In this bonus episode, host Dane Groeneveld sits down with producer, Dr. Alicia McCraw and colleague David Bumby for a practical, behind-the-scenes walkthrough of how to identify the values that guide any team. Rather than brainstorming lofty ideals, David demonstrates a process listeners can use themselves: revealing the values already at work, pressure-testing them, translating them into observable behaviors, and integrating them into daily decision-making. 

Through real examples from the podcast, moments of tension, and candid reflection, the team uncovers how values quietly influence decisions long before they’re documented. They explore how curiosity shapes guest selection, how psychological safety drives production choices, and why doubling down on the human has become a recurring theme in their work.

Whether you’re defining values for the first time or clarifying what your team already believes, this episode gives you the questions, steps, and mindset to do it with intention.

This episode includes visuals. Images referenced during the conversation: our Mural board, value ranking, and River MoonShine are shared in Dane Groeneveld’s LinkedIn post. The link is included in the show notes. 

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, Dane Groeneveld interviews strategist, partner to private equity value creation teams, and Embracing Only podcast host Archita Fritz for a discussion on effective leadership. Archita shares insights from her global career on topics such as the power of “onlys,” the pressures facing millennial leaders, creating value in businesses, and how clarity, trust, and intentional team culture drive sustainable performance-especially in high-growth, private equity-backed environments.

🔗 Connect with Archita on LinkedIn 

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork. Dane Groeneveld interviews Salvatore Manzi, Leadership Communications Coach and author of Clear and Compelling. Salvatore shares why most public speaking training caters to extroverts, and how he’s developed frameworks that work just as well for introverted, analytical leaders. He introduces his three pillars of communication – content, delivery, and presence – and explains how they help leaders connect across functions, reduce misunderstandings, and inspire action.

Whether you’re leading a team meeting, pitching investors, or communicating big change, this episode offers actionable insights to help you show up with clarity, confidence, and connection. 

🔗 Pre-Order Clear and Compelling

🔗 Connect with Salvatore Manzi on LinkedIn

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld explores the transformative journey of Byron Morrison, a leadership coach who shares insights on redefining the CEO's role in team productivity and wellness. From decoding decision-making for CEOs to understanding the power of small teams, discover actionable insights to enhance productivity, foster better leadership, and cultivate a culture of well-being in the workplace. Tune in for practical strategies to reclaim control, avoid burnout, and empower your team for success.

Key Takeaways

• [00:00 - 01:37] Byron Morrison episode intro and summary: redefining leadership and the essential role of the CEO in forming, planning, and evaluating team effectiveness, decoding decision-making for CEOs, and optimizing your work week.
• [01:50 - 04:24] Byron's journey of transformation after his dad's cancer, taking charge of his health and writing a book, running a company and helping people, studying psychology, and finding a niche in coaching first-time CEOs.
• [04:24 - 05:48] Wellness and productivity, getting life and business in sync and under control. Proper sleep, nutrition, and burnout's compounding negative effects on our health.
• [08:19 - 10:45] "I didn't get control back. I found it for the first time." — CEOs can be the biggest bottleneck in most businesses, stagnating growth. People want to do good work, but it creates frustration if you don't let them.
• [10:45 - 12:30] Oversimplifying the CEO role, and rethinking what the CEO should be doing as a leader. Freeing a leader up to do more skills they are already excellent at.
• [12:31 - 14:21] Zone of genius: check your ego and understand where you specialize and who to trust and listen to where you're not as strong.
• [14:22 - 17:35] Taking a step back and understanding if CEOs and leaders are pulled into too much they shouldn't be. An anecdote about using the tactic "explain it back to me."
• [17:35 - 19:48] Understanding how you bring out the best in people. Often comes down to slowing down.
• [19:50 - 21:08] Finding recurring patterns and understanding the pattern or where a team is not seeing results.
• [21:09 - 23:43] The belief in the power of small teams and avoiding having too many cooks in the kitchen. "Who needs to be involved?"
• [23:44 - 26:00] Three types of decisions to delegate to your team — day-to-day, broader implications or bigger stakes, involvement in decisions, and auditing ongoing involvement.
• [26:03 - 27:41] Discover and codify decisions for CEOs, empowering your team to work and make decisions.
• [27:42 - 29:06] Avoiding the micromanaging mentality but allowing for flexible structure and open communication.
• [29:06 - 33:30] Helping CEOs get control back, what Byron is doing for energy and energy management — finding productivity and examples from Byron's coaching experience.
• [33:29 - 34:51] The guilt associated with calling in or being sick as a boss. Finding a culture of building energy, high performance, and longevity.
• [34:51 - 37:57] How normalized bad behavior causes CEOs guilt, burnout, and depression from not taking more time for self-care.
• [37:57 - 41:56] The push/pull concept, getting stuff done intentionally and taking time to pull back and rest.
• [41:57 - 43:08] We're our own worst enemies as leaders and high performers.
• [43:07 - 43:59] Reaching Byron.

