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Stew Friedman est un psychologue organisationnel, professeur à la Wharton School, est un expert du leadership et auteur de l'ouvrage et de la méthode de "Total Leadership." Le livre viet d'être traduit en français par Wafaa Amal & Manu Da Silva.Ensemble, nous explorons comment cette approche permet aux leaders d'harmoniser vie personnelle et professionnelle, dans un monde où l'adaptabilité et l'authenticité sont plus que jamais nécessaires. Je pense que la santé mentale des leaders n'est pas assez adressée et il est évident que leur harmonie de vie est généralement très discutable.Comme il me l'explique ""La véritable richesse se trouve dans l'harmonie entre travail, famille, communauté et soi."Je questionne Stew sur les qualités essentielles pour devenir un leader aujourd'hui, sur l'importance de la connaissance de soi, de la gestion de la famille et de la communauté, et sur la manière dont les entreprises peuvent bénéficier de leaders qui valorisent la totalité de leur vie.Stew partage également les outils qu'il a développé pour aider chacun à clarifier ses valeurs, élaborer une vision personnelle et incarner un leadership inclusif et authentique. Il nous parle de son expérience auprès d'organisations comme Ford, où son modèle a transformé le leadership en intégrant la personne dans son entièreté, bien au-delà du seul rôle professionnel. Pour ceux qui aspirent à un leadership qui dépasse la simple accumulation de pouvoir et de richesse, cet échange offre une perspective rafraîchissante et des conseils précieux.Les questions que l'on aborde :Quelle est la différence fondamentale entre un manager et un leader ?Pourquoi pensez-vous qu'il est essentiel d'avoir plus de leaders que de managers aujourd'hui ?Comment chaque individu peut-il cultiver ses compétences de leadership ?Pourquoi la notion d'équilibre de vie n'a pas vraiment de sens? Quelles qualités sont essentielles chez les leaders du 21e siècle ?Comment la digitalisation et la complexité croissante ont-elles influencé le leadership ?Pourriez-vous expliquer le concept de "Total Leadership" ?Comment répartir l'attention entre les domaines du travail, de la famille, de la communauté et de soi-même ?Quelle est la place du bien-être personnel dans l'efficacité d'un leader ?Comment le Total Leadership peut-il contribuer à l'engagement et à la satisfaction des employés ?Comment définissez-vous la réussite ou le succès dans votre approche de leadership ?

  Join us in our next Design Your New Life in Retirement group program. _________________________ Today's Building Block: Personal Growth If you're planning for retirement, you're well-versed in figuring out how to balance work and life. You may be tempted to think you won't need to worry about that once you retire. But not so fast. If you're planning an active retirement, you'll need to be thoughtful in balancing the different domains of life and creating harmony among them. Several practices from Stew Friedman's Total Leadership model can help you be  intentional about your next phase of life. Start with Stew Friedman's free tool at Total Leadership.org: Create Your Four Circles Picture Stew Friedman joins us from suburban Philadelphia. _________________________ Bio Stew Friedman, founder and CEO of Total Leadership, is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984.  He worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD from the University of Michigan.  As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses.  He also founded Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project in 1991.  Friedman has been recognized by the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers every cycle since 2011 and was honored with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award as the world's foremost expert in the field of talent. He was listed among HR Magazine's most influential thought leaders, chosen by Working Mother as one of America's most influential men who have made life better for working parents, and presented with the Families and Work Institute's Work Life Legacy Award. While on leave from Wharton for two-and-a-half years, Friedman ran a 50-person department as the senior executive for leadership development at Ford Motor Company. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford's culture; 2500+ managers per year participated.  Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the LDC was a “global benchmark” for leadership development programs.  At Ford, he created Total Leadership, which has been a popular Wharton course since 2001 and is used by individuals and companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multi-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by 135,000+ students in Friedman's first MOOC on Coursera.  Participants in this program complete an intensive series of challenging exercises that increase their leadership capacity, performance, and well-being in all parts of life, while working in high-involvement peer-to-peer coaching relationships. His research is widely cited, including among Harvard Business Review‘s “Ideas that Shaped Management,” and he has written two bestselling books, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (2008) and Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (2014), now being taught as a MOOC on Coursera. His third Harvard Business Press book was Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (2020). In 2024, The Wharton School Press published a new edition of his landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family.  Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books.  In Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (1998) Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life. Winner of many teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the “rock star adorati...

While we prepare new episodes to share with you in January 2024, Alan wants to highlight a conversation from March 2023 with Stew Friedman, founder of The Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project at The University of Pennsylvania to talk about leadership as a lifelong practice. They discuss how leadership skills can completely transform your mental health, business performance, community engagement, and home life. This is what Stew Friedman calls Total Leadership. It's an incredibly insightful episode and we're re-releasing it in anticipation of Season 5.  Season 5 of Leading Up With Udemy returns on Wednesday, January 10th, and we've got some amazing guests lined up for the new year.  Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

In this episode of The Great Leadership Podcast with Jacob Morgan, I spoke with Stewart Friedman - a well-known leadership expert who spent time at Ford Motor Company leading a 50-person team focused on leadership development, transforming the culture, and training 2,500 managers per year. In today's episode, Friedman emphasizes the importance of finding mutual value in four domains: work, home, community, and self, and argues that leadership impacts all of them, requiring change in all areas. He also stresses the importance of vulnerability in leadership. According to his research, there is no such thing as work-life balance, instead, integration is the key. He has explored the impact of the pandemic on this integration and found that holistic career values have an indirect effect on work engagement. Stewart encourages people to make tough choices under pressure, integrate work and life, pay attention to signs, and make the best career decisions. _____________________ Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Great Leadership with Jacob Morgan Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Leadership is a lifelong practice. When practiced well, your leadership skills can completely transform your mental health, business performance, community engagement, and home life.  This is what Stew Friedman calls Total Leadership. Stew founded The Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project at The University of Pennsylvania. He has authored several bestselling books, including Total Leadership and Leading the Life You Want. According to The New York Times, Friedman inspires “rockstar adoration from his students.” Learn more about Udemy Business at https://bit.ly/udemy-podcast.

Interview with Stew Friedman / Director of The Wharton Work/Life Integration ProjectHOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVANWhen his first child was born, Stew Friedman, then a young professor, started researching how companies could think differently about their employees' work and home lives. His colleagues thought he was sabotaging a promising career. Instead, Ford Motor Company hired him and that stint spawned Total Leadership, a Wharton Business School course and a consulting company. Listen to why he's optimistic about companies "opening up so much experimentation and innovation - out of necessity!"---Get our free newsletter covering all things fatherhood delivered straight to your inbox: https://thecompanyofdads.com/thedad/

Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student in Stew's Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years running a global fair trade organization, she went on to build a highly successful career in human resources and recently started a new job at a company that fights cybercrime. Gianna manages the strategy and processes for building, investing in, and retaining top talent at Exabeam, enabling employees to do their best work. Prior to Exabeam, she was the Chief People Officer at BlueVine, a private fintech company based in Redwood City, CA. Before BlueVine, Gianna led HR and People functions in high-growth technology, gaming, consumer, and SaaS organizations including Playstudios, Aristocrat, Actian Corporation, Talend, and Balsam Brands. In this episode, Stew talks with Gianna about her experiences growing up in Texas, daughter of a Philipine woman who was a mail-order bride, and how that shaped her experiences as an undergraduate student at The Wharton School. Gianna describes how her early life led her to want to have an impact through her work on valuing the humanity in each and every one of us. She describes the opportunities and challenges on her path to pursuing that ambition in her current role and in her life beyond work. Here then is an invitation for you, a challenge, after you've had a chance to listen to this episode. Think about your own history and your particular demographic characteristics – age, race, sexual orientation, etc. – and consider what is it about your particular mix that is distinctly valuable in the world of work. What do you discover by taking a few minutes to think about who you are? Share your reactions and suggestions for future shows with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carmen Fernandez is Vice President and Chief People Officer at Marsh McClennan, one of the world's leading professional services firms in the areas of risk, strategy and people. She is committed to creating a culture that is inclusive and vibrant with inspiring leadership.In this episode, Stew talks with Carmen about the new challenges in Human Resources today as we strive to emerge from the pandemic; how to attract and retain talent now that so many people have been changed by the experience of remote work and by their increased interest in what matters most in life; diversity and inclusion best practices; what she learned from Stew's Total Leadership approach, and more. Here then is an invitation for you, a challenge, after you've had a chance to listen to this episode: Try using Carmen's great example of a community-building activity by starting a meeting asking attendees to write a short note of appreciation to someone in your organization. And here's another great practice from Carmen, one that she uses in her family: Try having a short weekly conversation with your family asking each member to say what they're hoping to accomplish in the week ahead and what help they need to do so. Share your reactions to this episode and suggestions for future shows with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jason Thacker is a Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group and Head of Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending. Prior to his current role, Jason served in various executive positions at TD Bank. He started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble as the company's youngest global expatriate, leading priority brands in both the US and Canada. Jason holds an MBA from The Wharton School and an HBA from the Ivey Business School. In recent years, Jason has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40, The Wharton School's 40 under 40 and P&G's Global Alumni under 40. In this episode, Stew talks with Jason about his career, how he applies lessons learned years ago in Stew's Total Leadership class at Wharton, his recent paternity leave and its impact on his work and most important relationships, the impact of fatherhood on his career, and much more. Here then is an invitation for you, a challenge, after you've had a chance to listen to this episode: If you know someone who is thinking about taking paternity leave or is either now on or has just returned from such a leave, how can you support them? Share your reactions to this episode and your suggestions for future shows with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here's another blast-from-the-past episode.In this interview with Michelle Rajotte, we discuss:Why you should act with authenticity.Examples of some big life changes that Total Leadership inspired.Leaders can work successfully and efficiently, but you should also find room for the other domains of your life: home, community, and self.The importance of following our authentic, meaningful path, not necessarily the path that people expect from us.And more!Resources Mentioned:Totalleadership.orgvaleriezaric.com

Liya Shuster-Bier is the founder and CEO of Alula, a radically honest platform for cancer patients, caregivers, and survivors. She is a cancer survivor herself. Prior to Alula, Liya built a career in community development and impact investing, partnering with mayors and governors across the country to create innovative financing solutions that improved community outcomes. She started her career at Goldman Sachs, on the corporate currency derivatives team. In addition to receiving her MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, where she was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership course, Liya is a proud Dartmouth alum, a native of Queens, NY, and an immigrant.In this episode, Stew talks with Liya about the story of her experience as a caregiver during her mother’s fight against cancer and about her own journey from the discovery of her own cancer to her current life as a survivor. With compelling examples, Liya vividly describes the trials and tribulations -- the physical, social, economic, and emotional challenges -- of living with cancer and how she realized, because she felt lost, the need for a resource that could help people with cancer and their caregivers deal with the realities of the world beyond hospitals. Liya talks about Alula’s mission, it’s fast-growing number of partnerships with product and service providers as well as investors, and how her company’s culture is focused on sustaining the real lives of all its stakeholders. Hers is an inspiring leadership story of how you can transmute an excruciating pain in your life into something of value to others.Here then in an invitation for you, if you or someone you care about is struggling with how to treat and survive cancer: Explore myalula.com and find help. Share your reactions and suggestions for future episodes with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Erica Dhawan is author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection No Matter the Distance. She is also the Founder and CEO of Cotential, a global organization that helps companies, leaders, and managers leverage 21st century collaboration skills and behaviors to improve performance. She’s also co-author of the bestselling Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence. She was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas” and featured as one of the Top 20 Management Experts around the world by GlobalGurus. She has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School, where she took Stew’s Total Leadership course. (And when he wasn’t able to receive in person the Thinkers50 award for distinguished achievement in the field of talent, he asked Erica to do so on his behalf -- they’ve been friends for a long time.)In this episode, Stew talks with Erica about her latest book, written before the pandemic but even more important now that so many are working almost entirely in the virtual world. She shares lots of practical advice on such matters as when to write in all caps, with whom to use emojis, how to negotiate ambiguous time-to-respond issues, how to respond to passive aggressive emails, a method for analyzing your digital body language style, and more. Here then, is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation: Pause after drafting your next email, before you send it, and think for a moment about the emotional reaction you expect from the recipient. Does this suggest a change in what you wrote? Share your reactions to this idea, this episode, and suggestions for future episodes with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

¿Qué puede inspirar a una persona, en términos de liderazgo, el hecho de tener un hijo? A Stewart D. Friedman, fundador y director The Wharton Leadership Program, le inspiró un libro “Total Leadership. Sé un mejor líder, consigue una vida más plena”, que presentó el 17 de marzo en la Fundación Rafael del Pino. Para Friedman es importante tener conciencia de lo que realmente es importante y de lo que no, de quiénes son importantes para nosotros. Y es que necesitamos mejorar todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, entendiendo por tales los referentes al mundo laboral, la vida familiar, las relaciones con la sociedad y el cuidado del cuerpo, la mente y el espíritu. Para ello es preciso hacer que nuestras acciones sean acordes con nuestros valores y con todo aquello que nos satisface en esos cuatro ámbitos de la vida. Además, usando nuestra creatividad podemos dar con ideas prácticas que nos permitan llevar a cabo los cambios de fondo que podamos necesitar. Y es que el líder que se necesita hoy en día no es solo una persona que se centre estrictamente en la vertiente de los negocios, sino en la totalidad de su persona y sepa cómo combinar la vida laboral con la familiar. Ese nuevo estilo de liderazgo persigue que se llegue a armonizar trabajo, hogar, la comunidad y la propia persona, provocando los cambios precios para ello con autenticidad, integridad y creatividad. Autenticidad significa clarificar qué es lo verdaderamente importante, integridad se refiere a hacer este análisis para todos los ámbitos de la persona y con creatividad se pretende que se experimente con la búsqueda de nuevas soluciones. En este sentido, Friedman nos propone un método consistente en evaluar la forma en la que empleamos nuestro tiempo en esas cuatro áreas fundamentales de la vida, comparemos los resultados con nuestros valores más profundos y desarrollemos “experimentos” para crear “cuatro caminos ganadores”. Éstos consisten en aquellas actividades o comportamientos que se traducen en mejoras simultaneas en todos los aspectos de la vida de la persona.

