How does your high-speed cognitive process work?

“I don’t trust my intuition. It’s been wrong.”

“Intuition is fear.”

“We want rational decisions, not something intangible.”

There is a reason why intuition can be wrong and a reason why it is not fear or any other emotion. Intuition is a cognitive process that runs at high speeds so you can make life-saving decisions BEFORE you are cognitively aware. That’s life-saving insight First Responders rely on. So do repeatedly successful entrepreneurs.

Intuition utilizes your subconscious processor and is mashed up with bias (cognitive distortions), unhealed emotional wounds, beliefs, and other distortions, hence the confusion.

Whether you believe or do. not believe in intuition, the info in this video will help you recognize your greatest asset when working with dynamic conditions, high stakes, insufficient information at speed.

Your life might depend on it.

The horse in the background gets triggered but, unfortunately, can’t apply self-directed solutions like readers can.

Releasing decision fatigue and reframing overwhelming powerlessness into forward steps requires expanded self-awareness and action. Reactivity converts into unflappable growth.

In this video, I cover the steps to:

Deal with the emotional reactivity where your brain fires out of protection. Box breathing is one tool. Included in this podcast interview are instructions on box breathing.

Clear the emotional energetic charge so you retain the memory but not the emotional wounding that goes with it. Therapy is one option. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my go-to is Emotional Freedom Technique because it is science-backed, self-directed, and works. Get started using Brad Yates, Manifest Portal (Devi), and Julie Shiffman. If you’re ready to clear up stored emotion from your body’s hard drive (subconscious), you can start immediately. Why wait for spring?!

Clearing trauma and old emotional wounds is an insurance policy against chronic illness while providing a sense of control over fatigue and the overwhelming consequences of global events.

Why?

In my experience, dealing with overwhelm is a lot easier using your subconscious with its outrageously fast processing speeds. Clearing out the closet of old energies gives you more resources to work with.

Applying the oxygen mask allows you to focus more clearly on what is going on around you. Without context awareness, you can’t see what’s coming next, much less respond to it effectively.

Considering the world that emerges is a direct function of the health and well-being and decision-making consciousness of each person and the collective, this personal development and expansion is critically important.

Thanks for being a future-shaper!!

Note and Disclaimer: What I write about it is based on my personal transformation, professional experience and research into the intersection between science, the power of the human spirit and the fringe of discovery. It does not supplant or replace conventional medicine or other sources of personal development.

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Home base is your personal spirit and joy. In this short video, I name a few simple practices to boost your personal spirit in the face of the news and other emotional distractions.

Your mindset is directly impacted by your self-awareness of the context and its effect on your emotions. This makes awareness critically important because it triggers action to intentionally process your emotions and regain clarity.

Core to well-being and personal growth is having a sense of control, a face-forward outlook on life, and the initiative to grow, so you can hack resilience and build feel-better emotions.

None of us can face the world with courage without the inspiration of others who are taking on the difficult conversations that are critically important for breakthroughs.

People like Garry Turner, whose conversations on the masculine-feminine dynamic invite self-situational awareness on what is going on for you, what is going on face to face, and what is going on in the wider environment (context awareness).

Dark feelings, triggers all provide openings for personal development.

When the going gets tough, the tough get growing.

Your heart energy is your compass, and it needs deliberate care to respect the more intense emotions that accompany loss. It is also a great way to stay aware of what charges you and what depletes you.

If you’ve lost your job, feel a need to reinvent yourself, or realize that there is something deeper emerging from within, then the steps I’ve outlined here will help you hone in on what you need to respect and listen to as you process and reinvent.

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Given the ridiculously high disengagement statistics, reinventing yourself is timely. Doing it while moving through fear (financial, and more), brings you face-to-face with your commitment to You.

I work for myself, so if my work is unfulfilling, it is up to me to change it. Staying aligned with my purpose has been a bumpy ride and no less challenging than a company like Patagonia has experienced through its growth and commitment. Over thirty years, both internal catalysts and external conditions have propelled me into new territory. It hasn’t always been successful or smooth, so I began taking notes, hoping that my experimental process would help someone willing to accept full responsibility for their well-being and destiny.

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In moving through fear and doubt, there might be temptations to take the well-worn road of depression and other mental health side trips. Dark emotional places serve as a signal that you’ve fallen into a pit. Commitment and compassion will get you through any trials. Not easy, but necessary.

The world needs your full talent now.

Biologically, repression of expression creates depression or aggression.

Any time I see people shooting other people, it tells me that the pressure has become too great and the violence too easy. Nothing about self-collective leadership is easy peasy. Commitment is essential.

So is reflection, stepping back, observing and noticing the pressures you’re responding to.

Your heart will tell you what is next, after you’ve done some emotional release work and given yourself the space to recover.

As we move from individual to collective leadership, the personal work you do directly informs the quality and frequency of the collective.

Exciting times.

Please post comments, or questions and share this with someone who needs to know they are not adrift in the open ocean nor are they alone.

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These are Canada Geese, one of three or four species that migrate south along the Pacific flyway. They will cover 3200 km to 5600 km, depending on their starting point (2000 to 3500 miles), flying from Arctic Canada to the southern U.S. and Mexico for the winter.

With flight speeds of 64 km to over 100 km per hour (40-70 miles per hour), a built-in GPS and navigational devices, they face every obstacle humans have created, plus those the weather presents.

After wandering the world for two years, the first thing I did on my return home was go camping in a cow pasture because my father and mother were banding birds. Crouched down in a slough, overhead came a flock of Canada Geese honking and flying low. I could hear their wings whistle as they passed overhead.

And I cried from the joy of their presence.

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Nothing is quite as spectacular as the flight and migration of birds… a journey that has been followed for possibly 50 million years according to the fossil record.

Hummingbirds lay an egg the size of a pea. Their migratory journey covers 3200 km (2000 miles) and fits easily in the palm of your hand. You can’t handle them without risking breaking their wings. And yet they make that flight distance. Their metabolic rate is so high that at night they go into a state of hibernation.

Photo: Edgar T. Jones

Our technological ambitions look small next to the magnificence of small birds on big flights or larger birds on group flights.

Relationships is the basis for understanding complex interactions. Oversimplication is easy but misleading.

That gap in understanding shaped the fate of 317 ostriches in British Columbia. The cull revealed more than the tragic, unethical, disconnected method; it exposed a deeper divide between how caregivers, scientists, and government officials see life.

This video takes you onto a farm, where the connection between you and the animals you care for leads to cooperation, after trust has been established. To a city dweller, animals are animals. Objects. Edible objects. To anyone working with a modicum of sensitivity and consciousness, they are sentient creatures who understand much more than you think they do.

The other day, while leading one of the stallions in, I told him I’d be walking him in. Usually, he runs himself in. I’ve learned that if I don’t explain what is happening, he makes his own decisions, like pulling a 100-pound bale of hay off the stack.

We cooperate. It didn’t start that way. Boundaries needed to be set on my part.

The sum total of how we see and interpret the world is captured in your worldview, individually and culturally.

Consciousness is when you are aware of your worldview and able to observe how it differs from the worldview of others. Shifting perspective and empathy are the two metaskills that illuminate the source of conflict or tension. With tension as your signal, you can ask questions with an open mind.

I had a lovely conversation on worldview with Kathy Jourdain on the podcast. Understanding worldviews can reduce polarization and bring people together to reach some level of cooperation in solving a complex problem. If you missed it, listen here.

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https://embed.acast.com/5a6fab1455cdce603414631c/6385025a1c0715001196cadc

Understanding worldview opens the door to greater understanding. Without it, decisions are made that lack humanity and any ethical integrity.

The daily news is full of opportunities to practice spotting the source of different perspectives. As a consciousness shifter, recognizing when you’ve just stepped into a different world, provides a fresh context for how you process your experience and make decisions.

J.K. Rowling knew that when she created the world Harry Potter lived in. The world we live in, is still being shaped and formed in everyday decisions, and in the decisions that tilt toward affirming life, or killing it.

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Reconnecting back to life sustaining wisdom means being humble enough to know that how you or I see the world, is not how it is from many other points of view. I love the work this musician (Plume on YouTube) has done to discover how sensitive animals truly are. Animals respond to the emotion you bring and their experience.

Plume sings to a shy Okapi

Enjoy!

In this video, I share what I observed, the steps I wandered (or staggered) through to process various life experiences, recover, and move forward.

Disclaimer: This is not professional advice; it is personal experience.

Because I am a process nerd and specialize in transforming life’s experiences into value, making sense is combined with the steps I used to guide myself into new territory with confidence. My hope is/was that what I experienced would have value to others navigating the messy middle between one state of being and the next.

Feedback is welcome. There’s more to come.

The inner work is becoming increasingly essential if we are to collectively work with high uncertainty while redirecting leadership decisions toward a life-affirming understanding of system relationships.

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One more simple step not in the video:

Be in awe with life. Every morning!

For me, lately it has been the massive flocks of geese flying south. Canada geese, Snow geese, White-fronted geese in formation or not. These are Ross’s geese from my father’s photo collection and a book that never got published.

Above the deafening manmade noise is the subtle sound of wings riding the slipstream following the bird ahead. Their trip is not as long as other species, only 4800 km (2 - 3000 miles). Still, pretty impressive!

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What is unsaid in the video is that the simple act of listening with the intention to understand changes how people feel. Nick Zeniuk, former Ford executive and my mentor in 2007-8-9 understood the sensitivity of horses and how they express themselves. It is particularly valuable when moving through times when it seems easier to rely on mental will over sensing your environment.

Moving through uncertainty with confidence draws on universal principles and meta skills of consciousness.

Four universal principles from cultural anthropology have guided my facilitation and leadership self-work…

* Pay attention to what has heart and meaning.

* Show up and be present.

* Tell the truth without judgment.

* Be open to outcome, not attached to it.

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These four principles look innocently simple until you put them into practice and observe yourself in action. Even listening comes in categories: connected listening, active listening, and empathic listening, for example.

Intention guides focus in my experience.

With the surge in layoffs, companies deferring to AI instead of engaging their people, self-knowledge will fuel resilience and visionary leadership. These principles help, along with awareness of your inner and outer emotional world.

Will post the interview when it is released.

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In this video, I share how the six-year-old’s actions and motivation mirror those of anyone whose focus is on ‘Me’ and not on why.

The value of paying attention to what you focus on is one of the most powerful ways to maintain your well-being, oversee organizational change, and teamwork.

One simple practice with infinite value for leaders leading their lives with consciousness, self and situational awareness.

I mention a podcast I did with Richard Sheridan where we go into detail on focus, outcomes and the rigour associated with being clear about what you’re aiming to achieve. That link is here. The Business Value of Joy!

I also cover the tips for working with uncertainty, which may be a partial repeat from a previous post, but it is worth repeating. None of what it takes to stay well in today’s world is a one-off checklist.

Finally, I’d like my subscribers to know that I’m pausing for a month for a digital detox. Will resume and return with lessons from nature, and more skills and stories from a life of travel, that inform and support full flourishing humans.

I gained insight when a colleague who consults within US companies mentioned that, post-COVID, he was hearing executives say they could hardly wait for this engagement fad to be over. Hopefully, that’s not a popular view, but if it is, then fear of losing control over others, rooted in emotional insecurity, lies at the source of failure to adapt thinking.

Could replacing emotional insecurity with emotional mastery be the highest leverage step toward well-being and resilience?

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Dan Szuc and Jo Wong run a UX consultancy out of Hong Kong. Aware of space, place and interaction, and grounded in theatre production and education, they observed how interactions are driven by culture. Make Meaningful Work has templates for observing micro action in place. Their cultural work involves paying attention to what is going around, widening the lens, opening the aperture to capture the bigger picture. How about treating culture as a theatre production?

The live stream is on my YouTube podcast channel. This is a 5 minute overview of the discussion.

I have questions.

* How can workplace cultures be moved from process-driven to being aligned in personal and organizational values, when decision-makers fear loss of control?

* How can there be movement toward high engagement and company resilience when there is habitual avoidance of discomfort?

* What if asking and having challenging conversations deepened skillsets, engaged creative thinking, and connected decisions to consequence, meaning and purpose?

In 2024, the Edelman Trust Barometer reported an innovation crisis. Innovation reverted to tweaking what existed, skipping the opportunity to rethink and delete processes that worked against company viability. That’s not innovation. More like retrenching to the familiar and bypassing the value of uncertainty for leadership and growth.

If there is a simple way to illuminate possibilities, it would be to observe where the focus is going and make an intentional decision to take action and move forward. At the end of our longer discussion, Jo Wong closed with: “ You have power. Just be more aware of it and be more intentional about how you frame things. The mindset and attitude can affect your choices.”

Find Jo and Dan’s book on Amazon, and their work on the links below.

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https://www.apogeehk.com/

https://www.makemeaningfulwork.com/books

https://www.amazon.com/dp/173792823X?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

https://www.makemeaningfulwork.com/about

COVID was one opportunity. The straight line thinking that the current President of the US applies to decision-making presents another.

In the video, I mention box breathing. Here is the audio clip of how to box breathe from my interview with Colonel John O’Grady of the US military. If you don’t like the military, it is OK. We can still learn from the training and conditions military personnel are exposed to.

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If you are curious about the military’s approach the full interview is here: https://embed.acast.com/$/5a6fab1455cdce603414631c/uncertaintyambiguity-lessons-from-us-military-with-colonel-j?

The skills, mental disciplines, and sensory practices I share are part of the Revive and Restore program. The recipe is simple. Look after your emotional and mental health so that you can make the best decisions possible and then participate, with others who think differently, in collective action-oriented change, local to global. Phew!

I provide coaching on resilience and beyond for those who wish to be part of something bigger.

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Imagine the possibilities if every single person in this world, in your company, or in your family could express themselves from their original pure note. In the early part of 2003-4 when I was rethinking my role in the world I came across quantum coherence where each person in a company brought their unique note to their work, in harmony with all others focusing on the achievement of a goal.

Lofty right?

And then along came Sam Kukathas with a voice that can transmute barriers of disbelief, limits imposed through difficult experiences, to reveal the deepest source of your True Self.

Sam Kukathas is an academic who had a crisis. Through that, he became who he is today. Bringing a visionary approach to the larger issues we are capable of solving collectively. On the full episode, we talk about his journey which has parallels to all of our journeys in the return to self.

We recorded a YouTube livestream on Thursday, March 13th where we talked about sound, and frequency at the intersection of science and spirit. Then Sam gave every listener a gift. In this video clip Sam makes neuro-resonance optimization real and shares what Neuro Resonance Optimization is.

Every time I hear Sam’s voice I feel an opening and elevation in spirit and in my heart.

I hope you gain hope from this experience, that we are capable of much more than we have been doing so far. And that nothing is impossible.

This is a short clip so I encourage you listen to the full episode where we talk about breakthroughs and a shift in global political consciousness.

