Warriors at Work

We bring back our conversation with Drs. Emily Rowe and Christopher Estes from last year to kick off 2023 – empowerment through our health and wellness. They show us that going beyond conventional medicine can help us learn from our energies and bodies and translate that into a focus on whole-patient care. A deep discussion on how our environment plays an important role in our well being and that discovering the root cause of our symptoms can help optimize our health.

Emily T. Rowe, MD, AP, IFMCP graduated from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2004. Inspired to find a comprehensive and definitive way to heal her patients, she went back to school and completed her Master’s Degree in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in 2009. Dr. Rowe’s practice melds Chinese herbal medicine and therapies with modern Western diagnostic evaluations, nutritional supplementation, dietary and lifestyle modifications.

Christopher M. Estes, MD, MPH, FACOG, IFMCP is a dedicated and compassionate physician whose career has evolved from extensive experience with medically complicated patients. His practice involves an integrated array of therapies for women and men, including functional medicine evaluations and bioenergetic feedback. Dr. Estes provides approachable and comprehensive education to his patients and seeks to empower them to be the decision makers in their health care.
Join us again next week, as we continue this enlightening discussion to help us have the best life possible as we start a New Year.

(4:18) The Drs. discusses their individual paths to medicine.
(7:32) The Drs. discuss their transition from traditional medicine to a integrated/wellness practice.
(15:55) Dr. Rowe discusses her own personal experience with Cancer
(24:40) They discuss the many layers to wellness & their practice in Miami, FL.
(26:40) Hear about how they approach the treatment of their patients.
(32:40) In the age of Covid, the Drs. discuss some of the unusual cases they have worked on.
(33:55) The importance of a patients’ history and the modalities in the Drs. approach to treatment.
(36:20) They discuss the use of Facial Diagnosis in their practice & their mentor.

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Jeanie shares her own personal journey as we bring a close to 2022. She shares her own gratitudes, pairing them with the spiritual meaning of “22” that signifies faith, balance, hope and trust. We also learn of her experience with falling forward this year, that helping others should not come at the expense of your own well being and happiness. She shares what she learned from this and how she will start off 2023 with new insight.

With over 25 years of business experience, Jeanie is an expert in the areas of executive performance, project management, process improvement, relationship building and team empowerment and has coached countless individuals across the globe on how to make significant leaps forward in their careers and lives.

A sought-after speaker, Jeanie loves sharing the story of her personal Warrior Journey and nothing thrills her more than showing others how to Ignite Warrior within.

(4:40) Jeanie shares her 22 gratitudes for this year

(8:06) We learn about one of Jeanie's fall forward moments from 2022

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Jenica joins us to share her experience this year with her own Gratitude and Falling Forward moments. As the company she worked for grew into a much larger environment, it led her to transition from CEO to student. She harnessed this experience as a chance to grow her leadership brand into something new. She also shares with us how first impressions is often a series of moments for leaders. Being aware of this can help you embrace and shape those moments as you grow your own leadership style.

Jenica is an accomplished executive | Chief Operating Officer with over 25 years of experience in overseeing the implementation of company strategies and serving as a change agent, spearheading new initiatives. Served as the CEO of Paper Source through the acquisition by Elliott Management and ultimately Barnes & Noble. She continues to lead the brand @ Paper Source as the COO & Chief Brand Officer under the B&N umbrella.

(2:30) In thinking about 2022, what is a gratitude moment that comes to Jenica’s mind?

(4:06) What was Jenica’s fall forward moment this year?

(7:12) A discussion about transitioning from CEO to student that Jenica experienced this year.

(10:55) How would Jenica capture her experience with this transition and offer it as advice to others?

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Lindsay joins us again to share her own experiences of Gratitude and Falling Forward in 2022. We embark on an insightful conversation how to build lasting contentment and happiness, dealing with grief and loss, while always capturing the small moments in life. As always, Lindsay brings a refreshing honesty to how the past year has shaped her life.

Co-founder of Chief, the private network of executive women on a mission to change the face of leadership. As Chief Brand Officer, I oversee the incredible teams behind Chief's marketing, events, editorial, partnerships, and communications.

Chief is a private network designed for the most powerful women in executive leadership to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence, and pave the way to bring others with them. Launched in 2019 by Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan, its mission is to drive more women to the top and keep them there. Chief has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2021, and its diverse membership includes 10,000 of the most senior executives in the United States.

(2:00) When Lindsay thinks of 2022, what is she most grateful for?

(3:07) Does Lindsay have a ritual that she follows as the year comes to an end, to reflect on the people in her life?

(4:26) What event over the past year does she see as her Fall Forward moment?

