Demystifying Organizations

Josh Wolfe is the co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital,  a venture capital fund with $2.5 billion under management that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible.  Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU. He is a term member at The Council on Foreign Relations.

Lisa Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business.  Leslie's research focuses on strategies for facilitating social justice and strong performance in diverse organizations. She also conducts research in the related areas of cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management.

Robin Ely a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms; the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance; and how organizational narratives about gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her work is published in many of the top management journals. 

Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Leslie is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make decisions, and the wisdom or error of those decisions. In her primary line of research, Leslie studies privacy decision-making, identifying what drives people to share or withhold personal information, as well as their reactions to firms’ and employers’ use of their personal data. She joins me on the podcast to discuss current issues with data privacy.

Part I- Travis May committed 5 armed robberies at the age of 16.  Travis tells his remarkable, inspiring story.

Part II- Keramet Reiter is an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology.  Keramet studies prisons, prisoners’ rights, and the impact of prison and punishment policy on individuals, communities, and legal systems.  Jeff and Karamet discuss Travis' story and related criminal justice issues.

Blair Garrou is a co-founder and Managing Director at Mercury Fund, an early stage venture capital fund with over $275 million under management.  Blair focuses on investments in enterprise SaaS and cloud computing startups. In addition, Blair teaches courses on venture capital at Rice University and was named to the Houston Business Journal’s inaugural “40 under 40.”

Jack Huffard is the President and CEO of Tenable Network Security, a $2 billion cyber security corporation. Jack co-founded Tenable in 2002.

Before Tenable, Jack was the Director of Corporate Development for Enterasys Networks. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security.

Mark Coddington is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Washington and Lee University.  He is the author of the recent book, Aggregating the News.  Mark earned his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a contributor to the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. His research has been published in journals including Mass Communication and Society, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, and the International Journal of Communication.

Megan Reitz is listed on the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers and on the 2018 HR Most Influential list of Thinkers. Reitz is the author of the new book, Speak Up, as well as Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time  and a professor of leadership and dialogue, Hult Ashridge Executive Education. She is an international speaker, coach and consultant and her work focuses on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness.