Wisetalk

Sue Bethanis hosts Alexandra Levit, futurist, consultant, and author. Alexandra Levit’s goal is to prepare organizations and their employees to be competitive and marketable in the future business world. A former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal and writer for the New York Times, Fast Company, and Forbes, Alexandra has authored several books, including Humanity Works: Merging People and Technologies for the Workforce of the Future.Alexandra recently became a partner with organizational development firm PeopleResults. She consults and writes on leadership development, human resources, technology adoption, entrepreneurship, innovation, career and workplace trends on behalf of numerous Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Canon, Deloitte, DeVry University, Intuit, SilkRoad, and Staples. In the last several years, Alexandra has conducted proprietary research on the future of work, technology adoption, the millennial generation, gender differences and bias, and the skills ga

Sue Bethanis hosts Thomas Davenport, one of the top three business/technology analysts in the world, one of the 100 most influential people in IT, and one of Fortune’s top 50 business school professors. Tom is a world-renowned thought leader and author, is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article. An author and co-author of 20 books and more than 200 articles, he helps organizations to transform their management practices in digital business domains such as artificial intelligence, analytics, information and knowledge management, process management, and

Sue Bethanis hosts Sanjay Srivastava, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Genpact, an 80,000 employee digital transformation services provider. Sanjay is deeply rooted in the Innovation ecosystem – he was a serial entrepreneur, is an advisor to Silicon Valley AI incubators and several startups, and a limited partner in digital-focused venture funds. He is a member of the Digital 50, and of BCG’s Digital Transformation Network, and was named by IDG as a “Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow.” He is a frequent speaker at various industry forums on AI, analytics and automation and writes on disruptive innovation, including Competing in a Digital First World on CIO.com and LinkedIn.Sanjay and Sue discuss:- What separates AI from intelligent automation- How can AI be applied to business- Critical factors for successful AI adoption- The challenges in moving forward with AI

Sue Bethanis hosts Jake Metcalf, a consultant and scholar specializing in data and technology ethics.Jake is passionate about helping people understand how seemingly small decisions about data technologies can have significant and disparate consequences in society. His academic background is in applied ethics, particularly in science and technology, and his scholarship in data ethics is recognized as influencing this nascent field, particularly around issues of research ethics policy and practice in academia and business. He lives amongst the redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains, where he fulfills his lifelong dream of running a philosophy business from a converted barn.Jake and Sue discuss:- Why data responsibility is a competitive advantage- How to develop your capacity for ethics- How to assess and implement data ethics

Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. Martin Lanik, author of the business bestseller The Leader Habit: Master the Skills You Need to Lead–in Just Minutes a Day and CEO of Pinsight. His habit-forming career development solutions focus on 5-minute practice sessions woven throughout the day. Martin’s research-based formula has helped thousands of executives achieve the results they want. More than 100 companies – including AIG and CenturyLink – have implemented his programs, which received awards from Chief Learning Officer and Brandon Hall.Martin’s work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Chief Learning Officer, Talent Economy, and Monster.com. Martin has contributed articles to outlets like Chief Executive, Business Management Daily, HR People + Strategy, and HR.com.Martin and Sue will discuss:-How leadership is a series of habits-How to master the skills you need to lead-How to focus on developing one skill at a time-How to encourage new skills in others

Sue hosts Mary Abbajay, President and Founder of Careerstone Group, LLC, a woman-owned professional development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions.Mary brings 20 years of experience in leadership positions, a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management, and post-graduate certificates from Georgetown University and the Coaches Training Institute. She has served as adjunct faculty at George Mason University’s School of Management and has taught at both Montgomery College and the Georgetown University Center for Professional Development.Mary is the host of “Women Talk” and a regular contributor on “The Working Life,” two iHeart Media radio shows broadcast in the Washington, D.C. area. Mary was named as one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business and was a Smart CEO Brava Award recipient in 2017. Mary is the author of the new book, Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss.Mary and Sue discuss:+ Why managing up

Sue hosts Diana Faison, an expert in the fields of leadership training, executive coaching, and strategic planning, with a focus in the field of women’s leadership. She is a partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership, a consultancy and talent development firm that works to advance women’s careers to top levels. Her passion for empowering the next generation of female leaders has led her to coach and design programs targeted toward millennials.Diana has authored articles for Success and Lead Change Group, and is co-author of the book, The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on business leadership topics such as political savvy, strategic planning, brand, personal power, authentic leadership, influence, and well-being.Diana and Sue discuss:+How to become politically savvy+How to prepare for influence+5 strategies for influence+How to succeed on the corporate stage

