Nigel Travis is Executive Chairman of Dunkin’ Brands. His new book is The
Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback.
Prior to Dunkin Brands, Nigel served as President and COO at Blockbuster,
and President and CEO at Papa John’s. He and Stew discuss how organizations
and employees can thrive in today’s hyper-competitive world when there’s a
culture that supports questioning everything without disrespecting anyone…
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Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at
Harvard Business School. Her work on teaming, psychological safety, and
leadership influences corporate and academic audiences around the world. In
November Wiley will publish her latest book, which is called The Fearless
Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace For Learning,
Innovation and Growth. Stew and Amy discuss how to increase psychological
safety at work…[Click for more]
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Laura Vanderkam is the author of Off The Clock: Feel Less Busy While
Getting More Done as well as several other time management and productivity
books. And she co-hosts, with Sarah Hart-Unger, the podcast Best of Both
Worlds. Her TED talk, How to Gain Control of Your Free Time, has been
viewed more than six million times. Stew and Laura talk about how we
perceive the amount of time we have, how spending time with friends and
family affects our perception of time, the importance of scheduling in
daily “vacations,” and ways to savor the good moments in order to expand
time… [Click for more]
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Nancy Rothstein is known as The Sleep Ambassador. She is also Director of
Corporate Sleep Programs at CIRCADIAN, a global company that provides 24/7
workforce performance and safety solutions for businesses that operate
around the clock. Stew and Nancy talk about the well-documented sequelae of
sleep deprivation — individual problems such as depression, weight gain,
and heart disease; the ripple effects on our family members; and, for
businesses, reduced productivity and workplace accidents — and tips…[Click
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Guy Spier is an investor based in Zurich and author of The Education of a
Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom and
Enlightenment. Guy and Stew talk about finding the courage to be honest at
work and in one’s life, the real story of failures and achievements… [
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Morra Aarons-Mele is founder of the award-winning social impact agency
Women Online and The Mission List, a social change influencer database. She
has worked on the online campaigns of Hillary Clinton, President Obama and
the UN and many others. She and Stew discuss her book, Hiding in the
Bathroom, the narrow view of success in our society…[click for more]
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Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior
at London Business School. Before that she was on the faculty at INSEAD and
the Harvard Business School. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s
Expert Network, and recognized by Thinkers 50 among the most influential
management thinkers in the world. Her latest book Act Like a Leader, Think
Like a Leader explains how to step up to a bigger leadership role. Her
best-selling Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing
Your Career describes how people reinvent their careers. Herminia and Stew
discuss the many ways to cultivate and use broad and diverse networks to
enhance one’s career and leadership skills…[Click for more]
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Neil Blumenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a lifestyle brand
that offers designer eyewear at a low price with a focus on being socially
conscious. Fast Company named Warby Parker the most innovative company in
the world. Stew and Neil have a wide-ranging talk about his time at
Wharton, the importance of honest conversations to build trust, why
continual learning by employees is essential to a thriving company, and the
ways in which parenthood changes our relationship to time and work… [Click
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Susan Ashford is Chair of the Management and Organizations Group at the
Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Her passion is using
her teaching and research to help people be maximally effective in their
work settings. Sue and Stew discuss how to make the gig economy work for
you by cultivating connections to people as well as to place, establishing
routines, and focusing on purpose…[Click for more]
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Keith Ferrazzi is a New York Times best-selling author of Never Eat Alone,
entrepreneur, and master networker. His research and consulting firm,
Ferrazzi Greenlight, helps companies manage networks and relationships in
order to reach strategic goals. Keith and Stew talk about the importance of
relationships in all parts of life. [Click for more]
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