Podcasts by Work and Life with Stew Friedman
Welcome 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 230. Dana Suskind: Parent Nation from 2022-05-17T10:10:02
Dr. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and is Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. She has dedicated her r...
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Ep 229. Diana Kapp: Girls Who Green the World from 2022-05-10T14:19:31
Diana Kapp is the author of Listen
Ep 228. Amy Beacom: The Parental Leave Playbook from 2022-04-25T13:55:31
Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the first consultancy in the...
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Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community from 2022-04-05T10:15:27
Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of the bestseller Listen
Ep 226. Gianna Driver: From Women's Shelter to Chief Human Resources Officer from 2022-04-01T13:47:30
Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years running a global fair trade organizatio...
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Ep 225. Lynda Gratton: Redesigning Work from 2022-03-24T18:25:34
Lynda Gratton is recognized as a global thought leader on the future of work and a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transf...
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Ep 224. Kevin Hancock: A CEO Discovers His True Voice from 2022-02-17T23:30:36
Kevin Hancock is the CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best-known family businesses in America, and author of Listen
Ep 223. Larry Hirschhorn: A Father's Grief from 2022-02-04T11:15:28
Larry Hirschhorn is a Principal and one of the founders of the Center for Applied Research, also known as...
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Ep 222. Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think from 2022-01-21T11:15:29
Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. Her new book isListen
Ep 221. Alec Ross: The Fight For Our Future from 2021-11-30T15:59:29
Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former senior advisor in the Obama Administration, his book is called Listen
Ep 220. Rob Cross: Breaking Free From Collaboration Overload from 2021-11-18T20:52:24
Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the author of Listen
Ep 219. Scott Behson: The Whole-Person Workplace from 2021-10-29T10:15:38
Scott Behson is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is an award winning researcher and teacher. He is published in academic j...
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Ep 218. Carmen Fernandez: Chief People Officer, Marsh McLennan from 2021-10-22T10:15:57
Carmen Fernandez is Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Marsh McLennan, one of the world’s leading professional services firms in the areas of risk, strategy and people. She is com...
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Ep 217. Daisy Dowling: The Workparent Toolkit from 2021-10-15T10:15:26
Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm, and in 2021 she published the book Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying T...
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Ep 216. Jen Fisher: How to Work Better Together from 2021-10-08T10:05:51
Jen Fisher is Deloitte’s chief well-being officer in the United States and the co-author of Listen
Ep 215. Ulcca Joshi Hansen: The Future of Smart from 2021-09-30T21:35:26
Ulcca Joshi Hansen, a researcher and education advocate, is the author of Listen
Ep 214. Gorick Ng: The Unspoken Rules for Early Career Success from 2021-08-27T10:15:13
Gorick Ng is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and is now a career adviser at Harvard Colleg...
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Ep 213. Richard Culatta: Raising Children to Thrive in an Online World from 2021-08-13T10:15:15
Richard Culatta is author of Listen
Ep 212. Jessica Bacal: Learning from Rejection from 2021-07-23T10:15:22
Jessica Bacal is director of Reflective and Integrative Practices and of the Narratives Project at Smith College. Her latest book is Listen
Ep 211. Latha Poonamallee: Mindfulness and Leadership in a Changing World from 2021-07-16T10:15:51
Latha Poonamallee is an Associate Professor, Chair of Faculty of Management, and University Fellow at the New Schoo...
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Ep 210. Jason Thacker: A Banking Executive on Paternity Leave from 2021-07-02T17:50:41
Jason Thacker is a Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group and Head of Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending. Prior to his current role, Jason served in various executive positions at TD Bank. He st...
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Ep 209. Lauren Smith Brody: The Fifth Trimester from 2021-06-25T13:11:34
Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester and author of the bestselling book Listen
Ep 208. Jason Harris: The Soulful Art of Persuasian from 2021-05-28T10:15:23
Jason Harrisis is CEO of the creative agency Mekanism, which has been named to Ad Age's Agency A-list and twice to t...
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Ep 207. Liya Shuster-Bier: Alula is Making Cancer Less Lonely from 2021-05-21T10:15:25
Liya Shuster-Bier is the founder and CEO of Alula, a radically honest platform for cancer patients, caregivers, and s...
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Ep 206. Erica Dhawan: Digital Body Language from 2021-05-16T16:04:38
Erica Dhawan is author of Listen
Ep 205. Katy Milkman: The Science of How to Change from 2021-05-07T10:15:41
Katy Milkman is an award-winning behavioral scientist and the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral econ...
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Ep 204. Jordan Shapiro: How to Be a Feminist Dad from 2021-04-30T12:11:10
Jordan Shapiro is the author of Listen
Ep 203. Joann Lublin: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life from 2021-04-23T10:15:58
Joann Lublin was management news editor for The Wall Street Journal until she retired in April 2018, and she is still a regular Journal contributor. She shared a Pulitzer Prize...
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Ep 202. Susan McPherson: The Lost Art of Connecting from 2021-04-16T10:15:43
Susan McPherson is the author of a new book -- Listen
Ep 201. Tsedal Neeley: Remote Work Revolution from 2021-04-09T10:15:28
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at t...
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Ep 200. Darby Saxbe: What Happens to Us When We Become Parents? from 2021-04-01T22:15:33
Darby Saxbe is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Univer...
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Ep 199. Julie Kashen: Advocate for Change in Public Policy from 2021-03-26T10:15:46
Julie Kashen is the director for women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive in...
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Ep 198. Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz: Partners at Work and in the Rest of Life from 2021-03-19T12:14:58
Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz are co-founders of an organization called Launch Pad. Anne serves as CEO and Chris is the C...
