Work and Life with Stew Friedman
230 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsWelcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Mondays at noon Eastern
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Ep 180. Christopher Marquis: How B Corps are Remaking Capitalism
September 11, 2020 10:15 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBChristopher Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University. His current teaching and research focus on the two areas of social innovation and change and doing business in China. Prior to joining Cornell, Chris worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai J...
Ep 179. Natalie Edwards: Changing the Conversation about Race and Work
September 04, 2020 10:20 - 52 minutes - 72 MBNatalie Neilson Edwards is the Director of Inclusion & Diversity for The Estee Lauder Companies. She joined Estee Lauder in May of 2018 after graduating with her MBA from the Wharton School, with a concentration in business analytics. She leads inclusion strategy and operations for all 45,000 Estee Lauder employees and 25+ brands. While at Wharton, Natalie drafted the school’s official diversity plan, working with the Dean as the Wharton Graduate Association's VP of Diversity and as one of t...
Ep 178. Howard Stevenson: Racial Literacy
August 28, 2020 12:17 - 52 minutes - 72 MBDr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stevenson is Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC) at Penn, a research, program development, and training center that brings together community leaders, researchers, authority figures, families, and youth to study and promote raci...
Ep 177. Stephanie Creary: Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues
August 14, 2020 13:25 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBStephanie Creary, Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, has been teaching a course called “Leading Diversity in Organizations” since Fall 2017. She was one of the principal investigators on a report from Wharton’s People Analytics Department and the firm Diversity Inc. that shows which practices seem to work for companies. Stephanie recently authored a piece in Harvard Business Review called “How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Friends”. Her research centers on identif...
Ep 176. Marisa Porges: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, Resilient Women
August 07, 2020 15:21 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBDr. Marisa Porges is known for her work on leadership, education, and national security. She is currently head of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. Prior to joining Baldwin in 2016, Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on worldwide counterter...
Ep 175. Laura Morgan Roberts: Race, Work, and Leadership in Pandemic Times
July 24, 2020 14:15 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBDr. Laura Morgan Roberts is a Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and an expert in the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. She has published over fifty research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strategically activating best selves through strength-based development, workplace equity and inclusion. Her influential publications in the Harvard Business Review and the Academy of...
Ep 174. Rita McGrath: Seeing Around Corners
July 19, 2020 16:33 - 52 minutes - 72 MBRita McGrath, Columbia Business School Professor, is an expert on inflection points, paradigmatic shifts in the landscape. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. She received her Ph.D. from Wharton and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Her recent book Seeing Around Corn...
Ep 173. Stefanie Johnson: Inclusify -- The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging
July 10, 2020 14:27 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBStefanie Johnson is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and her new book is Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams. Professor Johnson studies the intersection of leadership and diversity, focusing on how unconscious bias affects the evaluation of leaders and on strategies that leaders can use to mitigate bias. She draws on her own experience as a Latina who grew up poor to inform her research. She is a m...
Ep 172. Karl Moore: We Are All Ambiverts
July 03, 2020 15:15 - 51 minutes - 70 MBKarl Moore is an Associate Professor on the management faculty of McGill University. Prior to his academic career Dr. Moore worked for eleven years in sales and marketing management positions with IBM and Hitachi. Before McGill, he taught at Oxford University for five years. Since 2014, Karl has hosted the CEO Series, a weekly program on Bellmedia’s C-J-A-D, where he interviews leaders one-on-one. He has been blogging for Forbes for eight years. In this episode, Stew and Karl discuss his...
Ep 171. Larry Hagner: The Dad's Edge
June 26, 2020 14:24 - 52 minutes - 72 MBLarry Hagner is the founder of the Good Dad Project and the author of The Dad's Edge: 9 Simple Ways to Have: Unlimited Patience, Improved Relationships, and Positive Lasting Memories as well as Daddy Will Always Love and Protect You. He is an advocate for fathers and believes many men want to be good fathers but, for a number of reasons, struggle with that role. Based on his own experiences, including his failures, he’s dedicated himself to helping them. In this episode, Stew and Larry talk...
Ep 170. Christine Beckman: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age
June 20, 2020 12:11 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBChristine Beckman is The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy at the Price Center for Social Innovation in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, and the author of Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age. Before joining the Price School in 2018, she was a Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Marylan...