Join HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld in this episode of The Future of Teamwork as he welcomes Cali Ressler, Director of Talent and Organizational Consulting at Accenture and author of "Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It" and "Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It." Discover insights into creating fulfilling work environments, the evolution of remote work, and strategies for recognizing and preventing burnout.

Key Takeaways

• [01:28 - 04:58] Dane introduces Cali Ressler, author of "Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It" and "Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It," Director of Talent and Organizational Consulting at Accenture
• [02:39 - 04:53] Unexpected, Fulfilling, and Never-ending
• [04:55 - 09:00] Fulfillment in work and in becoming a mother of four kids, publishing books, consulting with organizations across industries to transform their cultures and elevate employee experiences
• [09:03 - 11:04] A continuum and balance of saying "yes" and "no" and thoughts on being pulled into the right opportunities.
• [11:06 - 16:22] Results-only work environments, Cali was one of the co-creators of that program, giving employees autonomy and accountability to deliver results
• [16:23 - 19:02] The outdated idea of "manage by walking around" and mindsets of that ideology are still alive in a post-pandemic, virtually-accepted world.
• [17:33 - 18:58] Status in Teams, Slack, instant-messaging platforms. And how people color-code themselves and their activities to work online. Subconscious "MBWA" mentality.
• [19:04 - 20:18] "How should we be looking at this?" Running reports to understand behavior and employee output during the pandemic
• [20:18 - 22:49] Talking about trust in teams, being curious about where people are mentally, and the pandemic causing people to wake up to see how we could work differently.
• [22:49 - 25:03] Decentralized responsibility for workplace design and employee experience is fuel for success
• [25:04 - 27:08] Four fundamental needs in wellbeing: Health, Financial, Mental, and Physical
• [27:08 - 29:53] Cali asks Dane about human bodies working on fumes, and Dane references Dan Miller, a health coach. He talks about how, chemically, our bodies aren't designed to run on adrenaline and cortisol all day and how modern life triggers those chemicals via social media, phones, email, and more.
• [29:53 - 34:48] Recognizing burnout early: prioritizing sleep and exercise, asking for help, having a list of people to keep you on track
• [35:36 - 41:46] Clarity is essential for successful teams now and in the future. Big "P" purpose and Small "p" purpose
• [41:47 - 43:20] "We're losing the thread, we're losing the plot in the story, and we need to bring it back"
• [43:28 - 47:56] Dane recaps the interview with Cali

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, hosted by HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, Reggie Jeffries, CEO and founder of Management Masters Academy, stops by to talk about coaching and leadership experiences. Explore the transformative power of coaching in unlocking team potential, focusing on reflection, and challenging boundaries. From the three C's of exemplary leadership to the evolving landscape of corporate America, join Dane and Reggie as they delve into the intricacies of leadership, communication, and cultivating a culture of success.

Key Takeaways

• [01:32 - 04:25] Dane introduces Reggie, and Reggie talks about his upbringing and sports influence on his coaching career in corporate America
• [04:24 - 05:29] "Helping someone to do something that is within them" the journey of discovery aided by coaching
• [05:28 - 07:13] Coaching lets you step back and refocus. Even coaches need coaches. The beauty of coaching is helping people to be intentional about what they want to accomplish.
• [07:14 - 08:31] Reggie coaches across all levels and sizes of business
• 08:31 - 10:53[] The space to create for themselves and the discovery process. Finding autonomy and direction, letting them figure it out.
• [10:53 - 12:42] Measuring goals and achievements. "It's never really a destination, it's just one stop in the process."
• [12:43 - 14:44] Working on life and career goals, helping clients find focus for what matters at Management Masters Academy
• [14:44 - 16:44] Dane talks about the goal line and soul line, and Reggie discusses vetting coaching clients, ensuring they're set up to do the work.
• [16:45 - 17:58] Coaching looks like a rocky trajectory because you're going to be stretched and pushed beyond your comfort zone
• [17:59 - 19:38] Seeing your full self, blind spots, and weaknesses so that you can understand where to grow
• [19:40 - 21:50] Assessments through Cloverleaf and about 12 different assessments. The strengths of using a platform built on practicality.
• [21:50 - 23:07] Gold Star, a platform that allows you not to forget training and goals
• [23:09 - 25:16] Technology as a team member and opportunity to highlight one-on-one coaching
• [25:16 - 28:20] A shift toward team coaching versus one-on-one. On the frontier of an explosion in corporate training and its value.
• [28:20 - 31:11] Differentiating team coaching and group coaching, conversations, and shared goals
• [29:47 - 30:47] Value in gathering other perspectives
• [31:11 - 33:15] In-person versus virtual, where Reggie sits philosophically
• [33:16 - 35:19] A lot of impact in virtual environments, navigating fewer barriers and how to make it compelling online.
• [35:19 - 36:38] How Reggie's programs promote engagement and interaction — breakout rooms, technology, word clouds, and content
• [36:39 - 41:16] Focusing on communications, culture, and coaching: emerging hotspots where leaders can improve
• [41:16 - 43:47] An emphasis on coaching, leadership is more than a title
• [43:18 - 44:11] A shift in corporate America, a leader can be someone in any role
• [43:49 - 47:04] It doesn't matter if you're the captain or not, you can still be a leader. Empowering people toward their own definitions of success
• [47:04 - 50:27] Conversation highlights and where to connect with Reggie

Explore a unique episode of The Future of Teamwork where Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3, steps into the guest role to share his extensive experience in team dynamics and innovation. Guiding the conversation is Kurt Landon, a seasoned executive, and entrepreneur with a track record in senior business and HR leadership roles. This episode dives into the evolving trends of team dynamics for 2024, outlining essential strategies for staying competitive.

