The IVY Podcast

We created a brief micro-coaching video outlining five key tactics from The Anatomy of Breakthroughs: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most based on our recent interview with Adam Alter, renowned Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business.

Check out all the key insights from my conversation with Adam:

https://share.ivy.com/learning-modules/anatomy-of-breakthroughs-how-to-get-unstuck-when-it-matters-most-with-adam-alter

Enjoy the second episode of IVY Unfiltered. Join co-hosts, and brothers, Beri Meric and Vidal Meric as they reflect on the week’s key insights, featuring discussions on Mastering & Embracing Change with Brad Stulberg, Unleashing Your Potential by Tossing Plan B Overboard with Matt Higgins, Living & Leading Authentically with Jim Fielding, Becoming a Champion by Having the Courage to Fail with Paralympic gold medalist Annabelle Williams, and Grabbing and Keeping Your Audience's Attention with Brendan Kane. Eager for more? Access all the insights discussed here at the links below. Subscribe and join us every Sunday for deep dives and reflections on the wisdom that shapes our world!

Dive into the first episode of IVY Unfiltered: "Unleashing Performance, Self-Leading Teams & The Seasons of History"! Join hosts Beri and Vidal Meric as they reflect on the week’s key insights, featuring discussions on the Experience Mindset with Tiffani Bova, creating winning Self-Leading Teams with Navy SEALs Kyle Buckett & Chris Mefford, the Performance Paradox with Eduardo Briceño, future-proofing your career with Christina Wallace, and understanding the Seasons of History with Neil Howe. Eager for more? Access all the insights discussed here at the links below. Subscribe and join us every Sunday for deep dives and reflections on the wisdom that shapes our world!

How to Supercharge Business Growth with “The Experience Mindset” with Tiffani Bova

How Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win with Kyle Buckett & Chris Mefford

The Performance Paradox: How to Turn the Power of Mindset into Transformative Action with Eduardo Briceño

The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card with Christina Wallace

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End with Neil Howe

We’re thrilled to connect you with Dr. Kira Banks for an important and actionable conversation on how we can achieve transformative success through diversity by creating a truly inclusive organization.

In a dynamic discussion moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, Dr. Banks will outline steps to develop a diversity and inclusion strategy that can serve our teams and our stakeholders throughout our careers. She’ll share how organizations should best navigate past diversity related failings and their internal and external repercussions, and how leaders can foster healthy discussions about race in the workplace.

Dr. Banks' approach incorporates extensive diversity work in corporate and academic settings with cutting-edge experience design in order to meet organizations where they are and catalyze lasting change. We’ll discuss what steps leaders and companies need to take to move from statements of support to action that will create lasting change beyond this moment and be felt in the everyday experience.

As a diversity, inclusion and equity consultant working with a wide range of international firms in corporate, non-profit, educational, and community settings for over 20 years, Dr. Kira Hudson Banks is highly skilled at facilitating difficult dialogues and designing customized, impactful, and long-term diversity solutions. She is passionate about helping leaders make every workplace an inclusive workplace and believes inclusive workplaces make for more engaged, productive, innovative, and happy employees—and more successful organizations.

We are thrilled to connect you with Jeff Lawson, the globally-renowned Co-Founder & CEO of Twilio, with over one billion in revenues, for a high impact conversation on how we can best harness the power of software developers and win in the 21st century!

With nearly every industry turning digital, companies need the best software to win the hearts and minds of customers. Lawson argues that developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products for customers—not just grind through rote tasks.

Lawson will share the three critical actions that leaders who build industry-changing software products consistently are doing well when onboarding software developers as partners. As a software developer and public company CEO, Lawson is the perfect guide to helping us bridge the language and tools executives use with the unique culture of high performing, creative software developers. Jeff is also the author of Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century.

In a dynamic conversation moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, we will learn Lawson’s playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems and drive digital transformation.

We are excited to connect you with Aron Ain, Aron Ain, CEO and Chairman of UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) and bestselling author of WorkInspired, who built a 3 billion-dollar company by embracing employee development and engagement as a growth strategy. This will be an invaluable opportunity to learn how to build an organization where everyone loves to work!

