Leader ReadyCast

Episode 74: Cheryl Nelson on Communicating Severe Weather and Disaster Science Information by Harvard NPLI

Episode 73: Dana Rubin on Finding Your Voice as a Leader by Harvard NPLI

Farah Pandith is a global expert on combatting violent extremism. She shares policy prescriptions as well as pragmatic ideas to help leaders the tide on this persistent threat.

Episode 70: Madison Murphy Barney on Storytelling for Resilience and Recovery by Harvard NPLI

Episode 69: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans by Harvard NPLI

Episode 69: Preparing Leaders for Mis and Dis Information with Justin Snair and Philippe Borremans by Harvard NPLI

Marcus Coleman, Vice President of Community Resilience Strategy at United Way, discusses how leaders can foster personal, organizational, and social resilience in unsettled times. He shares wisdom reflecting years of experience leading across the US to help communities when it matters most.

Jonathan Clark, co-author of Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership, discusses how to build vibrant, thriving organizations by attending to people, purpose, and productivity. It's a new approach for moving beyond the limitations of compliance and control to create the environment for enduring excellence.

Dillon Taylor, Chief of Staff, Virginia Department of Emergency Management discusses how to implement Swarm Intelligence during blue sky days. *Podcast was recorded several weeks prior to the recent Hurricanes.

Dr. Brian Spisak and Eric McNulty explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the thinking and practice of crisis leadership they will cover in their October 2024 workshop, Integrating GenAI into Crisis Leadership. For details, visit bit.ly/aicrisisleadership

Dr. Lenny Marcus and Eric McNulty discuss the state of crisis leadership to mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most. The world is more turbulent than ever. That makes the need for effective leaders all the more urgent. Marcus and McNulty explore the importance of meta-leadership to meet this need.

Episode 63: Heather Costa, Director of Technology Resilience at the Mayo Clinic, discusses a resilience approach to technology—and leadership—in a fast-evolving, high-consequence environment. You can't prevent every adverse incident. You can, however, be ready to bounce forward to recover rapidly and grow stronger through the experience.

Anthony Amore, Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston discusses leading up, across, and beyond to create a culture of security.

Mark Dollins, founder and president of NorthStar Communications and co-author of Engaging Employees through Strategic Communications: Skills, Strategies, and Tactics discusses engaging employees through change. Every organization today is facing change. The ability of leaders to connect with and motivate employees is critical to success. Learn lessons from a pro with 30+ of experience.

Podcast with Dr. Carol Cunningham from the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Division of EMS on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in 2023 revealed serious public health preparedness and response issues. Discover critical insights from a public health leader involved in capturing those lessons.

The survivors of mass casualty incidents have distinct needs—and some have discovered an innovative way to help. In this episode, Dave Fortier, co-founder of One World Strong, shares insights from a decade of working with this resilient community committed to moving forward.

Disaster recovery is slow, expensive, and sometimes contentious. Yet in a time of perpetual disruption, it is a puzzle that must be solved. Dr. Samantha Montano shares her thoughts based on decades of experience and research.

Community readiness is an enduring challenge for emergency managers. In this episode, Meaghan Enright shares powerful, practical insights for building readiness from the ground up based on her experience in St. John, USVI.

Verenice Castillo and Whitney Armstrong of the Military Spouse Advocacy Network elevate informal leaders addressing critical issues members of the military and their families. They have lessons for everyone working with informal leaders.

Joseph Porcelli is Global Public Agency, Life Safety, and Disaster Response Lead for NextDoor. He shared insights on how to move the needle on community engagement to make communities better prepared for and more responsive in disasters.

Risha Grant is author of Be Better Than Your BS—How Radical Acceptance Empowers Authenticity and Creates a Workplace Culture of Inclusion. She shares her experience and insights on how leaders can foster belonging and equity for everyone.

Paul Thallner is author of Redefining Resilience: How Organizations Move Beyond Setbacks and Grow Through Challenges. He provides timely insights on fostering the courage and confidence to build a truly resilient organization.

Dr. Brian Spisak, author of Computational Leadership, explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the thinking and practice of leading and organizational performance.

Shumaene Benford, of Boston Emergency Management, and Lee Alexander, of Boston EMS, share how they have grown as leaders in the 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.

Ashley Reichheld shares her deep, research-based insights on what it takes to develop and keep trust. Learn how the four factors help you understand how to earn the loyalty of customers, employees, and communities.

Jay Weiser shares his five superpowers of leadership, all based on embracing the paradoxes at the heart of leading through turbulence and complexity. Find more about Jay Weiser at www.jayweiser.com.

Kelly Donithan is a senior specialist in disaster response at Humane Society International. You can learn more about HSI and the work they do every day and in the situations where it matters most at www.hsi.org.

Dr. Linda Ginzel of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business shares techniques for leading with greater insight, intentionality, and purpose from her book, Choosing Leadership.

Podcast Episode 46: Dr. Dawn Emerick joins us on this very hot topic. Trauma has become an increasing concern in organizations over the past few years. The trauma experienced by returning combat veterans, first responders, society wide trauma, the pandemic, wildfires, floods and other devastating events are now in the headlines virtually every day.

