The Mindful Leadership Podcast with Shahana Banerjee Just Human

The journey to being the best leader you can possibly be starts with Becoming Coachable. 

In this episode of The Mindful Leadership Podcast, we dive into a mega dose of inspiration on this life changing topic with Scott Osman, Founder and CEO, 100 coaches agency, and  Jacquelyn Lane, President of the 100 coaches agency, and authors of the book Becoming Coachable along with Marshall Goldsmith.

The episode is so special because it is jam packed with their stories, epiphanies, learnings and phenomenal advice. It is as profound as it is fun‼️

Here are a few of the areas we cover:

✅ Coachable or Not (Yet)⁉️ - Jacquelyn and Scott join me in this fun game to share their insights to painful, yet unfortunately common workplace situations

✅ Their leadership journey, and the people and experiences that helped shape them into the leaders they are today

✅ How the 100 Coaches community was born, how they continue to nurture it and their priceless advice on how you can build your own community 



✅ The coachability framework and their insights and stories that bring it to life

✅ The various stages of our growth as leaders and the powerful idea of human flourishing 

✅ A very fun Rapid Fire segment, include the show stopping reveal of - Who their favorite coach ever is⁉️ Any guesses ⁉️😁



✅ “What is one failure you are proud of”, I love asking my guests. Scott’s answer is self reflective, vulnerable, and profound. If you have ever been laid off, or faced extreme difficulty or challenge at work, his story will give you hope.

🎁 If you believe that we need better leaders to build better organizations for a better world, then share this podcast with 1-2 friends you care about 🙏

Brian Elliott, Future of Work luminary, Co Founder of Future Forum, and Author, shares his leadership journey and what drives him.



We cover a lot of ground in this episode navigating through…

✅ How the people, influences and experiences have shaped him as a leader, and more importantly, as a human being 



✅ How a quest for learning fueled his storied career from being a consultant with BCG, to start up CEO, to building businesses in Google and Slack

✅ How his career framework led him to take risks and make unconventional moves that were so much more meaningful 



✅ How he co founded Future Forum. Spoiler alert - Sometimes you have to ask for what you want and the support you need to create the value you seek to‼️🙋🏻‍♀️

✅ His purpose and why it is so important to him to help us separate fact from clickbait on hybrid, remote, work from home and future of work



✅ His advice to leaders



You won’t want to miss this‼️



This episode is part 2 of our conversation. In part 1, we dove into all the questions you’ve ever had about remote, hybrid , flexible work, but didn’t know whom to ask, in a game of FACT or CLICKBAIT ‼️ Do check it out and play along with us to see if you get it right‼️



Brian Elliott is a seasoned executive turned leadership advisor and speaker. A former startup CEO and executive at Google and Slack, he's the co-founder of⁠ Future Forum⁠, author of the bestseller⁠ How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to do the Best Work of Their Lives⁠ and one of⁠ Forbes’ Future of Work 50⁠. Brian’s work enables leaders to build a future of work that’s better for people and organizations.



You can find Brian on ⁠LinkedIn⁠.

FACT or CLICKBAIT ⁉️ Play along with Brian and I and find answers to every question on The Future of Work you’ve ever had and didn’t know whom to ask‼️😁

I dug up news headlines and CEO quotes (read: rant) and tossed them over to Brian for his insights. If you know Brian, you know that he tackles these with data, evidence, grace and a hearty dose of humor ‼️



Here are a few:

😱 “The work from anywhere era is over” 

😱 “Remote work kills productivity” 

😱 “They have no attachment, no passion, no creativity” a Fortune 500 CEO said. 

😱 “As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with remote work” 

😱 A KPMG study found that ~90% CEOs are likely to reward employees who make an effort to come into the office with favorable assignments, raises or promotions... Wait, isn’t that discrimination? 😱



We have way too much fun with these and get a little (or a lot) carried away‼️



Brian Elliott is a seasoned executive turned leadership advisor and speaker. A former startup CEO and executive at Google and Slack, he's the co-founder of Future Forum, author of the bestseller How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to do the Best Work of Their Lives and one of Forbes’ Future of Work 50. Brian’s work enables leaders to build a future of work that’s better for people and organizations.



You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

S2E02: Sarena Lin, Former Chief Transformation and Talent Officer at Bayer and Board Member at Siemens Healthineers is our guest‼️🥳



Sarena’s journey is a testament to her resilience. She moved to the US at 13, from Taiwan. She didn’t speak a word of English, yet she blossomed in her new environment with support from amazing teachers. Her storied career weaves through - 



✅ 2 Ivy League institutions ‼️

✅ 5 Renowned Companies ‼️

✅ 5 Industries ‼️

✅ 7 Cities ‼️

✅ 3 Continents ‼️

✅ Multiple functions - consulting, transformation, P&L leadership…and HR‼️



Phew‼️😰



This is an episode you don’t want to miss. 



About Serena Lin:

Sarena Lin is a global C-level executive with strong track record in driving transformational growth across global markets, leading successful global commercial, organizational, and people transformation programs in the life sciences and industrial sectors.

Sarena served as one of the six-member Board of Management of Bayer AG in Germany from 2021 to 2023 as the Chief Transformation and Talent Officer, where she led the development of a large-scale, people-centric global transformation program. She also restructured and redesigned the HR organization to be talent and leadership centric, technology enabled, and future ready.

Prior to Bayer, Sarena was with Elanco Animal Health (NYSE: ELAN) as President of Elanco’s $1.5B US business, as well as overseeing Corporate Strategy and Global Marketing. Sarena also led the strategy development as well as the subsequent transformation and integration with Bayer Animal Health, a $7.6B acquisition.

