Truly Human Leadership

Is the workplace killing us? What are the links between the workplace and wellness? These are some of the issues addressed by Stanford professor and author, Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Barry-Wehmiller CEO, Bob Chapman, in an edited presentation of a webinar hosted by Vitality.

Jane Adshead-Grant, a leadership mentor and coach who works with the BW Leadership Institute, shares the challenges her clients face in a changing corporate landscape and they keys to overcoming them.

How do you grown and sustain a culture of people-centric leadership in more than 200 locations across the globe? Rhonda Spencer, Barry-Wehmiller's Chief People Officer talks about how we try to do that in our organization and about her role as the steward of our company's values. Along the way she shares some of the nuts and bolts of how we put the big ideas of our CEO, Bob Chapman, into practice.

Kris Schaeffer has been helping to create moral and conscious cultures in business for more than 40 years. Kris shares insights and lessons from throughout her career and discusses a Conscious Capitalism "Sight Visit" to a Barry-Wehmiller facility.

Michael Gelb started his career as a juggler who performed on stage with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. That skill led to a whole new world of research, coaching and writing about how genius thinking can facilitate better personal, organization and leadership development. Michael truly believes business can be a force for good in the world and he talks about how creativity can help people in the workplace feel like they matter.

The football program of Kimberly High School in Wisconsin has a 100-6 record in the eight years Coach Steve Jones has been head coach. However, Coach Jones doesn't talk to his players about winning, but what it means to be a winner. He credits the culture of servant leadership in his football program as the reason for their success. On this episode of our podcast, Coach Jones talks about that culture of leadership and how it relates to leadership in business or any organization.

One of the most powerful things we can do as leaders in business or other organization is to stop seeing the people within our span of care as objects or functions. They're people. David Vandermolen of Barry-Wehmiller University talks us through realizing this in our own lives.

A look at how Barry-Wehmiller uses the principles of Lean to eliminate frustration, not waste at work and send people home more fulfilled.

Note: This episode of the Everybody Matters Podcast was originally posted in Nov 2015. We recently discovered that the episode stream had a number of technical issues, including lost information that left the episode incomplete. We're taking this opportunity to repost the entire, complete episode without errors.

Rich Sheridan returns to the Everybody Matters Podcast to talk about his new book, Chief Joy Officer. Hear why Rich think joy is an essential part of leadership and how it can revolutionize your business and life.

Betsy Myers has served in two White House administrations and is a author, speaker and consultant. Betsy joins the podcast for an analysis of where business leadership stands right now. Think of the conversation as a report card of the progress those of us are who are trying to change the way businesses and organizations lead their people have made and what needs to happen to move our efforts forward.