21 episodes

Leadership in the Experience Age is all about Leading by Design. Design Thinking Consultant Karen Zeigler brings decades of leadership experience and the leading voices in every aspect of developing individuals and teams to the forefront in this podcast. She believes that cultivating the creative and innovative potential of employees is the greatest opportunity for leaders to make an impact today and leave a legacy for the future.

Cultivating Potential Karen Zeigler

    • Business
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Leadership in the Experience Age is all about Leading by Design. Design Thinking Consultant Karen Zeigler brings decades of leadership experience and the leading voices in every aspect of developing individuals and teams to the forefront in this podcast. She believes that cultivating the creative and innovative potential of employees is the greatest opportunity for leaders to make an impact today and leave a legacy for the future.

    Ep 21 - John Hagel - The Journey Beyond Fear

    Ep 21 - John Hagel - The Journey Beyond Fear

    In this episode, Karen interviews John Hagel. John Hagel III, currently the founder of Beyond Our Edge, LLC, has more than 40 years of experience as a management consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley but with a global range of activities. He is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups and was senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc. He spent 16 years as a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was the founder of their E-Commerce Practice, and spent 13 years as a partner at Deloitte, where he was the founder and leader of the Center for the Edge, a global research center. In addition, he has published 8 books, including his latest, The Journey Beyond Fear. 
    If you enjoyed this interview with John, be sure to connect with him on LinkedIn and check out The Journey Beyond Fear and his other books on Amazon. 
    Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 29 min
    Ep 20 - Jason Burnham - Founder of Culture Design LLC

    Ep 20 - Jason Burnham - Founder of Culture Design LLC

    In this episode, Karen interviews Jason Burnham. He is the Founder of Culture Design, LLC a global network of purpose-driven consultants, designers, and researchers, consisting of communication strategists, brand developers, experience designers, anthropologists, social scientists, leadership advisors, executive facilitators, and transformation architects, who think systemically about the impact business has on society.  Jason is committed to helping organizations and communities design sustainable solutions to accelerate innovation, build resiliency, and drive continuous improvement. Through his culture design practice, Jason equips his clients with the capabilities to assess, design, and develop thriving cultures to ensure strategy realization, brand activation, and operational excellence. You can connect with Jason on Linkedin or on his website www.culturedesign.com
    Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 41 min
    Ep 19 - Gal Rimon - CEO of Centrical

    Ep 19 - Gal Rimon - CEO of Centrical

    In this episode, Karen interviews Gal Rimon, CEO of Centrical. Gal Rimon is the founder and CEO of Centrical, a fast-growing, growth stage SaaS startup that has the mission of putting the frontline employees at the center of business success. By providing a personal guided experience to contact center agents and salespeople, Centrical helps them be engaged, improve their performance, learn and grow. Centrical is trusted by more than 100 large global enterprise organizations, including Yahoo, Microsoft, Verizon, British Telecom, and Coca-cola. Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 58 min
    Ep 18 - Paul Glover - WorkQuake

    Ep 18 - Paul Glover - WorkQuake

    In this episode, Karen interviews Paul Glover. Paul is the No B.S. Workplace Legacy Coach, a recovering trial lawyer, an unabashed Starbucks addict, the author of WorkQuake™: Making the Seismic Shift to a Knowledge Economy, a Chicago Bears fanatic, a speaker on business, and leadership topics, and a Member of the Forbes Coaching Council. Be sure to connect with Paul on LinkedIn and check out WorkQuake™: Making the Seismic Shift to a Knowledge Economy on Amazon. 
    Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 37 min
    Ep 17 - Oladimeji Olutimehin - Truly Human Leadership

    Ep 17 - Oladimeji Olutimehin - Truly Human Leadership

    In this episode, Karen interviews Oladimeji Olutimehin. Dimeji works as a coach with employees to equip them with tools and strategies to create value for their employer, and as a consultant, he works with companies to help them become Truly Human Companies. He has published several books: Value Giver, Truly Human Leadership, Truly Human Employee, Truly Human Company, and Truly Human School. You can connect with Dimejl on Linkedin, and check out his Truly Human book series on Amazon. 
    Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 43 min
    Ep 16 - Paul Slater - Billion Minds

    Ep 16 - Paul Slater - Billion Minds

    In this episode, Karen interviews Paul Slater. Paul Slater is the Co-Founder and CEO of BillionMinds, an organization with the mission to help a billion people thrive at unstructured, ambiguous work through practical skills development.
    Paul has spent over 25 years working in various technology strategy roles, writing and delivering courseware and books for organizations including Microsoft, Oracle, HP, and Shell. He formed his training and consulting organization before shifting to building large-scale architectures inside enterprises and managing the organizational change associated with adopting new technology.
    At Microsoft, Paul designed architectures for portfolio management and cloud computing and consulted with startups and large enterprises (including Telus and GoDaddy) to build their businesses on the Microsoft Cloud. Ultimately he shifted into the Healthcare Technology space and became the CTO for Life Sciences.
    Over these years – Paul became increasingly obsessed with what makes people effective by combining secondary research into productivity practices with primary research into the habits of the most effective among us. In 2020 he took a leap of faith and left Microsoft to form BillionMinds so he could help others start every day with motivation and end it with accomplishment.
    You can connect with Paul on Linkedin, Twitter, and experience Billion Minds software for free. 
    Also, be sure to connect with host Karen Zeigler on LinkedIn, where she talks about the future of leadership - leading by design—using the innovative leadership principles of design thinking to transform the future of how your company works. You can also check out more of her content on her website and Youtube channel.

    • 54 min

Customer Reviews

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QueenD_616 ,

Every leader should listen!

If you’re in a leadership role and successfully want to grow your business and team, then you are in the right place. Karen brings authenticity and clarity to the human-centered core of design thinking. Her conversations with some of the most creative and innovative pioneers of design thinking will leave you with encouraging and practical solutions for your business. I promise you’ll walk away with such a fresh perspective and ton of new ideas. Thanks for the great content, Karen!

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Engaged & insightful questions

As a leader I’m enjoying this podcast already. It’s not just Q&A between the host and interviewee but a engaged conversation with real time questions relevant to what’s going on in business today.

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