The Leader's Panel

In this episode hosts LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers and Dr. Henry Cloud welcome Blake Canterbury to The Leader's Panel. Blake is the founder of Purposity, a new app designed to make charity more effective and local. Blake talks to the panel about the troubles he saw with other forms of charity, like crowd-sourcing, where people were getting taken advantage of. Purposity is different. They use schools and social workers to post needs to the app. You can find out more about this amazing app at www.purposity.com

In this episode hosts LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers and Dr. Henry Cloud welcome Harvey Kanter to The Leader's Panel. Harvey is an author, and career business leader. He is currently the CEO of Destination XL, a leading retailer in the big and tall clothing sector, specializing in designer clothes. He's also the author of Choosing To Lead, and shares some of his key insights with us, like the importance of speed when making decisions, and how to get comfortable being in uncomfortable situations.

In this episode hosts LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers and Dr. Henry Cloud welcome Joel Manby to The Leader's Panel. Joel is a graduate of Harvard Business School, the former CEO of Seaworld, and the former president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment, the largest family owned theme park company in the US. He's here to talk about his new book Love Works about bringing something that we rarely consider when we think of our work culture: treating people with love. We hope you enjoy this discussion as much as we did.

In this episode of the Leader's Panel, hosts Dr. Henry Cloud and LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers are joined by Joel Peterson to discuss how leaders work in a crisis, and what real listening is between co-workers, amongst many other topics. Mr. Peterson is the Chairman of JetBlue Airways, the founder of Peterson Partners with over $1 billion under investment, and a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Hollis.

Jack Hollis is group vice president and general manager of the Toyota Division at Toyota Motor North America, and in this episode of The Leader's Panel, he tells us about the importance putting relationships first and focusing on the "human" side of business.

In this episode of The Leader's Panel, Christina Hovestadt discusses the journey that led her to the NFL and shares with us the principles that allowed her to persevere as a role model within one of the most recognized sports brands in the world.

Jia Jiang joins The Leader's Panel to talk about his journey to overcome the fear of rejection by intentionally putting himself in situations where "no" would have been the default answer, but to his surprise, the more asks he made, the more likely others said yes.

The Leader's Panel host Jennifer Laine explains the inspiration behind a revamped podcast featuring the expertise Dr. Henry Cloud.

Emily Esfahani Smith talks to us about the difference between finding happiness in your life versus having meaning in your life – where do we get it, why we can't find it, and what composes the ingredients of meeting.