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Ep 197. Cal Newport: A World Without Email from 2021-03-12T00:49:43
Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the theory of distributed systems. Cal is a New York Times bestselling author...
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Ep 196. Martin Davidson: The End of Diversity as We Know It from 2021-03-05T15:44:53
Martin Davidson is the Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and he currently serves as their senior associate dean...
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Ep. 195.Erik Peper: Practical Tools for Coping with Tech Stress from 2021-02-26T11:36:37
Erik Peper, aListen
Ep 194. Lindsey Cameron: The Gig Economy and the Pandemic from 2021-02-12T14:45:10
Lindsey Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Management at Wharton whose research focuses ...
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Ep 193. Kristen Shockley: Impact of the Rapid Shift to Remote Work from 2021-02-05T21:22:14
Dr. Kristen Shockley is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. She has been studying how companies adapted during the pandemic, or how they haven’t adjusted, to meet the...
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Ep 192. Eve Rodsky: Creating an Egalitarian Partnership with Fair Play from 2021-01-29T17:44:49
Eve Rodsky is the author of Listen
Ep 191. Amina Gautier: A Writer's Work and Life from 2021-01-22T14:53:25
Dr. Amina Gautier is an associate professor in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Mi...
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Ep 190. Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar: A Chief People Officer in Pandemic Times from 2021-01-15T17:11:59
Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar is Chief People Officer for Minted.com. He oversees and manages Minted’s People team, which inclu...
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Ep 189. Jessica Calarco: COVID-19's Impact on Mother's and How To Mitigate It from 2021-01-08T11:15:34
Jessica Calarco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. She earned her master’s and her PhD in sociology here at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica’s research...
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Ep 188. Carol Cone: Purpose Drives Performance from 2020-12-11T14:45:10
Carol Cone, Founder and CEO of Carol Cone ON PURPOSE, is internationally recognized for her work in social purpose and corporate social responsibility. Carol was a pioneer in the field of social...
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Ep 187. Marilyn Gist: The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility from 2020-11-30T16:31:16
Dr. Marilyn Gist, author of Listen
Ep 186. Joan Williams: Healing the Rifts of Race, Gender, and Class from 2020-11-20T11:55:36
Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Founding Director of the Center ...
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Ep 185. Tony Ewing: How to Not Talk about Politics at Work from 2020-10-30T13:02:05
Maurice “Tony” Ewing is the CEO of Conquer Risk, a Hong Kong-based risk management and compliance consultancy, and he’s also a motivational speaker and coach. As a former senior banking ex...
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Ep 184. Chaz Howard: A New Liberation Theology from 2020-10-23T12:36:54
Reverend Charles “Chaz” Howard is the first-ever Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania—a role he assumed in June 2020. But he’s long been a part ...
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Ep 183. Uma Naidoo, M.D.: This is Your Brain on Food from 2020-10-02T12:53:53
Dr. Uma Naidoo, Harvard based psychiatrist, chef, and author of Listen
Ep 182. Dana Sumpter: Working Parents in Pandemic Times from 2020-09-25T11:34:22
Dr. Dana Sumpter is an associate professor of organization theory and management at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. Her research employs a cross-cultural lens in understand...
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Ep 181. Quinetta Roberson: The Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from 2020-09-18T14:00:07
Professor Quinetta Roberson has over 20 years of experience teaching courses and workshops globally on leadership, talent management and diversity, and her research and teaching are informed by ...
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Ep 180. Christopher Marquis: How B Corps are Remaking Capitalism from 2020-09-11T10:15:58
Christopher 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 area...
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Ep 179. Natalie Edwards: Changing the Conversation about Race and Work from 2020-09-04T10:20:34
Natalie 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 Sc...
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Ep 178. Howard Stevenson: Racial Literacy from 2020-08-28T12:17:47
Dr. 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 ...
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Ep 177. Stephanie Creary: Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues from 2020-08-14T13:25:53
Stephanie 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 princi...
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Ep 176. Marisa Porges: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, Resilient Women from 2020-08-07T15:21:03
Dr. 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 reno...
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Ep 175. Laura Morgan Roberts: Race, Work, and Leadership in Pandemic Times from 2020-07-24T14:15:18
Dr. 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 organiza...
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Ep 174. Rita McGrath: Seeing Around Corners from 2020-07-19T16:33:06
Rita 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 presti...
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Ep 173. Stefanie Johnson: Inclusify -- The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging from 2020-07-10T14:27:32
Stefanie Johnson is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and her new book is Listen
Ep 172. Karl Moore: We Are All Ambiverts from 2020-07-03T15:15:39
Karl 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 wi...
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Ep 171. Larry Hagner: The Dad's Edge from 2020-06-26T14:24:10
Larry Hagner is the founder of the Good Dad Project and the author ofListen
Ep 170. Christine Beckman: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age from 2020-06-20T12:11:19
Christine 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 Universi...
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Ep 169. Doug Conant: The Blueprint for Growth as a Leader from 2020-06-12T13:13:21
Doug 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 ...
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Ep 168. David Smith: How to be a Good Guy from 2020-05-29T18:56:16
Dr. David Smith is co-author of the forthcoming book Listen
Ep 167. Bruce Dailsley: Eat Sleep Work Repeat from 2020-05-22T00:48:19
Bruce Daisley is European Vice President of Twitter, based in London, and his new book is called Listen
Ep 166. Chester Elton: Leading With Gratitude from 2020-05-15T12:27:05
Chester Elton is one of today’s most influential voices in workplace trends and is the co-author of Listen
Ep 165. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler: Free Yourself From Conflict from 2020-05-08T18:45:25
Jennifer 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 Listen
Ep 164. Michelle Travis: Dads for Daughters from 2020-05-01T10:15:21
Michelle 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 di...
