Future-Proofing Leadership with Dr. Rosie Ward

I had so much fun talking with Brian Mohr! In this episode, we discuss how, since the dawn of time, human beings have been hardwired for connection and what it takes to create meaningful connections with others. This is especially true at work where we need to see people beyond the "boxes" they fill in an organizational chart. We also discuss the very real experience of technology fatigue and how we can use music and other common shared interests and experiences to foster meaningful connections with others. Brian is so real and authentically shares the inner work he has done and the common experience of imposter syndrome. I hope you'll leave our conversation energized and inspired to be more intentional about how you connect with people in your life.

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Episode 12 – Brian Mohr on the Power and Value of Creating Authentic Human Connection

I had so much fun talking with Brian Mohr! In this episode, we discuss how, since the dawn of time, human beings have been hardwired for connection and what it takes to create meaningful connections with others. This is especially true at work where we need to see people beyond the “boxes” they fill in an organizational chart. We also discuss the very real experience of technology fatigue and how we can use music and other common shared interests and experiences to foster meaningful connections with others. Brian is so real and authentically shares the inner work he has done and the common experience of imposter syndrome. I hope you’ll leave our conversation energized and inspired to be more intentional about how you connect with people in your life.

Guest Info

Brian Mohr, Co-Founder - anthym

Brian's career is a learning-based journey with an intense focus on people, purpose, values, culture, and leadership while advocating capitalism as a powerful force for good. 

Brian has had amazing career experiences at Jobing.com, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Y Scouts and Conscious Capitalism Arizona. Today, Brian is channeling his experiences and energy towards unlocking the power of authentic human connection through his new startup, anthym, a social wellness company focused on helping culture-driven organizations create and nurture meaningful relationships amongst their people to create more value, both for the business and the people.

Brian is on the national Board of Directors of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., he is a Board member and President, Emeritus of the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, a member of the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of the Pacific Southwest, a member of the Advisory Board of the Crumb Foundation, and the co-author of "Hiring on Purpose - How the Y Scouts Method is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders". 

Brian's most important and cherished responsibilities are being the lucky father to his 2 daughters, Taylor and Riley, and the proud husband to his wife, Jackie. In his spare time, you'll find Brian practicing guitar and enjoying an occasional game of Texas Hold ‘Em Poker.

 

 

Show Notes

anthym - this is Brian’s company that is focused on unleashing the power of personal storytelling to create authentic and powerful relation ships at work.

Hiring On Purpose - this is a book Brian co-authored during his time at YScouts where they share the difference it makes to look beyond the resume and focus on human factors like values, vision, and purpose.

 

What Invention Would You Uninvent? (TEDx Talk) - this is Brian’s TEDx talk where he explores the intersection of technology and human connection and fostering psychological safety.

 

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In this episode, I speak with Lisa McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo about what it means to make a difference by leveraging our noble purpose and having the courage to show up as our authentic selves. Our noble purpose is how we make a difference when we're at our best and in the service of something bigger than ourselves. While their work focuses on sales, we can all do this work (and need to do the work) to clarify our purpose and show up aligned with our best self and purpose. We also talk about how to scale this by moving from numbers and logic to emotion and belief, why The Greatest Showman is a metaphor for everything good in life, and tangible things we can do now to be more effective.

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Episode 11 – Lisa Earle McLeod & Elizabeth Lotardo on Making a Difference by Showing Up Authentically and Anchoring on Our Noble Purpose

In this episode, I speak with Lisa McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo about what it means to make a difference by leveraging our noble purpose and having the courage to show up as our authentic selves. Our noble purpose is how we make a difference when we’re at our best and in the service of something bigger than ourselves. While their work focuses on sales, we can all do this work (and need to do the work) to clarify our purpose and show up aligned with our best self and purpose. We also talk about how to scale this by moving from numbers and logic to emotion and belief, why The Greatest Showman is a metaphor for everything good in life, and tangible things we can do now to be more effective.

Guest Info

Lisa Earle McLeod, Founder - McLeod & Moore

Lisa McLeod is the global expert on purpose-driven business and the bestselling author of Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud and Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True Believers. Lisa has spent two decades helping leaders increase competitive differentiation and emotional engagement. Her work debunks the myth that money is the primary motivation for most employees. She developed the Noble Purpose philosophy after her research revealed, salespeople who sell with Noble Purpose, who truly want to make a difference to their customers, outsell salespeople who focus on their own targets and quotas.

Lisa is a former Procter & Gamble Sales Leader who founded her own firm, McLeod & More, Inc. in 2001. She helps leaders at organizations like Cisco, Roche, Volvo, and Dave & Busters drive exponential revenue growth. Lisa has keynoted in 25 countries and authored over 2,000 articles. She has made appearances on the Today show and the NBC Nightly News, and her firm’s work has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR.

