Leading from Being
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwo experts from two generations exploring the intersection of consciousness, leadership, teams, organizations, and global change.
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Episode 28: Climate Consciousness with Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
December 21, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBIn continuing the series on climate consciousness, Marti and Todd welcome guest Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, an Icelandic author, filmmaker and sustainability leader. Hrund discusses the Icelandic concept of "InnSæi" which means intuition or "inner sea." She describes how InnSæi represents seeing within oneself, understanding one's place in the world, and navigating life with an inner compass. The conversation explores how modern life has disconnected people from their InnSæi and the natural wor...
Episode 27: Climate Consciousness with Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby
December 10, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBMarti and Todd welcome citizen scientists Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby for this inaugural episode on climate consciousness. They discuss their eyewitness experiences with climate change in the Arctic over 19 months living in a small cabin, as well as their work educating others. Key points include the disproportionate impact occurring in polar regions, the importance of individual action, and the need for people worldwide to reconnect with Nature. Despite having no modern amenities i...
Episode 26: Bridging with Elizabeth Soltis
September 23, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBMarti and Todd welcome guest Elizabeth Soltis, author of Authentic Collaboration, to discuss the topic of bridging—the art of connecting ideas, groups, and perspectives. They explore how to shift mindsets from predetermining connections to living into the process of exchange and relationship building. The hosts and guest share insights on attuning groups, finding common ground, embracing vulnerability, getting comfortable with not knowing, and opening up to new possibilities. Key themes inc...
Episode 25: Expressing Power
April 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBIn their final episode in the series on leadership and power, Marti and Todd explore what makes each person's expression of power unique and valuable, and how these expressions create a sense of wholeness in teams, organizations, and communities. From the Edge: Dam Dismantling (Todd) Conscious Rant: In Case You Didn't Notice (Marti)
Episode 24: Collective Power
December 28, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBIn Episode 23, Marti and Todd spent most of the hour discussing what power is not—our misconceptions and fears around power. In this discussion, they explore the relationships and experiences of being people of power. What does it mean to be in a state of collective power? What does it feel like? What are the needed conditions? From the Edge: The Age of Meeting Ourselves Again (Marti) Conscious Rant: Accountability (Todd)
Episode 23: The Essence of Power
July 17, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBWhat exactly is power? If we’re not playing “power games” or King of the Hill, then how do we perceive power? Work with power? Be people of power? Marti and Todd explore power in the negative, and then move into a conversation about how we can shift our perception and experience of power to participate in something much larger than ourselves. From the Edge: Tribute to Christopher Alexander (Todd) Conscious Rant: Frothing (Marti)
Episode 22: New Beginnings & Governance
February 05, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBWe spend so much time analyzing and choosing governance models. What if there is a different approach? Marti and Todd get into the dynamics of organizations that move beyond rigid structures and become negotiable in the experience of working together. They also introduce a new segment at the end of today’s episode:Takeaways. From the Edge: Being a Person of Power (Marti) Conscious Rant: Stop Managing Your Time (Todd)
Episode 21: New Beginnings & The Masculine Principle
February 01, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBMarti and Todd welcome guest Ted Wallach, founder of the Quantum Warrior program, to explore the principle of masculinity in the context of new beginnings. They discuss the principles of the feminine and masculine as complementarities that are needed for creation—energies not attributes. The conversation moves from our obsession with defining, to how we can discuss, interact, and weave with these principles. From the Edge: Appreciative Inquiry (Todd) Conscious Rant: Why are We Still Rant...
Episode 20: New Beginnings and Capitalism
March 27, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBAre we in “late stage capitalism?” Can capitalism be reformed, restored, or redeemed? Marti and Todd cover why these are not the most important questions to consider. Rather, we need cycles of action at all scales that create the frameworks of the future. This is the first episode in the series "New Beginnings" -- Marti and Todd's exploration of what may be coming to completion, and what may be emerging simultaneously. From the Edge: Cosmology (Marti) Conscious Rant: Simplistic Platitudes...