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Ep 163. Laura Huang: Find Your Edge by Turning Adversity into Advantage from 2020-04-22T10:15:35
Laura Huang is the author of Listen
Ep 162. Special Edition: Parents Who Lead from 2020-03-18T10:15:17
This is a special edition of the Work and Life show. Stew Friedman’s new book, Listen
Ep 161. Tom Rath: Life's Great Question from 2020-03-11T10:15:34
Bestselling author Tom Rath has a new book, Listen
Ep 160. Cali Yost: How to Make Flexible Work a Win for All from 2020-03-04T11:15:24
Cali Williams Yost is Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, an organization of experts in flexible workplace strategy, change m...
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Ep 159. Suvrat Bhargave: A Moment of Insight from 2020-02-26T11:20:28
Dr. Suvrat Bhargave is the author of a new book called Listen
Ep 158. Maggie Jackson: Productive Uncertainty from 2020-02-19T11:20:20
Maggie 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 Tim...
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Ep 157. David Fajgenbaum: Turning Hope Into Action from 2020-02-05T15:42:39
David Fajgenbaum is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a memoir called Listen
Ep 156. Joel Brockner: Process Matters from 2020-01-29T11:15:35
Joel Brockner is the Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business at Columbia University Business School, Academic Director of Columbia CaseWorks, author of Listen
Ep 155. Wayne Baker: All You Have to Do Is Ask from 2020-01-22T11:15:41
Wayne 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 Direc...
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Ep 154. Stan Silverman: Be Different from 2020-01-15T11:15:27
Stan Silverman is the author Listen
Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace from 2020-01-08T11:15:24
Due Quach (pronounced “Zway Kwok”), is the Founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Listen
Ep 152. Richard Boyatzis: Helping People Change from 2019-12-18T11:15:43
Richard 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 Listen
Ep 151. Louis Gagnon: An App to Map Your Brain from 2019-12-11T11:15:41
Louis Gagnon is the CEO of Total Brain, which is a mental health and fitness platform powered by neuroscience. Total Brain was founded i...
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Ep 150. Bob Glazer: Elevate Your Game from 2019-11-27T11:17:04
Robert Glazer is CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global performance marketing agency, and the author of Listen
Ep 149. Brian Scudamore: How to Fail Successfully from 2019-11-21T11:55:15
Brian Scudamore is the Founder and CEO of O2E Brands—a company with four successful home service brands under that banner, including 1-80...
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Ep 148. Megan McNealy: Be Well and Do Well from 2019-11-13T11:15:32
Megan McNealy is the author of Listen
Ep 147. Monique Valcour: Sustainable Careers from 2019-11-06T11:15:18
Monique 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 hol...
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Ep 146. Amy Westervelt: How American Messed Up Motherhood from 2019-10-30T10:15:51
Amy Westervelt is the author of Listen
Ep 145. Jeff Sonnenfeld: The Social Imperative of Business from 2019-10-23T10:15:31
Jeff 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 ...
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Ep 144. Debra Schafer: Working While Parenting a Special Needs Child from 2019-10-16T13:16:57
Debra Schafer is an independent educational consultant and coach with a particular expertise. She is Founder and CEO of Listen
Ep 143. Jennifer Petriglieri: Couples That Work from 2019-10-10T10:15:46
ennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Listen
Ep 142. Michael Kimmel: Men's Changing Roles from 2019-10-02T10:20:57
Michael Kimmel is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, where he is also the Executive Director of the Listen
Ep 141. Gopi Kallayil: The Internet to the Inner-Net from 2019-09-25T10:30:51
Gopi Kallayil is Chief Evangelist for Brand Marketing at Google and author of Listen
Ep 140. Chris Marvin: A Veteran's View on Patriotism, Service and Guns from 2019-09-18T10:15:25
Chris Marvin is the principal for Marvin Strategies, a strategic communications firm that constructs narratives to change minds and...
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Ep 139. Lex Washington and Pam Carlton: Black Professional Women at Work from 2019-09-11T10:20:38
Alexis 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 Bu...
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Ep 138. Andrew Stern: The Best Work of Your Life from 2019-09-04T10:20:05
Andrew Stern co-leads the Learning & Development team at Squarespace in New York City. Prior to joining Squarespace in June 2018, A...
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Ep 137. Eric Orts: Why Businesses Must Care for the Natural Environment from 2019-08-28T10:15:02
Eric Orts is the Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School. He’s a Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethi...
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Ep 136. Madonna Harrington Meyer: Intensive Grandparenting from 2019-08-21T10:20:09
Madonna 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 ...
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135. Emily Oster: An Economist's Parenting Wisdom from 2019-08-14T10:20:29
Emily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University and a mom of two. She has written two parent's guides to th...
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Ep 134. Kimberly Ramalho: Building a Culture of Empathy from 2019-08-07T10:15:44
Kimberly Ramalho is Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, Rotary and Mission Systems, at Lockheed ...
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Ep 133. Josh Davis: Two Awesome Hours from 2019-07-31T10:15:52
Josh 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 de...
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Ep 132. Christie Smith and Kenji Yoshino: Covering Your Identity at Work from 2019-07-17T10:15:25
Christie 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 div...
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Ep 131. Scott Behson: Working Dads Survival Guide from 2019-07-10T10:15:56
Scott Behson is a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is author of Listen
Ep 130. John Baldoni: Grace from 2019-07-03T10:15:30
John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership educator, executive coach, and author of 14 books including Listen
Ep 129. Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg: Maternal Optimism from 2019-06-26T10:16:57
Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg are co-authors of Listen
Ep 128. Mike McDerment: No Work Face from 2019-06-19T10:15:44
Michael McDerment is CEO and Co-Founder of FreshBooks, the #1 accounting software in the cloud designed exclusively for service-based bu...
