What's NXT

In this final episode of the What's NXT Podcast Season 1, we have the absolute pleasure of speaking to Holly Ransom, a globally renowned keynote speaker, disruption strategist and advocate for social and economic inclusion. We tackled all things leadership - diversity, bias, change, innovation, ideas and much more. We also had a chance to talk about her book, The Leading Edge, and how you can discover how to first lead yourself, then others through its three principles – mindset, method and mastery. You can purchase a copy of her book, The Leading Edge here.

About Holly Ransom

Holly Ransom is a globally renowned content curator, powerful speaker and master interviewer with the belief that if you walk past it, you tell the world it’s okay. Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, was Sir Richard Branson’s nominee for Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List’ of Future Game Changers to watch and was awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019. Having interviewed the likes of Barack Obama, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Billie Jean-King, Condoleezza Rice, Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and the world’s first humanoid robot Sophia, Holly fights complexity with curiosity, apathy with empowerment and fear with fact. 

As a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Kennedy School Class of ’21 fellow, Holly is a recipient of the prestigious Anne Wexler Public Policy Scholarship, allowing her to action social and economic inclusion by connecting people with the decisions that affect their lives. Having released her book The Leading Edge, Holly helps people harness their own potential to lead by asking better questions, thinking beyond biased answers and building collective momentum for change. The Leading Edge is part of Holly's broader belief that we need to democratise leadership learning and break open elite leadership discourse to fire up every individual to catalyse change. 

Holly was identified early as a dynamic thought leader, asked to Co- Chair the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, the United Nations Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs in 2016, and becoming the youngest Director ever to be appointed to an Australian Football Club, the mighty Port Adelaide. Holly’s podcast ‘Coffee Pods’ was named in the top ten business podcasts to listen to by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2018, and Holly has been recognised as a LinkedIn Influencer and a must-read content producer by the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Herself an accomplished company director, Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit and public sectors. As founder and CEO of consulting firm Emergent, Holly has led real-world results with clients such as P&G, Microsoft, Virgin, Cisco and KPMG. Holly has also been a regular on the likes of The Drum and QandA. As a proud champion for diversity and inclusion, Holly is Chair of Pride Cup Australia, a non-profit organisation (and movement) devoted to challenging LGBTI+ discrimination within sporting clubs - and create welcoming and supportive environments for LGBTI participation and fans. A two-time Ironwoman, Holly loves to cook, dance and sing... despite her complete lack of talent at all three.

You may get in touch with Holly Ransom:
[email protected]
hollyransom.com

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“For leaders, I think that the most powerful thing you can do is to create that impediment board for your people and teams. So step one, set that up and invite people to throw things in there, and dedicate half an hour to an hour every day to tackle those challenges.”

In this episode, Pete and Dave are excited to have Nick Polce, Australia & New Zealand Business Agility Lead and Associate Director of Accenture and a passionate leader in helping organisations build adaptive, responsive and resilient systems that are both value and people orientated. He shares his insights and experiences in leading and transforming teams and talks about scaling agile in large organisations and enterprise change. 

 About Nick Polce

With a background playing semi-professional sport, he gets a kick out of creating high-performing teams and has the uncanny ability to work with a wide-range of stakeholders, spanning from executives through to development teams.

You may connect with Nick on his LinkedIn

"The higher our self-expression and the deeper our self-awareness, the richer our  life experience and the greater our self-evolution." - Dr Antoinette Braks

In this podcast episode, Pete and Dave speak to Dr Antoinette Braks about her approach to vertical development coaching with senior executives for organisational transformation. She also chatted about StageSHIFT, how it's different from other people's or theorists models and how it is being applied by leadership consultants and coaches.

We also focus on what it takes to go from one developmental level or stage to another, and how you might adopt some of these ideas and principles to accelerate your own vertical development journey.

About Dr Antoinette Braks

Antoinette is the founder of the global StageSHIFT Coaching and Consulting Community.

She is a Master Certified Coach, has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and Transformative Coaching, an MBA from London Business School, and is the author of Executive Coaching in Strategic Holistic Leadership: The Drivers and Dynamics of Vertical Development (McGraw Hill 2020). She received the CEO Today 2020 Management Consulting Award in Leadership Coaching.

