Strategish

In our 7th episode, Host Dan Marquez and Co-Host Craig Overmars continue their conversation with venerated leader Ret. LGen Michael Rouleau, former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Throughout their conversation, Mike shares a broad range of hard-won lessons on the essentials of effective leadership and transformation. Building on the discussion of shaping a strategy and inspiring others in Part 1 (Episode 6), this half of the conversation focuses on how great leaders navigate the challenges that face any large complex change, and turn great strategies into a reality.

For anyone looking to contact Mike, you can do so via linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-rouleau-aa4b63256/

In our 6th episode, Host Dan Marquez and Co-Host Craig Overmars sit down with venerated leader Ret. LGen Michael Rouleau, former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Throughout their conversation, Mike shares a broad range of hard-won lessons on the essentials of effective leadership and transformation. In fact, their discussion was so rich and packed with insights that it couldn’t fit into a single episode! In Part 1 (Episode 6) we focus on the role of leaders in shaping an agenda of change that is set up for success, and on how leaders can inspire their teams through consistent authenticity.

And stay tuned in the next couple of weeks for the riveting conclusion of our discussion in Episode 7!

For anyone looking to contact Mike, you can do so via linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-rouleau-aa4b63256/

In our 5th episode, Dan sits down with Samantha Liscio, CIO extraordinaire & seasoned C-Suite executive/corporate strategist. Craig also joins us later to reflect on the discussion and identify the Nuggets of Insight we captured throughout.

In this conversation, we hear from Sam about the complex nuances of Enterprise Culture, why culture is so hard to change, and what hidden truths underpin the cultural transformations that do tend to succeed. We also explore the critical importance of talent and peer toxicity on the performance of an organization and it's aspirations of greatness.

For anyone looking to contact Samantha, you can do so via linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-liscio/

In our 4th episode, Dan and Craig sit down with Deborah Ko, expert in leadership psychology and fellow Googler, to delve into the surprising realities of how leaders think and what secretly drives their most strategic decisions.

In this conversation, we hear from Deborah on a fascinating array of topics, ranging from the dual role of fear in both motivating and restricting executives from taking decisive action, to tools for overriding politics and groupthink in favor of real innovation, to the critical importance of sustained trust for achieving greatness.

For anyone looking to contact Deborah, you can do so via linkedin:

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

In our 3rd episode, Dan and Craig spend some quality time together, with a 1-1 discussion on the under-appreciated art and science of Decision Making. 

In this conversation, our hosts explore the topic of how organizations make choices, not only at the strategic C-Suite level, but across every level all the way down to the front lines. They examine the chronic under-appreciation for how decision making impacts a company’s ability to achieve greatness, and discuss how adopting a “decision supply chain” analog can help leaders carve out competitive advantage through the accumulation of tiny edges in everyday choices.

For more insight into the article mentioned in today’s episode, you can give it a read on Dan’s LinkedIn page, here: 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/decision-making-supply-chain-dan-marquez

In our 2nd episode, Dan sits down with Christiana Cavazzoni, Chief Digital and Data Officer for Supply Ontario. Craig also joins us later to reflect on the discussion and identify the Nuggets of Insight we captured throughout.

In this conversation, we hear from Christiana about the challenge to achieving greatness posed by "corporate inertia", the cultural force that pushes back on all large organizational transformation efforts. She shares perspectives shaped by decades of complex change in both the private and public sectors, and identifies strategies to overcome inertia and build up sustained momentum for big change.

For anyone looking to contact Christiana, you can do so via linkedin:

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

In our first episode, Dan and co-host Craig sit down with Paul Kortenaar, CEO of the Ontario Science Centre (OSC).

In this conversation, we hear from Paul about how this venerated institution, a global pioneer in hands-on science education, tackled the existential challenges posed by COVID-19. We explore the importance of an organization's mission to it's pursuit of greatness, and learn how the OSC managed to stay on mission in the face of seemingly insurmountable hurdles - emerging from lockdowns with a renewed clarity and focus on it's core purpose.

In our Zero-th episode, co-hosts Dan and Craig get together to lay down the basics: What is a strategy, really, and how does it help organizations survive, thrive, and create tangible value for themselves and the people they serve?

In this conversation, we'll also lay our the Big Question we want to try and answer in Season 1: Why do so many organizations struggle to achieve greatness? We grapple with what it means to pursue this lofty aspiration, and explain why we think it's important that more leaders take on this challenge on behalf of their organizations and society at large.

Every organization in the world has a strategy - whether it's any good is another story.

Welcome to Strategish! This is the podcast that seeks to demystify how organizations make their most important and complex decisions, and why so many of them get it wrong. Each week, we'll interview another leader in the corporate, government, or non profit sector, along with a suite of senior executives in the strategy consulting industry. From these discussions, we'll extract useful "Nuggets" of insight that can be applied to our own organizations and even in our day-to-day lives.

So join us, for a conversation that may not always be serious, but promises to always be strateg...ish.