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Ep 127. Caitlyn Collins: Seeking Work/Life Justice from 2019-06-12T10:15:45
Caitlyn Collins is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Listen
Ep 126. Shawn Askinosie: Meaningful Work from 2019-06-05T12:11:35
Shawn Askinosie is CEO and Founder of Askinosie Chocolate as well as author of the book Listen
Ep 125. Ellen Kossek: Evidence-Based Ideas for Managing Boundaries from 2019-05-29T10:15:50
Ellen Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management an...
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Ep 124. Hal Gregersen: Questions Are The Answer from 2019-05-22T10:15:20
Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is Listen
Ep 123. Reem Kassis: An MBA Returns to Her Palestinian Roots from 2019-05-15T10:15:44
Reem Kassis, an alum of Stew’s Total Leadership course at Wharton, is a Palestinian writer and her debut cookbook, Listen
Ep 122. Adam Alter: The War for Our Attention from 2019-05-08T10:15:30
Adam Alter is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a New York Times bestselling author of two books on addictive beha...
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Ep 121. Julia King Pool: How Positive Psychology Helps Teachers Thrive from 2019-05-01T10:15:31
Julia King Pool is an alumna, and now on the faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psyc...
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Ep 120. Gretchen Spreitzer: Thriving at Work from 2019-04-24T10:15:45
Gretchen Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on employee...
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Ep 119. Kevin Kruse: Great Leaders Have No Rule from 2019-04-17T10:15
Kevin Kruse is the Founder and CEO of LEADx and a New York Times best selling author. His latest book is Listen
Ep 118. Chip Conley: The Making of a Modern Elder from 2019-04-10T10:15:49
At age 26 Chip Conley founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality, transforming...
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Ep 117. Michelle Still Mehta: Silent Sacrifice on the Homefront from 2019-04-03T10:15:11
Dr. Michelle Still Mehta, who holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, is the author of Listen
Ep 116. Meredith Bodgas: Supporting Today's Working Parents from 2019-03-27T10:20:39
Meredith Bodgas was named Editor-in-Chief of Working Mother Magazine and Workingmother.com in December of 2016. Prior to that, she over...
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Ep 115. Michele Gelfand: Rule Makers, Rule Breakers from 2019-03-20T10:15:55
Michele Gelfand is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Listen
Ep 114. Brigid Schulte: Overcoming the Overwhelm from 2019-03-13T10:14:11
Brigid Schulte is director of The Better Life Lab at New America Listen
Ep 113. Ashley Whillans: Combating Time Poverty from 2019-03-06T11:15:19
Ashley Whillans is a former actress and now an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Neg...
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Ep 112. Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining Capitalism from 2019-02-27T11:15:28
Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School. She’s also a research fellow at the...
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Ep 111. Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism from 2019-02-20T11:15:33
Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and author of Listen
Ep 110. Phil Mirvis: Enrich Employees' Lives via Social Innovation from 2019-02-13T11:15:34
Phil Mirvis is Senior Research Fellow at both the Global Network on Corporate Citizenship and the Listen
Ep 109. Aron Ain: Inspired Work from 2019-02-06T11:15:54
Aron Ain is Chairman and CEO of Kronos, named by Fortune and Great Place to Work as one of the 20 best places to work in t...
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Ep 108. Bob Glazer: Building the Healthy and High-Performing Company from 2019-01-30T11:15:16
Bob Glazer is the CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global performan...
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Ep 107. Paul Rupert: Respectful Exits from 2019-01-23T11:15:04
Paul Rupert is the Founder and CEO of Rupert Organizational Design as well as CEO of the advocacy start-up Listen
Ep 106. Marc Freedman: The Power and Beauty of Intergenerational Connections from 2019-01-16T11:10:24
Marc Freedman is the President and CEO of encore.org and is one of the nation’s leading experts on the longevity revolution. Under his leadershi...
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Ep 105. Daniel Goleman: Meditation Changes the World from 2019-01-09T11:20:47
Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and author of the worldwide bestseller Listen
Ep 104. Katy Milkman: Exercising Your Self Control from 2019-01-02T11:20:52
Katherine Milkman is the Evan C. Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching and Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of Business at the Universit...
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Ep 103. Benoit Dube: Ivy League's First Chief Wellness Officer from 2018-12-19T11:30:45
Dr. Benoit Dube is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, Associate Vice Provost, and the inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Pennsyl...
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Ep 102. Kathryn Sollmann: Ambition Redefined from 2018-12-12T09:42:43
Kathryn Sollmann is a flexwork and financial security expert and author of the book Listen
Ep 101. James Pawelski and Suzann Pileggi Pawelski: Happy Together from 2018-12-05T13:17:02
Professor James Pawelski and his wife Suzann Pileggi Pawelski are co-authors of Listen
Ep 100. Dan Schawbel: Back to Human from 2018-11-28T11:05:45
Dan Schawbel is a partner and research director at Future Workplace, an HR adv...
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Ep 99. Tom Gardner: For the Long Run from 2018-11-21T11:15
Tom Gardner is CEO of The Motley Fool, a company he co-founded with his brother, David, in 1993. In 2014 and 2015, Glassdoor ra...
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Ep 98. Jason Fried: It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work from 2018-11-14T14:54:50
Jason is Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp, a Chicago-based software company known for its innovative approach to work. He’s just released his third business book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work....
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Ep 97. Erin Owen: Eastern Wisdom for Western Leadership from 2018-10-31T16:14:20
Erin Owen, author of Refuel Recharge and Re-energize: Your Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Time and Energy, joined Total Leadership’s client services team in 2005. She earned her MBA from the ...