Please share this post, and reach out to Sam if you are curious and have questions about evolving into who you fully are.

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https://soulpurposeleaders.com/

https://samkukathas.com/ and for a digital recording head to Bandcamp:

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Only by working together can companies contribute to business being better for and in the world. Beyond business, it is citizen-led visionary action that can solve most of the large problems we face today.

These included:

* fast and significant retreat of ocean waves,

* cicadas stopped singing,

* one small wave came before the big wave.

There were other signals of course. Experienced surfers, SUP (stand up boarders) know how to read the wind, waves and layers of currents.

The modern world is noisy and tends to drown out the perception of subtle signals that speak volumes about what is going on.

* gain the capacity to recognize signals and cues and you gain the capacity to:

* predict market shifts before they happen,

* read the signals of a company going down,

* detect whether the promises of an investment opportunity are shiny but destined to fail.

* decide whether a company’s management is a fit for you.

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There are more personal and professional benefits.

I am reminded of a conversation with a surfer who was also a mortgage broker before the 2008 crash. In the same way he could sense the water was ‘sharky’ (and yes a shark was cruising beneath him), he could also detect the impending crash. He diversified and got out of the mortgage business so when it crashed months later, he emerged unscathed.

These are times to dive deeper into skill sets that our ancestors and those close to nature rely on. Sensing as a way of seeing is invaluable for seeing ahead, making sound choices, and calming the nervous system.

Sensing is one core skill that applies in all contexts in Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework: simple, complicated, complex and chaotic.

Rather than investing emotionally in what is being said, try sensing what lies beneath the surface to see the possibilities or motivations behind the rhetoric. It helps you avoid being manipulated or scared into doing something not in your best interest.

A simple way to reduce stress is to suspend judgment and stay open to sensing what might emerge.

For more reading:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Proba-1/Tsunami_leaves_tribal_island_high_in_the_water#:~:text=The%20islanders%20would%20typically%20have,well%20before%20the%20waves%20hit.

Search on Perplexity.ai

Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework is explained here:

Using this example, in this video, I lay out what happened as a result of one out of several decision-makers involved, then look at reasons why it happened and how you can avoid being caught in a similar trap.

Of course, it is easy to see the obvious benefits using hindsight. The focus is not on judging people retroactively or retrospectively, but on seeing what can be learned about reading system-level sourced issues.

The book I mentioned in this episode is How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from puddles to the Sea by Tristan Gooley Links to research behind this episode:

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Post-Office-Horizon-scandal-explained-everything-you-need-to-know

https://www.iod.com/app/uploads/2024/10/IoD-The-Post-Office-Scandal-%E2%80%93-A-Failure-of-Governance-3a831350ff1204afaabb59adb973590e.pdf

This is the research Perplexity.ai pulled up for this episode:

“Paula Vennells served as the CEO of the Post Office from 2012 to 2019 and played a significant role in the Post Office Horizon scandal2. Her decisions and actions had a detrimental impact on subpostmasters, who were essentially distributed staff managing local post office branches.

During Vennells' tenure, the Post Office:

1. Blamed subpostmasters for financial discrepancies caused by the faulty Horizon IT system2.

2. Prosecuted many subpostmasters for financial crimes they did not commit2.

3. Used legal action and deep pockets to defend itself against accusations, silencing subpostmasters who raised concerns2.

4. Lied to journalists, politicians, and others who questioned the Horizon system's robustness2.

The fallout from Vennells' decisions was severe:

1. Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of financial crimes2.

2. Many subpostmasters faced bankruptcy, imprisonment, and devastating personal consequences2.

3. The scandal has been described as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history2.”

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We talk about human motivation, the impact of AI on HR practices, challenges in leadership, and the importance of integrating human flourishing with performance.

Given today’s political climate we also touch on the value of diversity in complex decision-making and organizational behavior. Rob’s approach is built on a deep understanding of work psychology, human behavior, and relationship development, enabling him to offer strategic, evidence-based solutions that drive measurable results. Dr. Rob Lion teaches at Idaho State University and practices with his firm Black River Performance Management so is well-positioned to discuss the persistent gaps between academia and real-world conditions.

The themes in this episode:

* question assumptions and sense into the meaning of common concepts often used without much thought. Motivation. Inspiration. Moving beyond the duality of thinking to see different perceptions.

* look at the forces that shape your work environment beyond the superficial level.

* apply academic insights to work life for wiser decisions.

More live streams coming up for the podcast. Thanks to paid subscribers for their support in bringing insights to your inbox and you all for your commitment to thinking differently about the world. More episodes and conversations coming up from the many people in the world working hard to make things better in personal and home life.

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In this short clip innovation coach and facilitator Curtis Michelson talk about the greatest barrier to innovation in the education sector.

Reflective Question

To what extent does fear of the unknown and unfamiliar block having conversations and making intentional decisions about how to respond and decide? What part of humanity do we give up for convenience?

AI, Ethics and Governance

In 2018 I talked to Robbie Stamp about our relationship with AI. The conversation centered on ethics and agency. How do we decide what our relationship will be? In 2024 and 2025, the conversation has circled back to how AI is used to augment or replace human intelligence.

Listen to my chat with Robbie Stamp here.

https://embed.acast.com/$/5a6fab1455cdce603414631c/ep40-ai-ethics-and-governance-with-robbie-stamp?

The longer version of the podcast will hit your inbox shortly. Just ironing out a few tech glitches.

Your Revive and Restore Tip

Revive and Restore is Dawna’s online program for coaching yourself to a dynamic state of mental and emotional health.

Challenge: How do you lead wisely when emotional can cloud judgement?

Skill: Breathe out any tension. Take a walk and allow all the chatter in your head to sink to your diaphragm. When your mind is clear, then decide.

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Upshifting consciousness to recognize:

* Adversity isn’t a curse—it’s a doorway to self-discovery and transformation.

* Practical strategies to stay emotionally and physically well while turning challenges into opportunities for growth.

* How facing fear brings more peace and a deeper connection with the world.

* The urgent need for self-aware, collaborative leaders to address today’s planetary challenges.

Audio listeners. Please note that part of this episode was done while I was hiking so the sound reflects me on the trail.

Photo: Dru Bloomfield on Flickr

This is also a video on YouTube on my podcast channel.

I’ve also included an invite to participate in Revive and Restore beta program running in January. More details to follow. Sign up here: https://sunny-originator-4963.kit.com/c1ba69eb16

Human consciousness. We tend to destroy to survive when we can cooperate and create better solutions. Here’s my low-tech image of the evolution of human consciousness adapted from Barrett’s Value vertical and incorporating the thinking of David Hawkins.

Adapting thinking. Thinking in terms of designing for life, connectedness, relationships, patterns and context.

Unifying and inspiring visions for the future. More than one future will unfold. The question is which ones do we collectively nurture?

The aim of this podcast, the one before it, and all the work I’ve been doing for twenty years is to shift thinking from reliance on analytical to expand perception to a wider, holistic view. Not by everyone thinking the same way but by learning how to combine thinking to solve intractable problems.

In this episode, I look at:

- Breaking old paradigms and embracing diverse perspectives.

- Balancing linear and non-linear thinking.

- The critical role of biodiversity in a sustainable future.

- Ethical decision-making beyond legal frameworks.

- Emotional mastery as a foundation for effective decision-making.

- Insights from companies like Patagonia and Novo Nordisk. Big vision and answering hard questions.

- Examining the impact of linear decision-making as a generator of e-waste.

- Exploring different views on keystone species like wolves.

- Insights from *Not the End of the World* by Hannah Richie.

-A way to see the future from *Imaginable* by Jane McGonigal.

- Download the future worksheet using a ten-year frame. You’ll also receive an invitation to join a webinar to brainstorm solutions for a hopeful, resilient future.

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“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

Comments are open to subscribers supporting the production of this work, the podcast, the writing, the creator (moi). I’ll be making some changes going forward to move all this work to a sustainable level.

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On my second trip to Europe between university semesters, I met an older woman on the train who had never been to London. She lived 30 km away in a village. I had just traveled around the world for a year with my family and on a three-month wander through Europe following the sun. Later in life, I organized a trip to Europe for my daughter and her soccer school. She was fourteen and at that pivotal hormonal age where leaps of maturity come with increased responsibility and accountability supported by trust. One of the parents denied his daughter’s participation using the rationale that there wasn’t anything you could see in Europe, you couldn’t see in Canada. They were playing soccer against highly competitive players.

The logic escaped me then, and now.

Landscapes can look similar, but people’s thinking is shaped by their childhood experiences, their exposure to the unfamiliar and the confidence gained from learning from different points of view and experiences. It is shaped by culture, by emotional and social norms, and by memorable moments. Combined you have an individual and collective worldview.

There is an episode on worldview intelligence that dives deeper into what that is and why it is important. So in this episode with Karl Hebenstreit, we are talking about the application of the Enneagram for personal and business-personal growth.

In the course of my facilitation work observing deep dynamics, it became obvious that a business reflects the cumulative emotional maturity and capacity of individuals to learn. One expression of that is leadership consciousness.

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There is a skill-building, self-organizational awareness boost that directly improves how business decisions are made.  Complex issues like COVID-19, organizational change, communication, ecological and social health or workplace health benefit from diverse points of view.  Yet oddly diversity and inclusion is treated as an add-on, not an essential element of making sustainable and supportable decisions. One skill set lost in the rush to resolve conflicts sparked by seemingly incompatible points of view is knowing how to respect and bring those differing views into the open. This is where the Enneagram comes in.

My guest in this episode is Karl Hebenstreit who brings a lengthy list of accomplishments to the conversation. Karl is a certified Executive Coach, Leadership/Team/Organization Development Consultant, and international speaker with over 25 years of experience coaching leaders and their teams (from Individual Contributors to CEOs in myriad industries and sectors) to work better together and consistently exceed their organizations’ goals.  He holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and authored three books: “The How & Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram” (now in its 3rd Edition), “Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision” (now available in English, Spanish, French, and Greek), and the newly-released “Explicit Expectations: The Essential Guide & Toolkit of Management Fundamentals.”  Karl is an “International Enneagram Association (IEA) Accredited Professional with Distinction” and “IEA Accredited Professional/Provider/Teacher.”

We talk about:

·      Understanding the Enneagram

·      Challenges in Modern Business Practices

·      The Oz Principle and Mindset Shifts

·      Head, Heart, and Gut Leadership

·      Exploring the Enneagram Types (with Dawna as the demo!)

·      Understanding Organizational Culture Through Enneagram

·      Hiring Bias and Personality Assessments

·      Integrating Enneagram in Decision Making

·      Enneagram's Role in Broader Worldview

·      Children's Book: Teaching Enneagram Early

·      Empowering Choices and Psychological Safety

Karl also wrote a children’s book so that the skills and understanding could start earlier and improve conversation outcomes.

Contact info for Karl:

R. Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D., PCC

Executive Coach | Author | Speaker | Leadership, Team, & Organization Development Consultant

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According to Tech Report intimidation, harassment, physical violence, or threatening, troublemaking behavior at work spans the spectrum from verbal abuse to physical fighting and even murder. “Violence or harassment at work has been experienced by 743 million people or 23% of all employees around the globe.”

That is significant. Emphasis on psychological safety has been interpreted as a signal to run for cover and take zero risk. But the real value is found by stepping into the conflict armed with advanced skills.

My guest on this episode of the Inspirational Insights podcast is a former gang member who became a highly trained violence interrupter. In his words, a violence interrupter is like a fireman. “They’re called into a burning building as everyone else is rushing out. They have the equipment and the training to put out the flames before it gets out of control. In the same way, an interrupter runs toward the gunfire. We try to get an incident, like this one, under control before it escalates.”

What can managers creating toxic workplaces learn from a former gang member about character, inner strength, and security sourced from within?

A lot.

Consider the social dynamics that take place when a decision is made and then the ripple effect of social impact spreads through the emotional nervous system of an organization.

Consider the tenuous nature of a transformation initiative that could roll back to its original state when a sense of belonging and trust is not cultivated in the process.

Consider the underlying conditions that create bad behavior in the first place.

My conversation with Cobe Williams is a walk into a world where life and death in the neighborhood sit on the razor’s edge of an emotionally conditioned reaction. Cobe’s work interjects a more mindful thoughtful response. I read his book, and there’s plenty of cross-over to other contexts. By applying lateral thinking, managers and executives can widen their span of perception to consider the ripple effect on mid to long-term health and well-being of decisions.

Think big when you listen to this episode.

What if strength and ethical character were a pre-requisite to be placed in a position of authority? What if bosses were selected based on the level of trust and respected reputation when dealing with hard issues? What if decisions made in responding to a crisis were guided by knowledge of trauma patterns?

What if transformation initiatives were attended to with vigilance knowing that “No matter how seemingly airtight, any agreement can go sideways with enough outside pressure.”

Admittedly I am biased toward making difficult choices in volatile and challenging conditions. It shows what you’re made of and you discover who you become. I found a quote on the cover of O magazine that fits:

“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were meant to be.” O magazine, Transformation issue, 2023

Read more here: https://www.interruptingviolence.com/

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Toxic bosses and workplace environments signal power corrupts those who have not moved past their emotional wounds. Patrick Lencioni listed the Five Temptations of a CEO published in 1998. Each could be traced back to emotional mastery, and commitment to growth.

Toxic bosses and workplaces are a direct result of ignoring the role of emotions in healthy personal and professional relationships.

As long as the duality of emotions and intellect persists, blocks to resilience will persist. So imagine my delight when I came across Stephane’s work at WeFlow. A We-Flow client described her experience with WeFlow as, “a new and much more rich way of being in the world, and a practical, daily usable system to get to higher states of creativity, productivity and inspiration than I have ever been. And it feels with this system my growth and that of my business is exponentially, and I don't mean that metaphorically, I mean it literally.”

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Moving from emotions as two systems to recognizing the dynamic between emotions and intellect, highlights the value of paying attention to your emotional state to avoid the mic-was-left-on-moments. Better, it is the avenue for high-quality relationships and workplaces that are capable of having difficult conversations because there is emotional and psychological safety.

Inner freedom is accessible when you have the tools, awareness, and practices that peel back the tension and find the gems.

Stephane’s management experience in the corporate world inspires his expanded role as a facilitator and coach, bridging the value of understanding oneself at a deeper level to navigating the complexities of life and business. Plenty of insights into applying emotional mastery to designing workplace cultures that create psychological safety through intentional and transparent practices.

Key Highlights: (modified from a ChatGPT result)

•           Emotional Health and Self-Awareness: Insights into the importance of being comfortable with oneself and managing emotional health.

•           Stephane Segatori's Journey: From a corporate career in business intelligence to becoming the director of WeFlow Lab Stephane brings vision to the work of WeFlow.  WeFlow’s research and mission to elevate inner freedom through well-researched practices and spaces designed for individual and team growth.

•           Integration of Business and Consciousness: Discussion on the hidden links between organizations, human potential, and states of consciousness, highlighting the relevance of these connections in today's business environment.

