Dr. Linda Ginzel of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business shares techniques for leading with greater insight, intentionality, and purpose from her book, Choosing Leadership.

Podcast Episode 46: Dr. Dawn Emerick joins us on this very hot topic. Trauma has become an increasing concern in organizations over the past few years. The trauma experienced by returning combat veterans, first responders, society wide trauma, the pandemic, wildfires, floods and other devastating events are now in the headlines virtually every day.

A critical responsibility for leaders is to bring people into an uncertain future with hope and confidence. Learning how to anticipate change and proactively engage with uncertainty is essential to cultivate future adaptive strategies, as foresight and design expert Donna Dupont explains.

Leading requires being in touch with yourself, your team, and the other stakeholders. Executive coach Dain Dunston shares insights on radical self-awareness that helps leaders be more agile and more effective.

Government is charged with everything from delivering basic services to tackling complex challenges. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and his former Chief of Staff, Steve Kadish share insights on how to meet those challenges from their book, Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done.

In this episode, Karina de Allicon, experienced business continuity leader and mindfulness authority, joins us to discuss how age-old practices can help improve performance and bolster resilience among preparedness and response professionals and their teams.

Episode 41: Join us this month to listen to Dane Jensen; he helps leaders reset their relationship with pressure into a more productive one. Dane is the author of The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution and CEO of Third Factor.

Brad Borkan is a decision expert and author, he shares his insights on preparing to make truly challenging choices drawing from deep historical research. He is co-author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic and Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results.: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World.

She is an exemplar of innovative, systemic thinking, as well as of the determination it takes to make a difference on the ground. I think that her journey has lessons for all of us who wrestle with the thorny social issues and who work to lead for greater good is also captured.

If any topic should be top of mind right now, its risk, how we perceive it, how we evaluate it, what we do about it, for extreme weather to extreme politics. Uncertainty is a feature, not a bug of our current age. They help explore what this means for leaders.