Leadership In Crisis

We often assume that power flows to those with the loudest voice or the most commanding presence in the room. But, in fact, true power is often much quieter and more deferential than we realize. Moreover, it’s not just how much power we have but how we use it that determines how powerful we actually are.

I know people like me who has the loud voice may be wondering, what am I talking about…….

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest Deborah Gruenfeld professor from Stanford university.

Dr. Gruenfeld is a leading social psychologist and the Joseph McDonald Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Gruenfeld’s research has been featured in many scholarly journals as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, O Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Gruenfeld co-directs the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford and teaches courses on power and leadership for a wide variety of audiences around the world, including young company founders and senior executives in large, multinational companies.  She sits on the boards of the LeanIn.Org Foundation and Stanford’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She has a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois.

Relationships are important in life. They make us feel safe and help us deal with stress. Relationships aren’t only important in your personal life, though. As a business leader, you should also build professional relationships. Relationship building from a business standpoint can help you get new customers, retain current customers and manage your reputation. And  it gives a best employee connect to make things work and keep all stakeholders happy with the better outcomes….

I know many people may be wondering, what am I talking about…….

David Bradford is the Eugene O’Kelly II Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Oberlin College in 1960 and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1966. After graduation, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1966-1969. In 1969, he came to Stanford University to join the Graduate School of Business in order to develop what has become the landmark course in the MBA program – Interpersonal Dynamics [that students call “Touchy-Feely”].

He was the Founder and first Director of The Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society that focusses on innovative approaches to experiential learning. He was also the first editor of their journal [Journal of Management Education].

His research and consulting has focused on the question "what does it take for individuals and teams to achieve high performance?" This has led to developing new approaches to leadership that release the potential within organizations. In addition to numerous articles, he is co-author (with Allan R. Cohen) of the best selling books Managing for Excellence: The Guide to Developing High Performance in Contemporary Organizations (1984), Influence Without Authority (1990, revised 2005, and again in 2017), and Power Up; Transforming Organizations Through Shared Leadership (1998). (All published by John Wiley & Sons.) He co-authored (with W.W. Burke), Reinventing Organization Development(2005; published by Pfeiffer/Wiley) and co-authored with Carole Robin CONNECT:Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues {2021; published by Crown Random House). He has helped develop three executive training programs in conjunction with Wilson Learning Corporation, ODI, and Ninth House.

Dr. Bradford has lectured at and consulted for a range of organizations in the private sector including Frito-Lay, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Levi Strauss & Co., McKinsey & Co. Raychem, Starbucks, Roche Pharmaceutical, as well as in such not-for-profit organizations as The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Getty Museum, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

With COVID19 cases growing worldwide, many business leaders are in turmoil and undecided how to steer their organization in this pandemic, however we found few Transformational and Charismatic leaders transformed their organizations quickly and made profitable and saved thousands of jobs in 2020. And now with the announcement of availability of vaccines, CXO leaders are expecting a positive 2021 and want to establish a reimagined & robust 2021 & beyond, so, Do you want to know the secret sauce how to transform the organization ??….

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest – Ralph Loura from Lumentum. Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide.

Ralph is an Accomplished Thought Leader who provides support, guidance and strategy to businesses and boards. Brings the strong combination of IT expertise and business acumen. Deep experience in technology and management at some of the world’s most iconic brands

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused life sciences organizations to adjust to supply chain and clinical development disruptions and financial challenges that would have previously been unthinkable. There are many questions on the table like - How to deliver products and innovative discoveries to patients ? Are we stopping the clinical trials of all other therapeutics, etc…

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest and life science industry veteran – Ms. Jeanne Taylor Hecht

Jeanne Taylor Hecht is a global Business Executive and Board Member with deep experience leading successful teams across mature and emerging markets within the product development, pharma services and life sciences space.

As CEO of JTH Consulting, LLC., Jeanne commands broad knowledge and deep expertise in the Life Sciences arena. She has dedicated much of her career to guiding international companies through healthy growth – thoughtfully, strategically, and with unyielding integrity.

Jeanne has been expanding her Life Sciences consulting practice supporting companies with sales, marketing and market growth strategies, annual plan development as well as advisory and board work. Her experience spans the medical imaging, research site, emerging biotechnology, early stage AI and technology business landscape and life sciences services market. In this capacity Jeanne serves as a strategic advisor to PE companies, small and emerging companies and their business leaders as well as venture capitalists.

Jeanne is an active Advisory Board Member for Wake Forest University as well as the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler’s Business School Business of Health Council and lecturer at the business school.

