Leaders Get Real

Kim Scott is a two-time New York Times bestselling author. In this chat, we talk about her first iconic book, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.  Kim is a former tech executive, leading critical teams with founders at Google, Apple, and YouTube – and, she's been Coach to CEO's at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and more. Sheryl Sandberg, former Facebook COO & author of LeanIn says: “Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead & inspire teams to do the best work of their lives.” Gain insight on being a leader who cares personally but also challenges directly…and how to create a culture of candor.

Podcast Host Christy Tonge with Guest, Gary Ware. Gary picks his favorite scene that leads to a rousing conversation on this first in a series of leadership lessons from the hit Apple+ series Ted Lasso. Enjoy!

Leading in adversity is a topic Maurice Brewster, CEO of Mosaic Global Transportation, knows all about. As a premier provider to corporate clients in 400 cities, including Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants, Mosaic watched business go from 2000 trips a day to zero in an instant when Covid-19’s Shelter in Place ended all employee shuttles and event transportation overnight. Mosaic was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article on how businesses are being impacted by the Corona virus. Listen in for an authentic conversation on the topic of leading through uncertainty.

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of this century. Written for time-crunched managers, parents or friends who want to be a little more coach-like, it’s about discovering a ”different way of being with people.” His new book is The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious, and Change the Way You Lead Forever. In our interview we chat about how to tame your Advice Monster and what it takes to stay curious just a little bit longer in all of our interactions.

Marshall Goldsmith is a world-renowned business educator and coach and leading expert in his field. His distinct ability to get results for top leaders has enabled over 150 CEOs, including the CEO of Ford Motor Company and the President of the World Bank, to achieve impactful change with his coaching. Marshall has authored 39 books, including NYTimes #1 best-sellers, Triggers: Creating Behavior Change That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. He has been awarded America's #1 Executive Coach by INC and the World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker by Thinkers 50. In In this episode, Marshall shares how to achieve lasting habit change for becoming the person we aim to be. He’s honest, he’s upbeat, and he’s deeply insightful.

Dolly Chugh delivered one of the 25 Most Popular TED Talks of 2018 for good reason. Author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, she’s also an award-winning, tenured professor at the New York University Stern School of Business where she studies the psychology of good people and teaches MBA courses in leadership, management, and negotiations. Dolly has been named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (along with Pope Francis, Angelina Jolie, and Bill Gates) by Ethisphere Magazine. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Dolly worked at Morgan Stanley, Time Inc., Scholastic, and Merrill Lynch. Dolly has degrees from Cornell University (B.A.) and Harvard University (M.B.A., Ph.D.)

Long-time friend, a former colleague and best-selling author Steve Farber joins me as a Guest on LeadersGetReal.  His fourth book, Love is Just Damn Good Business, will be released on September 6th. Steve has been named one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts. He’s currently an Inc.com  columnist as well as a sought-after speaker who was named Huffington Post’s #1 business speaker to listen to for 2017.   Steve is also the author of Greater Than Yourself and The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, which received Fast Company’s Readers’ Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time.  Steve brings a rare blend of refreshing humor and compelling thought leadership. In our chat, Steve shares stories, examples, and insights about love as a hard-core business principle.

"There's no greater recommendation than when an author tells you to read someone else's book." When Guy Kawasaki, author of 15 books, said this in our Podcast chat, the idea bubbled up for an episode with great authors sharing what they have found to be great reads. From these compelling interviews with best-selling authors Liz Wiseman, Chip Conley, Doly Chugh and Guy himself, you'll fill your reading list with stellar books -- from must-read classics to fresh new releases. What leadership books do you think they suggested? And what are your leadership favorites?

New York Times bestselling author Chip Conley is a rare entrepreneur who has disrupted his favorite industry...twice. At age 26, as founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, he took an inner city motel and turned it into the 2nd largest boutique hotel brand in America. Inspired by the work of famed psychologists Maslow and Frankl, Chip’s books, PEAK and Emotional Equations, share his theories on transformation and meaning in business and life. His new book, Wisdom @ Work was inspired by his post-50-year-old experiences as both a mentor and unexpected intern at Airbnb.  In this interview you’ll hear the humbling experience of this business icon when joining Airbnb with an average employee age half his own in a sector where his industry knowledge was golden but his tech knowledge was almost nil. In the process he made some amazing discoveries about the advantages of a multi-generational workforce, the importance of cultivating a beginner’s mind, and the power of curiosity.

