. Through his analyst work with several different organizations, Dave has experienced first-hand the barriers to agility and knows the steps that leaders need to take to become more agile.

Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.

In his position at Scrum.org, Dave works to carry out the organization’s goal of enabling teams to deliver software in a more effective way, raise the skill level of the software development industry, and in turn, influence the production of great software with the power to change the world. Prior to his work at Scrum.org, Dave led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. He also was Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies and Managing Director of the Americas at Ivar Jacobsen Consulting.

Host – Dawna Jones

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant who works with progressive thinkers and bold leaders to elevate value at a human, organizational to global level. She has been a monthly blogger for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Business Expert Press just published Successfully Moving to an Executive Role. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Scaling Startups Differently with Susan Basterfield

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:00:00 GMT

Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organization stimulated a lot of thought particularly in people working inside corporate aware that traditional patriarchal organizations could not serve the vision. Instead, creating the conditions for people and customers to flourish is the challenge facing startup founders. It comes with the caveat that scaling your learning and way of working with power and control is essential to scaling value.

Susan Basterfield is host Dawna Jones's guest in this episode where they talk about prototyping, beyond a growth mindset, and explore what happens if you imagine a different relationship to work.

Susan Basterfield has lived and worked in 20 different countries, Susan chose New Zealand as home in 2003 which is where she talks to Dawna in this episode. From working in multi-nationals she now serves the Enspiral Foundation as a Director and Catalyst, and does her work from within an Enspiral Livelihood Pod.

Catalyst and convener, she helps individuals and organizations release potential through participatory creation—unique manifestations of ways of working and being beyond traditional hierarchical models. These include ongoing experiments in Self-Management, Agile Beyond Tech, Deliberately Developmental Organizations, and Facilitative Leadership. She is a prolific writer and speaker, and has shared her experiences from India to Korea, Canada to Chile, Sweden to Australia and most places in between.

Susan is the creator and convener of the Practical Self Management Intensive at Leadwise Academy. She holds a BA in Communications, a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, and in 2015, received the Perkins Award for most exceptional body of work in the second cohort of Seth Godin’s altMBA.

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Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogged for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Writer, speaker, and change innovator, you can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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What will it take to solve the wicked problems? With Dawna Jones

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:07:02 GMT

In this program, host Dawna Jones shares her view on what lies ahead for 2018 in terms of how the wicked problems facing humanity globally, and business can be addressed. She talks about using anxiety to advantage, about collaboration over separation, about the pitfalls of working with a limited view and about the role you can play and the skills leaders require today. Consider it a forecast and summation of what opportunities lie ahead in 2018 for business and humans to be better for the world and in the world.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously.

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When Easier Doesn't Produce Results with Daniel Ospina

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:34:29 GMT

Daniel Ospina is a chef who turned his attention to social systems, the reinvention of democracy and our relationship with power. Organizational designer, he looks deeper to work with diversity as a perspective shifting value to R&D.

Daniel is an organisation designer, working through his company, Conductal. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Said Business School (Oxford University) and co-founder of a community for cross-disciplinary experimentation called Crossmodalism. See Conductal.org for more information.

Host Dawna Jones is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Conversational Neuroscience with Judith Glaser

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:36:51 GMT

Conversational intelligences, the art of not triggering the cave-brain, when faced with low trust and high uncertainty, is directly informed by neuroscience. Host Dawna Jones and CreatingWE's Judith Glaser talk about the power of:

conversation understood through neuroscience to create more human workplaces;
questions asked in complex change and the art of creating safety;
non-judgement on children's academic performance;
communicating through transparency and truth to create trust;
quality conversations in transforming workplace cultures.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business and deep dynamics to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Eliminating Budgeting from Company Habits with Robin Anne Fitzgerald

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 05:00:00 GMT

Robin Anne Fitzgerald is from Newfoundland, Canada and she has been working in Norway for years for Eidsiva Energi AS, one of 270 companies serving Norway’s energy needs. Inspired by the Beyond Budgeting Round Table discussions she led her company to get rid of the budgeting process. The way she handled the process offers lessons for anyone responsible for implementing what appears to be a radical decision. Debunking the myth that change is hard, long and difficult we talk about why the way she designed the process worked to give more confidence and greater value to the Board.

We talk about:

The four reasons why budgeting was working against company profitability.
What they use instead of budgets to monitor performance.
What shift in focus results from removing budgeting
How she pitched the idea to the board then implemented the decision without creating resistance
Tips for companies thinking about doing things differently but having trouble getting started.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Combining Digital Innovation with Releasing Human Potential with Katz Kiely

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 04:00:00 GMT

Katz Kiely is an award-winning expert in open-innovation, participatory systems design and digital engagement. She converts complex challenges into memorable experiences, smart solutions and strong innovative cultures. In this program, Katz and the host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones talk about the Burning Man social experience, using digital innovation to free human potential, and her startup BEEP. Katz's experience in large organizations such as the BBC and the UN shed real insight into why disengagement levels are high and how low expectations truly are.

A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she is a regular speaker at global conferences including TED, SXSW and IBC and regularly writes for b2b publications on stuff like this: http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2016/8/18/recruit-change-agents-and-save-11-trillion.html#gs.Cja9aQU

Katz is a proud ambassador for the Burning Man Foundation.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in custom designing transformation experiences that merge the sciences with perception of the deep dynamics holding or supporting change. Her work leads to quantum culture change touching the personal and leadership levels through decision-making.

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Deep Dynamics- the New Science of the Cosmos with Dawna Jones

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:13:22 GMT

The new purpose of business, to evolve consciousness through a higher purpose, is included in Ervin Lazslo's new book The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Practitioner and innovator in transforming leadership and company cultures, Dawna Jones, also the host of this show, draws from her practical observations to provide insights on what holds companies back, how companies and their leaders can make the quantum leap needed to stay relevant to the times.

Jack Barnard, guest hosts this program. Jack is a speaking coach, master of change, an artist and much more. He brings a wonderful sense of humour to help people see themselves and situations from a different perspective.

Dawna's website is FromInsightToAction.com

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How insights bring value to wicked problems and inspired innovation with Gary Klein

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 01:47:51 GMT

Why do companies ask employees to come up with innovations and then work hard to block it? Gary Klein, author of Seeing What Others Don’t and countless other books on decision-making, shares his research with host Dawna Jones about the value insights bring to companies, and how companies block innovation and work against themselves.

