She's an association management executive with a passion for engagement, whether grassroots advocacy or the development and advancement of regional chapter affiliates both domestically and internationally. In the last two decades, she has served as a Political Affairs Manager, a Director of Congressional Relations, a Senior Director of Chapter Support Services, the Director of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), and most recently as the Chief Global Member Engagement Officer. Working with members and chapters in more than 125 countries, she's driven to promote membership policies and benefits, design strategies to retain and recruit members, oversee foundations, chapters, councils, and association government affairs efforts.

With a unique background in advocacy and activism, membership, and stakeholder relations, as well as association management operations, her diverse expertise makes her a valuable partner and advisor to global non-profit clients.

A native of Sacramento, California, she received her undergraduate degrees in Political Science and English Literature from the University of California, at Davis and a Master of Arts in Government with honors from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) by the America Society of Association Executives (ASAE), considered the highest level of professional competency in association management and serves to elevate professional standards.

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast with Elisa Pratt.

Separately, I'm excited to announce the launch of PM Next, with longtime friend and colleague, Jennifer Bridges. Check out at https://www.pdus2go.com/pm-next.

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She is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches and writes on leadership, teams, and organizational learning. Her books Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy and Teaming to Innovate explore teamwork in dynamic, unpredictable work environments. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth is the winner of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award and offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. 

She has been ranked by the biannual Thinkers50 global list of top management thinkers since 2011 (most recently #3) and selected in 2019 as the #1 most influential thinker in Human Resources by HR Magazine. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller. She received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast with Amy Edmondson.

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One of the topics I'm most excited about in writing the CB book is the Curve Benders Roadmap. Think of it as your personal GPS from now to next, specifically around strategic relationships that will empower your nonlinear growth. Throughout various stages in your life, you’ll uncover or stumble upon refraction points where certain strategic relationships will accelerate your path forward, and highlight new opportunities, potentials, and directions, if not destinations. 

Here are the key objectives to consider as you think about your Curve Benders Roadmap:

Step one of Curve Benders Roadmap is to define Your Personal Market Value. Similar to an organization creating and increasing its market value, you, too, have the potential to enhance and expand your personal market value dramatically. Over time, the comparable value of your market value will heavily depend on a stable foundation, a set of growth enablers, and subsequent value accelerants. Foundations are a must, and without them, the rest will be difficult, if not impossible.

Your personal market value, at the center, requires a strong foundation across three critical areas:

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast as I share insights into your personal market value.

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Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry, Leading Online Family History Business, for $4.7 Billion. Ancestry is the global leader in digital family history services, operating in more than 30 countries with more than 3 million paying subscribers across its Ancestry online properties and more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The company harnesses the information found in family trees and historical records to help people gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Ancestry also operates a market-leading consumer genomics business, which informs consumers about their heritage and key health characteristics.

Prior to joining Ancestry, she served as CEO of Mattel, President of Americas, and Vice President of Global Sales Operations at Google. She has also held leadership roles as COO of Groupon, EVP of US Card Services and CMO of Discover Financial Services, and was a partner at McKinsey in London and Chicago. She has championed organizations that inspire girls to pursue education opportunities and careers in STEM and the next generation of women leaders. She is a recipient of the Forbes “Excellence Award in Innovation,” Chicago Innovation’s “Visionary Award”, and was named to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list. She serves on the Board of Directors of McDonald’s Corporation. She earned a BA in Economics and an MBA from Harvard. 

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast on Willing to See No Boundaries, with Margo Georgiadis, President, and CEO of Ancestry.

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He has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turnarounds to new markets. He's passionate about creating sound strategies, overhauling leaderships and cultures, and re-designing them holistically for growth. 

As the co-founder and Managing Partner at Navalent, he has worked in 25 countries on 4 continents, helping organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth and then designing programs to execute those strategies. The best-selling author of eight books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power, he is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes and is proud to be a member of the Marshall Goldsmith MG100 coaching community. Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast with Ron Carucci.

