Scott Behson is a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University
where he specializes in family issues. He is author of The Working Dad’s
Survival Guide: How to Succeed at Work and at Home. Stew and Scott
discuss the stigmas, the work and life conflicts, and the unique challenges
fathers face in the workplace… [Click for more]
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John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership educator,
executive coach, and author of 14 books including GRACE: A Leader’s Guide
to a Better Us; Lead with Purpose, Lead Your Boss; and The Leader’s Pocket
Guide. Stew and John discuss Grace, which focuses on how and why it’s
essential for leaders — for all of us — to pay attention to common
courtesy, comity, and civility in building connections in all parts of
life…[Click for more]
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John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership educator,
executive coach, and author of 14 books including GRACE: A Leader’s Guide
to a Better Us; Lead with Purpose, Lead Your Boss; and The Leader’s Pocket
Guide. Stew and John discuss Grace, which focuses on how and why it’s
essential for leaders — for all of us — to pay attention to common
courtesy, comity, and civility in building connections in all parts of
life…[Click for more]
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Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg are co-authors of Maternal Optimism:
Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood. Ladge is a Professor of
Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University.
Greenberg is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College. She
studies work/life transitions. Stew talks with them about their findings,
including the ways in which the transition to motherhood (and fatherhood)
can, despite popular notions, have a salutary effect on your work life…[
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Michael McDerment is CEO and Co-Founder of FreshBooks, the #1 accounting
software in the cloud designed exclusively for service-based business
owners and independent professionals, with more than 20 million users
worldwide. And it is consistently recognized as one of Canada’s best places
to work. Stew and Mike discuss some of the creative “culture hacks” Mike
uses to build an environment that breeds empathy…[Click for more]
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Caitlyn Collins is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington
University in St. Louis and author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women
Manage Careers and Caregiving, a cross-national interview study of 135
working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Stew and
Caitlyn discuss the cross-national differences Caitlyn observed in her
research on working mothers in four countries. It was only the American
women who blamed themselves for the stresses and strains of life as a
working mother…[Click for more]
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Shawn Askinosie is CEO and Founder of Askinosie Chocolate as well as author
of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and
Feed Your Soul. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning
chocolate factory sourcing 100% of their beans directly from farmers in
regions all over the world and sharing the profits with them. Its mission
is to serve farmers, their neighborhoods, their customers, and each other
by leaving the world a better place than they found it. The company has
been named by Forbes as “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America” and
Shawn was also named by O, The Oprah Magazine, as “One of 15 Guys Who Are
Saving the World.” Stew and Shawn discuss Shawn’s remarkable personal
journey from being a phenomenally successful criminal lawyer, who never
lost a case…[Click for more]
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Ellen Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor at Purdue University’s
Krannert School of Management and the Research Director of the Butler
center for Leadership Excellence. Ellen is an internationally recognized
thought leader on employer support of work and personal life integration,
gender, diversity, human resource innovation, and social change. Stew and
Ellen discuss the various ways by which we manage interruptions or
negotiate boundaries across different domains of life…[Click for more]
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Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior
Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is Questions
Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to your Most Vexing Problems at
Work and In Life. Stew and Hal discuss the importance of posing questions
and allowing them to sink in rather than jumping to answers and solutions
and how to put yourself in a novel, even uncomfortable, situation that
compels you to ask questions…[Click for more]
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Reem Kassis, a Wharton alum and former McKinsey consultant, is a
Palestinian writer and her debut book, The Palestinian Table, was nominated
for a James Beard award, short-listed for the Andre Simon Award and the
Edward Stanford Award, and won The Guild of Food Writers First Book Award,
received rave reviews from Anthony Bourdain and Michael Solomonov, and was
named one of NPR’s best books of 2017. Reem is using the power of food and
storytelling to share the Palestinian narrative with the world. Stew and
Reem discuss the courage that it takes to step off the standard track and
to realize the power of taking small steps…[Click for more]
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