You’ll learn:

What insights are and why they have such high value to business for innovation and solving wicked problems
How Six Sigma and stamping out errors stamps out innovation
Where insights come from and how you can recognize your insights
How chains of command filter out insights and why no one person should have the right to veto an idea
Why curiosity is better than counting errors and why celebrating being right is more effective than focusing on errors.

Gary Klein is a research psychologist famous for his work in pioneering the field of naturalistic decision-making. Among his books are Sources of Power and Intuition. In this interview we talk about his book, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights. His keen observations and inquiry skills builds a bridge between theory and life. You will find Gary’s books online at Amazon and other retailers. His work is also included in Dawna’s Decision Making for Dummies.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos being released in mid-October, 2017. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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What is the Future of Workplaces, Jobs and the Economy? with Rod Collins

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 04:00:00 GMT

Rod Collins believes that we are in the midst of a epochal change. What does this mean to you? To jobs? To Workplaces? Tracing the path from bureaucracies, how power is being transferred to today’s peer to peer networks, Rod maps out changes to the fundamentals of social dynamics at work. Through original stories about Wikipedia, and Craigslist Rod provides insight into how an idea displaces a business without intending to.

You’ll hear:

The 3 evolutionary laws of networks that operate in a hyperconnected world
The 4 attributes required for collective intelligence to emerge
The real meaning of digital transformation
The two massive tasks facing society in response to digital revolution and the need for a new economy
The larger implications of innovation on beliefs and health
Why a universal basic income is a bad idea

Rod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, where we used the principles and the practices of Wiki Management to realize the greatest five-year growth period in the 54-year history of the business. Today he is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, an international management consulting firm. Author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014) Rod’s passion is to work with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod writes a monthly blog for the HuffPost Great Workplace Cultures. He’s done two episodes for Dawna’s other podcasts – The Evolutionary Provocateur. One is on the Death of Command and Control; the second on Wiki-management.

Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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Understanding the Practicality of Moving to Self-Management with Doug Kirkpatrick

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:29:42 GMT

Raised on pioneer Morning Star’s self-management practices, Doug Kirkpatrick knew autonomy from the start. His book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization has been revised to include updates and more stories of companies taking steps toward self-management and the compelling benefits. In this interview with Insight to Action host and global change agent, Dawna Jones, they talk about:

Why the term is ‘beyond empowerment’ and the fatal flaw in empowerment programs,
Why the term employee is obsolete and the importance of language in the future of work
Why you are already self-managing and didn’t realize it
Why you can’t be fired in a self-managing company
Why change is fluid and non-threatening in a self-management context
How decisions get made
Using scenarios and game theory to handle the unpredictable nature of financial planning
How big to small companies are applying the principles and practices of self-management including manufacturing giant Haier.

Doug Kirkpatrick is an organizational change consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, executive coach, writer and educator. Doug played the first season of his business career in the manufacturing sector, principally with The Morning Star Company of Sacramento, California, a world leader in the food industry. He now engages with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute and other vibrant organizations and leaders to co-create the future of management. Doug is part of the Great Workplace Cultures network and he regularly blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplaces.

Dawna previously interviewed Doug for her Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. That replay is posted on Management-Issues.com Tomatoes and Self-Management or in iTunes.

Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished while strengthening health. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision-making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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Diving Deep into Self-Discovery with Mariusz Bocian

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:00:00 GMT

For many people, 9-5 jobs are energy sucking and unfulfilling. At some point it’s clear a change is necessary. Becoming more aligned with your personal purpose means changing how you respond to what is going on in your inner and outers world.

Mariusz Bocian. Polish documentary filmmaker, openly shares his inner process with moving from a toxic work environment to being more aligned with his purpose. He shares what he uses as a compass every day, and what he’s learned by diving deep.

Mariusz and Dawna talk about:

The pivotal point for doing things differently
How he dismantled limiting beliefs
How he uses feeling uncomfortable to reflect and see the source
Why diving deep reveals the pivot point for a different response.
The Reinvention-Movie and corporate reinvention
Tips on abundance

Mariusz Bocian, passion and intuition follower, is focused on creating sustainable value for people. He is creating a documentary movie about personal and organizational transformation towards workplaces where people flourish. You’ll find the documentary film on www.reinvention-movie.com

Related interviews: Kevin O’Brien on Letting Go of Control is on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast: on my iTunes page: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1

Or on http://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/356/letting-go-of-control/

Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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A New Psychology of Human Well-Being with Richard Barrett

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 05:00:00 GMT

HR innovator Karen Rivoire guest hosts a conversation with author and change agent Richard Barrett, founder of the Barrett Values Center. In this conversation he talks about ego-soul dynamics as it relates to human and organizational health.

You will hear:

About the role of a leader as a guardian of values
The verticality of all life at different stages
Emotions – what they are and how they serve you
The ego’s need and soul’s desire
The fundamental human needs companies often fail to meet
Fulfilling fundamental human needs in teenagers
Why Millennial is one of the most miss used terms
How soul and psychology got separated and why it is time to bring it back
About a 4th dimension
A question around AI and soul

Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre®, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools® (CTT) which have been used to support more than 6,000 organizations on their transformational journeys. To date, more than 5,000 change agents, consultants and coaches have been trained by the Barrett Values Centre to use the Cultural Transformation Tools in over 50 countries. See www.values-centre.com

Listen to an earlier podcast Dawna did with Richard on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast.

Karen Rivoire, co-host for this episode, is a curious people pioneer activating the global human revolution inside companies. Passionate about aligning people’s experience with company purpose, she prefers to solve tough business challenges. Because she values difference, she disrupts unhelpful patterns responsibly and empowers people around a purpose-driven future. On top of her long experience in large and entrepreneurial world-class organizations she advises business leaders, tech founders and mentors at Microsoft Accelerator. Karen is bilingual French and English. Find her on LinkedIN.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and practitioner specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Find Dawna on T: EPDawna_Jones and LinkedIn.

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Liberating Leadership and Organizations with Isaac Getz

Sat, 22 Jul 2017 03:37:02 GMT

Co-author of Freedom Inc., professor Isaac Getz talks to host Dawna Jones about his research and experience with transforming companies from traditional leadership, where the boss is right, to leadership free to contribute. Most organizations deny fundamental human needs seriously limiting performance and innovation. When employees have the freedom and ability to act in the best interests of the company, performance improves. But does more freedom mean even better performance? Dr. Getz shares examples of phenomenal business results from companies whose leaders built total freedom-of-initiative organizations. These leaders understand that three universal human needs—intrinsic equality, opportunity for growth, and self-direction—must be met for all employees. To nurture and sustain the freedom culture, these leaders share their vision of the company so that employees can “own” it.

