Partnering Leadership

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Jeanine Turner, a professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches at the Communication, Culture and Technology Program and the McDonough School of Business. Jeanine Turner is also the author of Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence. Jeanine Turner shares her research and interviews on factors that impact our social presence. Jeanine also shares four communication choices and their role in social presence. 

Some highlights:

-The impact of technology on presence and relationships

-Jeanine Turner on different types of social presence 

-Jeanine Turner on multitasking and budgeted presence 

-The importance of learning to allocate social presence

-Jeanine Turner on how to be intentional in managing presence

 -The challenges of presence in virtual and hybrid interactions

 -The impact of social presence on organizational culture

Connect with Jeanine Turner:

Jeanine Turner Website 

Being Present on Amazon

Jeanine Turner on Twitter

Jeanine Turner on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Michael Roderick, founder, and C.E.O. of Small Pond Enterprises and host of the Access to Anyone Podcast. Michael Roderick shares practices and frameworks on connecting with others more effectively and becoming a referrable brand. Michael also shared that organizations can use the same lessons to make their brands stand out. Finally, Michael Roderick shares his thoughts on how we can become memorable both as individuals and organizations.
 

Some highlights:

- The importance of building connections and how to do it well 

- Michael Roderick going from high school teacher to a Broadway producer

- How to share your message in a way that keeps others interested

- Michael Roderick on organizational branding

- How to make yourself and your message memorable 

- How to develop deeper connections

- Michael Roderick's principles for creating a referrable brand

- Becoming more memorable through L.E.S.S.

- Michael Roderick on the "Giver's Fix"

- The value of weak ties and how to tap into them

- How to stay connected with your network



Mentioned:
-Mark Sanford Granovetter, an American sociologist known for his theory on spreading information in social networks known as "The Strength of Weak Ties."
-Dorie Clark, an American author and executive education professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
-Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist and bestselling author


 Connect with Michael Roderick:

Small Pond Enterprises Website

Access To Anyone Podcast

The Referability Rater 

Michael Roderick on Facebook

Michael Roderick on Twitter

Michael Roderick on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

Mahan Tavakoli Website 

Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Diane Tipton, Chief Executive Officer and President at Self Storage Zone and Board Member at the Girl Scouts of the USA. Diane shares her humble beginnings in Georgia and how challenges shaped her into who she has become. Diane also talked about her work in accounting and why she decided to start a company. Finally, Diane Tipton shared the reason for her passion for Girl Scouts and the organization's impact on developing the next generation of leaders.  

Some highlights:

-Diane's origin story and being judged on her appearance 

-Diane Tipton on the importance of female role models

-Diane's journey in the corporate and why she founded her own company

-Diane's passion for service to the community 

-Diane Tipton's leadership in Girl Scouts of Nation's Capital and Girl Scouts USA 


Mentioned:

- Lyles Carr, Senior Vice President at The McCormick Group (Listen to the Partnering Leadership Podcast episode with Lyles Carr)

Connect with Diane Tipton:

Self Storage Zone Website

Girl Scouts Org

Diane Tipton on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

Mahan Tavakoli Website 

Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Chip Walker, head of Strategy at StrawberryFrog Movement, Brand Business and Cultural Strategist, and co-author of Activate Brand Purpose: How to Harness the Power of Movements to Transform Your Company. Chip Walker talks about brand purpose and its importance in guiding organizations. Chip Walker also shares actionable ideas on what leaders can do to activate brand purpose in their organizations.  
 

Some highlights:

- The difference between defining a purpose and activating a purpose
- Chip Walker on how to make purpose statements actionable
- Actions that leaders can take in activating movements within their organizations
- Movement thinking as a way to activate an organizational purpose. 
- Chip Walker on purpose in a hybrid work environment



Mentioned:

- Aaron Hurst (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Aaron Hurst)

- Ranjay Gulati (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Ranjay Gulati)

- Greg Satell (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Greg Satell)

- How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals by Marya Besharov, Wendy K. Smith, and Michael L. Tushman

Connect with Chip Walker:

Activate brand Purpose Book Website

Activate Brand Purpose on Amazon

Chip Walker Website

StrawberryFrog

Chip Walker on Twitter

Chip Walker on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

Mahan Tavakoli Website 

Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli shares his perspectives and research about the need for kindness and how it can impact teams and organizations. Mahan also highlighted effective ways of showing kindness while initiating a ripple effect in our organizations and the community. 


Some highlights:

-Pre and post-pandemic effects on kindness

-How showing kindness can be contagious 

-Two specific ways of being kinder to those around us 

-Starting a kindness ripple 

Mentioned:

- Christine Porath, Associate Professor of Management at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University; Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business

- Jamil Zaki, Professor of Psychology; Author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS

- Bob Kerry, American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

Mahan Tavakoli Website 

Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO of WorkBoard and founder of Results Foundry. Deidre Paknad shared her journey leading to her success as the founder of three start-ups. Deidre also talked about her founding of Workboard and how the organization supports its clients to execute their strategy faster by effective implementation of OKRs.   Deidre Paknad also shared her thoughts on the future of work and what organizations can do to thrive through uncertainty.

Some highlights:

- What led Deidre Paknad to become an entrepreneur

- The challenges faced by the first time entrepreneur 

- Deidre Paknad on the advantages and disadvantages of working at IBM 

- The origin story of Workboard

- Deidre Paknad being told that she has three strikes against her

- How Workboard helps companies achieve alignment through OKRs 

- How the pandemic sped up the pace of change 

- Deidre Paknad's advice on how to get every member of an organization to focus

- Deidre on the leadership capabilities that are required throughout the organization.