•           Personal Growth and Mastery: Practical advice on gaining clarity and connection to one's true self, essential for making informed decisions and navigating future challenges.

•           Psychological Safety as a function of practices and principles applied intentionally to gain the benefit of emotions in making rational and intuitive decisions.

On the mission to replace duality with a unifying view of being humans capable of accessing all varieties of intelligence, I am sharing the work of WeFlow as a refreshing entry into the world of company design, leadership consciousness, and decision-making that is a better match to the world we live in.

Would love to hear your feedback or comments on this direction.

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Disruption can happen when a pandemic generates lockdowns, when technology replaces a business model, or when innovative thinking replaces predictable paradigms such as AirBNB or car-sharing. The ripple effect runs often without notice. Food prices rise in response to decreasing harvests of fish while oceans increase in temperature.

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There is an imperative to up-level trust and confidence in personal and collective ability to adapt, to handle disruption with confidence.

James Doty in his most recent book Mind Magic states “The reality, though, is that our feelings of disempowerment are often an illusion. If we examine each moment in which we appear to involuntarily give away our power, what is happening is the reactivation of an old habit.”

We are conditioned to act powerless.

Perhaps the lean to the right in the world’s political stage is an indication of that conditioning. Yet there are people among us who think differently, and who offer a shift in perspective, an opening so that doing things differently can provide a boost to the evolution of human consciousness at warp speed.

It takes a few key ingredients. Open-mindedness replaces fixed thinking, curiosity replaces fear, and recognition that growth personally or in business starts with being uncomfortable, then as we rewire, it all makes sense.

I mention this in the outro of the episode.

We can do it. We’re wired to adapt and evolve quickly when inspired or motivated.

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Could partnerships and a principled approach strengthen cultural cohesion?

It so happens that a resident of the city is also fluent in network science and its principles. On a different podcast episode, Silvia shared how network science applies to dealing with corruption where removing the person, doesn’t change the system.

https://embed.acast.com/$/5a6fab1455cdce603414631c/network-science-conversation-DrSilviaFieracu?

In this instance, working with organizations in a city with a population of 300,000, presented a different opportunity. How to galvanize cohesion among cultural organizations that would normally compete for resources?

Can cooperation be better than competition when it comes to growth?

Competition is often assumed to be the fuel that fires performance yet it also works to divide when not combined with a common focus. In Timisoara, the focus was on redirecting competition for resources to cooperation and collaboration. The conversations meant people who didn’t agree with one another needed to be able to hear opposing views. The lessons learned here can scale to how mid to large companies adapt their approach to removing siloes, having difficult conversations with eyes on an inspiring goal.

Using principle-guided decisions and interactions

In the many consultations I have facilitated around national policy and local and regional implications, the one thing that blocks people from working together is a failure to remain open to different views and perspectives. The prevailing consciousness of What is in it for me tends to funnel all that is said through one lens.

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ChatGPT has summarized a few of the takeaways from the first segment of this episode. To hear more listen to the full episode.

Takeaway Bullet Points (1st segment) [ChatGPT]

* Role and Evaluation: Silvia’a role was to evaluate the European Capital of Culture title in Timișoara, involving various types of analyses and consultations to formulate a legacy plan for the city's cultural ecosystem.

* Legacy and Strategy: The insights gathered are integrated with Timișoara's cultural strategy for the next 10 years, aiming to leverage a one-year intervention for long-term community and cultural development.

* Cultural Impact: The focus is on prioritizing cultural development as a driver for economic growth, improving quality of life, and integrating education to cultivate future cultural consumers and producers.

* Institutional Support: The Center for Projects, an institution under the mayor’s office, leads the program implementation and acts as a think tank, providing policy and financial support for the cultural sector.

* Principles vs. Beliefs: Principles, unlike beliefs, can be tested and are used to anchor actions and guide change, fostering collaboration and sustainability within the cultural ecosystem.

* Recognition and Respect: The follow-up plan emphasizes recognizing and respecting the contributions of individuals and organizations, planning together to give meaning and purpose to their efforts.

* Network Analysis: The methodology identifies key actors with significant influence over the ecosystem, fostering trust and collaboration for broader impact.

* Reflection for Growth: A key recommendation is for 2024 to be a year of reflection to learn from experiences, ensuring continuous improvement and sustainability of the cultural initiatives.

* Innovative Financing: Changes in cultural financing legislation made funding more sustainable and transparent, promoting collaboration and accessibility for vulnerable communities.

* Public Debate and Inclusion: Public debates around art and inclusive cultural events were new and significant interventions that fostered community engagement and collaboration among cultural operators.

I am a big fan of network science though data analysis is not my strength. However, I know people who can do the detailed analytical work making it easier for me, or someone like me, to find the insights and connect them to decision-making and next steps. The relevance to the issues we are working with in mid to large companies is that there is a set of principles and know-how that applies to multiple contexts.

Would it be easier to facilitate change in a city than in a company, where authoritative power fears collective intelligence?

At a time when an individual’s emotional and mental health is informed or influenced by the health of the people around them, building community across fragmentation and division is an experience worth creating.

Leaders like Garry Turner are changing all that. Guided by a vision for inner freedom and expression of the highest potential in each person and company, my conversation with Garry is upfront and personal.

The journey to move beyond limits takes an epiphany or a catalyst; some sense of compelling need to move past stagnation into growth, accompanied by a state of openness that opens many doors.

It also provides stability and trust for times that are anything but stable, and conditions that challenge trust and intuition. It is a road that is associated with more trust than fear and one I resisted for a long time.

Vulnerability didn’t mean weakness to me. It was more a question of emotional safety, but nine years of being on the road changed all that. Sometimes the hardest experiences are the best.

Garry Turner shares two pivotal moments in his life that led to significant personal growth. The first was experiencing bullying as a child, which he held onto emotionally for over 25 years. The second was a moment of realization nine years ago when despite having a successful career and family, he felt empty inside, prompting him to explore his inner world. Garry’s journey of self-discovery led him to embrace curiosity and playfulness, which transformed his perspective on work and relationships. He emphasizes the importance of seeking support and guidance from others during this process and highlights the shift from conforming to external expectations to acting from a place of inner security and authenticity.

The conversation touches on the importance of networks, experimentation, and community in driving systemic change.

Emotions in workplaces can be denied which results in their suppression. Emotions set us apart from AI and robots. Logically, releasing repressed emotions, embracing curiosity, and finding freedom in being true to oneself is the essential journey. If we are to create a world that affirms life and moves away from force as the go-to for decision-makers, then vulnerability is the portal.

Expect to hear:

* the importance of intuitive awareness in decision-making, both for himself and others.

* the significance of staying aligned with one's sense of purpose to avoid being pulled in multiple directions.

* moving from seeking validation to focusing on what makes sense in the moment.

* bringing vulnerability and an authentic self into corporate spaces, initiating conversations on sensitive topics like diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

* the transformation of leadership, advocating for a shift from traditional command and control structures to self-organizing and vulnerability-centered leadership.

* the challenges faced in traditional hierarchical organizations, where fear of loss of power and privilege inhibits progress toward more inclusive and just practices.

* tangible examples of how he introduced self-managed structures and vulnerability into his team, leading to significant business growth.

* a personal experience of self-imposed stress and the importance of taking time to allow the mind to settle.

* the practice of deep breathing and the ability to observe life from a detached perspective, facilitating more intentional responses to situations.

Reflective Questions:

* What is the role of vulnerability in your life?

* How do you respond to the word emotionally?

* What could be possible if vulnerability was practiced in your workplace by leaders in authority or at the team level?

Garry is a content creator hosting two podcasts, Value through Vulnerability and Activating Consciousness, writing blogs, and hosting livestreams around deeply human and systemic topics. Garry's links are here: https://linktr.ee/HexoChangeGarryTurner See also Hegemony Revealed on YouTube.

These are times when true leaders accept the challenge of moving past fear to realize a much deeper adaptive capacity. Garry's experience illustrates what is possible when you refuse to let fear-based thinking set the limits for what you are capable of experiencing and co-creating.

He has very kindly interviewed me on Episode 45 of Value Through Vulnerability.

Emotions are powerful energies and are best applied to well-being and adaptability. What if the worst events in your life were used to attain freedom?

The world we live in is moving beyond traditional ways of running organizations. Historically hierarchy is used to structure authority and in business has become synonymous with command and control. This doesn’t work for talented smart people who are not cogs in a wheel. Understanding personal relationship with power vs force, is central to what happens next.

Has business forgotten it can evolve?

I went to ChatGPT to get a summary of the episode: Here’s a short version of what came back.

·       Understanding the distinction between "power over" and "power with": Learn how these two forms of power impact societal structures, organizational management, and personal relationships.

·       Leveraging collective intelligence: Discover how engaging in "power with" rather than "power over" can amplify the collective intelligence of groups, leading to more innovative and effective outcomes.

·       The importance of autonomy and order: Gain insights into how a management model focused on autonomy within a structured environment can lead to lower turnover rates and higher job satisfaction among employees.

·       The evolution of Google: the journey of Google from leveraging collective intelligence to its current challenges, highlighting the importance of maintaining a "power with" philosophy.

·       The implications of digital feudalism: Understand the concept of digital feudalism, where users contribute value without compensation, and envision the potential for new models that reward user participation.

·       The future of artificial intelligence

·       The decline of hierarchical management structures: Learn about the challenges facing traditional top-down management models in adapting to rapid changes and the rise of network structures as a more adaptable and innovative approach.

·       The necessity for companies to evolve: Discover through real-world examples like Netflix and Blockbuster, the critical need for organizations to evolve their business models to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing market.

·       Self-awareness and leadership in changing times: Reflect on the importance of self-awareness and the ability to adapt one's leadership style in response to shifting power dynamics and the evolving landscape of business and society.

It will take a shift from authoritative management to engaging in the collective for organizations to see more clearly and evolve versus retreat as companies appear to be doing in 2024.

Tensions exist. The tension between autonomy and order finds a middle ground where order is achieved through structures and services that support cooperation, coordination, and collaboration. The skill to move through polarities and tensions is a prerequisite to personal mastery and collective action.

Accompanying the transition from power over to ‘power with’ is a fresh set of leadership skills that start at the personal level. This shift is observable in parenting styles. When I grew up, parents were the boss and while we were free-range kids gone from dawn to dusk, compliance was expected - to a point. The parent was the highest authority. Today it is more of a cooperative approach that can support self-esteem and confidence through acceptance.

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What will tomorrow bring? How can we use the tension between force vs freedom for healthier workplaces where freedom replaces force?

There is a set of inner skills and awareness that can systematically chart a course guided by fundamental principles. Understanding and being aware of the difference between force and autonomy is one. A second would be finding security within rather than hoping to control the outer world. Gaining control of yourself is the first step.

My experience living as a nomad brought this lesson home because fear can either stop you in your tracks or propel you to stretch. The utility of emotions is that they serve as a compass. How you feel gives clarity and feedback. Purpose (personal or organizational) points to the direction. The Whitehall studies revealed that having a strong sense of control was key to personal and organizational health. That is as true today as it was in 1991.

To move forward might mean looking back to recall what we already know but appear to have forgotten.

Emotions serve as the compass. Purpose points to the direction.

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Curtis Michelson is, in his own words a "serial failed entrepreneur, yet ever hopeful and optimistic". A longtime coach and complexity facilitator, Curtis works with clients on strategic business model deep dives and rethinks. His consultancy Minds Alert delivers on those transformation ambitions with 'design sprints' - short bursts of intense value discovery and validation. AI tools for generative thinking come along for the ride. The supporting innovation offering he created is INFOdj which aims to deliver just-in-time research insights to teams who are sprinting at those emerging edges of technology and business models. 

Based in Orlando, Florida, he gives time locally to community projects focused on social justice, reframing historical trauma narratives and green economies.

Curtis's overview of who is doing the leading-edge thinking work has been summarized on this page: https://infodj.notion.site/Curtis-Forecasts-Futures-for-Innovation-in-2024-66f092cfa3174340828c98a4e2915f8f

Curtis is a musician so naturally, I asked him to name a theme song for 2024.

How about The Waters Of March · Susannah McCorkle on YouTube?

Reading signals and cues is a great training ground for adaptive thinking. To complement Curtis’s overview this podcast will emphasize three themes during 2024.

* Considering the impact of decisions on ecological and social health so that innovation replaces habitual exploitation of the living systems and biodiversity all life relies on, including humans.

* Learning from nature and the subtle yet advanced skills inherent in other species. Injecting humanity with a dose of humility.

* Emotional health and transcendence. Leaping forward to inspiring innovations is powered by emotional health. Without it, there is a run back to the familiar instead of the step into bold and self-actualized collective leadership!

What if we advanced thinking to gain clarity by finding security from within, rather than external stability? Widening consciousness instead of contracting in fear?

These and other questions will be part of the podcast menu for 2024.

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We talk about:

* pioneering companies who reinvented themselves,

* leadership opportunities for growth,

* the science and effectiveness of small teams,

* how network science helps us understand human systems and organizations,

* collective intelligence.

Jeffrey’s career path inspired him to integrate the perspectives of strategy and organizational culture. He founded Ensemble Enabler to collaborate with organizations and foster agile organizational cultures and advance leadership at all levels of an organization. Through a unique collection of practices, Ensemble Enabler supports organizations to develop insights, acquire new knowledge, and implement new ideas through innovative approaches. Jeffrey co-founded the non-profit organization World Café Europe e.V. in 2007. Its vision …” is a Europe where citizens actively engage to find concrete solutions for the key issues of their time.”

You'll find his work on https://www.ensembleenabler.com/ in German and English

Thanks to Patricia Munro for the introduction.

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One theory is that a shock to worldview is one source of PTSD. because our worldview is a source of stability and security. It is not hard to threaten that as you may have heard in my conversation with Kathy Jourdain. All that is needed is different thinking which helps explain why worldviews have their own orbit. The dramatic shock of moving from a stable home life to being immersed in the violence that seems to characterize global unconsciousness has life-threatening consequences.

After his Afghanistan tour, he was discharged and wanted to commit suicide. You’ll hear the rest of his story in this episode. His experience is documented in the film, Wild Cat, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Harry's experience with school, war, and violence led him to discover and reconnect with himself. And he had help through becoming the parent of two orphaned ocelots. His role mirrored that of any parent. Teach life skills, keeping them safe, and the goal of re-wilding them to their native habitat.

How does the experience of fearless living in the jungle mimic the much noisier modern world? What can be learned about Harry’s journey that applies to business and personal leadership? Plenty I’d say.

This is the third in a series of three episodes on transcending difficult situations and emotions to reclaim agency, hope, and ways to restore connection to self and others.

You can find the documentary film on Amazon Prime. It just won an Emmy.

