Entelechy Leadership Stories

Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde are choreographers of change.

Jenny is Managing Director at Innovation Ecosystem, an organization that offers practical tools and support to deliver a step-change in innovation effectiveness. She met her business partner, Dan, when she was invited by the UN to speak at Berkeley about the innovation lab that she set up in the middle of the earthquake response in Nepal.

Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan, sometimes referred to as “The Grandfather of Product Innovation”, is a specialist in disruption, right at the cutting edge of innovation.

After working with Fortune 500 companies, governments and some of the world’s largest non-profits and philanthropists, Jenny and Dan are looking to share some of their insights into how all types of businesses need to think outside the box to solve problems.

Jennifer Wilde

Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde are choreographers of change. Jenny is Managing Director at Innovation Ecosystem, an organization that offers practical tools and support to deliver a step-change in innovation effectiveness. She met her business partner, Dan, when she was invited by the UN to speak at Berkley about the innovation lab that she set up in the middle of the earthquake response in Nepal. Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan, sometimes referred to as “The Grandfather of Product Innovation”, is a specialist in disruption, right at the cutting edge of innovation. After working with Fortune 500 companies, governments and some of the world’s largest non-profits and philanthropists, Jenny and Dan are looking to share some of their insights into how all types of businesses need to think outside the box to solve problems.

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@Inno_ecosystem on Twitter

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Having worked in oncology, neuroscience, and diagnostics, author Michael Biarnes has dedicated his career to improving patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Along the way, he discovered his passion for mentorship and coaching, striving to help individuals define success for themselves and take tangible steps towards achieving a happier, more balanced, and fulfilling life. His book, Redefining Success, seeks to further that passion.

About the Book

"Redefining Success is all about achieving greater happiness, fulfillment, and alignment in life around the things that matter to you! The book is the combination of a plethora of amazing interviews, extensive scientific research, and a bit of my own personal experience. My work has shown that we each need to define what "success" means for ourselves because if we don’t live aligned with our own definition of success, happiness and fulfillment will remain elusive no matter how much we accomplish in life."

Michael Biarnes

Having worked in oncology, neuroscience, and diagnostics, author Michael Biarnes has dedicated his career to improving patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Along the way, he discovered his passion for mentorship and coaching, striving to help individuals define success for themselves and take tangible steps towards achieving a happier, more balanced, and fulfilling life. His book, Redefining Success, seeks to further that passion.

Michael's Website

@michael_biarnes_author on Instagram

Michael's Facebook page

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Tara Milburn is the Founder and CEO of Ethical Swag, a sustainable branding company that helps brands achieve their ESG goals through sustainable team building, employee recognition, and eco-friendly corporate gifting.

Tara Milburn

Tara Milburn is the Founder and CEO of Ethical Swag, a sustainable branding company that helps brands achieve their ESG goals through sustainable team building, employee recognition, and eco-friendly corporate gifting.

Tara's Website

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@ethicalswag on Instagram

@ethicalswag on Twitter

Tara on YouTube

Ethan Brown is a recent graduate of Boston University, where he studied Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television. Ethan was never the outdoorsy type growing up, but after studying the risks associated with climate change, he felt compelled to use his years of comedy writing experience as Editor-in-Chief of both his high school and college satire publications to communicate environmental issues to others in a fun and entertaining way.

Finding himself with some free time during early quarantine, Ethan launched The Sweaty Penguin Podcast.

Since its launch, The Sweaty Penguin has released 80+ episodes, amassed over 13,000 downloads, showcased the work of professors from ten countries across five continents, won three grants, and became a PBS partner.

Through The Sweaty Penguin, Ethan aims to make climate change less overwhelming and politicized, and more accessible and fun, which he hopes will lead to more engagement, conversation, and progress.

Ethan Brown

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@sweatypenguinpod on Instagram

@sweatpenguinpod on Twitter

Ethan's Facebook page

Welcome to another great episode of Entelechy Leadership Series. This is the first time in our podcast that we have brought back a previous Guest. Today we are joined by John David Mann, who was here on episode 87 talking about the Go-Giver series & Who Moved My Cheese. He is joined by his co-author and wife Ana Gabriel Mann and together they have written the book Go-Giver Marriage: A little story about the Five Secrets to Lasting Love. 

