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Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders offers a smart, fast-paced discussion on all things leadership. Scott and his expert guests cover timely, relevant topics and incorporate practical tips designed to help you make a difference in how you lead and live. 

Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott Allen Scott J. Allen

    • Business
    • 4.9 • 36 Ratings

Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders offers a smart, fast-paced discussion on all things leadership. Scott and his expert guests cover timely, relevant topics and incorporate practical tips designed to help you make a difference in how you lead and live. 

    Bill Eddy - Managing 'High Conflict' Personalities

    Bill Eddy - Managing 'High Conflict' Personalities

    Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. developed the high conflict personality theory to explain the driving forces behind people who present the most challenging behaviors. He is an expert on managing disputes involving high-conflict situations and 5 high conflict personality types, including a subset of those with narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, histrionic, and paranoid personality disorders. He has trained over 200,000 professionals in 10 countries on understanding and managing high-conflict disputes, including lawyers, judges, mediators, managers, human resource professionals, businesspersons, healthcare administrators, college administrators, law enforcement, therapists, and others.

    As an attorney, Bill was a Certified Family Law Specialist in California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Before becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years of experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples, and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics.

    He serves on the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution faculty at the Pepperdine University School of Law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. In 2021, Bill received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Professional Family Mediators.

    Bill has a popular blog on the Psychology Today website with over 3.5 million views and is the author and co-author of twenty books on high-conflict personalities, including two award winners (see all books here):

    A Quote From this Episode
    "About 10% of people have these extreme behaviors, and they don't stop themselves and they are dysfunctional."

    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Book: Calming Upset People with EARBook: 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your LifeBook: It’s All YOUR Fault! 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for EverythingBook: The Sociopath Next Door by StoutSeries - The StaircaseAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 38 min
    Chris Lowney and Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Reinventing Ourselves

    Chris Lowney and Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Reinventing Ourselves

    Chris Lowney chairs the board of CommonSpirit Health, America’s largest nonprofit health system with $33 Billion in revenues and more than 150,000 employees. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian and later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co on three continents. He is the author of six books, including the bestselling Heroic Leadership and the multiple award-winning Make Today Matter. He graduated from Fordham University, where he also received his M.A. He was raised in Queens, New York, hates the Yankees, and roots for the Mets without feeling shame.

    David McCallum, S.J., Ed.D is a Jesuit priest and leadership educator. He serves as the founding Executive Director of the Program for Discerning Leadership, a special project of the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, Georgetown, and the Gregorian University. The Program provides leadership formation for senior Vatican officials and major superiors of religious orders in Rome, Italy, and internationally. He lives in Rome and serves as a member of the Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops Commission on Methodology, supporting the Synodal process initiative by Pope Francis, and as adjunct faculty in the Institute for Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Dignity and Care at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

    A Quote From this Episode
    "If we're going to be successful in the long run, it means not just being ingenious once…we're going just to have to keep reinventing ourselves.”
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Chris Lowney's Social Media Channels:  Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. Book: Heroic Leadership by LowneyBook: Make Today Matter by LowneyBook: Everyone Lead by LowneyBook: Pope Francis by LowneyOrganization: Pilgrimage for Our Children’s Future

    About The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 44 min
    Seydina M. Ndiaye - Narrative of the Possibilities

    Seydina M. Ndiaye - Narrative of the Possibilities

    Seydina Ndiaye is a social entrepreneur and socio-political actor working mainly in inclusion, youth development, and democracy in Dakar, Senegal. He also works as a senior consultant focusing on politics and development strategies for digital growth, where he has had several collaborations with those in the Senegalese public sector.

    Seydina is an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and completed his program at Kansas State University. He is a civic leadership practitioner and is prototyping a contextualized civic leadership and engagement framework based on African local community organizing activities and spreading local narratives to increase citizen awareness to promote civic engagement, and participatory democracy, especially through digital technology and cyberspace.

    A Quote From this Episode
    "And now, our challenge is to prepare...by investing in the young generation by giving them a different way of practicing, learning, and teaching leadership."
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Book: Systems thinking for social changeBook: African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms For The 21st CenturyBook: Navigating Complexities in LeadershipSeydina's Music SuggestionsJ. Cole: Love YoursChronixx: Skanking SweetChronixx: Same prayerChronixx: Jah is ThereSonia Jobarteh: JarabiAshs The Best: Ayway SambaCesaria Evora: SodadeCesaria ft Salif Keita: YamoreYoussou Ndour: Picc MeDidier Awadi: The RootsTabanka Djazz: Silencio Sara Tavares: balance

    About The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 34 min
    Dr. Aliki Nicolaides & Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Generative Knowing