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Ep 96. Shaun Francis: Eat, Move, Think from 2018-10-24T12:13:47
Shaun Francis is Chair and CEO of Medcan and he’s author of a recently released book entitled Eat, Move, Think: The Path to a Healthier, Stronger, Happier You. He was a student in Stew’s very first...
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Ep 95. Ben Feder: Working to Live or Living to Work? from 2018-10-17T12:28:49
Ben Feder is President of International Partnerships for the U. S. for Tencent, the Chinese internet titan that owns WeChat. Previously, Ben was CEO of Take Two Interactive, publisher of Red Dead R...
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Ep 94. Sally Thornton: The Future of Work is Fluid from 2018-10-10T13:25:42
Sally Thornton is founder and CEO of Forshay, a company that focuses on how people can do their best work through executivhttp://forshay.com/e recruiting, project-based work, and improving the syst...
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Ep 93. Johann Berlin: Do Less To Do More from 2018-10-03T14:17:11
Johann Berlin, CEO of TLEX Institute (which stands for Transformational Leadership for Excellence) specializes in working with CEOs, companies and corporate teams to improve their connections to ea...
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Ep 92. Erica Dhawan: Get Big Things Done from 2018-09-26T13:42:56
Erica Dhawan is Founder and CEO of Cotential, an organization that works to maximize the power of connection in the workplace and beyond. Their services include training programs, speakers, and too...
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Ep 91. Francesca Gino: Rebel Talent from 2018-09-20T00:04:34
Francesca Gino is a behavioral scientist and the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She’s been honor...
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Ep 90. Nigel Travis: The Challenge Culture from 2018-09-12T13:35:52
Nigel Travis is Executive Chairman of Dunkin' Brands. His new book is The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback. Nigel served as CEO of Dunkin' Brands from 2009 t...
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Ep 89. Amy Edmondson: Creating the Fearless Organization from 2018-09-05T13:12:43
Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Her work on teaming, psychological safety, and leadership influences corporate and academic audience...
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Ep 88. Laura Vanderkam: Off the Clock from 2018-08-29T12:03:34
Laura Vanderkam is the author of Off The Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done as well as several other time management and productivity books, including such as I Know How She Does It: How...
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Ep 87. Nancy Rothstein: The Sleep Ambassador from 2018-08-22T10:49:38
Nancy Rothstein, a proud Penn alum, is known as The Sleep Ambassador. She is also Director of Corporate Sleep Programs at CIRCADIAN, a global company that provides 24/7 workforce performance and sa...
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Ep 86. Guy Spier: A Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment from 2018-08-15T19:56:03
Guy Spier is an investor based in Zurich. In June 2007 he made headlines by bidding US $650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. Since 1997 he has managed Aquamarine Fun...
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Ep 85. Morra Aarons Mele: The Hermit Entrepreneur from 2018-08-08T14:40:48
Morra Aarons-Mele is founder of the award-winning social impact agency Women Online and The Mission List, a social change influencer database. She is an Internet marketer who has been working with ...
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Ep 84. Herminia Ibarra: Act Like a Leader from 2018-08-01T13:07:54
Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Before that she was on the faculty at INSEAD and the Harvard Business School. She is a judge for...
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Ep 83. Neil Blumenthal: Sacred Time from 2018-07-25T13:41:35
Neil Blumenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a low price with a focus on being socially conscious. Prior to launching Warby Parker in ...
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Ep 82. Susan Ashford: Thriving in Gig World from 2018-07-18T11:46:48
Susan Ashford is Chair of the Management and Organizations Group at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she holds the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professorship in Manag...
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Ep 81. Keith Ferrazzi: Serve and Grow from 2018-07-11T11:36:04
Keith Ferrazzi is a New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and master networker. His research and consulting firm, Ferrazzi Greenlight, helps companies manage networks and relationships ...
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Ep 80. Yuri Kruman: What Millennials Want from 2018-07-04T14:11:58
Yuri Kruman is an experienced executive and management consultant for Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and top VC-backed startups such as Maxwell. He is a startup advis...
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Ep 79. Advocates For Paid Leave: Ellen Bravo, Sen. Joe Fain, Rep. Kaniela Ing from 2018-06-27T10:43:32
This week Stew speaks with three guests who are all advocates of paid family leave: Ellen Bravo, Washington State Republican Senator Joe Fain, and Hawaii Democratic State Representative Kaniela Ing...
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Ep 78. Leah Weiss: How We Work from 2018-06-20T12:25:21
Dr. Leah Weiss is author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind. Leah teaches a perennially waitlisted course at Stanford Business School called "Leadin...
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Ep 77. Dan Calista: Vynamic's Health Culture from 2018-06-13T14:08
Dan Calista is founder and CEO of Vynamic, named #1 boutique consulting firm, as well as Best Small Firm and Best Places to Work. Vynamic is the Philadelphia area’s largest management consulting fi...
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Ep 76. Maggie Jackson: The Erosion of Attention from 2018-06-06T12:57:37
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and former Boston Globe columnist known for her penetrating coverage of social issues, especially technology’s impact on humanity. Her essays and articles ...
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Ep 75. Maurice Schweitzer: When to Compete, When to Cooperate from 2018-05-29T23:33:04
Maurice Schweitzer is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on emotions, ethical decis...
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Ep 74. Susan David: Becoming Emotionally Agile from 2018-05-23T22:40:15
Susan David is the author of the bestselling book Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. She is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award win...
