The Trusted Leadership Podcast

With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative products to market, Brant Cooper is a disruptor, innovator, and lean innovation expert. He is the CEO and Founder of Moves the Needle, a company that helps organizations adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and culture, appling agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to create new value for customers and internal stakeholders.

Brandon Wetzstein is the founder and principle of IN8 Create. He designs and facilitates workshops for teams using the LEGO Serious Play method that result in greater clarity, alignment and engagement.

Dr. Michael Pearson is the James F Stoner Endowment Chair in Global Sustainability at Fordham University and he's a full professor with a focus on global sustainability and social entrepreneurship.

Not only that, he's a research associate at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is founder and president of the International Humanistic Management Association. He's also the editor in chief of the Humanistic Management Journal.

In this episode, we discuss the future of Learning & Development as we come out of Covid and face new challenges.

 

Rita Gunther McGrath is an American strategic management scholar and professor of management at the Columbia Business School. She is known for her work on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including the development of discovery-driven planning. McGrath is also the founder of the innovation platform Valize.

Nathan’s studies in EdPsych and Economics have inspired him to revitalize best practices in Instructional Design, Onboarding Practices, and Asynchronous Content Development. He currently works as the Program Manager for Google Cloud’s accelerated onboarding program in Austin, Texas.

Neil Redding is the Founder and CEO of Redding Futures.  His forward thinking method, the Near Future Framework allows companies to innovate in time of uncertainty and test ideas quickly and easily before implementing

Janice Burns was the Chief Learning Officer of Master Card.  She is now the Chief Career Experience Officer at her former vendor, Degreed. Degreed connects learning and career growth to business opportunities through one single, fluid skill-development experience, so your organization and your people are always ready to clear the next big obstacle.

In this episode we dusts the future of enterprise learning to create ecosystems of innovation and future thinning amidst the Covid pandemic and rapidly changing cultural and technological trends. 

After an illustrious career as an executive and celebrated for her work in the innovation space, Sonja Kresojevic's life took a different path.  A journey of personal healing and "unlearning" gave valuable new insights into the future of leadership, company culture, and what it takes to build resilient businesses that empower people.

After an illustrious career as an executive and celebrated for her work in the innovation space, Sonja Kresojevic's life took a different path.  A journey of personal healing and "unlearning" gave valuable new insights into the future of leadership, company culture, and what it takes to build resilient businesses that empower people.  

In Episode 12, we speak to Human Resource leader Hason Greene of HumInt Labs to discuss the overlap between a progressive HR approach and an organization's ability to be innovative and resilient.