Harry’s Emerald Arch project at www.emeraldarch.org

See www.wildcatdocumentary.com

HR professional Liliya Sayvch hosted an expert panel on July 4th, 2023 to discuss how to remain Unbroken in tradition and spirit. If you haven’t listened to her episode, she provides a short introduction before introducing Ihor. If you have listened to Liliya Sayvch’s episode you can zip through to the nine-minute mark.

Mr. Kozlovsky was one of the panel experts on the July 4th panel . He speaks in Ukranian and interpreter Olesia provides the translation. This conversation is important because dark emotions and trauma can negatively impact decisions, leadership thinking, and our humanity at a time when being human is the primary differentiator from technology.

Surprises that come with abrupt disruption can threaten the worldview each person relies on to make sense of the world and feel secure in it. Trauma is a big topic today and this discussion provides insight into the biological secret to surviving, making sense of one’s experience, and recovering emotional peace.

While it is easy to assume traumatic experiences will go away over time, they do not. An emotional charge gets stored in the body and dashes out when triggered by a sight, sound, smell or repetitive pattern.

Here’s a summary of the minute marks to hone in on specific parts of the conversation.

4:08 Liliya Sayvch provides an update and sets the context for the discussion

9:00 3 things coming out of the expert panel on July 4th, 2023 that motivated the deeper conversation in this episode.

11:42 How has Mr. Kozlovsky processed his experience and made sense of his experience?

20:51 What kind of dark emotions stay with you and what can they teach?

25:46 What motivates soldiers? Hate or love?

28.31 When you are in dark places in your mind or surroundings how do you pull yourself out?

33:41 The three levels of intellectual abilities for overcoming trauma.

39:05 Finding a coherent sense of ourselves in the world around us.

40:51 What can Ihor's experience teach humanity about being compassionate and living on one planet?

46:42 Having survived a torturous experience do you retrieve meaning from the past or start anew?

1 hr 00 The fourth layer of intellectual ability - social

1 hr 06 Why these conversations matter today

1 hr11 The source: Emotional health and its relationship to polarization and conflict. A higher leadership call.

Apart from the fact that Ihor Kozlovsky does not speak English, I have learned that recounting a traumatic event must be done in one’s own language. Emotion is buried in the language we use and choose. The wisdom Ihor shares is timeless and applicable to all traumatic experiences because moving through it follows a common path, neurologically and biologically.

The last episode in this series (so far) will be published this week and then capped with a review of the steps anyone can use to move through a difficult experience while strengthening resilience and emotional/mental health.

Liliya Savych is an HR professional who was working for a large Ukraine-based corporation located in Kyiv when we recorded this episode. When Russians surrounded Kyiv she left the city and faced being a refugee without roots. Landing in Dublin she reclaimed her sense of self and then returned to Ukraine.

Since this interview, Liliya has left corporate to work in Lviv in western Ukraine with the aim of bringing her international experience to a municipal workforce. Her journey describes the experience of having the roots of your homeland yanked out and the process of adapting to a very different reality.

Her experience and journey reflect the process of a leader who chose to move through her fear to arrive at a place of inner strength - a core attribute for leaders today.

Jose has founded or co-founded six companies. Autonet, his third startup, was acquired by a Canadian media conglomerate, where he became the vice president and GM of the English online division. During that time, Jose was also the vice-chair of the Canadian IAB and was highly involved in the industry. After a hiatus from the traditional startup scene, Jose co-founded Radical, a co-owned and co-managed organization helping people create organizations that meet their needs.

Jose has spent the last several years researching and studying what makes us human and what prompts us to certain actions and choices. "Our vision is a future where the traditional FIAT hierarchy no longer grinds people into submission but rather the new realities of co-management and co-ownership give people and organizations the opportunity to flourish."

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Design for Identity with Jessica Bantom

As a designer, Jessica Bantom pays attention to details. Details matter particularly when it comes to connecting to different identities and how customers see themselves. Her newly released book, Design for Identity, aims at influencing design decisions that either bring people in or leave them out resulting in a loss of customers. After all, as Bruce Mau stated, it is not about the world of design, but about the design of the world we live in.

Jessica Bantom is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) practitioner and workplace strategist whose mission is to enable individuals to take immediate actions that create meaningful outcomes for historically excluded people. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Marymount University, Bantom is a skilled management consultant with over 20 years of experience, a compelling speaker, and a certified facilitator and coach with a passion for helping people and organizations activate the values of DEIB to become more culturally competent and thrive in our increasingly global economy. Bantom is also active in the interior design industry as an interior design and color consultant and as an engaged advocate committed to promoting DEIB in the industry and in practice. You can learn more about Jessica and her upcoming book, Design for Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World, at JessicaBantom.com.

Despite an inexplicable aversion to diversity, the logic of diverse perspectives considering identity is essential when designing spaces and places for decisions that make sense to more people. Apart from the logic Jessica lays out in our conversation, diversity is essential when working with complexity because it provides the many lenses that we need to understand the situation, to really see the full picture. Without that, decision-makers cannot make effective decisions.

To quote Jessica:

“To design for identity means to design with respect for the depth and breadth of humanity. It means that in the process of designing we are conscious of the identities of the people we’re designing for, and we are conscious of interacting with them and getting their feedback directly so that we can, number one, identify what is culturally relevant to them, what is meaningful to them, and then also to make sure that as designers, our interpretation of that still resonates with them and respects them, and brings their voices in accurately into whatever we are designing. It’s especially important now because design organizations like many other organizations, especially since the summer of 2020, have been making these proclamations about “we support DEI”, or “we stand with so-and-so this week, and we stand with so-and-so next week”, but they’re not backing it up with any meaningful change. I wouldn’t say that there is a lack of intention or desire to change or to know more about what to do, but there is a lack of guidance I would say in terms of what to do.”

Listen in on our conversation to apply design lenses to decisions and spaces.

Healthcare services in many nations are under pressure to adapt their design to meet the challenges in today's world. Two exemplary leaders in this challenging field, Margaret Stone and JP Swaine of the Irish Health Service share their experience in working with organizational network analysis and other means to engage the power of people within the 147, 000 employee organization. Starting small and thinking big, both leaders bring leadership skills fit for complex systems.

Margaret Stone is a change maker, leader, and believer in empowering staff through a social movement to shape the culture of a health service – and by translating values into behaviors. She has extensive experience in developing and leading programs to enable change in culture in the Irish Health Services. A Social Movement Change Leader and Viral Change fellow with a specific interest in developing and enabling people to their best abilities to improve Health Services.

JP. Swaine is the Culture Transformation Manager with HSE Culture & Engagement and leads nationally on the Values in Action movement in the Health Services in Ireland. Values in Action is a behavior-based social movement in the Irish Healthcare system. JPs diverse experience is grounded in understanding social systems and cognitive psychology. He has worked for many years in the Irish Community Mental Health Services and developed the First Fortnight social enterprise, Irelands Mental Health Arts Charity.

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We had a lot of fun collaborating on a complexity quiz published in her freshly published book Van hoofdkantoor naar hartszaak. Yes, it is in Dutch but the conversation isn't. Join us for a bit of a fun fireside type of conversation.

Contact Marilijn Boumeester at https://buroboumeester.nl/ or on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/marilijnboumeester

References: She mentions Rajeev Peshawaria https://rajeevpeshawaria.com/ and Joseph (Jay) Bragdon and his latest book Economies that Mimic Life. Jay is also interviewed in EP4 of this podcast and in the early part of the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes.

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The complexity of the world and organizations offers an opportunity to move past leadership as a position of authority or knowing the right answer. It is about listening and observing through a deeper level of leadership to bring the whole person to work, impacting wellbeing, innovation, diffusion, and delivery. In 2021, Nico launched Humanize, a consultancy boutique aimed at reshaping company cultures and leveraging the power of data to help organizations put humanity back at the center of their operating models.

In this episode, I mention the interview done with Hilton Barbour. Find that here; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-transformation-championing-catalytic-change-gsk-barbour/ More links to resources will be provided in an upcoming Substack Navigating Uncertainty newsletter. Also, check OrgMapper.com for more information.

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Author of Adaptive Space and a big fan of ONA, Michael brings a passion and engineer's mind to understanding data and how it can connect people and their collective strength. Michael Arena is the vice president of talent and development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for global talent practices, leadership development, learning, organizational effectiveness, new employee success strategies conducting organizational research to facilitate growth and innovation of AWS. Before that, he was chief talent officer for General Motors Corporation (GM) responsible for enterprise talent management, cultural transformation, leadership development, talent acquisition, and people analytics. His book Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies Are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations, shares how employees can disrupt their workplaces to increase flexibility and adaptive capacity.

The Sloan article Michael refers to in this interview is located here: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/use-networks-to-drive-culture-change/

The ONA Summit was put on by OrgMapper.com. OrgMapper.org is referenced in the podcast. Contact the OrgMapper folks at .com.

Two other episodes to fill in more details are the ones with Maya Townsend and Andras Viscek. Maya's is EP77 and Andras's is EP38.

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Chris offers:

• The key to converting from linear thinking about how business gets done to a system-wide impact view.
• How he prioritizes his time given the demands.
• Why community relations are critical for everyone, including the business, to succeed.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in starting up companies worldwide. His expertise and unique perspective explain why he has bitten of the challenge of running a regenerative company in the food sector.

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• The value of a shared language when working with VUCA conditions
• Anticipating change as an outlook on life
• The pillars of fitness agility in working with VUCA conditions
• The origins and applicability of VUCA to the boardroom now
• The practical application of being VUCA fit as a leader

Dr. Horney founded Agility Consulting in 2001 and has been recognized for innovations in organizational and leadership agility, including The AGILE Model®, VUCA Masters™, Leadership Agility Fitness™, After Action Agility™ and Talent Portfolio Agility™.  He also sits on the editorial board for the Business Agility Institute.

Special guest Dr. Kozhi Makai came to the US from Zambia, acquired his doctorate, then joined the US military. He is a VUCA master in every way. Combine Kozhi's real-world experience with Nick Horney's depth of experience in organizational dynamics and leadership agility and it all becomes real and doable at a time when advancing executive skills for VUCA conditions are essential.

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At the 8-minute mark, Kelly refers to the DACH market which is shorthand for Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH).

Kelly Max mentioned a SOLVV social podcast that offers perspectives on making democracy work. That link is here: https://solvv.com/solvv/how-to-start-a-revolution-to-make-democracy-work-for-the-21st-century

And another Solvv introducing the SOLVV Social Podcasting: https://solvv.com/solvv/what-is-solvv

Two more links to SOLVVS Medium articles further explain the concept:

1. A New Way To Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/a-new-way-to-podcast-introducing-solvvs-on-demand-social-podcasting-app-59e672e4c288
2. What is Social Podcasting: https://solvv.medium.com/what-is-social-podcasting-71e130d568a6

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Tim Gieseke has followed a life and career path around agriculture and environmental issues. He returned to the farm he grew up on and began farming part-time in 1996. He started with row crops and recently converted to a regenerative rotational grazing system.  Since 1996 he has also earned an MS in environmental sciences, and worked as a local conservationist, federal farm policy analyst, and owns a consulting business. He also authored three books that cover the spectrum of ecological economics, ecosystem service market development, and shared governance for sustainable working landscapes. He is currently working with a network of a dozen professionals to design an online natural capital accounting system; which he sees as the future foundation to manage and value our landscapes.   

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Julia founded The Futures Project in autumn 2019. She has long-standing leadership and management experience in national and international academic institutions and international organisations, such as COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. In 2017, Julia set up and ran the G20 Think Tank Summit Global Solutions. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland, Australia, a member of the Hertie School Alumni Council and its Academic Senate and a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum for the Future in Nuremberg, Germany.

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Olu Ogunlela is a certified life coach, retired pro-endurance athlete, and co-founder of Liferithms. Olu has 13 years of research experience in the area of behavioral psychology. He has trained individuals and groups on goal achievement and led several corporate training interventions on productivity, time management, work-balance, and peak performance. He also created training materials and developed new methodologies for achieving life, time, and energy management within a framework that was used in the development of the Liferithms platform.  Find Olu here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogunlela

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Find Dwayne at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/ or Tomorrow Now Lab at https://www.dwaynematthews.life/tomorrownow where he asks the question: Are we preparing students for 2019 or 2030?

Dwayne Matthews is a Chief Innovation Evangelist, and Future of Education Strategist who helps school boards, educators and parents understand new and evolving themes in the 21st century, the future of work to prepare children to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital information-driven world. As an XPrize Connect Advisory Board member through the XPrize Connect Future of Learning Lab his goal is to help learners worldwide reach their full potential through an equitable and sustainable future for education and technology.

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Keywords: circular economy, design change, pandemics, archetypes of emerging future and opportunities that go with it.

Ksenia Benifand has spent her life and professional career navigating liminality - the transitory, in-between state, characterized by ambiguity, messiness, and hybridity. She has been exploring the "edges of change" to gain deeper insights into the drivers of socio-cultural, political, environmental and technological changes and developments. By exploring and experimenting with different narratives, lifestyles and practices, she has gained a unique perspective. Not afraid to test her ideas, she spent over a year living zero-waste and actively participating in and building the sharing economy as part of her research and solution design for transitioning consumer behaviours towards Circular Economy business models. She plays in various contexts to study how human needs, limitations, and capabilities adapt to new and unexplored environments while building community resilience.

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Guest Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources, helps individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in our networked world. She works with corporations, communities, and nonprofits to help develop strategy, mobilize networks, and influence change. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM), her writing on networks, change, and business ecosystems have appeared in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other publications. She is a certified Deep Democracy practitioner and leads professional chocolate tastings in her free time. 

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Christian Feinberg is the transformation lead and current enabling team coach for multiple therapeutic areas at Roche Sweden. Before Roche, Christian was part of Pfizer / Pharmacia Pharmaceutical for eight years. His personal mission is to support and develop people to be their best selves in order to deliver outstanding value for Swedish patients. Our conversation covers principles, the power of purpose and the systems and processes that had to change to allow people to be engaged in all conditions.

Aso watch the webinar sponsored by CRISP Sweden, hosted by Mathias Holmgren that inspired this conversation with Christian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPqBYpXwko

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She covers linear decision making, bifurcation, shifting consciousness, the value of adapting to work with complex systemic issues and the opportunities ahead to develop resiliency and self-efficacy.

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In this provocative, contrarian, and wide-ranging conversation, you’ll learn:

• Why the capacity to manage scary uncertainty - evident in the courageous non-conformity of artists, deep readers, meditators, and entrepreneurs - is absolutely critical to creativity and innovation
• Why we should focus on underlying strengths - strategy, empathy, problem-solving - instead of taking lazy shortcuts of asking for specific credentials
• Why the self-employed are masters at the self-engagement and autonomous work that’s crucial to working remotely
• Why using applicant tracking systems to scan resumes can be “the biggest con” in talent, offering us the illusion we’ve discerned things worth discerning
• Why “prior experience” ignores learning in, passion for, or even success in an experience - but actively filters out diversity of thought and innovation
• Why HR needs more of just about every background but MBAs and people with HR credentials
• Why cover letters should ask candidates to focus on how they get into the Flow state

Cameron is a founding member of Humancentric Labs, a consultancy specializing in freeing up human potential for maximum worker engagement and productivity. Cameron has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Cameron recently published Ordinary Magic: Promises I Made My Mother Through Life, Illness, and a Very Long Walk.