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Ep 73. Laine Joelson Cohen: The Coaching Advantage from 2018-05-16T12:30:02
Laine Joelson Cohen is Director of Leadership and Executive Development at Citigroup. Leading teams has been the cornerstone of her career. After 20 years working in diverse HR roles, Laine decided...
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Ep 72. Due Quach: Supporting First-Generation Collegians with Calm Clarity from 2018-05-09T12:49:17
Due Quach 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. Due was a refugee from Vietnam, a gradu...
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Ep 71. David Burkus: Friend of a Friend from 2018-05-02T13:23:33
David Burkus is a best-selling author and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. His latest book, Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Ca...
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Ep 70. Whitney Johnson: Keep Everyone Learning from 2018-04-25T12:18:38
Whitney Johnson’s research and work in disruptive innovation helps individuals and corporations manage change. She is author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disru...
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Ep 69. Stephen Klasko: The Emotional Intelligence of Doctors from 2018-04-18T13:14:50
Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA is President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. Prior to joining Jefferson, Dr. Klasko was CEO of USF Health and Dean of the Morsani College of ...
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Ep 68. Sarah Green Carmichael: Women at Work from 2018-04-11T13:50:45
Sarah Green Carmichael is an Executive Editor at Harvard Business Review (she’s been Stew’s editor for a decade). She hosts the long-running HBR IdeaCast and co-hosts its new podcast, Women at Work...
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Ep 67. Morten Hansen: Do Less, Achieve More from 2018-04-04T13:33:43
Morten Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty member at Apple University. Professor Hansen holds a PhD from Stanford Business School, where...
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Ep 66. Jordan Bookey: Chief Mom at Zoobean from 2018-03-28T12:40:13
Jordan Lloyd Bookey is an alum of the Wharton MBA program, a former student of Stew’s, and Chief Mom and Co-Founder of Zoobean, a service that helps families discover children’s books and apps at h...
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Ep 65. Jeffrey Pfeffer: Is Your Work Killing You? from 2018-03-21T13:11:11
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of...
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Ep 64. Jessica Bennett: Feminist Fight Club from 2018-03-14T14:37:35
Jessica Bennett is gender editor at The New York Times, where she works to expand global coverage of women and gender across platforms. She is author of Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manu...
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Ep 63. Ellen Galinsky: Making Life Better for Parents and Children from 2018-03-07T14:28:38
Ellen Galinsky is the Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation where she also serves as executive director of a program called Mind in the Making. In addition, she’s Senior Research Adv...
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Ep 62. Jenna Fisher: The Life of a Leader in Executive Search from 2018-02-28T13:35:47
Jenna Fisher is Global Corporate Officers Sector Leader for the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates and she was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class at Wharton about 15 years ag...
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Ep 61. Christine Porath: Workplace Civility from 2018-02-21T14:09:11
Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace. Christine also consults with...
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Ep. 60. Barry Schwartz: Making Work Meaningful from 2018-02-14T12:52:29
Barry Schwartz, the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action (Emeritus), has been at Swarthmore College since receiving his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He...
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Ep 59. Lisa Buckingham: It's Your Career, Dammit! from 2018-02-07T11:53:35
Lisa Buckingham is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Lincoln Financial Group with more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of human resources management. In addit...
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Ep 58. Kim Malone Scott: Radical Candor from 2018-01-31T13:32:33
Kim Malone Scott is author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing Your Humanity. It’s a great book about how to both care for and challenge the people around you. She has held a divers...
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Ep 57. Joanna Barsh: Grow Wherever You Work from 2018-01-24T13:41:46
Joanna Barsh is a director emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project. She has deep experience leading growth strategy, performance improvement, organization...
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Ep 56. Brett Hurt: Linking the World's Data for Good from 2018-01-17T12:06:19
Brett Hurt graduated from the Wharton School in 1999 with an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship. He is CEO and co-founder of data.world, his sixth startup, a Public Benefit Corporation and Certified...
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Ep 55. David Thomas: Overcoming Unconscious Bias from 2018-01-10T11:57:14
David Thomas was recently named as the new president of Morehouse College, a traditionally African American, all-male college in Atlanta. He was previously the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Busin...
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Ep 54. Jeff Pfeffer: Leadership B.S. from 2018-01-03T12:42:29
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 14 books on...
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Ep 53. Amy Wrzesniewski: Job Crafting from 2017-12-27T14:45:10
Amy Wryzesniewski is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management. Her research on how people make meaning of their work has been published in a wide range of top academic ...
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Ep 52. Bob Pozen: Extreme Productivity from 2017-12-20T23:59:09
Bob Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. And he is a former President of Fidelity Investments and Former Execut...
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Ep 51. Vikram Bakhru: Own Your Health from 2017-12-13T13:17:37
Vikram Bakhru, M.D. is Chief Operating Officer at ConsejoSano, a multicultural technology platform dedicated to improving health outcomes in underserved populations by improving their access and th...
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Ep 50. Tony Schwartz: Energy for Success from 2017-12-06T12:18:29
Tony Schwartz is the founder and CEO of the Energy Project, which began in 2003. He is a thought leader on sustainable high performance and building more humane workplaces and he has been a frequen...
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Ep 49. Josh Levs: Paternity Leave Champion from 2017-11-29T15:41:25
Josh Levs is an author, entrepreneur, and expert on fathers in the workplace. For 20 years, Josh wrote for NPR and CNN. He is a six-time Peabody award-winner and two-time Edward R. Murrow award-win...
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Ep 48. Sanyin Siang: Find Your Superpower and Launch from 2017-11-22T14:16:31
Sanyin Siang is an author, leadership advisor, and CEO coach. She co-founded and leads the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. As a CEO c...