Ebony Beckwith shared her favorite quote by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in our interview: “The business of business is to improve the state of the world."No doubt Ebony shares that passionate belief as Chief Philanthropy Officer for Salesforce where she leads a 40 person team responsible for engaging more than 36,000 employees in community service, as well as administering millions of dollars in grants to improve communities around the world. Ebony has been recognized as one of San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. Ebony and her team have achieved meaningful results with their work locally and internationally in education and workforce development. In this episode, we discuss authentic leadership, ingredients of a high engagement culture, and the power of corporations investing in their communities.

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley icon who first became known as Apple’s Chief Evangelist, launching the MacIntosh with epic success in Apple’s early days. From there he published many game-changing books: Selling the Dream, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, and more. His rich and varied career includes start-ups, venture capital, Garage.com, Advisor to Google, and now, a return to his role of Chief Evangelist with Canva, an innovative company aiming to democratize design the same way the Macintosh democratized computers. In our chat, we discuss Guy’s 15th book coming out soon, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, a Chicken Soup for the Soul, (or as he says, “Miso Soup for the Soul”) kind of book, full of stories: the ups and downs of working with Steve Jobs, becoming Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz, reflecting on his family’s immigrant experience, adopting 2 kids from Guatemala, learning to surf at 62, and more. You’ll enjoy this lively interview, filled with wisecracking humor and laughs, as well as heartfelt wisdom about leading, evangelizing, parenting and life. 

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley icon who first became known as Apple’s Chief Evangelist, launching the MacIntosh with epic success in Apple’s early days. From there he published many game-changing books: Selling the Dream, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, and more. His rich and varied career includes start-ups, venture capital, Garage.com, Advisor to Google, and now, a return to his role of Chief Evangelist with Canva, an innovative company aiming to democratize design the same way the Macintosh democratized computers. In our chat, we discuss Guy’s 15th book coming out soon, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, a Chicken Soup for the Soul, (or as he says, “Miso Soup for the Soul”) kind of book, full of stories: the ups and downs of working with Steve Jobs, becoming Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz, reflecting on his family’s immigrant experience, adopting 2 kids from Guatemala, learning to surf at 62, and more. You’ll enjoy this lively interview, filled with wisecracking humor and laughs, as well as heartfelt wisdom about leading, evangelizing, parenting and life. 

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley icon who first became known as Apple’s Chief Evangelist, launching the MacIntosh with epic success in Apple’s early days. From there he published many game-changing books: Selling the Dream, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, and more. His rich and varied career includes start-ups, venture capital, Garage.com, Advisor to Google, and now, a return to his role of Chief Evangelist with Canva, an innovative company aiming to democratize design the same way the Macintosh democratized computers. In our chat, we discuss Guy’s 15th book coming out soon, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, a Chicken Soup for the Soul, (or as he says, “Miso Soup for the Soul”) kind of book, full of stories: the ups and downs of working with Steve Jobs, becoming Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz, reflecting on his family’s immigrant experience, adopting 2 kids from Guatemala, learning to surf at 62, and more. You’ll enjoy this lively interview, filled with wisecracking humor and laughs, as well as heartfelt wisdom about leading, evangelizing, parenting and life. 

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley icon who first became known as Apple’s Chief Evangelist, launching the MacIntosh with epic success in Apple’s early days. From there he published many game-changing books: Selling the Dream, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, and more.  His rich and varied career includes start-ups, venture capital, Garage.com, Advisor to Google, and now, a return to his role of Chief Evangelist with Canva, an innovative company aiming to democratize design the same way the Macintosh democratized computers. In our chat, we discuss Guy’s 15th book coming out soon, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, a Chicken Soup for the Soul, (or as he says, “Miso Soup for the Soul”) kind of book, full of stories: the ups and downs of working with Steve Jobs, becoming Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz, reflecting on his family’s immigrant experience, adopting 2 kids from Guatemala,  learning to surf at 62, and more. You’ll enjoy this lively interview, filled with wisecracking humor and laughs, as well as heartfelt wisdom about leading, evangelizing, parenting and life. 

Do you have a personal improvement goal or a change you want to make at work that has proven resistant to your sincerest intentions, smartest plans, and best efforts? Discover a path to personal breakthrough from this Interview with Harvard faculty and 3-time author, Lisa Lahey, revealing deceptively simple insights from Immunity to Change: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization.  When Oprah Winfrey listed the Top Ten Things You Should Do to Start the New Year Right, number ONE on the list was, “Try the Immunity-to-Change approach." This ground-breaking, award-winning approach has helped tens of thousands of people make lasting changes at work and in their private lives.

Justin Bariso is the author of the best selling book, EQ Applied, and one of Inc.com's most popular columnists. His thoughts on leadership, management, and emotional intelligence have been featured by TIME, CNBC, and Forbes. He has been recognized repeatedly by LinkedIn as a “Top Voice” in Management and Workplace Culture. In this age of instant communication, constant distractions, and major conflict, a high emotional intelligence quotient, or EQ, is more important than ever. But what exactly is emotional intelligence? And what does it look like in real life and leadership? In this interview, Justin shows us with current examples of leaders you know, personal experiences and practical ideas to grow your own EQ.

