ExecU the Podcast Suzan Brinker, Ph.D

Join Suzan and NYU's Anne Weisberg as they discuss inclusive leadership, and how we can retain and advance talent inclusively.



January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 12: Inclusive Leadership, Anne Weisberg, NYU


BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE
Anne Weisberg designs strategies that foster high performing, inclusive workplaces that deliver on the “S” in ESG. Her private sector experience has focused on talent strategies with a gender lens.

Most recently, Anne was the Women’s Initiative Director at the law firm Paul, Weiss, where she delivered a 40% increase in the number of women associates and created a Women’s Network that has 90% participation. At BlackRock, Anne created an award-winning women’s leadership program that is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. She joined BlackRock from Deloitte, where she co-authored Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace to Today’s Nontraditional Workforce (Harvard Business Press, 2007) that coined the phrase “corporate lattice.” 

Anne is a recognized thought leader on inclusive workplaces. She was asked to write the New York Times op-ed titled “The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix” about workplace culture and as a young mother, she co-authored Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know (Doubleday, 1994).

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KEY TAKEAWAY

Anne: “It's very important when you're doing leadership development programs for specific groups within your organization, that they don't feel like it's remedial, and that it's not perceived as like something is wrong with these people that we need to fix, but rather, we're investing in these people because it's good for our business.”

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Anne’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneweisberg/


Take Anne’s Inclusive Leadership Course on March 27+28, 2023: 
https://execed.stern.nyu.edu/products/inclusive-leadership-a-competitive-advantage


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Join Suzan and Stanford's Matt Abrahams as they discuss tips on being a flexible and impactful presenter, even when anxiety presents itself.


January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 11: Speaking Up without Freaking Out with Matt Abrahams, Stanford University

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE


Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He has published research articles on strategic communication, cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication. Matt recently published the third edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who suffer from anxiety around speaking in public. 


Additionally, Matt developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global learning and development organizations.


Matt is also founder and principal at TFTS Communications LLC, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. He is also the host of the Stanford GSB podcast called Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast, and curator of the NoFreakingSpeaking.com website.


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KEY TAKEAWAY


 “As our species was evolving where you were within your group, [that’s where] you hung out. It meant survival, it meant  food reproduction, et cetera. So anything that put your status at risk was something you should be very concerned about. And getting up in front of others and doing something embarrassing or wrong could negatively impact your status. And that's why we see anxiety around speaking in front of others across most cultures.” 



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No Freaking Speaking Website with resources to help improve your public speaking: https://nofreakingspeaking.com/


Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast:
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast


Matt’s book: Speaking Without Freaking Out
https://nofreakingspeaking.com/thebook/


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Join Suzan and Northwestern's Chethana Achar as they discuss how understanding the moral DNA of your market should inform decisions about products at every stage.



January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 10:  Morality and Consumer Behavior with Chethana Achar, Northwestern
BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE


Chethana Achar is currently an Assistant Professor Of Marketing at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management. She studies social stigma and how it shapes consumer behavior, with a focus on public health marketing. Chethana investigates how stigmatization of health issues and risky behaviors shapes consumers' likelihood for seeking healthcare support for mental health issues, vaccinations, illness screenings, etc. She investigates a broad spectrum of beliefs about morality, including the strength of moral beliefs and variance in what people perceive to be moral and not moral. 
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KEY TAKEAWAY


 “We now,  in the last 10- 15 years or so, are seeing this sort of value-angle come up to business, where it's not just about defining the features of your product, it's also about what the product stands for and what the person that's selling the product stands for.  I think our society clearly has reached this point where moral beliefs and values that go behind a brand are an important feature of the brand itself.”


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Join Suzan and Yale's David Tate as they discuss how conscious accountability can be transformational as opposed to transactional.


January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 9:  Conscious Accountability with David Tate, Yale University


BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE


David C. Tate is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University. His areas of practice in organizational consulting include coaching and leadership development, conflict resolution, team-building, succession planning and promoting healthy organizational development. 


David is a co-author of Sink or Swim: How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business. He earned a certificate in family business advising from the Family Firm Institute, and serves as the facilitator for the National Association of Corporate Directors Connecticut Chapter’s Family Business Roundtable. He also is the co-founder of the Connecticut Consulting Psychology Group.


Dr. Tate received his B.S. at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia. He completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Yale University before joining the faculty.


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KEY TAKEAWAY


 “ In sort of standard accountability, we often think of it as an individual's domain or  sometimes I call it an ‘individual sport’. So in other words, ‘I just need to be responsible for me and the things that I'm supposed to do, and if I do that, then that's being accountable.’ Whereas conscious accountability invites a shared response. Something that we share together that we're also thinking about. [We are thinking about] our larger shared goal and how the people around me are doing and [asking] ‘what do they need in order to achieve the goal?’.”


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David’s Books:


Sink or Swim: 
https://www.amazon.com/Sink-Swim-Lessons-Titanic-Business/dp/0313398348
Conscious Accountability:
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Accountability-Connections-Elevate-Results/dp/1950496716

Conscious Growth Partners:
https://consciousgrowthpartners.com/


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Join Suzan and Columbia's Bill Klepper as they discuss how the partnership of strong teams & boards can impact even the most vulnerable CEOs.


January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 8:  Tough Love in the Boardroom with Bill Klepper, Columbia
BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE


Bill Klepper is an experienced executive with over forty years of leadership in higher education. He is currently a member of the Columbia Business School faculty within the Management Division. He teaches the Executive MBA course on Executive Leadership and is a regular guest professor in the MBA course on High Performance Leadership. He also serves as Academic Director of Executive Education and teaches globally within a number of corporate custom programs, focusing on Executive Learning, Strategic Leadership, Corporate Governance, High Performance Cultures and the Creation and Implementation of Strategy.
Bill is the author of The CEO's Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom.


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KEY TAKEAWAY


 “I think even when I get up close and personal in talking with CEOs, there's in many ways a belief that they are  all knowledgeable, all powerful, right? And therefore can manage all things. What I found out the closer I get to them is no, they feel just as vulnerable as the next leader, and in many cases, the expectations of them, are beyond their own capabilities. The side difference is who they surround themselves with. So, I'm a firm believer that we can focus on the CEO, but what we really want to learn more about is the team of the CEO, because it's in the team.”


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Bill’s Book:
https://www.amazon.com/CEOs-Boss-Boardroom-Columbia-Publishing/dp/0231149883


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Join Suzan and OSU's Aravind Chandrasekaran as they discuss how leaders can make the space necessary for allowing teams to solve the biggest business challenges.


January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 7:  How People and Organizations Learn with Aravind Chandasekaran, Ohio State University


BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE


Aravind Chandrasekaran (AC) is the Fisher Distinguished Professor in Operations and Business Analytics at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Operations and Management Sciences from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chandrasekaran’s research investigates innovation, learning and knowledge creation issues in a variety of industries including high-tech R&D, manufacturing and health-care delivery. 

In recent years, he has begun to study the challenges involved in developing patient-centric healthcare models by conducting field experiments in collaboration with several physician and nursing leaders in the United States.  

His research has been published in all top OM journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, as well as other premier journals.
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KEY TAKEAWAY


 “As soon as you start saying, “okay, let's fix the problem, and I know the solution, just follow me,’ things fall down because solutions have to be invented by the people who are doing the work. So people who have the problem should find their own solution. What, as a leader, you can do is create the opportunity for them to find that solution. But, we make that mistake of saying, I know how to solve it, so I'm gonna help you solve it.”


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