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Can you be strategic in developing your resilience? Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier, a business and clinical psychologist says yes and offers the audience a strategic framework of resilience, practical tips, and exercises for creating their own custom resilience plan, a new way to think about burnout, resilience, and your mental health as a leader.

Are you walking the talk? Do people interpret your actions as you have intended? How do you know? Becoming the leader you aspire to be takes much more intentionality and practice than simply creating a strategic plan. In this episode, executive coach, Miki Feldman Simon will share her CORE 4 step process from her upcoming book to help listeners live and lead with intention, authenticity and integrity. Miki will provide practical tips that the audience can immediately implement.

In this episode, listeners will learn how one young social entrepreneur transformed an idea into an implementable action plan, scaled it up to reach a broader audience and have a wider impact, and is now developing her leadership identity and vision for the future. In this episode, Aynsley Szczesniak and Dr Mira Brancu will walk through the steps of taking an idea and turning it into reality.

In this episode, we'll map out strategies to support employee transitions into parenthood. What do they need? Are there generational differences in trends and expectations? How does this impact team culture, retention, and productivity? Sarah Olin will provide insights into the impact of making this a priority, how to do it gracefully and align it with company goals.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Liz Sweigart who will share with us about the importance of Adaptive Planning, practical frameworks for strategic decision-making, and how to embrace innovation and creativity in that process. Given the ongoing uncertainties we face, our ability to infuse flexibility, continuous adjustment, and creativity into thoughtful scenario planning, risk management, and other strategic tools can help navigate ambiguity and mitigate potential challenges.

Authenticity is a current buzzword and authentic leadership is an exploding topic of interest. But do we really understand what it means? Is it something we should all pursue? Do all people have equal and equitable access to pursuing it? This episode pulls listeners back from the ‘authenticity as panacea’ mindset and takes the construct on a DeLorean ride back to its philosophical roots.

The audience will learn Tammy Gooler Loeb's "C.E.O. of Your Career" framework to grow a sustainable career through an employment marketplace that requires us to be more fluid, flexible and creative. (C = Be Curious; E = Be Engaged; O = Take Ownership). Tammy Gooler Loeb is the author of Work from the Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You.

Listeners will gain insight into a practical, easy to digest framework for understanding and celebrating your unique personality strengths and applying them to add strategic value to people and organizations. In this episode we talk about how to leverage your unique personality, accurately gauge your own strengths and weaknesses, increase your self-knowledge, and learn to identify and address the ‘shadow” side of your personality traits.

How can your personal self-awareness help your career and performance success? How do I hone this? Our guest Nancy Parsons will share her insights on this question along with assessment and data-based ideas for mapping a strategy for effective development.

Deep self-awareness is critical to mapping an effective strategy for development and performance improvement. 

What is belonging? How can organizations harness the energy that comes from true belonging? Wendy Gates Corbett will share her 3-pillar framework of belonging along with tactical ideas to foster a culture of belonging.

Wendy Gates Corbett is a bestselling author and belonging researcher. She works with organizations worldwide to identify the specific behaviors that build belonging in their workplace communities.

How do expectations, relationships, and changes in identity related to how leaders are perceived? What if the brand we intend as leaders is damaged or needs to be intentionally transformed to meet the needs of customers? We talk with a lawyer who has a passion for intellectual property to get a unique perspective on this. We hear about branding and intellectual property protection, but we don't often think about how they connect to a leadership identity or transform us and others.

Listeners will learn how leadership is changing globally, what leaders need to know more than ever, how leadership identity connects with these global changes, and how technology can be leveraged to get there.

Dr. Jonathan Kirschner is the Founder and CEO of AIIR Consulting -  a global business psychology consulting firm dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of leaders around the world

As a consultant, Dr. Sara provides training & support for employee wellbeing & inclusion across sectors including finance, tech, media & athletics. In her tech work, Dr. Sara founded EquiSkills App by MinMind, a skills-based training app for inclusive and progressive companies that addresses employee wellbeing and DEI issues with on-demand research-based skills from behavior science. Sara is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Keck Medicine of USC. 

