Radio Free Leader
182 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsRadio Free Leader is a podcast dedicated to helping you lead smarter by tearing down the walls between the ivory tower and the corner office. Each week, host David Burkus interviews outstanding thinkers and doers in leadership, innovation, and strategy like Daniel Pink, Marcus Buckingham, Tom Rath, Adam Grant, and more.
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0308 | Todd Henry
May 31, 2014 05:52 - 24 minutes - 9.78 MBInnovation requires creativity. And Todd Henry knows something about creativity. Todd is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. Todd’s work has been featured by Fast Company, Fortune,Forbes, HBR.org, US News & World Report, and many other major media outlets. In this ...
0307 | Cynthia Montgomery
May 31, 2014 05:51 - 33 minutes - 12.7 MBCynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s taught for over twenty years. For six years she led the strategy track in the School’s highly regarded Owner, President, Manager Program (OPM), attended by top managers of mid-sized companies from around the globe. Currently, she is a core faculty member in the School’s Advanced Management Program. In this episode, we discuss Cynthia’s...
0306 | Max McKeown
May 31, 2014 05:50 - 33 minutes - 12.4 MBMax McKeown is a a new breed of business guru. He works consultant, researcher and writer focused on innovation and strategy. He is the author of two recently published books: The Strategy Book andAdaptability. In this interview, we discuss both books and why the best strategy for the future might just be adaptability.
0305 | Scott Eblin
May 31, 2014 05:48 - 42 minutes - 16.3 MBScott Eblin is the co-founder and president of The Eblin Group, Inc., a leadership development and strategy firm that supports organizations in ensuring the success of their executive level leaders. Through his work as an executive coach, leadership strategist, speaker and author, Scott has become known as a thought leader in identifying the behaviors that executives need to pick up and let go as they transition into new and larger roles. In this episode, we discuss Scott’s book The Next Leve...
0304 | Bob Frisch
May 31, 2014 05:46 - 39 minutes - 15.8 MBBob Frisch, managing partner of The Strategic Offsites Group, has worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to German mittelstand family businesses to the U.S. Department of State. Bob’s work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, theWall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fortune. In this interview, we talk about the difference between senior management teams and kitchen cabinets, why he hates matrix organizations and his new book Who’s in the Room: How...
0303 | David Owens
May 31, 2014 05:42 - 39 minutes - 15.4 MBDavid A. Owens is professor of the practice of management at Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management, where he also directs the Executive Development Institute. Specializing in innovation and new product development, he is known as a dynamic speaker and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. In this interview, we discuss his new book Creative People Must Be Stopped. Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encoura...
0302 | Marcus Buckingham
May 31, 2014 05:38 - 37 minutes - 14.7 MBMarcus Buckingham is a key soloist in the strengths movement choir. He is a best-selling author, popular keynote speaker and business consultant who champions the idea that people and organizations reach peak performance by leveraging their strengths. In this interview, we discuss his latest project, StandOut, a combination book and strengths assessment that uses an innovative new research methodology to reveal your top two “strength Roles.” StandOut goes beyond description to give people pr...
0301 | Robert Hurley
May 31, 2014 05:36 - 24 minutes - 9.4 MBDr. Hurley is a Professor at Fordham University and President of Hurley Associates. Dr. Hurley consults with organizations on leadership development, top team development, coaching, managing transformational change and developing and implementing strategies to maximize customer value. He has published over 30 articles or book chapters. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, California Management Review, and Harvard Business Review. He is the author of the new book The Decision to T...
0212 | Les McKeown
May 31, 2014 05:32 - 28 minutes - 11.2 MBLes McKeown (not the one from the Bay City Rollers) is is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. He has has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide. Since relocating from his native Ireland to the US in 1998, Les advises CEOs and senior leaders of organizations on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth. His clients range from large fam...
0211 | Kevin Oakes
May 31, 2014 05:30 - 25 minutes - 10.4 MBKevin Oakes is co-author of The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management. He is the CEO and founder of the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the fastest growing and largest corporate network focused on the practices of high-performance organizations. Kevin has been a leader in the human capital field for the last two decades, and was previously the Founder and the President of SumTotal Systems, the largest provider of talent and learning solutions in the world. In this inte...
0210 | Mike Figliuolo
May 31, 2014 05:28 - 26 minutes - 11.1 MBMike is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a professional training firm focused on leadership development. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993 where he was an honor graduate and a Distinguished Cadet. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. He spent five years as an Armor officer in a variety of roles including Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Personnel Officer and ROTC Instructor at Duke U...
0209 | Teresa Amabile
May 31, 2014 05:25 - 31 minutes - 11.8 MBTeresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Originally educated as a chemist, Teresa received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Teresa’s research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, and inner work life – the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivation that people experien...
0208 | Pam Fox Rollin
May 31, 2014 05:22 - 23 minutes - 9.35 MBPam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and the head of IdeaShape, a coaching and consulting firm for senior executives. Pam is an experienced consultant who has worked with leading organizations such as Verizon, eBay and Charles Schwab. Pam is the author of 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role. In this interview, we discuss what “rules” leaders need to know as the take on a senior leadership position.
0207 | Jesse Lyn Stoner
May 31, 2014 05:20 - 27 minutes - 10.7 MBJesse Lyn Stoner has worked closely with leaders for over twenty-five years, helping them create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. A business consultant, former executive, and bestselling author, Jesse has worked in a wide range of industries including Fortune 500s, small startups, government agencies, and nonprofits. In this interview, we discuss her book Full Steam Ahead (co-authored with Ken Blanchard).