Ana is a clinical psychiatrist and a licensed family therapist and now an author, while John is the author of the Go-Giver series. John and Ana have been together for 25 years, 10 of those were when they working together and 15 of them have been in Marriage. Their new book the Go-Giver marriage has been in the works since 2005 and has followed the same structure as the Go-Giver series. The book combines parables and practical steps to achieve your goal. 

At the same time the book has now evolved into a training program for not just married couples but individuals too, with coaches accessible to individuals or teams where the 5 secrets are discussed in depth

In this book, Ana and John give their readers 5 secrets of how to have lasting love in their marriage and relationships with other people. 

This book is both a business book as well as a personal growth book because many entrepreneurs want to know how to balance their work and have a healthy, happy marriage and family life. It focuses on the daily steps that you can apply to change the negative habits, and shift your mindset and behaviors so as to change the dynamic of your marriage. With a focus on letting go of past baggage, communicating apologies, and having a spirit of generosity towards your spouse.

A Philosophy that comes out in the book is the way to change your marriage, isn't by working on the marriage per se, but it's by working on yourself.

In conclusion, marriage isn't a zero-sum game where we think that if I give you this, then I won't have it. By using the spirit of generosity, it means if for example by giving your partner time in your busy schedule it means you care for them, therefore making your relationship richer.   It can be viewed as a rising tide that floats both boats. 

Ana Gabriel Mann, M.A., holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology and dance-movement therapy from Antioch New England, where she specialized in working with adults and family therapy. She went on to train and work with renowned Israeli-born therapist Dr. Ruth Holt, a marriage and family specialist who taught couples to identify their patterns of dysfunction and cultivate “love maps” based on Dr. John Gottman’s landmark research. Together they led a highly successful series of therapy groups that gave couples a window into the dynamics of the other marriages in the room.

Following her work with Holt, Ana served as clinical director for a New England–based program providing county-wide therapy, education, and services for family members caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease; and as adjunct faculty and student trainer for Antioch New England, utilizing movement therapy to draw on long-term memory in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease to facilitate emotional connection and wholeness. In 1984 she cofounded the New England Institute for Integrative Acupressure, New England’s first college of Chinese medicine, where she co-led programs through 1997.

For the past two decades, Ana has worked primarily as a corporate consultant, speaker, trainer, and business coach in both profit and nonprofit sectors. In addition to coaching and teaching the 5 Secrets to Lasting Love, she is the creator and lead facilitator of the Go-Giver Marriage Coaches training program.

She is married to John David Mann, her coauthor for “The Go-Giver Marriage.”

John David Mann is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the...

Barbara Ryan is a powerhouse.

Because of our interest in the topic of women in leadership, Barbara Ryan brought plenty of insights and experience to our conversation.

Barbara founded Barbara Ryan Advisors, a capital markets and communications firm, following a more than 30-year career on Wall Street as a managing director in healthcare for Deutsche Bank. She is a longtime advocate for diversity & inclusion and is now a board director for two companies. Barbara understands that you have to do things differently when you are a woman.

Barbara talked about:

• What it took for her to land her first board position
• Practical advice and steps women can take to help in their journey to their first board seat
• The importance of building a network both professionally and personally

Barbara is also the founder of Fabulous Pharma Females, a nonprofit organization made up of a strong community of empowered female women leaders with a shared commitment to elevating women across the biopharmaceutical industry.

She also writes a monthly column on PharmaExec. Visit Barbara’s LinkedIn to learn more about her.

Marisa Zalabak

Marisa is a transformative leader who partners with socially conscious leaders and teams dedicated to positively contributing to the well-being of people and the planet as we navigate the possibilities and challenges of the emerging future.  She is an Adaptive Leadership Coach, Organizational Culture Consultant, TEDx & Keynote Speaker, Educational Psychologist, Social-Emotional-Creative Intelligence Specialist, Equity Advisor, and AI Ethicist.

