Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business.
Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will engage in conversation with leaders and experts to explore practices that you can use to create and shape the future. With his guests, Aviv will put a magnifying glass on strategies and frameworks that he has applied to help senior executives and their teams achieve significant breakthroughs that lead to game changing results. Ideas, strategies, breakthroughs and practices that you can apply.
With his innovative ideas and frameworks, Aviv walks you through what you need to lead and transform an organization, and redesign your life to achieve new goals. Together with his guests, Aviv will explore how to develop strategy, how to lead to enable teams to unleash their brilliance and what is the inside work leaders must engage in to develop executive presence and charisma.
More than ever, humanity now needs people who are open and prepared to imagine, create, and sustain new futures. This is a time of great transformative and disruptive change. It demands our best imagination, courage, and creativity. Through this podcast, Aviv will inspire you to be tomorrow's agent by creating conversations that birth new possibilities for you and for the people in your life.
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034 Your Three Jobs
April 02, 2018 07:30 - 12 minutes - 8.6 MBIn this episode, I focus on the three jobs that leaders and their team members must take up in order for a business to realize their opportunities, create a transformative future, and achieve an ambitious business strategy. Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf34
033 Travis Chappell - Interview with Travis Chappell from Build Your Network
March 15, 2018 05:02 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBThis is a replay from the Build Your Network podcast where I was interviewed by Travis Chappell. In our conversation, I discuss the two core premises of my book, Create New Futures, the keys to building my network, what high achieving executives struggle with the most, and Travis asks me a series of rapid, random questions I had fun answering. 01:40 - What I’m most excited about 03:32 - My book, Create New Futures and its two core premises 05:54 - How I find my clients 06:37 - The ke...
032 The Integrity Challenge of Women Who Lead
February 28, 2018 08:00 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this episode, I talk about and explain the five dimensions of integrity in response to a question put forward by a female manager concerned about maintaining her integrity in the face of others perceptions of her leadership style. As you will learn, there are five dimensions of integrity from which you can choose to respond in any given situation. These five dimensions represent increasingly higher levels of integrity and versatility. Understanding these five dimensions will allow yo...
031 Jon Nastor - Interview with Jon Nastor from Hack the Entrepreneur
February 15, 2018 14:17 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBThis is a replay from Hack the Entrepreneur podcast where I was interviewed by Jon Nastor. In this conversation, Jon asks me about my clients and how I am able to attain 99% of them through referrals. I explain the three important decisions I made early on in life that led me to work and help the people I do today, saying “yes” to opportunities before having it all figured out, and I touch upon the process I went through to write my book, Create New Futures. 02:21 - The one thing I do with...
030 The Future of Leadership
January 31, 2018 05:15 - 10 minutes - 7.65 MBWhat is the future of leadership? How must leaders embrace change? How will our leadership role models evolve or remain the same in coming decades? As the global landscape shapeshifts, society experiences rapid changes with the confluence of technological breakthroughs, economic and cultural tremors, and tectonic geopolitical transitions. If we are to leverage the opportunities that such volatility presents, our concept of leadership and our notions of how leaders operate must be tested an...
029 Greg Shoemaker - Calculating Risks and Crisis Management
January 16, 2018 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBGreg Shoemaker is the Global Head of Supply Chain Central and Direct Procurement Services at HP. He is responsible for $23M in annual spend. In this engaging interview, I speak with Greg about the responsibilities of his position and key lessons he has learned. We get insight into his decision making skills, and understand how he's been able to cope with crisis events. In this conversation you will learn how Greg got his start and what he's doing to keep HP successful. 00:03 What does Gre...
028 8 Insights for 2018
January 03, 2018 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.41 MBHow are you debriefing the last 12 months? What learning insights will you take forward to apply and build on in the new year? Reflecting on the past twelve months, I am grateful for an extraordinarily special year filled with challenges and opportunities. This was our best and busiest year ever, with exciting work that afforded us a myriad of learning and development opportunities. Working with clients who trust and believe in me is a special privilege. I learn and grow through my interac...
027 Geoff Bellman Pt. 2 - How Extraordinary Groups Achieve Amazing Results
December 15, 2017 04:48 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBAfter spending 14 years in corporate America, Geoff Bellman launched his consulting firm – 40 years ago. His consulting has focused on renewing large, mature organizations the likes of Verizon, Shell, and Boeing. Geoff is also an author and has written such books as, The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, which is how I was first introduced to him. His most recent book, Extraordinary Groups: How Extraordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results, explores teams, families...