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The COVID virus has exactly the same characteristics as climate change does. COVID is much more immediate, but it's having exactly the same impact on how decisions get made and whether they get made understanding impact and system-wide effects. It has an impact on strategy, how we think about where we're going and what we're doing. It has an impact on humanity and the relationship between humanity and the living world, which is a profound and critically important connection that is long been broken.

We are in the midst of what is known as a systems level bifurcation.

Systems theorist. Ervin Laszlo says we are at a split in the evolutionary trajectory. I quote,

"there are laws of complexity, including laws of the evolution of complexity that apply to all systems. A nonlinear system level transformation called a bifurcation is one such law. A bifurcation indicates a change, a radical change in the evolutionary trajectory. Of the system, but a time will come when such a linear evolution is no longer possible. The system faces a stark alternative, transform or collapse. This is the point of bifurcation."

This is the moment that we are in. It's an exciting time because it invites us to change our decision-making from linear, which has caused enormous waste and a negative impact on society to impact based decision-making based on recognizing and respecting the systemic effects. It is having an impact on the assumptions that we make underlying how we hire people, how, people are treated.

In this series, I'll be introducing and interviewing different people bringing different perspectives on what opportunities business has and you have to really adjust thinking to adapt to the complex times were in and to take advantage of the moment to co-create better solutions that allow for humans to bring them whole selves to work, to express their talent, their creative talent, and to work with complex issues, respecting their character and their nature. Complex issues do not respond well to linear approaches. I invite you then to join as we learn from this simple virus which may have brought enough of a pattern interruption to allow us to rethink and reinvent what we want in the world and to co-create it together.

My name is Dawna Jones. You can find me on LinkedIn at DawnaHJones or on From insight to action.com

My work involves adapting decision-making to meet complex situations, emergent strategy where we don't have a clear picture of the end point anymore, transforming organizations using complexity principles, which are far more effective and provoke, different ways of thinking and ways of making sense of situations.

Join me on this series.

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Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/500-transformed-productivity-self-leading-organisation-ebook/dp/B08HJLWHXH

And the first interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-road-to-self-management/id1006636782?i=1000441169724

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Find Diana at AgileFluency.org

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Jan has developed two products: The Thinking Game found on the website and the Dynamic Collaboration Software App https://dynamiccollaboration.app/

In this conversation, Jan talks about "we" spaces, human development as a determinant for collaboration and transformation, explaining the nuances of transforming and execution in organizations. Inspired by individuals sourced in complexity, epistemology, process consultation and constructive adult development, Jan links those inspirations directly to the work of adapting to dynamic conditions. His new book is Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams. Springer, 2020.

• Twitter: @jandevisch
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-de-visch-469580/

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Raised in Alaska, Shannon Huffman Polson climbed Denali at age 19 then went on to become one of the US Army's first female attack helicopter pilots. In this episode, she talks about what grit is, decision making leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the difference between purpose in the military and purpose in the corporate world and why we need everyone's capacity to contribute at the table. Now. 

Head over to ShannonPolson.com or thegritinstitute.com for more information.

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Richard Atherton interviewed Dawna on Being Human Episode #105: Life Interrupted https://youtu.be/LOsIoDwjUpE

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In this discussion with Dawna, Colonel O' Grady demonstrates box breathing and talks about the neuroscience-based tools used whether dealing with your teenage daughter or in combat environments. We talk about how this applies to executive decisions today and why this is a golden moment for every person to adapt to a changing decision-making context that won't return to business as usual. 

John is now the Founder and Owner of, O’Grady Leadership Consulting Services, where he works with high performing and high potential individuals, executives, coaches, players, teams and organizations to become the very best version of themselves. Find him at strategicleadersacademy.com Email john.ogrady@strategicleadersacademy.com

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Host is Dawna Jones who supports leaders at all levels in going beyond limits and working with blind spots.

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Every inspired, purpose driven business has a compelling Why sourced in the life experience of the founder and Viisi is no exception. Tom shares his pivotal epiphany during the episode. For more on Viisi see https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/ Tom can be found on LinkedIn. You can also read about the visit Corporate Rebels made to Viisi in their blog post Employees First, Customers Second, Shareholders Last.

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Paul and Dawna had this conversation in Madrid, Spain at the Choices Conferences hosted by Cocoon Projects in October 2019.

We talk about the difference between design and development, when organizational design applies, how to know when (or if) to stop paying attention, communication and decision-making.

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With the move to #HumansFirst and a logical and sensible approach to treating people as adults comes a higher level of explicit commitments to how decisions are made, and how initiative is required and supported. Doug's insights give anyone dissatisfied with their working environment a way to move forward no matter what role you are in.

Doug's latest book is the No Limits Enterprise published by Forbes and available on Amazon world-wide and Barnes and Noble plus regular book sellers.

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They explore:

1. The importance of paying attention to digital transformation.
2. Why much human potential is not being tapped by existing company practices and how to change that
3. Why being busy doesn't drive productivity or priorities
4. How to ensure strategy does not get buried by day to day
5. Where the conflict in priorities exists between day to day and digital transformation.

Prior to establishing Roebling Strauss, Bill held executive positions at Publicis Dialog and Real Branding. Bill was a founding member of ROCG Consulting, and helped launch and later ran the first ecommerce site for Mattel Interactive.

Bill has helped more than 200 organizations, including such global brands as Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Mills, Lipton, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and WebEx. He’s conducted business in three continents, is a past president of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, and has published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and provides commentary in the media on issues in organizational culture, productivity, and innovation.

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Healthy human interaction relies not just on personal and interpersonal skills but also on the way the space supports interaction. In Decision Making for Dummies I included the reported statistic from a large drug manufacturer that decision-making speed and accuracy improved 47% when consideration was given to people flow.

Vladic Roskin  is an architect who believes that, at its best, architecture has the unparalleled ability to implicitly influence our behaviours - how we feel, think and engage with others. He is the co-founder at design and innovation consultancy Places People Love that supports leaders in transforming their organizations, environments and people by understanding human interactions with technology, culture and physical space. Fascinated by the various ways our built environment can stimulate a deeper engagement with ourselves and others, Vladic has cultivated a deep passion for human nature enriched by nearly a decade of architectural design experience. His collaborations with renowned architects, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social enterprises resulted in successful projects in the private and public sphere.

Vladic holds a masters degree in engineering sciences and architecture and is on a life-long quest to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. His work is supported by a decade of research and personal experiences living across cultures, travelling to awe-inspiring places and encounters with visionary individuals.

Ricardo Peralta is an architect and an urban planner passionate about integrating different disciplines with ancient wisdom to create spaces that nurture and heal. His explorations have led him from design to interdisciplinary healing forms; from organizational strategy to deeper practices of spiritual development. He has participated in the design of numerous large-scale projects, residential and commercial developments, office complexes, eco-resorts, eco-communities, and retreat centers. He was also part of a team that created three entirely new cities based on an innovative holistic approach to urban planning and wellbeing.

Ricardo sees architecture as an instrument to connect to one's soul and spirit, enjoys life's celebration, treasures the warmth of a hug, and strives to live a life rooted in the wisdom of the heart. Ricardo has consulted for projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe.

He is the other co-founder at design & innovation consultancy Places People Love. 

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Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.com

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Jessica Murrey is an awarding-winning communications specialist and common ground activist. She is the creative mind behind Battle for Humanity, a mobile game designed to forge real-life heroes. Jess specializes in social change communication, awareness campaigns, and getting in the audience’s head. At age 24, She received a Northwest Regional Emmy for Community Service for her lead role in “Don’t Turn Away,” an anti-child abuse media campaign. Months later, her PSA “Meth Mirror” won Oregon Association of Broadcasters' Award for “Best PSA 2012”. Since then, she spent four years running Search for Common Ground’s global communication department. During that time, she established new organizational branding, messaging, internal systems of content gathering and distribution, and strengthened programs’ capacity in storytelling, social media, and brand creation. She has developed communication strategies and awareness campaigns for projects from Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria to Myanmar, and major international events like the Global Forum on Youth Peace and Security. Most recently, Jessica returned from giving a Social Change Communication training in Colombia around mobilizing citizens towards reconciliation in a post-conflict situation. 

Learn more about Battle4Humanity at http://www.Battle4Humanity.com

This is a time when more than ever together we can strengthen our humanity in the face of forces that would suppress it. Taking charge of how each person responds to conflict constructively will make a difference to how we treat and see each other in the world. - Dawna Jones

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Guest Lakshitha Saji Prelis is the Co-Chair, UN-INGO-Donor Inter-Agency Working Group, Youth and Peacebuilding; Director, Children & Youth Programs, Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. Six years ago he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-INGO--Donor working group on Youth and Peacebuilding that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Prior to joining SFCG, he was the founding director of the Peacebuilding & Development Institute at American University where he co-developed training curricula exploring the nexus of peace building with development.

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Saji Prelis has served as an adviser to governments and governmental agencies in over a dozen countries. He has also played an advisory role to the Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Ministers on youth and peacebuilding. In June 2017, Mr. Prelis received the distinguished Luxembourg Peace Prize for his Outstanding Achievements in Peace Support. Follow him on Twitter: @Networkforyouth

Links mentioned in this episode include: Search for Common Ground: https://www.sfcg.org/

SFCG tools and resources: https://www.sfcg.org/children-and-youth/

Soliya: https://www.soliya.net/

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Matiullah Rahmaty is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum, cofounder of impACT – a social entrepreneurship network for countries in conflict or post conflict and cofounder of CoWorthy and Brightpoint. Sher Shah Rahim is CEO of a private company called IAP, Co-founder of Tamveel and CoWorthy and is also on a Jury at World Summit Awards UN. You can learn more about them through their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/coworthy/

Any authors or generous people willing to help fill the CoWorthy library please contact Mati and Sher through Facebook or contact Dawna for the mailing address.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights and decision-making leadership.

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In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Anurag shares what makes him tick and how he approaches communities and people ready to do something different even when in the context of war or conflict.

None of this is easy which is why Anurag attracts people who hold hope for a better future, and willing to do what it takes. In some countries living is high risk illustrated by the recent death of Startup Grind's Chapter host in Mogadishu Somalia, Mohamed Sheikh Ali, who was gunned down. As chapter host he did inspiring work to support entrepreneurs.

Facing To tough situations takes courage, vision and empathy in order to work together to create better options that transcend existing conditions. Yet that is what it takes in emerging economies and for citizens in countries working to a future with greater hope. If you haven't already listened to the impACT interview please do.

You will find Anurag Maloo on social media channels listed here: tps://about.me/anuragmaloo

Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights that activate the power of the human spirit to work creatively with designing a future with hope and connection to what matters.

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This episode takes you into the story of treating yourself as a startup by exploring

1. What Otto Scharmer's leading from the emergent future looks like when you are nomadic
2. How societal expectations and the weight of judgement suppress human potential and true leadership
3. What steps help to work with resilient moments and avoid depression
4. Why the three areas of balance in a startup applied to being human and finding your way in uncertain confusing territory
5. What do you do when the rules of the game of life prove to be wrong.

On the second of two personal episodes Dawna walks you through how she became homeless and why it served to return her to a unified place of consciousness and be at peace with chaos.

"Knowledge and expanded consciousness exists outside of belief"

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Dawna Jones specializes in seeing what others don't - insights that allow for a shift in perspective, clearing of blocks and barriers to human and organizational potential. She is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo and co-author of From Hierarchy to High Performance. Her work engages deeper aspects of human intelligence to move collectively forward on the large complex issues that face companies and the planet through ethical decision-making and bold leadership.

Find Dawna on Twitter at EPDawna_Jones, LinkedIN and FromINsightToAction.com

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Prof. Franz Röösli, Ph.D. is head of the Center for Enterprise Development at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He researches, teaches and advises companies in the fields of organizational design, leadership and strategy.

At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (www.bbrt.org), an international practitioner and research community that deals with questions of future-oriented leadership and organization and has developed the Beyond Budgeting leadership and organizational approach.

Before joining university, Franz Röösli worked for many years in management positions in SMEs and large companies. See https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/zue/upload/Beyond_Budgeting_as_a_mindset_and_a_framework_for_action.pdf for more information.

Host Dawna Jones specializes in releasing imperceptible blocks to company transformation while advancing leaders decision making skills and mindset to lead transformation successfully.

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 The insights offered in this conversation inform change agents why Agile is a mindset and why it makes self-management easier to implement well. With host Dawna Jones, Brian and Nancy also explain what differentiates Agile implemented well from ‘fake’ Agile, where the vocabulary is learned but the practices stay rooted in traditional management styles.  Offering plenty of real examples of companies built to adapt quickly Nancy and Brian have learned how to spot companies that are pretending from companies committed to reducing risk and increasing collaboration.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an electronics and software engineer for medical, aerospace, industrial applications. She was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems work. Nancy has been coaching Agile teams and managers since 1998.

Brian Shoemaker is an independent validation consultant to FDA-regulated companies, with a background in medical devices, clinical diagnostics and software quality management.

Nancy’s Website:  (Lean-Agile Partners)http://leanagilepartners.com

Brian’s website: (ShoeBar Associates) http://www.shoebarassoc.com/

Book web site:http://agilemethodsforsafetycriticalsystems.com

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Dawna can be contacted through www.FromINsighttoAction. T: EPDawna_Jones or on LinkedIn.

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Dennis Wittrock, M.A., Holacracy Coach at Hypoport, partner at encode.org, founder of Integral Europe, founder and former co-director of the IEC 2014 and 2016, served 5 years as CEO and board member of Integrales Forum and the Integral Academy in Germany. His purpose is to create spaces for the emergence of integral consciousness. www.integral-con-text.de Our conversation took place just before the European Integral Conference.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics and perceiving systems result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #facilitator #podcaster

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In this discussion with host Dawna Jones you will meet:

Matiullah, a visionary Afghan who believes in Entrepreneurship and social change,

A'laa, a young Lebanese entrepreneur on a social mission,

Nicole, a published author, social entrepreneur, co-founder of the impACT movement and guest expert on the topic of power dynamics in the international context at Freie University in Germany and,

Tobias whoworks as advisor innovation manager at GIZ, a German enterprise providing international cooperation and development services, while pursuing a startup that connects the private sector with academia. Views expressed are his own.

Together they share with you the origins of impACT and its role in offering a fresh narrative for young people infused with positive energy and hope through social entrepreneurship succeeding in different contexts world-wide, conflict, post-conflict and no conflict.

