Sue and Ashley discuss several topics relevant to managers and senior leaders:

• Why managers feel unprepared to lead, even after years in the workforce
• The "Pause-Consider-Act" framework for making decisions under pressure
• Performance feedback as the number one challenge managers face
• AI adoption as a change management issue and how to support teams through uncertainty
• The shift from "defending your team" to advocating for the organization as leaders advance
• Building cross-functional relationships and understanding organizational context
• How strategic thinking requires pausing to consider impact and outcomes

The conversation provides practical guidance on leadership fundamentals that are often missing from management training. Ashley shares examples from her career, including how one leader used the Pause-Consider-Act framework to handle a difficult situation with team members who were criticizing him in private messages. Key takeaways include the importance of specific, progress-based feedback, the need for clear communication about AI expectations and guardrails, and the value of understanding how your work impacts others across the organization.

RESOURCES:

• Book: The Manager Method: A Practical Framework to Lead, Support, and Get Results
• Website: managermethod.com
• LinkedIn: Ashley Herd 
  
  

Topics of Discussion:

• The evolution from traditional DEI approaches to individuality-based human development
• How to leverage personal “zones of genius” to create effective human-AI partnerships
• Practical strategies for leading without labels in organizational settings
• The difference between identity (surface-level categories) and individuality (deeper human traits)
• Essential skills for thriving in an AI-driven workplace: strategy, empathy, and discernment
• Breaking down divisive departmental labels (MQLs vs SQLs) that create organizational silos
• Addressing AI anxiety by helping employees discover and amplify their uniquely human strengths

The conversation reveals practical approaches for organizations to move beyond checkbox diversity toward developing each person’s unique talents, passions, and capabilities. Powers emphasizes that while AI excels at replication, human originality, strategic thinking, and authentic empathy remain irreplaceable assets that become more valuable as automation advances.

RESOURCES

• Book: The Great Human Rebrand: How to Step Out of the Labels That Divide Us and Into the Humanity That Unites Us
• Website: greathumanrebrand.com
• Company: unicornkreative.com
• Connect: Find Merry-Carole Powers on LinkedIn

Sue and Joel discuss his latest book Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In, co-authored with Robert Bordone. Key topics include:

• The neuroscience behind conflict and our brain’s default threat response patterns
• The three-step framework for developing conflict resilience: Name, Explore, and Commit
• How to build “conflict tolerance” through recognition and holding capacity
• Practical strategies for workplace conflicts, including handling difficult colleagues and power dynamics
• The role of synesthesia and mirror-touch experiences in understanding empathy and human connection
• Building organizational cultures that embrace healthy disagreement

• The dramatic shift in client loyalty within professional services
• The five distinct business development profiles Matt's research identified among nearly 3,000 partners: Experts, Confidants, Debaters, Realists, and Activators 
• The three pillars of the Activator approach and why this approach fosters longer-lasting, more engaged professional relationships, and shields them from unpredictable client-buying behaviors 

Drawing from her groundbreaking research with 125+ colleges and major employers, Kathleen outlines ten design principles to build a new system for getting people the skills they need for the jobs they want. From white-collar internships, hybrid high-school/college degrees, and boot camps to industry credentialing programs and even self-starters learning from YouTube, the future of work exists outside of traditional higher ed, and it’s time to scale up and out.

Sue and Kathleen discuss:

• The historical context of college degrees and how their perceived value is changing in
  today’s economy.
• How we center the needs of New-Majority Learners—the low- and moderate-income individuals, people of color, first-generation college students, veterans, and others who are underserved by traditional higher ed.
• Ten design principles to redefine college as a place where workforce training, corporate education, and traditional college paths merge and make a flexible and inclusive system for today’s learners.

Alan has dedicated himself to helping professionals, particularly those from underrepresented groups, build powerful networks and land transformative roles at the world's leading tech companies.