026 We All Were Impostors Once
November 30, 2017 08:00 - 15 minutes - 11.1 MBAt this time, as you reflect on all that you’ve achieved this year and on your hopes and aspirations for the future, it feels appropriate to offer my letter to Jane, that I included in the epilogue to Create New Futures. “I feel like an impostor,” Jane told me. She was one of the brightest young professionals I had ever encountered, much wiser than her young age might lead you to think. “Sometimes I am amazed at the responsibilities and opportunities handed to me. Inside of me is a nagging...
025 Ravi Venkataraman - Enabling Tomorrow’s Leaders
November 14, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBRavi Venkataraman is the founder of Alive Consulting where he mentors and consults global companies on setting up their shared services operations and on developing design thinking and leadership. For more than three decades he held global leadership roles with banking and with shared services organizations. As the former Senior Vice President and head of Global Business Services at Hewlett Packard, he led a multifunction shared services organization of 18,000 employees located in 58 co...
024 Purposing Conflict
October 31, 2017 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBA key role of leadership is helping people overcome challenges and achieve results. In this article/podcast, you will discover a new process to help you reframe conflicts. This approach will enable you to lead your teams beyond just meeting challenges resiliently. You will empower them to unleash personal and professional growth. One morning at breakfast, Sara described a conflict between two people we love. Feeling their struggle and pain, she sought to find an insight that would help the...
BONUS - The Process of Reflective Listening
October 30, 2017 17:23 - 4 minutes - 3.55 MBWelcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business. Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty in life that work. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will be having conversations ...
023 Geoff Bellman - Purpose Alignment, Part 1
October 19, 2017 22:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBAfter spending 14 years in corporate America, Geoff Bellman launched his consulting firm - 40 years ago. His consulting has focused on renewing large, mature organizations the likes of Verizon, Shell, and Boeing. Geoff is also an author and has written such books as, The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, which is how I was first introduced to him. His most recent book, Extraordinary Groups: How Extraordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results, explores teams, families...
022 Miguel Gonzalez - Building Your Leadership Toolbox
October 10, 2017 08:23 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBMiguel Gonzalez is the Director of Global Logistics Procurement and Operations at Dupont and the future Chief Procurement Officer for one of three new companies that will be created after Dupont and Dow Chemicals finalize their merger. He’s a global procurement and supply chain leader with broad experience and his unique skill is translating complex business needs into strategies that accelerates results in both short and long terms. Miguel has led global teams, has a good grasp of changi...
021 Why Create New Futures
September 27, 2017 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBCreate New Futures does not adhere to a linear, chronological story. Thus, you can extract immediate value simply by turning to any page and reading for a few minutes. This approach was intentional, and I share my thinking here briefly because it reflects the evolution of my discovery journey. Old movies like Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments begin a storyline, follow with an intermission, and then continue the chronology of the plot timeline. Somewhere in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, howev...
020 Court Lorenzini - Entrepreneurial Superpower
September 20, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBCourt Lorenzini, is the founder and CEO of multiple successful technology startups including DocuSign and MetaBrite. Court serves on the Boards of several early-stage companies, and is an active investor and advisor in the Seattle area. I initially met Court on the board of Utrip, a destination discovery and planning platform startup where we both serve as advisors and board members. I have found Court to be one of the smartest people about business. In this conversation, I explore with ...
019 Cathy Sunshine - Exploring Throughput Management and the Structure of Flow
September 11, 2017 13:56 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBMy guest for this conversation is Cathy Sunshine, founder and president of the Sunshine Group, a consulting and coaching firm specializing in family business, leadership transformation and organization design. Guided by deep insight into organizational dynamics and throughput management, Cathy helps leaders, and organizations break through blockages, become agile and engaged, and produce turnaround growth. She helped hundreds of teams accelerate growth and improve performance. In this c...
018 A Conversation with Paul Adams
August 29, 2017 18:49 - 49 minutes - 34.5 MBKey learnings: “Your future and present can update your past.” Reclaim your power—the power to choose, to be self-directed, and the power to defy the mindset that says that what happened to you yesterday defines who you are today. Instead of thinking your yesterday defines your today, embrace the reframing idea: your today can redefine yesterday. Do you let crisis define your future or do you choose to create a future that redefines your experience? What can we learned from Aviv’s deci...
