Ep 230. Dana Suskind: Parent Nation

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Dr. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Public Policy at the
University of Chicago, and is Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early
Learning + Public Health. . She is also the author of the bestselling book,
Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain. Stew and Dana discuss her
latest book, Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling
Society’s Promise, and the ways parents can use developmental neuroscience
to help their children grow and ultimately to build a society that works
for families and for all of us…[Click for more]

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Ep 229. Diana Kapp: Girls Who Green the World

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Diana Kapp is the author of Girls Who Run the World and now Girls Who Green
the World; Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out To Save Our Planet. Stew and Diana
discuss the biggest work/life issue we can imagine, climate change. Diana
shares stories of inspiring women who, in the face of our rapidly failing
natural environment, are taking action to make things better. These
powerful narratives detail creative experiments abounding in our midst, and
offer empowering ideas for how each and every one of us can do something
good for our world…[Click for more]

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Ep 228. Amy Beacom: Parental Leave Playbook

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Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave
Leadership and the author of The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints
to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family, and Continue Growing Your
Career. Stew talks with Amy about her evidence-based and very practical
model for how to manage parental leave — preparing for leave, during
leave, and returning to work…[Click for more]

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Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community

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Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s
McDonough School of Business and the author of Mastering Civility, The Cost
of Bad Behavior. Stew talks with Christine about her most recent book,
Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from
Surviving to Thriving and her research on the waning of community and
effective ways of reweaving the fabric that holds our society together…[
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Ep 226. Gianna Driver: From Women’s Shelter to Chief Human Resources Officer

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Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student
in Stew’s Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years
running a global fair trade organization, she went on to build a highly
successful career in human resources and recently started a new job at a
company that fights cybercrime. Stew talks with Gianna about how her early
life led her to want to have an impact through her work on valuing the
humanity in each and every one of us…[Click for more]

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Ep 225. Lynda Gratton: Redesigning Work

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Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business
School She has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by HR Magazine
and named by ‘Business Thinkers 50’ as one of the top 15 business thinkers
in the world. Stew talks with Lynda Gratton about her latest book,
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work
for Everyone. To capitalize on the opportunities created by the
revolutionary changes occurring in the world of work…[Click for more]

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Ep 224. Kevin Hancock: A CEO Discovers His True Voice

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Kevin Hancock is the CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and
best-known family businesses in America and 8-time consecutive Best Places
to Work in Maine, and author of The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into
the Business of Shared Leadership. Stew talks with Kevin about how the loss
of his own voice due to a rare illness and his immersion in the culture and
values of indigenous peoples radically revised leadership style…[Click for
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Ep 223. Larry Hirschhorn: A Father’s Grief

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Larry Hirschhorn is a Principal and one of the founders of the Center for
Applied Research (CFAR), a management consulting firm with offices in
Philadelphia and Boston; a founder of the International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO); and the founder and director
of Dynamics of Consulting, a program for experienced coaches and
consultants. He has published several books and many articles linking
organizational functioning to psychodynamics, among them The Workplace
Within and Reworking Authority., both published by MIT Press. Larry has a
PhD in Economics from MIT. Stew talks with Larry about his recently
published book Grieving Aaron: Poems in Response to the Death of My Adult
Son. Larry’s professional background makes him uniquely suited to offer
profoundly useful insights for all those who are grieving losses and
dislocations due to the death of loved ones, especially in pandemic times…
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Ep 222. Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think

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Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational
behavior at Cornell University. Her new book is You Have More Influence
Than You Think: How We Underestimate our Power of Persuasion and Why it
Matters. Stew talks with Vanessa Bohns about eye-opening research on how
people undervalue the impact they have on others and what this means for
our lives at work, at home, and in the community. They review how to ask
for help, negotiate boundaries , persuade others, how embarrassment informs
morality…[Click for more]

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Ep 221. Alec Ross: The Fight For Our Future

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Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former
senior advisor in the Obama Administration and currently Distinguished
Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School, his book
is called The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight
for Our Future. Stew and Alec talk about what he learned starting out as a
school teacher in an economically ravaged part of Baltimore; the central
problems of government, the private sector, and labor politics; and
creating a sustainable world. [Click for more]

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