(7:10) Lindsay shares an important person in her life and how she carries their memory with her.

(8:53) A discussion about how we miss small moments in our life, and focus on big ones more. What can we do to pay closer attention to the things that collectively create happiness and contentment?

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This week Lauren Jensen. Head of Business and Customer Impact, US Insurance and Retirement Businesses, Prudential Financial, returns to Warriors at Work to share her own Gratitudes & Falling Forward experiences this year. She shares how her own workplace gives a F.A.I.L. (First Attempt In Learning) Forward Award, helping the team to learn from their mistakes and grow. A wonderful conversation about the progressive ways we can feel gratitude and learn from our positive and negative experiences in life.

Lauren Jensen is an Experienced Business Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Strong consultative approach. A professional skilled in Strategy, Business Transformation, Enterprise Communication, Leadership and Culture change and Account Management. She is focused on creating the next generation of meaningful customer experiences at Prudential.

(2:15) Thinking about the past year, what does Gratitude mean to Lauren?

(5:45) Lauren shares how we can learn from the fears & struggles in life.

(7:50) Lauren explains how the F.A.I.L. Forward award is presented in her workplace.

(10:45) How would Lauren advise others how to implement these progressive ideas into their own lives?

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We continue our Gratitudes & Falling Forward Series with Steve Schloss joining us for an enlightening conversation about how we can turn either receiving or giving a “no” into an important learning experience. Learning from these Falling Forward moments can guide us to develop better business and personal relationships.

An accomplished business leader, chief people officer, and graduate faculty turned coach and trusted advisor. In early 2020, he founded ListenForward, a coaching and advisory practice dedicated to helping C-level executives and teams strengthen individual and collective performance, deliver sustained results, and make a positive impact with and for the people they lead and the customers and communities they serve.

Through it all, he brings unique perspectives and insights from three and half decade's worth of leadership lessons having successfully built, grown, and transformed organizations across sports, technology, media, and finance.

(4:17) What comes to mind when Steve thinks of Gratitude?

(7:40) Steve shares with us one of his Fall Forward moment from 2022.

(10:38) How does he take these experiences and share them as “lessons” for others? He shares how the power of the word “no” does not have to be the end of the conversation.


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We begin our Gratitudes & Falling Forward Series by having a conversation with Elisa Padilla. She shares an experience that showed her how actions speak volumes and the importance of being grateful for those individuals around us. She also opens up about a troubling experience that opened her eyes and allowed her to self reflect on how to learn from it and move forward.

Elisa Padilla has a broad background in digital, brand, creative, and strategic marketing, new product development, media planning and buying, customer retention and affinity, budget management, multicultural marketing, and merchandise. Founder and creator of LIVE Lunchtime Conversation, an IG Series to tell stories rooted in inspiration, education and paying it forward.

Award-winning marketer (awards include Brooklyn Top Women in Business, WISE Women of Inspiration, Best Overall Integrated Marketing Campaign, “Hello Brooklyn”)

(1:36) What are the key moments in 2022 that Elisa finds gratitude in?

(2:45) A discussion about how & why we appear conditioned to reflect and express gratitude at specific times of the year. Elisa shares how she expresses gratitude in small ways throughout the year.

(4:25) Elisa shares an experience in her life that embodies gratitude.

(7:40) Over the past year, what experience has moved Elisa forward that she has been able to learn from?

(9:50) How did this experience allow Elisa to self reflect?

(11:38) Elisa shares what advice she would share with others, after her own experience?

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This week we are talking with a workplace transformation expert, Melissa Swift. Melissa believes that we can improve the everyday experience of people at work by combining empathy and capitalism. In this conversation we break down what it means to be more human at work and how we as leaders can address imbalances we feel about our roles and the future of our organizations. An enlightening conversation!

Melissa Swift is the U.S. Transformation Leader at Mercer, a consultancy firm helping redefine the world of work. In this role, Melissa is responsible for the firm’s efforts in the areas of workforce transformation, HR transformation, HR digitization, diversity equity and inclusion, and workforce analytics. Melissa is a recognized thought leader on the subject of the future of work post-COVID: she has been quoted on the subject in Newsweek, Washington Post, Axios, and Daily Mail, and has appeared on NPR and Al-Jazeera English.

(3:20) Where did Melissa’s passion for workplace transformation come from?

(4:50) What would prompt an organization to need Melissa’s service and how does she help them reshape how they are operating? What ties data & empathy together to create a more efficient workplace?

(7:50) How does she work with a company to help them see & implement the needed changes?

