In this week's episode, I am joined by Jeff Wetzler! Jeff Wetzler is a leadership expert best known as the co-founder of Transcend, a diverse team of educators and innovators rewriting the way we deliver education.

He recently wrote Ask, a book all about the art of asking questions.

Jeff has been on a quarter-century quest to transform learning opportunities, blending his unique set of leadership experiences in the fields of business and education.

He has pursued his quest as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, as a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America, and most recently, as co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization.

Jeff earned a Doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Brown University. He is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

He lives in New York with his wife, two children and their puppy. Key Points

• Choose curiosity to deepen connections

• Make it safe for honest dialogue

• Pose quality questions for learning

• Listen to uncover unspoken truths

• Reflect and reconnect to grow together

Best Quotes

03:42 - 03:59

• "Absolutely. If, you know, if you are just interacting with someone to get something from them or to, you know, to get, get a piece of information people might be happy to share the first time, but if that continues to happen over and over again, people are basically like, this person doesn't care about me." 04:27 - 04:36

• "BS listening stands for back to self listening. So when you know, when someone is listening to you and you tell 'em something and then they say, well, that reminds me of this thing about me, or whatever. That is back to self listening."

06:07 - 06:12

• " Sometimes the most important things will only come out if you let the silence do its work."

06:16 - 06:26

• "I interviewed a lot of professional listeners for the book and one category of professional listeners that I interviewed with psychotherapists, and they, they talk about this thing called the doorknob moment."

To learn more about Jeff: https://www.askapproach.com/ https://transcendeducation.org/team/jeff-wetzler/