Sue and Alan discuss:

• The power of networking and building your circle of influence 
• Strategies for maintaining authentic connections during career transitions
• How to leverage your network during industry shifts
• How to build influence in an increasingly digital world

Andrew lays out a new, practical path for corporations to rethink harmful, outdated models and integrate themselves with the communities that they inevitably affect.

Sue and Andrew discuss:

• Why Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly critical of corporations.
• How a conscientious executive can balance the demands of profitability with the need for ethical leadership.
• Ways the recent election will affect how business executives and managers approach leading with conscience.
• Five practical steps executives can take to “level up” their leadership skills.

• The key elements of a skills-based learning and career development strategy
• How AI and automation help identify skills gaps and save time
• Actionable low-tech tools you can start using to foster real connections in your organization

Joel is the owner of Apoyo Coaching and Consulting, LLC, and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). He specializes in identity-conscious leadership coaching and coaching professionals who want to develop their cultural humility. He has a certification in the MBTI, is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), is a Gallup Strengths Certified Coach, and is a certified coach through the Academy of Creative Coaching. He has over 20 years of experience in higher education, serving in various key leadership roles.

Joel earned his doctorate in higher education administration at Claremont Graduate University. He has been married for over 26 years and has four children. He enjoys cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers and watching films.

Sue and Joel discuss his new book Dear White Leader: How to Achieve Organizational Excellence through Cultural Humility. The book focuses on helping leaders develop their cultural humility for individual, organizational, and community change.

The author of Causeit’s digitalfluency.guide, MJ’s work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Since founding Causeit, Inc. in 2006, MJ has shifted thinking for hundreds of global enterprises, including NTT, Accenture, Volkswagen, the Gates Foundation, SWIFT, and several major financial and media companies, raising Digital Fluency among hundreds of thousands of professionals.

MJ is an alumnus of Lewis & Clark College, sits on the Accenture Tech Vision Advisory Board, and is a faculty member at Singularity University.

Sue and MJ discuss:

• What it means to be digitally fluent
• How to unlock new potential for yourself and your organization and raise your digital fluency
• How to manage the balance between old and new digital transformation

Eric’s interdisciplinary work bridges the stubborn technology/business gap. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate computer science courses in ML and AI. Later, he served as a business school professor at UVA Darden. Eric also publishes op-eds on analytics and social justice. He has appeared on numerous media channels, including Bloomberg, National Geographic, and NPR, and has published in Fast Company, Forbes, HBR, Newsweek, The New York Times, WSJ, and more.

Sue and Eric dig into his new book, The AI Playbook, and uncover the most vital use cases of machine learning, those designed to improve a wide range of business operations.

Rich Horwath is the Founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, executive coach, and strategic advisor. His work has been featured in publications including Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. Chief Executive Magazine has introduced him as “the world’s foremost expert on strategic thinking.”

As a former chief strategy officer and professor of strategy at the graduate level, he brings a practical, real-world approach based on strong foundational principles to help executives develop their strategic capabilities. Rich has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV to share his perspectives on current business strategy issues. In addition to his work facilitating strategy workshops for leadership teams and providing executive coaching services and strategic counsel, he is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for groups ranging from 10 to 10,000.

Rich earned an MBA with Distinction from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and has completed postgraduate courses in strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Ashish Kothari is the Founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness to achieve their full potential. As a partner in McKinsey’s Leadership Practice, Ashish served as the Co-Dean for the Centered Leadership and Adaptability & Resilience programs. He combines over two decades of consulting experience with formal training as an Ontological Coach and has helped thousands of leaders and their organizations succeed by developing new mindsets and capabilities. His transformational approach is interdisciplinary and integrates wisdom from the worlds of science and spirituality.

A lifelong student of human thriving, Ashish has read over 450 books and studied the teachings of world-renowned experts in the fields of spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. His purpose in life is to help individuals, organizations, and communities achieve their full potential through the power of happiness.

