Inspirational Insights to Action Podcast

Well known Polish internet entrepreneur Marek Zmysłowski documents the wild ride of starting up companies in Poland and in Nigeria. Fortunately he has a fairly high level of comfort with chaos. The author of Chasing Black Unicorns talks about the value of crisis, and the worst setback he's experienced out of many. He shares information he learned about the biology of executive decision-making and weighs in on the question, Does Africa need aid post-Covid? We also talk about the value of crisis and learning from working in a foreign culture working with different unwritten rules. All proceeds from sales and speaking about the book go to charity. See http://www.ChasingBlackUnicorns.com for more information.

The podcast intro music is generously provided by Mark Romero of Mark Romero Music. Mark's music restores coherence to the body.

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Front line workers who face risk every moment and people who depend on certainty for their personal security had the rug pulled out with COVID. Apart from shining the light on systemic issues, like the readiness of the health care system, there is a personal cost and opportunity. Terry Earthwind Nichols is the founder of Evolutionary Healer. He has developed a back door method for neutralizing trauma that bypasses the typical defence systems protecting the wound. We talk about the role of indigenous traditions in understanding trauma and the value of clearing out the emotional hard drive to achieve more functionality. Terry's books are on Amazon. The one he mentions in the conversation is Profiling for Profit.  His website is  www.evolutionaryhealer.com 

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While the world is grappling with Covid-19 and the widespread interruption, decisions are being made. Some are compassionate and some make things worse. John O’Grady is a 30-year vet with the US military. Military training and experience is made for Coronavirus like environments where there is a high level of uncertainty, you’re working with unknown variables, ambiguity and dynamic situations. 

In this discussion with Dawna, Colonel O' Grady demonstrates box breathing and talks about the neuroscience-based tools used whether dealing with your teenage daughter or in combat environments. We talk about how this applies to executive decisions today and why this is a golden moment for every person to adapt to a changing decision-making context that won't return to business as usual. 

John is now the Founder and Owner of, O’Grady Leadership Consulting Services, where he works with high performing and high potential individuals, executives, coaches, players, teams and organizations to become the very best version of themselves. Find him at strategicleadersacademy.com Email [email protected]

Opening music is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: Music for Peak Performance

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Co-founders of Corporate Rebels Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar quit their jobs and went wandering to seek out companies where work was fun and brought creative value to the world. Building their Bucket List they visited manufacturing, retail, financial services plus a company doing the most innovative transformational work in Spain; a company that had successfully transformed seventy companies. In Pim's conversation with Dawna you'll learn what makes a transformation from traditional management to self-management successful, the focus self-managed companies have that releases freedom to employees and insights to apply to your workplace. Corporate Rebels have released a book called, wait for it! Corporate Rebels. Learn more at Corporate-Rebels.com.

Intro music is by Mark Romero of Mark Romero Music

Host is Dawna Jones who supports leaders at all levels in going beyond limits and working with blind spots.

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Tom van der Lubbe is the cofounder of Viisi, a Dutch mortgage advisory firm on a mission to change finance. Powered by intrinsic inspiration, Tom and his colleagues have drawn from self-management pioneers and alternative models to craft a way of working and serving that is unique to Viisi and the financial sector.

Every inspired, purpose driven business has a compelling Why sourced in the life experience of the founder and Viisi is no exception. Tom shares his pivotal epiphany during the episode. For more on Viisi see https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/ Tom can be found on LinkedIn. You can also read about the visit Corporate Rebels made to Viisi in their blog post Employees First, Customers Second, Shareholders Last.

Intro music on the podcast is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: a short clip from a harmonic track called Alignment.

The host, Dawna Jones, can be found on LinkedIN.

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Paul Tolchinksy is a co founder of the European Organizational Design Forum and managing partner of Performance Design Associates, a small boutique international consulting firm based in Scottsdale Arizona. His extensive experience in organizational design incorporates the early work done in Whole Scale Change. Clients bring him in when they want to hear the truth and are ready to move forward.

Paul and Dawna had this conversation in Madrid, Spain at the Choices Conferences hosted by Cocoon Projects in October 2019.

We talk about the difference between design and development, when organizational design applies, how to know when (or if) to stop paying attention, communication and decision-making.

Intro music is courtesy of MarkRomeroMusic.com

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Doug Kirkpatrick was part of MorningStar Self-Management when it began and is a pioneer in restoring autonomy to work. How work gets done is undergoing a makeover as complexity pressures companies to rely less on authority and more on engagement. We talk about the role of free will, the use of power in traditional versus self-management governance, overall trends going on in the world, and why self-management practices benefit traditional companies as well.

