The Business of Experience

By Rodney Hobbs

Experience is becoming a business imperative, but what is Experience and why does it matter? Join Rodney Hobbs as he speaks with incredible guests to explore all things Experience and why this is crit... more

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December 02, 2021 Episode Five - Experience Leadership with Nick Lynn
Join me for this episode with Nick Lynn discussing Experience Leadership
Nick Lynn is author of Employee Experience (EX) Leadership: Build Trust Through Employee Experience and Engagement. He is a researcher and consultant who has helped leaders at some of the world’s largest companies to build high performance cultures and improve employee engagement.
He is based in London, but has also lived and worked in Chicago and New York. He has a PhD from The University of Birmingham in England and he was a lecturer at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he is an Honorary Fellow.
He is especially interested in using employee experience analytics to solve business problems, such as simplifying the way people work and encouraging collaboration and innovation.
You can find his book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07RLLXY86
You can follow his work via his website: www.exleadership.com
And you can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklynn/ and twitter at https://twitter.com/nickl4
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52min
August 11, 2020 Episode sixteen - Leadership with Karin Hurt and David Dye
It was an absolute pleasure to end my season of the podcast with such a great discussion on leadership with Karin and David.
Karin Hurt and David Dye help leaders achieve breakthrough results without losing their soul. They’re the founders of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm. They're the award-winning authors of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. Karin is a top leadership consultant and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she was named to Inc. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. David Dye is a former executive, elected official, and president of Let's Grow Leaders. Karin and David are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells - building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.
Our main website is Let’s Grow Leaders
Our book website is CourageousCulturesBook.com where they can download a free chapter or take the courageous cultures quiz.
The link to the book on Amazon is here.
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38min
July 28, 2020 Episode Fifteen - Leadership with Alain Hunkins
It was an highly engaging and enjoyable chat with Alain discussing all things about leadership!
A sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator and coach, Alain Hunkins is a leadership expert who connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. Leaders trust him to help unlock their potential and expand their influence, leading to superior results, increased engagement, higher levels of retention, and greater organizational and personal satisfaction. He has a gift for translating complex concepts from psychology, neuroscience and organizational behavior into simple, practical tools that can be applied on the job.
Over the course of his 20+ year career, Alain has worked with tens of thousands of leaders in over 25 countries, and served clients in all industries, including 42 Fortune 100 companies. He delivers dynamic keynotes, seminars, and workshops covering a variety of leadership topics including communication, teambuilding, conflict management, peak performance, motivation, and change.
With his Master’s in Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theater Training Program, and a BA from Amherst College, Alain also serves on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, ranked #2 worldwide in 2018 by Financial Times on its list of customized Executive Education programs. Alain has lectured at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s business school and Columbia University.
Alain has authored over 400 articles, and been published by The Association for Talent Development, CEO Refresher, and the American Management Association.
www.alainhunkins.com
www.crackingtheleadershipcode.com
www.linkedin.com/in/alainhunkins
ted.com/talks/alain_hunkins_the_basic_truth_most_leaders_neglect
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July 08, 2020 Episode-Fourteen-Innovate-and-grow-with-Ben-Frederiksen
It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss innovation with Ben and how organisation approach hyper-growth in these ever-changing times.
Ben Frederiksen is an expert in helping companies innovate and grow faster, drawing on experience from hyper-growth organisations.

Inspired by his own personal experiences and deep research into other hyper-growth organisations, he founded his company ‘Innovate and Grow’ which is based on the 9 Domains which they have statistically proven to correlate with growth.

Hyper-growth organisations are those who achieve a 40% growth rate for more than one year. Due to this high growth rate, compared to other organisations, they often spend more time working in ambiguity, experience more frequent pivots in strategy and have to work hard to get ‘more from less’ resources. This produces many valuable lessons for others in today’s volatile world.

Ben has worked across the spectrum of growth, most recently as the Head of Customer Experience and Operations for Uber Eats ANZ and as a Digital Transformation Director for PwC across Americas & AsiaPac.

He has a breadth of practical Industry experience as well, having spent a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods with Lion and Nestle working across Sales, Service, Strategy, Customer Experience, Commercial Finance and in General Management roles. Prior to that, he worked across London and Sydney for PwC as a Chartered Accountant.