Ep 169. Doug Conant: The Blueprint for Growth as a Leader
June 12, 2020 13:13 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBDoug Conant is an expert on leadership. He began his career at General Mills and held leadership positions in marketing and strategy at Kraft before becoming CEO and President of Campbell Soup Company. During his career he also served as President of Nabisco Foods Company, and Chairman of Avon Products. Over the course of his ten years as CEO at Campbell, employee engagement skyrocketed from being among the worst in the Fortune 500 to being world-class as measured by Gallup. After retiring ...
Ep 168. David Smith: How to be a Good Guy
May 29, 2020 18:56 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBDr. David Smith is co-author of the forthcoming book Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace. David is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College. His previous book, Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women, was named one of 25 books everyone should read by Inc. Magazine and TED Speakers when it was published in 2016. A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organizations of women and men cu...
Ep 167. Bruce Dailsley: Eat Sleep Work Repeat
May 22, 2020 00:48 - 52 minutes - 72 MBBruce Daisley is European Vice President of Twitter, based in London, and his new book is called Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job. Bruce joined Twitter in 2012, having previously run YouTube UK at Google. He has also worked in the magazine publishing and radio industries, having got his first break by mailing a cartoon resume of his life to prospective employers. Bruce's passion for improving work led to him creating the podcast “Eat Sleep Work Repeat” which becam...
Ep 166. Chester Elton: Leading With Gratitude
May 15, 2020 12:27 - 52 minutes - 72 MBChester Elton is one of today’s most influential voices in workplace trends and is the co-author of Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results. Chester is the co-founder of The Culture Works, a global training company, and a board member of Camp Corral, a non-profit for the children of wounded and fallen military heroes. He serves as a leadership consultant to firms such as American Express, AT&T, Avis Budget Group and Procter & Gamble. In 2018 Glob...
Ep 165. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler: Free Yourself From Conflict
May 08, 2020 18:45 - 52 minutes - 72 MBJennifer Goldman-Wetzler is a leading expert on conflict and organizational psychology. She’s also the founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, and author of Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home and in Life, which was selected as a Financial Times Book of the Month. For two decades, Jennifer has advised senior leaders at global corporations as well as at large non-profit and governmental institutions. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Dep...
Ep 164. Michelle Travis: Dads for Daughters
May 01, 2020 10:15 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBMichelle Travis is a law professor at the University of San Francisco’s School of Law, where she serves as a Director of USF’s Labor and Employment Law Program. She is an expert on employment discrimination law and serves as the Co-Director of USF’s Labor and Employment Law Program. Her research focuses on sex discrimination, gender stereotypes, work/family conflict, and disability discrimination in the workplace. She teaches courses on employment law and civil litigation, and she has won mu...
Ep 163. Laura Huang: Find Your Edge by Turning Adversity into Advantage
April 22, 2020 10:15 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MBLaura Huang is the author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. Laura is the MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Prior to her position at Harvard, she was a highly regarded assistant professor of management at Wharton. Her research examines interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. Laura is the creator of #FindYourEdge, an initiative dedicated to addressing inequality and disadv...
Ep 162. Special Edition: Parents Who Lead
March 18, 2020 10:15 - 53 minutes - 51.1 MBThis is a special edition of the Work and Life show. Stew Friedman’s new book, Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life, co-authored with Alyssa Westring, has just been published, it reached Amazon’s #1 Bestseller in Work Life, and is a nominee for Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club. This episode features four working parents who were in the Parents Who Lead lab as subjects ...
Ep 161. Tom Rath: Life's Great Question
March 11, 2020 10:15 - 50 minutes - 115 MBBestselling author Tom Rath has a new book, Life’s Great Question: Discover How You Contribute to the World. He is a researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and well-being. His 10 books have sold more than 10 million copies, making him the #1 bestselling author of non-fiction books in history. Tom’s first book, How Full Is Your Bucket?, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and led to a series of books and activities for kids that are us...
Ep 160. Cali Yost: How to Make Flexible Work a Win for All
March 04, 2020 11:15 - 50 minutes - 47.7 MBCali Williams Yost is Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, an organization of experts in flexible workplace strategy, change management, leadership, instructional design and communications. Cali is an internationally-recognized workplace strategist and futurist. For more than two decades, she has predicted many early work transformation trends and used those insights to develop innovative strategies that help organizations build dynamic, future-ready work cultures that attract and re...
