In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Helene Cahen about her book, Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams.
Helene Cahen, MS, author of Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams (www.fireupinnovation.com/book), is an innovation strategist, trainer, facilitator, and speaker with over 20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting (previously Strategic Insights), where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture. Cahen has been a facilitator and lecturer for the Haas School of Business and is now coaching in their Executive Program. She was also the vice president of innovation for a startup and worked in and for package goods corporations in the beginning of her career. She is in demand as a speaker on the topic of innovation, design thinking and creativity, and recently did a TEDx talk on high-performance collaboration for teams. Trained in creative problem solving and design thinking, Cahen received an MS in Creativity and Change Leadership from the Center for Applied Imagination at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. She also has a business degree from Sciences Po Paris, a prestigious French business school.
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Jun 10, 2024
31 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Thomas Gelmi about fostering a resilient environment within the workplace.
For more than two decades, Thomas Gelmi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasgelmi/) has been an executive coach, facilitator, member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and sparring partner supporting leaders and teams in their development at various levels and in numerous industries. He focuses on developing personal and interpersonal competence in leadership, teamwork, and customer relations. For his practice, he draws on an extraordinary biography with exciting milestones. Besides his many years of professional experience in various management positions, he spent seven years with Swissair, the former Swiss national airline. In the worldwide leadership and training of cabin crew, and in contact with international customers at 30,000 feet, he experienced first-hand how important a high level of personal and interpersonal competence is for effective human interaction. Additionally, he has been a team leader and trained caregiver in accidents and other extreme situations for many years. Thomas is a bestselling author of several books, among them BREAKTHROUGH, What Cabin Crew can teach you about Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Contact, and THE COACHING CODE, Practical tips for cracking the code and building a successful Coaching Business. Based in Switzerland, with a home near Zurich, Thomas works with leaders all across Europe and regularly in North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. His clients include global corporations as well as SMEs and private individuals.
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May 27, 2024
33 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Orin Davis about the shifting nature of performance management.
Orin Davis earned the first doctorate in positive psychology, and is a self-actualization engineer who enables people to do and be their best. He consults for companies from startups to multinationals on hiring strategies, culture, innovation, diversity/equity/inclusion, and employee well-being, and coaches people at all levels on building self-knowledge and developing personal and professional growth trajectories. As the principal investigator of the Quality of Life Laboratory, he conducts research on flow, creativity, hypnosis, and mentoring. Dr. Davis teaches business at Columbia University, and gives workshops and lectures globally about human capital, creativity and innovation, and positive psychology. He is a startup advisor who helps early-stage companies enhance their value propositions, pitches, culture, and human capital, and writes and speaks avidly about human capital, creativity and innovation, and positive psychology.
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May 13, 2024
27 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talk with Carson Finkle about improving employee mental health.
Carson Finkle (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carson-finkle-%F0%9F%8E%A9-16762b17/) is a successful entrepreneur, who is currently the acting CEO of a fast-growing D2C hat company called Tenth Street Hats and an e-commerce advisor to the Brand Growth Experts Accelerator. After experiencing entrepreneurial burnout, Carson is on a mission with a new venture to help entrepreneurs and companies improve their mental health and well-being with Create Meditation.
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Apr 29, 2024
32 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Michael Fortinberry about the role of technology in driving sustainability and positive social impact in the construction industry.
Michael Fortinberry (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfortinberry/), the Co-Founder and COO of Protiv, is a trailblazing productivity program transforming project-based incentives. Based in NYC, Michael brings extensive business experience to his role. As the driving force behind Protiv, founded in October 2021, Michael aims to reshape the hourly pay system. Protiv seamlessly connects production and compensation, incentivizing employees to enhance productivity and quality. This not only ensures fair compensation but also significantly reduces labor costs for corporations.
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Mar 26, 2024
29 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Teri Beckman about reconciling the CEOs capacity dilemma.
Teri Beckman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/teribeckman/) and her experienced team at HIGOL help mission-driven leaders increase revenue and community impact by an average of 50% within twelve months of working together. Teri has worked in business and organizational development for over thirty years, including five years as an Executive Director. She understands leadership challenges and has been a strategic advisor and consultant to Executive Directors and CEOs throughout the United States as they grew their organizations, teams and board of directors.
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Mar 19, 2024
28 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Surabhi Lal about building intentional community in hybrid work settings.
Surabhi Lal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/surabhilal) is in the business of creating a better future of work—whether it be remote, hybrid, or in-person. A boundary spanning leader, she is a facilitator, professor, and storyteller who creates spaces where people feel seen and builds workplace communities where people want to go to work. Using empathy and strategy she guides leaders in creating cultures grounded in inclusion, belonging, and learning. She has coached thousands of job seekers, entrepreneurs, and organizations to help them create a better future of work.
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Feb 28, 2024
32 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Larry McAlister about embracing cutting-edge AI/tech-enabled strategies to inspire innovators.
Three-time CHRO, Larry McAlister (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrymcalister/) is distinguished as a career-long innovator and natural-born leader in the HR space. Most recently serving as VP of Global Talent at NetApp, and named in the Top 50 Human Resources Professional Awards (OnConferences, 2021), Larry is consistently sought after to bring transformation and thought leadership — including evolving HR itself, as needed.
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Feb 12, 2024
31 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Cari Jacobs-Crovetto about soul retrieval at work.
Cari Jacobs-Crovetto (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/) is an executive coach and advisor specializing in leadership development. After an advertising career working with Levis, P&G, and Lexus, and work with startups Sunrun and ModCloth, she pivoted towards personal growth. She is certified by UC Berkeley and coach at Stanford."
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Feb 5, 2024
31 min
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Angela Johnson about creating a collaborative leadership team.
Angela Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelajohnsonscrumtrainer/) is a successful entrepreneur, author, educator and coach who founded Collaborative Leadership Team in 2010. She mentors, trains and empowers people to use a variety of techniques to achieve their professional goals and objectives. With over 24 years in helping leaders and teams of people, Angela’s client roster includes those in the following industries: agency and services, software, hardware, marketing, financial services, insurance, learning and development and more.
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Jan 25, 2024
28 min
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