Latest Simons Podcast Episodes
Implementing an Organizational Culture Survey Within a Global Company
Truly Human Leadership - July 11, 2024 21:37 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsChapman & Co. Leadership Institute is Barry-Wehmiller’s consulting arm that specializes in helping other organizations unleash the extraordinary in their businesses and their people. They do this by helping those organizations identify, develop and equip their leaders. One of the ways Chapman ...
Milling About with William Moseley
Milling About - July 02, 2024 14:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWilliam Moseley portrays a US soldier in Murder Company on a mission to smuggle a French resistance member behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target during the D-Day invasion. Shot in Bulgaria, William jumped at the chance to get into the trenches and talks about how his grandpa...
Milling About with John Buffalo Mailer
Milling About - June 28, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJohn Buffalo Mailer joins host Robin Milling to discuss How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer (A Cautionary Tale). Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, it's a warts-and-all documentary about his father, where he and most of his nine siblings from Mailer's six marriages, and other relatives look back on the...
THL Refresher: Raj Sisodia and Michael Gelb, Business as a Healing Organization
Truly Human Leadership - June 27, 2024 21:11 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBusinesses destroy lives all the time. Not just by being poor partners to their consumers or communities, but through poor leadership and work environments where the employees feel overlooked or disregarded. But what if businesses could be instruments of healing instead of destruction? Our g...
THL Refresher: Jeffrey Pfeffer Thinks the Workplace is Killing Us
Truly Human Leadership - June 13, 2024 21:07 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings“Most leaders understand their influence on team members’ lives during work hours, but often enough, they don’t think about how their leadership affects team members outside of the workplace as well.” Barry-Wehmiller CEO, Bob Chapman, wrote this in a blog post on trulyhumanleadership.com title...
THL Refresher: Bob Chapman, Inspiring a Human Revolution
Truly Human Leadership - May 30, 2024 16:07 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsA few years ago, BW CEO Bob Chapman had a conversation with Jane Adshead-Grant, a facilitator and coach in the UK and Europe. In this conversation, they talk about the concept of the need for a “Human Revolution” in business. Bob has written before about the trajectory of leadership in busines...
THL Refresher: Anese Cavanaugh on Building a Positive, Contagious Workplace Culture
Truly Human Leadership - May 16, 2024 17:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAnese Cavanaugh is the CEO of Active Choices, Inc. She is the creator of the IEP Method (Intentional Energetic Presence) and the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative and a strategist and advisor to leaders and organizations around the world. She is devoted to helping organizations support their ...
Milling About with Jason Butler Harner
Milling About - May 16, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJason Butler Harner is a consummate actor appearing in film, theater, and television. He is currently starring in The Big Bend on the big screen and talks about filming in the great outdoors, and a real cliffhanger he experienced. In Sugar on Apple TV+ he stars opposite Colin Farrell as his best ...
Donna Hicks, Honoring Dignity with Leadership
Truly Human Leadership - May 02, 2024 21:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr. Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. You may recall that she has facilitated dialogues in numerous unofficial diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Libya and Syria. She has consulted with ...
Milling About with Scott Cohen
Milling About - May 02, 2024 14:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScott Cohen joins host Robin Milling to talk about his latest film The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, HBO'sThe Girls On The Bus, working with Carla Gugino, and the upcoming The Penguin (HBO) opposite the charming Colin Farrell, well as much as he can! A fellow SUNY New Pal...
THL Refresher: Teaching Empathetic Listening to College Students
Truly Human Leadership - April 18, 2024 17:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsListening is not always a dedicated subject in educational curriculums. Think about it. There are speech classes, debate teams. You don't hear much about listening classes. That's why it's one of the foundational leadership classes taught in Barry-Wehmiller's internal university. We teach our...
The Ripple Effect of Leadership with Laurie Butz, CEO of Capital Credit Union
Truly Human Leadership - April 04, 2024 20:35 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsLaurie Butz is the President and CEO of Capital Credit Union, a credit union with more than 120,000 members in northeast Wisconsin. And we at Barry-Wehmiller definitely consider Laurie part of our extended family. Laurie’s husband, Dennis, worked for many years for our Paper Converting Machi...
Let's Do Lunch! at Zaab Zaab
Milling About - April 04, 2024 15:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLet's Do Lunch! visitsZaab Zaab, a taste of authentic Thai cuisine, and semi-finalists of the 2024 James Beard Awards. With locations in Queens and Brooklyn, New York, owners Pei Wei and Bryan offer wonderful hospitality and a delectable menu of Northeastern Thai delicacies. When you enter the ma...
Milling About with Stephen Moyer
Milling About - April 02, 2024 15:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsActor Stephen Moyer (True Blood, Sexy Beast, Elsbeth), also a very talented director joins host Robin Milling to discuss making his sophomore feature debut A Bit Of Light starring his wife Anna Paquin as a recovering alcoholic even further weighted by the separation from her daughters. Stephen's ...
Teaching Human Skills in Primary and Secondary Education
Truly Human Leadership - March 19, 2024 19:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn several episodes of this podcast, you’ve heard about Barry-Wehmiller’s efforts to transform how business education is taught. If you want leaders who have the skills and courage to care, that should be part of their education before they are out in the world and in positions of responsibility...
