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During his basketball career he lead his University of Illinois team to the Final Four 1989. From there Stephen played 10 years professionally with stops in the NBA (Dallas, Detroit, and San Antonio) and overseas (France, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela). Bardo made a smooth transition into sports broadcasting and has worked with CBS and ESPN. He currently is a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and motivates audiences with his presentations on leadership to youth, associations, and corporations. His book - "HOW TO MAKE THE LEAGUE WITHOUT PICKING UP THE ROCK" – celebrates Bardo's experience in a message anyone can relate to - Don't Let The Stone Stop You". Bardo is a Big Ten Network College Basketball Analyst. Author, speaker, and proud papa of two wonderful sons!!! Please join us and Stephen Bardo for a motivating program.

Chris Auger co-founder of the groundbreaking new consultancy, The Fearless Leaders Group (FLG, LLC), is a decorated retired Naval Special Warfare SEAL officer who holds a Masters in Global Leadership, is a Board Certified Coach and is earning a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership at Regent University. During his 27 successful years of service as a US Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Commander Auger(Ret) contributed to developing key training and education programs for hundreds of outstanding members of the Naval Special Warfare SEAL and SWCC communities. As a managing partner at FLG, Chris is using his talents, skills and experiences as a SEAL to serve and help others to significance. Learn how you can too during today's program.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Mirabai Bush is co-author, with Ram Dass, of Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. She has new CD program Working with Mindfulness from www.morethansound.net. She offers exercises from the workplace which she has taught at Google and other companies. Mirabai Bush was a co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and Executive Director there until 2008. The Center developed programs integrating contemplative practice and perspective into their lives and work. Mirabai holds a unique background of organizational management, teaching, and spiritual practice. For Seva Foundation, she co-developed Sustaining Compassion, Sustaining the Earth, a series of retreats and events for grassroots environmental activists. .Mirabai has organized, facilitated, and taught workshops, and courses on spirit and action for more than 20 years at institutions including Omega Institute, Naropa Institute, and Findhorne

Since their inception, clients have trusted Korn/Ferry to help them recruit world-class leadership talent. Building on this heritage, today they are a single source for a wide range of leadership and talent consulting services. From their nearly 80 offices in 40 countries, they assist organizations in attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining their people. Services range from executive recruitment to leadership development programs, enterprise learning, succession planning and recruitment outsourcing. More organizations around the world trust Korn/Ferry to manage their talent, a responsibility they take seriously and work every day to meet with unsurpassed integrity and results. Join Craig Dunlevie a Senior Partner and a top performer in the talent business, as he shares his wisdom from over 25 years of insight on the secrets of sourcing top talent for top firms around the world.

Leaders drive engagement, engagement drives productivity and Emotional Intelligence drives leadership. In today's show Cathy and Relly give some of the latest updates about Emotional Intelligence (EI) research and the new Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi 2.0) assessment. They also will take a deeper dive looking at three of the EI leadership competencies for Decision Making and strategies on how to raise and enhance these competencies. Cathy and Relly will discuss the Emotional Intelligence history, ROI research and the EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more leaders perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meets performance.

Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan. He has been the director of the Global Business Partnership, and for over a decade he ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies to develop senior executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. Professor Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is JUDGMENT ON THE FRONT LINE: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People with Chris DeRose, which is the focus of this interview. Tichy has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy has been one of the "Top 10 Management Gurus" by BusinessWeek and Business 2.0. Noel Tichy is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His consulting clients have included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, 3M, and Royal Dutch Shell.

Join best selling author Ariane de Bonvoisin as she shares her secrets from her book "The First 30 Days". So why focus on the first thirty days? Ariane de Bonvoisin says despite the change — be it unpredictable or self-propelled — the first few days and weeks are often the hardest, most emotional time. It's when we have the most questions, emotions, doubts and fears, and when decisions need to be made. This is also the time when we are most in need of direction, information and support. Thirty days is enough to get started in the right way. We'll share what makes change easier and why some people get through change better than others.

Have you ever dreamed of a fearless, positive life where you are in control of what matters? Mark J. Williams, USAFR, Retired has more than 24 years of operations and intelligence experience with the US Air Force and other US Agencies. His missions include more than 200 combat hours in the F- 15C as a veteran of Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm and as an advisor to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. As the CEO of Human Dynamic Systems Mark has created an innovative training program combining mindfulness skills with resilience, situational awareness and peak performance based on his long time passion for mastering mental fitness key to survival and long term success of any working warrior. Join Mark in today's show and learn how you can excel your life with mental conditioning in any role.

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. The Novartis Chair was established to enable the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful business enterprises. Edmondson joined Harvard in 1996. Her research examines leadership influences on learning, collaboration and innovation in teams and organizations. She has published widely in academic journals and management periodicals and is the author of teaching cases on The Cleveland Clinic, Prudential Financial, Simmons Mattress Company, YUM brands, IDEO product design, and NASA's failed Columbia mission. Join us in today's program to learn more about complex decision making.