In this episode you will learn about the role of the ego as an enabler or leadership liability, why the CEO does not hold the power, a day in the life of a liberated organization, and lessons learned from over 300 liberated companies world-wide. You will also learn about the transformational journey leaders go on to leave behind the belief that they are the smartest person in the organization.

Isaac Getz, coauthor of Freedom, Inc., is a professor at the ESCP Europe Business School French campus, and was a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in Computer Science, obtained an MS in Management Science, and PhDs in Psychology and in Management. You can find Isaac Getz at http://freedomincbook.com/

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, an advanced book, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones.

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Using Platform Design Thinking with Simone Cicero

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:20:03 GMT

Platforms are scaleable and powerful. No one knows that better than platform designer Simone Cicero who explains how platform design thinking enables self-organization giving it an edge over industrial models. The open source Platform Design Toolkit canvases allow you to:

reduces the complexity of a problem
gain the advantages of thinking of your business as a story
switch the narrative to empowering ecosystem potential
collaborate and compete in the same moment

In this conversation Simone Cicero explains how the Platform Design Toolkit:

Connects platform thinking to learning
Connects with the existing world of design thinking
The outcomes the five design canvases generate: transactional and relationship
The spectrum from vision-prototype-validation and growth hacking
How platform design help health, for example, achieve more by spending less
How platforms accelerate scaling
Two ways to innovate the business of your company.

Simone Cicero is a self-starter, strategist, product and service designer interested in co-design, design thinking and innovation. He sees the reasons underpinning change and connects the dots to design relevant and consistent strategies and products. A Lean and Agile practitioner with experience in adapting methodologies, Simone runs workshops for strategy co-creation, product and service design and more. Coaching and participated learning are true paths to innovation. A blogger and public speaker, Simone speaks about innovation, disruption, resilience and ecosystems. Under the Meedabyte banner, Simone’s content has been featured on forward thinking magazines and blogs such as: Repubblica, Domus, Shareable, Ouishare Media, and Les Echos.

Go to www.PlatformDesignToolkit.com to download what you need to think through your platform.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action program, designs creative ways to get tough conversations and tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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Transforming Organizations with David Heron and Chris Bevan

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 04:30:00 GMT

Companies are under pressure to transform to a different world-view while maintaining operations. The tension makes organizational transformation a journey that requires thinking from the inside and from the outside. David Heron, Group CEO of Wilton & Bain, a global leadership advisory boutique, and WBMS Associate Chris Bevan form a team who help companies find the right people to guide them through the transformational process.

In their conversation with host, Dawna Jones they talk about:

The tension between running business as an operation and the process of design to mobilize major transformation
The value of readiness particularly at the CEO level plus how metrics work against risk taking
The short-cut approach to avoiding digital transformation and the problems that creates
The need for building confidence and courage throughout a long-term change process as business life surfaces multiple disruptions
How to mitigate the loss of foresight and risk aversion due to fear
The importance of designing the future and future ambitions
How ready or not companies are to up the strategy to the level of global sustainability
Tips for executive decision makers

Wilton & Bain help organizations find the right people to guide companies through change operationally and strategically. http://wbmsglobal.com/team/

Host Dawna Jones specializes in reading the deep dynamics underpinning personal and organizational growth. She helps increase self and organizational awareness of the systemic impact of decisions so that human potential is released. Speaker - Consultant-Author - VR (virtual reality for human evolution).

Find her on www.FromInsightToAction.com or Twitter EPDawna_Jones

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How Business School Lausanne Reinvents Itself with Dr.Katrin Muff

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:00:00 GMT

Dr. Katrin Muff is a force behind Business School Lausanne’s adoption of Holacracy and the design of the GapFrame for activating the contribution of regenerative business to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals and higher level strategy conversation.

In this program we talk about:

The implementation of self-management (Holacracy) at Business School Lausanne
The limits of hierarchy in driving purpose
The big insights and freedom gained from decentralized decision making
The ups and downs of deliberately developmental organizations (Robert Kegan’s work)
How a business school can walk its talk through reinventing itself and offer students experience with the unfolding real world
How the GapFrame framework can be used by business and business schools to change the conversations (gapframe.org)
Advice to recent graduates facing the question: What next? ‘Get a job’ or ‘do what I care about’

Go online to Business School Lausanne to take the 5 minute CARL quiz on your responsible leadership competencies. Are you up to speed?

Guest Dr. Katrin Muff is a thought leader in the transformative space of sustainability and responsibility at Business School Lausanne, where she acted as Dean from 2008-2015 until self-organization made such a title redundant. Under her leadership, the school focused its vision on entrepreneurship, responsibility and sustainability in education and research. Her business experience includes 10 years at ALCOA (GM in Russia, Industry Analyst for Global M&A in the U.S. and Business Analyst Europe), 3 years as Director, Strategic Planning EMEA at IAMS Europe (Procter & Gamble), and 3 years as a co-founder of Yupango, a coaching consultancy dedicated to start-ups and training management teams.

Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, decision-making and consciousness leadership guide, author of Decision Making for Dummies – an advanced guide to decision making in the 21st century. She prepares decision makers with the skills to read context and apply intuitive in balance with rational to make the best decisions in complex situations. On iTunes you’ll find Dawna Jones’s podcasts on https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1 Contact Dawna at www.FromInsightToAction.com or through LinkedIn.

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Freedom at Work-WorldBlu’s Democracy in the Workplace with CEO Traci Fenton

Fri, 26 May 2017 05:00:00 GMT

At the start of the internet age Traci Fenton and her team in college were thinking about democracy in the workplace. Not voting but democracy where workplaces could fully unlock and live their full potential. Out of that grew WorldBlu. Twenty years later WorldBlu offers the platinum standard and scorecard for replacing fear with freedom, attracting high level companies like Zappos, Simon Sinek’s Start with Why, Nearsoft (EP5) and Menlo Innovations (EP7).

In this episode you’ll hear and try on:

10 principles that need to be operational for any democracy to function
The Freedom at Work Scorecard for companies of 5 or more
The financial rewards of being a freedom-centric workplace
How to apply the five step power question process
What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Why now is the Democratic Age
The level of fear in the C-suite and how to rise above it

Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, which has a vision to see one billion people working in freedom-centered organizations worldwide. WorldBlu was founded in 1997 and is the largest global network of companies committed to freedom and democracy in the workplace, with clients in over 80 countries globally representing over $30 billion in annual revenue.