Discover how AI and technology are becoming embedded within team structures, revolutionizing how we collaborate and approach problem-solving. The conversation also tackles the strategic embrace of challenges, highlighting how a proactive approach to obstacles can foster growth. This episode is filled with strategies and clear, practical insights, offering a fresh perspective on the complexities of teamwork today. Tune in to gain valuable insights and practical tools to help your team navigate and excel in the landscape of team interactions.

Key Moments: 

• [00:00] Introduction to the podcast. In this special episode, former guest Kurt Landon interviews the show's regular host, Dane Groeneveld, about team dynamics in 2024, the impact of AI and technology on teamwork, and adopting a proactive approach to challenges.
• [1:30] Dane introduces Kurt. Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3 Group and usual host of The Future of Teamwork podcast, is a guest on the podcast which is hosted today by Kurt Landon. 
• [1:49] Kurt wants to ask Dane, who has expertise in teams, about his perspective on the new year of 2024 and what trends and fads to expect regarding teams. He wants to know what will be in and out this year and beyond. 
• [5:56] The pandemic and economic challenges have given leaders more freedom to try new things, but it can also lead to a lack of clarity and checking in with the team. Leaders must be more accountable and visible to their teams and customers, moving away from a siege mentality. 
• [9:16] The conversation revolves around the importance of human connection and shared leadership in driving psychological safety and building confidence in the ever-changing business landscape. Leaders are encouraged to have a non-hierarchical mindset and work with colleagues as business partners to solve problems. 
• [11:21] Dane discusses the benefits of intergenerational teams, including psychological safety, shared leadership, and reverse mentoring. 
• [18:54] Reverse mentoring involves bringing in a junior or specialized team member to work with the leadership team on real-life problems, providing insights, and addressing blind spots that leaders may have due to their experience and perspective. 
• [21:44] The concept of technology as a team member is being discussed. As AI becomes increasingly prevalent in businesses, it is often being used by teams in a stealthy manner. This is exciting because it means that innovation is coming from the fringes rather than being driven by corporate IT or Operations. 
• [26:51] Leaders should ensure that AI tools and programs are not biased or negatively affecting how people interact with each other. Building handbooks for bots may be necessary to prevent malicious actors from causing harm. 
• [31:00] Dane is passionate about personal growth and how it can benefit individuals and teams. Learning is a catalyst that creates a context for problem-solving and encourages sharing of ideas and stories. 
• [32:42] Learning in practical settings allows for solving current problems with a human impact, such as helping customers, internal teams, and individuals achieve milestones.
• [38:23] Kurt and Dane discuss the importance of taking personal time to settle and be grateful, comparing it to putting on an oxygen mask before helping others. They emphasize the need to do it every day to build energy and serve

Join HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld and 'People Problem Solver' Rachel Llanes on The Future of Teamwork as they explore the art of nurturing flourishing teams. In this episode, Rachel, founder of the Gardin Group and a Master Resilience Trainer, shares her unique journey from specializing in Marriage and Therapy counseling to reshaping the dynamics of military and corporate teams. Dive deep into the ABCs of human flourishing—Autonomy, Belonging, and Competence—and learn how these fundamental elements intertwine to create thriving, resilient teams. Whether you're a team leader or a member striving for personal growth, this episode is filled with transformative insights and actionable advice, making it essential listening for anyone committed to excelling in the future of teamwork.

Key Takeaways: 

