Jenna Fisher is Global Corporate Officers Sector Leader for the executive
search firm Russell Reynolds Associates and she was a student in Stew’s
Total Leadership class at Wharton about 15 years ago. She specializes in
leading senior financial officer assignments. Stew and Jenna discuss what
an executive search consultant does, how to conduct a successful job search
by leveraging your network, finding your distinctive gift…[Click for more
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Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of
Business at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Civility: A
Manifesto for the Workplace. Christine and Stew talk about the rise in
incivility at work and in our society — a serious problem, about which we
can all do something. They discuss the emotional and financial costs…[
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Barry Schwartz, the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social
Action (Emeritus) has been at Swarthmore College since receiving his PhD
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He’s author of 10 books and
100s of articles and is well known for both his scholarship and his ability
to bring complex sociological and psychological research to bear on the
practical matters we all face in our daily lives at…[Click here for more
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Lisa Buckingham is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources
Officer at Lincoln Financial Group. She is also responsible for overseeing
the corporation’s brand and enterprise communications, consumer insights
and corporate social responsibility activities. In October 2017, she was
named HR Executive of the Year by HR Executive Magazine. Stew and Lisa talk
about the changes and challenges facing today’s Human Resources leaders,
the importance of active listening, counseling people out of the wrong
job…[Click for more]
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Kim Malone Scott is author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without
Losing Your Humanity. She led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online
Sales and Operations at Google and then joined Apple. These experiences
informed her theories on what makes a kickass boss! Stew and Kim discuss
how to give constructive feedback and avoid manipulative insincerity,
ruinous empathy, and obnoxious aggression. They explain how to practice and
its importance as well as the dangers of feedback debt.Listen to learn more
about effective, constructive feedback…[Click for more]
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Joanna Barsh is a director emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of
the Centered Leadership Project. She is the bestselling author of How
Remarkable Women Lead and Centered Leadership. And her latest book is Grow
Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest
Challenges. Stew and Joanna talk about how you actually do this. They
discuss what happens if things don’t go the way you want them to and should
you stay or should you go?…[Click for more]
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Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, his sixth startup, a
Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corporation® focused on building
the most meaningful, abundant, and collaborative data resource in the
world. Brett also founded and led Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics and is on the
Board of Conscious Capitalism. He and Stew talk about how to build a
humane, compassionate workplace…[Click for more]
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David Thomas was recently named as the new president of Morehouse College,
a traditionally African American, all-male college in Atlanta. Previously
he was a Professor at Harvard Business School and Georgetown University’s
McDonough School of Business, where he served as dean. His research
addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in
organizations, leadership, and organizational change. Stew and David talk
about his powerful, award-winning book, Breaking Through: The Making of
Minority Executives in Corporate America, which has had a major impact on
tackling this issue, one of the most crucial in our society today…[Click
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational
Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author or
co-author of 14 books and more than 150 articles and book chapters.
Professor Pfeffer has won numerous awards for his scholarly research. He
spoke with Stew about his latest book,… [Click here for more]
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Amy Wryzesniewski is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale
School of Management. She studies how people make meaning of their work. In
addition to being published in top academic journals, her work is cited in
best-selling books by Daniel Pink, Shawn Achor, Martin Seligman, and the
Dalai Lama. Stew and Amy talk about the different ways people construe
their work — either as a job, a career, or a calling. To find out how to
make your job more meaningful…[Click for more]
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