- How to transform a culture of complacency into a culture of ambition 

- Deidre Paknad on facing personal and business challenges as a CEO during the pandemic

- How presence can help unlock an organization's potential  

Mentioned:

- Larry Robertson (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Larry Robertson)

- Azeem Azhar (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Azeem Azhar)

- Sarah Stein Greenberg (Listen to the Partnering Leadership conversation with Sarah Stein Greenberg)

- John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins and the author of Measure What Matters

- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and psychologist

Connect with Deidre Paknad:

WorkBoard Website

OKR Podcast 

Deidre Paknad on Twitter

Deidre Paknad on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

https://mahantavakoli.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

Mahan Tavakoli Website 

Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Harold Pettigrew, CEO at Washington Area Community Investment Fund (Wacif), Presidential Appointee at the CDFI Fund, and an Aspen Finance Fellow. First, Harold Pettigrew talked about his upbringing in Washington D.C. and the experiences that helped him find his voice. Harold also shared his experience serving in city government in New York and D.C. and how he plans to make a difference through his leadership of the Washington Area Community Investment Fund. Finally, Harold Pettigrew talked about how all leaders can play a more significant role in ensuring greater equity.  

Some highlights:

- Harold Pettigrew on his upbringing in D.C. and how it impacted his passion for activism. 

- On moving to North Carolina, embracing his identity and taking on a leadership role

- The impact of serving in the New York City on Harold's view of government

- Coming back to Washington D.C. and the challenge of government service

- How to create better ecosystems that work for the people who live in them

- The role of representation in our communities 

- What we can do to leave the space we occupy better than we first found it

- Harold Pettigrew on the importance of staying open to new ideas and possibilities

Mentioned in this episode:

Commissioner Robert W. Walsh, Bloomberg Administration's Commissioner of Small Business Services

Connect with Harold Pettigrew:

WACIF Website

The Aspen Institue Website

WACIF on Twitter 

Harold Pettigrew on Twitter

Harold Pettigrew on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

MahanTavakoli.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources are available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Erika Andersen. Erika is the founding partner of Proteus International, which is a coaching consulting and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. She and her colleagues at Proteus focus on helping leaders prepare and stay prepared to face whatever the future might bring. Driven by this mission, Erika shares in the conversation how leaders can approach challenges and uncertainty by applying the change-capable mindset.

Erika Andersen is the author of 5 books, including her most recent work, Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable. In it, she discusses the approaches to learning and business-building to help leaders and organizations prepare and adapt to change. In this conversation, Erika Andersen shares how leaders and organizations can become change capable.   

Some Highlights:

- Erika Andersen on how leaders can guide their organizations with greater clarity 

- Erika shares the future skills that will be most impactful in leading organizations

- Understanding the five-step model of effective change

- Erika Andersen on the four change levers

- How leaders can better manage the future of work

Books Mentioned:

- Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable - Erika Andersen

- The Inner Game of Tennis - Tim Gallwey

- Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change - Greg Satell (Listen to Greg Satell's episode on Partnering Leadership)

Connect with Erika Andersen:

Erika Andersen

Proteus International 

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

MahanTavakoli.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources are available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Stephanie Linnartz, President of Marriott International, Inc., the world's largest hospitality company. Stephanie Linnartz shares the role her upbringing played in her seeking a career at Marriott and how she rose through the ranks in the organization. Stephanie also shares the devastating impact of the pandemic alongside losing the organization's beloved CEO, Arne Sorenson, and how the leadership team was able to stay focused on their values through the most challenging days of the pandemic. Stephanie Linnartz also shared Marriott's commitment to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) goals and examples of what the organization is doing to follow through on the commitments while growing.

Some highlights:

- Stephanie Linnartz's upbringing and passion for taking care of 

- Rising at Marriott International

- How Stephanie Linnartz and Marriott's senior team handled the worst of the crisis

- Losing a beloved CEO in Arne Sorenson and lessons learned

- Stephanie Linnartz on why companies are defined by how they deal with a crisis

- Organizational purpose and how to live it

- Stephanie Linnartz on the future of work and travel

- Marriott and Stephanie's commitment to greater equity and diversity

- Stephanie on the need for self-renewal and reinvention

Mentioned in this episode:

- Judy Samuelson, Founder and Executive Director of Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (Listen to Judy’s episode on Partnering Leadership)

- Rishad Tobaccowala, Author of Restoring the Soul of Business (Listen to Rishad’s episode on Partnering Leadership)

- Ranjay Gulati, Professor at Harvard Business School (Listen to Ranjay’s episode on Partnering Leadership)

Connect with Stephanie Linnartz:

Marriott Hotels

Marriott International on Facebook

Marriott International on Twitter

Marriott International on LinkedIn

Stephanie Linnartz on LinkedIn

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

MahanTavakoli.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

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In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Professor James Heskett. Professor Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. James Heskett has authored/co-authored nine books, including one with fellow Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter on Corporate Culture and Performance. In this conversation, Mahan and James Heskett talk about Professor Heskett's latest book, Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage, and actions leaders can take to overcome barriers and nurture the right culture within their teams and organizations. 

Some highlights:

- Professor Heskett on why so many leaders doubt their ability to influence their organization's culture

- How leaders can establish the right culture for working in a hybrid environment 

- The role of belonging, diversity, and inclusion in great organizational cultures 

- Professor James Heskett on how leaders can create more trusting relationships 

- Specific steps leaders can take to impact the culture of their team and organization

Connect with Professor James Heskett:

Professor James Heskett @ Harvard Business School

Professor James Heskett Books @ Amazon

Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:

MahanTavakoli.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/

More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: 

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