Sue hosts S. Renee Smith, a renowned self-esteem and branding expert, life and business coach, and speaker. She has worked with over 100 organizations and has coached over 300 small business owners. With more than 20 years of experience in communications, she has served as a television talk show host, producer, and spokesperson, director of public relations at an academic institution, a corporate marketing representative, and a manager. Her insights have been featured in Entrepreneur, Shape, Marketing Daily, Workwise, and other magazines, and she has made countless radio and television appearances.S. Renee is the author of the new book, 5 Steps to Assertiveness: How to Communicate with Confidence and Get What You Want. She is also the co-author of Self-Esteem for Dummies, which was written for the world’s bestselling reference brand series, For Dummies.S. Renee and Sue discuss:+ How to identify your specific communication style+ How to listen assertively+ How to effectively use your body language+ How to face

Sue hosts Stacey Hanke, Founder and CEO of Stacey Hanke, Inc., a consultancy that equips leaders within organizations to communicate with confidence, presence, and authenticity. Stacey is the author of two books, including her latest, Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday. Her books provide practical and immediate skills and techniques that give leaders the ability to enhance their influence.Stacey has trained over 15,000 people to rid themselves of distracting body language and how to choose words wisely. She has delivered over 500 presentations for business leaders in the financial, healthcare and government industries, and everyone in between. Her vast client list includes Adobe, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Kohl’s, three branches of the US Armed Forces, Nationwide Insurance, Pfizer, GE, General Mills, and Walmart. In addition to her client list, she has been the emcee for Tedx and featured in many media outlets including The New York Times, SmartMoney magazine, Business Week, Forbe

Sue Bethanis hosts Phil M. Jones, best-selling author and multiple award-winner. Phil is highly regarded as one of the world’s leading sales trainers. He has trained more than two million people across five continents and fifty-six countries, and coached some of the biggest global brands in the lost art of spoken communication. In 2013, he won the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Award for Sales Trainer of the Year, the youngest-ever recipient of that honor. He has also written five international best-selling books and developed a number of online training courses that have enrolled tens of thousands of members around the world.Discover the power that language has over the subconscious brain, gain practical examples that have instant application, and receive tailored examples of how the “Magic Words” from Phil’s best-selling book, Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact, are applied to your specific business critical situations.Phil and Sue discuss:- The secret to starting conve

Sue Bethanis hosts Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, an author, executive coach, and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.” Jennifer has deepened her knowledge and appreciation for introverts through her work as a learning and development professional and speaker at leading organizations like General Electric, Freddie Mac, NASA, Turner Broadcasting, and the US Centers for Disease Control.Jennifer’s best-selling books The Introverted Leader, The Genius of Opposites, and Quiet Influence have helped introverts throughout the world expand their leadership capacity. Her latest book, The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength (2nd Edition), lays out a well-tested, four-step strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.Jennifer and Sue discuss:-How introverts can influence effectively-How extroverts can learn from introverts-Tips for introverts in a Type A workplace

Sue Bethanis hosts Chris Nadherny, a nationally recognized C-level recruiter. Chris spent 30 years with Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive search firm. His executive search clients included leading Fortune 500 companies, private equity portfolio companies, and later stage start-ups. Along the way, he counseled and helped guide the careers of several thousand executives—ranging from CEOs to Vice Presidents across multiple functions and industries. Since retiring from Spencer Stuart, Chris developed a career-management consultancy focused on helping executives reach their desired career executives. His career guidebook, The Proactive Executive: A C-Suite Recruiter's 5-Step System for Achieving Greater Career Success, encapsulates insights from his interaction with thousands of successful executives throughout his career.Chris and Sue discuss:- How to establish a proactive mindset toward your career- How to cultivate awareness and influencing skills- How to optimize your market positioning- How to improv

Sue Bethanis hosts Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. Dr. Keltner has shared the stage with the Dalai Lama, counseled Pixar for depicting emotions for the film Inside Out, and has advised Facebook on the use of emoticons. He is the author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and argues that people acquire power through socially intelligent practices, but lose those talents once feeling the surges of power.Dr. Keltner and Sue discuss:-Why we need to question a coercive model of power-How feeling powerful makes us less empathetic and responsive to others-Why power is about lifting others up-Why lasting power is

Sue Bethanis hosts David Rogers, professor at Columbia Business School and the author of The Digital Transformation Playbook. David is a globally-recognized leader on digital business strategy. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, CNBC, Marketplace, Channel News Asia, and in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Economist. His most recent research with Columbia’s Center on Global Brand Leadership has focused on Big Data, the Internet of Things, in-store mobile shoppers, digital marketing ROI, and data privacy. David talks with Sue about why traditional businesses need to rethink, adapt, and learn from todays’ digital disruptors and innovators. He reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, Big Data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models―and how to integrate these into your existing business and organization.

