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Welcome to the What’s Next! Podcast. I’ve met so many brilliant people as I traveled the globe and have had some fascinating conversations that I’ve wished had been recorded so I could share them with you - this podcast was a way for me to recreate those moments and let you in on some fantastic insights. My current conversations center around one objective: what's next for companies and individuals as they look to innovate and grow. I hope these conversations inspire you as much as they have inspired me. Whether I am preparing for a keynote speech or writing for publications such as Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, these are my go-to people. My goal with the What’s Next! podcast is to keep you thinking and to challenge you to think about What’s Next!

What's Next! with Tiffani Bova Tiffani Bova

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    • 4.9 • 75 Ratings

Welcome to the What’s Next! Podcast. I’ve met so many brilliant people as I traveled the globe and have had some fascinating conversations that I’ve wished had been recorded so I could share them with you - this podcast was a way for me to recreate those moments and let you in on some fantastic insights. My current conversations center around one objective: what's next for companies and individuals as they look to innovate and grow. I hope these conversations inspire you as much as they have inspired me. Whether I am preparing for a keynote speech or writing for publications such as Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, these are my go-to people. My goal with the What’s Next! podcast is to keep you thinking and to challenge you to think about What’s Next!

    RELOAD: Getting Back to Lean with Steve Blank

    RELOAD: Getting Back to Lean with Steve Blank

    Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    This week, I’m reflecting on a great conversation with Steve Blank, a career entrepreneur and academic. 
     
    Steve is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups over two decades with four IPOs, and currently, he is an academic teaching at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Steve is also the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, which is credited with launching the Lean Startup Movement and the best-selling book The Startup Owner's Manual. Steve has been named to Thinkers50 top management thinkers, and recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of 12 Masters of Innovation. He is also a senior fellow for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University.  
     
    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… startups or those who want to be more innovative.  
     
    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Steve begins our conversation by reminding us what a startup truly is: a temporary organization designed to search for and find a repeatable and scalable business model or repeatable and scalable sales model.  
     
    Many times, startups are pressured to act like big companies, and established companies are encouraged to think like a startup. But the two are very different and deserve to be treated as such. Those caught between those two is what Steve calls “the frozen middle.” 
     
    IF YOU WANT TO BE MORE AGILE IN YOUR COMPANY… step back and start by determining if you are an entrepreneur or an innovator. An innovator is the idea person who needs help with the physical work or with the business process. Whereas an entrepreneur is someone who knows how to make things happen. Steve opines that it is rare to have both skills.  
     
    IF YOU’RE AN ENTREPRENEUR… get comfortable with chaos and uncertainty. You have to be tenacious and resilient. Steve declares that if you’re an entrepreneur who is succeeding, you’re beating all the odds.  
     
    WHAT I LOVE MOST… Steve’s insight around the frozen middle got me thinking about different mental models, business models, and metrics, and how complacency can leave you stranded in a no man’s land of little differentiated value.   
     
    Running time: 41:25
     
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    • 41 min
    Getting to the Bottom of Burnout with Dr. Neha Sangwan

    Getting to the Bottom of Burnout with Dr. Neha Sangwan

    Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    This week I have the honor of welcoming Dr. Neha Sangwan to the show. 
     
    Dr. Neha is the CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, is an internal medicine physician, international speaker, and corporate communications expert. Her private practice in corporate consulting addresses the root causes of stress, miscommunication, and interpersonal conflict, often healing chronic conditions such as insomnia, anxiety, depression, and burnout. She is the author of Talk RX and Powered By Me.
     
    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who has dealt with burnout our overwhelm and leaders who want to learn how to proactively fight against burnout in their teams. 
     
    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… burnout is a common feeling, sometimes so common that you might not even realize it’s happening to you. Many of us are conditioned early on to prioritize external demands and ignore the internal signals that are telling us it’s too much. This is exactly what Dr. Neha faced in her role as a physician, but it took the people around her to help her realize that she desperately needed a break. In this episode, Dr. Neha discusses how to recognize the symptoms of burnout and how to treat the root cause. 
     