 

Elizabeth Lotardo, VP of Client Services - McLeod & Moore

Elizabeth Lotardo is a consultant, researcher, and co-author of Selling with Noble Purpose:

How to Drive Revenue and Do Work that Makes You Proud. As the VP of Services at sales leadership consultancy McLeod & More, Elizabeth leads sales transformation initiatives for clients like Oracle, G Adventures, and Fiserv. She is a popular LinkedInLearning author, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on NPR. With an undergraduate degree in advertising from Boston University and a Master’s in Organizational Psychology, Elizabeth has enabled firms to drive employee engagement, competitive differentiation, and ultimately revenue.

 

Show Notes

Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work that Makes You Proud by Lisa Earle McLeod & Elizabeth Lotardo

In this bestselling book, Lisa and Elizabeth draw on two decades of consulting with leading sales organizations to reveal how a Noble Sales Purpose (NSP) can drive a team to outstanding sales numbers and why salespeople who understand earnestly how they make a difference to customers outperform their more quota-driven counterparts.

 

 

In this episode, Brandon Peele and I talk about how to bring people together in a way that can begin to heal some of the great divides in our communities and country so we can find greater harmony...and he wants people to freely take what he's doing and use it. Brandon is a unifier, activator, author and speaker who is on a mission to heal the divides in our nation by intentionally putting people together in small groups who are vastly different from one another - from different genders, generations, race, political ideologies, etc. to listen and learn from one another, and build empathy and respect by humanizing one another. We talk about what it takes to show up as a leader and be part of the solution, the importance of giving ourselves permission to feel the difficult emotions, what development is and why it's needed (and how it's different from learning and knowledge-building), and how critical it is to also focus on the culture and environment to create deliberate practices for change and humanity to take hold.

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Episode 10 – Brandon Peele on Healing Our Divides and Fostering True Human Connection

In this episode, Brandon Peele and I talk about how to bring people together in a way that can begin to heal some of the great divides in our communities and country so we can find greater harmony...and he wants people to freely take what he’s doing and use it. Brandon is a unifier, activator, author and speaker who is on a mission to heal the divides in our nation by intentionally putting people together in small groups who are vastly different from one another - from different genders, generations, race, political ideologies, etc. to listen and learn from one another, and build empathy and respect by humanizing one another. We talk about what it takes to show up as a leader and be part of the solution, the importance of giving ourselves permission to feel the difficult emotions, what development is and why it’s needed (and how it’s different from learning and knowledge-building), and how critical it is to also focus on the culture and environment to create deliberate practices for change and humanity to take hold.

Guest Info

Brandon Peele, Founder - Unity Lab

Brandon is a Midwesterner, best-selling author, impact entrepreneur and an expert in social learning + culture change. Prior to founding Unity Lab, he worked at two leading social learning companies, ion and Imperative, to activate empathy, trust, belonging, purpose and leadership at scale. 

He's trusted as a keynote speaker, consultant and program leader by organizations such as Google, Johnson & Johnson, Stanford University, JDRF, Morgan Stanley, U.S. Marine Corps, University of California - Berkeley, LinkedIn, the U.S. Navy, Slalom Consulting, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the University of Minnesota.

He has written / co-written four books on purpose and leadership and his work has been featured by news organizations such as USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes. 

Brandon holds an MBA in Leadership from Columbia Business School, is an Imperative Certified Purpose Leader (TM), a PGI Certified Purpose Guide (TM) and has completed over 3,000 hours of leadership, coaching and facilitation training with organizations such as Landmark and the ManKind Project.

 

Show Notes

Unity Lab - this is the program Brandon founded to heal the divides in this country.

BrandonPeele.com - this is Brandon’s website where you can learn more about him, read his white papers and blogs, and see recordings of his presentations.

Weaving Community - this is the coalition of 300+ organizations Brandon mentions that was built to bring about change by inviting honest conversation, authentic human connection and meaningful civic action.

Global Purpose Leaders - a volunteer-based nonprofit organization in California that serves purpose practitioners through sharing best practices, mentoring and gatherings.

Behind the Scenes

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Bryan is on a personal mission to wake us up from what he calls the "conscious flatlands". In this episode, we have an insightful conversation about what it means to flourish and how important it is for us to wake-up on so many levels. On the individual level, we are largely being unconsciously run by our emotions and reacting to life. The problem is that, when there's no pause between stimulus and response, we end up usually regretting it - either now or later. So we have to tend to the messy, uncomfortable, yet critically important, inner work in order to wake up and show up present, less reactive and more connected to others. On the organizational and societal level, we must be aware that how we engage with paradigms are shaping the outcome of our lives and that we have work to do if people are truly going to show up whole and expressing our uniqueness - at work and in the rest of their lives. This life-giving conversation will challenge your thinking and provide a new perspective of what it will collectively take for us to create a thriving future for us all.

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Episode 9 – Bryan Ungard on Paradigms, Waking Up, and Doing the Developmental Work So We Can Thrive and Flourish

Bryan is on a personal mission to wake us up from what he calls the “conscious flatlands”. In this episode, we have an insightful conversation about what it means to flourish and how important it is for us to wake-up on so many levels. On the individual level, we are largely being unconsciously run by our emotions and reacting to life. The problem is that, when there’s no pause between stimulus and response, we end up usually regretting it - either now or later. So we have to tend to the messy, uncomfortable, yet critically important, inner work in order to wake up and show up present, less reactive and more connected to others. On the organizational and societal level, we must be aware that how we engage with paradigms are shaping the outcome of our lives and that we have work to do if people are truly going to show up whole and expressing our uniqueness - at work and in the rest of their lives. This life-giving conversation will challenge your thinking and provide a new perspective of what it will collectively take for us to create a thriving future for us all.

