ILI Class Content

Building Trust in Uncertainty: A Personal & Professional Journey

Featured Guest: MaryJo Buchard
As a society, we face a dramatic loss of trust in each other and our institutions. This reduction in trust impacts everything from people's inability to come together to solve problems to an escalation in mental illness and suicide. MaryJo will share her experiences with struggle and how it can impact your ability to build trust.

Integrating Integrative Medicine in Leadership

Featured Guest: Dr. Maryanna Klatt 
It’s no secret that the well-being of your workforce directly affects the well-being of your entire organization. Prior to the pandemic, most corporate wellness program focused on physical fitness. The stresses of COVID quarantining, though, showed that mental health is every bit as important. Integrative medicine ties both physical and mental health together, revealing many ways in which they influence each other. In this episode, Dr. Maryanna Klatt discusses the role of integrative medicine, how it affects our well-being, and why this is so important for leaders. Her own research focuses on mindfulness, but the center works with and researches acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, massage, and more. There’s a clear ROI for leaders: reducing stress and burnout is a mighty tool in keeping the Great Resignation away! For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @IL_Institute .

Executive Insights: Lessons Learned from a High Impact Career

Featured Guest: Carla Paonessa
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Carla to talk about her ongoing impact in innovating organizations from the employee level, leadership level and board level. As we talk about how leaders innovate themselves and their organizations, Carla is one of the people I look to share significant insight! I consider her my model. • How did you get started with your career? • You were an early woman in a male focused industry – can you give us some insight about how you navigated this situation? What factors allowed you to blaze trails for people like me who followed and had an easier time because of your work • You were one of the key founders of the Change Management and Leadership practice at Accenture please share some thoughts about how you helped facilitate the innovation of that practice. • You retired from Accenture and moved on to the next phase of your career and you now serve on several boards including LeaderShape. What guidance can you share?

Building Resilience - A Key Foundation for Change

Featured Guest: Mark Palmer & Belinda Gore, PhD.
Resilience is a key foundation to personal and organizational success. This interview focuses on individual resilience. The conversation is designed to help you expand your understanding of resilience overall, how it connects to stress, how it is connected with success, how to measure it and what to do to build it. This dynamic conversation starts with resilience basics - exploring the four main components: a. physical well-being b. Manage thinking c. purpose and emotional intelligence d. Manage connections We then move to a conversation about how to measure individual resilience and understand the resilience gap between the individual's capacity and requirements. Once you understand your resilience gap, it is time to set about creating solutions in each of the four main areas to manage your resilience so that you can lead effectively in times of ongoing change and occasional chaos.

The Power and Promise of Generation Z Part 2

Featured Guest: AnneMarie Hayek 
AnneMarie Hayek is returning to the show to continue the conversation about her research of GenZ. In her new book, Generation We, she joins forces with thousands of Zs to tell their powerful story—one that impacts all of us. In this episode, we will discuss how as leaders we can attract and lead Gen Z, how their diversity of exposure impacts their priorities and how this generation will impact the arc of humanity and more. Episode 1 of her interview was aired on October 5th, 2021.

Promoting Wellness and Mental Health at Work

Featured Guests: Dr. Rustin Moore, Dr. Jennifer Brandt & Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
During this show, we explore the impact of mental health concerns in the general workplace and or veterinarians and vet students. Mental health costs are on the rise and we see statistics that as much as 40% of the population will be personally impacted by a mental health issue during some point in their lives. This show is designed to remove the stigma about getting help and equip colleagues and bosses have some idea for addressing it. We discuss: 1. General data on prevalence of mental health issues within the general population? 2. Veterinary data on prevalence of mental health issues within profession and veterinary students 3. Factors to these issues in society in general 4. Recommendations to identify issues and address them. Mental health is still a stigma in many environments and as long as it is, people will continue to suffer in some cases without treatment and impact the overall productivity and satisfaction of their colleagues and clients.

Love at Work: The Essential Guide to a Life of Inspired Purpose

Featured Guest: Olivia Parr-Rud
We know in a knowledge economy, we need to use different skills and mindsets to drive success. This means different cultures and systems. People need to feel comfortable showing up as their whole selves rather than cogs in a wheel. Many of us are waking up… We yearn to make a difference – to use our innate gifts in a way that improves our lives and the lives of others. We want to be seen for who we are, not what we do. We yearn to connect, to be heard, to hear others. We ache to share our stories, our talents, and our passions – to make a positive difference in the world. If this resonates with you, then I have good news! Not only are we waking up – Corporate America needs us to wake up! The businesses that are most successful today and will thrive going forward, are the ones that require us to show up fully and in deep connection with our hearts and the hearts of others. During the interview, we explore the book and concrete practices that can be applied appropriately at work.

How Do Leaders Live In Possibility?

Featured Guest: Paul Pyrz
As part of the executive insight series, I invited Paul to talk about his ongoing impact in with young and emerging leaders focusing on identifying what is possible in their lives and bringing that possibility into action. By shifting mindset to what is likely given our limitations to what is possible, leaders generate significantly greater and more fulfilling results. Questions we explore: 1.Why is it so hard to “live in possibility” these days? 2.What does it mean to “live in possibility”? 3.What is the importance of adopting an attitude of possibility? 4.How did you come to adopt this sort of thinking? 5.How can I help my team embrace living in possibility? 6.How does living in possibility connect to leadership? Why is the connection important? 7.Why do people typically dismiss those that have this attitude?

Leadership Happy Hour: Aspirations - Fuel for Results

Featured Guests: Greg Moran & Terri Bettinger 
This is the kick-off of our leadership happy hour series. During this conversation, Greg, Terri and Maureen discuss the topic of aspirations over the courses of their leadership careers. Aspiration has the power to expand our limits and potential by motivating us to test our capabilities and competencies further and in new ways. It has a completely different effect on us than its evil twin – desperation. Not that aspiration is inherently good or desperation is inherently bad, but when people believe, the paths they follow look very different than when they do not. The conversation will touch on the following among many others topics: 1. The power of aspiration as a means of creating opportunity where it is desired 2. Aspiration is necessary filtered through our values and priorities - and that’s okay! How do we remove the limits of aspiration when they have been indoctrinated into leaders for reasons that have nothing to do with their potential (i.e. race, gender, etc.).

Should IT Executives Share their ’Soft Side’?

Featured Guest: David White
As an IT Leader and someone who works in technology, David talks about why the soft side of what we do is a significant contributor to success. As technology leaders, we need a diverse set of skills including a heavy dose of soft skills to be a highly successful business leaders beyond our technical skills. These skills range from awareness and management or our mood, an ability to be present and focused and skills in establishing and managing a positive culture where a broad range of perspectives can be explored and synthesized. This is a new type of management and requires new skills. Battelle is working to ensure their culture and their leaders are prepared with the soft skills and culture to thrive and maintain agility as they lead in integrating new technology into companies and the US government. David also shares his perspective on his career path and the importance of seeking mentoring and being a mentor.