¿Qué puede inspirar a una persona, en términos de liderazgo, el hecho de tener un hijo? A Stewart D. Friedman, fundador y director The Wharton Leadership Program, le inspiró un libro “Total Leadership. Sé un mejor líder, consigue una vida más plena”, que presentó el 17 de marzo en la Fundación Rafael del Pino. Para Friedman es importante tener conciencia de lo que realmente es importante y de lo que no, de quiénes son importantes para nosotros. Y es que necesitamos mejorar todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, entendiendo por tales los referentes al mundo laboral, la vida familiar, las relaciones con la sociedad y el cuidado del cuerpo, la mente y el espíritu. Para ello es preciso hacer que nuestras acciones sean acordes con nuestros valores y con todo aquello que nos satisface en esos cuatro ámbitos de la vida. Además, usando nuestra creatividad podemos dar con ideas prácticas que nos permitan llevar a cabo los cambios de fondo que podamos necesitar. Y es que el líder que se necesita hoy en día no es solo una persona que se centre estrictamente en la vertiente de los negocios, sino en la totalidad de su persona y sepa cómo combinar la vida laboral con la familiar. Ese nuevo estilo de liderazgo persigue que se llegue a armonizar trabajo, hogar, la comunidad y la propia persona, provocando los cambios precios para ello con autenticidad, integridad y creatividad. Autenticidad significa clarificar qué es lo verdaderamente importante, integridad se refiere a hacer este análisis para todos los ámbitos de la persona y con creatividad se pretende que se experimente con la búsqueda de nuevas soluciones. En este sentido, Friedman nos propone un método consistente en evaluar la forma en la que empleamos nuestro tiempo en esas cuatro áreas fundamentales de la vida, comparemos los resultados con nuestros valores más profundos y desarrollemos “experimentos” para crear “cuatro caminos ganadores”. Éstos consisten en aquellas actividades o comportamientos que se traducen en mejoras simultaneas en todos los aspectos de la vida de la persona.

Stew Friedman, Ph. D., is a professor of practice at the Wharton School and co-author of “Parents Who Lead.” Stew has been writing and teaching the concepts of Total Leadership—how leaders integrate the domains of their lives--for the past three decades. www.stewfriedman.com www.totalleadership.org

Join me and Wharton organizational psychologist, Stew Friedman, as he shares how and why his best-selling idea, Total Leadership, is more important than ever for effectively leading at work and home in times of crisis. Sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis.

In this episode, Valerie recaps the lessons learned from the week.Highlights include:- Specific exercises in Total Leadership that will help you envision your future.- You often have more freedom in your life than you think, especially when it comes to work!- Some ideas for mindset work when it comes to juggling many different parts of your life.- Specifically how time blocking can be done in a non-rigid manner.Resources Mentioned:Total Leadership by Stewart D. FriedmanLisa Marie Pepe's Confidence Coach and Online Visibility siteValerie's InstagramDownload the free guide to finding peace of mind in your careerNew customers get $15 off your WalMart Instacart order of $50+ by using this link: https://instacart.oloiyb.net/c/2464192/883257/7412 and promo code SPARKSTORE15 (offer valid until 10/31/2020)Promotion is available in the following metro areas: San Francisco / Bay Area, CALos Angeles/ Orange County, CASan Diego, CATulsa, OKFTC Disclaimer: **This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.

In this interview with Michelle Rajotte, we discuss:Why you should act with authenticity.Examples of some big life changes that Total Leadership inspired.Leaders can work successfully and efficiently, but you should also find room for the other domains of your life: home, community, and self.The importance of following our authentic, meaningful path, not necessarily the path that people expect from us.And more!Resources Mentioned:Totalleadership.orgvaleriezaric.com

Start of interview [1:11]Ahmad's "origin story" [1:52]His experience as senior aide to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein in Washington, D.C. (2005-2010) [4:29]TARP ProgramsDodd Frank ActHis experience with Barclays Investment Bank covering public sector infrastructure (2010-2020) [7:41]Led Barclays’ California and Silicon Valley regional municipal banking team.Led Barclays' public sector coverage of social impact engagements in the 13 western U.S. states.Served as a lead banker on several innovative transactions, most notably executing the first ever Social Bonds issue for a non-profit in the U.S. municipal bond market.Introduction of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, founded in 1977 by David Packard of HP [11:19]Membership of the SVLG: about 360 companies. [13:39] "That's where the juice comes from. When we speak on behalf of these Silicon Valley companies, there is a real opportunity to impact positive change not only in Silicon Valley but also in corporate America."Board of SVLG "represents some of the best and brightest of Silicon Valley" [15:15]The new AB-979 California Board Diversity Legislation [16:27]Introduced by CA AssemblyMember Chris Holden.On September 30, 2020, Governor Newsom signed AB 979, which requires publicly held corporations headquartered in CA to diversify their boards of directors with directors from “underrepresented communities” by December 31, 2021.AB 979 defines “director from an underrepresented community” as “an individual who self-identifies as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Alaska Native, or who self-identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.”"What's so significant [for SVLG] is that we made a decision to stand on the side of progress" [18:35]The precedent of SB-826 [19:13]"I'm just so proud to stand with our executives and member companies to drive some serious change in a smart and responsible manner." [20:26]What piqued his interest in corporate board diversity: "some of this is very personal" [21:29]"The statement being made [with AB-979] was one that we [SVLG] wanted to stand in line with" [24:20]"The shareholder oversight questions are extremely serious and significant for public companies, especially for tech companies" [27:30]SVLG is developing tools to help on diversity initiatives (such as a database/repository of resumes) [29:09]Impact of Black Lives Matter movement in corporate America and SVLG [30:26]"There is overwhelming research that demonstrates a clear tie between increased profitability, increased market leadership, and more innovation with diverse executive leadership teams" "There is a business imperative to act, and also a moral imperative." [32:30]SVLG Is working on a pledge to improve diversity numbers in both public and private companies [35:56]Shareholder primacy vs stakeholder capitalism [43:44]: "What I would hope is that a business association like ours might be a proponent of tying social responsibility in every way, shape and form, and very strategically, to the business and to the bottom line."What's next for SVLG [46:40]: In terms of racial justice and equity: "It is about hiring, it's about funding, and it's about measuring results."His favorite books: [49:27]Endurance, by Alfred Lansing.To Sell is Human, by Daniel Pink.Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou.Total Leadership, by Stewart Friedman.His professional mentor: [51:23]Dianne FeinsteinHis favorite quotes: [52:27]"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity" (attributed to Roman philosopher Seneca)"You've got to get comfortable being uncomfortable in roles like this""There is nothing more uncommon than common sense" (attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright)What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?Two Beyond Burgers a day!Which living person do you most admire? His Dad, who grew up in the segregated south.Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Natalie Neilson Edwards is the Director of Inclusion & Diversity for The Estee Lauder Companies. She joined Estee Lauder in May of 2018 after graduating with her MBA from the Wharton School, with a concentration in business analytics. She leads inclusion strategy and operations for all 45,000 Estee Lauder employees and 25+ brands. While at Wharton, Natalie drafted the school’s official diversity plan, working with the Dean as the Wharton Graduate Association's VP of Diversity and as one of the only student members of the Diversity Strategy & Policy Task Force. She was instrumental in doubling the black student population in one year. She has a BA in finance from Howard University where she was Female Graduate of the Year.In this episode, Stew and Natalie discuss the challenges employees at all levels face discussing and grappling with race and how to help them do so more effectively. She describes what she learned from her experience about this issue growing up in suburban Houston and throughout her academic and professional career, including as a student at Wharton in Stew’s Total Leadership course. Natalie addresses what makes it hard to engage in meaningful dialogue about race and what we all can do to deal with deeply-ingrained sources of resistance and fear and thereby build a better tomorrow. Here then is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. Look for an opportunity to have a conversation about race with a co-worker using the insights you gained from hearing Natalie’s ideas. What did you discover that you can apply now and in the future? Write to Stew to let him know, at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu, or connect with him on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, share your thoughts with him on this episode and your ideas for people you’d like to hear on future shows. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Lindsay Kuo talks to us about her journey training in both medicine and business, the four domains of leadership, and what makes an effective leader. Join us as we delve into Dr. Kuo's blog post titled "Personal Total Leadership" and discover what it means to better integrate all aspects of your life!