Explore the power of messaging in your leadership (and even your parenting) in this Podcast episode with the Author of “What’s Your Message: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact Using Half the Effort. Cam’s book has rave reviews from Jack Welch and Seth Godin CEO for Vivid Learning, a company which works with a number of international organizations including Walt Disney, BBC Worldwide, Fox Sports Johnson & Johnson Medical, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Within this capacity, he not only oversees the direction of the company but also works as a speechwriter, messaging consultant and public speaking coach for his clients. He has a background as a radio executive for Southern Cross Austereo where he developed marketing and advertising campaigns. His first book, What's Your Message?: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact, Using Half the Effort is out now.

Explore the power of messaging in your leadership (and even your parenting) in this Podcast episode with the Author of “What’s Your Message: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact Using Half the Effort. Cam’s book has rave reviews from Jack Welch and Seth Godin CEO for Vivid Learning, a company which works with a number of international organisations including Walt Disney, BBC Worldwide, Fox Sports Johnson & Johnson Medical and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Within this capacity he not only oversees the direction of the company but also works as a speechwriter, messaging consultant and public speaking coach for his clients. He has a background as a radio executive for Southern Cross Austereo where he developed marketing and advertising campaigns. His first book, What's Your Message?: Public Speaking with Twice the Impact, Using Half the Effort is out now.

Jennifer Dulski  is the author of WSJ bestseller Purposeful and Head of Facebook Groups & Community. Jennifer shares eye-opening stories of leaders in business and social impact who effectively rally others around a common purpose. After rising in the ranks from an early Yahoo! employee to VP, Jen became co-founder and CEO of Dealmap, becoming the first woman to sell a company to Google. Next she became President & COO of Change.org, a social enterprise company that empowers people globally to create campaigns for c

Jennifer Dulski  is the author of WSJ bestseller Purposeful and Head of Facebook Groups & Community. Jennifer shares eye-opening stories of leaders in business and social impact who effectively rally others around a common purpose. After rising in the ranks from an early Yahoo! employee to VP, Jen became co-founder and CEO of Dealmap, becoming the first woman to sell a company to Google. Next she became President & COO of Change.org, a social enterprise company that empowers people globally to create campaigns for change.

Nominated for two Academy Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Film Coco is being lauded for achieving its finest work yet in its cultural authenticity. The hidden figure behind this success is the lead cultural consultant, Marcela Davison Aviles. Coco is second only to Moana in largest openings for Disney/Pixar. One of the most incredible parts of Coco’s success has been how it has resonated so deeply with the Mexican, Mexican-American and Latino communities across the world, while also managing to appeal to an international and non-Latino U.S. audience. A first generation daughter to Mexican parents, Davison Aviles worked hard and earned degrees from Harvard and Stanford Law. She brought her first-hand intimate knowledge of Mexico straight to the big screen as the lead consultant on Coco, and the authenticity of the film is being lauded as unparalleled. Marcela played a critical role advising in every aspect of the film, from storytelling, costumes and music, to PR and marketing. Above all, she guided the film’s non-Latino Director and Producer in navigating a highly sensitive cultural and political climate in America to produce a groundbreaking and historic success.

Nominated for two Academy Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Film Coco is being lauded for achieving its finest work yet in its cultural authenticity. The hidden figure behind this success is the lead cultural consultant, Marcela Davison Aviles. Coco is second only to Moana in largest openings for Disney/Pixar. One of the most incredible parts of Coco’s success has been how it has resonated so deeply with the Mexican, Mexican-American and Latino communities across the world, while also managing to appeal to an international and non-Latino U.S. audience. A first generation daughter to Mexican parents, Davison Aviles worked hard and earned degrees from Harvard and Stanford Law. She brought her first-hand intimate knowledge of Mexico straight to the big screen as the lead consultant on Coco, and the authenticity of the film is being lauded as unparalleled. Marcela played a critical role advising in every aspect of the film, from storytelling, costumes and music, to PR and marketing. Above all, she guided the film’s non-Latino Director and Producer in navigating a highly sensitive cultural and political climate in America to produce a groundbreaking and historic success.

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental diminisher?” Through compelling examples and personal stories, Liz will leave you inspired and challenged to take your leadership to the next level.

