Today’s guest, Dr. Jean Latting, is President of Leading Consciously, LLC, and Professor Emerita at the Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW), University of Houston. As a consultant, researcher, and educator, Jean focuses on leadership in multicultural and diverse organizations. Through her organization, Leading Consciously, Jean helps individuals and organizations create resilient, sustainable, multicultural, and diverse settings. Rate This Podcast Send in your questions to podcast@weeklyleadershipexperience.com Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/068 Dr ..read more

This week's episode of the show comes via The Thoughtful Leader Podcast with Ben Brearley. Ben and Reshad discussed challenging work environments, difficult bosses, toxicity in the workplace, and how to recover from the setbacks we all experience. Make sure to give Ben and The Thoughtful Leader a "Like" and "Follow" at the links below. Rate This Podcast Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/067 Original Episode: Resilience: Bouncing Back From Toxic Workplaces Thoughtful Leader Podcast #127 Thoughtful Leader Ben Brearley on LinkedIn Reshad on LinkedIn ..read more

What is self-evolved leadership? What is heroic leadership and what causes leaders to get stuck there? What is your reason for being a leader? "Some of the most effective leaders out there are not the leaders that have waited for their organizations to develop them." Dave McKeown Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of The Self-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. Rate This Podcast Send i ..read more

What is visual leadership? How can we integrate creativity into what we do as leaders? What is the connection between creative expression and strategic thinking? Nora Herting is a pioneer of visual strategy and is passionate about expanding peoples’ definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. Rate This Podcast Send in your questions to podcast@weeklyleadershipexperience.com Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/065 ImageThink Draw Your Big Idea by Nora He ..read more

What enables teams to be great? What is the leader's role in the team? What does a leader have to do to enable greatness in their team? What does it mean to take the green path versus the red path? David Wheatley joins Reshad on the show today to discuss the answers to these questions and more and how we can each discover what it it is that great teams do great! David is a leadership Coach, facilitator, trainer and Chief Question Asker at Humanergy, a boutique leadership development company.  He has worked for over twenty-five years with government, manufacturing, healthcare, la ..read more

And we're back!  It's been nice to have a break but it's exciting to be back at it! This week we are talking about work-life balance. This episode is part rant and part how-to and 100% fun. Some people feel that work-life balance is not achievable, that it's a myth, and that you can't really have it if you want to get ahead. Tune in this week for Reshad's thoughts on how we can place a higher importance on this issue and why it's needed. Rate This Podcast Send in your questions to podcast@weeklyleadershipexperience.com Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/063 Reshad on LinkedI ..read more

Leadership development is, too often, more like a "choose-your-own-adventure" novel than a guided journey. Although personal responsibility is important, we as leaders, need to be paying attention to how we are growing our people. Handing someone the keys to the building and a title just isn't good enough, we need to be great guides. The Weekly Leadership Experience will be on break until September 6th.  Rate This Podcast Send in your questions to podcast@weeklyleadershipexperience.com Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/062 Reshad on LinkedIn ..read more

You might not usually think of LOVE as an essential ingredient in successful business or leadership, but it plays a bigger role than you think. Love, the verb, has to do with your disposition towards other people and how you treat them. Building a business culture and your leadership based on love has the potential for phenomenal results. Drawing on his 25+ years of experience as CEO of major corporations, Joel Manby wrote LoveWorks detailing how to integrate “love the verb” into the leadership ethos and philosophy of any organization. This servant leadership approach has been systematically p ..read more

Failure can be uncomfortable, scary, and embarrassing. For these reasons and more, most people usually avoid failing as much as possible.  Seth Donlin, Founder of Awen Coaching, says we should actually pursue failure. In this episode, Seth shares how pursuing failure can actually be used to realize personal growth, elevate success, and increase courage. Rate This Podcast Send in your questions to podcast@weeklyleadershipexperience.com Show notes at www.reshadoberlander.com/060 Seth on LinkedIn Awen Coaching Reshad on LinkedIn ..read more

It's no secret that change is difficult. Everyone wants change, no one wants TO change, and even fewer people want to LEAD change. If that's not enough, most change is met with resistance, obstacles, buried artifacts, and a leader's own challenges with influence. So how do we overcome these challenges and effectively lead and influence change? Nancy Murphy, Founder & President of CSR Communications, shares how we can uncover the artifacts that may be impeding change, how we can draw on the four types of influence, and how to address resistance.  Rate This Podcast Send in your question ..read more