Sue Bethanis hosts Alyssa Westring, Ph.D., an associate professor of management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University and an award-winning educator and an inaugural Presidential Fellow at DePaul. As the Director of Research for Total Leadership, Alyssa brings her expertise to evaluating the impact of Total Leadership on clients and program participants. Findings from this research are used both for continuous program improvement and for disseminating the authors’ discoveries and their implications for both scholars and practitioners. Alyssa is the co-author of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2020) and a scholar of diversity and inclusion, with a focus on women’s careers in STEM fields. Her work on women in medicine has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is a founding member of the Research Partnership for Women in Science Careers, and my scholarly writing can be found in numerous academic journals and regularly speaks to Fortune 500 companies about creating organizational cultures that facilitate work-life integration, diversity, and inclusion. In her TEDx talk, The Secret Life of a Work-Life Insider, she shares how her research questions and personal journey into motherhood have shaped one another. Sue and Alyssa discuss: - 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

Summary of the Show With Father's Day (and Mother's Day) just recently celebrated, it seems a good time to talk about parents and their unwavering role as leaders in the household. That's right, leaders. My friend Professor Stewart Friedman has spent a good part of his career advising leaders on life, and in his most recent book, Parents Who Lead, he connects the dots between parenting and leadership. It's a fabulous idea, immediately practical and meaningful for so many of us. Stewart and I discuss what parents do and how they can do it even better, why striving for work-life balance is the wrong goal, and what practical exercises couples can do to be happier individuals, and parents.Syd FinkelsteinSyd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein's research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life. Stewart FriedmanProfessor Stewart Friedman is a podcast host, program leader, and author of the book Total Leadership as well as Co-author of the book Parents Who Lead, a new publication. Stewart has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has presented doctorial work within the area of Organizational Psychology. Stewart spent some years of his academic career working at The Wharton School where he developed the Wharton Work/Life Project which was an initiative that collected data from students and alumni in hopes of uncovering the intersection between career and life interests. In 1999, Dr. Friedman took his academic findings to the corporate world where he worked at helping organizational leaders to better integrate home life with work life. While working at Ford Motor Company Friedman was the senior executive for leadership development, there he created Total Leadership which is a program to help leaders develop not only qualities for work but also everyday home life. In the latest publication, Parents Who Lead, Dr. Friedman, and his co-author translate their experiences and research findings into helping parents who are leaders within the household- although that may not be how they see it. Insights from the episode: Information on how leadership can help people to become better parents not only for their own kids but for communities as a whole. Details on tactics that can be implemented to improve partner relationships such as activities that ask people to write a leadership vision statement.Advice for people wanting to be successful while raising kids - Work-Life Integration. How to create a sense of harmony, consistent with your values and living the life you want to live. Advice for parents working from home with kids who are now homeschooled during COVID-19. Information on the importance of creating boundaries for the family as well as creating boundaries for employer-employee relationships. Strategies for managing and maximizing time both for work-life and parenting. Quotes from the show: On creating a work-life balance and why Stewart Friedman prefers to use the term ‘work-life integration'. - “The idea of balance is faulty and impossible” - Stewart FriedmanOn creating a work-life balance and why Stewart Friedman prefers to use the term ‘work-life integration'. - “The problem with the balance metaphor is that it assumes win-lose. For one part of your life to be successful the other has to sacrifice”. - Stewart FriedmanOn creating a work-life balance and why Stewart Friedman prefers to use the term ‘work-life integration'. - “You can't have everything all at once but you can find creative ways to integrate all the things you want “ Stewart Friedman On leadership “Social comparison is such a powerful mechanism for motivation -for- almost anything in life” - Syd Finkelstein On leadership and social comparison - “Social comparison is a losing game -unless you are the miracle one person who wins all the time- but you cannot ignore it at the same time.” - Syd Finkelstein On Parenting during COVID-19 and being honest when speaking with children “That's a recipe for psychological disaster to pretend that it's not real” - Stewart FriedmanOn COVID-19 “Don't be afraid to be afraid” - Stewart FriedmanOn setting boundaries “You have to speak up. You are in control of your own life” - Syd Finkelstein On managing and maximizing time - “If you tell me how people are spending their time, I can tell you how they are living their life” - Syd Finkelstein Stay Connected:Syd FinkelsteinWebsite: http://thesydcast.comLinkedIn: Sydney FinkelsteinTwitter: @sydfinkelsteinFacebook: The SydcastInstagram: The Sydcast Stewart Friedman Website: Total LeadershipPodcast: Work and LifeLinkedin- Stew FriedmanSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher, iTunes, and Spotify.This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)

  What does it mean to be a parent who leads? And can leadership skills really make a difference as a parent? Absolutely, according to this week’s guest.   Listen as Dr. Alyssa F. Westring, Associate Professor of Management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University, and Director of Research for Total Leadership, shares insights into the many ways leadership skills benefit parents at work and at home. Westring highlights what it means to be a parent who leads and how parents and families can use leadership skills to home in on their values and create a “collective family vision.” She encourages us to ask ourselves where we want to be in 5 to 10 years and to consider that vision as we make choices as parents and as a family.   Co-author of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life, Westring discusses the “Four-Way Wins” method to help overwhelmed parents refocus their attention, so that their lives are in closer alignment with their priorities. This method encompasses integrating career (not necessarily current paid work, but what you are trained to do), family, community, and self, including body, mind, and spirit. She advises us to ask ourselves how these domains of life interact, how much energy and time we are dedicating to each domain, how happy we are in each domain, and how important each domain is to us. This allows us to use the “Four-Way View” to evaluate our lives and then make changes to create win-win-win-wins -- where we do not have to sacrifice one domain to achieve happiness or success in another. Tune in to learn more from this inspiring and thought-provoking episode!   IN WHAT WAYS ARE YOU A LEADER AS A PARENT? What core values drive your life as an individual and in your family? What do you want the next 10-15 years to look like? What two or three things will be important for you to include in your vision for your family? Are there choices you are making now that no longer fit with that vision? What steps can you take to live in greater alignment with your vision?   WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PARENTS WHO LEAD AND THIS WEEK'S AUTHOR? ❉ WORKING MOMS: FRESH PERSPECTIVES FROM GROWN CHILDREN OF WORKING MOTHERS. Although a majority of moms are employed during their childrearing years, many working moms still experience a nagging concern that their children some day will look back on their childhood and feel short-changed. Listen as business leader and mother Pam Lenehan shines light on the overwhelmingly positive views of adult children reflecting on their moms’ work and the impact it had on their development.   ❉ THE SECRET LIFE OF A WORK-LIFE INSIDER. Watch Alyssa Westring's TEDx Talk below.    ❉ PARENTS WHO LEAD: THE LEADERSHIP APPROACH YOU NEED TO PARENT WITH PURPOSE, FUEL YOUR CAREER, AND CREATE A RICHER LIFE. Purchase the book to learn more about using leadership skills to create the life you want to lead. Mom Enough® only shares recommendations for products or books we have independently reviewed. As an Amazon Associate, Mom Enough may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Your purchase helps Mom Enough continue to offer evidence-based information at no cost to our listeners.