Her PhD builds on a lifelong commitment to study following an Honours degree in Law, BA in Political Science, an MBA from London Business School, an MA in Management Research and Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision at Oxford Brookes University. After an early career in executive search and selection, Antoinette shifted to organisational development followed by leadership development. She flourished in global executive roles with Shell in Latin America and Africa, and with Korn Ferry across Asia Pacific. She also led People and Culture with Vector, New Zealand’s innovative energy infrastructure company, and inaugurated the Executive Coaching Division with Hudson Australia.

In recent years she has led organisational vertical transformations and distilled the theory and principles behind the effectiveness of the StageSHIFT Transformation Programs with an extensive Coaching Certification Program in Vertical Development. Antoinette’s purposeful intent is to architect and engineer the intrinsic evolutionary capacity of the organisation, its people, and all stakeholders, at all stages of development, to build a more sustainable, healthy, equitable, and joyful world for all.

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Stage Map - For all of you who listen to today’s podcast and haven't seen the model we are talking about, you can find it here. Just scroll down. 

Stage Shift Programs, Website and Resources 

Join Pete and Dave in this podcast episode as they chat with Carl Sanders - Edwards, CEO and Founder of Adeption, about Scaling, Vertical Development, and AI. Carl is driven to make Leadership Development that works vastly more accessible and he has over 20 years experience doing this with global organisations and start-ups. Know more about Adeption and how they build leaders with more capability and capacity through a blend of synchronous and asynchronous coaching embedding the vertical principles of perspective, heat, and reflection.

About Carl Sanders-Edwards

Carl wants to democratize leadership development.  He brings a unique perspective to this challenge with experience from manufacturing, software development, leadership and innovation.

Carl has a Manufacturing Engineering undergraduate degree and started his career working with continuous improvement teams in Toyota and Fisher & Paykel (white ware manufacturer).  Following this he spent five years with Accenture leading teams that developed software, business process and strategy solutions for a wide range of organizations in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.  

Moving to the UK, he developed the management systems that enabled start-up RightMove.co.uk to grow from no revenue to a US billion dollar IPO within three years.  Inspired by technology, on returning to New Zealand, Carl co-founded, grew and sold New Zealand’s largest online gift store (at the time); browniepoints.co.nz.  

Carl has since brought together principles of lean manufacturing and agile software development to assist 100’s of organizations from startups to multinationals.  He has helped them define their identity, develop strategies, coach leaders and deliver projects to improve performance.  Through these engagements Carl recognized a common theme – successful organizations need people with continually improving leadership skills at every level.  A particularly influential experience was creating a learning and development strategy for an investment company in the Middle East who wanted to develop its own CEO’s rather than hire externals.    

Unsatisfied with the existing leadership development offerings Carl founded JumpShift.co.nz in New Zealand.  From this base Carl has founded the technology platform Adeption.io, now based in San Francisco to deliver scalable Leadership Development coaching.  Adeption.io leverages AI with an engaging app, micro learning and behavior change theory to take leadership development from classroom theory into a daily practice. 

Carl has a Fulbright Scholarship in Entrepreneurship with an MBA from Babson College in Mass US where he graduated with various awards and publications including class Valedictorian. 

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The 12 Week Year

"When I say I teach consciousness. It's really just helping people grow as humans. It's helping people grow in their ability to think with more intricacy and grow themselves and become more integrated and integrate all these different aspects of self." - Trace Bell

In this podcast, our guest episode Trace Bell talks about Spiral Dynamics and how it can be an effective tool in understanding the development and functioning of people, cultures, and organisations. This is part two of a two-part episode. You can listen to part one in here.

Trace Bell teaches the evolution of consciousness. He is the son of author and spiritual teacher Rob Bell. Trace graduated from UCLA a little over a year ago with a degree in political science.

Since graduating college, he has been teaching with his father, working with people on their growth journeys and assisting teams and organisations transition to the next stage of consciousness.

Trace uses the psychological development model Spiral Dynamics to help people live a more whole, integrated, healthy life.  