Ep 159. Suvrat Bhargave: A Moment of Insight
February 26, 2020 11:20 - 49 minutes - 114 MBDr. Suvrat Bhargave is the author of a new book called Moment of Insight: Universal Lessons Learned from a Psychiatrist's Couch. Dr. Bhargave is a board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. Employing empathy, education, and empowerment he has been able to relate to a multi-demographic audience. Affectionately known for his “relatable expertise”, Dr. Bhargave is highly sought after to lecture locally and nationally on a broad range of topics pertaining to ...
Ep 158. Maggie Jackson: Productive Uncertainty
February 19, 2020 11:20 - 49 minutes - 46.8 MBMaggie Jackson is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, fellowships, and prizes as an author and journalist whose essays, commentary, and books have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New Philosopher, on National Public Radio, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale and the London School of Economics, her book Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention has been described as “groundbreaking” and “essential” and a new, updated ...
Ep 157. David Fajgenbaum: Turning Hope Into Action
February 05, 2020 15:42 - 50 minutes - 115 MBDavid Fajgenbaum is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a memoir called Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action. David is the co-founder and executive director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and an NIH-funded physician-scientist. Diagnosed with Castleman’s disease while in medical school, David has dedicated his life to discovering new treatments and cures for d...
Ep 156. Joel Brockner: Process Matters
January 29, 2020 11:15 - 30 minutes - 69.1 MBJoel Brockner is the Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business at Columbia University Business School, Academic Director of Columbia CaseWorks, author of The Process Matters: Engaging and Equipping People for Success, and a leading authority on a variety of psychological issues in the workplace, including managing change, leadership, decision-making, and cross-cultural differences in work behavior. In this episode, Stew and Joel discuss Joel’s book, The Process Matters, and what works and w...
Ep 155. Wayne Baker: All You Have to Do Is Ask
January 22, 2020 11:15 - 50 minutes - 116 MBWayne Baker is the Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations. His latest book is All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success. He is the author of five other books and many scholarly articles. His work has focused on social capital, social networks, generosity, and positive organizations...
Ep 154. Stan Silverman: Be Different
January 15, 2020 11:15 - 51 minutes - 51 MBStan Silverman is the author Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success. A recognized thought leader and influencer, Stan publishes a widely read, nationally syndicated column on leadership in the Philadelphia Business Journal and 42 affiliated business publications across the U.S. Stan is the former president and CEO of global PQ Corporation and is a senior executive in residence at the LeBow College of Business of Drexel University. He earned his engineering and MBA degrees from...
Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace
January 08, 2020 11:15 - 50 minutes - 117 MBDue Quach (pronounced “Zway Kwok”), is the Founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018. Through her social enterprise, Calm Clarity, she guides organizations to incorporate valuable insights from neuroscience and mindfulness to address unconscious bias and build a high-performing and inclusive culture. She also heads a second nonprofit, the Collec...
Ep 152. Richard Boyatzis: Helping People Change
December 18, 2019 11:15 - 49 minutes - 46.7 MBRichard Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University and is one of the world’s experts on emotional intelligence. His great new book is Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth. He has a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard. Using his Intentional Change Theory (ICT), he studies sustained, desired change at all levels of human endeavor from individuals, teams, ...
Ep 151. Louis Gagnon: An App to Map Your Brain
December 11, 2019 11:15 - 51 minutes - 119 MBLouis Gagnon is the CEO of Total Brain, which is a mental health and fitness platform powered by neuroscience. Total Brain was founded in 2000 by a leading neuroscientist, Dr. Evian Gordon, and its mission is to improve mental health and fitness through brain-based self-awareness and training. Today it is used by large consumer groups and Fortune 500 companies that benefit from lower mental healthcare costs, improved productivity, and critical insights on what drives their organizations. As ...
Ep 150. Bob Glazer: Elevate Your Game
November 27, 2019 11:17 - 52 minutes - 53.6 MBRobert Glazer is CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global performance marketing agency, and the author of Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others. Under Bob’s leadership, Acceleration Partners has become a recognized global leader in the affiliate marketing industry, receiving numerous industry and company culture awards. Bob was ranked #2 in Glassdoor’s list of Top CEOs of Small and Medium Companies in the US. He publishes a weekly inspirational newsletter,...
