September 30th, 2021 marked Canada's first ever Truth & Reconciliation Day. Honour this important initiative by listening to this authentic, raw conversation with Annie Korver. Annie is on a mission to advance indigenous participation and inclusion in Canadian businesses. Grow your understanding of Canadian history, and strengthen your culture of inclusion.

More than ever the opportunity exists for organizations to proactively participate in, support, and partner on economic development activities with Indigenous communities and ventures. Through thoughtful conversations and planning, values-led reconciliation can become a reality.

We all spend time doing things we don’t want to – low value tasks and priorities that steal our time, energy, and focus. And then we wonder why we don’t achieve the most important outcomes we want in life.

Hear Greg McKeown, author of Effortless, debunk the myth that to achieve greater results we need to work harder.

2020 is behind us, vaccine rollout has started, & an economic recovery is coming. Is your business ready to accelerate out of the downturn? We've turned the tables in this episode - our Host Jeff Tetz will be interviewed by Global News Anchor, Quinn Phillips, for this important and timely topic! This conversation explores six important strategies that will help ensure your team is accelerating before it's too late. 

Leaders who understand and create psychological safety build high performing organizations. Psychological safety isn't about being nice though, it's about giving candid feedback, openly admitting mistakes, and learning from each other. It's about trust and vulnerability. Amy Edmondson, a Harvard Business School professor and author of the book The Fearless Organization, talks about the concept of psychological safety and how companies with a trusting workplace ultimately perform better.

Tracy Dumas, associate professor of management and human resource at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, talks about how our personal and professional lives interface and benefit one another - and how we should all capitalize on this. When you are engaged at work, you're using a particular set of skills and cognitive resources. When you step away from work, you engage in activities that require a different set of skills. This is incredibly beneficial and allows us to come back to work with a sense of recovery and engagement.

If you can't articulate how your organization is different from competitors clearly and succinctly, what reason does your clientele have to buy from you? There are many good businesses with good people out there, but the businesses that really thrive are the ones that can properly position themselves in the marketplace from their competitors. David C. Baker, the author of The Business of Expertise, talks about how to market and position your organization ahead of the competition.

We are all natural born performers! When we improvise and perform in ways we have not done before, we can discover new internal territory and grow. Cathy Salit, bestselling author of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work, talks about how leaders and organizations can use the art and science of performance to become more than they thought they could be!

The problem with the traditional leader-follow model used by most companies in the world, is that it influences people to comply, rather than think and initiate. Former US Navy Captain David Marquet, bestselling author of Turn The Ship Around, talks about intent-based leadership and how to create workplaces where everyone contributes and where followers grow to become leaders. 

When you lead from the heart, your people will follow. Mark C. Crowley, best-selling author of Lead From The Heart, talks about heart-based leadership and how to create employee engagement that moves people to do extraordinary work and achieve remarkable performance.

Innovation is the hottest buzzword in business! But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated and we've put too much faith in technology to solve our problems? Lee Vinsel, co-author of The Innovation Delusion, talks about how our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most.