Sue Bethanis hosts Andrea Lieberstein, a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor. Andrea has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 25 years. She leads mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally. Her clients have included individuals, corporations (most recently Google and Marvell), medical centers, schools and colleges.She was instrumental in implementing the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region in the 1990’s. Andrea is a contributing author to Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook and The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. Her new book is called Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Feed Your Whole Self and End Overeating.Andrea and Sue discuss:+

Sue Bethanis hosts Dr. David Carbonell, Founder and Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias, and the “coach” at www.anxietycoach.com, a self-help website for people troubled by fears and phobias.Dr. Carbonell is a recognized expert in this field and has conducted training and seminars for a variety of professional groups, including the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, the United Airlines Employee Assistance Program, and Northwestern University Medical School, among others. He is the author of Panic Attacks Workbook and the The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It. David and Sue discuss:+ How worry stems from irrational thoughts+ Why the harder we try, the worse it gets+ The “trick” behind chronic worry+ How to train yourself to respond to anxiety

Sue Bethanis hosts Sue Rasmussen, an expert in productivity and the international best-selling author of My Desk Is Driving Me Crazy: End Overwhelm, Do Less, and Accomplish More. Sue Rasmussen shows women entrepreneurs how to end overwhelm, do less, and accomplish more – so they can achieve the success they want and make the difference they really want to make. She’s a professional coach who has worked with over 6,000 small business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants from 29 countries. Sue’s work has been featured in Success Magazine, Women Entrepreneurs Magazine, the NBC TODAY Show, as well as numerous radio and publication interviews.Sue (and Sue) discuss how to:+ Work fewer hours, yet accomplish much more+ Let go of things that waste your time and drain your energy+ Make decisions that are right for you and your business+ Eliminate “fear of missing out” and “shiny object syndrome” for good+ Focus on the actions that bring you the best results – and let go of the rest

Sue Bethanis hosts Brigid Schulte, the director of The Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America. Brigid is a journalist and author who writes widely for publications including The Washington Post, Slate, Time.com, The Guardian, Forbes, Fast Company, and many others. She was a long-time staff writer for The Washington Post where she won a number of reporting and writing awards and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Her 2014 New York Times bestselling book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.Brigid and Sue discuss how:+ To identify and cope with overwhelming pressures of modern life+ Stress affects our brain+ To embrace time for leisure activities+ Work, love, and play are inextricably linked+ Employers can cultivate and create a flexible workspace

Sue hosts Bonnie St. John, a Paralympic Ski Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, a highly sought after keynote speaker, a Fortune 500 leadership consultant, and dubbed “one of the five most inspiring women in America,” by NBC Nightly News. The celebrated author of seven books, Bonnie co-authored her latest work, MICRO-RESILIENCE: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, & Energy, with her husband, and former entertainment industry CEO, Allen Haines. As CEO of the Blue Circle Leadership Institute, Bonnie leads several international virtual leadership programs including Transformational Leadership – designed to address the unique challenges of multicultural women in the workplace. Her extensive research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and physiology will leave you with powerful new tools to conquer key stressors that impede abilities to lead and perform at a high level.Bonnie and Sue discuss how to:+ Use your brain more efficiently+ Stop being hijacked by primitive impulses+ Reframe your attitude+ Ta

Sue hosts Daniel Friedland, MD., an internationally recognized thought leader on stress, resilience, mindfulness and the neuroscience of leadership. He is the author of Leading Well from Within: A Neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Framework for Conscious Leadership. Daniel helps you make a shift that could transform stress, overwhelm and burnout to become a more energized, compassionate, values-based high performance leader, and create a culture of engagement in your organization.Daniel and Sue discuss how to:+ Experience greater control and composure under stress+ Transform stress into an energy source to meet your challenges+ Focus your energy and attention to experience meaningful relationships+ Catalyze your growth as a more conscious and engaged leader