Prior to Elanco, Sarena was Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development with Cargill. She then became President of Cargill’s $6B global compound animal feed and nutrition (Cargill Feed & Nutrition) business, where she led more than 11,000 employees, 250 manufacturing plants, across nearly 30 countries.

Prior to Cargill, Sarena was a partner with McKinsey & Company in New York and Taipei, leading strategy and operations projects with global companies in industrial, technology, consumer, and retail sectors. She served as the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Taipei office, leading a group of 90+ consulting and support staff. She was also the co-leader of McKinsey’s China Sourcing Center.

Earlier in her career, she worked in sales and shelf technology management at Procter & Gamble in San Francisco.

She is a non-executive director on the Supervisory Board of Siemens Healthineers (DAX: SHL) and serves on the compensation and third-party transaction committees. Previously Sarena served on the Board of Patterson Companies, Inc., (NASDAQ: PDCO) and was a member of the audit and compensation committees. At Patterson, she oversaw a CEO transition, the $1.1B acquisition of Animal Health International, and the $750m divestiture of Patterson Medical.

Externally, she is recognized as a critical thought leader on topics of leadership, transformation, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and future of talent.

Sarena holds an M.B.A. in Strategy from the Yale School of Management, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Sarena grew up in Taiwan and the US, is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, and has basic knowledge of German. She and her husband have one teenage daughter and they currently reside in Germany.



About Just Human:

Just Human (a boutique people consulting firm) is a growth accelerator for our clients. With over 5 decades of global HR experience, we partner with clients to maximize business results through human centered, ecosystem based people solutions. Visit us at ⁠https://justhuman.io/⁠

OR Schedule a 30 minute FREE call at ⁠https://justhuman.io/about/contact/⁠

40% said that their lives would be no different… WITHOUT SCIENCE‼️🤯 (Survey by 3M)



It is easy to dismiss skeptics. It is immeasurably harder to have empathy for them, their fears and concerns. It is even harder to make the invisibility of science visible and tangible for people, and HUMANIZE science so that people can relate to it, and see how science enables every minute of their day.



If science was out in the world looking for an advocate, for someone to tell her side of the story, I have no doubt it would be Jayshree‼️



In this episode we dive into a mega dose of inspiration with Jayshree Seth, Corporate Scientist and Chief Science Advocate at 3M. She holds 79 patents, is an author, tedx speaker, poet, music producer, and is on a mission to humanize science.



About Jayshree Seth:

Jayshree Seth is a Corporate Scientist at 3M and currently holds 79 patents for a variety of innovations. She joined 3M in 1993 after an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, New York. Jayshree was appointed 3M’s first ever Chief Science Advocate in 2018 and is using her scientific knowledge, technical expertise and professional experience to advance science, and to communicate the benefits of science and the importance of diversity in STEM fields. She is also a member of Carlton Society which is the 3M Science and Innovation “Hall of Fame.” In 2020, she was awarded Society of Women Engineers (SWE) highest Achievement Award. She is also the first-ever winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the new Female Thought Leaders of the Year – category in 2021. Jayshree was featured in a docuseries titled Not the Science Type that premiered during the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. She is the author of the books, The Heart of Science – Engineering Footprints, Fingerprints, & Imprints, and The Heart of Science – Engineering Fine Print published by the Society of Women Engineers, and all sales proceeds go to a scholarship for underrepresented minority women in STEM. She is a sought-after speaker, globally, on a multitude of topics such as innovation, leadership and STEM advocacy, and has featured in local, national and international media. Jayshree serves on the Board of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Engineering Advisory Council for Clarkson University, Industry Advisory Council for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Advisory Group of Aspen Institute - Our Future is Science program.



About Just Human:

Just Human (a boutique people consulting firm) is a growth accelerator for our clients. With over 5 decades of global HR experience, we partner with clients to maximize business results through human centered, ecosystem based people solutions. Visit us at https://justhuman.io/

OR Schedule a 30 minute FREE call at https://justhuman.io/about/contact/

Networking is superficial, transactional, and all about self promotion (ugh), I thought. I couldn’t have been more wrong‼️🤯



Pat loves networking. I hate it. 

It made for an exciting podcast full of busting myths,  stories and tips to network with authenticity. Here are just a few.



🚫 MYTHS ABOUT NETWORKING‼️



🚫 Myth : Networking is superficial, and transactional

✅ Reality : Nope! The goal of networking is to learn someone’s “2nd story”, and build lifelong relationships.



🚫 Myth : Networking is about self promotion 

✅ Reality : Nope! Networking is about curiosity, humility and a desire to learn. It works much better than trying to impress someone, especially senior execs.



🚫 Myth : Senior people don’t want to be bothered. Why would they spend time with me? What do I have to offer?

✅ Reality : Senior people want to give back, and want to share their wisdom, but have to be approached in the right way. Your life experiences and your current vantage point is unique and hence, enough.



🚫 Myth : Networking is for extroverts

✅ Reality : Nope. Pat describes herself as naturally reserved, intentionally curious. Her curiosity fuels her drive to network.



🚫 Myth : Networking is about the number of people you know

✅ Reality : Networking is about the depth of those relationships. A small number of deeper relationships is better than a large number of superficial ones.



Pat Hedley is an Independent Board director, TedX Speaker, Author of ‘Meet 100 People’ and former Managing Director at General Atlantic. She is on a mission to help people overcome their reluctance and tap into the power of networks to learn and grow. 

#career #leadership #networking #management