017 Sam Szteinbaum - Design Your Portfolio Life
August 20, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBMy guest, Sam Szteinbaum, has enjoyed an illustrious career. He was the Chief Learning Officer for Hewlett Packard and before that, Vice President and General Manager for America’s consumer products, the HP and Compaq desktop and Notebook PC products. Since leaving HP, Sam has continued to develop and grow his pre-school business, The Wonder Years, in the Bay area which has four locations and a fifth site that is in the works. He is also on the Board of various technology companies, inc...
016 Faiza Hughell - What Do the Best Sales People Do
August 10, 2017 17:31 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBFaiza Hughell is the Vice President of Sales at Ring Central. With more than 20 years of inside sales experience her passion and talent lies in building, training, scaling, and motivating successful sales teams. Faiza started in the software as a service world from a very young age and has sold SAS solutions ever since that time. Faiza was part of the WebEx winning team and at Ring Central leads the small to medium business program globally. In this conversation I ask Faiza about the traits ...
015 The Fallacy of the Google Age
July 27, 2017 07:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBLet’s talk about the first responsibility of a leader. This is Aviv with a new episode of Create New Futures. And today I am focusing on the fallacy of the Google age, and why as leaders, mentors, and parents we all must reflect on the Google fallacy and the conundrum it creates critically. As a leader, your first responsibility is to lead yourself. You begin with how you develop your thought process, and continue with how you map your learning and your actions. You cannot afford to outsou...
014 Ted Clark - Propensity for Action
July 19, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBIn this conversation I have the pleasure of speaking with Ted Clark. Ted has 35 years of leadership experience across all aspects of mobile computing. He was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP’s Notebook PC division from 2004 to 2012. In this capacity, he was able to deliver 165 million Notebook PC’s and 125 billion dollars in revenue. Ted has a deep understanding of what it takes to build empowered and flexible teams and win in the hyper-growth technology space. He c...
013 Daniel Epstein - The Brain Science of Marketing
July 10, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBDaniel Epstein is a marketing and innovation consultant from Toronto, Canada. He worked for Procter & Gamble for 21 years where he was awarded the Harley Procter Marketers designation in 2007; the highest designation for marketing excellence. He led P&G’s future of marketing and brand building and was responsible for the commercial leadership of some of the most iconic brands at P&G. As he traveled the world for P&G, he developed a project named, Portraits in Faith, where he interviewed an...
012 Creating Breakthroughs and The 72-Hour Rule
June 27, 2017 07:00 - 10 minutes - 7.28 MBIn this episode we focus on what great learners and leaders do, and on how high performers create breakthroughs. Of all the practices I have been teaching to high performing leaders, the 72-Hour rule is one of the game-changer that enabled more people to accelerate results and create breakthroughs. Here are some of the key points I discuss during this 9-minute podcast: The 72-hour rule states that if you do not take the first step toward applying a new learning and idea within the first 72...
011 Rohit Tandon - Lead with your Heart, Gut, and Brain
June 18, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBMy guest for this conversation is Rohit Tandon. Rohit is the Senior Vice President and Business Leader of GENPACT Analytics and Research Business where he drives change and influences results by helping clients harness the value of big data and analytical insights. With over 25 years of leadership experience in companies like GE, IBM, and Hewlett Packard, Rohit is able to help companies build clarity of purpose and structure in order to deliver the performance and financial results they see...
010 Dan Leahy - What Is Audacious Leadership
June 08, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBMy guest for this conversation is Dan Leahy. Dan is an educator with over 30 years of teaching and consulting experience with a special focus on the emergent capacities of complex adaptive systems. Dan was the president of LEOS (Leadership Institute Of Seattle) for more than a decade and he is currently the Director of the Seattle campus of Saybrook University where he provides strategic and operational leadership for the campus. In this conversation with Dan, we explore his calling and ...
