Leading Conversations

Cheryl welcomes Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest's leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development. He is author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, and author/co-creator of the Living Building Challenge, an international green building program. Jason is a leader in the global green architecture movement and challenges us to imagine and demand buildings that operate as elegantly and efficiently as the living structures nature creates. He says we need to see our building structures as our habitat. Nature can be our teacher, help us re-vision our environment, and the way it gets created. The ecosystem can inspire buildings that support life and all the beauty it holds. Are you up for the challenge? Join us as this visionary takes us on a journey to create our future.

Cheryl welcomes David Isaacs, co-creator of The World Café, and President of Clearing Communications, an international organizational renewal and communications strategy company. In his work with leaders worldwide, David is a “thinking partner” in the design of strategic conversations to generate collaborative learning and to engage challenges of unprecedented change and transformation in the workplace. Co-author (with life-partner Juanita Brown) of The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter, David views business as “närings för liv,” the Swedish term for business meaning nourishment for life; and says conversation is a “core business process.” Imagine a world where our businesses actually nourished each individual…and encouraged deep conversation - before action…explore this radical idea with us! Join the conversation!

Cheryl welcomes John P. Milton, founder of The Way of Nature and Sacred Passage™. John is a pioneering ecologist, author, spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader, and counsel to leaders around the world. His most recent book, Sky Above, Earth Below: Spiritual Practice in Nature is a guide to cultivation of connection to pure source for purpose and creativity. John's work teaches that one makes leadership stands from a place of pristine clarity. Inner-knowing and initiating new ideas emerge from pure creative potential. Aligning with the majesty and power of Nature catalyzes transformation at every level. Tune in as John reveals how deep inner communion with the Earth and Universal Source provide the foundation for grounded and centered leadership.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes David Sibbet, author of Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance. He is a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking with more than 40 years of experience successfully incorporating visuals in meetings of all kinds. David believes that when teams work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are more committed to producing results. He has created twenty-first century guide to using the latest visual thinking techniques with your groups and teams, providing a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking. Join Cheryl Esposito & David Sibbet on this episode of Leading Conversations radio to learn the practices, tips, & tricks that can turn team meetings into creative and productive events.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Barry Braun, author of Do Less, Get More By Thinking Inside Out. Barry’s work is about enabling people to live more from their own sense of true self. When people are living and working with a sense of balance, purpose, and meaning, they are able to get more out of life without increasing the demands on their time and minds. In fact, it seems like less effort to do things. Barry says: “I believe we all have a spiritual truth within us that has an inspiring and amazing gift for the world. Although we might be aware it is there, we don’t often know exactly what it is or where it belongs.”Barry’s work helps people to discover unleveraged assets and learn to challenge the perceptions that have been holding them back. They find deep truths about themselves that release new energy and passion while bringing a greater sense of clarity, confidence and calm.Join Cheryl& Barry to learn the many ways to find what has heart and meaning for you and your work in the world.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Staci Haines, founder of generationFIVE, a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations through survivor leadership, community organizing, & transformative justice approaches. Staci authored the worldwide acclaimed The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Childhood Sexual Abuse. Transforming trauma is Staci’s business. She integrates the discipline of Somatics (often applied in Leadership Coaching) into healing trauma in people’s lives. Working through the psycho-biology is a way to move from managing traumatic symptoms to transforming trauma and your life. Staci created Generative Somatics, a program where people are able to learn presence and boundaries. They learn to re-establish connection with themselves and others, to connect with what gives their life meaning, and to leverage their resilience. Join Cheryl Esposito & Staci Haines to learn how trauma (sexual or otherwise) can be transformed to empower lives.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stephen M. R. Covey & Greg Link, co-authors of Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, & Joy in a Low-Trust World.   The first job of a leader is to inspire trust, and the second is to extend it. So say Covey & Link. In Smart Trust, they tell us that a powerful, global renaissance of trust has begun. Sparked by recent world events, business ethics, and transparency enabled by the internet, this call for a renaissance of high trust leadership is reverberating around the globe.   Smart Trust is judgment. It’s a competency and a process that enables us to operate with high trust in a low-trust world. It minimizes risk & maximizes possibilities. It optimizes two key factors: (1) a propensity to trust and (2) analysis. Simply put, Smart Trust is how to trust in a low-trust world.  Join Cheryl Esposito & Stephen M.R. Covey & Greg Link to learn what you can do now to build Smart Trust!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Luisah Teish, a writer and extraordinary storyteller, internationally known for her performances of African, Caribbean, and African-American folklore and feminist myth. She is author of Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World and Carnival of the Spirit. Teish connects us with the ancestors, bringing wisdom traditions and rituals to life. Her stories teach us what the ancients knew about the natural rhythms of the seasons, how cultures thrive and communities prosper. Teish says, “Stand knowing that you are an ancestor of the future.” What will your story be? Join the conversation for a magical hour with Luisah Teish!

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Toms CEO and co-founder of New Dimensions Radio and the New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network. For more than a quarter century, Michael has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called the Socrates of radio, he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one of the premier interviewers in media today. His legendary dialogues have helped to bring innovative ideas into the mainstream culture. Michael is an accomplished writer, seminar leader, communications, marketing, fundraising consultant and master dialogue coach. One of his most successful books, An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms is nationally acclaimed. In this episode of Leading Conversations with Cheryl Esposito we turn the table and ask Michael the questions, exploring his journey in making a difference through media, past, present and future.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Darcy Winslow, a pioneer and practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, and Founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective. The collective focuses on the development of practical yet aggressive strategies for organizations to create sustainable & regenerative business practices. Her expertise developed through years as a leader at Nike, a global organization, and her deep connection to nature. Today, Darcy is about to embark on an expedition to Antarctica hosted by British Petroleum. She and other thought leaders, including Peter Senge, will be introducing systems thinking, sustainability principles & science to 50 global youth leaders from around the world. She says, “The goal is to power up these next generation leaders around the issues we face due to climate change, collapse of systems, and declining natural resources… but the power will come through dialogue, building relationships and the interconnected networks.”