Show notes & links. In this episode, Audry is joined by Alyssa Westring, co-author of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life. Alyssa is an associate professor of management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University, and has studied organizational psychology, particularly work-life integration. Parenting life isn't easy and many people feel guilty, stressed, and on autopilot, instead of being present with their families at the end of a busy workday. It is possible for parents to harness the powerful science of leadership in order to thrive in all aspects of their lives. Big Ideas Parents Who Lead was co-authored with Stuart Friedman, who wrote Total Leadership. Westring and Friedman took the leadership principles that were more individual-focused and applied them, along with some new research, to parenting. They look at what it means to be a total leader and a leader in all parts of life. Parents can be just as intentional about seeking purpose in parenting as they are about seeking fulfillment in their careers. For the past 3 years, she has focused on working parents and discovering ways they can parent more effectively and thrive in their careers and personal lives. Her research asks: How do we help people make better choices about balancing work and family? How do we help organizations make better policies? How do we influence these things on a national level and on a global level? She shares the "Four Way View." We think of these four domains of our lives as if they are four buckets: career - work or school family - kids, partner, extended family community - friends, neighbors, religious or political organizations self - mind, body, and spirit Looking for four-way wins means not settling for changes in one part of your life that make things worse in another. When you're overwhelmed, ask yourself: How important is it? How much time and energy am I spending on it? How am I doing? How satisfied am I?  Look at how all of those pieces fit into the puzzle of your life. This reveals opportunities to make things better across domains, not just in one. What are the values that you hope define this moment in your lives, as an individual and as a family? How do our values impact the choices we make on a daily basis? When parents realize they can assert more control and achieve better outcomes for themselves and others, they feel less overwhelmed. Mental health improves when parents learn how to pursue four-way wins. Quotes Audrey: "A lot of what I teach parents and what I've learned is from leadership and working to get your company on the same page culturally, creating a positive culture." Audrey: "At work, we're often so much better about stepping back and doing strategic planning once a year, looking at what's going well, what's not going well, having weekly meetings. There's so much structure usually in our careers but often we forget to apply those same principles at home." Alyssa: "Many dual-career couples are so enlightened about what great leadership looks like at work and then they get home they turn into these annoying micromanagers. We forget all of that good stuff that we learned about how to inspire other people, get them on board, and create a shared vision and culture. We just abandon it when we walk into the house." Alyssa: "It's a skill that we have and we just have to turn it on. And if you don't have it, and you're learning how to do it at home, that makes you better in your job, as well. Because then you know how to communicate and set goals and check in with people. It's a win-win." Alyssa: "Many of us are operating on autopilot (especially in pre-pandemic times.) We have a sense that we want things to be better, but we don't know how to change it. We don't know what to do to make it better. The Four-Way View is a tool that we use to take stock of the present. It will reveal opportunities to make things better in a way where you're not just sacrificing one thing to get more of another." Alyssa: "Our default assumption is that if we want our work to be better then we'd better take time away from sleep or from parenting or from friends. Taking the Four-Way View starts to help you think about how the different parts of your life are interconnected." Audrey: "Many parents have become so overwhelmed just getting through the day, getting their kids where they need to be, getting to work, that people don't have as close of neighborhoods. Most people don't have a religious affiliation or any kind of outside group that they connect with. I'm wondering if this pandemic is going to change that at all because it just makes it even more clear how we all need each other and nobody can do this alone." Alyssa: "I think the community is at the forefront of our minds right now because we are social distancing for the greater good, for our communities, for our society. We're aware of the sacrifices that we're making for other people in a way that's much more straightforward than normal. Yet I think we assume that we need to feel more isolated because we're physically isolated." Alyssa: "If as a family we care about showing gratitude, then that can be woven into anything that you do." Audrey: "Sometimes parents don't realize that they haven't communicated their values." Alyssa: "A lot of people feel like they don't have the time, they're too busy for these sorts of conversations, whether it's with kids or coworkers or community members of friends. We've found that it does seem to save them time and increase their happiness in the long run. It really does pay off, even if it's sort of hard to get on board with sacrificing some time upfront." Audrey: "What an opportunity we have when we don't have sports and we don't have anything going on to maybe take this time to clarify a little bit what our values are for this time and this season." Resources Values List: Pick your top values as an individual and as a family. On The Web: www.ParentsWhoLead.net Alyssa Westring is the Vincent de Paul Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Michigan State University in 2007. She is the Director of Research for Total Leadership. In addition to her research on work-life topics, she is a scholar of women's careers and leadership. She is an award-winning educator and DePaul's inaugural Presidential Fellow. Westring lives in Chicago and has two young children. Her TEDx talk, "The Secret Life of a Work-Life Insider," is about motherhood, and the Time magazine cover story she was interviewed for was about millennial parents. Alyssa's TED Talk One Simple Thing This week's One Simple Thing came from listener Gail, who shared the idea of practicing "Thoughtful Thursdays" with kids. One day a week (Thursdays work because of the nice alliteration), have your kids send a drawing or note to one of their classmates. Perhaps your kids can start a trend in their school just like Gail's grandchildren have! My Favorite From Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine, by Brooke Anderson for the Greater Good Science Center: Listener Question How do I stay calm while balancing parenting my three kids (ages 14, 12, & 6)? 10 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Calm Down

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@Alyssawestring on the bridge between parents and leaders in the age #FutureofWork #Work2dot0 In this podcast, Alyssa Westring discussed the relation between parents and leaders. She deciphered how parenting and leadership development are related. She explained her book, "Parents who LEAD." In the age of work2.0, when work and life are not treated as two sides of the same coin, but they are integrated. Alyssa's Recommended Read: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter https://amzn.to/2wFoYi7 Alyssa's Book: Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman, Alyssa F. Westring https://amzn.to/2w7corA Podcast Link: iTunes: http://math.im/jofitunes Youtube: http://math.im/jofyoutube Alyssa's BIO: Alyssa Westring is the Vincent de Paul Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Michigan State University in 2007. She is the Director of Research for Total Leadership. In addition to her research on work-life topics, she is a scholar of women's careers and leadership. She is an award-winning educator and DePaul's inaugural Presidential Fellow. Westring lives in Chicago and has two young children. Her TEDx talk, "The Secret Life of a Work-Life Insider," is about motherhood, and the Time magazine cover story she was interviewed for was about millennial parents. Some Questions we talked about: 1. Explain your journey to your current role? 2. Could you share something about your current position? 3. What does your company do? 4. Why write this book? 5. What is the underlying premise behind this book? 6. We often ask anyone seeking a leadership lesson, to have kids, what do you think? 7. What are some takeaways from the book? 8. Who is this book for? 9. What were some aha moments in writing this book? 10. What is the biggest myth you want to break with this book? 11. What is the single most important message you want to communicate via this book? ... Read more at: https://work2.org/alyssawestring-on-the-bridge-between-parents-and-leaders-in-the-age-futureofwork-work2dot0/