WorldBlu's clients include such well-respected brands as Zappos, DaVita, HCL Technologies, WD-40, Great Harvest Bread Company, Menlo Innovations (EP7), Nearsoft (EP5), Geonetric and more.

Traci developed the ground breaking Freedom at Work™ model as well as the Freedom-Centered Leader™ and Freedom-Centered CEO™ certification programs and frequently coaches and consults with leaders of companies worldwide working to embrace a more freedom-centered model.

Intro music is calibrated to bring you into alignment by Mark Romero music.com

Host Dawna Jones raises the accuracy and quality of decisions in complex environments by raising self-organizational awareness. Dawna is the author of Decision Making for Dummies (a sophisticated book on decision making) and has contributed a chapter to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Dawna also blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures. Contact Dawna through LinkedIn, Twitter: EPDawna_Jones or Facebook.com/FromInsightToAction.

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Where Technology Meets Gardening with Michael Moll

Fri, 12 May 2017 05:00:00 GMT

When Michael Moll was a kid growing up in Kenya he was surrounded by gardens, fresh fruits and vegetables. Today with his fiancée, he runs startup MyGreenSpace.co, a gardening app. Millennials are driving the return to urban gardening to the benefit of all ages in terms of well-being and core leadership skills. It is the unusual combination of technology and gardening that is restoring face to face connection with community and getting outdoors.

In this conversation we talk about:

The food supply issues that impact what you’ll find on the shelves,
The interconnectivity of food supply and demand world-wide,
How gardening restores confidence and connection,
The garden as a living system,
How is MyGreenSpace like having a master gardener in your pocket,
What schools with gardening programs seem to be missing,
Why tech is the best connector between gardens and people.

Go to www.mygreenspace.co to download the free IOS and Android app. MyGreenSpace is a digital garden planner and seed shop on a mission to make communities more sustainable and resilient.

Mike is a social commerce visionary who uses technology to transform rudimentary human activities. Michael is originally from Kenya and came to Canada in 2008 on a full scholarship to study at the Saunder School of Business and then turned to using the power of technology to make the world a better place. Naturally, Michael values sustainability and merges that with a keen eye for visual communication and product development. He is obsessed with the power of co-creation. Mike is a full time optimist who loves nothing more than living at the intersection between people and technology.

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company whose music restores coherence to people and workplaces.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing insights and advanced decision-making skills to progressive companies and individuals aware that they are in new territory. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Evolving Through the Conflict of Societal Expectations with Lindsay Henwood and Emanuele Rapisarda

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:39:52 GMT

As economy, education and other traditional systems buckle under the weight of changing values and complexity Millennial values and awareness of the state of the world confronts societal expectations. Emanuele Rapisarda, Evolution Coach working with Cocoon Projects and Lindsay Henwood, a commercial editorial photographer talk about their experience with finding purpose, living to be true to yourself.

In this raw, honest and profound conversation you’ll hear:

Principles for making decisions,
How to handle the scariness of doing something unfamiliar with uncertain outcomes,
6 things Millennials look for in organizations and the value to organizations of meeting them,
Two different journeys on the path to discover personal purpose,
What question to ask when the job you expected is not there,
Uncovering what lies at the core of your passion and talent,
Why it doesn’t matter if you are wrong,
wisdom

Share this interview with anyone who is at the crossroads in their life’s journey asking ‘What do I do next?’.

Lindsay Henwood’s photography is found on: www.lindsayhenwood.com and Instagram Contact her through either. Lindsay referenced Debbie Millman, speaker and life designer.

Emanuele Rapisarda is found on LinkedIn and Twitter. To work with him as an Evolution Coach, go to http://cocoonprojects.com/en/ Emanuele mentioned Elements which comes from: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson and Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life also by Ken Robinson

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company whose music restores coherence to people and workplaces.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing transformation insights to companies and individuals ready to expand awareness and apply it to be ahead of and prepared for massive change. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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The Neuroscience of Flow States with Steven Kotler

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 21:48:34 GMT

As the world changes your most in depth technology is your knowledge of peak performance and flow states. Steven Kotler of the Flow Genome Project explains how neuroscience helps you manage flow and peak performance states; applying self-awareness to action, particularly what you can do to manage yourself through the ‘dark side’. We start with reflecting on how on how well business executives have incorporated knowledge of flow states to function in today’s complex business environment and how business can apply this knowledge to make better performance rich environments.

Learn:

How exponential growth in sports informs how you navigate exponential change in the business environment.
3 qualities of a rich environment that catalyze peak performance states.
The Navy Seal approach to training the brain to be present and mindful in the moment while overcoming the panic button.
What the 1000 year-old sport of surfing and other weather dependent sports teach about flow states.
Preconditions that lead to flow along with the triggers.
The conditions for recovering from the neuro-chemical cocktail induced by flow.
What business decision makers can learn from pro-athletes.
Why Steve Job’s added unpredictability and complexity to Pixar to ramp up creativity.
Why Google goes for 10X goals.
The competitive advantage to learning.
Why flow has become an indicator of market performance in the game sector.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include Bold, The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small, Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and The Angle Quickest for Flight and Stealing the Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work. You can find him online at www.stevenkotler.com or on Forbes with Far Frontiers blog www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler.

Go to www.flowgenomeproject.com to take the Flow assessment and meet Steven’s Flow Genome partner Jamie Wheal.

Contact Dawna Jones through www.FromINsighttoAction.com or Twitter EPDawna_Jones

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Wrestling the Dragon - Moving Through Difficult Experiences with David Drake

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:30:00 GMT

Why does narrative and story ignite the power of the human spirit? How do you move through a difficult experience in life or work? Why is letting go of control so difficult?

In times when attempting to control your outer world results in fatigue, overwhelm and exhaustion, attending to your inner world restores initiative and strength. Narrative coach David Drake explains the difference between narrative and story. The conversation in this episode sheds light on:

Why does nobody do what I asked them to?
What is behind the drive to understand purpose?
What are the four fundamental human needs?
How can we contribute to each others flourishing as individuals and as an organization?
What happens to initiative in an organization where external control suppresses initiative? (and creativity)
How does narrative help executives communicate vision? Or strengthen brand?