Episode 19: Braiding & Balancing Wisdom with Melanie Goodchild
January 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBMarti and Todd welcome guest Melanie Goodchild, founder of the Turtle Island Institute, to discuss systems change that centers on relationships for mutual benefit. Melanie shares her experiences and wisdom on complexity, resilience, balance, and what we all need to move forward together, carrying centuries of indigenous wisdom and her Anishinaabe perspective alongside her Western academic education. The conversation flows from identity to language to our ways of being and relating that can ...
Episode 18: The Nature of Change
December 19, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBWe have change agents, change-makers, turnaround specialists, and the field of change management, but do we understand what actually brings about change? Can we trust what worked in the past to work in the future? Marti and Todd explore how leaders can become stewards of change without trying to control people and situations. Stewards of change move with negotiability, flow, passion, and compassion, understanding the timings that exist within the nature of change. From the Edge: The Wonder...
Episode 17: Decent Work with Josie Gibson
October 11, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBMarti and Todd welcome guest Josie Gibson, co-founder of the Catalyst Network, to discuss “Decent Work”—re-imagining our notions of work, contributions, and devoting our energies in a system that leads to wellbeing rather than inequity. From the Edge: How We Know Shapes How We Lead (Marti) Conscious Rant: Freedom & Constraints (Todd)
Episode 16: Mapping the Moment
May 27, 2020 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBHow can we make sense of and respond as leaders to an event like the global spread of COVID-19? Marti and Todd explore addressing our rising emotions, the power of awareness, and the power of the heart in helping bring new creativity to a world that is being reshaped. From the Edge: Being a Cartographer (Todd) Conscious Rant: Staying Connected While We’re Apart (Marti) This episode was recorded on May 26, 2020.
Episode 15: The Logic of Life with Giles Hutchins
May 04, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBMarti & Todd welcome guest Giles Hutchins. As the co-author of Regenerative Leadership, Giles is an edge-walker between living systems and the business world. Giles Hutchins is a pioneering practitioner and senior adviser at the forefront of the [r]evolution in organizational and leadership consciousness, and developmental approaches that enhance personal, organizational and systemic agility and vitality. He is the Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, Founder of Leadership Immersions...
Episode 14: Going Horizontal with Samantha Slade
March 04, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBMarti & Todd welcome guest Samantha Slade. As the co-founder of Percolab, Sam has been bringing new ways of working, learning, and governing to organizations for two decades. As a social innovator, Samantha supports teams, organizations and ecosystems to work with complexity and grow a conscious innovation mindset, from the European commission to bold start ups. Marti, Todd, and Sam discuss practices and principles that help drive participation, democracy, and shared leadership in organizat...
Episode 13: On the Horizon
February 24, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIf we look beyond the seemingly chaotic state of the world today, what is on the horizon? What if the chaos is not actually chaotic, but the ending of a “timing” with a tremendous amount of free, unbound energy available for leaders. Marti and Todd explore what it means to be at a “mythic” level of engagement, imagination and risk, turning off our internal monologues, and what it takes to move forward in these times in a negotiable way with action and receptivity. From the Edge: Dissolvin...
Episode 12: Awareness & Language with Myra Jackson
February 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBMarti & Todd welcome guest Myra Jackson. As an Electrical Engineer, Organizational Development Professional and Systems Thinker, Myra has found that her studies in electrical theory, music, power generation, the sciences and the natural world deeply informed her spiritual life. Today, she devotes her time in service to communities and organizations focused on bringing forth public policies focused on the wellness of people and planet as a consultant, donor activist and philanthropic legacy...
Episode 11: From Static Knowledge to Dynamic Learning
December 21, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBPeter Senge persuasively introduced the idea of the "learning organization" that constantly transforms itself. What exactly is required to be in a state where ongoing, quality learning is the norm? Marti and Todd explore conditions for learning, why we need to use our hands and bodies, the underlying principles of apprenticeship, how principles guide us more than facts, and why we need to break our addiction to static knowledge. Learning from experience in a state of open awareness - this i...