• [00:00] Episode Introduction. Rachel Llanes, a master resilience trainer and founder of The Gardin Group, shares insights on fostering environments where individuals and teams can thrive. 
• [01:59] Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3 Group, hosts The Future of Teamwork podcast and is joined by Rachel Llanes, founder of The Gardin Group and a master resilience trainer. They discuss Rachel's work in helping people and teams thrive. 
• [02:47] Rachel’s background. In 2022, she started The Gardin Group to teach senior leaders the critical environmental conditions that organizations need for their people to thrive. 
• [07:49] Rachel observed the same problems in different settings, such as family, military, and corporate teams. Despite having a background in Marriage and Family therapy and working as a personal trainer and resilience trainer for the US military, Rachel's experiences led to developing a system for teaching leaders the soft skills needed for their teams to thrive. 
• [09:29] The ABCs of human flourishing begin with "A" for Autonomy. Autonomy is our basic psychological need to feel respected and empowered. Disrespect and disempowerment trigger negative emotions.
• [10:56] Negative emotions like fear and anger often lead people to shut down or wear a professional mask to conceal their reactions. However, these emotions are signals that indicate something in the environment is off and needs to be corrected. 
• [15:01] It's essential to address issues that affect work performance, team dynamics, and company culture. Appropriately communicating that you've been disrespected can help you advocate for yourself and create a healthier work environment. 
• [18:25] Power differentials can impede transparency in organizations. Leaders should be aware of their authority and consistently seek feedback to create a safe space for open communication. 
• [20:14] Leaders who approach challenges with curiosity and invite others to help create a safe environment for sharing ideas. 
• [25:01] Positive group dynamics, where everyone communicates and works together synergistically, can create an energetic and empowering creative process, whereas negative dynamics can have the opposite effect. 
• [28:07] Belonging is different from fitting in. Belonging means feeling valued, safe, and empowered to be one's true self around others, while fitting in requires changing oneself to conform to the norms of a group. 
• [32:16] To amplify someone's joy when they share good news with you, show genuine interest, and ask them questions that allow them to elaborate on their news. This can be as simple as asking follow-up questions and expressing your happiness for them. 
• [36:01] Rachel shares a personal story about how she unintentionally killed her sister's joy when her sister shared the news of her engagement and pregnancy. Rachel emphasizes the importance of getting it right when people share their joy with us, even if we have concerns about the news. 
• [40:43] The Gardin Group aims to help peo

Join HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld and global keynote speaker Lorraine K. Lee on The Future of Teamwork as they delve into maximizing LinkedIn for professional success. With insights from Lorraine's decade leading editorial teams in tech, embracing "solopreneurship," and leveraging LinkedIn's untapped potential, this episode explores the platform's evolving role in shaping personal brands and fostering professional connections. Gain actionable tips on creating visibility, effective networking, and navigating the nuances of remote work, making it a must-listen for anyone looking to thrive in the future of teamwork.

Key Takeaways

• [00:00 - 02:15] Episode overview: Lorraine K. Lee on maximizing LinkedIn for professional success, globally recognized keynote speaker and Stanford Continuing Studies instructor with LinkedIn Learning
• [02:03 - 03:57] Dane introduces Lorraine, Founder of RISE Learning Solutions, and she speaks about her 10 years leading editorial teams at tech companies, getting into side hustles, and becoming a "solopreneur"
• [03:57 - 05:19] When people would say, "Lorraine, do you ever think about wanting to become an entrepreneur or doing your own thing?"
• [05:20 - 06:00] Fear of entrepreneurship, changing times and acceptance
• [06:03 - 08:36] LinkedIn as a vast resource for professionals, how did the platform catch Lorraine's eye? News, influencers, personal branding, and professional-focus. Notes on working at SlideShare, owned by LinkedIn.
• [08:31 - 09:17] LinkedIn - an untapped resource from active user numbers, a billion members with 1% monthly active users posting
• [09:23 - 10:56] Creating visibility on LinkedIn: your profile is your online landing page, so fill it out and connect with your colleagues. Add photos. Optimize for the algorithm.
• [11:10 - 12:45] How you interact with LinkedIn determines your community and conversational algorithm. Start by commenting, they're like mini-posts.
• [12:45 - 14:29] LinkedIn is a place for discussion, but it seems less chaotic than other social media sites since it is work-focused, and people may be hesitant to post the same types of content
• [14:30 - 15:54] LinkedIn is becoming more of a place to post about your personal life outside of work
• [15:55 - 16:38] Does sharing your life become easier on LinkedIn by different professions? Differences between posting and profile styles
• [16:40 - 18:40] Developing your network, reaching out to strangers about professional interests, and why you should "send a note"
• [18:51 - 19:57] Gathering perspective, understanding challenges in 2024
• [19:58 - 20:28] "Get 50 cups of coffee," reaching out to people for coffee meetings
• [20:38 - 21:37] A shortage of good people for the right roles, people who are more active on LinkedIn
• [21:34 - 23:47] "Your manager really dictates your experience" — Thoughts on focusing on leadership and communication preferences, especially around feedback
• [23:49 - 26:05] Passive-to-Active Meeting Framework, how Lorraine helps teams have impactful and productive meetings
• [26:09 - 29:20] Taking pauses, preventing endless follow-ups, and a focus on asynchronous communication
• [29:21 - 30:50] No rule on the number of meetings, generally once per week, and using tools like Clockwise to help
• [30:50 - 31:50] No shows to meetings, being respectful of people's time
• [31:54 - 33:26] Video as a method of asynchronous meeting, video can be a learned skill
• [33:26 - 35:51] Types of training and quick tips for video: eye contact, curating a background, gesticulating, hand gestures, and Lorraine's class on establishing a

The latest episode of The Future of Teamwork, hosted by HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld focuses on the intricacies of team dynamics and leadership evolution. Dane speaks with Matthew Winklestine, President of Engaging Perspectives, unearthing insights from the construction industry, human behavior, and project management across departments. Throughout their conversation Matthew stresses the significance of fitting team members with leaders who align and support your career growth. Together, Dane and Matthew also touch on the role of trust as an accelerator while exploring the nuances of creating effective teams and the power of narratives in leadership.