Narrative coach David Drake is the author of Narrative Coaching: Principles and Practices for Bringing New Stories to Life. His personal mission is ‘to help create and spread new narrative methods that integrate personal and social transformation’. David has worked on narrative coaching, change and leadership initiatives for 70 organizations, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Google, Nike, PwC, Westpac and the Australia and US federal governments. Clients appreciate his systemic and innovative approaches. He is the founder of the field of narrative coaching and the creator of the Narrative Coaching Labs for practitioners and Narrative Design Labs in organizations. David has trained over 10,000 people in 14 countries in his methods. He has started a global community of licensed Narrative Design Partners to bring this work to the world in new ways.

David is also the architect of integrative development, which brings together adult development and organization development in a unified theory of change. Narrative coaching is an integrative practice that can scale to any size. Dr David Drake founded and runs the Center for Narrative Coaching & Leadership in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.narrativecoaching.com

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company who saw the music. He now works with individuals and companies to restore coherence to their environments.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing transformation insights to companies, their leaders and to individuals seeking to evolve their skills to match the complexities of today. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Applying Indigenous Wisdom to Leading in Volatile Change with Wade Davis

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:04:21 GMT

“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit.” -Wade Davis

Wade Davis is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist, writer, photographer, filmmaker and explorer. National Geographic named him as one of the explorers of the Millennium. Described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity”, Wade’s work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia,

Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University.

In this conversation with Dawna Jones, Wade explains the mind-blowing (Dawna’s words) sophistication of indigenous skills to navigating across open seas without the instruments we rely on today.

Their conversation covers:

Perception: Is a mountain a hunk of rock or a deity that directs destiny?
Science: Why race is a fiction and how we are all brothers and sisters
Empathy: The secret skill to working with different and diverse world views
Diversity: A more elegant definition of diversity from an anthropologist viewpoint that HR can use to replace targets and quotas
Descartes: How we became separate in our relationship with Nature, the high cost to all life and what we can do about it
Psychedelics: The contribution of mind expanding adventures to seeing reality in a different light
Culture: How cultural myopia prevents us from seeing and hearing others
The Great Hope for what lies ahead
The Great Lie Trump sold the middle class
What leaders and entrepreneurs can learn from ancient Polynesian Wayfinding skills
Why Wayfinding in complex environments is more accurate than navigating from Point A to B

The whole conversation was sparked by Dawna’s read of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World published in 2009.

Intro music is from www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm. His music generates coherence in listeners.

Your host is Dawna Jones: www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Operationalizing Holacracy with Tom Thomison of encode.org

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:30:18 GMT

The costs of management are a significant factor in the search for better organizational designs and management structures. Holacracy One started in 2007. Ten years later encode.org is following the 500+ companies that have implemented Holacracy to pick up on the legal and people side needed to balance the structural implementation of Holacracy. Tom Thomison, a co-founder of Holacracy One, and Dawna talk about:

The value of a distributed authority system,
What Holacracy is and is not,
The value of embedding an entrepreneurial stance to doing the work,
Is profit a purpose or a measure?
What does purpose of business mean and how does it replace Mission, Vision and other traditional elements,
The pivotal question for moving from a traditional model to a self-managing system,
The need to re-envision a world without employees
The importance of Like-purpose (not like-minded) diversity.

A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder with more than 30 years of experience, Tom Thomison is a recognized leader in self-organization practices and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC to further develop and mature Holacracy®, now a gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies.

Tom is currently a Founding Member and Partner at encode.org, an organization focused on the creation of necessary legal, financial and social structures to further support self-organization and the new world of work. Tom is active as an entrepreneur having been involoved five early stage companies prior to encode.org and he has served as advisor to several startups and remains a Partner and Investor at HolacracyOne, LLC.

In the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes Dawna interviewed Anna McGrath on what Holacracy is and its implementation in Zappos.

Dawna Jones is the host for the Insight to Action podcast. Dawna works with companies and leaders to adapt their decision-making and deepen leadership skills to make the bold, creative decisions to evolve and design tomorrow. She's the author of [Business] Decision Making for Dummies, and a monthly blogger for Great Workplace Cultures on the Huffington Post . She’s contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo. See Mastering the Split in Consciousness. www.FromInsightToAction.com

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Innovating in an Entrenched Higher Education System with Stephenie Gloden.

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:00:00 GMT

Stephenie Gloden is a passionate person. After reading Doug Kirkpatrick’s book Beyond Empowerment rather than attempt to impose the ideas she worked with her team at the University of Phoenix, Apollo Education Center to ‘own’ the ideas and implications.

It is not that education systems do not want to deliver skills to equip students with 21st Century skills; it’s that the systemic blocks make it extremely difficult. A high level of vision and tenacity is required. To handle high speed change takes different skills so in this program you’ll hear:

How they inserted accountability into interpersonal relationships internally
What impact being fully responsible had on learning and growth of leaders
What surfaces when you see people as more than their role
About Redflint: a partnership between big corporations, the university and an accelerator.
About the ecosystem benefits for startups, big corps and entrepreneurs.
Why MGM in Los Vegas signed on as a partner.

Stephenie Gloden is the Vice President, Enterprise Resource Management at Apollo Education Group and part of the partnership behind the RedFlint Experience Center, Sparked by University of Phoenix and Arizona State University.

Innovative entrepreneur, intrapreneur and leader, Stephenie promotes a highly engaged culture focused on delivering value-driven service and solutions that meet customer needs. She applies lean startup principles, agile methodologies and self-management practices to driving collaboration in an interdisciplinary context. Fortunately, she’s not afraid to push the envelope – an essential trait in someone having to work around an entrenched systemic holding pattern. Stephenie Gloden is on LinkedIn. To learn more about RedFlint go to: https://www.phoenix.edu/redflint.html

The introductory clip is courtesy of Mark Romero at www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm who has been doing what he loves ever since he left corporate. His music has been proven to restore coherence and well-being to the body.

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Accelerating Performance in Complexity with Colin Price

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 22:07:55 GMT

Colin Price is the executive vice president and global managing partner at Heidrick & Struggles, a pioneer in the fields of executive search, culture shaping and leadership consulting. Prior to that he served as chairman of Co Company, an organizational development consulting firm. Previously he led the worldwide organization practice at McKinsey & Co. for many years.

Colin has consulted with many of the world’s largest organizations and published on important business challenges of organization health and performance for 25 years. His focus is on developing organizations that can align, execute, and renew better and quicker than competitors. His body of work around building organizational health, purpose, culture, leadership, and capabilities has defined this arena of study and practice.

