Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work

You have a brand at work. Whether intentionally crafted or not, when people hear your name, receive an email or digital message from you, or see you on the screen or in person, your brand comes to mind. Quantuvos coach Rei Perovic joins host Brian Gorman to explore this often-overlooked topic. What goes into a personal brand? How do you shape it? What can you do to break that initial box, stereotype, bias that others project onto you the first time you encounter one another? These questions and more are answered in this insightful conversation.

There is no single solution for the best leadership team. That said, the extensive research of Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo has resulted in important models for leadership teams that are best fitted for different types of organizations and different situations the organization is facing. Host Brian Gorman, Thomas, and Marianna explore several of the key messages that the authors present in "The Next Leadership Team: How to Select, Build, and Optimize Your Top Team."

We’ve all heard the saying, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” And we all encounter those forks; sometimes we see them coming, and sometimes we don’t. Janet Redwine, Olympic athlete and Director of Program Success for Executive Education in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, joins host Brian Gorman for this inquiry into aspirations vs. goals, recognizing turning points, and reflection on the past as you reach another turning point and move into the future.

The global impact of Covid serves as the backdrop for Jeff Skipper's "Dancing with Disruption: Leading Dramatic Change During Global Transformation." Jeff uses the pandemic and responses to it as a case study of twelve strategies for moving through change. In this conversation, Jeff and host Brian Gorman dive into several of those strategies and why they are so important regardless of the scale of the change being executed.

When we think of leadership development, our attention turns to the skills that leaders need. But as important as those skills are, their value is limited if they are not applied with an appropriate level of leadership maturity. In this episode, Jessica Bronzert, Founder and CEO of Sparks Group, joins host Brian Gorman to discuss horizontal (skills) vs. vertical (maturity) development. The need for attention to vertical development continues to grow as the forces driving change in the workplace become increasingly powerful.

We all have choice in how we live our lives; while the choices may not always be what we want, there still is choice. In this episode, Rahul Karan Sharma, author of Habits 4 Miracles: Design Your Life Your Way joins host Brian Gorman in an often-personal conversation about the choices we have and the habits we can develop to foster positive choices. Applying the lessons of this podcast has the potential to change the direction of your life.

At the heart of business success is trust: trust with those who work for the organization, with vendors, and with customers. In The Pyramid Puzzle, Zain Raj, Co-Founder of Shapiro, Raj, writes an engaging business novel about a long-term business that has lost trust. Raj and host Brian Gorman use The Pyramid Puzzle to discuss how trust can be lost and how it can be regained. Among the key messages: see the business through the lens of others and consistently deliver on your promise as they understand it.

What are you seeking in your life? Grant Muller, author of "Top of Heart" left high school with the ambition and drive to achieve significance. By his late 20s, he was a tech industry millionaire, an alcoholic, and a junkie. As Grant says of that time in his life, "The success we achieve may not give us the fulfillment we are seeking." In this deeply personal and reflective episode, Grant joins host Brian Gorman to share his journey from a horse stable in Toronto, to an apartment overlooking the mountains of Colorado, to homelessness and living in a crack house he was afraid to leave, and fortunately to the recovery and fulfillment that now give his life meaning. There are lessons here for all of us.

You are an incredible storyteller! Every one of us is. And our brains are story processors, not logic processors. Richard Rosser is a filmmaker, author, and master storyteller. You probably know his work as a writer for 24, This is Us, Gray's Anatomy, the reboot of MacGyver, or elsewhere. Richard and host Brian Gorman explore why stories are so powerful and how to make the stories you tell others as impactful as the stories you tell yourself. Along the way, they share some of their own stories.

In his recently published book, Brad Deutser, founder and CEO of Deutser, asks leaders to "make cultivating belonging a personal leadership imperative across the world." In discussing "Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions that Build Unity and Foster Performance," Brad and host Brian Gorman explore human-centric leadership and the five rules that Brad and his team have identified through extensive research and engagement with organizations globally.