She is the founder of Open Channel Culture and Co-Chair of the AI Ethics Education Committee.

Highlights from our conversation with Marisa:

•   Adaptive leadership and the importance of it
•   Technology advancements and their ethical issues
•   AI for social good
• Importance of ethics and philosophy to power and expand the consciousness and safety of technology
• Awareness and attention, conscious of the design you are making

Adapt and flourish, with the right human skills. Improving psychological safety, collaboration, joy, innovation, productivity, and well-being while meeting the needs of the emerging future.

Visit Marisa’s LinkedIn to learn more about her.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-zalabak-4368482b/

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@MarisaZalabak on Instagram

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We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series, with Phil Johnson https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjpjohnson/

In today’s episode, we talk about emotional intelligence. World Economic Forum defines it as one of the top 10 must-have skills that will enable us as individuals & businesses to embrace change and raise our consciousness. 

Our guest today is Phil Johnson, He is the founder & CEO of Master of Business Leadership (MBL) Program, an executive coach, a teacher & mentor, a lecturer & keynote Speaker, a Podcast Co-Host, and a revenue growth career advancement coach.  

Phil was born with dyslexia, therefore he had difficulty trying to spell, read, and occasionally hear. It caused him to re-arrange words and numbers in his mind. As a result, he had to rely more on his intuition, which helped him to get greater insight into himself and other people. After the death of his mother at age of 14,  he decided he wanted to change his life.  He became this super overachiever and ended up spending 20 years in the semiconductor industry, finishing as an executive. After 20 years in the industry, Phil realized that there was a huge need to change humanity's trajectory to change the way we did things and the way we do things. That motivated him to create the Master of Business leadership Program. 

What is Emotional Intelligence and what does it look like? Its benefits are that it reduces the drama and chaos both within the individual and around the individual, You become less resistive, less judgemental, less attached to outcomes, and that enables you to see an individual and see ourselves for who we really are, thereby making leaders more trusted and inspirational. 

What is the ROI on applying higher consciousness and market valuation to organizations and businesses? We're at the very start of the development of a multitrillion-dollar industry because of the tsunami of change we're facing in the development of our emotional intelligence. Isn't a solution to the challenges we face. It's the only solution to the challenges we face.

Both our educational system and employment have failed humanity in that they focused on the development,-Not the development, but the enhancement of our intellectual ability. These structures did very little to develop our emotional intelligence and really our IQ and EQ are meant to work together. 

Not everybody's born with a high IQ but anybody can develop their emotional intelligence since It's an experiential process. People aren't born with emotional intelligence it's developed.

You've developed this kind of five-part teaching and coaching program for executives that, that begins or applies that consciousness first to the root cause and analysis that says, where are we? Why does that kind of start with authenticity and understanding and truth-telling from the executive's point of view?

If you’re wondering where to begin on your own path of Emotional Intelligence, you can start with developing an emotional connection to a vision of some desired result you want to achieve. 

That emotional connection becomes the fuel for the journey. You must have a desire to achieve some outcome that's greater than your fear of leaving your comfort zone. Because the development of emotional intelligence is an experiential process, rather than an intellectual process. You can only really connect the dots in hindsight after you've taken the leap of faith. It always requires an initial leap of faith based on a vision of the desired result that's motivating you to take action.

In conclusion, When it comes to people willing to work on their emotional intelligence, age,  geography, industry, race, or culture are not factors. Emotional intelligence depends on where an individual is

In today's episode, we chat with Ron Carucci. 

 Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, having 35 years of experience working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries, he has helped some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s. He is also a  bestselling author of 9 books. Recently, the award-winning book, "To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose" was selected by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of 2021's Best Books. 

Ron and his team did a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 3,200 leaders. These included thought leaders,  scholars, and world-class leaders. He wanted to give people hope that there are organizations and leaders out there living the things they want, modeling and behaving in the ways we long to experience. They aimed to understand what conditions make people lie, cheat and serve their own interests first.  He thought, if he could predict/isolate the conditions that make people dishonest, then he could proliferate the conditions that produce honest behavior, and prevent the conditions that produce dishonest behavior?