In our episode, we talk to Alyssa F. Westring (Award-Winning Business Professor & Author) about what it means to lead as a parent, why parents are not so great at screen time rules, and why valuing your family at work leads to career benefits. We also discuss her book "Parents Who Lead".  Purchase "Parents Who Lead" here Follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn    **More On Alyssa** Alyssa Westring is an associate professor of management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University. Alyssa is co-author of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life from Harvard Business Review Press. As the Director of Research for Total Leadership, Westring brings her expertise to evaluate the impact of Total Leadership on clients and program participants. Findings from this research are used both for continuous program improvement and for disseminating the authors' discoveries and their implications for both scholars and practitioners. Westring has co-authored many articles and chapters with Friedman and made significant contributions to the research in his books Leading the Life You Want and Baby Bust. She is also a scholar of diversity and inclusion, with a focus on women's careers in STEM fields. Her work on women in medicine has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is a founding member of the Research Partnership for Women in Science Careers, and her scholarly writing can be found in numerous academic journals. She regularly speaks to Fortune 500 companies about creating organizational cultures that facilitate work-life integration, diversity, and inclusion. She also writes for the popular press. 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Working parents are pulled in so many directions that it’s easy to feel like you’re failing at everything. But when we apply leadership principles and skills across all aspects of our lives – at work, at home, in our community, and to ourselves – our relationships flourish and our lives do, too. The key is to develop a leader’s mentality, say Stew Friedman and Alyssa Westring. Stew is an award-winning organizational psychologist at The Wharton School of Business and founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project. Alyssa is an associate professor of management at DePaul University and the director of research at Total Leadership. They join us to talk about their new book, Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life. Stew and Alyssa discuss the importance of defining your values, deciding what you care about most, and setting your vision as a leader in your life. Listen to this episode to learn: •Why we should throw away “work-life balance” and replace it with “work-life integration” •What is a “four-way win,” and what actions can you and your partner take to achieve one? •How to quiet feelings of mom guilt by making decisions that align with your values •Why a leadership mindset and open dialogue allows you to level-set expectations, build trust, and strengthen relationships at work •How “self-care” (in body, mind, and spirit) makes us better at caring for others •How to cultivate positive relationships with caregivers, neighbors, family, and friends to “build your village” and enrich your life (and theirs!) •Using experimentation and measurement to find our own pathways to living a better, more purposeful life For more information: www.parentswholead.net

Stewart Friedman is an organizational psychologist at Wharton and founder of Wharton’s Leadership Program and it’s work-life integration project. Listed among HR magazine’s most influential international thinkers, Stewart has written two best sellers, Leading The Life You Want and Total Leadership. And his newest book, which is about to be released, is Parents Who Lead. In this week’s podcast, we explore the practical steps we can take to integrate our work and our life to create four-way wins across our career, our family, our community and ourselves (mind, body, spirit) and the impact this has on our wellbeing and performance at work. Connect with Stewart Friedman:  https://www.totalleadership.org/ You’ll Learn: [02:18] - Stew explains how we can create four-way wins by integrating our careers, our family, our community, and our own needs to improve wellbeing and performance. [06:29] - Stew offers some practical tips to help us improve the integration of our career, our family, our community and ourselves. [14:33] - Stew outlines how peer coaching in workplaces can be used to help people become more confident and motivated to experiment with integration across their career, family, community, and self. [19:31] - Stew explains how we can lead better in our families and the impact this has on our work. [25:31] - Stew offers tips for asking workplace leaders for the support we need to create the win-win outcomes we need to better integrate our careers, our families, our community and ourselves. [28:15] - Stew completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook The No Asshole Rule by Robert L. Sutton PhD Thanks for listening!  Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care!  Thank you Stew!

Episode 011 – Tony Salloum http://fuelstory.com In episode 11, Chris welcomes Real Estate expert, Tony Salloum. Born and raised in Lebanon. The youngest of 5. Lost my dad at the age of 9. Grew up through a civil war. Eagle scout and a community called Faith and Light were big part of my life. The community made my life rich. Got my Bachelor in Physics in Lebanon. Came to Philadelphia to pursue my Ph.D. in Physics at Drexel. Graduated in 2006. Became a professor at Widener. Then became chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Internationally published in the field of Quantum Optics. Dropped it all for real estate. Currently runs a team of 7 people. Happily married and a dad of two young girls. Life to me is about people. I love sharing life with others through our every day experiences. This is why we founded LiveLoveMedia.com. I believe that people by default follow drama and controversy. It is our job to give people not what they want, but they need, such as this podcast. Connect with Tony Web: http://TheAffinityTeam.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAffinityTeam/ HIGHLIGHTS 0:40 Introduction to Tony Salloum 2:20 Meeting thru the Rotary club. 3:30 Tony’s FUEL story. 4:45 Growing up in Lebanon 5:30 Tanks in his back yard and missiles on his house. 7:45 How do we become part of a “connected community?” 8:42 Life and interaction is changing. 9:50 Live, Love Media. 10:30 What is Dining by Affinity? 13:48 What is Tony doing with Live, Love Media. 19:19 What makes a good Affinity Real Estate Team member?  21:37 Discussing the book, “Total Leadership.” 22:30 Toy discussed his published works and Quantum Optics. 25:00 Rapid Fire!!!!!

Reem Kassis, an alum of Stew’s Total Leadership course at Wharton, is a Palestinian writer and her debut cookbook, The Palestinian Table, was nominated for a James Beard award, short-listed for the Andre Simon Award and the Edward Stanford Award, and won The Guild of Food Writers First Book Award. The book received rave reviews from Anthony Bourdain and Michael Solomonov, was named one of NPR’s best books of 2017, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and The Guardian among others. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Reem holds two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Wharton, and an MSc in social psychology from The London School of Economics. A former McKinsey consultant, today Reem is using the power of food and storytelling to share the Palestinian narrative with the world. She is currently working on her second cookbook about the evolving, cross-cultural food of the Middle East.In this episode Stew and Reem discuss the courage that it takes to stop “ticking the boxes” in order to follow your own interests, your own values, your own metrics for success as a human being rather than continuing to follow others’ versions of what success might mean. Reem speaks candidly about how scary it was for her to step off the standard track, to confront her own outdated beliefs, to find and listen to those who “are in the ring with you” -- your true supporters -- and to realize the power of taking small steps toward a big idea. For information about her recipes, her moving descriptions of her homeland, and the ways in which food can bridge divides visit www.reemkassis.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

NUGGET CONTEXT Stew speaks about how we should try and stretch the boundaries of our current context before we start thinking about drastic solutions including changing jobs. He speaks about the notion of the Theory of small wins that underpins that Total Leadership approach and also refers to the work of Herminia Ibarra – Author of the book Working Identity. GUEST Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work within the fields of Leadership Development, Human Resources and Work–Life Integration on the application theory and research on the real challenges facing organizations. In our conversation, we spoke about how Dr. Friedman thinks about 4 domains - Self, Work, Home and Community and how we can harmonise across the four domains by going after what he calls “4 way wins”. He also talks about positive spill-over effects from one domain to another and urges us not to see these choices as trade-offs but as porous elements with osmosis across them. He goes on to talk about how we can craft experiments and interface with the various stakeholders to create a life that in line with what we care about and what matters to us. Published in Feb 2019. HOST Deepak is a Leadership Advisor and an Executive Coach. He works with leaders to improve their effectiveness and in helping them make better decisions specifically around organizational and career transitions. He currently runs Transition Insight (www.transitioninsight.com) and works with leaders to handle phases of transition thoughtfully. He has worked as an Operations Consultant with KPMG in UK, Strategy Consultant with McKinsey in the US and as a Leadership Consultant with EgonZehnder (a Swiss Leadership Advisory firm) where he helped companies recruit CEOs, CXOs and Board Members and worked on Leadership Development. Deepak is a certified CEO Coach and is an alumnus of IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His detailed profile can be found at https://in.linkedin.com/in/djayaraman OTHER GUESTS 1.Vijay Amritraj 2.Amish Tripathi 3.Raghu Raman 4.Papa CJ 5.Kartik Hosanagar 6.Ravi Venkatesan 7.Abhijit Bhaduri 8.Viren Rasquinha 9.Prakash Iyer 10.Avnish Bajaj 11.Nandan Nilekani 12.Atul Kasbekar 13.Karthik Reddy 14.Pramath Sinha 15.Vedika Bhandarkar 16.Vinita Bali 17.Zia Mody 18.Rama Bijapurkar 19.Dheeraj Pandey 20.Anu Madgavkar 21.Vishy Anand 22. Meher Pudumjee 23.KV Shridhar (Pops) 24.Suresh Naraynan 25.Devdutt Pattanaik 26.Jay Panda 27.Amit Chandra 28.Chandramouli Venkatesan 29.Roopa Kudva 30.Vinay Sitapati 31.Neera Nundy. 32.Deepa Malik 33.Bombay Jayashri. 34.Arun Maira 35.Ambi Parameswaran 36.OP Bhaat 37.Indranil Chakraborty 38.Tarun Khanna 39. Ramachandra Guha DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the podcast are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Deepak Jayaraman and Transition Insight Private Limited. Views expressed in comments to blog are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the author of the blog. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Not all comments may be published. Any third-party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right, but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.