Sue and Ashish discuss:

• The pervasiveness of the burnout problem
• How to “Build a Supportive Community”
• Practical tips for leading a happier life
• Self-awareness as the base for the nine powerful practices that can rewire your brain for happiness

Yue was the first product manager and Head of Professionals at Thumbtack Inc. for 5 years, where she worked alongside the founders to build and scale a technology leader valued at $3.2B in 2021 with investment from Sequoia, Tiger Global, Capital G, QIA, and more. Then, at Fuzzy Pet Health, she was the Chief Product & Technology officer, helping the team find PMF for its telehealth offering and reach EBITDA positive within 6 months. Previously, she co-founded a wine e-commerce startup called FirstCrush. She spent 4 years at Meta working on Instagram Feed and Profile, Messenger Web and Desktop, and SMB Advertising.

Yue is currently a Venture Partner at LifeX Ventures, a $100M fund actively deploying capital in healthtech, climatech, and the AI space. Her network in the product space, in particular, adds a new dimension to LifeX’s team of ex-founders and operators.

As a seasoned executive career coach and advisor, Yue is passionate about coaching mid-career minority executives and helping the next generation of CEOs and founders hone in on the real pain points to solve for their customers.

She holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sue and Yue discuss her new book, The Uncommon Executive: Breakthrough to the C-Suite as a Minority, and:

• How to adopt an executive mindset and develop skills that are critical for success
• Ways to demonstrate executive potential and land stretch assignments
• The challenges minorities face — overcoming biases and stereotypes, finding role models, and discovering superpowers
• How to influence luck and create opportunities with sponsorship, networking, and making smart job changes

Aytekin’s entrepreneurial passion and firm belief in creating tools to make organizations more productive led him to build Jotform, a bootstrapped global SaaS company that provides powerful online forms to tens of millions of users.

In addition to serving as the CEO of Jotform since 2006, Aytekin frequently contributes to Fast Company and Entrepreneur. A developer by trade but a storyteller by heart, he writes about his journey as an entrepreneur, shares advice for other startups, and provides insights on leadership, productivity, and using SaaS technology within workflows.

Sue and Aytekin discuss:

• Why the future of business is no-code, and how you can use an automation-first mindset to unlock your productivity potential
• How to move from busywork to less work and finally have the time you need to accomplish your most important work
• How you can use delegation and automation to achieve “timefulness,” the state of having enough time

Dr. Kim is a Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. His research concerns the dynamics of social misperception, with a particular focus on the violation and repair of trust. This research has been published in the world’s leading scientific journals across management and psychology. It has received ten national/international awards from organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the International Association for Conflict Management. This work has also been supported by multiple funding sources, including the National Science Foundation, the State Farm Foundation, and the Kellogg Dispute Resolution Research Center.

Dr. Kim has also drawn on his expertise to develop and teach some of the most highly rated M.B.A. courses and executive training programs at his University. Popular accounts of his research have appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, and National Public Radio. His first book, How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships are Built, Broken, and Repaired, is based on two decades of his original research on trust repair.

Since joining McKinsey in 2017, Emily has worked with companies across industries, leading initiatives to transform the way organizations work. She puts particular emphasis on helping to establish a talent-first approach, instilling a high-performance culture, and adopting effective people-analytics approaches. Emily prepares leaders to manage the workforce of the future.

Passionate about helping others achieve their full potential, Emily volunteers as a mentor to veterans and low-income students through her work with Capital Partners for Education and American Corporate Partners. She holds a BA in government from Georgetown University.

Sue and Emily discuss: 

• Why organizations fail to see middle managers as their “most valuable players”
• How the Great Resignation, the pandemic, and the tech boom contributed to the obfuscation of middle managers’ importance
• What Hybrid work has done to middle managers
• How managers can “rebundle” jobs instead of eliminating them in the current age of AI and fears of job displacement

Morra is an entrepreneur and communications executive. In addition to her work in workplace mental health, Aarons-Mele founded the award-winning social impact agency Women Online and created its database of female influencers, the Mission List, which she sold in 2021. Morra was named 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year at the Iris Awards, created to recognize excellence among digital content creators. She has helped three US presidential candidates and a range of mission-driven organizations create communications, marketing, and fundraising campaigns.

