Due Quach is the founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity
: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment
and Joy. Due was a refugee from Vietnam, a graduate of Harvard College and
also of the Wharton MBA program (Class of 2006). She overcame the long-term
effects of poverty and trauma by turning to neuroscience and meditation.
Due is also the founding chair and executive director of the Collective
Success Network, a nonprofit that supports low-income, first-generation
college students in achieving their academic, personal, and professional
aspirations by connecting them with mentor role-models. Stew and Due
discuss the burgeoning research on meditation, calming the mind, and the
brain…[Click for more]
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David Burkus is a best-selling author and associate professor of leadership
and innovation at Oral Roberts University. His latest book, Friend of a
Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and
Your Career, offers a new perspective on how to grow networks and build key
connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking
advice. To learn about why mixers are not the best networking tool and what
you can do instead…[Click for more]
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Whitney Johnson is author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself:
Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work and Dare, Dream Do:
Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. Her new book, Build an
‘A’-Team: Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,
builds on her work and research with teams and disruption. Whitney talks
with Stew about climbing up the S-shaped learning curve and why it’s useful
to have the right mix on your team at work…[Click for more]
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Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA is President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson
University and Jefferson Health. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Healthcare Transformation, author of The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field
Manual for an Optimistic Future in Medicine. In this conversation, Stew and
Stephen talk about innovation in healthcare. Stephen is convinced that
doctors need to transform the way they interact with patients in order to
transform medicine…[Click here for more]
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Sarah Green Carmichael is an Executive Editor at Harvard Business Review
(she’s been Stew’s editor for a decade). She hosts the long-running HBR
IdeaCast and co-hosts its new podcast, Women at Work. Stew and Sarah
discuss some hot topics that concern women at work. Find out why you want
a ”loving kick” from your significant other…[Click for more]
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Morten Hansen is a management professor at the University of California,
Berkeley. His academic research has won several prestigious awards and
(like Stew) he is ranked as one of the world’s most influential management
thinkers by Thinkers50. He has written Great by Choice and Collaboration.
Stew and Morten discuss his latest book Great at Work: How Top Performers
Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, which reports results and practical
implications for action of a large-scale study. They talk about how time
spent on work is not the best indicator of productivity or satisfaction…
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Jordan Lloyd Bookey is an alum of the Wharton MBA program, a former student
of Stew’s, and Chief Mom and Co-Founder of Zoobean, a service that helps
families discover children’s books and apps at home or their local library.
She was featured on ABC’s Shark Tank and won $250,000 from Mark Cuban, and
she was named one of Wharton’s 40 Under 40. Jordan talks with Stew about
how she and her husband, her co-founder, work together at home and at work.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational
Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and the
author of the bold and critically important 2018 book, Dying for a
Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company
Performance — And What We Can Do About It. Stew and Jeff discuss the
stress and strain, the toxicity, of today’s workplaces and the effects on
employee health. To hear about humane organizations and solutions…[Click
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Jessica Bennett is gender editor at The New York Times, where she works to
expand global coverage of women and gender across platforms. She is author
of Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist
Workplace. Stew and Jessica discuss how Jessica formed the original
feminist fight club, as well as the “manteruption” and “bropropriated”…
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Ellen Gallinsky is the Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation
where she also serves as executive director of a program called Mind in the
Making. In addition, she’s Senior Research Advisor for the Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM). She’s the co-founder and President of the
Families and Work Institute and author of the best-selling Mind in the
Making and also of Six Stages of Parenthood. Stew and Ellen talk about the
current state of working families, childcare, parental leave, and what
children and parents, employers and society need…[Click for more]
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