(9:03) Melissa goes through statistics about the workplace, helping us to understand the “why” behind them:
•28% of the workforce, at any moment, wants to quit
•750K people die every year from working too long

(13:27) We discuss her new book, and she shares some of her best strategies to achieve a more “human” centered workplace.

(18:20) Melissa shares how we can, as leaders, communicate better in the workplace.

(20:44) Discussing the concept of Transformational Leadership and two of Jeanie’s favorite examples of how this manifests in the workplace.

(22:34) Is there a difference between gender and leadership perfectionism?

(24:30) Discussion about the ability to contextualize, giving your team the ability to see the reason “why”.

(27:59) What does Melissa see businesses might be missing, or need to plan for, as they transform into a better version of themselves?

(32:04) Does Covid fatigue show up in the work Melissa does with organizations?

(33:34) Looking forward 10 years, how does Melissa see the workplace evolving?

Connect with Melissa Swift
https://enterprisersproject.com/user/melissa-swift

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In recent years our work environment has gotten more visibility and attention as we juggle how to deal with a pandemic. Our conversation this week with Dr. John Boudreau will help us navigate and learn from these changes, so we can embrace them to create a better work environment.

We discuss in depth how adopting a skills based systems can be a framework to redefine an organization. Instead of being made up of jobs and job holders it can become a rich pool of skills that help projects and tasks succeed. This new method can breathe life into the conversation, helping to evolve our traditional and often limited ways of approaching situations. Some organizations might find they are already using many of these processes and can learn how to broaden them to other areas.

Dr. John Boudreau is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization and a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Dr. Boudreau is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage. He consults and conducts executive development with companies worldwide that seek to maximize their employees’ effectiveness by discovering the specific strategic bottom-line impact of superior people and human capital strategies.

Please join us again next week as we continue Warriors At Work conversations to guide us in transforming and enriching the organizations we lead and are a part of.

(4:03) Why has Dr. Boudreau chosen this path to work on?

(5:55) What does Dr. Boudreau mean by saying that HR (Human Resources) has “wind in its sails”?

(8:00) In his book, a new operating system model for businesses is proposed. We discuss what this new model looks like.

(16:01) How would a business begin to implement these new processes into their model? How would Dr. Boudreau guide them through this change?

(26:25) We have a discussion about how companies who are financially fit might feel this also means they foster a positive culture. Do these two concepts really work together in that way?

(29:21) What if we started reporting on people success? What can this mean for an organization?

(34:45) What examples can Dr. Boudreau share with us how this new operating system model is impacting businesses he works with?

(40:36) How does Dr. Boudreau see these models impacting a traditional business hierarchal structure?

(54:14) What types of challenges and criticism does Dr. Boudreau receive when discussing/implementing these new models?

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-boudreau-115500/
http://www.drjohnboudreau.com

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Our conversation this week with Wendy Zajack delves into how we as Gen X’ers are very well positioned to help the future of work. The workplace is going through a transformation as it tries to figure out who they are and what the future is going to look like and Gen X can help! As the bridge between generations, Wendy talks about the attributes of Gen X that are needed in this moment. Being natural translators, adaptable and free range thinkers that can guide the thought leaders and change makers through the peaks and valleys of life.

With more than 20 years of experience in public relations, marketing, media relations and internal communications, Wendy Zajack thrives on working to make complex topics easy to understand, exciting and relevant to broad audiences. She spent her corporate career working for large, global organizations building messaging for multiple audiences and using a variety of marketing channels. She now spends her time thinking about intersection of education, communications, and technology and how to thoughtfully deliver tailored, personalized and impactful curriculum to adult learners.

She joined Georgetown in 2016 as a faculty director and professor for a master’s level Integrated Marketing Communications program in the School of Continuing Studies. In 2017 she also became the faculty director for a visually oriented master’s program called Design Management Communications (DMC) program.

Please join us again next week as we continue our Warriors At Work conversations to guide us in transforming our personal & professional lives.

(3:30) We kick off our conversation asking Wendy about why she decided to go into Academia.

(7:26) What are students talking about in her classroom, at Georgetown, right now?

(10:00) How does Wendy tackle the issues brought up by her students?

(16:14) What brands does Wendy see are evolving and shifting that embodies what she shares with her students?

(21:35) A discussion about why Gen X is essential to lead the workforce towards better things (from a recent post by Wendy). Jeanie asks Wendy about her favorite reasons why this is true.

(36:51) Can we teach the strengths we have as Gen X to other generations in the future?

(44:40) How has Academia been preparing students for the workplace?

(50:45) What can we do to be better equipped for how the workplace will change in the future?

(55:08) How can we embrace our fears and anxieties to learn and overcome them?

(1:00:23) How does Wendy want to influence the workplace?


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