Less than a year old, imPACT is rapidly building momentum toward being a force in citizen engagement and in particular, in the role of entrepreneurs in to provide power to the people, especially minorities who are becoming role models for leadership. Diversity makes it work. For more info go to: https://m.facebook.com/impACTheworld/

Host Dawna Jones designs change strategies that reach deep into intrinsic motivations to transform from one state to a higher state restoring ethical decisions and care for all life. #decisions #conscious leadership #transcendence

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In this episode, Dawna shares what happened, what is next and what kinds of conversations took place. For more information go to the https://globalchallenges.org/ website.

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Host Dawna Jones is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, speaker, and designer of transformational processes particularly in complex systems.

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The story of an innovative bakery providing brownies in Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

What business students are learning in answer to the question: Can business really marry profit and purpose?

One Swiss health agency's approach to decreasing isolation.

How gathering inspiring stories changes the lives and mindset of business students.

Closing the schism between business just being made for profit and the potential to do good in the world.

How a strengths based approach shifts focus and outlook.

Claire Sommer is a professional writer who has taken on the role of Director of AIM2Flourish, an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University. Learn more at AIM2Flourish.com. Roberta Baskin, the previous director, was a guest on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast, Dawna's previous podcast.

Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems by working with the human spirit and tech. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics; perceiving systems together with transformational know-how result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #podcaster

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We talk about how to get started, the simplicity of principled decision making as a transformational means to create a psychologically safe workplace, how to respect the intrinsic equality of all through practical measures like cleaning up salary inequities, finding the sweet spot for personal growth, revamping training and a more human role for HR. What happens when you treat employees like adults? That's only one of many insights you'll hear in this episode where we also talk about the role of boundaries in achieving liberties and why working on yourself holds the highest power in transforming organizations. When Laurent talks about liberating organizations he means from the ego of managers. That's powerful and profound!

Laurent Ledoux has twenty-five years general management experience as CEO, BU Manager, HRM, Financial Director; in private, public & not-for-profit sectors; for small, medium or large (1.000 +) organizations; in Western & Eastern Europe, and Africa; ten years experience in reinventing (Laloux) & liberating (Getz) organizations: as CEO; led 3 TEAL turn arounds. Has taught executive classes & facilitating public events (mainly on business ethics, CSR & leadership) for ten years. He is fluent in seven languages. In this conversation he talks about his time at the Federal Ministry of Mobility and Transportation implementing autonomy and participatory governance. His current focus is on transforming companies and turning around companies in crisis ethically and through principles that generate psychological safety.

Dawna Jones, podcast host, provides insight to business decision makers to strengthen accuracy and opportunity for greater agility in complex environments. She brings a holistic view and profound insights to leaders and decision-makers in complex situations.

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Torrey Powell is Tech Leader, Nate Wixom is Director Marketing Tech and Charlie King is Web Dev for Clearlink. Clearlink is a digital marketing and sales company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. www.Clearlink.com

This episode was recorded live on site at the Mob Programming conference 2018 in Boston, MA where host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones, was delivering a workshop on using conflict to expand skills. Find Dawna on LinkedIn or at her website: From Insight to Action

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April 5th is Golden Rule day - an international day for restoring empathic connection and responsible decision making.

The book The Imaginal Cells includes contributing authors Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, Mohamed Yunus, Paul Polman, William McDonough, Johan Rockstrom, Thomas Lovejoy, Jonathon Porritt. You will find more information on the ReboottheFuture.org website.

Host Dawna Jones provides insights accompanied by advanced decision making awareness for clarity greater accuracy and increased responsiveness especially in complex environments.

Her transformational insights free personal and organizational potential to be more creatively responsive to high speed change. Speaker, author, strategist and educator. Author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos, and host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna works with diverse thinkers and travels the world.

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Robbie Stamp ie is Chief Executive of Bioss International, a company founded by Gillian Stamp. Bioss is a global network of organization and people development consultancies that work in the private, public and third sectors. Their work supports effective decision-making at all levels and helps clients develop and deliver on their strategies in an increasingly complex world. Bioss.com

Prior to this, Robbie was Chairman and Chief Executive of The Digital Village, a media company founded with the late Douglas Adams, which pioneered social networks to create content on the internet. He also created HandHeld History, a mobile phone content company.

Between 1995 and 2000, Robbie was CEO of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, the company he co-founded with the late Douglas Adams in 1995. The company created the computer game Starship Titanic and h2g2.com, the real 'Earth edition' of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was sold to the BBC. TDV, an early pioneer of online communities and user-generated content, was also involved in television, mobile Internet distribution, and e-commerce deals.

Host Dawna Jones offers intuitive insights giving forward looking decision makers and responsible leaders high leverage ways to transform, and reinvent in complex environments with greater clarity and accuracy. FromInsightToAction.com.

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The topic is timely given the selection of semi-finalists for the Global Challenges Foundation contest in designing better governance and decision making models to handle the complex issues globally. Though my submission was not selected, I still see the value of merging narrative (with Dr. Thomas Juli) with decision making and elevated consciousness, to support nations in being able to work with issues having many fast moving parts.

Guests:

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen. www.zyen.com

Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker & author -- specializing in reinvention. She oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment, & consulting. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.

Nadya has personally contributed to the development of more than 5,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries teaching courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the term embedded sustainability which has caught on to differentiate authentic commitment from superficial efforts to look responsible. You'll also find Nadya's insights via three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia & the US.

Show host Dawna Jones provides transformational insights to decision makers leading change in complex environments or issues. You'll find her at FromInsightToAction.com She has written or contributed to two books: Decision Making for Dummies and The Intelligence of the Cosmos and written for Business Expert Press on Moving Successfully to an Executive Role.

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• What can pigeons teach us about how humans network and communicate
• 3 mistakes executives consistently make when directing organizational change
• How to increase the speed and engagement of organizational change by understanding who the real change agents are.

Andras Viscek, Co-Founder of Maven7, is a researcher, a management consultant and a trainer specialized in organizational and social network analysis with a solid background in change management, team and organizational development. He has a degree in work and organizational psychology from the Eötvös Loránd University of Science in Budapest. He is a board member at the Mérei Sociometric Workshop (a professional association for European sociometry practitioners), and has organized several related international events including Circuits of Profit 2011, a conference for business related SNA applications.

Andras is also the developer of OrgMapper, a web-based Organizational Network Analysis tool for internal and external change agents. He frequently holds OrgMapper Organizational Network Analysis certification trainings for change management and OD practitioners from various regions of the World. Before founding Maven7 with his partners, he gained vast experience as the head of several HR-focus international research projects regarding work stress, motivation, loyalty and employer branding. His specialities include: change management, organizational development, business process improvement, knowledge management, team development, KOL mapping, social media analysis and network data mining.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is specializes in personal organizational and global transformation strategies that engage the power of the human spirit guided by science. She wrote Decision Making for Dummies, blogged for Great Workplace Cultures on the HuffPo, and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Follow Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones or www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org and former VP and Research Director at Forrester Research for software development. Through his analyst work with several different organizations, Dave has experienced first-hand the barriers to agility and knows the steps that leaders need to take to become more agile.

Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.

In his position at Scrum.org, Dave works to carry out the organization’s goal of enabling teams to deliver software in a more effective way, raise the skill level of the software development industry, and in turn, influence the production of great software with the power to change the world. Prior to his work at Scrum.org, Dave led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. He also was Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies and Managing Director of the Americas at Ivar Jacobsen Consulting. 

Host – Dawna Jones

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant who works with progressive thinkers and bold leaders to elevate value at a human, organizational to global level. She has been a monthly blogger for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Business Expert Press just published Successfully Moving to an Executive Role. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Susan Basterfield is host Dawna Jones's guest in this episode where they talk about prototyping, beyond a growth mindset, and explore what happens if you imagine a different relationship to work. 

Susan Basterfield has lived and worked in 20 different countries, Susan chose New Zealand as home in 2003 which is where she talks to Dawna in this episode. From working in multi-nationals she now serves the Enspiral Foundation as a Director and Catalyst, and does her work from within an Enspiral Livelihood Pod.

Catalyst and convener, she helps individuals and organizations release potential through participatory creation—unique manifestations of ways of working and being beyond traditional hierarchical models. These include ongoing experiments in Self-Management, Agile Beyond Tech, Deliberately Developmental Organizations, and Facilitative Leadership. She is a prolific writer and speaker, and has shared her experiences from India to Korea, Canada to Chile, Sweden to Australia and most places in between.

Susan is the creator and convener of the Practical Self Management Intensive at Leadwise Academy. She holds a BA in Communications, a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, and in 2015, received the Perkins Award for most exceptional body of work in the second cohort of Seth Godin’s altMBA.

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Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogged for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Writer, speaker, and change innovator, you can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. 

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Daniel is an organisation designer, working through his company, Conductal. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Said Business School (Oxford University) and co-founder of a community for cross-disciplinary experimentation called Crossmodalism. See Conductal.org for more information. 

Host Dawna Jones is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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• conversation understood through neuroscience to create more human workplaces;
• questions asked in complex change and the art of creating safety;
• non-judgement on children's academic performance;
• communicating through transparency and truth to create trust;
• quality conversations in transforming workplace cultures. 

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business and deep dynamics to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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We talk about:

1. The four reasons why budgeting was working against company profitability.
2. What they use instead of budgets to monitor performance.
3. What shift in focus results from removing budgeting
4. How she pitched the idea to the board then implemented the decision without creating resistance
5. Tips for companies thinking about doing things differently but having trouble getting started.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she is a regular speaker at global conferences including TED, SXSW and IBC and regularly writes for b2b publications on stuff like this: http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2016/8/18/recruit-change-agents-and-save-11-trillion.html#gs.Cja9aQU

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Host Dawna Jones specializes in custom designing transformation experiences that merge the sciences with perception of the deep dynamics holding or supporting change. Her work leads to quantum culture change touching the personal and leadership levels through decision-making. 

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Jack Barnard, guest hosts this program. Jack is a speaking coach, master of change, an artist and much more. He brings a wonderful sense of humour to help people see themselves and situations from a different perspective. 

Dawna's website is FromInsightToAction.com

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You’ll learn:

• What insights are and why they have such high value to business for innovation and solving wicked problems
• How Six Sigma and stamping out errors stamps out innovation
• Where insights come from and how you can recognize your insights
• How chains of command filter out insights and why no one person should have the right to veto an idea
• Why curiosity is better than counting errors and why celebrating being right is more effective than focusing on errors.

Gary Klein is a research psychologist famous for his work in pioneering the field of naturalistic decision-making. Among his books are Sources of Power and Intuition. In this interview we talk about his book, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights. His keen observations and inquiry skills builds a bridge between theory and life. You will find Gary’s books online at Amazon and other retailers. His work is also included in Dawna’s Decision Making for Dummies.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos being released in mid-October, 2017. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.

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Rod Collins believes that we are in the midst of a epochal change. What does this mean to you? To jobs? To Workplaces? Tracing the path from bureaucracies, how power is being transferred to today’s peer to peer networks, Rod maps out changes to the fundamentals of social dynamics at work. Through original stories about Wikipedia, and Craigslist Rod provides insight into how an idea displaces a business without intending to.

You’ll hear:

• The 3 evolutionary laws of networks that operate in a hyperconnected world
• The 4 attributes required for collective intelligence to emerge
• The real meaning of digital transformation
• The two massive tasks facing society in response to digital revolution and the need for a new economy
• The larger implications of innovation on beliefs and health
• Why a universal basic income is a bad idea

Rod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, where we used the principles and the practices of Wiki Management to realize the greatest five-year growth period in the 54-year history of the business. Today he is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, an international management consulting firm. Author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014) Rod’s passion is to work with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod writes a monthly blog for the HuffPost Great Workplace Cultures. He’s done two episodes for Dawna’s other podcasts – The Evolutionary Provocateur. One is on the Death of Command and Control; the second on Wiki-management. 

Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body.

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Raised on pioneer Morning Star’s self-management practices, Doug Kirkpatrick knew autonomy from the start. His book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization has been revised to include updates and more stories of companies taking steps toward self-management and the compelling benefits. In this interview with Insight to Action host and global change agent, Dawna Jones, they talk about:

• Why the term is ‘beyond empowerment’ and the fatal flaw in empowerment programs,
• Why the term employee is obsolete and the importance of language in the future of work
• Why you are already self-managing and didn’t realize it
• Why you can’t be fired in a self-managing company
• Why change is fluid and non-threatening in a self-management context
• How decisions get made
• Using scenarios and game theory to handle the unpredictable nature of financial planning
• How big to small companies are applying the principles and practices of self-management including manufacturing giant Haier.

Doug Kirkpatrick is an organizational change consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, executive coach, writer and educator. Doug played the first season of his business career in the manufacturing sector, principally with The Morning Star Company of Sacramento, California, a world leader in the food industry. He now engages with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute and other vibrant organizations and leaders to co-create the future of management. Doug is part of the Great Workplace Cultures network and he regularly blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplaces.

Dawna previously interviewed Doug for her Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. That replay is posted on Management-Issues.com Tomatoes and Self-Management or in iTunes.

Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished while strengthening health. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision-making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body. In other words, you feel better.

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Mariusz Bocian. Polish documentary filmmaker, openly shares his inner process with moving from a toxic work environment to being more aligned with his purpose. He shares what he uses as a compass every day, and what he’s learned by diving deep.

Mariusz and Dawna talk about:

• The pivotal point for doing things differently
• How he dismantled limiting beliefs
• How he uses feeling uncomfortable to reflect and see the source
• Why diving deep reveals the pivot point for a different response.
• The Reinvention-Movie and corporate reinvention
• Tips on abundance

Mariusz Bocian, passion and intuition follower, is focused on creating sustainable value for people. He is creating a documentary movie about personal and organizational transformation towards workplaces where people flourish. You’ll find the documentary film on www.reinvention-movie.com

Related interviews: Kevin O’Brien on Letting Go of Control is on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast: on my iTunes page: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1

Or on http://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/356/letting-go-of-control/

Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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You will hear:

• About the role of a leader as a guardian of values
• The verticality of all life at different stages
• Emotions – what they are and how they serve you
• The ego’s need and soul’s desire
• The fundamental human needs companies often fail to meet
• Fulfilling fundamental human needs in teenagers
• Why Millennial is one of the most miss used terms
• How soul and psychology got separated and why it is time to bring it back
• About a 4th dimension
• A question around AI and soul

Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre®, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools® (CTT) which have been used to support more than 6,000 organizations on their transformational journeys. To date, more than 5,000 change agents, consultants and coaches have been trained by the Barrett Values Centre to use the Cultural Transformation Tools in over 50 countries. See www.values-centre.com

Listen to an earlier podcast Dawna did with Richard on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. 