Website: https://www.tracebelll.com/

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Reinventing Organisations

"When I say I teach consciousness. It's really just helping people grow as humans. It's helping people grow in their ability to think with more intricacy and grow themselves and become more integrated and integrate all these different aspects of self." - Trace Bell

In this podcast, our guest episode Trace Bell talks about Spiral Dynamics and how it can be an effective tool in understanding the development and functioning of people, cultures, and organisations. This is part one of a two-part episode. You can listen to part two in here.

Trace Bell teaches the evolution of consciousness. He is the son of author and spiritual teacher Rob Bell. Trace graduated from UCLA a little over a year ago with a degree in political science.

Since graduating college, he has been teaching with his father, working with people on their growth journeys and assisting teams and organisations transition to the next stage of consciousness.

Trace uses the psychological development model Spiral Dynamics to help people live a more whole, integrated, healthy life.  

Website: https://www.tracebelll.com/

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The Spiral Dynamics Map 

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Spiral Dynamics in Action

Reinventing Organisations

Award-winning educator, scholar, & consultant, Dr. Theo Dawson, discusses a wide range of topics related to learning and development. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Lectica®, a company dedicated to helping transform the way people learn everywhere. 

In this podcast, we speak to her about optimising learning for working in complexity and also helping the leaders learn to be more adaptive through developing more effective VUCA skills. 

About Dr. Theo Dawson

I'm the CEO of Lectica®, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping the world think better by producing and distributing sophisticated learning tools that support the kind of learning that matters. https://lecticalive.org

Our non-profit mission is to deliver our learning tools free of charge to individual K-12 teachers everywhere. We support this mission through donations and our for-profit arm, the Developmental Testing Service (DTS). All of the profits from DTS are donated to Lectica.

Lectica makes diagnostic and formative learning tools for schools, colleges, and the workplace. These tools measure how well people work with their knowledge in real world contexts, identify "what comes next", and provide personalized learning recommendations. https://www.linkedin.com/company/lectica-inc

It's taken over 20 years and a fair bit of struggle to develop the technology and methods we use here at Lectica. For me, it's a sandbox. But I do have a bit of a life outside of the "nonprofit that owns me". I have 3 children and 3 grandkids to play with, and I spend a fair bit of time on the trail, on my bike, or in the garden.

If you want to read and follow on Dr. Theo Dawson's work, just click through the following links:

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Episode guest is Nick Petrie, who probably needs no introduction if you're in the field of leadership. Nick is a thought leader in the field of leadership development and one of the key people responsible for bringing the new approach to leadership called vertical development into the mainstream. Nick’s an author of numerous papers, a coach and skilled facilitator.

If you don't know much about vertical leadership development or what it is, please sit back and relax as Pete and Dave speak not only about that, but about the future of leadership development and work in the VUCA world. 

About Nick Petrie

Nick has spent the last ten years working and living in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Britain, Scandinavia and the Middle East. He specializes in leadership development for senior executives and helping organizations build resilience in times of change.

He has a Master’s degree from Harvard University where he focused most of his studies on leadership and learning. He has two undergraduate degrees from Otago University (New Zealand) in business administration and physical education.

Some of his clients include: NASA, TDBank, Deloitte, Red Bull, Minnesota Wild Hockey, Kellogg’s, Qantas and Comcast.

He has worked across industries including; engineering, energy, law, banking, accounting, construction and television. 

You can download all of Nick Whitepapers and writings here!

If you want to learn more about Vertical Development you can attend Nick's Vertical Development Incubator.

Dr. Julian Water-Lynch is an academic, strategic designer and learning facilitator. He is currently director of the entrepreneurship program and a lecturer in entrepreneurship, innovation and organisational design in the School of Management at RMIT University.

His research explores the economic and social effects of emerging technology, and how these changes impact the changing character of work and organisational design. He works with the Centre for Digital Ethnography, Blockchain Innovation Hub and Centre for Urban Research at RMIT.

His recent research has focused on the commercialisation of deep technology and individual and organisational adaptations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including practices that support both productivity and wellbeing in the new work context.

In this episode, Pete & Dave talk with Dr. Julian Waters-Lynch about Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Organisational Design.

Julian's recent article on mRNA vaccines and technology in the Conversation. 

Note: “At one point during this podcast Jules implied that Stanford University didn’t significantly financially benefit from the founding of Google but subsequently realised this is incorrect. Stanford University actually held the license for the google page rank algorithm and received shares in Google."