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Radical Humility: How to be a Good Human and a Badass Leader with Urs Koenig
Sally Clarke Sally Clarke

Radical Humility: How to be a Good Human and a Badass Leader with Urs Koenig

Bestselling Author, Ultra Endurance Champion, Widely Published Professor Urs Koenig has identified a new leadership framework – Radical Humility – that replaces the top-down, “heroic” leadership of the past with a more human-centered approach, viewing humility as a strength and key to achieving goals in today’s complex world.

Urs’ latest best selling book, Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human, centers on five Shifts that will help you elevate your leadership from the old Heroic narrative to the modern, dynamic of radical humility.

This conversation is packed with insight, tools and practical takeaways, giving you an actionable blueprint for your own journey of radical humility. Urs’ message draws on his world-spanning career growing leaders on four continents including as a UN peacekeeper, top consultant and a sought after executive coach. Learning from Urs left us delighted, smiling, inspired and invigorated to tap deeper into our own radical humility as humans and as leaders.

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Ideaflow, Innovation and AI: How to Get to Truly Great Ideas with Jeremy Utley
Sally Clarke Sally Clarke

Ideaflow, Innovation and AI: How to Get to Truly Great Ideas with Jeremy Utley

At Human Leaders, we are always looking for new ways to tap into our innovative potential. Recently, we got to wondering: what does it take to be truly innovative? How can we nurture fertile ground for game changing ideas and an environment where ideas flow? And what role can AI play in innovation at work and beyond?

These questions brought us to a global expert on these very topics: Jeremy Utley, co-author of the brilliant book, “Idea Flow, The Only Business Metric That Matters”, and founder of Standard University’s Masters of Creativity series.

In the latest episode of We are Human Leaders, our rollicking and insight-packed conversation with Jeremy explores what Ideaflow is, and how we can create environments that maximize our innovative potential as individuals, teams and organizations.

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You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heart and Valued on Your Own Terms with Kim Dabbs
Sally Clarke Sally Clarke

You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heart and Valued on Your Own Terms with Kim Dabbs

Belonging is often thought of in an external context: belonging to others, community, a workplace. Global expert in belonging and purpose, and Global Vice President of ESG and Social Innovation at Steelcase, Kim Dabbs takes a different view. Namely, that belonging is first and foremost a journey of inner work to belong to yourself. This radical reframe of belonging immediately caught our attention at We are Human Leaders. And in the latest podcast episode, we speak with Kim and unpack her incredible new best-selling book, “You Belong Here: the Power of Being Seen, Heard and Valued on Your Own Terms.”

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Mastering The Art of Insubordination: A Conversation with Todd Kashdan
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Mastering The Art of Insubordination: A Conversation with Todd Kashdan

The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

In the latest episode of the We are Human Leaders podcast, we learn how to dissent and defy effectively with Dr. Todd B. Kashdan, Professor of Psychology at George Mason University and author of The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively.

During this thought-provoking and inspiring conversation, Todd shares the language and the tools to not only understand how to challenge norms in our workplaces and societies, but support and amplify the voices of others doing the same.

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Heal to Lead: How Integrating Trauma will Uplevel your Leadership
Sally Clarke Sally Clarke

Heal to Lead: How Integrating Trauma will Uplevel your Leadership

If you think trauma has no impact on leadership, think again.

In the latest episode of We are Human Leaders, we speak to author, coach and sought-after speaker Kelly L. Campbell about their powerful new book, Heal to Lead on the importance of integrating your trauma for leaders at work and beyond.

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Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Growth in Uncertain Times
Alexis Zahner Alexis Zahner

Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Growth in Uncertain Times

Even the most experienced business strategists should be rethinking strategy and execution during volatility. In this article we explore Dr Rebecca Homkes Survive-Reset-Thrive framework gives organizations and leaders a new model to continue growth even through the most uncertain of times.

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Performative Equity gets kicked to the curb with pay transparency data
Alexis Zahner Alexis Zahner

Performative Equity gets kicked to the curb with pay transparency data

In the wake of the gender pay gap data revealing a startling gap still existing between men and women, it’s time we kick performative equity to the curb once and for all.

Ensuring that workplace initiatives are designed to target root causes of inequity, are data driven and transparent help us do this.

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