Key Takeaways

• [01:44 - 02:40] Dane introduces Matthew Winklestine, President of Engaging Perspectives and podcast host of Evolving Engineering and Construction Brands
• [02:40 - 06:19] Matthew's background in the construction industry, nuclear industry, moving into large construction projects and learning human behavior. Moves to marketing, and deciding to go into business for himself.
• [06:22 - 07:56] Moving through departments and seeing how teams operate. Teams don't discuss collaborating enough.
• [08:49 - 10:24] Understanding what drives individuals, the complexities of stress, and what drives fit. Discussing mobilization, demobilization, and compensation.
• [10:25 - 15:10] What drives fit? Project manager preferences and reasonable expectations.
• [12:19 - 14:30] Considering tough leadership and rounding out the team to be in the right spots at the right time.
• [15:10 - 17:04] Business development to marketing: executive sponsorship allowed Matthew safety to cultivate and shape. Supportive bosses are critical.
• [17:03 - 17:56] Clearing the way, putting your reputation on the line for someone like this boss did for Mathew.
• [17:57 - 19:13] A call to action for leaders, discussing a commercial with the tagline "Ideas are Ugly" that develops a gremlin into a gorgeous peacock.
• [19:23 - 21:42] Everyone can touch on an idea, developing trust and getting to know someone, and giving an idea time to gain traction.
• [21:40 - 23:34] Shifts and turnaround environments, straying from schedule makes the rest of the project much harder.
• [23:37 - 26:57] A reluctance to go hybrid, taking a problem and reverse engineering it to create step-by-step instructions for the solution, even if it isn't 100%.
• [26:59 - 28:15] "Facilitate on the run" approach to running meetings, human needs novelty and meetings are hard to solve.
• [28:16 - 33:30] What Matthew got from the 3 months per year he was off working in the nuclear industry: the chance to travel and explore. Enabled by a leader who placed trust in Matthew's abilities and competencies.
• [31:29 - 33:30] The right leader for the right season.
• [33:30 - 37:17] A project's season, discussing people's career paths and expected trajectories.
• [37:19 - 40:00] How seasonal approaches allow employees to grow, a freeing approach that people can leverage for exposure and connection.
• [40:02 - 43:48] Great candidates don't make it on the market very often. The importance of recruiting and hiring the right people who attract more business.
• [43:54 - 45:05] Word of mouth vs expensive BDRs, hire the right people and take control of your narrative.
• [45:06 - 47:37] Dane summarizes focal points of conversation with Matthew: Fitting the right team members around a leader, ideas in teams and trust being an accelerator, and the importance of story for a leader.
• [47:40 - 48:22] Find Matthew online and on LinkedIn.

Dive into the interplay between failure and success in this week's episode of The Future of Teamwork podcast. Host Dane Groeneveld engages with Stephen Sacks, founder and CEO of Funding Nav, in a thought-provoking discussion. This episode goes beyond just the transformative power of failure. It delves into Stephen's wealth of knowledge in strategic funding, financial resilience, and innovative business solutions. Learn from Stephen's journey how a setback can set up a major comeback, and gain insights into the art of strategic decision-making and financial acumen in challenging business landscapes. Tune in for an enlightening session that promises not only to redefine your understanding of failure but also to equip you with practical strategies for navigating and thriving through business complexities.

Key Insights:

• [00:00-1:39] Introducing Stephen Sacks, the founder of Funding Nav. with over 30 years of experience solving business challenges. 
• [1:39] Sacks talks about his experience running a furniture import business that failed due to the negative impact of Brexit, and how he struggled to attract external funding for his business. 
• [2:16] Stephen Sacks believes that seeking external funding is a failure in a business's strategy. He advises businesses to explore other solutions before seeking funding, such as putting prices up if the business is losing money. 
• [ 7:00] It's important for businesses to recognize where they might be carrying ego customers or products that aren't supporting the team to be sustainable, and to recognize failure to unlock opportunities. 
• [13: 19] The most successful businesses are confident enough to let go of customers, while the least successful ones lack the confidence or ability to do so. Good businesses quickly replace lost customers and have better outcomes. 
• [14: 57] The process of analyzing customers and product data sets is different from that of banks, who mainly look at financial instruments like P&Ls, LSS, balance sheets, and age debt reports. However, both approaches may be used together. 
• [20:08] The discussion revolves around hiring talent remotely and the challenges that come with it, such as compliance with legal regulations, managing IT, and ensuring the person hired is genuine. 
• [25:34] When evaluating a team, the character of the founder, the team itself, the customer, and the supply chain are all taken into account, with a focus on finding teams with the potential to achieve their growth plans. 
• [28:58] The lack of financial sophistication in small to medium enterprises is a universal challenge, including deficiencies in strategic thinking, cash flow management, and accounting practices. Accounting tends to be backward-looking, focusing on meeting statutory requirements rather than anticipating future challenges and opportunities. 
• [35:08] Stephen Sacks talks about a failed business that didn't work despite being similar to one of the most valuable businesses in the world. It was a huge learning experience and builds community. 
• [37:19] Dane Groeneveld quotes Machiavelli on how entrepreneurs keep trying to get out of trouble, often digging themselves into a deeper hole. Sharing stories of failures helps people learn from mistakes. 
• [38:25] Stephen shared his own story of failure in the furnishing industry and how it inspired him to create a more empathetic and supportive funding platform. Sacks believes that it's important for founders to remain true to their initial purpose and not lose sight of why they started their business in the first place. 
• [39:37] Not only should we embrace the failures of others, but we should also encourage our own teams to anticipate setbacks and learn from them. 
• [40:31] Where to find Stephen Sacks, and ending thoughts.  