In this conversation with Dawna he talks about:

The shift from linear thinking to working with complexity,
How recent political events like Brexit and the election of Trump can be understood by recognizing increased complexity,
Why complexity cannot be oversimplified,
Why middle managers are resistant to change,
Why high performing companies have a reduced management layer and what that means to organizational leaders explaining that to the managers affected by cost reduction realities,
Why accelerating doesn’t mean doing the same things but faster,
How complacency is created and what to do about it,
What top performing leaders do better,
The role of humility,
3 things companies can do to keep pace.

Colin has published widely, and is author and co-author of seven books, including Accelerating Performance: How Organizations can Mobilize, Execute, Transform, with Agility. He has presented at many prestigious conferences, including The World Economic Forum and the Harvard Roundtable series around the need to integrate thinking on organizational performance and health so that corporations can create an aligned, high-performance system.

Intro music intro is from Mark Romero Music from a track called Alignment. Mark is a former CEO of a semi-conductor company who returned to his passion of music. His music restores health and coherence to the human body. See more at www.MarkRomeroMusic.com

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Advanced Intuitive Skills for Conscious Leaders w Dr. Lesley Phillips

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 08:00:00 GMT

Dr. Lesley Philips was an environmental microbiologist who searched bio-diverse regions of the planet for natural product medicines. Then she went into business development making deals between life science companies. Today she mentors conscious leaders to help them transform themselves and their businesses. Her work reconnects decision makers to their advanced skills invaluable for navigating everything from personal crisis to chaos.

In this episode of Insight to Action you’ll hear us talk about:

What is intuition?
What are the primary advanced intuitive capacities that executives can tap into and their application?
How Lesley went from a scientist to mentor teaching energy management skills to executives. From leading a dual identity to being true to herself.
A tool for grounding your energy so that you can manage your business more effectively.
How to let go of limits.
Why these advanced skills will help you learn who you are – why you are here to live your personal purpose by taking your unique position in business and human evolution of consciousness.

In addition to talking you through a grounding exercise she mentions a centering exercise. http://drlesleyphillips.com/insight-to-action-gift/

You can learn more about Dr. Lesley Phillips work at www.drlesleyphillips.com

Dr. Lesley Phillips is a spiritual teacher, who wants to help you access your intuition. Your spiritual journey involves personal growth and deep transformation. She can help you transcend your limits and let go of what keeps you from your purpose.

Dr. Lesley has offered intuitive sessions since 1996 and has taught meditation and intuition development since 2003. Over the years she has provided spiritual guidance and mentoring to thousands of people and many corporations.

She is the author of a spiritual novel, called “The Midas Tree.” Plus 3 non-fiction books on spirituality and a card deck that opens the intuition and creativity. She is at happiest when being of service, whether at a speaking engagement, teaching a class, giving a healing or mentoring her students.

Her credentials include:-

Sc. in Biological Sciences (John Moore’s University, Liverpool UK).
D. in Environmental Microbiology/Natural Product Discovery (Warwick University UK).
Ordination in Spiritual Counselling (C.D.M. Spiritual Teaching Center, Everett, WA, USA)
Certified Spiritual Teacher (C.D.M. Spiritual Teaching Center, Everett, WA, USA)

The intro music comes from Mark Romero of MarkRomeroMusic.com

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Crowdsourced Forecasting Platforms for Decision Making with Karl Mattingly

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:01:34 GMT

Karl Mattingly is the CEO of Dysrupt Labs (Slow Voice), the umbrella company and home of Almanis, Percypt, Pyfina & Sugihara launching cutting edge tools for forecasting. Forecasting the future is difficult in unpredictable times so give strategists and decision makers the edge, Karl has launched Percypt, to offer the world’s first platform for applying collective intelligence to inform strategy and decisions. Collective intelligence can mitigate bias in groups as well.

You’ll hear us talk about:

Prediction market platforms
The validity of polls and surveys for forecasting
Applications of crowdsourced forecasts for financial performance, creditworthiness and management quality.
Collective intelligence and governance
The advantages and disadvantages of incentives and the variety of tools for testing the pulse of customers, employees, markets
Collective intelligence platforms as a tool for reducing cycle time identifying issues and responding to change
What collective intelligence tools will tell you your employees might not.

Karl’s TED talk on Wisdom of Crowds

Host Dawna Jones specializes in decision-making for complexity and transforming situations. EPDawna_Jones

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How to Avoid Distorting Your Business Strategy with Patricia Lustig

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 01:07:40 GMT

Once or twice a year companies reach into their tool kit and pull out strategy, then hope that it will hold for the whole year. The volatility of the global environment makes the idea of extrapolation, predicting the future based on the past, dangerously delusional. What do you do instead? Patricia Lustig, author of Strategic Foresight, explains how to move from using one future to using a range of possible futures.

She also describes:

How to develop your foresight muscles,
How to scan emerging futures on a regular basis,
What happens when you combine emerging trends together,
What went wrong with the emergency response plan at the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi and what other companies with emergency response plans can learn,
How to work with the unthinkable,
Why using foresight strategically gives you the side benefit of seeing patterns so critical for workplace health and decision making accuracy.

Most people underestimate the amount and speed of change leaving all companies vulnerable to be caught unprepared. Included in our conversation is mention of a book written by John Petersen called Out of the Blue. You’ll hear other resources mentioned in the interview as well along with Patricia’s book Strategic Foresight. Her website is www.http://lasa-insight.com/ and the non-profit site she mentions is www.unlockingforesight.org.

Patricia Lustig is an internationally recognized practitioner in strategic foresight and strategy development, future thinking and innovation. She has held senior positions at major blue-chip companies such as BP, Motorola and Logica and is a Fellow of the RSA. She is currently setting up the Unlocking Foresight Know How C.I.C. Patricia’s most recent book, Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future is published by Triarchy Press.

Intro music is by MarkRomero Music.com

Host Dawna Jones can be found on www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Toward a New Business Leadership Consciousness With Chris & Ervin Laszlo

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:17:10 GMT

In a unique conversation, Dr. Chris Laszlo, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit joins his father, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, who is internationally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. In this interview we talk about the conversation that took place in Lucca, Italy in the summer of 2016.