Morra is also a prolific writer. Since 2004 she has covered the campaign trail, the White House, the lactation room, and the office cubicle. She has written for the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Slate, InStyle, O, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Guardian. She is the author of the new book, The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower, a compelling guide to managing the anxiety that comes with succeeding and leading.

Morra has degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University. She and Nicco Mele live in Boston with their three children.

He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. This is the culmination of Nick’s unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation, which stems in part from the eight years he spent working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. The CPR (Communication, Planning, and Resources) Framework consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 10.

Sue and Nick discuss how to: 

• reduce stress and burnout by creating a more stable work environment
• improve company culture by empowering your team to spend their time on work that matters
• increase employee happiness, satisfaction, trust, and retention by making work easier
• stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques

The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. He formerly served as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Skoll Centre and as an Assistant Professor at Durham University. Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, non-profits, and government agencies in Latin America, and the OECD. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar.

Paulo is the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems, a smart guide that offers a behind-the-scenes look at groups around the world that have mastered the art of subverting the status quo.

Sue and Paulo discuss:

• how ‘workarounds’ can help solve systemic problems
• how to achieve massive wins with minimal resources
• how the business world can learn from the innovative wit and practical ingenuity of scrappy organizations

Chris is a passionate advocate for the power of business to create prosperity, beauty, and happiness in the world. She’s been involved with Conscious Capitalism Chicago for over a decade currently serving as Chair, and on the leadership team of Ellevate Chicago, an organization committed to developing professional women. This past summer she published a book, The Leadership Pause: Sharpen Your Attention, Deepen Your Presence, and Navigate the Future, an eye-opening, accessible guide to developing one’s leadership via the deliberate, body-based practices that tap the wisdom and intelligence of the body.

Sue and Chris discuss:

• Why intentionally practicing pause is so essential and powerful for leaders in today’s marketplace
• How to build your capacity, resilience, and confidence to transform high-pressure moments into opportunities
• How to cultivate your attention and focus to shape your actions and strategic vision

He is the author of 11 books, including his most recent, Executive Presence: Step Into Your Power, Convey Confidence, and Lead With Conviction and over 300 articles on leadership. His articles on career advancement, inspirational leadership, and executive presence appeared in HBR, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Forbes, CNN, NYT, and NPR.

Sue and Joel discuss:

• the need to reconsider what influence can and should look like in a more diverse and inclusive world of work
• how to step into your power, convey confidence, and lead with conviction
• the 3×3 Executive Presence Model

Gustavo is also the creator of the Culture Design Canvas, a framework used by thousands of teams and organizations across the world to map, assess, and design their culture. In addition to his consulting work with clients, Gustavo regularly speaks with leaders and teams about culture change, teamwork, and hybrid workplaces. His coaching and tools have helped countless executives and teams develop work environments where people collaborate to accelerate individual and collective performance.

A prolific writer and author of four books on culture change, most recently Remote Not Distant: Design a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace, Gustavo’s insights have been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, Forbes, BBC, and Fortune, among others.

Daphne serves on the board of directors for AMN Healthcare, Inc., Barnes Group Inc., and Masonite International Corp, and is the recipient of numerous domestic and international awards. She recently started a company that teaches leaders how to prepare to serve on boards. She is also a sought-after speaker and author of her new book launching this Fall, Win When They Say You Won’t: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success. 