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental

Liz Wiseman is the New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts.  Liz is listed #35 on the 2017  Thinkers50  global ranking of management thinkers and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, among many business and leadership journals. Her research has contributed significantly to the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Liz is a former Vice President at Oracle, where she worked for 17 years. She is now the CEO of the Wiseman Group, with recent clients including Facebook, Apple, Disney, Nike, Tesla and Twitter. In this conversation, we talk about her book, Multipliers. From her groundbreaking research, Liz reveals how great leaders bring out the genius in others...and get more than twice the results. And she poses provocative questions: Are you using your smarts to amplify the people around you...or are you an “accidental diminisher?” Through compelling examples and personal stories, Liz will leave you inspired and challenged to take your leadership to the next level.

Long-time friend, former colleague and best-selling author Steve Farber joins me as a Guest on LeadersGetReal. Steve’s first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership,received Fast Company’s Readers’ Choice Award and was recently named one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His second book, The Radical Edge, was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” His third book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson In Leadership, was a Wall Street Journal® and USA Today® bestseller. Steve has been named one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts. Steve is currently an Inc columnist as well as a sought after speaker who combines quick-witted humor with poignant leadership truths. Steve’s Radical LEAP framework is widely used across business, non-profits and education. He has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them. In 1989, after having run his own financial services company, Steve became a director at TMI, and then worked for 6 years as Vice President and Official Mouthpiece (that’s what it said on his business card) of The Tom Peters Company where he met several of his mentors including author / gurus Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes, and Terry Pearce. In 2000, Steve established his own company, Extreme Leadership, Inc, where he is president and CEO, as well as founder of the Extreme Leadership Institute. He and his wife Veronica live in San Diego, California. He is proud of his “dubious achievement” of raising teenagers for 25 straight years.

Vanessa Russell has spent over 20 years leading technology and sales organizations in the tech industry. By day, Vanessa is a leader at Cisco Systems, running a 3.4 billion dollar global business, driving the adoption of new business models, products and services as a Senior Sales Business Development Manager, and leading a team of 22 systems engineers. On top of that, Vanessa is the founder of Love Never Fails, a non-profit dedicated to the protection and restoration of women and youth who are being exploited by domestic human trafficking.Love Never Fails has educated thousands of children and community members and provides rescue, safe housing and transformative opportunities for dozens of women and their children each year.

Terry Pearce has authored four books; the most popular, Leading Out Loud, is currently in its third edition. He also wrote, Clicks and Mortar with then Charles Schwab Ceo David Pottruck, which was hailed by New York Times as the "best handbook for operating in the new economy of the internet." Terry is Founder and President of Leadership Communication, consulting with high-profile corporate, political and community leaders. Business Week magazine called him the “eminence grisè” of leadership coaches. He spent 17 years with IBM early in his career. In the 80’s he worked extensively in citizen diplomacy, and pioneered American business activities in the Soviet Union. He’s also a former Senior Vice President for Charles Schwab & Co. Terry was an Adjunct Professor at The Haas Graduate School of Business, at UC Berkeley, and has served as visiting faculty at The London Business School for the MBA program and the Sloan Fellowship Programme, and thought leader in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Ethics and Leadership Roundtable.

Scott Kriens, Chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks, has been in the tech industry for more than 35 years. Scott helped found Juniper in 1996. During his leadership tenure, he has served as CEO and now Chairman, growing the company to more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide and $4 billion in revenue. Passionate about authenticity in relationships, in 2010 Scott and his wife Joanie founded 1440 Foundation, named for the 1,440 minutes in each day to live more connected, mindful and compassionate lives. Scott and the 1440 team are now building 1440 Multiversity, a state-of-the-art immersive learning destination opening in May 2017 in the Santa Cruz Redwoods, on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. The 75-acre campus will offer weekend and 5-day courses on leadership, personal growth and wellness, taught by world-class faculty, such as Peter Senge, Dan Siegel, Elizabeth Gilbert and more. It will house up to 375 guests and support individuals in leading more integrated lives.

Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the best executive educators in America. In this podcast, Jim discusses his most recent book, Learning Leadership. Jim is the co-author of The Leadership Challenge, which has sold over two million copies since its first edition and has been translated into 20 languages. Amazon describes The Leadership Challenge as, "the most trusted resource on becoming a leader." Other books by Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner include: Credibility, The Truth About Leadership, Encouraging the Heart, A Leader's Legacy.

Kirsten Wolberg is a Vice President at PayPal. She was the executive who led the separation of eBay and PayPal into 2 public companies. Prior to leading that strategic effort, she was the VP of Technology. Currently, she is PayPal’s Vice President of Talent. Kirsten has over 20 years experience in leading Technology, Product, Operations and Strategy. She served as Vice President of Technology at Charles Schwab. She also led salesforce.com’s IT organization to the cloud as their Chief Information Officer, managing a $100 million dollar budget.