With the move to #HumansFirst and a logical and sensible approach to treating people as adults comes a higher level of explicit commitments to how decisions are made, and how initiative is required and supported. Doug's insights give anyone dissatisfied with their working environment a way to move forward no matter what role you are in.

Doug's latest book is the No Limits Enterprise published by Forbes and available on Amazon world-wide and Barnes and Noble plus regular book sellers.

Intro music is by Mark Romero Music.

Host is Dawna Jones - FromInsightToAction.com

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Bill Sanders is the founder and managing director of Roebling Strauss, a business transformation and process innovation consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. A co-author of From Hierarcy to High Performance Bill specializes in helping operations adapt and implement strategy. In this episode he and host Dawna Jones explore the challenges and ways to implement a strategy for addressing digital transformation so that a company can remain viable as the economic and market environment changes. They also talk about how companies place additional stress on employees by being unaware of the complex interrelationships embedded in the demands to deliver, remain agile and perform the day to day in the face of metrics that work against implementation.

They explore:

1. The importance of paying attention to digital transformation.
2. Why much human potential is not being tapped by existing company practices and how to change that
3. Why being busy doesn't drive productivity or priorities
4. How to ensure strategy does not get buried by day to day
5. Where the conflict in priorities exists between day to day and digital transformation.

Prior to establishing Roebling Strauss, Bill held executive positions at Publicis Dialog and Real Branding. Bill was a founding member of ROCG Consulting, and helped launch and later ran the first ecommerce site for Mattel Interactive.

Bill has helped more than 200 organizations, including such global brands as Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Mills, Lipton, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and WebEx. He’s conducted business in three continents, is a past president of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, and has published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and provides commentary in the media on issues in organizational culture, productivity, and innovation.

Intro music is donated by MarkRomeroMusic from a track called Alignment.

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Have you ever walked into a workplace, perhaps yours, and felt 'off'? Or noticed that you feel better when you're not at work? Architects Ricardo Peralta and Vladic Roskin are dedicated to changing that feeling by designing workspaces people love. By paying attention to sound, light, flow, green spaces and the tone and mood, they've found that companies benefit. In this conversation we talk about environmental physics and how you design workspaces as a strategic decision.

Healthy human interaction relies not just on personal and interpersonal skills but also on the way the space supports interaction. In Decision Making for Dummies I included the reported statistic from a large drug manufacturer that decision-making speed and accuracy improved 47% when consideration was given to people flow.

Vladic Roskin  is an architect who believes that, at its best, architecture has the unparalleled ability to implicitly influence our behaviours - how we feel, think and engage with others. He is the co-founder at design and innovation consultancy Places People Love that supports leaders in transforming their organizations, environments and people by understanding human interactions with technology, culture and physical space. Fascinated by the various ways our built environment can stimulate a deeper engagement with ourselves and others, Vladic has cultivated a deep passion for human nature enriched by nearly a decade of architectural design experience. His collaborations with renowned architects, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social enterprises resulted in successful projects in the private and public sphere.

Vladic holds a masters degree in engineering sciences and architecture and is on a life-long quest to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. His work is supported by a decade of research and personal experiences living across cultures, travelling to awe-inspiring places and encounters with visionary individuals.

Ricardo Peralta is an architect and an urban planner passionate about integrating different disciplines with ancient wisdom to create spaces that nurture and heal. His explorations have led him from design to interdisciplinary healing forms; from organizational strategy to deeper practices of spiritual development. He has participated in the design of numerous large-scale projects, residential and commercial developments, office complexes, eco-resorts, eco-communities, and retreat centers. He was also part of a team that created three entirely new cities based on an innovative holistic approach to urban planning and wellbeing.

Ricardo sees architecture as an instrument to connect to one's soul and spirit, enjoys life's celebration, treasures the warmth of a hug, and strives to live a life rooted in the wisdom of the heart. Ricardo has consulted for projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe.

He is the other co-founder at design & innovation consultancy Places People Love. 

Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero Music.

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Great work cultures don't just happen. As a leading indicator of adaptability, paying attention to the six components of great work cultures helps you and your company avoid the slippery slope into confusion that takes place when company growth fails to match cultural health. Author of Great Mondays, Josh Levine, talks to host Dawna Jones about why relationships are synapses of culture, why culture is bigger than ping pong tables, and how to design your culture to engage. Part workbook, Josh also offers a framework for continuously evolving immediately applicable.

Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.com

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