His career has provided him detailed insights into more than 50 organisations from which to draw experience for clients.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/imbenf
Website: www.innovate-and-grow.com
Twitter: @ImBenF
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June 30, 2020 Episode Thirteen - Leading with Empathy with Sophie Wade
it was an amazing pleasure to cath=up with Sophie Wade for this week's episode.
SOPHIE WADE, MBA
Sophie Wade is a speaker, author and authority on Future-of-Work issues. Her book, Embracing Progress: Next Steps for the Future of Work, is an Executive MBA Program textbook and required reading for several management school leadership courses.
Sophie is Founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network, a Future-of-Work consultancy. Sophie’s executive advisory work and transformative workshops help companies futureproof their work environments and attract, engage, and retain their multigenerational and distributed talent. She helps corporations maximize the benefits and minimize the disruption in their transition to talent-focused new work environments.
Sophie has held senior management, strategy and finance roles around the world—in Asia, Europe and the U.S.—working in media, technology, and venture capital for companies such as IMG and Yahoo. With a strategy and finance focus for her first career, she assisted entrepreneurs and major corporations identify, develop and execute strategic initiatives, build teams and ventures and create partnerships.
She served on the Board of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) as chapter President 2015-17, and a member of NAWBO National's Presidents' Assembly Steering Committee 2016-19. She is on the NY Advisory Board of Common Sense Media. Sophie has a BA from Oxford University and an MBA from international business school, INSEAD.
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54min
June 23, 2020 Episode Twelve - Designing for Complexity with Dave Snowden
It was very humbling to have the opportunity to share some time with such a critical thinking mind!
Dave Snowden
Founder and chief scientific officer
Founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
He holds visiting Chairs at the Universities of Pretoria and Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a visiting fellowship at the University of Warwick. He is a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore. His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and also won the Academy of Management award for the best practitioner paper in the same year.
He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge managment. He is a editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research.
He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity; during that period he was selected by IBM as one of six on-demand thinkers for a world wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector.
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32min
June 15, 2020 Episode Eleven - Psychological safety with Amy C Edmondson
It was an absolute pleasure to discuss many different topics with the amazingly warm and engaging Amy in this week's episode.
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2019), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 11 languages.

Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organizational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Fearless+Organization%3A+Creating+Psychological+Safety+in+the+Workplace+for+Learning%2C+Innovation%2C+and+Growth-p-9781119477266
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47min
May 26, 2020 Episode Ten - Digital Reality with Michael Gale
It was immensely enjoyable catching up with Michael to discuss the topic of Digital Reality and the affects of COVID-19.
Michael Gale is the founding partner of inc.digital a digital transformation consulting company focused on helping leadership with frameworks for managing complexity in the 21st Century. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal and Amazon best-selling book about digital transformation, The Digital Helix the number one selling book on strategy in 2017 and 2018.
Michael Gale has built and sold two SaaS and consulting companies since 2006 and also consults with two NFL teams (since 2012) on the nature of change management and leadership in highly competitive environments. Michael is a recognized top ten global AI influencer (Thinkers 360), Forbes contributor on leadership, has written for the Drucker institute (Leader to Leader quarterly journal) on leadership models in the 21stCentury and hosts one of Forbes only two podcasts series, Futures in Focus. The podcast covers the world of 2030 and over 100 episodes have been recorded with leading academics, healthcare experts, CEO’s and entrepreneurs building that world now.
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33min
May 19, 2020 Episode Nine - The Future of Business - How is the current crisis serving as a catalyst for fundamental changes? with John Hagel
It was an absolute pleasure to have the privilege to chat with the amazing John Hagel in this episode of the podcast.
John has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world.
In addition to his current role as leader of the Center for the Edge at Deloitte, he has worked with McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. He also served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.
He currently occupies leadership roles at the World Economic Forum and the Santa Fe Institute, and he serves on the faculty of Singularity University.
He is the author of 7 books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and professional service firms. His personal blog for 15 years was Edge Perspectives but now his more recent personal blog posts can be found on this website.
John holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University and a JD and MBA from Harvard University.
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44min
May 12, 2020 Episode Eight - Culture Fix with Colin D Ellis
In this week's episode, we continue to explore the theme of Culture with Colin Ellis.
Colin D Ellis is an award-winning international speaker, Amazon #1 best-selling author and renowned culture change and project management expert who works with organisations around the world to help them transform the way they get things done.
Able to draw on more than 30 years of public and private sector leadership experience in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, Colin shares his knowledge of workplace culture and project management through his books Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work and The Project Book, programs and speeches.
His presentations contain anecdotes, statistics, practical insights and plenty of humour to ensure that audiences are engaged and laughing! He shares his knowledge of workplace culture and gets people talking through his emphasis on people being the best version of themselves and creating cultures they can be proud of.
Colin is originally from Liverpool in the UK and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he is known for his snappy dressing and love of karaoke.
Website: www.colindellis.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/colindellis
Facebook: www.facebook.com/colindellis
Twitter: @colindellis
Instagram: @colindellis
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42min

FAQs about The Business of Experience:

How many episodes does The Business of Experience have?

The podcast currently has 19 episodes available.