Taking risks, being vulnerable, and seeking help are often the initial actions required to pursue your aspirations. In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld discusses taking charge of your career with Jenny Wood, the founder of Google's Own Your Career Program. Dane and Jenny discuss the idea that working in teams provides a fresh opportunity to transform oneself, how to establish psychological safety in collaborative settings, and acknowledge that development and advancement can stem from sources other than the upper echelons of an organization.

Episode Highlights:

• Jenny Wood and the Own Your Career Program she founded at Google
• Going after what you want, and psychological safety
• How Jenny's Own Your Career program creates frameworks for safety and team building
• Open dialogue and the power of addressing awkward conversations early
• How growth opportunities flow at Google from Jenny's Own Your Career program
• Working in teams is a chance to reinvent yourself each time
• The opportunity to own your past and reinvention
• Setting agendas with leadership and your manager's manager
• Leaders who invite conversations, availability, and collaboration
• Progress and leadership beyond the organizational chart
• Learning to ask for help is vital to building relationships
• Where technology plays a part of the team and helps people elevate their careers

Explore the dynamic world of team intelligence and performance with guest John Estafanous, CEO of RallyBright, on The Future of Teamwork podcast. John shares insights on fostering high-performing teams, navigating growth from a small to a global organization, and embedding purpose into technology functions. Dive into the nuances of conflict, adaptability, and resilience while unraveling the essence of driving successful teams in an ever-evolving landscape. Host Dane Groeneveld encapsulates the conversation's key moments, from defining middle purpose to leveraging data for meaningful impact.

Key Takeaways

• [01:30 - 06:16] Introducing John Estafanous, CEO of RallyBright, a team intelligence and performance platform
• [02:36 - 06:16] A team intelligence and performance platform that helps measure, diagnose, and improve team performance and dynamics to create high-performing teams. John's path from law school, becoming a CTO of a company with a 37% attrition rate and needing to fix it.
• [06:18 - 08:08] How do leaders build teams and people to achieve a common business purpose together to do bigger and better things? When managers become leaders, they develop better teams.
• [08:09 - 08:46] Better with computers than with lawyers, being a literature major in undergrad
• [08:47 - 10:30] Going from 100 to 400 people in a global organization, drinking from a fire hose, starting with the right foundational elements to get people aligned
• [10:30 - 11:39] Where and at what stage did John position purpose in the technology function of building teams
• [11:43 - 14:20] How do we support individuals in their goals so teams can drive company goals
• [13:03 - 14:20] Empowering teams to act as business owners, growing agency and accountability with clear OKRs and objectives
• [14:21 - 16:13] What we do is a team sport whether we like it or not. Any business function is a team sport.
• [16:13 - 18:38] Having Microsoft as a customer, understanding core business drivers and frameworks to enable them
• [18:38 - 21:10] Creating adaptable teams that understand their customers. Two drivers: COVID and the rate of disruption
• [21:10 - 23:59] When change happens, most disruption occurs to the customer, focusing on wellbeing and preventing burnout. Building connections in a hybrid and remote world.
• [24:00 - 27:11] Three types of conflict: relationship, process, task. Creating psychological safety and doing more with less while under the gun of economic and geopolitical pressures
• [25:19 - 27:11] All about conflict, it can be a driver of innovation, creativity, and problem-solving if handled well
• [27:15 - 28:32] Sometimes it's better to make the wrong decision than a slow decision, on overanalyzing and vulnerability[] 
• [28:31 - 29:46] Teams don't understand how other teams are executing their agendas, how does purpose ladder into different teams in the organization
• [29:47 - 32:57] Adaptability and balance, teams that don't experiment enough to make resilient teams, engaging with diversity
• [31:59 - 32:42] Our product is called resilient teams, engaging with adversity, rebounding from setbacks, performance through disruption
• [33:00 - 35:06] Measuring what matters with the right foundation: do you want to be graphite, or do you want your team to be a diamond
• [35:07 - 36:04] Crispy and resilience, what characteristics of elasticity and how wide or narrow is our rubber band
• [36:06 - 39:42] Building a helpful tool essential to someone's day job and growing to be a better team, behavioral components.
• [39:42 - 43:50] Leading indicators of success and partnering with HR, ma

Want to build inclusive teams where people can show up authentically? You’ll love this episode of The Future of Teamwork. Dane Groeneveld chats with Rocki Howard, Founder and Chief Diversologist at Diversiology.IO, Chief People and Equity Officer at Textio, and host of Grown Woman Wednesday. Together, Dane and Rocki look at the challenges and opportunities facing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) today, including how the work has been politicized, why sustainable practices matter more than performative gestures, and how leaders at every level can help build trust, belonging, and high-performing teams.