    Dr. Aliki Nicolaides & Fr. David McCallum, Ed.D. - Generative Knowing

    Aliki Nicolaides Ed.D, is Professor of Adult Learning and Leadership at the University of Georgia in Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development program. Her research explores the intra-active dynamics of learning that generate personal and societal transformation. She accomplishes this by focusing her research on the role that learning plays in activating the vital potential that connects self and society. Her desire to create tools and scaffolds that grow individual and collective capacity for inquiry and action is central to her approach to teaching and mentoring the next generation of scholars and leaders of change. She's co-founder of the Generative Learning and Complexity Laboratory, which brings together scholars and practitioners of learning and complexity science to reimagine learning and development through the lens of generative knowing and complexity learning. Her scholarship is shaping a new philosophical strand of adult learning, what she describes as Generative Knowing: Ways of being and becoming that liberate potential creatively in her first solo book. Dr. Nicolaides is a founding steward and current Director of the International Transformative Learning Association.

    David McCallum, S.J., Ed.D is a Jesuit priest and leadership educator. He serves as the founding Executive Director of the Program for Discerning Leadership, a special project of the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, Georgetown, and the Gregorian University. The Program provides leadership formation for senior Vatican officials and major superiors of religious orders in Rome, Italy, and internationally. He lives in Rome and serves as a member of the Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops Commission on Methodology, supporting the Synodal process initiative by Pope Francis, and as adjunct faculty in the Institute for Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Dignity and Care at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

    A Quote From this Episode
    "How do I do good things if I'm not conscious of, and in relationship with, the whole ecosystem in which I'm in?"
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Book - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by OdellBook - Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Hersey
    About The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 57 min
    Dr. Nathan Eva - Exploring Servant Leadership

    Dr. Nathan Eva - Exploring Servant Leadership

    Dr.  Nathan Eva is a Fulbright Scholar (2021) and the co-director of Engagement for the Department of Management at the Monash Business School. His research examines follower-first leadership approaches that deliver organizational performance combined with inclusive and supportive workplaces.

    Associate Professor Eva received his Ph.D. from Monash University in 2014, received the 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Leadership, was awarded as a 2016 Greenleaf Scholar by the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership, received the 2020 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, and was Highly Commended for his research as an Early Career Scholar for the 2018 ANZAM Excellence Awards. He received the 2016 and 2013 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence at the Monash Business School, and has been consistently recognized for outstanding teaching by the Office of the Vice-Provost.

    His peer-reviewed work appears in international outlets such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management. His article on Servant Leadership in The Leadership Quarterly is the most downloaded and the most cited article in their journal since 2017, and his article on Psychological Safety in Human Resource Management Review received the journal's Scholarly Impact Award for the most impactful article (2017-2022).

    Associate Professor Eva is a Board Member of the Network of Leadership Scholars, the Chair of the Leadership Scholarship stream for the International Leadership Association, and the Co-Chair of the International Leadership Association’s Leadership Education Academy. He is a Senior Editor for Management and Organization Review and an editorial board member of The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, & Group and Organizational Management.

    A Quote From this Episode
    "At the very core, it's all around this other orientation...Servant leaders really focus on the personal and professional development of their employees, team members, classmates, or sportsmates."
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Podcast - The Leadership Educator PodcastAustralian Bands - See transcriptServant Leadership Resources - See transcript
    About The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 37 min
    Chris Esparza - Improvisation and Leadership

    Chris Esparza - Improvisation and Leadership

    Chris Esparza is a full-time consultant, facilitator, and trainer.  He serves as Vice President for Leadership & Culture at Koppett & Co. This consultancy uses improvisation and storytelling to enhance creativity, connection, leadership, and learning with organizations and companies of all sizes.

    Before joining the Koppett team, Chris spent 20 years in higher ed, rounding out that chapter as the Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership Development at the University of Oregon’s School of Law.

    Throughout his career, Chris has infused an improvisational mindset in his work and approach to leadership development.  He started his journey learning and performing improv in college as a 4-year member of the Stanford Improvisors.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the global Applied Improvisation Network. 

    Chris is originally from Los Angeles, but now resides in New Orleans–a city that itself embraces a bit of an improvisational spirit. 
     
    A Quote From this Episode
    "I think improv is a teaching tool...it refreshes our attention...it offers a little bit of practice in that uncertain space."
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    Television Show - Ted Lasso
    About The International Leadership Association (ILA)
    The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.
    About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll University
    Boler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler’s tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.
    The International Studying Leadership Conference
    ISLC at Copenhagen Business School from December 10-12, 2023

    About  Scott J. Allen
    Website
    My Approach to Hosting
    The views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

    • 40 min

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36 Ratings

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Engaging and Insightful

Scott is a warm and engaging host, providing the perfect, conversational balance between focus and exploration. The perspectives on leadership offered by his guests are wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and, as promised, very practical!

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