Based on that, Ron shared four conditions within organizations that tell us how the story's going to go. 

These 4 conditions include:

• Companies need to have a clear identity. 

Companies all make promises in their missions, visions, values, brand promises, their purpose statements turn out that if those words are not real lived experiences within the organization, meaning they are three times more likely to have people be dishonest.

• Transparency & governance

At a meeting, there is transparency in the exchange of ideas. People believe that their voices and ideas are welcomed and they matter.  If they want to offer a dissenting view or an alternative interpretation of data, they are free to do so. This means the company is three and a half times more likely to have people be honest and tell the truth.

• Accountability

 If the systems of how you measure and talk about contribution are seen as fair and dignified. Everyone has as much chance of being successful as anybody else. This means, if the systems are seen as fair dignified, people are four times more likely to have people be honest. 

• Cross-functional rivalries

Across companies, every system/department has healthy tensions in it, but if those tensions have nowhere to go and conflict remains unresolved and people have nowhere to reconcile those seams, the company becomes fragmented.  On the other hand, if there is coherence in that organization, if the seams are stitched well,  then people are able to collaborate in a  way to resolve decisions or conflicts. That means they are six-time likely to have people behave, honestly, because they are now part of the same story. 

In conclusion, Ron suggests this action:

Taking your company's promise, or mission statement, or value statement, and asking your team hard questions such as “ How well do we embody this promise? How well do I embody this promise? If somebody followed us around with a video camera all day long and a day in the life of our team, could they use that video as a training program for this promise? Ask yourself, the hard question of who is your they? Who's the person in another department that you're required to collaborate with, that when you see them in the caller ID, you roll your eyes and go, oh, what do they...

We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series   In today’s episode, we will focus on non-profit organizations. Our guest is Matthew Zachary.

Matt is the founder and strategic advisor of a nonprofit called Stupid Cancer, and he's a maverick, a cancer survivor himself, and a cancer advocate. He has a media company also called Offscrip Media.

In his early twenties, Matt was a  musician, concert pianist, going to film school to write for Hollywood. His dream was to be the next James Horn, John Williams. However, in the prime of his youth, he was diagnosed with Brain Cancer.  He lost the ability to play because the initial symptoms were his left hand up stopped working. When he was diagnosed. He had all sorts of issues that aren't relatable today but had acute side effects, he was put on a comorbidities liquid diet, he lost his hair, lost his fertility, lost 110 pounds, lost his friends, his career because he couldn't play piano anymore and completely lost his identity. 

However, since the age of 12, he had always been a nerd, hacking into UNIX and just interested in computers generally. So that became his plan B.

He ended up working in consumer advertising, where he learned about branding, brand planning, brand strategy. A couple of years after having survived brain cancer, he met an old college mate Craig Lustig who had also been diagnosed with cancer and survived and was now working on the board of directors of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, an influential legacy policy group.

Matt credits Craig for changing his life's trajectory because soon after meeting, Matt started Stupid cancer. A cancer advocacy organization  United everyone under one umbrella. , in his bedroom, 

Fast forward 10 years into a successful Stupid Cancer, fate came knocking at his door. His mentor Selma shamal was offered the opportunity to host an online talk radio show on cancer, she gave the opportunity to Matt. The stupid cancer show became  his flagship media juggernaut, After 13 years and four and a half million people listening to it, 

As a result of the show,  Time magazine, recognized them a top 50 website for 2007, which was seen by 40 million people.  

Over the 25years of running an NGO, Matt believes that We have to have a nonprofit for trust , Leaders don't have to follow the same old playbook. They can write their own playbook and rebel a little bit. NGOs can follow Dan Pallota's business model of success covered in his books. 

 In summary, Stupid Cancer’s largest impact is the thousands of people who say, a certain doctor may have cured them, but stupid cancer helped them get their life back together. 

Company Website: Stupid Cancer

Ofscrip health: Offscrip Health

Dan Pallota Website:  Dan Pallota

Dan Pallota TedX talk: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

Talk space: Talk space

Better Help: Better Help

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