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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Adam Alter is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New
York University’s Stern School of Business and a New York Times
bestselling author of two books on addictive behavior, Irresistible: The
Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked and
Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel,
and Behave. Stew and Adam discuss the insidious, incredibly powerful ways
by which new technologies have created, perhaps in an unintended way,
behavioral addictions that negatively impact our social lives, of inner
lives, our finances…[Click for more]
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Julia King Pool is on the faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania’s
Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program and she is Founder and
CEO of Burn-In Mindset. Julia worked in urban education for a decade. And
she has received numerous awards including the Sue Lehmann Excellence in
Teaching Award from Teach For America and 2013 DC Teacher of the Year. Stew
and Julia discuss the extraordinary stress and strain experienced by
teachers in K- 12 that too often results in exhaustion, and unnecessary,
expensive turnover. They explore the ways in which positive psychology can
help teachers to remain strong, healthy, resilient and engaged…[Click for
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Gretchen Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of
Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of
Michigan. Her research focuses on employee empowerment and leadership
development, particularly within a context of organizational change and
decline. Her recent research examines how organizations can enable
thriving. Gretchen co-authored How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions,
Big Impact with Jane Dutton. Stew and Gretchen discuss the ways in which we
have more control and discretion than we believe we have in order to make
small, meaningful changes in our work, no matter what work we do and no
matter where we fall in an organizational hierarchy…[Click for more]
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Kevin Kruse is the Founder and CEO of LEADx and a New York Times best
selling author. His latest book is Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian
Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business. Stew and Kevin
talk about Kevin’s somewhat unorthodox views on leadership — including a
closed and not an open-door policy, the importance of picking favorites,
and having “no rules” …[Click for more]
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