Imagine a company where employees feel not just “satisfied” but truly cared for, respected, and energized, where everybody loves to work. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall performance. As a leading global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions, Ain believes that anything is possible when people are inspired.

In a dynamic conversation moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, we will discover UKG’s highly admired WorkInspired culture, and the surprisingly simple rules to follow to replicate that success. Ain’s inspiring guide reveals the best practices that have earned UKG distinctions on coveted lists, such as Glassdoor’s 100 Best Places to Work and Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. This will be an amazing opportunity to learn how to build a winning culture and we hope you will join us!

Join us with the leader of Bain & Company’s Global Innovation Practice and renowned business researcher Darrell Rigby to learn how to do agile right and lead transformation without chaos.

For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, agile is hailed as the essential bridge across this chasm, with the potential to transform a company and catapult it to the head of the pack. According to Rigby, agile teams can indeed be powerful, making people's jobs more rewarding and turbocharging innovation, but such results are possible only if the method is fully understood and implemented the right way.

In a thought-provoking conversation moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's rise to prominence will be dispelled as Rigby lays out a road map for what really matters when leading the transition to a truly agile enterprise. The key focus, as Rigby argues, is balance. Every organization must optimize and tightly control some of its operations, and at the same time innovate. Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations.

We’re thrilled to connect you with the Academy Award–winning legendary American icon Matthew McConaughey!

In this once in a lifetime exclusive digital gathering, McConaughey will personally share with us the “outlaw wisdom” he's accumulated over his remarkable life. We’ll learn first-hand from his most important life challenges, and hear his inspiring, often funny, and uniquely McConaughey take on topics universal to the human experience; How to be fair. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good person. How to have meaning in life.

McConaughey recently collected his key learnings from decades of personal journals which he beautifully shared in his highly acclaimed new memoir, Greenlights, which he describes as “not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life,” and a guide to achieving a state he calls “catching greenlights.”

Moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, this will be a unique opportunity to connect with one of the most brilliant storytellers of our time, a man who has grappled with the lessons of his life with passion and discovered how to live truly fully. We are excited for McConaughey to be your personal guide to catching more greenlights in life, and hope you can join us!

Join us with Tara Schuster, Author, Playwright, and Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central for some bracingly honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a creative executive called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele and praised by Chelsea Handler, Adam Grant, and Glennon Doyle.

By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she was thriving. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew. Tara will share hard-won lessons from her celebrated new book, "Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies", the story of her path to re-parenting herself and becoming a “ninja of self-love.”

In a conversation with IVY CEO Beri Meric, Tara will share the simple, daily rituals she used to transform her mind, body, and relationships. She calls her approach of learning to love yourself in a non-throw-up-in-your-mouth-it’s-so-cheesy way. She’ll tackle topics so many of us struggle with, including self-criticism, emotional baggage, gratitude, and self-limiting beliefs, with humor and understanding.

Tara’s candid, practical insights will help create a life you truly love and feel more confident in your choices, no matter where you are in your life.

We’re very pleased to connect you with Professor Omid Safi, renowned Duke University professor of Islamic studies, for a deeply impactful conversation about timeless lessons we can learn from Rumi and Sufism, with lasting relevance and transformative power in our time.

In this thought-provoking conversation moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Beri Meric, Safi will guide us through Sufism’s tradition of “radical love”--love for the divine and for our fellow humans--and how it can serve us in challenging times. Safi will relate how Rumi’s wisdom on selflessness, standing with those that are suffering, and learning to accept the more painful parts of life rather than trying in vain to escape them can be a healing, guiding force. In our discussion, Safi will draw from his fascinating work linking the American Civil rights Movement and Rumi’s teachings--two traditions that he believes uniquely bind love and justice.

A deeply respected scholar who has delivered the keynote for the annual Martin Luther King commemoration at the National Civil Rights Museum, Safi grew up in Iran and the American South. He is a nationally sought-after speaker on the teachings of Muslim mystics, or Sufis, and the poet Rumi. This will be a wonderful opportunity to reflect and find opportunities for deeper meaning in our daily lives.