The New Paradigm Leadership Retreat and Summit, held in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on July 12 – 15, 2016, brought together over 40 scholars and practitioners from four domains: (1) the physical and biological sciences, (2) consciousness research, (3) medicine and well-being, and (4) business and management. Chris Laszlo,

The goal was to learn how to create a world that works for 100 percent of humanity and all life on earth, now and for future generations. Questions asked included: What is reality? What is consciousness and why is it the highest leverage point for human survival? What lies at the core of health and wellbeing? How can we strengthen our collective capacity to transform business into an agent of world benefit, one whose purpose is creating prosperity and flourishing for all life on earth!

In this conversation you’ll hear:

What if business switched from ‘self-serving’ to higher service?
About the shift toward a unified consciousness where we are more coherent in our interactions with each other and Nature
Why “consciousness is the determining factor of how you see the world, of who you are, what the world is, and what we can do in the world” as Dr. Laszlo frames it.
Rethinking what the bottom line really is.
Why higher consciousness is the highest leverage point for transformational leadership in business.
What is different?: Moving beyond a strategist perspective to view the macro, meso and micro foundations of leadership
Crossing the ontological divide. (the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality.)

You’ll also hear the terms NDE (near death experiences) and OBE (out of body experiences) when we talk about the quantum field.

Ervin Laszlo, Doctorat d’Etat Sorbonne (1970) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Prize (2002), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milano (2014) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo has Honorary PhD’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary and is the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into twenty-four languages. He lives in Tuscany. Ervin Laszlo’s most recent book, What is Reality? Is now on Amazon

His son, Professor Chris Laszlo, provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies on sustainability for competitive advantage. He is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and has taught at INSEAD, CEDEP, Darden, Cornell, and many other leading business schools. He was an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials. Prior to that he spent five years with Deloitte consulting.

Chris is the co-author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (2014) Stanford Business Press, Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), Island Press.

Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music.com

Host Dawna Jones specializes in insights for decision-making transformation and leadership. #author #facilitator, #speaker

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Vistaprint Learns from Menlo; Steve Denning on the Learning Consortium

Sat, 03 Dec 2016 00:47:32 GMT

In Episode 8, you met Rich Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. and CEO of Menlo Innovations which is well known for it's great workplace. Agile Enterprise coach David Grabel and the HR Director for Vistaprint also met Rich at the Agile for Executives Forum. Several site visits later and a visit from Rich, and Vistaprint was on it's way to transformation. In this episode you'll hear David explain what they've learned and how they've moved forward.

Also:

Why self management and self organization aren't synonymous.

In the conversation David mentions Doug Kirkpatrick. I interviewed Doug from MorningStar on my other podcast. You'll find the program on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. Tomatoes and Self-Management

Then I talk to Steve Denning, founder and facilitator (and Forbes Contributor) for the Learning Consortium, a peer to peer learning community engaging in site visits. You'll hear the 2016 report results and a reflection on the Drucker Forum recently held in Vienna, Austria.

Steve talks about the threads that tie all these companies together. Why Spotify can learn from Riot Games and why logistics company CH Robinson also learned from Riot Games.

Learn why bosses still exist in big companies and what makes them different from the traditional command and control role. You can find out more information on the Learning Consortium report from www.sdlearningconsortium.org

Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music. Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, author and transformational guide for companies and people seeking to flow with change. #decisionmaking #leadership

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The Business Value of Joy with Rich Sheridan

Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:27:13 GMT

Rich Sheridan hated work. He was one of those guys who took the long way to work, found a way to beam out during the day and was one of the top recognized performers. Seventeen years ago he realized he couldn’t keep working that way so along with a few partners he founded Menlo Innovations and created the workplace he wanted to work at. Today, as companies realize their workplace culture is a strategic advantage to business, companies come to Menlo to find out how to do what Menlo does every day of the week.

Menlo Innovations designs and builds custom software. That sounds pretty ordinary until you hear their purpose.

“Our mission as an organization is to end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology.”TM

In this episode you’ll hear:

How to create an intentionally joyful culture.
The difference between joy and happiness and why joy includes conflict and diverse views.
Why having absolute clarity on who you serve as a company is critical.
What he had to learn and unlearn as a leader.
The difference between an intrinsic and extrinsic reward system.
Why high paid team members become bitter.
Why he has the title: Chief Storyteller
Tips for creating an intentionally joyful culture.
Why the Menlo Ways isn’t the Toyota Way and why you need to find your own way.
An invitation from Rich to visit Menlo and learn.

June 2001, Rich Sheridan and three others took lessons learned from experimenting with creating joy and applied them to Menlo Innovations, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That was fifteen years ago. Today Rich is the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Menlo. Menlo has won the Alfred Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for eight straight years. The author of Joy, Inc. Rich mentors entrepreneurs and companies bold enough to embark on creating a customer-centric workplace. For more information go to: http://menloinnovations.com/

Intro music by Mark Romero Music.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in the advanced decision-making skills that power innovative leadership.

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Neurodiversity on Teams with CEO Carol Simpson

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:02:46 GMT

You hear a lot about autism today. Seen through a pathological lens, autism is a brain disorder. Seen as a specialized form of intelligence, it is a huge pool of untapped talent for companies seeking talent particularly in the IT sector. SAP, Microsoft have launched programs to fill all kinds of roles including software testing, data analysis, quality assurance to IT project management, graphic design, finance administration and human resources. Most of Silicon Valley is on the autistic spectrum. Neuro-diversity adds to the workplace extraordinary ability in pattern recognition, attention to detail, sequencing and logic and, by adding training and support, the required social and communication skills.But you don’t have to be a big company to benefit from this pool of intelligence.

In this episode Carol Simpson, CEO of Focus Professional Services explains why adding neuro-diversity makes your workplace better in terms of communication and productivity outcomes while being socially responsible . Focus provides software testing and data quality services to organizations in the Vancouver, Canada area.

The solution that Carol’s company offers is one that recognizes the unique advantage of neuro-specialized intelligence. Carol’s company hires and trains people on the autistic spectrum, provides training, and then delivers software development services to companies ready to up their performance through adding diversity.

You’ll hear:

A story of one person on the spectrum who’d been ‘failed’ by many workplaces, who finally found one where he was accepted and could contribute (after training).
Why communication in the workplace dramatically improves thanks to the presence of neuro-specialized individuals on the team who don’t need social approval.
The personal reason why Carol started Focus Point Pro and what she’s learned from her sons.
How neuro-specialized individuals benefit client outcomes plus how a sense of contribution and belonging benefits the social and resilience skills of Focus employees.
How Carol finds overlooked talent.
About the adjustments team members make to fit into the workplace and what clients learn through the process of adding neuro-specialized individuals to their teams
How Carol deals with unconscious bias, fear of diversity/difference when marketing
Tips for employers who claim they can’t find talent?
Tips for neuro-specialized individuals who have experienced discrimination or abuse in the workplace by insensitive management or co-workers?
A personal story about a high school teacher’s advice to her autistic son and what happened afterward.