Most businesses dream about having their best year ever. But that doesn’t mean it comes without new problems and without competing priorities. There’s a limit to what you can say no to and still have the full life you want, and this episode is all about finding a way to have it all – even if it involves mall-walking.  Why is that important for business?  When you spend a lot of time in your business, you might find other priorities suffer. Conventional wisdom might have you deciding which of your priorities you have to say no to. But a fulfilling life only has room for so many noes.  Perhaps you can blend priorities instead.  This isn’t just about “two birds, one stone”; it’s about making each individual priority even more effective by finding a way to combine them. This can especially work with combining physical activity with stimulating business conversations. A lot of creative things happen in the white space, so why not build it in?  In the book, “Total Leadership”, Stewart Friedman talks about how we have all of these circles of priorities in life, and the more you can overlap them, the better things will be. This ability to overlap is a next level hack for making the most out of the time we have here.  There is also something to be said about not blending too much. This isn’t about multitasking – there are things that want your undivided full attention. But the discipline of scanning for opportunities to combine things together in a way that makes each individual thing more fun allows you to have a fuller life. It also ups their individual priority level.  This is about more than simply not giving into the idea of competing priorities. The real value is that it provides greater meaning and significance to each priority. It is the art to using one priority to support another priority, like legs on a stool – add another leg and the stool becomes more stable. The more you use priorities to support each other, the more likely you are to accomplish all of them.    Side note about tough conversations: There is something about having important conversations shoulder-to-shoulder instead of face-to-face. It can give a little space for detachment from the rawness, making it easier to be brave about something you weren’t brave about before. It can bring comfort to both the speaker and the listener – in a difficult conversation, the speaker might not want the listener to see how vulnerable the conversation is, but there is also shelter for the listener to process.     Resources mentioned Total Leadership, Stewart Friedman, http://www.totalleadership.org/books/total-leadership-5/     What story do you want to tell? So, that's our story... now, we want to hear yours! Pull up a chair and join the conversation in our Facebook Group: bit.ly/shmsgroup OR...  Shoot us an email: talktous@soheresmystory.com Connect with @SHMSpodcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shmspodcast  Text the word STORY to 345345 to get access to bonus content and weekly episode delivery.   Want to support us? Love this podcast? Please tell your friends, post about us, or take moment to review us & subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to the podcast!

Erin Owen, author of Refuel Recharge and Re-energize: Your Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Time and Energy, joined Total Leadership’s client services team in 2005. She earned her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her graduate certificate in International Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. She holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Grinnell and certification in Health Coaching from the internationally recognized Institute for Integrative Nutrition in Manhattan, where Drs. Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, and Neil Barnard are faculty members. Drawing on over two decades of experience ranging from organizational change management consulting to leadership coaching, Erin has consulted with and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, business leaders, C-suite teams, and private individuals from more than 15 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She takes a unique East-meets-West approach to helping clients more effectively manage their professional lives, grow their leadership capacity and resilience, and lead healthier, happier, more productive lives. Erin is working mother and avid traveler who regularly leads learning groups to Asia. She is passionate about teaching a more sustainable way of living and working—a simpler, more harmonious way that allows us to thrive while preserving what is most precious and important. Erin and Stew discuss how she helps people grow as leaders. She describes her easily accessible method for identifying what a person needs to change and how they can change it while cultivating healthy relationships. To illustrate, Stew and Erin talk to someone who called the radio show about how he can improve the management of his priorities in his professional life and his family life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shaun Francis is Chair and CEO of Medcan and he’s author of a recently released book entitled Eat, Move, Think: The Path to a Healthier, Stronger, Happier You. He was a student in Stew’s very first Total Leadership class for Executive MBAs at Wharton. Medcan is a global leader in assessing their clients’ overall well-being and inspiring them to live well for life. It’s routinely recognized for as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. Shaun graduated from the United States Naval Academy after he was nominated by President Reagan to attend as a Canadian. He received the military’s highest recognition for a civilian, The Canadian Forces medallion for Distinguished Service, for his work on behalf of veterans. He’s received an honorary doctorate and countless other awards. Shaun co-led an expedition to the summit of Island Peak, adjacent to Mount Everest, with 12 injured Canadian, soldiers raising funds the True Patriot Love Foundation, which Shaun chairs. Stew and Shaun talk about the importance of our physical health for longevity, quality of life, and work performance. They drill down on the best diet (the Mediterranean ) and how it’s a sustainable one, not a fad. They talk about cardio as a way to prolong life and muscle strengthening as a way to improve the quality of one’s life over time. They discuss how the mind, and the way we exercise our choices, is central to prolonged health. They delve into the pernicious impact of the stigma of mental health care. Shaun uses the example of wounded warriors, the most fit among us, succumbing to mental health problems as an illustration how we are all of vulnerable to mental strain. They also talk about the importance of being role models for our children. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An integrated life sounds like an impossible dream in our fast-paced digital age. But there are outstanding leaders in the field of management and personal development who are helping us navigate the confusing path we face. One of those pioneers and guides is Stewart Friedman. Stew was one of my professors when I attended the Wharton School and he continues to astound me with the relevant and impacting work he’s doing to help us understand what goes into being a true master of leadership. In this episode, we discuss the concepts in his most recent books and get a taste of the tremendous difference the principles of Total Leadership he’s discovered are making in the lives of real leaders in real business environments - and in the lives of those who they lead. What can you do that creates value for our business, your family, your community, and yourself? One of the primary questions Stew has learned to ask all of his students - and that he teaches leaders of companies to ask their team members is this: “What can you do that creates value for the business, your family, your community, and yourself?” It may sound like a strange question for business leaders to be asking but Stew has discovered that every person is able to come up with an answer that fulfills all 4 aspects of the question - and when they clearly define their answer and begin applying it, everyone involved benefits in amazing ways. Listen to this episode of Masters of Leadership to hear some of the stories Stew tells, and learn how you can do your own self-assessments related to these areas. 3 principles of an integrated life: be real, be whole, be innovative Whether you consider yourself a leader or not, it’s important that you learn what it means to live in an integrated way. Stew Friedman has pioneered work that redefines what it means to be a leader in the modern era and is helping leaders and team members all over the world learn to be real, whole, and innovative - all at the same time. In this conversation, Stew and I discuss how those three elements make up an integrated life, the kinds of results that come from doing so, and why he believes that leaders across the globe need to learn how to live out these three qualities more successfully. MYTH: You have to sacrifice important things to be successful It’s become a common belief among career-minded individuals that in order to be truly successful there are important things that have to be sacrificed, at least for short periods of time. But Stew Friedman is progressively demonstrating that those kinds of beliefs are more myth than reality. Those who are careful to focus on three primary areas - authenticity, wholeness (body, mind, soul) and innovation actually do better at accomplishing their professional goals than others and are happier in the process. Find out what Stew has seen by listening to this episode, or grab a copy of his latest book, “Total Leadership.” If a leader lives an integrated life, she builds incredible trust with her team One of the most powerful aspects of living an integrated life is that it’s done in a transparent way, for everyone to see. That means that leaders of this kind not only talk about living and working in a certain manner, they demonstrate it to those they lead. This builds incredible trust for the leader and enables the team to maintain a level of synergy and collaboration that isn’t typical for business teams - and it all beings with the leader. Stew Friedman has pioneered the work in this area so be sure you listen to my conversation with him and find out how you can do your own self-assessment, both for your personal life and for your leadership, on this episode. Outline of This Episode [0:48] Who is Stewart Friedman? [2:50] Leadership: Mobilizing people toward a better place [3:45] The importance of creating harmony between the different parts of your life [5:28] The primary lessons from Stew’s most recent books: life integration & success [12:51] What are the new questions leaders must ask in the new digital world? [17:27] How to enable a culture of total leadership in a team? [23:08] One action you can take to build a more integrated life Resources & People Mentioned Stew Friedman www.TotalLeadership.org Work and Life Podcast www.MyFourCircles.com - do your own assessment On LinkedIn On Twitter: @StewFriedman BOOK: Leading the Life You Want BOOK: Total Leadership Connect with Erica Erica@cotentialgroup.com Linkedin.com/in/ericadhawan Twitter.com/edhawan Facebook.com/ericadhawan