Ep 149. Brian Scudamore: How to Fail Successfully
November 21, 2019 11:55 - 50 minutes - 115 MBBrian Scudamore is the Founder and CEO of O2E Brands—a company with four successful home service brands under that banner, including 1-800-Got-Junk?; WOW 1 Day Painting; You Move Me; and Shack Shine. He’s the author of WTF (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success. Brian learned the ins and outs of business by running his own. He has learned that creating the right culture at work, valuing your employees, and treating your customers well is critical to achieving business re...
Ep 148. Megan McNealy: Be Well and Do Well
November 13, 2019 11:15 - 50 minutes - 49.8 MBMegan McNealy is the author of Reinvent the Wheel: How Top Leaders Leverage Well-Being for Success. Megan is an award-winning, 20+ year First Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor at one of the largest financial firms in the world. She aims to serve those who strive for exceptional wellness and success and to change the pervasive workplace belief that it's challenging to be well and do well. Stew and Megan talk about her hard-won realization, following a serious illness, that she ne...
Ep 147. Monique Valcour: Sustainable Careers
November 06, 2019 11:15 - 27 minutes - 63.2 MBMonique Valcour is an executive coach with expertise in careers, work-life integration, human resource management, and practices that support well-being and performance in organizations. She holds a doctorate from Cornell University in Organizational Behavior and and a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Formerly, she was a Professor of Management at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France and also served on the faculty of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Stew...
Ep 146. Amy Westervelt: How American Messed Up Motherhood
October 30, 2019 10:15 - 52 minutes - 119 MBAmy Westervelt is the author of Forget Having it All: How America Messed up Motherhood and How to Fix It; the founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network, the host of the podcast, Drilled; and an award-winning print and audio journalist. She contributes often to The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and many other outlets. For her pioneering and fearless journalism on environmental and gender issues, she’s won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Folio Award, a Rache...
Ep 145. Jeff Sonnenfeld: The Social Imperative of Business
October 23, 2019 10:15 - 51 minutes - 50 MBJeff Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean of leadership programs, the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management for the Yale School of Management, and founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a nonprofit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance. Previously he was on the faculty at Emory’s Guizueta Business School and Harvard Business School. Sonnenfeld's research has been published in 100 scholarly articles ...
Ep 144. Debra Schafer: Working While Parenting a Special Needs Child
October 16, 2019 13:16 - 47 minutes - 109 MBDebra Schafer is an independent educational consultant and coach with a particular expertise. She is Founder and CEO of Education Navigation, which she started after more than 20 years of management experience in human resources, work/life integration, and marketing communications and 15 years of special education consulting, coaching, and advocacy experience. Debra is an advocate for students K - college graduation who have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, other mental h...
Ep 143. Jennifer Petriglieri: Couples That Work
October 10, 2019 10:15 - 51 minutes - 119 MBennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive In Love and Work. Jennifer’s award-winning research and teaching focus on identity, leadership, and career development. She is particularly interested in how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally, and how moments of uncertainty and crisis make us who we are. Jennifer was shortlisted for the Thin...
Ep 142. Michael Kimmel: Men's Changing Roles
October 02, 2019 10:20 - 30 minutes - 34.4 MBMichael Kimmel is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, where he is also the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a leading authority on masculinity and gender, and author of numerous books on manhood including Angry White Men as well as Manhood in America: A Cultural History, and his bestseller, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Kimmel served as an expert witness for the U.S. Depar...
Ep 141. Gopi Kallayil: The Internet to the Inner-Net
September 25, 2019 10:30 - 29 minutes - 30.7 MBGopi Kallayil is Chief Evangelist for Brand Marketing at Google and author of The Happy Human and The Internet to the Inner-Net: Five Ways to Reset Your Connection and Live a Conscious Life. Gopi works with Google’s sales teams and customers to help grow customer brands through digital marketing. Before joining Google, Gopi was on the management team of two Silicon Valley venture-funded startups. While a consultant with McKinsey & Co., he worked on engagements helping the management teams...
Ep 140. Chris Marvin: A Veteran's View on Patriotism, Service and Guns
September 18, 2019 10:15 - 52 minutes - 53.1 MBChris Marvin is the principal for Marvin Strategies, a strategic communications firm that constructs narratives to change minds and solve social issues. He served for seven years as a U.S. Army officer and Black Hawk helicopter pilot and is a combat-wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Chris relies on professional experience that combines military service, entrepreneurship, and social innovation. He has led multiple efforts to create large-scale cultural change through collaboration be...
