Evolve: Reinventing Leadership - Building Freedom Cultures

Building Corporate Soul with Ralf Specht

In this episode, Ralf Specht, Author, and Entrepreneur explores his book, "Building Corporate Soul", with us.

Ralf Specht, called “a visionary business leader” by FastCompany Press, is the creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding & shared purpose. He introduces a new language of success into the world of business based on his mission to make the leadership behaviors that build soul synonymous with the behaviors which build success.

Ralf was a founding partner of the startup Spark44, a global marketing communications powerhouse. He was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint-venture with Jaguar Land Rover. During his time as COO and CEO, he successfully focused on the interdependence of the creative output with employee engagement and satisfaction.

Previously, Ralf consulted for more than 20 years with global companies and brands such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, General Motors, and Puma.

His driving vision is to make soulless companies a thing of the past. Tune in to learn more about building corporate soul.

Leading from the Jumpseat with Peter Docker

Today Yvette is speaking with Peter Docker. Peter is a Leadership Consultant, Executive Coach, Speaker, Author, and Pilot.

He worked with Simon Sinek for over 7 years and was one of the founding ‘Igniters’ on Simon’s team. He took his years of practical experience to co-author "Find Your Why:  with Simon and David Mead. His latest book, "Leading From The Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control," was published in October 2021.

Peter's commercial and industry experience has been at the most senior levels. His clients include Google, Four Seasons Hotels, Accenture, American Express, NBC Universal and over 100 more.

Peter served for 25 years as a Royal Air Force senior officer. He has been a Force Commander during combat flying operations and has been in service across the globe. His career spanned from professional pilot, to leading an aviation training and standards organisation, to flying the British prime minister around the world.

Connecting Your Career and Values with Louise Goeckel

Join Yvette and Louise Goeckel for a potent conversation about careers. You'll get something from the conversation no matter where you are in your career.

Career consultant, life coach, and business advisor Louise Goeckel has more than 20 years of experience providing Business and Professional Development consulting. She specializes in leading individuals and facilitating groups, enlivening their gifts so that they may make new contributions to the world.

Louise offers deep listening, extensive knowledge, and a keen understanding of leadership and change. As a leader, teacher and facilitator, she delights in watching people becoming more courageous, clear, and comfortable being their best selves.

Louise loves her work and wants everyone to love theirs.

You can contact Louise at http://letsgoforward.biz. 

Connect with Yvette Bethel at https://theconsciousorganization.co 

 

Culture Crossing with Michael Landers

Michael Landers is an Author, Speaker, and Founder of the global organization, Culture Crossing. Over the past 15 years, Michael has designed and facilitated programs for global executives and managers that help them to build essential skills in areas such as cross-cultural communication, leadership, team building, sustaining employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and international recruiting and staffing. 

Michael has conducted business in over 30 countries, including the creation of a cross-cultural consultancy in Japan, staffing a global advertising conglomerate throughout Europe, and leading various successful business development initiatives in Latin America, among other international endeavors.

Michael shares some powerful insights into culture in multinational companies. If you would like to contact him, feel free to visit his website at: https://culturecrossing.net

Community Leadership Accelerators: How to Futureproof Our Communities with Bryn Jones

Bryn Jones helps people lead with intention, wisdom, and heart so they can build momentum for change in their lives, organizations, and communities.  In doing so, she draws on backgrounds in social justice and conservation work, with an education in law and policy, professional training, and certification in coaching and facilitation.

Bryn has experienced a long career as a leader in the nonprofit sector inspired by a desire to help build compassionate, healthy and resilient communities. Join our conversation to learn about community leader accelerators and how to sustain communities in the future.

You can contact Bryn at https://elanconsulting.org. 

Corporate Communication Strategies of the Future with Rick Cram

Rick Cram has consulted for hundreds of companies and facilitated over 1,000 conferences, meetings, workshops, and engagement events for clients’ employees and customers. After working on all sides of “the business” Rick founded FullSail Strategic Communications, providing Fortune 1000 and small businesses alike with comprehensive strategic and creative marketing and communication services. 

Since 2011 Rick has been serving clients throughout North America under his brand, Rick Cram - PLAN TO BE YOUR BEST.  This episode of Evolve explores corporate and interpersonal communication. Join us for the conversation. 

If you enjoyed the show you can connect with Rick at:  https://www.rickcram.com/.

Emerging School Leadership with Cherilyn Leet

Cherilyn's passion is the design of curriculum, assessments, and training about emotional intelligence (EI) to foster excellence around the globe. Cherilyn is a Fulbright scholar and holds a master’s degree in curriculum design and instruction for the gifted and talented. Motivated by the belief that developing emotional intelligence is a fundamental skill for any age, Cherilyn served as an editor for the book Know Choose Give, one of the first internationally published EI courses for university students, and for Self-Science, 4th Edition, a collection of 80 lessons for the K-8 classrooms.

Cherilyn co-authored a paper in 2017 for the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology on the schoolwide application of EI assessments. Committed to advocacy, she led the world’s first virtual conference on social emotional learning (SEL) in higher education and organized an innovative conference on neuroscience, instructional design, and experiential learning for Silicon Valley professionals hosted in partnership with the award-winning Synapse School.

Her work has been accepted for presentation at SXSW Education, the National SEL Conference, and UNICEF headquarters. Listen in to hear her ideas about what is emerging...

Courageous Leadership with Sharon Deal

Sharon Deal has a passion to transform lives, life and leadership.  She is a courageous leader that not only walks the talk but has the ability to support leaders with becoming courageous. She believes courage is contagious and has a passion to scale courageous leadership in teams and organizations. Sharon believes that the key to courage is being anchored in Who you are and leading from this place.  This shifts everything about how leaders show up because courageous leadership leads to cultures of brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts where the armoring up process is not necessary or rewarded.

After her 25 years as a leader and owner in the corporate environment, she is especially effective in working with entrepreneurs, executives and their teams.  She is the founder of the Who am I Foundation where she engages individuals and organisations through educating, facilitating, coaching and training.  Sharon is an EQ Practitioner, Facilitator and Assessor and Conversational Intelligence Coach. 

Breaking Down Barriers to Change with Ajene Wilcoxson

Ajene Wilcoxson is a Professor of Business, a student of Logotherapy, and a Certified Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Facilitator and Assessor and Practitioner. He focuses on helping his students and clients to develop an EQ Mindset, and facilitates inspirational talks, workshops as a consultant, but most importantly, he is a teacher. A teacher from the perspective of being a guide, helper, and mentor in the Life-Learning Process. His passion and foundation are living and teaching how to experience a Soul-Centered, Emotionally Intelligent Life. 

Ajené is the recipient of the Dr. John W. Rice Diversity and Equity Award, the Dr. Regina Stanback-Stroud Diversity Award, and the ACBSP National Teaching Excellence Award

Self Managing Organizations and Teams With Chiara Borello

According to Chiara, our systems are not equipped to provide the necessary support to adapt and ease the helplessness and inadequacy people experience when their territory is changing unprecedentedly. She supports leaders with or without titles to tap into an internal variable to achieve their goals mindfully and creatively to adapt to the impact of change. 

Chiara has 10 years’ experience in senior management for high-end fashion houses and manufacturing, 10 years of personal and organizational development, and 6 years in collaborating with organizations to create human-centric self-managed teams or self-managed organizations. According to Chiara, "Just because a team is self-managed, it doesn't mean there is no hierarchy." 

 Learn more about Chiara at www.solutionsorg.ca