Listeners will learn how leaders from marginalized groups - specifically, neurodivergent leaders - can change the old "rules" and lead authentically, without assimilating.  Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, is the author of “The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work” (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, April 2024). 

Listeners will learn to define leadership in a way that incorporates your personal experience - The first step in your leadership signature. They will get a preview Dr. Pennington's six key areas to "signature leadership" with an example of a pathway to their areas of identification and development.

As a way to celebrate wins from 2023 and ring in 2024, we will be inviting some founding members of our Towerscope Leadership Academy to share their personal insights about what they took away from last year that they plan to apply this coming year. We are in open application season for the next few weeks, and this will be a chance for listeners to get a sneak peek into the current members' experiences, and outcomes.

The most important skill women (especially) need to succeed and thrive at all stages of their careers. Whether you're starting out in your career, in the market for a promotion, or simply trying to show up as the best leader you can be, you're going to be asked what you bring to the table, why you matter, why YOU are the boss. Answer these questions well and you will unlock incredible potential. Answer them poorly and you will close the door on life-changing opportunities. 

Learn to build bridges within your communities, families, and workplaces in which polarization might otherwise result in division. This is a new way to think about the alignment of inner change and social change. You will be invited to recognize that empathetic and emotionally intelligent leaders have first built bridges in their inner worlds. We will explore example of leaders who show up in wholeness, revealing how they build the capacity to celebrate societies polarizing forces as dialectical challenges.

The audience will learn about long-term thinking, Career Reinvention, and the real reason you feel so busy!

How can you finally take control of your busy life? Dorie Clark shares how long-term thinking and Career Reinvention helped her and many others have a career transformation and the challenges we must overcome to get there.

The audience will learn Laura's Values First Framework (6 steps); How to use your values to build your leadership identity and culture; and How to use your values to make decisions

In this week's episode, we are talking about how you can use your core values to build your leadership identity and your team culture. You'll learn from Laura Eigel, Ph.D., who will teach us about the Values First Framework with tangible examples.

What the world’s most influential leaders know is that the secret to achieving that effectiveness is becoming coachable. And in order to do so, one must be ready to engage in the process of betterment, starting with investing in yourself in order to give the most back to your organization, team, and the world. That’s where executive coaching comes in. Jacquelyn and Scott use decades of experience at the highest echelons of the executive coaching industry to unpack the intricacies and necessities of a typical coaching engagement.

1) Why authenticity is one of the most essential skills to be a successful leader in our new world of work.  

2) How to show up authentically while not undermining your authority

3) Tips for developing a more authentic professional identity

If you are identify as neurodivergent, queer, or a woman leader and find it challenging to walk that "narrow band of acceptable behavior" between people-pleasing, kindness, and holding others accountable, this episode is for you. This is a live coaching call with a leader, Alisa Herr, who identifies as a neurodivergent and queer business owner and is looking for guidance about how to balance being an authentic, kind, supportive leader while also giving straightforward and direct feedback.

How we act in challenging situations depends on our emotional triggers and our personality strengths (and weaknesses). In this episode, we aim to equip you with the tools to thrive in leadership roles by examining the influence of emotional triggers and personal strengths and weaknesses on making strategic decisions. The audience will learn several frameworks to help them navigate such situations, while grounded in their own sense of sense and proactively rather than reactively.

As we grow older as leaders, we often to face uncertainty at work and at home as we navigate how to balance our experience with growth. Should we own our age? Do we have too much experience? Should we downplay it? Sometimes, we might find ourselves feeling dismissed, looked over, passed over, or out of sync with the younger workforce. Ageism is real, and there is a lot we can do about it. In this episode, we explore ageism, how to create a more age-inclusive culture in your organization, and how to regain your confidence.

There are often two ends of the relational spectrum when it comes to leadership styles. On one end of the extreme are those who err too far into being supportive/passive / non-confrontational and as a result have difficulty addressing problematic workplace behaviors, such as narcissistic bullies. On the other end of the spectrum are those very bullies who steamroll over everyone. How do you separate the good alphas from the bullies?  

