Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like a Family
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Recently recognized as a 2025 Top 50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc., Bob Chapman is very intentional about building a better world. Chapman is Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Barry-Wehmiller. When he became chief executive in 1975, Barry-Wehmiller was a struggling $18 million business. Today, Barry-Wehmiller is a $3.6+ billion global platform of industrial and packaging automation, professional services and life sciences technology that Chapman transformed by applying a unique blend of strategy and culture. It is combination of 150+ acquisitions and 12,000 teammates in 28...
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Your 360Win
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Patricia Rachel Schwartz, MA, MCC (Master Certified Coach), NBC-HWC (National Medical Board of Examiners Health and Wellness Coach) is an executive coach, team coach, facilitator and author. She partners with senior leaders and teams to maximize desired results, which often involves a focus on stakeholder engagement, strategic visioning, team and business development, and change leadership. Ms. Schwartz’s proven approaches catalyze innovation, infuse the individual, team and organizational culture with positive energy, increase bottom line productivity, contribute to wellbeing...
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Moment Mastery with Drs. Nadler & Greenberg
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In this special episode, Dr. Cathy Greenberg interviews Dr. Relly Nadler about his journey into the science of emotional intelligence and the breakthrough tools he’s developed to help leaders excel in the moments that matter most. Although executives show their emotional intelligence in split-second interactions, most of us operate on autopilot up to 95% of the time. As Dr. Relly says, “If you stay on autopilot, you stay average.” Drawing from emotional intelligence, positive psychology, neuroscience, and peak performance research, Dr. Relly shares the “turbulence tools” he’s...
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Future of Work Expert, Author, LinkedIn’s First Chief HR Officer
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Steve Cadigan is a pioneer in reimagining how organizations attract, develop, and unleash talent in the modern economy. As founder of Cadigan Talent Ventures, he works deeply with leaders on complex, critical talent strategies—challenging conventional thinking and provoking breakthrough approaches for organizations navigating the future of work. As the architect of LinkedIn's talent strategy during its hypergrowth from 400 to 4,000 employees, Steve served as the company's first Chief Human Resources Officer from 2009 to 2012, guiding the company through its IPO and building the...
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Leadership is About Humans: Why Genuine Relationships Are the Real Competitive Advantage
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William C. Davis is a leadership speaker, author, and former senior-level corporate leader with nearly four decades of experience leading large, diverse teams across multiple Fortune-500-type organizations. Throughout his career, William earned a reputation for building high-trust, high-retention cultures grounded in empathy, communication, and genuine human connection. He is the author of The Leadership Blueprint Series — a people-first leadership philosophy built on the belief that leadership is — and will always be — about humans. William’s work focuses on helping leaders...
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Disrupt Yourself: Mindsets for Tomorrow's Leaders
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In this conversation, futurist Robert B. Tucker explains why today’s change is fundamentally different from anything we’ve faced before and why incremental thinking no longer works in the Age of Acceleration. Drawing from his new book, Build a Better Future: Seven Mindsets for the Age of Acceleration, Tucker explores what it truly means to “disrupt yourself,” how leaders can stay ahead of powerful MegaForces like AI-driven job disruption, and why human agency and flourishing have become as critical as innovation itself. He shares lessons from leaders who most shaped his thinking,...
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Become Future Proof
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We are celebrating 20 years on the Voice America Network. AI is moving fast, and it’s natural to wonder what that means for our jobs. Join us for a reassuring look at why many careers aren’t going anywhere. Jobs that depend on human connection, creativity, good judgment, and hands-on skills—like nursing, teaching, skilled trades, art, and leadership—are especially hard to replace. Dr.. “Cat” Greenberg shares how the future of work is less about replacement and more about focusing on what humans do best naturally: empathy, adaptability, and solving real-world...
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Entrepreneurial Learnings and Leadership
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Steve Cunningham is the owner and founder of Readitfor.me. They turn the world’s best business and personal books into beautiful 12-minute videos and workshops for organizations around the world. He also created Growitfor.me which he’ll talk about today too. Here’s are some of the top things about him he shared with us. Steve loves being an entrepreneur. He started his first business in grade 4, selling baseball and hockey trading cards. He used to run a digital marketing agency called Three Thirty, where he helped clients make more money using a blend of content marketing, a deep...
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Deep Water Leadership with Chris Auger, Navy Special Warfare (ret)
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Deep Water Leadership LLC Founder and Executive Leadership and Team Development Consultant, Dr. Chris Auger, believes success happens when we bring clarity to the complex and challenging, enabling us to pursue significance in life and work. In this role, he leverages his knowledge and certifications to combine self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and servant leadership, building high-performing leaders, followers, and teams both at work and in personal settings. Chris’s passion for strong teams and leaders was ignited and developed over his nearly 28 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL. Chris...
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Encore: Moment Mastery: Leading Beyond Autopilot
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In this special episode, Dr. Cathy interviews Dr. Relly Nadler about his journey into the science of emotional intelligence and the breakthrough tools he’s developed to help leaders excel in the moments that matter most. Although executives show their emotional intelligence in split-second interactions, most of us operate on autopilot up to 95% of the time. As Dr. Relly says, “If you stay on autopilot, you stay average.” Drawing from emotional intelligence, positive psychology, neuroscience, and peak performance research, Dr. Relly shares the “turbulence tools” he’s used with...
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Is it that they have a brilliant leader or that every team member is a top performer? The truth is that those help, but neither of them differentiates the best teams. Exceptional teams stand apart from others by building an emotionally intelligent ecosystem (not just the EI of leaders or employees). Unlike most, emotionally intelligent teams develop social norms and routines that motivate teamwork by building a genuine sense of belonging among team members. These norms prioritize team member feedback and development, and encourage constructive debate that produces effective decisions and novel ideas
Vanessa Druskat is an associate professor at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. As an internationally recognized leadership and team performance expert, Vanessa Druskat advises leaders and teams at over a dozen Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies. Her best-selling Harvard Business Review article (with S. Wolff) on emotionally intelligent teams has been chosen six times for inclusion in collections of HBR’s most valued articles. She is the recipient of multiple research and teaching awards.
For more information, please visit https://www.vanessadruskat.com/