The Only Dream Big Pod

Join us as we share how you can connect people through storytelling, reimagine your workplace culture, and ultimately drive change through people with our guest, Karen Eber. She is a keynote, TED speaker, culture transformation expert, and leadership development whisperer. With 20 years of experience, she has worked on both sides of the desk – as a Consultant and head of Culture & Leadership Development at GE and Deloitte. She is known for clarifying the Why and the Way and telling you what you need to hear, especially when it is hard. She shares memorable stories that inspire your leaders and teams to build new ideas and habits to transform culture.

Join us as we share how you can instill transparency in the organization, unfold the importance of alignment, vision, and action, and ultimately drive change through people with our guest, Laurel Rutledge. 

Join us as we share how you can create better workplaces, improve employee experiences, and ultimately drive change through people with our guest, Don MacPherson, CEO of 12 Geniuses. Don MacPherson is the host of 12 Geniuses - a podcast for curious and voracious learners. A five-time entrepreneur, Don spent 25 years researching the employee and customer experiences, the attributes of great leadership, and how healthy organizational cultures are created and sustained. Now, Don interviews geniuses from around the world about the trends shaping the way we live and work. From AI to biotechnology, aging to addiction, cybersecurity to privacy, and climate change to trust, Don uses these insights to help business leaders better understand what these trends are, how they are positioned to disrupt companies and industries, and how new value can be created for those willing to make the necessary changes.

Join us as we share how you can create better workplaces, improve employee experiences, and ultimately drive change through people with our guest, Monica Cost, CEO of The Core Value Company. Monica is Chief Pathfinder & President of The Core Value Company®, a firm that provides custom value-based strategies for corporations, entrepreneurs, and individuals through unique workshops, business strategy creation, corporate culture consulting, and keynotes; using her trademarked Value Identification Process®. Having spent many years in Fortune 500 companies in professional and executive positions, Monica is uniquely equipped to understand the condition of professionals at every level from various angles.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guest, Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup. Jim created The Gallup Path, a metric-based economic model that links the behaviors of employees and customers to business outcomes. This model is used in performance management systems in more than 500 companies worldwide. His innovation, The Gallup World Poll, is designed to give the world's 7 billion citizens a voice on virtually all key global issues. He serves on several boards and is the chairman of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. His blog appears regularly in the Influencer section of LinkedIn and on Gallup.com's Chairman's Blog.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guest, Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew of Allegheny Health Network. An internationally respected expert in cultural humility within the health care field, Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew has spent her career engaging marginalized communities and building programs that focus on promoting outcomes equity for vulnerable patients and mitigating socio-political barriers to care. She has a special interest in educating and empowering women, especially those pursuing careers in medicine. Although Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew cares for women in her general OB/GYN practice, she also focuses on providing care to women living in low- to middle-resource communities, with a clinical focus in the care of women living with HIV. She is the founder and current CEO and President of JUSTWONDOOR (Women and Newborns, Diversity, Outreach, Opportunity and Research), a program that aims to educate global medical providers through local and international health care collaborations.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guests, LaDavia Drane of Amazon Web Services. LaDavia Drane is a bridge between the worlds of technology and inclusion, diversity, and equity. Leveraging technology for good, in ways both big and small, and with a global impact is her personal and professional mission. With a background comprised of work and education in public policy, public relations, technology and inclusion, diversity, and equity, LaDavia has cultivated strategically aligned relationships to remove barriers and build opportunities that accelerate equity in the circles she navigates and beyond.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guests, Kameale and Evette of Chargerhelp. Kameale is the Co-Founder and CEO of ChargerHelp, Inc. an app that enables on-demand repair of electric vehicle charging stations. As the former Director of Programs at EV Connect, an electric vehicle charge station network provider, Kameale structured and led teams to execute electric vehicle infrastructure projects and programs in the United States, Australia, and Canada for commercial and government entities. Her most notable projects include the Electrify America - Phase One Program, the Southern California Edison Charge Ready Pilot, and the New York Power Authority portfolio. Evette Ellis is an impactful and thought provoking workforce developer. She is also the chief workforce officer and co-founder of ChargerHelp! Evette has mastered all aspects of workforce development. From work based learning, job development and placement , outreach and retention, Evette has worked tirelessly with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps system for over seven years as a specialist for Career Transition Services.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guest, Tim Dutton, CHRO at Kettering Health Network. Tim Dutton is responsible for enhancing the connection between Kettering Health’s employees and mission to improve the quality of life of the people in the communities Kettering Health serves. He is also responsible for advancing Kettering Health’s philanthropic mission and brand, coordinating among its numerous foundations.

Join us as we navigate life, dreaming, and reaching the impossible with our guest, Poppy MacDonald. She is the CEO of USAFacts, the non-partisan, non-profit civic initiative and source for well-visualized data on the American people and how we are doing as a nation-leading an effort to help Americans ground their democratic debate in facts. MacDonald served as president and chief operating officer of POLITICO USA, National Journal’s publisher and president, as well as chief revenue officer, POLITICO Pro’s executive director of business development, overseeing the launch of Politico’s first paid subscription model, and as a partner at Gallup Inc., where she launched the World Poll and led the health care practice. MacDonald began her career serving members of Congress representing her Pacific Northwest hometown on both the Senate and House sides of Capitol Hill – and is happy to be back, enjoying Seattle and surrounds with her husband and two children.