A critical responsibility for leaders is to bring people into an uncertain future with hope and confidence. Learning how to anticipate change and proactively engage with uncertainty is essential to cultivate future adaptive strategies, as foresight and design expert Donna Dupont explains.

Leading requires being in touch with yourself, your team, and the other stakeholders. Executive coach Dain Dunston shares insights on radical self-awareness that helps leaders be more agile and more effective.

Government is charged with everything from delivering basic services to tackling complex challenges. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and his former Chief of Staff, Steve Kadish share insights on how to meet those challenges from their book, Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done.

In this episode, Karina de Allicon, experienced business continuity leader and mindfulness authority, joins us to discuss how age-old practices can help improve performance and bolster resilience among preparedness and response professionals and their teams.

Episode 41: Join us this month to listen to Dane Jensen; he helps leaders reset their relationship with pressure into a more productive one. Dane is the author of The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution and CEO of Third Factor.

Brad Borkan is a decision expert and author, he shares his insights on preparing to make truly challenging choices drawing from deep historical research. He is co-author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic and Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results.: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World.

She is an exemplar of innovative, systemic thinking, as well as of the determination it takes to make a difference on the ground. I think that her journey has lessons for all of us who wrestle with the thorny social issues and who work to lead for greater good is also captured.

If any topic should be top of mind right now, its risk, how we perceive it, how we evaluate it, what we do about it, for extreme weather to extreme politics. Uncertainty is a feature, not a bug of our current age. They help explore what this means for leaders.

Every major crisis has a public health component and, as has been seen during the pandemic, emergency management can greatly assist in a public health response. What can each discipline learn from the other? How can they best work together? Eric's guest is Todd De Voe, experienced emergency management professional and thought leader.

April has been a futurist, advisor, microfinance lawyer, global development executive, more. She has worked with organizations from Airbnb to the World Bank as well as governments around the world. Through it all, April has become expert at navigating change, and that's what I'm going to speak with her about today.

Gillian Cribbs works with global leaders and high potential executives across a range of sectors. In this episode we will be talking about the leader as coach, the coach. It is not a newly recognized skill for organizational leaders, though it remains an elusive one.

Leaders today face a risky world. In this episode, learn how take a more nuanced view of risk and how to navigate it. Our guest is Eric Jones, global manager of business risk consulting for property risk mutual insurance company, FM Global.

Chloe Demrovsky, President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute. DRI is the oldest and largest nonprofit that helps organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters by providing education, accreditation, and thought leadership in business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and related fields. We discuss what happened in 2020 and what we can look forward to in 2021.

Chloe Demrovsky, President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute. DRI is the oldest and largest nonprofit that helps organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters by providing education, accreditation, and thought leadership in business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and related fields. We discuss what happened in 2020 and what we can look forward to in 2021.

In this interview with Nancy Halpern, an expert in leading with what she calls “political IQ,” we explore how leaders can foster a politically healthy workplace. This discussion covers how to avoid micromanaging, creating opportunities for cross-boundary connections, and understanding how to work with people who resist change.

Companies whose standard operating environment is rich with risk have been leading the way to help us better understand how to re-imagine training and education to better engage recipients and increase the likelihood of tangible positive outcomes. Our guest today is at the forefront of this transformation. Muriel Barnier, a founder of Lime Core Training and Communications headquartered in the UAE discusses with us some interesting, new ways to approach training.

Cyber security episode: while much of the focus these days is on the corona virus as well as the street protests, those with their eyes open are seeing an increase in cyber threats. And to help us understand what's going on and what leaders can do about it, Keyaan Williams the founder and managing director of Cyber Leadership and Strategy Solutions, joins us to discuss this issue.

Recognizing cognitive bias and understanding other insights from brain science in order to get smarter than your brain. Michelle and Danielle have used that same underlying science to work with leaders in our homes, schools and communities. Michelle Palladini is a detective and school resource officer for a Massachusetts police department, as well as a yoga and mindfulness teacher. Donna Volpitta is a founder and education director of Pathways to Empower.

In his new book, best-selling author Dan Heath explores how to solve problems before they start–what he calls moving “upstream.” It is complex, difficult work though essential as we confront crises and disasters that are increasingly difficult and expensive to manage through response. Leaders need to put increasing emphasis on prevention, preparedness, and recovery in order to build more resilient, less response-dependent environments.

Michelle is founder of the Neighborhood Admins Resilience Network, a network of hyper-local Facebook Groups supporting community preparedness, response, and resilience. Michelle discusses the challenges and opportunities of “bottom up” leadership during the COVID-19 response.

Just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons with Greg Ciottone, Medical Preparedness Director, NPLI and Division of Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he works clinically in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He's known around the world as an expert in disaster and crisis medicine.

Just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons with Regina Phelps and internationally recognized expert in the field of crisis management, continuity planning and exercise design. She's the founder of E.M.S. Solutions Inc.