0206 | Mitchell Kusy
May 31, 2014 05:15 - 20 minutes - 7.88 MBDr. Mitchell Kusy, an international consultant, has worked internally in several organizations including American Express Financial Advisors as head of leadership development. He is a full professor in the Ph.D. Program in Leadership & Change at Antioch University. He is the co-author of The Little Book of Leadership Development. In this podcast, we discuss the simple ways everyday managers can develop the leaders on their teams.
0205 | Tim Harford
May 31, 2014 05:12 - 21 minutes - 9.66 MBTim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times. His column, “The Undercover Economist,” reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. He is also the author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. In this interview, we discuss how leader’s can build organizations ready to learn from their (and others’) failures.
0204 | Todd Dewett
May 31, 2014 05:11 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBTodd Dewett, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. He is also a noted speaker and consultant on leadership and management. In this interview, we talk to Todd about the various projects he has underway, including his new book The Little Black Book of Leadership.
0203 | Guy Kawasaki
May 31, 2014 05:10 - 25 minutes - 9.83 MBGuy Kawasaki is the former Chief Evangelist of Apple and current head of Alltop. He is the author of the new book Enchantment and, in this interview, talks about what it takes for leaders to enchant their followers…and for followers to be enchanting back.
0202 | Guy Harris
May 31, 2014 05:08 - 22 minutes - 10 MBGuy Harris describes himself as a Recovering Engineer. He has served as an officer aboard a US Navy Submarine, and he has held leadership positions in both major multi-national and small businesses. Guy is the author, with Kevin Eikenberry, or From Bud to Boss, a new book that focused on equipping newly promoted leaders.
0201 | US Naval Academy
May 31, 2014 05:07 - 26 minutes - 11.1 MBSiddhartha Herdegen is the Assistant Chair of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In this podcast, we discuss the methods and challenges of developing leadership among the midshipmen of the Naval Academy.
0112 | Les McKeown
May 31, 2014 05:06 - 39 minutes - 15.2 MBLes McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide. His book, Predictable Success, discusses the lifecycle of organizations in plain English.
0111 | Jim Kouzes
May 31, 2014 05:05 - 27 minutes - 10.5 MBJim Kouzes has been a fixture in the world of leadership studies for over 30 years. He is co-author, with Barry Posner, of the seminal The Leadership Challenge and the duo have just released a new book, The Truth About Leadership.
0110 | Diana Whitney
May 31, 2014 04:57 - 26 minutes - 11 MBDiana Whitney Ph.D. is the President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry – the revolutionary process she helped develop and spread – to resolve the most pressing challenges of our time. In fields ranging from healthcare to education; from peace-building to business; from community development to government, Diana coaches executives and their teams in support of organization culture transformation, and str...
0109 | Bob Sutton
May 31, 2014 04:44 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MBRobert Sutton is Professor of Management science at the Stanford Engineering School and researcher in the field of Evidence-based management. He is an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this interview, we discuss his known famous book The No Asshole Rule and his newest release Good Boss, Bad Boss.
0108 | Liz Wiseman
May 31, 2014 04:41 - 28 minutes - 10.6 MBLiz Wiseman is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley. She advises senior executives and leads strategy and leadership forums for executive teams worldwide. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development for 17 years. She is the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. In this interview, we talk...
0107 | Michael Lee Stallard
May 31, 2014 04:37 - 28 minutes - 11.2 MBMichael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau are co-founders of E Pluribus Partners. They are also co-authors of Fired Up or Burned Out. In this podcast, they make a compelling case for why the next competitive advantage is engaged employees and explain how to build the connection culture that engages them.
0106 | Becky Robinson
May 31, 2014 04:36 - 18 minutes - 7.26 MBBecky Robinson is the blogger behind LeaderTalk, a recent addition but a staple in the blogging community. In addition she serves as an adjunct at Mountain State University’s School of Leadership and Professional Development. In this interview, we discuss MSU, LeaderTalk and the wealth of information found in the blogging community.
0105 | Steve Farber
May 31, 2014 04:35 - 24 minutes - 9.48 MBSteve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated—an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His latest book,Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson In Leadership, is a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller.
0104 | Marshall Goldsmith
May 31, 2014 04:33 - 23 minutes - 8.98 MBDr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior for themselves, their people and their teams. Marshall is an executive coach, speaker and author or editor of 29 books including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and his newest release MOJO.
0103 | Michael Petty
May 31, 2014 04:31 - 20 minutes - 7.53 MBMichael Petty is the managing partner of North Star Partners, a firm that assists companies in the areas of leadership development, strategic thought and application, and financial stewardship.
0102 | Daniel Pink
May 31, 2014 04:26 - 25 minutes - 9.96 MBDaniel Pink is the author of several New York Times best-selling books including his new release, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In Drive, Dan explores new research that suggests that our traditional ideas about motivation may be way off.
0101 | Bret Simmons
May 31, 2014 04:23 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBThis inaugural episode’s guest is Bret Simmons, PhD. Dr. Simmons is a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno. His interests include leadership, followership and positive organizational behavior. Additionally, Dr. Simmons runs corporate training sessions and blogs regularly at bretlsimmons.com.