Episode 10: Energy & Wellbeing with Nathan Walz
December 11, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBGuest Nathan Walz joins Marti & Todd to discuss energy and wellbeing, both at an individual and organizational level. Nathan brings his knowledge of mitochondria and taking care of your own individual energy levels to the conversation about health that extends beyond the physical body. From the Edge: The Microbiome (Todd) Conscious Rant: “I can’t because . . .” (Marti)
Episode 9: Organizational Healing
September 24, 2019 18:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBCan organizations heal? What exactly does that mean? Marti & Todd explore the topic of healing in living systems - what it takes to restore connection and flow in teams and across an organization. They draw the distinctions between healing and fixing, and between reactivity and responsiveness. Special segments: From the Edge: What is a Healed State Anyway? Conscious Rant: Healing Starts with You
Episode 8: Leadership in Living Systems
September 01, 2019 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBWhat is mean to lead within a system, rather than lead with a system? With a tendency for leaders to impose or adopt a system of leadership, it's important to draw the distinctions of what it means to lead as a member of the system that is alive and continually evolving. Marti & Todd discuss what it means to "design" within the system, the necessity of paying attention to the energy of the system, allowing the system to teach us, and the importance of relaxing into a receptive and aware sta...
Episode 7: Organizational Vitality - Living Systems at Work
August 11, 2019 15:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBWhat makes an organization vital, alive? This is the first in a series of episodes about living systems. Marti and Todd talk about evolving a vision, taking an experimental approach, the necessity of growing and adjusting, and why worker disengagement is so high. We learn about zooming in and zooming out, and why acknowledging the value and contributions of others is so essential. Final segments: From the Edge - Pulses in the Field Conscious Rant - Stop Blaming the System!
Episode 6: From Meaning to Value
July 16, 2019 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBHow can we metaphorically imagine leaders positioned in an organization, if not at the top of a pyramid? What if scarcity were not attached to value? What happens when leaders "embody" meaning, or purpose, within their organization? Marti and Todd address these questions, as well as the connections between generating meaning and value, and why stepping into experience itself is so essential for leaders.
Episode 5: Meaning as a Foundation
June 18, 2019 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBWhat do we mean when we say "leadership?" Or "consciousness?" There is importance in understanding meaning as it impacts effective we are as leaders. Action involves choice. Choices are based on value. Value is derived from meaning. Meaning is foundational - to understanding others, communication, the recognition of great ideas, and much more. In this conversation, Marti & Todd also discuss resonance, alignment, and competition in continuing the exploration of how "to be" as leaders.
Episode 4: Being Transparent as a Leader
May 28, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBTransparency is not something you do, it's an outcome of being in full consciousness. When we feel safe and our awareness is directed to the world, we can bring our full unique selves into our projects and relationships. Todd and Marti talk about the bi-directional nature of transparency - it's not just what we show to others in particular contexts, it's also what we allow in as feeling and data. The metaphor of a semi-permeable membrane is offered as an example of this.
Episode 3: Business Strategy in Full Consciousness
May 06, 2019 19:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBHow do we plan for the future when all change happens in the present? Todd & Marti look at the roles of awareness and imagination in how leaders can move collectively toward a vision. Planning is a necessity, and we need shorter time frames, better states of being from which we plan, and core principles from which we operate. They discuss the interference of fear and worry as a "gateway." Todd introduces the idea of the organizational nervous system. Marti talks about the inextricable connec...
Episode 2: The Seeds of Consciousness in Business
April 18, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBWhy is it so hard for Marti and Todd to use "conscious" as an adjective, especially in relation to business? They provide some context as how we got here, and a call for leaders to go a layer deeper to sense and "be" with the underlying principles beneath the stories. One of these principles involves membership, or true belonging. They offer a nod of appreciation to Frederic LaLoux, as well as a discussion about the potential trap of using Reinventing Organizations as a blueprint.
Episode 1: Leadership, Presence, and Being
April 07, 2019 04:00 - 52 minutes - 24 MBAs Apple CEO Tim Cook exits the stage, critics mourn that Apple has begun to emulate more than create something new. We look at the role of consciousness in value creation, why we hesitate to use "conscious" as an adjective, and what it means to operate from a state of "being" rather than "doing."