009 A Tale of Two Lifeguards
May 27, 2017 07:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBEach of us harbors two characters within. The dedicated part of us goes above and beyond what is required, while the expedient part opts for cutting corners. Every day we get to choose which aspect of our character will show up. That choice can determine our success or failure — and even, in some cases, life or death. One morning as Sara and I arrived at the beach, we noticed that Mikey, a long-time lifeguard, was collecting the dry seaweed along the water’s edge. He told us the seaweed w...
008 Paul Werner - What Successful Leaders Do
May 18, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBMy guest for this conversation is Paul Werner. Paul is a 25-year veteran of the tech industry with successful and proven leadership experience in large and mid-cap technology companies serving global customers. Currently Paul serves as the Vice President of Sales for the Western U.S. at F5 Networks — a security and application delivery company. In this conversation, Paul shares the essential focus that enables him to produce sustained success. We explore how to create holistic balance when...
007 Ann-Marie Archer - Curiosity Is a Muscle That Fuels Innovation
May 08, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBAnn-Marie Archer is the Founder and CEO of Archer & Associates, an Executive Search, Leadership Development, and Coaching Services firm that delivers best-in-class, talented candidates for its clients, and helps individuals and organizations achieve their potential. After 20 years in corporate America, observing and experiencing the tedious and unpredictable hiring process, and gaps in effective leadership, Ann-Marie chose to launch a firm dedicated to potent leadership development, and an...
006 How to Accelerate Your Transformation
April 28, 2017 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBIn this episode we focus on how to accelerate your transformation by significantly elevating your innovation and creativity. Learn how successful leaders achieve dramatic results while compressing months of work into just a few days. Here are some of the key points I discuss during this 9-minute podcast: How you and your team can save six months of precious time and tons of organizational calories. Why it is imperative for you and your team to shift from merely learning new information to...
005 Mark Dodds - There's No Such Thing as a Bad Team
April 19, 2017 17:54 - 1 hour - 101 MBMark Dodds is the Vice President of Global Solutions Sales for Dell EMC. Mark and I were sitting on the same flight together, and had such an interesting conversation that I asked if Mark would like to share some of his insights to my podcast audience. In this week’s episode, we discuss leadership, and how to bring together very smart people to create super-results. I explore with Mark his experiences in elite environments in the army, in extreme sport, and in business, and we also discuss t...
004 Doug Gray - From Adventure Racing To Growth Mindset
April 08, 2017 04:15 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBMy guest in this episode is Doug Gray, the president of Action Learning associates, executive coach and the author of Passionate Action: 5 Steps to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work. Our dialogue reflects on how coaching change and evolved into a new kind of art, and how having a suite of models to choose from is vitally important. You will learn how to apply a series of strategies to accelerate growth and unleash the power of exponential learning. Full show notes available at http://...
003 Instigating Breakthrough Learning and the 90/10 Rule
March 31, 2017 04:15 - 11 minutes - 4.04 MBIn this episode we discuss how to instigate and agitate learning to make sure your team is renewed and to prevent the organizational brain from atrophying because it is locked in “repeat” mode. You will learn why the most successful transformation efforts are designed with the 90/10 rule of adult learning in mind. Here are some of the key points I discuss during this 12-minute podcast: To thrive requires leaders to become life-long, passionate learners propelled by insatiable curiosity. The...
002 Libby Wagner - Guide Leaders to New Horizons Through Poetry
March 20, 2017 14:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBMy guest for this 57-minute conversation is Libby Wagner, poet, author and sought-after speaker. To my knowledge, Libby is the only former poetry professor who is invited and welcomed warmly into boardrooms across the country. A trusted advisor for presidents, CEOs and executive directors, her work with numerous Fortune 500 companies has influenced the cultures of organizations such as The Boeing Company, Nike, Philips, and Costco. She is the author of the Amazon best seller The Influencing ...
001 Alice Latino - Challenge the Mental Models and Reframe Conversations
March 20, 2017 13:33 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBMy guest conversationalist today is Alice Latino, Co-Founder at Heavenly Caregiver Services. Alice and I met fourteen years ago when she was the Regional Director at Emeritus Assisted Living. We collaborated on several projects there for her team as well as for others at Emeritus. Serving in various capacities for that organization, including Vice President of Operations, for over seventeen years, Alice positively impacted both the quality of care delivered to residents and the profit metric...
000 Welcome to Create New Futures
February 20, 2017 23:26 - 3 minutes - 2.87 MBWelcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business. Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will engage in conversation with leaders and...