In this episode we interview a leader, Olivia Nadasan, about her career path and decision making process in the global tech and philanthropy space. She'll also share how she has remained visible and relevant as her career continued to progress despite the uncertain global environment. 

Listeners will learn how to maximize their ability to manage the complex "infodemic" of the modern world and what knowledge, skills, and dispositions are needed to be an effective and critical learner. How can leaders and employees maximize their ability to manage the complex "infodemic" of the modern world? In this episode, we're talking with Dr. Jeffrey Greene about the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to be an effective and critical learner in the modern world.

In this episode, we will discuss the topic of navigating leadership role changes during uncertain times. Dr. Stefanie Mockler will share (anonymous) stories from the front lines of her coaching work where she has supported leaders going from (1) subject matter expert (SME) to people leader, (2) Managing a small team to leading other managers, and (3) Specialized technical lead to a generalist needing to drive results through other experts.

Discover how heightened stress response and cognitive biases can impact decision-making and team dynamics for leaders. But fear not! This episode equips you with evidence-based strategies to overcome these challenges, learn to differentiate between a stress reaction and intuition, empowering you to make informed decisions and build trust within your team. Perfect for mental health-savvy professionals, innovative leaders, and anyone seeking to master the art of trauma-informed leadership in today's dynamic world.

The audience will learn how to identify and manage the anxiety and uncertainly of addressing equity inclusion and belonging in any organization and society.One of the greatest feelings of uncertainty leaders experience is how to have important conversations and take critical actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Many leaders believe that these are some of the hardest skills to learn. This episode will help leaders learn how to identify and manage the anxiety and uncertainly of addressing equity inclusion .

In this episode, we will talk about some expectations leaders place upon themselves, based in schemas handed down about leadership, and will tease out whether those messages fit today's work landscape. For example, some of the unhelpful messages might be that a leader is in charge, controls the direction of the organization, and knows what to do next (like steering a large ship). In taking a more humble approach, a leader can recognize their strengths and fallibilities. They can uplift the team of experts around them to respond to the uncertain future.

In this episode we'll be exploring the downside of long-term planning. Long term planning can be a great tool to visualize and identify where a company or organization wants to go, but it can also create a false sense of confidence in what the future holds. In an ever-evolving world where things can change overnight, those plans can become a heavy weight that prevents folks from adapting to new situations and circumstances.

In this episode of The Hard Skills, we will explore another aspect of Facing Uncertainty (the first stage in Dr. Brancu’s Strategic Leadership Pathway model of leadership development). We often think about leading through uncertainty as a negative experience, or a risk. But there are benefits to embracing uncertainty. If done well, we experience personal and organizational growth. In this episode, we'll explore when and how to consider the benefits of embracing uncertainty.

In this episode of The Hard Skills, we will explore what self-trust, how to connect with it, and how to use it to navigate uncertain times or situations. Our guest, Jesse Janelle, will help us explore why so many of us have lost trust in ourselves and how this broken trust impacts leaders. The audience will learn about her 3 part framework for rebuilding self-trust (aligned, alive, and authentic) so that they can face uncertainty with greater confidence and grace.

In this episode of The Hard Skills, we will explore when and how leaders can take calculated risks even if they don’t have a full plan or when it’s difficult to see 10 steps ahead. Our guest, Kerri Patterson, will share her framework for thinking about these issues and how she helps others proceed through these murky waters. Kerri is an engineer by training who applies the agile framework to her work with leaders and teams navigating uncertainty.

Dr. Mira Brancu will introduce The Hard Skills, a new show on TalkRadio.nyc. She will cover her personal, educational, and work background to set the stage for the goals of the show, as well as what the show will cover during the first season.

Welcome to “The Hard Skills” radio show and podcast, a practical and research-driven show that explores the core leadership skills needed to fuel leadership to activate real change.In this inaugural episode, your host, Dr. Mira Brancu will take you back to her early childhood years after she immigrated to the US as a refugee.