Breeding Optimism to Stir Change
Fiona Macaulay
Social Serial Entrepreneur, Professor, and Founder – WILD
About Fiona
Fiona Macaulay works at the intersection of innovation, leadership, and global development. She’s a serial social entrepreneur, educator, and field-builder committed to helping strong leaders become even stronger, and great organizations become event greater. Fiona founded WILD – the Women Innovators and Leaders Development Network- to support global development sector leaders to scale their impact, and thrive. WILD convenes the annual Women in Global Development Leadership Forum. The first its kind, this event is at the hub of a movement to increase women’s leadership, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our sector. In the academic world, Fiona is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she also runs a leadership clinic for MBA students and serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to mentor and coach social innovators and leaders across campus. Fiona is an active member of the Board of Governors for Junior Achievement Worldwide and a past Board Chair for CAMFED USA Foundation.
Take home these learnings
1) Lessons from transformations for leadership
2) How to stay with optimism during times of change?
3) The new currency that creates communities?
4) How to build and bring communities together?
Episode Transcript:
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Immanual Joseph
How to live from the space of Compassion as a leader and as a Parent?
Immanual Joseph
Compassion Activist - 3X TEDx Speaker- 7X Author - Teacher- Scientist
About Immanual Joseph
Immanual is the founder of Compassionleaders, whose mission is to empower workplaces with compassion skills that enable human and business excellence.
For over 6 years, he has been a student and evangelist of workplace compassion. He is convinced that love, kindness, and decency have a crucial place in the work setting. He created the 9-Pillars of workplace compassion framework and authored ‘The Fifth Revolution- Reinventing workplace happiness, health, and engagement through compassion’. He has taught compassion workshops globally, including at Amazon, Salesforce, Box, and HSBC.
He is a former cancer scientist, and author of seven fiction and non-fiction books, multiple scientific publications, book chapters, and articles. He dreams of a world without walls, of global harmony, and workplaces that empower their people to thrive.
He currently resides in McKinney, Texas, with his wife and kids.
Take home these learnings
2) Differentiating compassion with empathy and sympathy
3) Understanding the path of surrender.
4) The role of parents operating from a space of compassion.
Bob Anderson
Transforming into your Extraordinary Self
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Bob Anderson
Executive Coach, Author & Founder of The Leadership Circle
About Bob
Robert (Bob) J. Anderson has been a pacesetter and thought leader in the field of Leadership Development for over 30 years. He is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle and Full Circle Group.
Bob has completed his second co-authored book "Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most." "Scaling Leadership" is an essential guide that offers senior leaders the information needed to develop conscious leadership at scale with their organization.
His first book, co-authored with William A. Adams, "Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results," has been described as the next seminal work in the leadership field. Mastering Leadership is a comprehensive look at what makes for extraordinary leadership and how to develop it.
Bob created The Leadership Circle Profile, a 360° assessment used by organizations the world over to measure the effectiveness of their leaders. In 2005, the Stayer Center for Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business awarded Bob the Partner in Innovation Award. The MEECO Leadership Institute awarded him the International Thought Leader of Distinction in 2018.
Take home these learnings
1) How to achieve positive transformation under pressure?
2) How to transform into your Extraordinary Self despite complexities, challenges, and limitations?
3) How to develop your inner game and how to focus on it?
4) What is the process of identifying your true purpose?
John Spence
Figuring out Ideas straight from a Business Coach
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John Spence
Master Business Acumen Coach
Founder John Spence LLC
About John
John Spence is widely recognized as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world. The American Management Association named him one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He is also recognized by the highly prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the top eight in the world for their Distinguished Achievement Award. At 26 years old, John was appointed as CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects across 20 countries. Just two years later, Inc. Magazine named him one of America’s Up and Coming Young Business Leaders. John is also recognized as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America, one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, one of the Top 50 Small Business Experts in America and one of the top 500 Leadership Development Experts in the World. For more than three decades, John Spence has travelled the world assisting individuals and businesses in becoming more successful. John is the author of five books and a co-author of several others. He is also a business consultant, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and executive coach, with clients ranging from numerous Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, professional associations, and other organizations. John Spence is widely recognized as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world.
The American Management Association named him one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He is also recognized by the highly prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the top eight in the world for their Distinguished Achievement Award.
At 26 years old, John was appointed as CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects across 20 countries. Just two years later, Inc. Magazine named him one of America’s Up and Coming Young Business Leaders. John is also recognized as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America, one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, one of the Top 50 Small Business Experts in America, and one of the top 500 Leadership Development Experts in the World.