Sue and Daphne discuss:

• How to create an inclusive movement to turn the tides for all leaders who simply want to win
• How the four-step “EDIT” methodology can enable you to transform your mindset to win

• help leaders surface, embrace, and process tensions to generate more innovative solutions from their teams
• reduce their own stress, and lead to more personal creativity and satisfaction
• improve personal relationships where there are significant differences of opinion in arenas such as politics

Sue, Justin, and Leigh discuss:

• The multiple aspects of silence and its importance to us individually and collectively.
• Specific strategies to reclaim and find silence in every day.
• How teams can find more silence together to reduce burnout and enhance creative problem-solving.

Sarah works with leaders to develop more powerful partnerships and helps teams spot patterns that are keeping them from higher performance. An in-demand keynote speaker, she leads workshops and team retreats for leaders and HR professionals. Previously, Sarah worked in management and as the talent development leader for an insurance company, giving her firsthand insight into the challenges of corporate leadership. In addition to her work with organizations, Sarah is a passionate advocate for mental health. She holds several coaching certifications and has a master’s in leadership development from Drake University.

Sue and Sarah discuss:

• How effective leaders deal with relentless change and uncertainty.
• How to spot the important conversations being avoided (the “elephants”) by your team and YOU.
• Specific tips for wading into these tough topics, e.g. three different ways to use curiosity.

Sue and DDS discuss:

• Ideas for leaders to start/continue making progress on diversity and inclusion.
• The psychology of belonging and its impact on workplace performance.
• The challenges and specific ideas for creating inclusion and belonging on global, Hybrid teams.

• What we’re observing as Hybrid becomes reality. 
• Groundbreaking new research on the science of connection and trust and what to do with it. 
• Three practical strategies as you up-level your skills in creating a culture of great teams.

Sue and Susan discuss these “7 Impactful Practices”:

1. Investing in Your Best Self
2. Embracing Authenticity
3. Cultivating Courage
4. Fostering Resilience
5. Inspiring a Bold Vision
6. Creating a Healthy Team Environment
7. Committing to the Work of an Inclusive Leader

Ryan and Steven are experts on loneliness who help organizations create engaged, inclusive, high-performing teams. In this episode, Sue and Ryan discuss how remote or hybrid teams can implement the four-step framework:

1. Look at loneliness – identify it in self and others.
2. Invest in connection – improve the strength of work relationships.
3. Narrow the focus – illuminate what’s most important at work.
4. Kindle the momentum – inflame what’s working to sustain progress.

1. Flexibility – the future of work has to be guided by a new form of flexibility in which the work, not the workers themselves, becomes more malleable. 
2. Culture – a company culture can be shifted, but it has to start with a dramatic rethinking of what management actually looks like, in and outside of the traditional office. 
3. Technologies of the Office – so much of office culture flows from our technology, tools, and design. Here we can see the most profound changes the quickest. 
4. Community – if work were not the primary organizing factor of our lives, we could restructure our relationships with our community outside of work.

Amelia leads a team of problem solvers who use human-centered design and customer insights strategy to help businesses shift their focus from the customer experience to the human experience. As marketers, she says we have an opportunity to create more human experiences—earning long-term loyalty and trust in the process. Amelia loves helping clients tackle their toughest problems and build organizational momentum to turn the future they imagine into a reality.

Author of the new book Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work, Amelia writes and speaks regularly about human experience, creativity, and customer strategy.

Sue and Amelia discuss:

• Why love and worth at work? (There’s data…)
• How Hybrid is making this harder? Or is it?
• The “three paths” and practical tips from each.

For over 25 years, Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker has dedicated her work towards college student mental health. She is the founding director of McLean Hospital’s College Mental Health Program, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and the McLean Hospital-Harvard Medical School’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.

Dr. Lauren Wadsworth serves as a senior advisor on the Anti-Racist, Justice, and Health Equity team at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She is the founder of the Genesee Valley Institute of Psychology (GVIP), a clinic providing treatment for OCD, trauma, DBT, and a newly launched Racial Trauma and Healing center.

