Rising Laterally Arjun Sachdev

Sally Helgesen, the leading authority on women’s leadership, best-selling author, speaker, and coach shares her insights on creating an inclusive workplace from her new book, "Rising Together".

She provides valuable strategies for rewriting the story you tell yourself when you’re feeling triggered in the workplace, creating paths forward for yourself with what you say, understanding communication styles, optimizing employee resource groups (ERGs), building healthy networks, and navigating family dynamics as a CEO or Founder.

Sally is a Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame inductee and ranked number 3 among the world's thought leaders by Global Gurus.

You can learn from her wealth of experience and knowledge on how to bridge divides and create workplace environments that are supportive and empowering.

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Recorded on 4/26/23

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Mark Crowley is the author of “Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century”.
 
He draws from 25 years of experience leading individuals and teams in the financial services industry and invites us to make a commitment to drive high performance through emotional connection.
 
It’s a leadership philosophy only a few are able to execute effectively but is a style people are hungry for.
 
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Recorded on 2/13/23
 
00:00 Six degrees of separation
 
02:45 Why leaders need coaches
 
08:20 Use this delivery method when sharing critical feedback
 
12:00 Why is it a belief in the business world to avoid bringing your heart into leadership?
 
23:25 When did employee engagement really start to slide and what caused it?
 
32:30 How millennials are changing the workforce and workplace
 
44:17 What blindspots do millennials have?
 
49:05 If you’re a manager trying to discover the degree of engagement of your team
 
57:30 Getting more people in your organization to lead from the heart

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Machiel Klerk is the founder of the Jung Society of Utah and the Jung Platform, a worldwide organization that provides Jungian and soul-centered psychological programs to the general public. He is also the author of “Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation”.
 
Machiel draws from 25 years of experience working with individuals and their dreams, as we explore age-old techniques to better understand our dreams and become more attuned to our subconscious wisdom. 

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Recorded on 1/18/23
 
00:00 Intro
 
01:10 Dreams produce entirely new worlds 
 
02:08 Carl Jung’s influence on Machiel 
 
05:12 The practice of dream incubation
 
9:43 At what level of our psyche do our limiting beliefs operate?

16:25 How can you trust the answers in your dreams?
 
18:24 What are the pitfalls of dream incubation?
 
21:03 Putting dream incubation into practice 
 
28:49 Dreaming and psychedelics 
 
35:31 Applying the wisdom from your dreams to your waking life
 
40:19 What about nightmares?
 
43:59 Where are we on the research being done on dream incubation?
 
47:18 How the Ancient Greeks thought about trusting your natural talents      
 
56:38 If you’re skeptical about dream incubation

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We explore the hot-button issue of corruption in elite colleges. Sahaj Sharda, author of the upcoming book, “The College Cartel”, breaks down this complex topic and provides an examination of the current state of elite higher education. 
Whether you are a student, a parent, or simply curious about the inner workings of the elite college system, this conversation will offer you fresh insight into recent admissions scandals and the big questions surrounding collusion, decadence, privilege, power, and the true value of an elite college education.

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Recorded on 1/12/23

00:00 If elite colleges are so corrupt, why have you attended two of the most elite colleges in the US?

2:45 Rick Singer, the mastermind of the Varsity Blues Scandal

4:53 The Columbia University Rankings Scandal

10:06 Is an elite education about attaining skills or acquiring prestige?

14:25 The feeling on campus where a student was involved in the Varsity Blues Scandal

16:05 Why standardized credentials still matter in the knowledge economy

19:17 The US News and World Report rewards “spending more money on less students”

23:41 Price fixing in the Ivy League

29:52 Where do the huge sums of money that colleges collect actually go?

32:15 What role do wealth managers and hedge funds play in this?

36:33 If only 2% of college students attend elite colleges, does this problem really have broader significance?

39:22 How are professors getting squeezed on wages?

41:37 Elite colleges have become a Veblen good, contradicting the law of demand

47:16 What can an everyday person do to break the college cartel?

51:53 What does the future of education look like?

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Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor, and author of “Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level”. 
This conversation is an invitation to get unstuck. Alex shares accessible principles and frameworks needed to lead impactful changes in lives and communities.

Connect with him on LinkedIn and receive the latest “Becoming a Changemaker” insights at changemakerbook.com/index

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Recorded on 12/6/22

00:00 A story about iconic labor leader Dolores Huerta

4:06 How Alex Budak created “Becoming a Changemaker” at UC Berkeley

9:12 The feeling of walking into a classroom as a professor for the first time

10:41 The differences in teaching Gen Z vs. executive audiences

18:30 Optimism and recognizing opportunity

23:02 The definition of a Changemaker

25:14 startsomegood.com

31:36 Research on tipping points among social conventions

34:45 The Risk Quotient

38:25 Trusting others’ abilities while managing for the downside

41:25 Who does Alex deeply admire as a leader and why? 

42:43 Unattractive traits of less inclusive leaders

45:10 Connecting concepts with Marshall Goldsmith’s teachings

48:53 Micro-leadership 

51:51 Are you too intimidated to step into the unknown

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Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He is the pioneer of the 360° feedback development tool and has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years.
 
In his coaching practice, Marshall has advised more than 200 major CEOs and their management teams.
 
His books, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and “Triggers” have been recognized by Amazon as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.
 
We discuss perspective shifts from Marshall’s new book, “The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment” as he shares proven methods for leading an ambitious and satisfying life.
 
 Connect with Coach Goldsmith on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter

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Recorded on 10/21/22

00:00 Marshall Goldsmith

00:38 How Marshall spent 600 hours during COVID

02:00 The Every Breath Paradigm

02:36 The reward for living an earned life

05:51 Why kids are less interested in joining “the family business”

08:21 Greatest piece of advice ever given to Marshall by his mentor, Dr. Paul Hersey

10:47 The Great Western Disease

14:17 Why don’t we become the person we could become?

17:23 A Daily Exercise

19:13 The difference between desire and motivation

20:52 Easy theory, tough practice - the average person quits in 2 weeks

23:41 One trick genius

24:45 Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford, shared two lessons that changed Marshall’s life

28:56 Mulally’s Business Plan Review evolves into a Life Plan Review

33:32 Feedforward

36:12 How Frances Hesselbein, the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of America, would lead by example

38:55 “The leader of the past knew how to tell, the leader of the future will know how to ask” - Peter Drucker

41:07 Why it’s hard to stop trying to prove how smart you are

42:03 Why students started crying when Marshall visited the Indian Institute of Technology

44:57 Here’s what matters in life

47:07 Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

48:15 Jack Welch’s wine cellar

49:36 What Curtis Martin, the 6th leading rusher in NFL history, can teach us about a satisfying life

53:20 Marshall’s life mission

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