Jeanne also volunteers with Senior PharmAssist, a nonprofit group that provides medication access and medication therapy management to seniors in North Carolina. She further volunteers with Kids=Play, a nonprofit group building playgrounds for children with disabilities in Southern Virginia, and with Ronald McDonald House. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from that university’s Ross School of Business. She earned a Certificate of Project Management from the Project Management Institute.

Jeanne welcome to Leadership In Crisis:

Silicon Valley Pay Cuts Ignite Tech-Industry Covid-19 Tensions, we have been seeing many things about Silicon Valley but let us understand what is happening in reality and how companies are gearing up to cope up with Covid19 and how is 2021/22 looking ???

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest MR Rangaswami from silicon valley

M.R. Rangaswami is an entrepreneur, investor, corporate eco-strategy expert, community builder and philanthropist. Recognized as a software business expert, he participated in the rapid expansion of the Silicon Valley software industry during his tenure as an executive at both large and small software companies. In 1997, he co-founded Sand Hill Group, one of the earliest “angel” investment firms, and was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He was named to the Forbes "Midas" list of investors and also recognized by CRN as one of the Top 25 Technology Executives. He also hosts the Enterprise Retreat for the top 100 leaders in technology.

In 2007, M.R. founded the Corporate Eco Forum(CEF), an invitation-only membership organization for Global 500 companies that demonstrate a serious commitment to the environment as a business strategy.

In 2012 M.R. founded Indiaspora (a non-profit) to unite the Indian Diaspora and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage. By sharing insights, hosting events and connecting people, Indiaspora unites the professionally, geographically and religiously diverse Indian community toward collective action. Indiaspora events include its annual Leadership Forum, Philanthropy Summit and the Global Connect program. Indiaspora also engages in community issues such as the initiative to get the USPS to issue a Diwali stamp in 2016.

M.R. is a board member of the Kaliash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, The Nudge Foundation and the WISH Foundation.

M.R is the recipient of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) "Influential Leaders" award in 2015 and the US-China Educational Trust (US-CET) inaugural “Asians in America" award in 2016. In 2020 he was the recipient of the “Global service” award from the Canada-India Business Council.

Rangaswami is also profiled in 2 books -  "Those Immigrants by Scott Haas and "The $8 Man" by Brenda Christensen.

With economic activity grinding to a halt in most industries, transportation companies are trying to adjust to the dynamic market conditions. Recent numbers from Geotab show commercial transportation in the U.S. and Canada is operating at 89% capacity for heavy trucks, while transportation to grocery stores is at 90%.

But thanks to Pfizer and Moderna for getting vaccine to prevent Covid-19 and I am sure this will improve the status of transportation industry.

I know,  many of you are pondering on the same thoughts, so let us dive in to learn some new innovative ideas  from a CIO of a Transportation organization, how he redefined the industry.

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest Scott Ellis

Scott is a Corporate VP of Technology of Alexander’s mobility services, the great brand we all know “ATLAS VAN LINES” is part of the Alexander group. I personally used it couple of times, when I relocated from FL to CA and CA to FL. Alexander’s Mobility Services is a large relocation and transportation company and was founded in 1953.  

Manufacturing is known as one of the largest spreaders of COVID. When the pandemic hit, the manufacturing customer uses a very manual process of daily symptom checking of each shift (3 per day) of employees. The manual process resulted in additional pay for employees and increased exposure risk for the leadership team charged with the management of the process. So how do we ensure we have a better system to take care of this.

I am sure many are pondering on the same thoughts.. so let us dive in to learn some new innovation….

This is your host – Swamy Sriperumbudur and you are listening to “LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS”, and we have invited a special guest Becky Fox

Let me give a brief introduction of Becky Fox.

Becky Fox, MSN, RN-BC, has a passion to change healthcare for the better. Becky currently serves as the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Atrium Health, based in Charlotte, NC, where she sets strategy and vision of improving the experience of clinicians, consumers, and communities. Her clinical experience has spanned across multiple venues (Emergency Medicine, Acute, Ambulatory, Higher Education), which has helped Becky build a comprehensive perspective of the healthcare ecosystem, and Becky has more than 20 years of informatics experience, including time at Cerner Corporation, where she was privileged to work with more than 300+ hospitals/health systems from around the world on the Health IT journey.

Becky is also a Founder and Clinical Advisor for Vital Circle, a company focused on mitigating the risk of COVID-19 by empowering people with data, analytics and modern technology.  Vital Circle was the first to market with a combined symptom tracking application with a wearable contact tracing device, most recently used at the Republican National Convention.

Driven, passionate, entrepreneurial – Becky is definitely excited to be a part of the future, where tech and innovation can change healthcare around the world!