Sue, Stephanie, and Lauren talk about:

• The current challenges and opportunities that a Hybrid workplace creates for inclusive behaviors.
• Specific leadership behaviors that make a big difference, like "Empowering listening."
• What to do when you mess up.

Sue and Steve discuss his new book, Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of Covid-19 to Create a Better Model of Working, and:

• What rolling out Hybrid means for Talent, Teams, and Skills Development.
• Why it’s “Time to be More Human,” and how to do it.
• The why and how of “Iteration and Experimentation” to evolve your organization into a better model of working.

Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN.

Sue and Stefanie discuss:

• how to support the seemingly contradictory needs of people to both standout and to fit in.
• the Inclusify Leadership Matrix – identify ways you can evolve your style to become an Inclusifyer.
• five specific habits for advancing inclusion in the remote/hybrid environment.

Sue and Carole discuss:

• Why exceptional relationships are critical to effectively lead through these transitional and uncertain times.
• Ways to create connections and continue to build relationships virtually.
• Specific behavior tips to help build trust, share feedback, and handle conflict virtually.

In Culture Renovation®, Kevin provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world’s top companies. You’ll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including:

• Three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see
• Practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies
• The traits of a healthy corporate culture
• Proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success

• Why a Courageous Culture is such a huge competitive advantage in an era of unprecedented change
• How to identify the courage crushers you need to remove
• Tools, best practices, and approaches you can use to help your leaders build a Courageous Culture
• Ways to celebrate and reinforce your momentum for long-term success

• How to build a trustworthy culture in a two-step process
• How to gain employee accountability
• How to secure and retain top talent in a Covid-era workplace
• How to get rid of the HR non-sense in HR

• How systemic risk is at the heart of the global failures
• Building a risk culture in your organization
• COVID’s Forces of Systemic Change
• How betters systems thinking can help us reboot the world
• How to use STEEPLED, a useful, strategic management method for analyzing external forces of change

• The Who* Not What Principle
• How to determine which leaders are worth following
• What companies fail to do in growing leaders among their employees
• Establishing and maintaining an organizational culture of leadership development
• Leading effectively in the midst of significant uncertainty

• How to overcome self-doubt at work
• How to thrive in a distributed workplace
• How to harness organizational chaos
• How to lead in an uncertain world

• How the crisis has changed the talent economy
• How to navigate the stress of hiring in uncertain times
• How to multiply the performance of your employees
• How to adapt to the changing relationship between managers and talent
• How the role of the manager is changing

• How virtual connections can enhance our lives
• How to shift business-as-usual to remote work
• How to create a resilient workforce
• How the pandemic is separating out the future winners from losers
• How scenario planning can help get a clearer glimpse of what different potential futures might mean to your business strategy and workforce

• How leaders can maximize trust and minimize stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
• How to unleash the full potential of leaders to increase safety and inclusion in the workplace
• How to bring out the best in people who are different than you
• Practical tools based on their work in companies such as Uber and Walmart

• How to best navigate WFH as a parent — how do we really do this juggling act in the New Normal?
• How to engage with your kids in meaningful ways, generally, and during Covid-19
• How to get community support virtually
• How to best deal with your own stress levels so you can be a more patient parent

• How to find resilience and well-being in times of coronavirus
• The relationship between stress and trauma
• How to train survival brain agency

• How to stay healthy during COVID-19
• How your body tells time
• How your schedule could be killing you
• Why sleep is considered to be a miracle drug
• Three simple steps to transform your life

• How anxiety tricks you into changing your everyday behaviors
• Why, despite your best efforts, your anxiety keeps getting worse
• How to follow his three steps for coronavirus anxiety
• What to do differently to allow you to worry less

• The New Normal: How do we set both physical and psychological boundaries in our WFH (work from home) in order to get stuff done, limit confrontation, and stay calm
• How do we deal with conflict when it does come up in both home and work
• How do we harness difficult emotions
• How do we cope with social isolation