Milling About with Simon Cellan Jones
Milling About - March 19, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsArthur The King is the incredibly true story of extreme adventurer Mikael Lindnord (Mark Wahlberg). Amid an Adventure Racing World Championship he encounters a stray dog who miraculously endures heroic suffering to find him and never leaves his side. Director Simon Cellan Jones (Ballers, Boardwa...
Milling About with Michelle Mylett
Milling About - March 12, 2024 14:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMichelle Mylett (Letterkenny) joins host Robin Milling to talk about her latest film American Dreamer opposite Peter Dinklage, Shirley Maclaine, and Matt Dillon. The Candian-born actress discusses what the American dream means to her and reveals how she bonded with her co-stars and love of dance...
A Transformative Partnership for Teaching Leadership in Business Education
Truly Human Leadership - March 07, 2024 23:08 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIf you want to change the way people lead, maybe you should go to the source of where they’re taught to lead – business schools. Maybe the way we teach people to lead should change. Christopher Reina is the Founding and Executive Director of the Institute for Transformative Leadership and an A...
THL Refresher: Redefining Leadership On and Off the Football Field with Steve Jones
Truly Human Leadership - February 22, 2024 20:19 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBarry-Wehmiller CEO Bob Chapman met Steve Jones, former head football coach at Kimberly High School, several years ago through a mutual friend. Coach Jones said something to Bob that made a lasting impression: “When people truly care for one another, it’s amazing how hard they will work for ea...
A Truly Human Approach to Pre-Hire Assessments
Truly Human Leadership - February 08, 2024 23:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe leaders of your business can affect its health and vibrancy. They also can have a tremendous impact on the people within their span of care in the business. So, when it’s time to bring someone new into your organization, how do you know when you’re hiring the right person? You can’t always...
Identifying Leaders with Melinda Bremley of Chapman & Co.
Truly Human Leadership - January 25, 2024 22:52 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr. Melinda Bremley is the newest Partner at Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute, Barry-Wehmiller’s consulting arm that specializes in helping other organizations unleash the extraordinary in their businesses and their people. Melinda and the rest of the team at Chapman & Co do this by helping ...
Leadership in Times of Transition
Truly Human Leadership - January 18, 2024 23:36 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTimes of transition can be challenging for any organization. But challenging times and times of change often presents many opportunities for growth. But the ability to maximize those opportunities depends on effective leadership. Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute is Barry-Wehmiller’s consu...
Bob Chapman Speaks to Business Leaders
Truly Human Leadership - January 12, 2024 20:17 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIt is a universal truth -- every one of us, no matter what our job or where we live, simply wants to know that who we are and what we do matters. As leaders in business, we have the awesome responsibility to let people know that they do. Our goal at Barry-Wehmiller is to show the world that busi...
Milling About with Jason Isaacs
Milling About - December 26, 2023 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe world knew him as the movie star Cary Grant, but underneath his screen persona was the real man, Archibald Alexander Leach, aka Archie. In the series Archie, currently streaming on Britbox,Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Death of Stalin, Mass, The Patriot) takes on ...
Leader Expectations and Commitments
Truly Human Leadership - December 14, 2023 17:57 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAt Barry-Wehmiller, we consider leadership to be an awesome responsibility--it holds the key to growing our business and, as important, improving the lives of our team members. It’s our job, as leaders, to help them establish goals so they know how to contribute, to remove barriers that get in...
The Life-Changing Power of Meaningful Work
Truly Human Leadership - November 30, 2023 21:34 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWhile presenting our message of Truly Human Leadership, our CEO Bob Chapman is often asked: What about the people who don't get it? What about the people who actively work against positive change? Barry-Wehmiller has acquired more than 130 companies and we've certainly found that the people wi...
Milling About with Laurie Kaye
Milling About - November 30, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLaurie Kaye joins host Robin Milling to talk about her memoir, "Confessions of a Rock 'n Roll Name Dropper My Life Leading Up to John Lennon's Last Interview." The book weaves tales of her storied life and career in the music business leading up to the ill-fated day when she would forever become...
THL Refresher: Lean, Continuous Improvement and People
Truly Human Leadership - November 16, 2023 22:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWhen Lean was introduced to the Barry-Wehmiller organization a number of years ago, CEO Bob Chapman's concern was that people would be lost along the way. But we found a way to adopt Lean methods and stay true to our Guiding Principles of Leadership. Instead of using Lean to reduce waste, we ...
Milling About with Director Nick Broomfield
Milling About - November 16, 2023 13:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBrian Jones, founder of The Rolling Stones led the band to their early success, becoming an unfortunate casualty of the excesses of rock 'n roll, dying at the age of 27 from a drowning accident. Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield joins host Robin Milling to discuss his latest offering, The St...
THL Refresher: Former Air Force General and Author, John Michel
Truly Human Leadership - November 09, 2023 22:14 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsJohn Michel is a former Air Force General who has not only used his leadership experience in service of his country, but also to help transform businesses into places that think more about people than profit. John has written two books, (No More) Mediocre Me: How Saying No to the Status Quo Wi...