In this episode, Alma and Tuli sit down with Sarah Feely to unpack what purpose and meaning at work really look like. We explore how to align personal values with professional roles, why meaningful work matters, and how to create a culture where people feel truly connected to what they do. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation filled with insights, stories, and practical takeaways you can apply today!

Kelly Ross is a consultant and executive coach with 25 + years of experience helping teams and organizations with Learning and Change challenges. After 15 years working nationally and internationally with McKinsey, she opened up her people strategies firm, Ross Associates, 13 years ago to help leaders and teams navigate change and learn in the process. In our conversation with her, Kelly shares about her uncommon career path, the differences between consulting and coaching, how to create the ideal learning experience, and the value of investing in the 'people side' of business.

Key topics: Knowledge Management, Building Learning Communities, Team Learning, Design Practices

Happy 2024! We start off the year with our incredible guest Dorie Blesoff, who has over 45 years of experience in the Learning & Organizational Change space. She has been (or is) a Chief People Officer, an executive coach, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, a learning & development consultant, a Dean, and even a singer/songwriter! In this conversation, we explore beautiful questions like:

We had a great conversation with Brandon Wilks, our friend and an experienced consultant in organizational culture, strategy and employee engagement and founder of LVD Strategies. Brandon shares about his journey as a child of Jamaican immigrants-from high school football in Florida, sociology at Harvard, consulting and DEI work at large firms, then his pursuit of an M.S. at Northwestern--to founding his own practice for building equity and engagement into workplace cultures. His uniques insights and approaches to this type of challenging work makes for a fantastic conversation we hope you enjoy as much as we did!

Ryan Smerek, PhD., is an author, professor, and researcher in organizational development who recently released his latest book, titled "Speaking Up at Work: Leading Change as an Independent Thinker." In this conversation, we discuss his journey into organizational development, his research and writing process, and then he shares some of his best nuggets from both his first book as well as his newly released book. Join us!

Tuli and Alma are joined by Organizational Consultant Shereen Sater for a wide ranging and entertaining conversation about organizational culture, toxic cultures, and gen z in the workplace.

We took a little pause, but we're so happy to be back!! This conversation is all about getting to the "so what?" behind Alma's recent research on team narratives. We explore (beautiful) questions like: what is the role of story in building effective teams? Why should team leaders pay attention to how people make sense of their work team experiences? How can connection routines foster positive team storytelling and why does that even matter? Join us!