🔗 Follow Rocki Howard, Diversiology.IO, and Textio on LinkedIn 

Dive into the evolving dynamics of teamwork with Hillary Miller, Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health. In today's conversation on The Future of Teamwork, show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld takes audiences into optimizing teams to work their best while aligning individual identity with team values and purpose. Together, the two discuss how certifications and organizational development can affect teams and hierarchies while reinforcing the basic building blocks of communication as instrumental to creating lasting behavioral change. 

Key Takeaways

• [01:58 - 04:33] Meet Hillary Miller, Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health
• [04:35 - 09:01] Starting with a lot of conversations to drive team performance and learning
• [06:18 - 09:01] Navigating the vast map of certifications and skills in healthcare
• [07:51 - 09:01] Organizational development in healthcare is more than clinical roles
• [09:05 - 10:07] Transcending institutional hierarchy and human dynamics
• [09:37 - 11:07] Discipline and desire, programs and products are important but shouldn't trump behavioral practices
• [10:14 - 13:17] Rewiring organizational perceptions about roles, a checklist for success
• [13:20 - 15:23] Technological boundaries: AI should not be your driver, it should be your co-pilot
• [15:24 - 17:59] How do you discover the organizational development (OD) function in a business
• [18:34 - 20:22] "You don't get into healthcare if you don't care about people" — cultures and subcultures, DEI, religion, and organizational values
• [20:26 - 23:42] Individual and team identities, the tough job of a leader to balance these
• [23:44 - 25:03] Leadership is managing expectations and understanding there is no 150%
• [24:40 - 27:22] Avoiding burnout, Hillary talks about being an Enneagram 8. It's not about people pleasing. It's about getting it right.
• [27:29 - 29:00] If people ask, "Why are we doing this?" we have missed the mark. Discussing the platform Crucial Conversations.
• [29:01 - 32:15] The book Conversational Capacity, the role of a leader to elevate, champion, and advocate for quieter communicators
• [32:18 - 34:32] A shift from HR to OD, a balancing act adding more organizational development professionals into the workplace
• [34:32 - 35:21] Learning about performance standards
• [35:23 - 37:19] Learning is moving to a higher priority in organizations, sometimes up to direct CEO reporting
• [37:23 - 38:18] How is learning being reinforced, and how do we know it is happening?
• [38:19 - 39:42] First-party, second-party, and third-party data
• [39:43 - 41:04] Building a program like this without an OD professional on staff, make connections
• [41:10 - 43:15] Teams That Work — Hillary's advice is to go back to the basics of communication
• [41:40 - 43:15] Do one thing really well and build on it
• [43:17 - 44:22] Connect with Hillary on LinkedIn

Today's The Future of Teamwork episode features a conversation with Andrew Sillitoe, performance coach and author of 'Managing the Mist.' Explore Andrew's journey from street hockey to professional leagues, and how he applies that history to his successes in business. With show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, Andrew delivers key insights on coaching clarity, designing effective training, fostering psychological safety, prioritizing mental health, and achieving distributed leadership for teams to thrive.

Key Takeaways

• [00:00 - 05:30] Introducing Andrew Sillitoe, author of Managing the Mist, business psychologies, performance coach, and founder
• [00:48 - 03:41] Humble beginnings in street hockey to the professional leagues and applying that experience to business and advertising
• [06:28 - 07:34] How are we freeing teams to be healthier, better humans inside and outside work
• [07:32 - 09:34] Giving your team learning opportunities to wing it, looking back fondly on the autonomy offered working at Yellow Pages
• [09:36 - 12:31] What are you prepared to let go of short-term for long-term benefits
• [12:30 - 13:54] Coaching clarity and avoiding assumptions
• [14:00 - 15:57] Two benefits to coaching, a non-player perspective, considering the Eisenhower Matrix and prioritization
• [15:58 - 19:37] The differences between mentoring away from the game and coaching in the game
• [19:38 - 23:30] Six steps of how to design training
• [23:31 - 25:12] Finding balance with your team, looking for the best idea, not the boss's idea
• [25:20 - 31:10] Andrew's books about creating clarity and driving flow in teams, managing stress, and transformation (Managing the Mist, The Four Keys)
• [31:10 - 32:52] The vulnerability of sharing your story, a movement in wellbeing and navigating difficult times
• [32:53 - 36:24] A new generation of the workforce that prioritizes psychological safety, mental health, and constructive feedback
• [36:27 - 37:55] Mental health, physical health, and the routines that reinforce them (nutrition, rest, etc.)
• [37:58 - 40:31] Ikigai, the blue zones, and nutrition's role in flow
• [40:36 - 45:04] Distributed leadership and aligning vision so teams show up to tackle problems, tactical decision-making toward achieving objectives
• [45:06 - 46:36] A purpose statement doesn't have to be grandiose; make achievable objectives for your team
• [46:39 - 48:05] Clarity around purpose statements and distributed leadership

Join host Dane Groeneveld on The Future of Teamwork podcast for an insightful conversation with Abeed Janmohamed, a renowned business strategist. In this episode, they delve into the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions, the art of identifying your business's unique niche, and the innovative approach of sourcing talent from unconventional places. Dane and Abeed will share valuable insights and strategies to help your business thrive in today's competitive landscape, emphasizing the importance of a diverse and adaptable team in driving success.