    WHAT I LOVE MOST… it’s not just about hitting pause on your daily obligations. Dr. Neha goes deep and looks at the mental, emotional, and social sides of burnout and how to sustainably heal those. 
     
    Running Time: 32:05
     
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    Powered by Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life

    • 32 min
    RELOAD: Double-Clicking on Diversity and Inclusion with Dr. Tony Byers

    RELOAD: Double-Clicking on Diversity and Inclusion with Dr. Tony Byers

    Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    This week, I’m featuring a conversation I had with Dr. Tony Byers a while back. He is best known for leading Global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at Starbucks where he was responsible for developing and leading the strategic direction for D&I to drive engagement, innovation and business growth. He's an accomplished inclusion and change management specialist with 20 years of demonstrated experience leading change in large, multinational organizations. 
     
    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… people looking for more information on the power of diversity and inclusion to drive growth in business. 
     
    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Tony begins our conversation by defining diversity simply as who you are (looks, background, etc). Inclusion, however, is a behavior driving people to be involved, respected, valued, and connected. In short, diversity is a noun and inclusion is a verb. These definitions not only encompass everything I (and my past guests have said all along) but is succinct, simple, and spot-on. 
     
    Tony’s research found that leaders do not see the full spectrum of diversity, which results in a lack of innovation. There’s a small chance — the innovation window — when organizations can positively affect their product growth. This window lives at the top of the S-Curve when a product has peaked. How companies uncover  
     
    WHAT I LOVE MOST… the distinction between “D” and “d.” Finding diversity goes beyond gender, race, ethnicity, age and other factors we cannot control. However, what we can control is our thinking styles and the ways in which we behave when working with people who are different in some way. I will continue to think about D&I as an all-encompassing term and will continue to talk about how D&I can help companies be better at growth, product development, and innovation.  
     
    Running time: 33:10
     
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    • 33 min
    RELOAD: What You Don't Know About Innovation with Linda Hill

    RELOAD: What You Don't Know About Innovation with Linda Hill

    Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    This week I want to revisit an insightful conversation about invitation with Dr. Linda Hill. 
     

    Dr. Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Dohm Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the chair of the Leadership Initiative. She is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation and Being the Boss. Dr. Hill is also the co-founder of Paradox Strategies and the co-creator of the Innovation Quotient. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015.  Her TED Talk, How to Manage Our Collective Creativity, has gotten more than 2 million views.   

     

    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders and aspiring innovators. 

     

    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… there is a misconception about leadership and leading innovation.  Leadership is communicating a vision and inspiring others to fulfill that vision.  Leading innovation is about creating an environment for people to be willing to go down that innovation path with you. The innovation path is paved with a greater purpose to do the hard, emotional, and intellectual work of innovating.    
     

    According to Dr. Hill, here are the 3 things we know about innovation: 

     

    1. Innovations are not the result of individuals having ‘aha’ moments but are a result of a diverse collaboration of people.  

    2. You cannot plan an innovation; it’s a messy process of discovery riddled with error. 

    3.  Innovations are a combination of ideas. 

     

    If you want to lead and inspire innovation, you must have a culture where people are willing to get their hands dirty but also feel like they are part of the process. 

     

    WHAT I LOVE MOST… this episode is a crash course in how to be a leader and lead change when you are trying to drive innovation.  Yes, leading change is different from leading innovation - it’s about creating an environment to let people co-create with you. Simply, let yourself breathe and give yourself and your team time to try things. Finally, I love Dr. Hill’s idea that innovation is a voluntary act…a bottom-up journey and not the other way around.   

     

    Running time: 38:42

     

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    • 38 min
    A Blueprint for Career Growth with Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi

    A Blueprint for Career Growth with Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi

    Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    I'm really excited about this conversation today with two brilliant women. 
     