Ep 139. Lex Washington and Pam Carlton: Black Professional Women at Work
September 11, 2019 10:20 - 52 minutes - 120 MBAlexis Smith and Pamela Carlton are co-authors of a research project called Making the Invisible Visible. Alexis Smith is an Associate Professor of Management at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Her research areas span workplace issues such as gender and diversity, as well as bias and discrimination. In 2003 Pamela Carlton retired as a Managing Director and Associate Director of US Equity Research at JPMorgan Chase. She is a corporate attorney with degrees from Wi...
Ep 138. Andrew Stern: The Best Work of Your Life
September 04, 2019 10:20 - 50 minutes - 47.9 MBAndrew Stern co-leads the Learning & Development team at Squarespace in New York City. Prior to joining Squarespace in June 2018, Andrew held several roles on Bloomberg's Talent Development team and worked as a human capital consultant at Deloitte. He serves on the advisory boards of Own The Room and GenHERation. Andrew graduated cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Organizational Effectiveness. He is an officer of the Wharton Alumni Clu...
Ep 137. Eric Orts: Why Businesses Must Care for the Natural Environment
August 28, 2019 10:15 - 51 minutes - 119 MBEric Orts is the Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School. He’s a Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics with a secondary appointment in Management. He’s also Faculty Director of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. Eric’s current research includes a forthcoming article on Senate Democracy: Our Lockean Paradox and How to Solve It in the American University Law Review and a another, co-authored with Amy Sepinwall, on Collective Rights and the Court in the Washington ...
Ep 136. Madonna Harrington Meyer: Intensive Grandparenting
August 21, 2019 10:20 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBMadonna Harrington Meyer is a professor of sociology and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research and faculty affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute at Syracuse University. Madonna is the author of the 2014 book Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs, winner of the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. And s...
135. Emily Oster: An Economist's Parenting Wisdom
August 14, 2019 10:20 - 52 minutes - 121 MBEmily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University and a mom of two. She has written two parent's guides to the chaos and frequent misinformation that often occurs in the early years of parenthood. She addresses, and often debunks, myths on breast feeding, sleep training, language acquisition, and more. In both her books -- Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool and Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and...
Ep 134. Kimberly Ramalho: Building a Culture of Empathy
August 07, 2019 10:15 - 41 minutes - 94.4 MBKimberly Ramalho is Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, Rotary and Mission Systems, at Lockheed Martin. She is a strategic communications executive with 25 years of experience developing programs that deliver high return on investment, motivate employees, and increase business awareness and demand. Kimberly is actively involved in diversity and inclusion initiatives at Lockheed Martin, and she serves as executive chair of the corporation’s Women’s Impact Network. She was ho...
Ep 133. Josh Davis: Two Awesome Hours
July 31, 2019 10:15 - 24 minutes - 34.7 MBJosh Davis received his bachelor’s from Brown University and his doctorate from Columbia University. He is the director of research for the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI), a global institute dedicated to synthesizing scientific research and guiding its use in the business and leadership fields. Josh produced a wonderful book in which he shares this wisdom: Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done. Josh talks with Stew abo...
Ep 132. Christie Smith and Kenji Yoshino: Covering Your Identity at Work
July 17, 2019 10:15 - 46 minutes - 106 MBChristie Smith, Ph.D., is Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Apple. Previously she was Managing Principal for Deloitte Consulting’s West Division where she was also the most senior diversity partner leading the Deloitte University Leadership Centers for Inclusion and Community Impact. She has decades of experience building and leading high performing teams and she’s a known expert in the field of Human Resources and Inclusion. Kenji Yoshino, a Rhodes Scholar, is the Chief Justice E...
Ep 131. Scott Behson: Working Dads Survival Guide
July 10, 2019 10:15 - 25 minutes - 36.8 MBScott Behson is a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide: How to Succeed at Work and at Home. This practical volume provides useful advice and encouragement for working fathers, helping them to achieve success in their careers while being the involved, loving dads they want to be. Scott writes the popular blog, Fathers, Work, and Family, dedicated to helping working fathers and encouraging more supportive workplaces. Sc...