In this episode, I also read an excerpt from chapter one of my forthcoming book, Curve Benders (Wiley, 2021). You'll find a part of it in our blog at NourGroup.com/Blog, and the rest in Nour Forum.

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Her passion and curiosity centers around the quality of how we meet, see, hear, speak, learn with, and encounter one another in organizational systems. She believes how we might encourage dialogue is not only more humane, but it also enables us, our colleagues, and our society to flourish. Working at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue, and mindfulness, she has presented her research to audiences throughout the world and is recognized by the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers.

Her recent research with John Higgins on ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ – examining how perceptions of power enable and silence others, is the subject of her new book, Speak Up: Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard.

As well as running her own business, she is a Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education – part of Hult International Business School. Previously she was a consultant with Deloitte, an executive at Boo.com, and worked in strategy consulting in what is now the strategy arm of Computer Science Corporation. Educated at Cambridge University she gained an MA in Land Economy, a Masters in Change Agent Skills and Strategies at Surrey University, and a Masters in Research at Cranfield School of Management where she also earned her Ph.D.

Most valiantly, she’s the mother to two wonderful daughters who test her regularly on her powers of mindfulness and dialogue. Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast with Megan Reitz.

In the opening section of the podcast, I also reference my recent The Way I See It…Innovative Teams Thrive Through Visionary Leaders. Hope you’ll get a chance to read the rest of the article.

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He is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research. He is passionate about exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and ultimately deliver positive powerful results. 

Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. 

His most recent book, Questions Are the Answer, delivers insights about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions and how anyone can create them. His previous book, The Innovator’s DNA (with Jeff Dyer and the late Clayton Christensen), explored where disruptive innovations come from. Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Hal Gregersen.

The Way I See It... Finding a Path Forward article can be found in our blog at NourGroup.com/Blog.

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She is an executive coach, an author, and a speaker specializing in showing people how to transform their lives and work for the better by applying insights from the behavioral sciences (behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience). Her book on that topic – How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life – has been published in 14 languages and over 60 countries. It was hailed by Forbes as one of their “must-read business books,” described by Fortune as one of their top “self-improvement through data” books, and listed by Inc. magazine as one of the “best 15 leadership and personal development books of the past five years.” 

During her twelve years with McKinsey & Company, she co-founded McKinsey’s leadership practice and designed the firm’s approach to transforming senior team dynamics. She also founded and remains a faculty of McKinsey’s flagship training course for senior female executives. Previously, she spent the 1990s working in public policy as an economist at the Bank of England.

She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and has written on behavioral change topics for the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, Business Insider, Huffington Post, and WIRED. 

She is one of Marshall Goldsmith’s ‘MG100‘ coaches, a member of Silicon Guild, a Founding Fellow of the Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching, and has degrees in Economics from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Caroline Webb.

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She is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and a New York Times best-selling author of Bankable Leadership and Insight. She pairs her scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to professional development.

With a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, she leads a boutique executive development firm that helps companies succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. Her diverse client list includes organizations like T-Mobile, KPMG, Walmart, IBM, Royal Bank of Canada, Vail Resorts, and the Miami Heat.

Thinkers50 has named her one of the top 30 emerging management thinkers in the world and a top 50 World Leader in Coaching. She contributes to Harvard Business Review and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company. 

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Tasha Eurich.

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He is a lifelong social innovator with a passion for entrepreneurship. His first venture was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in 2007. Previously, he served as CEO of a financial technology company that was acquired by Interactive Brokers in 2015.  His experiences as an entrepreneur and founder have been chronicled in case studies at Babson College and at Harvard Business School. Outside of his entrepreneurial activities, he has served as a corporate executive, magazine columnist, author of business books, an active member of non-profit and corporate boards, and occasional commentator in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, and MarketWatch.

He is currently the Board Chair of Prosperity Now, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit that bridges public policy and practice in the areas of education, financial capability, entrepreneurship, and homeownership. He is actively involved in the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a member of the Global Agenda Council for the Future of Education, Gender, and Work. 

Join me on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast with Asheesh Advani, President & CEO, JA Worldwide.

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