In this episode of "What Does Poetry Have To Do With Leadership?", JMJ consultants Kathyrn Schindler and Kelli Bettenhausen explore "Cutting Loose" by poet William Stafford.

Kelli and Kathryn discuss the leadership quality of empathy and what it means to remain in touch with shared sorrow while bringing people from there they are.  When a breakdown occurs, what can be done differently to achieve breakthough?

"Cutting Loose" by William Stafford, Copyright 1982.  Permission granted by Kim Stafford.  The poem is available in a collection titled "Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems" by Roger Housden, published by Harmony; First Edition (March 13, 2007).

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In this episode of "What Does Poetry Have To Do With Leadership?", JMJ consultants Kathyrn Schindler and Kelli Bettenhausen explore "what haunts him" from the book "Voices" by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2008).

Kelli and Kathryn, along with special guests Brian Martin and Regina Williams, discuss the leadership distinctions that leadership can come from anyplace and anyone, regardless of their authority level.

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In this episode of "What Does Poetry Have To Do With Leadership?", JMJ consultants Kathryn Schindler and Kelli Bettenhausen explore "Come" by Australian poet Andrew Colliver.  Available in a collection of poems and stories titled 'This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World (Poetry Chaikhana Anthology Book 2)' by Ivan Granger, published by Poetry Chaikhana 2018.

Kelli and Kathryn discuss the leadership distinctions of 'Getting on the balcony' and 'Not knowing' what’s on the other side.

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In the first episode of "What Does Poetry Have To Do With Leadership?", JMJ consultants Kathryn Schindler and Kelli Bettenhausen explore the poem "The Leader".

This short poem by English poet Roger McGough asks the big question: What distinguishes leadership?

“The Leader” by Roger McGough from Sky in the Pie (© Roger McGough 1983) is used by permission of United Agents (www.unitedagents.co.uk) on behalf of Roger McGough.

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Welcome to "What Does Poetry Have To Do With Leadership?"

Listen to JMJ consultants Kelli Bettenhausen and Kathryn Schindler, introduce the podcast series while they explain and demonstrate “What Does Poetry Have to do With Leadership?” Why it is a novel tool for leaders, particularly in these times, and how poetry is becoming a business practice within today’s organizations.

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Join JMJ Co-founder Mike Goddu in a conversation on how we emerge as leaders in a Post Covid-19 crisis world. From the standpoint of organizational excellence, human performance, organizational development, there is no better time to learn and improve. There is no better time to engage your supervisors in your technicians. There is no better time, and people have figured out how they know which button to hit. To get the cross-functional people together to make the improvements they always wish they had time to, and it could be supply chain. 

Join JMJ Master Consultant Gill Kernick and Tamsin Lishman, Asset Director, Northumbrian Water discuss the challenges of working during these disruptive times.  Listen to how they are adapting, learning, innovating, and collaborating to deliver water safely.

In our conversations, we talk a lot about communication style differences and how this either promotes or inhibits inclusiveness.  We also get into leadership and their role in first understanding and then promoting inclusive behavior.  We discuss how psychological safety is an absolute imperative and foundational in promoting inclusion and diversity and how all of this is quite hard and even more difficult when people are not face-to-face.  

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Global Subject Matter Expert in High-Performance Coaching Helen Atkinson and JMJ Senior Consultant Gill Kernick discuss working and consulting in traditionally male-dominated high hazard industries and environments. 

In fact, there are fewer women in oil and gas than almost any major industry. Gender diversity decreases with seniority with only 1% of women holding the position of CEO.

What are the challenges facing women in safety leadership how can perceived obstacles can be turned into assets?

Gill and Helen explain how women create a transformational relationship and a thriving culture. What is the part we can all play to further gender equality in business performance?