Guest Info

Bryan Ungard, Chief Purpose Officer - The Decurion Corporation

Bryan is the Chief Purpose Officer of The Decurion Corporation, a 70 year old company with businesses in movie theaters, commercial real estate, and senior assisted living. Bryan is accountable for the ways in which Decurion operates its businesses so there is no tradeoff between excellent business and human flourishing.

Bryan joined Decurion as its Chief Information Officer. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hiram College and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He has studied human development and consciousness through many lineages and traditions.

He is the founder of the Deliberately Developmental Organizations (DDO) Practitioner Network, a global network of developmental change agents. He is also co-founder of The Decurion Institute for Wholeness and Development.

Bryan holds a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido.  

 

Show Notes

The Practice of Self-Management: A Handbook for Walking the Path from Reactivity to Presence and Connection by Christopher Forman and Bryan Ungard

This book anchors on the premise that the more centered, present, and authentic you are as an individual, the more effective you will be in your work and in your life. Christopher and Bryan share time-tested lessons, meditations, and daily-life practices they’ve used at the Decurion Corporation that will help you expand your awareness, deepen your understanding, and transform your connection with those around you.

 

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization  by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey 

This is the book we reference about Deliberately Developmental Organizations (DDOs) that features The Decurion Corporation.

In this episode, Safwan Shah and I talk about the importance of time and the critical role it plays in the livelihood of essential workers and the more than 90 million Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. Safwan has unlocked a huge gap in the systems for how we receive our paychecks. He is an incredible example of what is possible when we get curious and follow our purpose and work to show up authentically in our lives. As a successful CEO, he also humbly shows his humanity and normalizes the universal experience of telling ourselves self-limiting stories. My eyes have been opened by Safwan's work and how it can help restore humanity and help people feel they matter and be a little more whole. I hope you'll leave our conversation enlightened and encouraged.

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Episode 8 – Safwan Shah on the Critical Role of Time in Restoring Livelihood and Humanity

In this episode, Safwan Shah and I talk about the importance of time and the critical role it plays in the livelihood of essential workers and the more than 90 million Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. Safwan has unlocked a huge gap in the systems for how we receive our paychecks. He is an incredible example of what is possible when we get curious and follow our purpose and work to show up authentically in our lives. As a successful CEO, he also humbly shows his humanity and normalizes the universal experience of telling ourselves self-limiting stories. My eyes have been opened by Safwan’s work and how it can help restore humanity and help people feel they matter and be a little more whole. I hope you’ll leave our conversation enlightened and encouraged.

Guest Info

Safwan Shah, Founder & Chief Executive Officer - PayActiv

As founder and CEO of PayActiv, a Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corp, Safwan Shah’s mission is to bring security, dignity, and financial wellness to low-income workers. An engineer by training and a serial entrepreneur, Safwan has built his career around harnessing the power of technology to create a more equitable society. Prior to starting PayActiv, Safwan founded Infonox, which was acquired by TSYS (now Global Payments).

Safwan is a noted public speaker who has appeared at TedX and the Conscious Capitalism Conference. His work has been featured in NYT, WSJ, LA Times and NPR. Safwan’s book, It’s About TIME, calls for businesses to embrace greater responsibility in helping workers deal with an epidemic of financial stress that leads to lost happiness and productivity.

In 2019, Safwan received the George Norlin Award, the highest alumni honor for his devotion towards the betterment of society from CU Boulder, where he got his PhD in aerospace engineering and worked for Bioserve Space Technologies, a NASA center for commercialization of space. Safwan has received seven patents, has taught at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley and Baskin School of Engineering in Santa Cruz, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

Show Notes

It’s About Time by Safwan Shah

It’s About TIME invites readers into a head-slapping understanding of how we came to pay workers in this country and how an industry of predatory practices positioned to “help” the poor amid crises have resulted in massive financial stress and a loss of happiness and productivity. The book shares a fascinating look at the role “time” plays in our society and how it’s about time for company leaders to step into their heroic nature and right this injustice.

It’s About Time (the short film)

This short film illustrates the issues resulting from our default system of how people’s wages are paid. It includes links to share on social media; for each person who shares the video on their social channels, PayActiv will contribute $5 towards a financial wellness fund to help paycheck-to-paycheck workers

The Surprising Link Between Payroll Systems & Financial Stress TEDx Talk - In his September 2020 TEDx Talk, Safwan describes the need for and how to change the timing of pay and reduce financial stress on both workers and American businesses.

We Heard You Video Short - this powerful video shows the power of treating our essential workers as human beings by providing them access to wages they’ve rightfully earned (and Safwan references during our conversation)

Behind the Scenes