LaVerne sits down with Carol Evans, CEO and Executive Director of SHARE Cancer Support and the founder and former President and CEO of Working Mother Media. The two discuss leadership, how the SHARE team is handling remote work while staying focused on their constituency, and how to bring out the best in your team.

Join us for the next episode of Brilliant in 20 and a conversation with Arthur Tisi, CEO of MeaningBot and industry expert in artificial intelligence (AI). LaVerne and Arthur discuss how MeaningBot supports today’s leaders and their need to understand employees’ capability for remote work, the human side of technology and unconscious bias, and Arthur’s position as CIO for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This episode of Brilliant in 20 features Part 2 of LaVerne’s conversation with Bridgette Heller, global leader, board member, and now CEO of an educational non-profit founded in her mother’s honor. In part two, LaVerne and Bridgette discuss how being a Black woman contributed to Bridgette’s drive and success, how to add value as a potential board member, and more about Bridgette’s non-profit, the Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation, which is dedicated to restoring a legacy of literacy and achievement in at-risk communities. You can learn more about the Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation on their website: https://www.sppf.org/.

LaVerne sits down Bridgette Heller, board director for Novartis, Dexcom Inc., and Tech Data Corporation, co-founder and CEO of Florida non-profit Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation, and former global leader with Danone, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and former Executive Vice President at Kraft. The two discuss brand identity, crisis management, and the importance of vulnerability in leadership in Part One of their conversation. You can learn more about the Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation on their website: https://www.sppf.org/.

LaVerne sits down with Bob McDonald, former CEO of Procter and Gamble and the 8th Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, for an in-depth conversation about values-based leadership in a diverse world. Bob’s article for the Harvard Business Review, “A Non-Partisan Model for Public Service Leadership,” is available now at hbr.org. You can read more about Bob and his approach to large-scale, values-based leadership, at https://www.robertmcdonald.com/.

Brilliant in 20's first guest, Laszlo Bock, is the former Senior Vice President for People Operations at Google, author of “Work Rules!,” and co-founder and CEO of HUMU, whose mission is to make work better through machine learning, science, and a little bit of love. LaVerne Council and Laszlo discuss real approaches to making the workplace better every day, even in a crisis, the 3 Cs every leader can practice, and the best way to affect meaningful change. HUMU is offering free remote work nudges during COVID-19 at https://humu.com/remote-nudges/