Cassandra’s life journey – both professionally and personally – led her focus on helping people leverage human emotions to thrive and be positive when transformation, disruption and change comes along.  Her background as a chemical engineer, a successful corporate executive and now a sought after speaker and consultant helped her codify the holistic practice of Change Enthusiasm, which she has now documented in a powerful new book, Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership & Success.

In this episode we explored many aspects of Cassandra’s thinking and previewed many of the key topics detailed in the new book.

Business consultant, author, keynote speaker and TV commentator (as seen on CNN, Headline News and others!) Jamie Turner joined us to talk leadership.  Jamie is a student of leadership, and through his work he has compiled and documented a list of tips that any leader can benefit from.

During our chat we focused on his newest e-book, titled THE UNSPOKEN RULES OF LEADERSHIP, HOW TO LEAD YOURSELF AND THOSE AROUND YOU.  It is a fast paced read and filled with great lessons, which Jamie says he has observed and learned the hard way -- through mistakes and failure!

We hope you enjoy this energetic and fun chat!

Sophie Le Ray is an entrepreneur, an author, and an experienced business facilitator.

Sophie is the founder and spokesperson for the WIL Forum, the first platform for businesswomen leaders in the Middle East and Asia. Based in Dubai for over a decade, she is the co-author of award winner ‘Game Changers: How Women in the Arab World Are Changing the Rules and Shaping the Future’, published in May 2016.

Most recently co-founder of EVE list, a social enterprise measuring the state of gender equity in the workplace.

She now lives in Europe where she advises companies on their D&I practices and regularly speaks in global conferences on entrepreneurship and women's economic empowerment.

Henna Inam is an accomplished business leader, a best-selling author, a sought after executive coach and a wonderful human with a compelling personal story of her career journey.

We got to chat with Henna on her perspectives about leading in change. We take a deep dive into a number of ‘hot takes’ from her fabulous leadership books, Wired for Disruption and Wired for Authenticity.

Henna has done much work to understand and bring to life how humans function and how that impacts leaders and is a regular contributor to the Forbes Leadership Channel.

Do you start out your workday thinking ‘I am going to be Legendary today’?

Most leaders don’t, but our guest Tommy Breedlove thinks maybe you should.

We got a chance to talk to Tommy about the thinking and perspectives he has built into his best-selling book LEGENDARY: A SIMPLE PLAYBOOK FOR BUILDING AND LIVING A LEGENDARY LIFE.

To Tommy, living legendary is about living a life with purpose and significance.  In our conversation we talk about working in your ‘Zone of Brilliance’ and ‘Being a Pro’, building a Personal Mission Statement to serve as your rock during changing times, empowering yourself by saying NO and asking for guidance, and much more.

Tommy’s energy and passion for helping leaders to develop and reach their potentials, as well as his personal narrative of overcoming obstacles and finding his way, provide great insights that can help you become a better leader.

We hope you enjoy it.

This episode comes at change from a bit of a different angle, as we get to chat with two of the leaders who are bringing the Special Olympic games to Orlando, FL in 2022.

Amy Wise, Chief Development and Marketing Officer for the 2022 USA Special Olympics Games and Meghan McLean, SVP Sports for the Games sat down with us to talk how things like the impacts of COVID, trends in Corporate Social Responsibility and advances in data and analytics are shaping the changing approach to the upcoming games.

A key shift in their planning is the keen focus on the athletes, the true stars of the games.  Telling their stories, bringing leading-edge technology to the competition for them … Meghan and Amy and the entire team is focused on making the intense training and preparation of the Games pay off as they plan for a massive event with over 4000 athletes, 10000 volunteers, and over 125000 spectators in July 2022.

Make sure to listen to the end as Meghan talks about the inspiring story of Chris Nikic, an athlete who recently became the first person with Downs Syndrome to complete the grueling Ironman Triathlon!

In this episode, we speak with entrepreneur and change maker, Neil Patel. Neil has a long history in tech startups and candidly speaks with Change Cultivators about the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur - what he has learned over decades of leadership and how he is constantly learning and growing - from his failures and successes.

With his new brand launch (Kabuni) looming in Q4 of 2021 - Neil talks to us about how the world is rapidly shifting from 2D to 3D and how the mixed reality immersive metaverse is going to yet again (like the Internet) change the world forever. He shares with us his vision to ‘Unlock The Design Potential In Every Human Being’ and how staying razor-sharp to your ‘why’ as a business is what makes companies successful and agile enough to move through the constant change we are living in.

A humble account from an entrepreneur that we feel is one to watch in the category-creating space of a brand in the world of mixed reality.

In this episode, we have the opportunity to speak to the highly respected Vinod Kumar - CEO of Vodafone Business and an accomplished leader in the telecoms industry - who has driven massive turnaround projects.

Amongst other things, Vinod shares his insight and experience on:

- Why he loves change

- How he has been dealing with change in disruptive times

- The role tech is playing in change

- How culture will always eat strategy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

- The frog and elephant in the room

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Humans. They are fascinating creatures and humans in teams and organizations?  Even more fascinating. Humans in teams during disruption and change? Now we have some complexity, tension, and possible volatility. Recently my co-host Rozzyn Boy, our producer Gareth Hosking and I sat down to discuss observations from our first two seasons of our Change Cultivators podcast.

In this episode we speak with Ellen Windemuth - co-founder and CEO of the WaterBear Network - CEO of Off the Fence (a leading global non-fiction production and distribution content company) - and executive producer of My Octopus Teacher (currently on Netflix).

Ellen shares her insight and experience with us on how she navigated change in the industry since founding Off the Fence in 1994 until the exciting launch of the WaterBear network.

Under her leadership Off the Fence acquired, produced, and co-produced over 6,000 hours of content. Ellen is a seasoned Executive Producer and Distributor and has produced over 400 hours to date herself. She is the Treasurer of the Jackson Hole Trust and a Board Member of the Wild Talk Festival as well as an Advisory Board Member for Realscreen London.

Something Ellen spends a lot of time doing is asking people, ‘how do you experience life’? And learning how different people respond to different triggers when it comes to a strong story was something that every business has.

Ellen also shares about the groundbreaking first interactive streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet. - the Waterbear Network.