Karen Rivoire, co-host for this episode, is a curious people pioneer activating the global human revolution inside companies. Passionate about aligning people’s experience with company purpose, she prefers to solve tough business challenges. Because she values difference, she disrupts unhelpful patterns responsibly and empowers people around a purpose-driven future. On top of her long experience in large and entrepreneurial world-class organizations she advises business leaders, tech founders and mentors at Microsoft Accelerator. Karen is bilingual French and English. Find her on LinkedIN.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and practitioner specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Find Dawna on T: EPDawna_Jones and LinkedIn.

Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)

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In this episode you will learn about the role of the ego as an enabler or leadership liability, why the CEO does not hold the power, a day in the life of a liberated organization, and lessons learned from over 300 liberated companies world-wide. You will also learn about the transformational journey leaders go on to leave behind the belief that they are the smartest person in the organization.

Isaac Getz, coauthor of Freedom, Inc., is a professor at the ESCP Europe Business School French campus, and was a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in Computer Science, obtained an MS in Management Science, and PhDs in Psychology and in Management. You can find Isaac Getz at http://freedomincbook.com/

 Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, an advanced book, and she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones.

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• reduces the complexity of a problem
• gain the advantages of thinking of your business as a story
• switch the narrative to empowering ecosystem potential
• collaborate and compete in the same moment

In this conversation Simone Cicero explains how the Platform Design Toolkit:

• Connects platform thinking to learning
• Connects with the existing world of design thinking
• The outcomes the five design canvases generate: transactional and relationship
• The spectrum from vision-prototype-validation and growth hacking
• How platform design help health, for example, achieve more by spending less
• How platforms accelerate scaling
• Two ways to innovate the business of your company.

Simone Cicero is a self-starter, strategist, product and service designer interested in co-design, design thinking and innovation. He sees the reasons underpinning change and connects the dots to design relevant and consistent strategies and products. A Lean and Agile practitioner with experience in adapting methodologies, Simone runs workshops for strategy co-creation, product and service design and more. Coaching and participated learning are true paths to innovation.  A blogger and public speaker, Simone speaks about innovation, disruption, resilience and ecosystems. Under the Meedabyte banner, Simone’s content has been featured on forward thinking magazines and blogs such as: Repubblica, Domus, Shareable, Ouishare Media, and Les Echos.

Go to www.PlatformDesignToolkit.com to download what you need to think through your platform.

Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action program, designs creative ways to get tough conversations and tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

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In their conversation with host, Dawna Jones they talk about:

• The tension between running business as an operation and the process of design to mobilize major transformation
• The value of readiness particularly at the CEO level plus how metrics work against risk taking
• The short-cut approach to avoiding digital transformation and the problems that creates
• The need for building confidence and courage throughout a long-term change process as business life surfaces multiple disruptions
• How to mitigate the loss of foresight and risk aversion due to fear
• The importance of designing the future and future ambitions
• How ready or not companies are to up the strategy to the level of global sustainability
• Tips for executive decision makers

Wilton & Bain help organizations find the right people to guide companies through change operationally and strategically.  http://wbmsglobal.com/team/

Host Dawna Jones specializes in reading the deep dynamics underpinning personal and organizational growth. She helps increase self and organizational awareness of the systemic impact of decisions so that human potential is released. Speaker - Consultant-Author - VR (virtual reality for human evolution).

Find her on www.FromInsightToAction.com or Twitter EPDawna_Jones 

The intro music is composed by Mark Romero of MarkRomeroMusic.com Mark's music has been verified by a quantum physicist to restore coherence. 

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In this program we talk about:

• The implementation of self-management (Holacracy) at Business School Lausanne 
• The limits of hierarchy in driving purpose
• The big insights and freedom gained from decentralized decision making
• The ups and downs of deliberately developmental organizations (Robert Kegan’s work)
• How a business school can walk its talk through reinventing itself and offer students experience with the unfolding real world
• How the GapFrame framework can be used by business and business schools to change the conversations (gapframe.org)
• Advice to recent graduates facing the question: What next? ‘Get a job’ or ‘do what I care about’

Go online to Business School Lausanne to take the 5 minute CARL quiz on your responsible leadership competencies. Are you up to speed?

Guest Dr. Katrin Muff is a thought leader in the transformative space of sustainability and responsibility at Business School Lausanne, where she acted as Dean from 2008-2015 until self-organization made such a title redundant. Under her leadership, the school focused its vision on entrepreneurship, responsibility and sustainability in education and research. Her business experience includes 10 years at ALCOA (GM in Russia, Industry Analyst for Global M&A in the U.S. and Business Analyst Europe), 3 years as Director, Strategic Planning EMEA at IAMS Europe (Procter & Gamble), and 3 years as a co-founder of Yupango, a coaching consultancy dedicated to start-ups and training management teams.

Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, decision-making and consciousness leadership guide, author of Decision Making for Dummies – an advanced guide to decision making in the 21st century. She prepares decision makers with the skills to read context and apply intuitive in balance with rational to make the best decisions in complex situations. On iTunes you’ll find Dawna Jones’s podcasts on https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1 Contact Dawna at www.FromInsightToAction.com or through LinkedIn.

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In this episode you’ll hear and try on:

• 10 principles that need to be operational for any democracy to function
• The Freedom at Work Scorecard for companies of 5 or more
• The financial rewards of being a freedom-centric workplace
• How to apply the five step power question process
• What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
• Why now is the Democratic Age
• The level of fear in the C-suite and how to rise above it

Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, which has a vision to see one billion people working in freedom-centered organizations worldwide. WorldBlu was founded in 1997 and is the largest global network of companies committed to freedom and democracy in the workplace, with clients in over 80 countries globally representing over $30 billion in annual revenue.

WorldBlu's clients include such well-respected brands as Zappos, DaVita, HCL Technologies, WD-40, Great Harvest Bread Company, Menlo Innovations (EP7), Nearsoft (EP5), Geonetric and more.

Traci developed the ground breaking Freedom at Work™ model as well as the Freedom-Centered Leader™ and Freedom-Centered CEO™ certification programs and frequently coaches and consults with leaders of companies worldwide working to embrace a more freedom-centered model.

 Intro music is calibrated to bring you into alignment by Mark Romero music.com

Host Dawna Jones raises the accuracy and quality of decisions in complex environments by raising self-organizational awareness. Dawna is the author of Decision Making for Dummies (a sophisticated book on decision making) and has contributed a chapter to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Dawna also blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures. Contact Dawna through LinkedIn, Twitter: EPDawna_Jones or Facebook.com/FromInsightToAction.

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In this conversation we talk about:

• The food supply issues that impact what you’ll find on the shelves,
• The interconnectivity of food supply and demand world-wide,
• How gardening restores confidence and connection,
• The garden as a living system,
• How is MyGreenSpace like having a master gardener in your pocket,
• What schools with gardening programs seem to be missing,
• Why tech is the best connector between gardens and people.

Go to www.mygreenspace.co to download the free IOS and Android app. MyGreenSpace is a digital garden planner and seed shop on a mission to make communities more sustainable and resilient.

Mike is a social commerce visionary who uses technology to transform rudimentary human activities. Michael is originally from Kenya and came to Canada in 2008 on a full scholarship to study at the Saunder School of Business and then turned to using the power of technology to make the world a better place. Naturally, Michael values sustainability and merges that with a keen eye for visual communication and product development. He is obsessed with the power of co-creation.  Mike is a full time optimist who loves nothing more than living at the intersection between people and technology. 

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company whose music restores coherence to people and workplaces.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing insights and advanced decision-making skills to progressive companies and individuals aware that they are in new territory. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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In this raw, honest and profound conversation you’ll hear:

• Principles for making decisions,
• How to handle the scariness of doing something unfamiliar with uncertain outcomes,
• 6 things Millennials look for in organizations and the value to organizations of meeting them,
• Two different journeys on the path to discover personal purpose,
• What question to ask when the job you expected is not there,
• Uncovering what lies at the core of your passion and talent,
• Why it doesn’t matter if you are wrong,
• wisdom 

Share this interview with anyone who is at the crossroads in their life’s journey asking ‘What do I do next?’. 

Lindsay Henwood’s photography is found on: www.lindsayhenwood.com and Instagram Contact her through either. Lindsay referenced Debbie Millman, speaker and life designer. 

Emanuele Rapisarda is found on LinkedIn and Twitter. To work with him as an Evolution Coach, go to http://cocoonprojects.com/en/ Emanuele mentioned Elements which comes from: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson and Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life also by Ken Robinson

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company whose music restores coherence to people and workplaces.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing transformation insights to companies and individuals ready to expand awareness and apply it to be ahead of and prepared for massive change. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Learn:

• How exponential growth in sports informs how you navigate exponential change in the business environment.
• 3 qualities of a rich environment that catalyze peak performance states.
• The Navy Seal approach to training the brain to be present and mindful in the moment while overcoming the panic button.
• What the 1000 year-old sport of surfing and other weather dependent sports teach about flow states.
• Preconditions that lead to flow along with the triggers.
• The conditions for recovering from the neuro-chemical cocktail induced by flow.
• What business decision makers can learn from pro-athletes.
• Why Steve Job’s added unpredictability and complexity to Pixar to ramp up creativity.
• Why Google goes for 10X goals.
• The competitive advantage to learning.
• Why flow has become an indicator of market performance in the game sector.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include Bold, The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small, Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and The Angle Quickest for Flight and Stealing the Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work. You can find him online at www.stevenkotler.com or on Forbes with Far Frontiers blog www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler.

Go to www.flowgenomeproject.com to take the Flow assessment and meet Steven’s Flow Genome partner Jamie Wheal.

Contact Dawna Jones through www.FromINsighttoAction.com or Twitter EPDawna_Jones

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In times when attempting to control your outer world results in fatigue, overwhelm and exhaustion, attending to your inner world restores initiative and strength. Narrative coach David Drake explains the difference between narrative and story. The conversation in this episode sheds light on:

• Why does nobody do what I asked them to?
• What is behind the drive to understand purpose?
• What are the four fundamental human needs?
• How can we contribute to each others flourishing as individuals and as an organization?
• What happens to initiative in an organization where external control suppresses initiative? (and creativity)
• How does narrative help executives communicate vision? Or strengthen brand?

Narrative coach David Drake is the author of Narrative Coaching: Principles and Practices for Bringing New Stories to Life. His personal mission is ‘to help create and spread new narrative methods that integrate personal and social transformation’. David has worked on narrative coaching, change and leadership initiatives for 70 organizations, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Google, Nike, PwC, Westpac and the Australia and US federal governments. Clients appreciate his systemic and innovative approaches. He is the founder of the field of narrative coaching and the creator of the Narrative Coaching Labs for practitioners and Narrative Design Labs in organizations. David has trained over 10,000 people in 14 countries in his methods. He has started a global community of licensed Narrative Design Partners to bring this work to the world in new ways. 

David is also the architect of integrative development, which brings together adult development and organization development in a unified theory of change. Narrative coaching is an integrative practice that can scale to any size. Dr David Drake founded and runs the Center for Narrative Coaching & Leadership in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.narrativecoaching.com

Intro music is by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor company who saw the music. He now works with individuals and companies to restore coherence to their environments.

Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in providing transformation insights to companies, their leaders and to individuals seeking to evolve their skills to match the complexities of today. www.frominsighttoaction.com

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Wade Davis is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist, writer, photographer, filmmaker and explorer. National Geographic named him as one of the explorers of the Millennium. Described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity”, Wade’s work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia,

Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University. 

In this conversation with Dawna Jones, Wade explains the mind-blowing (Dawna’s words) sophistication of indigenous skills to navigating across open seas without the instruments we rely on today.

Their conversation covers:

• Perception: Is a mountain a hunk of rock or a deity that directs destiny?
• Science: Why race is a fiction and how we are all brothers and sisters
• Empathy: The secret skill to working with different and diverse world views
• Diversity: A more elegant definition of diversity from an anthropologist viewpoint that HR can use to replace targets and quotas
• Descartes: How we became separate in our relationship with Nature, the high cost to all life and what we can do about it
• Psychedelics: The contribution of mind expanding adventures to seeing reality in a different light
• Culture: How cultural myopia prevents us from seeing and hearing others
• The Great Hope for what lies ahead
• The Great Lie Trump sold the middle class
• What leaders and entrepreneurs can learn from ancient Polynesian Wayfinding skills
• Why Wayfinding in complex environments is more accurate than navigating from Point A to B

The whole conversation was sparked by Dawna’s read of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World published in 2009.

Intro music is from www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm. His music generates coherence in listeners.

Your host is Dawna Jones: www.frominsighttoaction.com

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• The value of a distributed authority system,
• What Holacracy is and is not,
• The value of embedding an entrepreneurial stance to doing the work,
• Is profit a purpose or a measure?
• What does purpose of business mean and how does it replace Mission, Vision and other traditional elements,
• The pivotal question for moving from a traditional model to a self-managing system,
• The need to re-envision a world without employees
• The importance of Like-purpose (not like-minded) diversity.

A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder with more than 30 years of experience, Tom Thomison is a recognized leader in self-organization practices and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC to further develop and mature Holacracy®, now a gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies. 

Tom is currently a Founding Member and Partner at encode.org, an organization focused on the creation of necessary legal, financial and social structures to further support self-organization and the new world of work. Tom is active as an entrepreneur having been involoved five early stage companies prior to encode.org and he has served as advisor to several startups and remains a Partner and Investor at HolacracyOne, LLC.

In the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes Dawna interviewed Anna McGrath on what Holacracy is and its implementation in Zappos.

Dawna Jones is the host for the Insight to Action podcast. Dawna works with companies and leaders to adapt their decision-making and deepen leadership skills to make the bold, creative decisions to evolve and design tomorrow. She's the author of [Business] Decision Making for Dummies, and a monthly blogger for Great Workplace Cultures on the Huffington Post . She’s contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo. See Mastering the Split in Consciousness.  www.FromInsightToAction.com

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It is not that education systems do not want to deliver skills to equip students with 21st Century skills; it’s that the systemic blocks make it extremely difficult. A high level of vision and tenacity is required. To handle high speed change takes different skills so in this program you’ll hear:

• How they inserted accountability into interpersonal relationships internally
• What impact being fully responsible had on learning and growth of leaders
• What surfaces when you see people as more than their role
• About Redflint: a partnership between big corporations, the university and an accelerator.
• About the ecosystem benefits for startups, big corps and entrepreneurs.
• Why MGM in Los Vegas signed on as a partner.

Stephenie Gloden is the Vice President, Enterprise Resource Management at Apollo Education Group and part of the partnership behind the RedFlint Experience Center, Sparked by University of Phoenix and Arizona State University.

Innovative entrepreneur, intrapreneur and leader, Stephenie promotes a highly engaged culture focused on delivering value-driven service and solutions that meet customer needs. She applies lean startup principles, agile methodologies and self-management practices to driving collaboration in an interdisciplinary context. Fortunately, she’s not afraid to push the envelope – an essential trait in someone having to work around an entrenched systemic holding pattern. Stephenie Gloden is on LinkedIn. To learn more about RedFlint go to: https://www.phoenix.edu/redflint.html

The introductory clip is courtesy of Mark Romero at www.markromeromusic.com Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm who has been doing what he loves ever since he left corporate. His music has been proven to restore coherence and well-being to the body.