    The first is Christiana Smith, the former president of Nike's consumer direct division, leading the company's global retail and e-commerce business. Before that, she was a senior partner at McKinsey. Christiana has been named one of the Most Influential Corporate Directors by Women, Inc. She currently leads Lovejoy Advisors, which is focused on digitally transforming consumer and retail businesses. 
     
    She's joined by Grace Puma, who is the former executive vice president and COO of PepsiCo, who, before that, held senior positions with United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Motorola, and Gillette. A board member of both Organon & Co and Target, she has been ranked on the “Most Powerful Latina” list by Fortune magazine and recognized as the “Executive of the Year” by Latina Style magazine.
     
    Christiana and Grace are here to talk about their new book, Career Forward, which shows how to prioritize a career path, build professional value, and enjoy a full life both in and out of the workplace. 
     
    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who wants to expedite their leadership development and glean some lessons from those who have built successful careers. 
     
    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Christiana and Grace are highly successful women in vastly different ways. However, the advice they have for rising leaders and the things that got them to where they are aren’t so different. In their new book, they create a blueprint for those looking to intentionally grow their career path. In this episode, they share some practical advice. 
     
    WHAT I LOVE MOST… many leaders live by the mantra “fake it till you make it,” and while there’s some truth behind it, it’s only a positive mindset if, while you're faking it, you're committed to learning how to do it right.
     
    Running Time: 29:42
     
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    • 29 min
    Making Waves and Driving Transformation with Lisa Lutoff-Perlo

    Making Waves and Driving Transformation with Lisa Lutoff-Perlo

    Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. 
     
    This week I have the honor of welcoming Lisa Lutoff-Perlo to the show. 
     
    Lisa is the Vice Chairman of External Affairs at Royal Caribbean Group. She's a high-impact leader in the travel and hospitality industry whose vision and strategy not only propelled Celebrity Cruises to achieve transformational financial results but also dramatically increase the number of women in leadership roles throughout the celebrity brand. 
     
    Her passion for building extraordinary ships, creating unique experiences, and opening up the world through travel has brought recognition and countless awards to her and Celebrity Cruises. 
     
    Lisa joins us to discuss her hot-off-the-presses new book, Making Waves: A Woman's Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart, and Courage.
     
    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone who wants to hear a first-hand account of how to drive transformation as a leader and foster diversity and inclusion. 
     
    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… in this episode, Lisa shares her leadership journey at Celebrity Cruises and lessons learned along the way. Lisa joined the company as a door-to-door salesperson and over the course of 30 years, worked her way up to becoming President and CEO of the company. 
     
    Lisa reflects on her journey and shares some key lessons:
    Most career paths aren’t linear
    Leadership isn’t about personal achievements but about making an impact on people's lives
    Institutional knowledge is important, but being open to blending it with new ideas will drive sustainable growth
     
    WHAT I LOVE MOST… Lisa’s “mic-drop moment” when on March 8th, 2020 (International Women’s Day), a 100% female crew set sail for the first time in history. 
     
    It’s a testament to how Lisa has championed those around her and used her position at Celebrity Cruises to push the organization and the industry forward. 
     
    Running Time: 30:38
     
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    • 30 min

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75 Ratings

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Great Insights

Tiffani Bova has incredible expertise when it comes to leading organizational growth. I was glad to be her guest on What’s Next when we discussed my latest book The Growth Leader. She is a terrific interviewer and provides unique and valuable perspectives. This is an excellent podcast and I’ve become a regular listener.

Gay&Sweaty ,

Fresh Takes!!

Whether you're preparing a speech or seeking fresh perspectives, these conversations are gold. This show is a treasure trove of inspiring conversations. You don’t want to miss out!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mitzi in Maryland ,

You’re in for an Awesome Experience

Tiffany is so knowledgeable and insightful that I’m ready to make you a bet: when you’ve finished any one of her podcasts, you’ll have received from her a fabulous gift. What’s that gift? She’ll leave you feeling energized and ready to be your best self! A pretty nice gift, wouldn’t you say?

Mitzi Perdue, Author, Businesswoman, and Founder of Win This Fight, Stop Human Trafficking!

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