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Ep 47. Michael Bungay Stanier: Say Less, Ask More from 2017-11-15T15:05:43
Michael Bungay Stanier is founder of Box of Crayons, a company known for teaching 10-minute coaching so busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results. Michael left Australia 25 year...
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Ep 46. Mike Brontager and Luke Zubrod: Maximizing Trust not Profit from 2017-11-08T12:20:03
Michael Bontrager founded Chatham Financial in 1991 and continues to serve as CEO. Luke Zubrod is Director of Strategic Initiatives; he works on ways to advance Chatham’s market impact and organiza...
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Ep 45. Sarah Green Carmichael: Work Obsession from 2017-11-01T13:34:46
Sarah Green Carmichael is a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and host of the award-winning HBR IdeaCast, where she’s interviewed Stew a couple of times. So this episode turns the tables. Sa...
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Ep 44. Roger Schwarz: Mutual Learning for Smarter Teams from 2017-10-25T11:59:54
Roger Schwarz is an organizational psychologist, speaker, leadership team consultant, and CEO of Roger Schwarz & Associates. His clients include technology, manufacturing, and medical organizat...
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Ep 43. Harry Kraemer: Values-Based Leadership from 2017-10-18T13:43:10
Harry Kraemer is the former Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. -- a multi-billion-dollar global healthcare company -- and author of two books on values-based leadership: From Values to A...
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Ep 42. Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing: The Family Owned Business from 2017-10-11T15:25:29
Nancy Drozdow and Debbie Bing are two principals at CFAR; a private management consulting firm that focuses on both performance and relationships in family-owned businesses. CFAR was started as a r...
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Ep 41. David Allen: Getting Things Done from 2017-10-05T00:58:10
David Allen is the best-selling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity and an expert in personal and organizational productivity. He teaches multiple courses on producti...
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Ep 40. Dorie Clark: Helping Leaders Stand Out from 2017-09-27T12:56:18
Dorie Clark, who teaches at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, is a renowned branding expert and a marketing strategy consultant. She uses her expertise in self-reinvention to spark person...
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Ep 39. Frank Dobbin: Why Diversity Programs Fail from 2017-09-20T14:11:17
Frank Dobbin is a Professor of Sociology at Harvard, where he studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior and public policy. He is also Chair of Harvard’s Organizational Behavior PhD Progr...
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Ep 38. Gretchen Rubin: The Four Tendencies from 2017-09-13T19:07:18
Gretchen Rubin is a best-selling author of several books on human nature. Her first bestsellers -- The Happiness Project and Happier at Home -- both sparked powerful conversations about the human s...
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Ep 37. Bob Sutton: the Asshole Survival Guide from 2017-09-06T11:17:50
Bob Sutton is Professor of Management Science, Engineering, and Organizational Behavior at Stanford, where he co-founded the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Hasso Plattner Insti...
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Ep 36. Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to Raise an Adult from 2017-08-30T13:32:17
Julie Lythcott-Haims served as Stanford University’s Dean of Freshmen for a decade. She received the Dinkelspiel Award for her contributions to the undergraduate experience. She’s a mother of two t...
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Ep 35. David Flink: Empowering Those Who Learn Differently from 2017-08-23T11:28:26
David Flink is Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer at Eye to Eye, a non-profit that empowers young people with learning disabilities by giving them a mentor who shares that experience. He struggl...
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Ep. 34: Mick Batyske: DJ to the Stars, Dad to Myles from 2017-08-16T11:01:27
Mick Batyske is a multi-talented creative professional from Brooklyn by way of Youngstown, Ohio. He is one of the most in-demand DJs in the world, style influencer, tech investor, music curator, an...
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Ep 33. Nilofer Merchant: Take a Stand Where No One Else Can from 2017-08-09T21:19:38
Nilofer Merchant is a master at turning seemingly “wild” ideas into new realities and showing the rest of us how we can too. She has personally launched more than 100 products, netting $18B in sale...
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Ep 32. Sydney Finkelstein: Be a Superboss from 2017-08-02T11:59
Sydney Finkelstein is the the Steven Roth Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Executive Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is author of Superbosses: How Exceptiona...
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Ep 31. Stephanie Abbuhl: Game Changer For Women In Medicine from 2017-07-26T13:34:06
Stephanie Abbuhl MD is Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs in the department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Since 2001, she has been ...
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Ep 30. Eric Barker: Debunking Myths about Work and Life from 2017-07-19T13:08:25
Eric Barker is a University of Pennsylvania graduate and author of the popular blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Eric gives evidence-based answers and expert insight to questions about how to be awes...
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Ep 29. Bill Taylor: Simply Brilliant, Brilliantly Simple from 2017-07-12T13:49:06
Bill Taylor is co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company, which has won just about every award there is to win in the magazine world since its creation in 1995. Bill has also written three imp...
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Ep 28. Jonelle Lesniak: Embrace Failure to Curb Unhealthy Competition from 2017-07-05T16:04:32
Jonelle Lesniak is a senior analyst at the management consulting firm THRUUE, seeking to create change in organizations culture. She also coaches young professionals by helping them to consider imp...
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Ep 27: Jason Fried: Signal vs. Noise -- Less Work, More Production from 2017-06-28T21:43:30
Jason Fried is Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp, a leading project management tool that has helped over 2.5 million users improve their organizational skills. Basecamp was founded in 1999 and today i...
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Ep 26. Sim Sitkin: Duke's Coach K Professor on Building Trust from 2017-06-21T12:08:58
Sim Sitkin is the Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor of Leadership, Founding Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at the Fuqua School of Business, and Direc...
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Ep 25. Monica Worline: Awakening Compassion at Work from 2017-06-14T23:12:21
Monica Worline is the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, an organization that teaches businesses how to use compassionate leadership to enliven, or humanize and energize, the work they do. She is also...
