Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former
senior advisor in the Obama Administration and currently Distinguished
Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School, his book
is called The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight
for Our Future. Stew and Alec talk about what he learned starting out as a
school teacher in an economically ravaged part of Baltimore; the central
problems of government, the private sector, and labor politics; and
creating a sustainable world. [Click for more]
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Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson
College and the author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work
Smarter, Get Ahead and Restore Your Well-Being. He has studied the
underlying network dynamics of effective organizations for more than 20
years. Rob is cofounder and Research Director of the Connected Commons
business consortium and is the coauthor of five other books, including The
Hidden Power of Social Networks. Stew talks with Rob about the causes of
the epidemic of too much collaboration at work and how this problem has
reduced productivity and well-being in all parts of our lives. Rob
describes how to identify and reduce what he calls the now-common
“micro-stressors” in our lives…[Click for more]
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Scott Behson is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty
Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of The Working
Dad’s Survival Guide and most recently The Whole-Person Workplace: Building
Better Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness and Employee Support. Stew
talks with Scott about insights for action from his new book on how to
garner employer support for all employees, and for working parents in
particular, in the new world created by the pandemic’s jolt…[Click for more
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Carmen Fernandez is Vice President and Chief People Officer at Marsh
McClennan, one of the world’s leading professional services firms in the
areas of risk, strategy and people. She is committed to creating a culture
that is inclusive and vibrant with inspiring leadership. Stew talks with
Carmen about the new challenges in Human Resources today; attracting and
retaining talent; diversity and inclusion best practices…[Click for more]
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Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and
training firm, and author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding
on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Stew talks
with Daisy about the useful tips she gathered from speaking to a variety of
working parents across different stages of the parenting life cycle…[Click
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Jen Fisher is Deloitte’s chief well-being officer in the United States and
the co-author of Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong
Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines. Stew talks
with Jen about relationships at work, how the pandemic as well as
technology have had an impact on work connections and performance, and why
it’s crucial to care for yourself if you’re going to succeed…[Click for
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Ulcca Joshi Hansen, a researcher and education advocate, is the author of
The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All
Young People Thrive. Stew talks with Ulcca about what we want our children
to learn, what they are actually being taught in our schools, what it means
to be “smart” in today’s in today’s complex world, and how the educational
system we have had for centuries has to change…[Click for more]
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Gorick Ng is a graduate of Harvard College and Business School and is now a
career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching
first-generation, low-income students. He’s also a researcher with the
Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard. H e and Stew discuss his
new book, The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right,.
They focus on three critical questions : Are you competent? Are you
committed? Are you compatible? …[Click for more]
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Richard Culatta is author of Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an
Online World. He serves as CEO of the International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE); senior fellow at NYU’s GovLab; and design resident at
IDEO. Richard was appointed by President Obama as the Director of the
Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education. Stew
talks with Richard about practical ideas for how we can cultivate good
digital citizenship in our children by developing five essential qualities:
focusing on the quality and value of specific content and not on the amount
of time spent online;…[Click for more]
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Jessica Bacal is director of Reflective and Integrative Practices and of
the Narratives Project at Smith College. Her latest book is The Rejection
That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It
Around, and Burning It Up at Work. It’s is a sequel of sorts to Jessica’s
first bestseller, Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women on What
They Got Out of Getting It Wrong. Stew talks with Jessica about how to
learn and grow from rejection by gleaning useful data from rejections,
especially about your values…[Click for more]
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