For more than three decades, John Spence has traveled the world assisting individuals and businesses in becoming more successful. John is the author of five books and a co-author of several others. He is also a business consultant, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and executive coach, with clients ranging from numerous Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, professional associations, and other organizations.
Take home these learnings
1) To understand workplace communications a business leader
2) Develop effective business leadership strategies
3) The role of values for a CEO or senior management
4) How to come out of an unhappy state of mind
5) The common denominators of a successful leader
6) How to create a safe space for employees as a leader
Nathan Farrugia
Miles to go before I sleep
Nathan Farrugia
Entrepreneur, Business Coach and CEO
About Nathan
Nathan Farrugia is an endurance athlete, business performance coach and entrepreneur, and has led organisations in technology, education, healthcare and hospitality. He is also the owner and representative of Vistage in Malta, a TEDx and Motivational speaker and philanthropist.
Nathan has completed some of the world’s toughest extreme challenges, raising thousands of euros for charity. In 2011, he ran a million steps to complete a world first marathon by running 27 consecutive marathons in 27 days in each of the 27 European union countries. He is married to Deirdre and has two children, Robyn and Keira and lives in Malta.
Take home these learnings
2) Explaining why bringing accountability in culture, is important for growth.
3) Defining flow from Nathan's lens.
4) Explaining how playing with your strengths is fulfilling your role.
Candace Lightner
Fighting for a Cause while you transcend as a better version
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Candace Lightner
Award Winning Keynote Speaker, Educator, Activist and Consultant. President at We Save Lives, and CL and Associates
About Candace
Candace Lightner, is a groundbreaking activist, cultural movement maker, mentor, author, producer, and spokesperson, who is widely recognized as one of the most influential American citizens of the twentieth century.
She is the Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MADD, and We Save Lives and is credited with saving more than 400,000 lives.
Candace is the subject of an Emmy nominated television movie and is featured in numerous documentaries and books. She co-authored “Giving Sorrow Words: How to Cope with Grief and Get on With Your Life,” which breaks the grieving process down into 3 stages: the beginning the middle and the rest of your life.
She speaks to thousands all over the world on how to turn a protest into a movement and the ABC’s of making a difference. As a successful leader, she offers practical ideas and strategies, based on the techniques that have worked for her. Candace has become the “go-to” expert on how to create a successful movement. She will soon be introducing workshops on how to be a successful activist.
As an ongoing guest lecturer at Columbia University’s Personal Leadership Institute, Candace not only serves as an example of how to start a successful movement that lasts, she also knows about navigating the pitfalls on one’s way to becoming the CEO of a large international corporation.
Candace is also a strong advocate for the Courage to Intervene, a We Save Lives program educating bystanders on the best techniques for keeping anyone who will listen from driving recklessly.
Candace continues to inspire and motivate groups around the country, and believes that when others succeed in a noble cause it helps all of us live better.
Specialties include Strategic Planning, building your grassroots, the nuances of developing an effective non-profit, the necessary steps to pass legislation and coalition building.
Take home these learnings
1) How to retain strength, retain, and grit when you choose a difficult battle?
2) Being practical while not being lost by emotion.
3) How to build camaraderie to support a common cause?
4) How to manage a volunteer ecosystem and build an organization from grassroots?
Tracy Sinclair
The Dynamics of a Coaching Conversation
Tracy Sinclair
Coaching Specialist, Author
Vice-Chair, International Coaching Federation Global Board
About Tracy
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Tracy Sinclair is a corporate executive and board-level coach, as well as a leadership development designer and facilitator, who has worked with a wide range of organizations within the UK and internationally. Drawing on her broad experience in the field across the last two decades, Tracy works with business leaders and executives to support and enhance their professional and personal development.
Tracy uses her extensive knowledge to train coaches and assist managers and leaders in developing their coaching capability. She is a published author and co-authored Becoming a Coach, the Essential ICF Guide published in 2020 which provides a comprehensive guide to coaching for coaches at all levels of skill and experience, the psychology that underpins coaching, and the updated ICF Core Competency Model. Tracy also specializes in working with organizations to support the development of coaching culture and is an expert speaker on these topics.
Take home these learnings
1) The impact of coaching psychology on the success of coaching engagement
2) Nitty-gritty of a coaching mindset in a coaching conversation
3) Silence as an act of communication in a coaching conversation
4) Navigating through the complexity of internal conversation during coaching
5) Prioritizing awareness as a part of coaching presence