To find out more about Carol Simpson’s company go to her website and watch the video featuring staff and clients): http://focusps.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/focusprofessionalservices/

Twitter @focus_ps

Connect to Focus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6399887

Intro music provided by Mark Romero Music.

Host Dawna Jones provides insights to decision-makers ready to take bold steps forward.

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Creating Freedom to Contribute with Matt Perez

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:23:00 GMT

Nearsoft is a software development company with a distinct advantage in attracting and retaining talented developers. In 2007 it all started with 8 staff that is now 240 and growing world-wide. Co-founder Matt Perez is viewed as a pioneer in workplace innovation by my colleague Doug Kirkpatrick and in this interview you'll find out why.

We talk about:

How the company began - the inspiration for starting up as a self-managed company
How staff initiated leadership teams function as a dynamic hierarchy
The role of transparency in replacing assumptions with real information and in reinforcing fairness
Why there's more structure in self-managed companies than where power is centralized
The inspiration and benefits to a healthy workplace environment
The connection between playfulness and creativity
How to scale freedom to contribute
How decisions are made in an intentional and structured way

Matt credits the role of Ricardo Semler's book The 7-day Work Week and mentions participation in WorldBlu for freedom-centric companies. At the end, uou'll receive an offer you can't refuse from Matt who is committed and serious about helping other companies both make the transition to workplaces that work for people (including clients). Learn more at www.nearsoft.com

Much thanks to Doug Kirkpatrick for continuing to steer me to companies leading the way in future workplace design happening today.

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Why Do Companies That Mimic Life Perform Better Financially? with Jay Bragdon

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 08:51:40 GMT

Companies that mimic life are an emerging genre that operate on radically different principles than traditionally managed companies. The leading exemplars share four distinctive advantages over traditionally managed firms.

They are:

More adaptive
More profitable,
More sustainable,
Longer lived.

As clear profit leaders in their global industries, all receive top grades for sustainability and ethical leadership from independent resources. In addition, their average and median ages exceed a century. What is it that these companies do differently? None are tech firms. The research index Joseph Bragdon assembled in 1996 includes companies that are in sectors known for being eco-and social risk laden.

In this episode, we talk about what Jay's research reveals about companies that see themselves as part of the living system that supports all life on the planet and why these companies lead a return to better business. For more information see www.lampindex.com For the book head over to Amazon. Companies That Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance.

Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero: www.markromeromusic.com Track is called Alignment. Mark's music has been verified by a physicist to restore balance and harmony (coherence) to your physical state.

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How Disruptive Will Blockchain Be to Financial Services? Michael Mainelli

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:42:10 GMT

When you swipe your card at your local coffee shop it takes 3-5 business days for the transaction to take place. Will blockchain change that? Blockchain tech refers to mutually distributed ledgers that underpins cryto-currencies like Bitcoin.

Michael Mainelli started designing shared distributed ledgers 20 years ago . He’s a leading thinker in fintech and Emeritus Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, London. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank established in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology.

In this episode you'll learn:

What blockchain is and isn't and what it means to you.
How blockchain will impact you and other possible applications.
How disruptive will blockchain tech be and how are financial institutions responding.
What applications are emerging out of mutual distributed ledgers.
Will blockchain change the transaction fees charged by banks?
What difference will blockchain make to the 2.5 million people who don't have official identity?
How blockchain tech can be a force for good.

BLOCKCHAIN DEFINED A mutual distributed ledger – more simply referred to as a blockchain is a computer data structure with the following capabilities: n Mutual – blockchains are shared across organizations, owned equally by all and dominated by no-one; n Distributed – blockchains are inherently multi-locational data structures and any user can keep his or her own copy, thus providing resilience and robustness; n Ledger – blockchains are immutable, once a transaction is written it cannot be erased and, along with multiple copies, this means that the ledger’s integrity can easily be proven. Another way to think of blockchains is as permanent time-stamping engines for computer records. Timestamps can be used to prove that data elements were entered at or before a certain time and have not been altered. - M. Mainelli from www.longfinance.net

To learn more about the movement toward long term economics go to www.longfinance.net

Host Dawna Jones also interviewed Bernard Lietaer on complementary currencies as a way to stablize the monetary system. How about Reinventing it... on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes.

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What does a futurist really do? With Liz Alexander

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:00:00 GMT

Liz Alexander is a futurist with a mission to help people be in charge of change through realizing their potential. Similarly companies gain the edge when they become future smart rather than feeling like victims of changing market conditions or circumstances outside of their control.

Liz and Dawna talk about how you can prepare for the future when nothing is predictable and everything is complex. You'll hear about whether robotics is really a threat to jobs, why Japan is ahead of the game, the relevance of history to how trends develop, the value of rethinking self-imposed rules on about how the world works. Liz shares the story of an outlier who understood more than the experts in treating polio and why experts make mistakes. She poses the question: Should the C-suite be automated?

You will find more about Liz at LeadingThought.us.com. For her thought leadership book mentorship go to DrLizAlexander.com

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Host Dawna Jones provides decision-making insights to support personal to global change. Find her at FromInsighttoAction.com or on Twitter: EPDawna_Jones

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What is Reality? with Dr. Ervin Laszlo

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 05:33:40 GMT

Dr. Ervin Laszlo and Dawna talk about the evolution of human consciousness and business.

Humanity has arrived at what science terms a bifurcation- a radical change in the trajectory of a system. Linear evolution is at a transition point: collapse or transform into a holistic view consistent with the laws of complex systems. They discuss:

Supercoherence: the state where personal coherence internally (heart and mind) is in a harmonic state with the outer world.
Reconnection to the wider system so that the intelligence that holds things together vibrationally is fully appreciated.
The new reality and map of consciousness.
Will we collectively take the path of transformation rather than that of extinction?

Dr.Ervin Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences.

Host Dawna Jones believes that humanity can be better in the world and that the ultimate calling is to expand consciousness and compassion to all life. She also believes that business can lead the way to restoring and regenerating ecological systems civilization relies on but has taken for granted.

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