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Colin has consulted with many of the world’s largest organizations and published on important business challenges of organization health and performance for 25 years. His focus is on developing organizations that can align, execute, and renew better and quicker than competitors. His body of work around building organizational health, purpose, culture, leadership, and capabilities has defined this arena of study and practice.

In this conversation with Dawna he talks about:

• The shift from linear thinking to working with complexity,
• How recent political events like Brexit and the election of Trump can be understood by recognizing increased complexity,
• Why complexity cannot be oversimplified,
• Why middle managers are resistant to change,
• Why high performing companies have a reduced management layer and what that means to organizational leaders explaining that to the managers affected by cost reduction realities,
• Why accelerating doesn’t mean doing the same things but faster,
• How complacency is created and what to do about it,
• What top performing leaders do better,
• The role of humility,
• 3 things companies can do to keep pace.

Colin has published widely, and is author and co-author of seven books, including Accelerating Performance: How Organizations can Mobilize, Execute, Transform, with Agility. He has presented at many prestigious conferences, including The World Economic Forum and the Harvard Roundtable series around the need to integrate thinking on organizational performance and health so that corporations can create an aligned, high-performance system.

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In this episode of Insight to Action you’ll hear us talk about:

1. What is intuition?
2. What are the primary advanced intuitive capacities that executives can tap into and their application?
3. How Lesley went from a scientist to mentor teaching energy management skills to executives. From leading a dual identity to being true to herself.
4. A tool for grounding your energy so that you can manage your business more effectively.
5. How to let go of limits.
6. Why these advanced skills will help you learn who you are – why you are here to live your personal purpose by taking your unique position in business and human evolution of consciousness.

In addition to talking you through a grounding exercise she mentions a centering exercise. http://drlesleyphillips.com/insight-to-action-gift/

You can learn more about Dr. Lesley Phillips work at www.drlesleyphillips.com

Dr. Lesley Phillips is a spiritual teacher, who wants to help you access your intuition. Your spiritual journey involves personal growth and deep transformation. She can help you transcend your limits and let go of what keeps you from your purpose.

Dr. Lesley has offered intuitive sessions since 1996 and has taught meditation and intuition development since 2003. Over the years she has provided spiritual guidance and mentoring to thousands of people and many corporations.

She is the author of a spiritual novel, called “The Midas Tree.” Plus 3 non-fiction books on spirituality and a card deck that opens the intuition and creativity. She is at happiest when being of service, whether at a speaking engagement, teaching a class, giving a healing or mentoring her students.

Her credentials include:-

• Sc. in Biological Sciences (John Moore’s University, Liverpool UK).
• D. in Environmental Microbiology/Natural Product Discovery (Warwick University UK).
• Ordination in Spiritual Counselling (C.D.M. Spiritual Teaching Center, Everett, WA, USA)
• Certified Spiritual Teacher (C.D.M. Spiritual Teaching Center, Everett, WA, USA)

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You’ll hear us talk about:

• Prediction market platforms
• The validity of polls and surveys for forecasting
• Applications of crowdsourced forecasts for financial performance, creditworthiness and management quality.
• Collective intelligence and governance
• The advantages and disadvantages of incentives and the variety of tools for testing the pulse of customers, employees, markets
• Collective intelligence platforms as a tool for reducing cycle time identifying issues and responding to change
• What collective intelligence tools will tell you your employees might not.

Karl’s TED talk on Wisdom of Crowds

Host Dawna Jones specializes in decision-making for complexity and transforming situations. EPDawna_Jones

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She also describes:

• How to develop your foresight muscles,
• How to scan emerging futures on a regular basis,
• What happens when you combine emerging trends together,
• What went wrong with the emergency response plan at the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi and what other companies with emergency response plans can learn,
• How to work with the unthinkable,
• Why using foresight strategically gives you the side benefit of seeing patterns so critical for workplace health and decision making accuracy.

Most people underestimate the amount and speed of change leaving all companies vulnerable to be caught unprepared. Included in our conversation is mention of a book written by John Petersen called Out of the Blue. You’ll hear other resources mentioned in the interview as well along with Patricia’s book Strategic Foresight. Her website is www.http://lasa-insight.com/ and the non-profit site she mentions is www.unlockingforesight.org.

Patricia Lustig is an internationally recognized practitioner in strategic foresight and strategy development, future thinking and innovation. She has held senior positions at major blue-chip companies such as BP, Motorola and Logica and is a Fellow of the RSA. She is currently setting up the Unlocking Foresight Know How C.I.C. Patricia’s most recent book, Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future is published by Triarchy Press.

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Host Dawna Jones can be found on www.frominsighttoaction.com

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The New Paradigm Leadership Retreat and Summit, held in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on July 12 – 15, 2016, brought together over 40 scholars and practitioners from four domains: (1) the physical and biological sciences, (2) consciousness research, (3) medicine and well-being, and (4) business and management. Chris Laszlo,

The goal was to learn how to create a world that works for 100 percent of humanity and all life on earth, now and for future generations. Questions asked included: What is reality? What is consciousness and why is it the highest leverage point for human survival? What lies at the core of health and wellbeing? How can we strengthen our collective capacity to transform business into an agent of world benefit, one whose purpose is creating prosperity and flourishing for all life on earth!

In this conversation you’ll hear:

• What if business switched from ‘self-serving’ to higher service?
• About the shift toward a unified consciousness where we are more coherent in our interactions with each other and Nature
• Why “consciousness is the determining factor of how you see the world, of who you are, what the world is, and what we can do in the world” as Dr. Laszlo frames it.
• Rethinking what the bottom line really is.
• Why higher consciousness is the highest leverage point for transformational leadership in business.
• What is different?: Moving beyond a strategist perspective to view the macro, meso and micro foundations of leadership
• Crossing the ontological divide. (the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality.)

You’ll also hear the terms NDE (near death experiences) and OBE (out of body experiences) when we talk about the quantum field.

Ervin Laszlo, Doctorat d’Etat Sorbonne (1970) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Prize (2002), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milano (2014) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo has Honorary PhD’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary and is the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into twenty-four languages. He lives in Tuscany. Ervin Laszlo’s most recent book, What is Reality? Is now on Amazon

His son, Professor Chris Laszlo, provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies on sustainability for competitive advantage. He is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and has taught at INSEAD, CEDEP, Darden, Cornell, and many other leading business schools. He was an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials. Prior to that he spent five years with Deloitte consulting.

Chris is the co-author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (2014) Stanford Business Press, Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), Island Press.  

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Host Dawna Jones specializes in insights for decision-making transformation and leadership. #author #facilitator, #speaker

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Also:

Why self management and self organization aren't synonymous.

In the conversation David mentions Doug Kirkpatrick. I interviewed Doug from MorningStar on my other podcast. You'll find the program on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. Tomatoes and Self-Management

Then I talk to Steve Denning, founder and facilitator (and Forbes Contributor) for the Learning Consortium, a peer to peer learning community engaging in site visits. You'll hear the 2016 report results and a reflection on the Drucker Forum recently held in Vienna, Austria. 

Steve talks about the threads that tie all these companies together. Why Spotify can learn from Riot Games and why logistics company CH Robinson also learned from Riot Games. 

Learn why bosses still exist in big companies and what makes them different from the traditional command and control role. You can find out more information on the Learning Consortium report from www.sdlearningconsortium.org 

Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music. Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, author and transformational guide for companies and people seeking to flow with change. #decisionmaking #leadership

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Menlo Innovations designs and builds custom software. That sounds pretty ordinary until you hear their purpose.

“Our mission as an organization is to end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology.”TM

In this episode you’ll hear:

• How to create an intentionally joyful culture.
• The difference between joy and happiness and why joy includes conflict and diverse views.
• Why having absolute clarity on who you serve as a company is critical.
• What he had to learn and unlearn as a leader.
• The difference between an intrinsic and extrinsic reward system.
• Why high paid team members become bitter.
• Why he has the title: Chief Storyteller
• Tips for creating an intentionally joyful culture.
• Why the Menlo Ways isn’t the Toyota Way and why you need to find your own way.
• An invitation from Rich to visit Menlo and learn.

June 2001, Rich Sheridan and three others took lessons learned from experimenting with creating joy and applied them to Menlo Innovations, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That was fifteen years ago. Today Rich is the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Menlo. Menlo has won the Alfred Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for eight straight years. The author of Joy, Inc. Rich mentors entrepreneurs and companies bold enough to embark on creating a customer-centric workplace. For more information go to: http://menloinnovations.com/

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Podcast host Dawna Jones specializes in the advanced decision-making skills that power innovative leadership.

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In this episode Carol Simpson, CEO of Focus Professional Services explains why adding neuro-diversity makes your workplace better in terms of communication and productivity outcomes while being socially responsible . Focus provides software testing and data quality services to organizations in the Vancouver, Canada area.

The solution that Carol’s company offers is one that recognizes the unique advantage of neuro-specialized intelligence. Carol’s company hires and trains people on the autistic spectrum, provides training, and then delivers software development services to companies ready to up their performance through adding diversity.

You’ll hear:

• A story of one person on the spectrum who’d been ‘failed’ by many workplaces, who finally found one where he was accepted and could contribute (after training).
• Why communication in the workplace dramatically improves thanks to the presence of neuro-specialized individuals on the team who don’t need social approval.
• The personal reason why Carol started Focus Point Pro and what she’s learned from her sons.
• How neuro-specialized individuals benefit client outcomes plus how a sense of contribution and belonging benefits the social and resilience skills of Focus employees.
• How Carol finds overlooked talent.
• About the adjustments team members make to fit into the workplace and what clients learn through the process of adding neuro-specialized individuals to their teams
• How Carol deals with unconscious bias, fear of diversity/difference when marketing
• Tips for employers who claim they can’t find talent?
• Tips for neuro-specialized individuals who have experienced discrimination or abuse in the workplace by insensitive management or co-workers?
• A personal story about a high school teacher’s advice to her autistic son and what happened afterward.

To find out more about Carol Simpson’s company go to her website and watch the video featuring staff and clients): http://focusps.ca 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/focusprofessionalservices/ 

Twitter @focus_ps

Connect to Focus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6399887

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Host Dawna Jones provides insights to decision-makers ready to take bold steps forward.

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We talk about:

• How the company began - the inspiration for starting up as a self-managed company
• How staff initiated leadership teams function as a dynamic hierarchy
• The role of transparency in replacing assumptions with real information and in reinforcing fairness
• Why there's more structure in self-managed companies than where power is centralized
• The inspiration and benefits to a healthy workplace environment
• The connection between playfulness and creativity
• How to scale freedom to contribute
• How decisions are made in an intentional and structured way

Matt credits the role of Ricardo Semler's book The 7-day Work Week and mentions participation in WorldBlu for freedom-centric companies. At the end, uou'll receive an offer you can't refuse from Matt who is committed and serious about helping other companies both make the transition to workplaces that work for people (including clients). Learn more at www.nearsoft.com 

Much thanks to Doug Kirkpatrick for continuing to steer me to companies leading the way in future workplace design happening today. 

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They are:

1. More adaptive
2. More profitable,
3. More sustainable,
4. Longer lived.

As clear profit leaders in their global industries, all receive top grades for sustainability and ethical leadership from independent resources. In addition, their average and median ages exceed a century. What is it that these companies do differently? None are tech firms. The research index Joseph Bragdon assembled in 1996 includes companies that are in sectors known for being eco-and social risk laden.

In this episode, we talk about what Jay's research reveals about companies that see themselves as part of the living system that supports all life on the planet and why these companies lead a return to better business. For more information see www.lampindex.com For the book head over to Amazon. Companies That Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance.

Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero: www.markromeromusic.com Track is called Alignment. Mark's music has been verified by a physicist to restore balance and harmony (coherence) to your physical state. 

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Michael Mainelli started designing shared distributed ledgers 20 years ago . He’s a leading thinker in fintech and Emeritus Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, London. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank established in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. 

In this episode you'll learn:

• What blockchain is and isn't and what it means to you.
• How blockchain will impact you and other possible applications. 
• How disruptive will blockchain tech be and how are financial institutions responding.
• What applications are emerging out of mutual distributed ledgers.
• Will blockchain change the transaction fees charged by banks? 
• What difference will blockchain make to the 2.5 million people who don't have official identity?
• How blockchain tech can be a force for good. 

BLOCKCHAIN DEFINED A mutual distributed ledger – more simply referred to as a blockchain is a computer data structure with the following capabilities: n Mutual – blockchains are shared across organizations, owned equally by all and dominated by no-one; n Distributed – blockchains are inherently multi-locational data structures and any user can keep his or her own copy, thus providing resilience and robustness; n Ledger – blockchains are immutable, once a transaction is written it cannot be erased and, along with multiple copies, this means that the ledger’s integrity can easily be proven. Another way to think of blockchains is as permanent time-stamping engines for computer records. Timestamps can be used to prove that data elements were entered at or before a certain time and have not been altered. - M. Mainelli from www.longfinance.net 

To learn more about the movement toward long term economics go to www.longfinance.net

Host Dawna Jones also interviewed Bernard Lietaer on complementary currencies as a way to stablize the monetary system. How about Reinventing it... on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. 

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Liz and Dawna talk about how you can prepare for the future when nothing is predictable and everything is complex. You'll hear about whether robotics is really a threat to jobs, why Japan is ahead of the game, the relevance of history to how trends develop, the value of rethinking self-imposed rules on about how the world works. Liz shares the story of an outlier who understood more than the experts in treating polio and why experts make mistakes. She poses the question: Should the C-suite be automated?

You will find more about Liz at LeadingThought.us.com. For her thought leadership book mentorship go to DrLizAlexander.com

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Host Dawna Jones provides decision-making insights to support personal to global change. Find her at FromInsighttoAction.com or on Twitter: EPDawna_Jones

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Humanity has arrived at what science terms a bifurcation- a radical change in the trajectory of a system. Linear evolution is at a transition point: collapse or transform into a holistic view consistent with the laws of complex systems. They discuss:

• Supercoherence: the state where personal coherence internally (heart and mind) is in a harmonic state with the outer world. 
• Reconnection to the wider system so that the intelligence that holds things together vibrationally is fully appreciated. 
• The new reality and map of consciousness. 
• Will we collectively take the path of transformation rather than that of extinction?

Dr.Ervin Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences. 

Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero: www.markromeromusic.com Track is called Alignment. Mark's music has been verified by a physicist to restore balance and harmony (coherence) to your physical state.  

Host Dawna Jones believes that humanity can be better in the world and that the ultimate calling is to expand consciousness and compassion to all life. She also believes that business can lead the way to restoring and regenerating ecological systems civilization relies on but has taken for granted.

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