Drs. Tom Hayashi and Mary Kay Chess bring salient, powerful insights on how leaders are leading and organizations are managing in the age of COVID-19. This is not-to-miss episode!
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Dr. Hayashi's Bio
Dr. Hayashi is a scholar-practitioner with over 20 years of senior-leadership and management consulting experience. Before his appointment with Saybrook University, he was the founding principal of Capacity Empowerment, an organizational consultancy firm with cross-sector national and international client engagement portfolio. His past clients including but not limited to ABC Television Network, AT&T, Compasspoint Nonprofit Services, GM, Liberty Hill Foundation, Los Angeles County, NAACP, National Broadcasters’ Association, Ocean Institute, Planned Parenthood, The Praxis Center, Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG-AFTRA), Southwest Airlines, Target, UPS, District of Columbia Health and Human Services Agency, and Office of Personnel Management. Lastly, he presently serves as a subject matter expert on mentorship to the national board of the Institute for Management Consultants (IMC-USA).
Dr. Chess' Bio
Mary Kay served as a healthcare executive for multi-state systems for over 30 years. During her tenure of also working with NGOs, global businesses and community officials to create systems, unique partnerships and products, she was intrigued that well-intended interventions often delivered the same results with minimal change. Through national conversations, explorations and a PhD in Transformational Learning and Change, she committed to finding and supporting emerging and experienced leaders willing to pilot innovations, create unusual partnerships, savor conflict and invite ambiguity. This led her to serve with other like-minded colleagues to listen and teach learners in a unique Leadership and Management program at Saybrook University. She continued her belief that competitors can collaborate and that healthcare network leaders, when equipped with systems thinking, offer resilient sustainable practices and engagements to serve diverse communities. Indeed, when courage and laughter meet over thorny issues, innovation and transformation emerge. More now, than ever.