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Ep 24. Joan Williams: What Elites Don't Get About the White Working Class from 2017-06-07T18:21:50
Joan Williams is a Distinguished Law Professor at the University of California Hastings and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, which promotes gender and racial equality in the workpl...
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Ep 23. Erin Bagwell: Director of the Inspirational Film Dream, Girl from 2017-05-31T13:50:32
Erin Bagwell is founder of Feminist Wednesday, a storytelling blog. In the summer of 2014 she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $100,000 to produce her first feature length f...
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Ep 22. Marci Alboher: Encore Careers from 2017-05-24T13:50:42
Marci Alboher is Vice President at Encore.org, a nonprofit making it easier for millions of older people to pursue second acts in their career. She is the author of The Encore Career Handbook: How ...
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Ep 21. Matt Schneider: Pioneering Stay-at-Home Dad from 2017-05-17T21:58:50
Matt Schneider is a stay-at-home dad and Wharton alumnus who founded the City Dads Group, a diverse community of more than 8,000 fathers in 26 cities across the United States who are supporting eac...
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Ep 20. Catherine Steiner-Adair: Family Relationships in the Digital Age from 2017-05-10T10:30:55
Catherine Steiner-Adair wants to ameliorate the negative effects of social media and technology on family life. She is a clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of The Big Discon...
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Ep 19. Sam Calagione: Founder Of Dogfish Head Brewery from 2017-05-03T12:29
Stew Friedman talks with Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and author of Off Centered Leadership. Fast Company named Sam one of The 100 Most Creative People in Busin...
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Ep 18. Michael Baime: Mindfulness Master from 2017-04-26T19:27:19
Michael Baime is a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness. Michael started the program to help professionals redu...
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Ep 17. Brad Harrington: Fathers at Home from 2017-04-19T17:36:47
Brad Harrington is Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and leads research focusing on the changing role of fathers, career management, and work-life integration. H...
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Ep 16. Andy Molinsky: Reach Beyond Your Comfort Zone from 2017-04-11T19:35:34
Andy Molinsky is a professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School where he helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfo...
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Ep 15. Doug Conant: World-Class Employee Engagement from 2017-04-05T15:46:58
Doug Conant is founder of Conant Leadership and former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company, where he transformed employee engagement from average into world class. Doug is also a NYT bestselling autho...
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Ep 14. Arianna Huffington: Founder of Thrive Global and The Huffington Post from 2017-03-29T17:02:43
Arianna Huffington is on a mission to redefine success and end burnout. She is founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform aiming to change the w...
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Ep 13. Scott Barry Kaufman: The Messy Minds of Creative People from 2017-03-22T18:37:20
Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist who studies the messy minds of creative people. He is Scientific Director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center and professo...
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Ep 12. Emma Seppälä: Cultivating Resilience from 2017-03-15T19:58:15
Emma Seppälä is author of The Happiness Track and Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. She is also Co-Director of the Yale Colle...
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Ep 11. Julie Foudy: Soccer Champion and Advocate for Gender Equity from 2017-03-08T22:19:19
Julie Foudy, currently an ESPN analyst and proud mother of two, is one of the most accomplished soccer players in the world. She competed in four World Cups, three Olympics, and is former Captain o...
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Ep 10. Dave Asprey: Becoming Bulletproof from 2017-03-01T20:17:44
Dave Asprey is founder and CEO of Bulletproof, a company known for its famous coffee, whose mission is to improve client performance through cutting-edge nutrition. He founded Bulletproof after spe...
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Ep 9. Tom Tierney: Co-Founder of the Bridgespan Group from 2017-02-22T19:28:32
Tom Tierney is former CEO of Bain & Company and co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit management consulting firm that assists other nonprofits. He is chairman of the board at Ebay and...
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Ep 8. Scott Sonenshein: To Chase or To Stretch? from 2017-02-16T02:05:32
Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University. Scott’s book “Stretch” offers a groundbreaking approach to achieving high performance. The stretch mindset...
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Ep 7. Cal Newport: Focus for Success in a Distracted World from 2017-02-08T18:44:39
Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown and author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. In Deep Work, Cal argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the mod...
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Ep 6. Emily Esfahani Smith: The Four Pillars of Meaning from 2017-01-28T00:00
Emily Esfahani Smith is author of “The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters.” Emily has explored the essence of what brings meaning into our lives. She melds perspectives from a variety o...
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Ep 5. Sam Polk: For The Love of Money from 2017-01-22T00:00
Stew talks with Sam Polk, a former hedge fund trader. Polk came to the hard-won realization that he needed to leave that lifestyle and went on to found two organizations that bring healthy food to ...
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Ep 4. Anne-Marie Slaughter: Caregivers and Breadwinners from 2017-01-16T00:00
Stew talks with Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New America Foundation and author of the ground-breaking Atlantic article “Why Women Stil...
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Ep 1. David Burkus: The Death of Email from 2017-01-13T00:00
David Burkus is a bestselling author, successful podcaster, and professor at Oral Roberts University who challenges traditional ways of conducting business. Stew and David discuss David’s new book ...
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Ep 2. Julie Smolyanksy: CEO of LifeWay Foods from 2017-01-13T00:00
In this episode, Stew talked with Julie Smolyansky, CEO of LifeWay Foods. Julie became CEO of LifeWay at the age of 27 and has since grown it to over $130 million in annual revenue. Her dedication ...
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Ep 3. Sarah Kagan: Caring for Aging Parents from 2017-01-12T00:00
In this episode, Stew talked with Sarah Kagan, professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She is helping to destigmatize aging in our society by sharing scientific facts...
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