Jenna Fisher is Global Corporate Officers Sector Leader for the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates and she was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class at Wharton about 15 years ago. Jenna specializes in leading senior financial officer assignments, serving clients across various sectors, including the technology, consumer, healthcare and retail industries. Her clients include Fortune 1000 corporations, middle-market private equity portfolio companies, as well as highly visible, pre-public venture capital-backed enterprises. The majority of her work over the past ten years has been recruiting CFOs, although she has conducted numerous assignments for treasurers, controllers, internal audit executives and division chief financial officers. Jenna is also involved at the board level, recruiting financial experts to serve on Audit Committees. She is based in San Francisco. Stew and Jenna talk about what an executive search consultant does and about how to conduct a successful job search by leveraging your network, knowing what you are truly looking for in your career, finding your distinctive gift and being excellent at it, and bringing your family into your career decision-making. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Asprey is founder and CEO of Bulletproof, a company known for its famous coffee, whose mission is to improve client performance through cutting-edge nutrition. He founded Bulletproof after spending years and over $250,000 to hack his own biology. He lost 100 pounds without counting calories or excessive exercise, used techniques to upgrade his brain by more than 20 IQ points, and lowered his biological age by learning to sleep more efficiently in less time. Dave spreads the Bulletproof message via his Bulletproof Radio, one of the top-ranked health podcasts on iTunes. He is also a Silicon Valley investor, having both advised and invested in multiple startups in the personal health space. Dave took Stew’s Total Leadership course on his way to earning an MBA from Wharton in 2004. Stew and Dave talk in this episode about Bulletproof’s early days and his inspiration for pursuing optimal performance. Dave describes the essence of the Bulletproof lifestyle and the fascinating psychology of will power. Dieting and transforming your life for the better doesn’t have to be an excruciating process, it can be joyful. Listen to find out how from one of the modern masters of quantified self. Show Notes (times when new topics start) 2:25 Dave’s personal change. Dave learned to focus on what was easy and where he was skilled to achieve massive personal change. 9:00 Quantified self. Dave’s “me-search” experiments (trying new methods on himself) helped him learn how to eat in a new way and boost his personal performance. 12:50 Keys to a high-performance lifestyle. Meditate, sleep better, and exercise smarter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stew Friedman is a Practice Professor of Management at UPenn’s Wharton Business School, and the Founding Director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is also the author of the award-winning best-seller, Total Leadership, which utilizes the exercises taught in his classroom at Wharton to increase leadership capacity and performance in all areas of life, not just business. His newest book, Leading the Life You Want, builds on the skills taught in Total Leadership to help people develop a better work-life balance and find more meaning and satisfaction with their jobs and relationships. In addition, Stew is a regular contributor to publications such as the Harvard Business Review, and has served in an advisory role for a wide range of companies and organizations, including the US Department of Labor, the United Nations, and even two White House administrations.   Why you should listen –     Stew comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss how to find your mission and purpose in life, the science of leadership, mastermind groups, and why you can get more done by focusing less on work. Enjoy the show!

Stew Friedman is a Practice Professor of Management at UPenn’s Wharton Business School, and the Founding Director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is also the author of the award-winning best-seller, Total Leadership, which utilizes the exercises taught in his classroom at Wharton to increase leadership capacity and performance in all areas of life, not just business. His newest book, Leading the Life You Want, builds on the skills taught in Total Leadership to help people develop a better work-life balance and find more meaning and satisfaction with their jobs and relationships. In addition, Stew is a regular contributor to publications such as the Harvard Business Review, and has served in an advisory role for a wide range of companies and organizations, including the US Department of Labor, the United Nations, and even two White House administrations.   Why you should listen –     Stew comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss how to find your mission and purpose in life, the science of leadership, mastermind groups, and why you can get more done by focusing less on work. Enjoy the show!

How often do you ask yourself what actually matters to you? And do you honestly know what matters to the people around you? Considering both of these questions, how do you align the two?  Stew Friedman  has the answers to these questions and more on this episode of Bulletproof Radio. Stew talks about how he addressed these philosophical questions with science and why data can help us learn the answers. Stew also talks about his new book Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women and the fascinating statistics he discovered about why fewer young people expect to be parents these days. There is a ton of good stuff to grab at on this show. Enjoy! Stewart D. Friedman is the Practice Professor of Management at The Wharton School. In 1991, he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project.  While on academic leave, from 1999 to 2001, he served as the senior executive responsible for leadership development at Ford Motor. There he created the Total Leadership program, which marries the work/life and leadership development fields and is now used around the world.  Working Mother named Friedman one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents.  His widely-cited publications and internationally-recognized expertise led Thinkers50 to select him as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers,” and the Families and Work Institute honored him with its Work Life Legacy Award.

How often do you ask yourself what actually matters to you? And do you honestly know what matters to the people around you? Considering both of these questions, how do you align the two?  Stew Friedman  has the answers to these questions and more on this episode of Bulletproof Radio. Stew talks about how he addressed these philosophical questions with science and why data can help us learn the answers. Stew also talks about his new book Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women and the fascinating statistics he discovered about why fewer young people expect to be parents these days. There is a ton of good stuff to grab at on this show. Enjoy! Stewart D. Friedman is the Practice Professor of Management at The Wharton School. In 1991, he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project.  While on academic leave, from 1999 to 2001, he served as the senior executive responsible for leadership development at Ford Motor. There he created the Total Leadership program, which marries the work/life and leadership development fields and is now used around the world.  Working Mother named Friedman one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents.  His widely-cited publications and internationally-recognized expertise led Thinkers50 to select him as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers,” and the Families and Work Institute honored him with its Work Life Legacy Award.

Lessons from the Stewart D. Friedman book - Total Leadership - a powerful book