Key Takeaways:

• Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3 Group, hosts The Future of Teamwork podcast and is joined by Abeed Janmohamed, founder and director of Volando, an M&A and growth advisory for technology businesses.
• They discuss values, culture, and people in growth environments. Abeed took a different route to get into M&A, starting in digital advertising sales and then moving to start-ups before transitioning to a central role in corporate development and partnerships.
• The speakers discuss the importance of team dynamics and cultural alignment when navigating complex deal structures. Understanding the people involved, whether on the buy or sell side, is key to achieving successful outcomes.
• Culture is critical to a company's success and cultural alignment is essential for growth, investment, and M&A processes. Ultimately, success comes down to people.
• When expanding into new markets and cultures, a strong company culture and value set is crucial. It's important for founders to recognize their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their teams, and build teams accordingly.
• Understanding the type of business you are in is crucial for success. Businesses can be head-to-head, big fish in a small pond, or creating a new game. Each type has its own risks and benefits.
• Abeed discusses the importance of reassessing a company's culture and values to ensure they are still relevant and effective in current times.
• Abeed mentions the need to consider factors such as a shift in leadership, changes in the workforce, and evolving business environments. He believes that a strong culture and value set is crucial for business success and cites Ralf Specht's book, "Building Corporate Soul," as a resource on the topic.
• The conversation discusses the gig economy for professionals and fractional legal support, which is a business that provides commercial work for lawyers who want more freedom in their lives.
• There is a misconception that working with top law firms is necessary for growth and scale-up stages, but many professionals who had worked for these firms before and now have children or want more autonomy are still competent and could work on a project basis.
• The conversation also touches on the importance of corporate soul and attracting graduates or returning mothers to help build talent and capabilities.
• Abeed Janmohamed and Dane Groeneveld also discuss Volando, Abeed's tech business that helps other businesses take their tech to Europe.
• Where and how to find Abeed.

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld speaks with Chris Schembra, the best-selling author also known as The Gratitude Guru. Chris talks about 7:47, his organization focused on creating meaningful connections through dinner parties. He shares how that experience was impacted by COVID, and how it allowed 7:47 to pivot with still great success. Additionally, Dane and Chris discuss authentic networking, why gratitude will change you how interact with the world, and ways that businesses can show up to meet their imperfect human employees with empathy.

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction to Chris Schembra
• How Chris became the Gratitude Guru
• Networking and remembering how people make you feel
• Shared food and strength of mind, and the hurdles to togetherness
• "The world is ending" but you're going to be fine
• Marcus Aurelius, the stoics, and gratitude
• The beginning of the business, and creating connections
• 98% of dinner parties were for client engagement purposes
• Shifting to a remote strategy because of COVID
• Inventiveness and gratitude
• Preventing employee burnout, stress, loneliness, overwhelm, and anxiety
• Employer-sponsored soul and emotional health
• Combatting loneliness with curiosity and connection
• Micro-shifts towards a more grateful attitude
• Gratitude interventions, and living in the present
• Authentic moments of gratitude
• Witnessing theory
• Hiring humans, and showing up with empathy
• The benefit appraisal
• The good news if you're operating through a lens of ingratitude
• Acknowledgment helps destigmatize ingratitude
• Listeners, answer this question!

Cat Lewis joins The Future of Teamwork host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld for a spirited conversation on helping companies adopt change management techniques that can align employees to a business strategy, while emphasizing the incentives for improving mental wellbeing, employee purpose, and inclusivity. Cat is the Founder and Director of Culture and Transformation, a company that helps leaders breed positive and productive work cultures through practices like strategic focus on how narrative impacts vision and purpose, the MAPs framework, and more.

Key Takeaways

• Meet Cat Lewis, author, founder and director of Culture & Transformation
• The pros, cons, and range of vulnerable experiences of being a leader and CEO
• Rallying teams around company strategic visions, creating purpose and enjoyment
• Finding purpose in a remote and hybrid world, regular communication keeps everything moving
• Helping companies adopt new change management strategies, putting ideas to paper
• Strategy and narrative as they affect future vision and employee purpose
• Chasing revenue and margin, metrics that don't always drive behavior change
• Metrics-driven incentives and driving behaviors through story
• MAP — Mission, Actions, and Plans as a framework for direction
• More on strategy MAPs, illustrating a visual path to success
• Examples of actions companies take toward achieving plans
• The Iceberg of Ignorance, research says only 5% of employees understand company strategy
• The Iceberg of Ignorance, inviting people in to share the same information
• Inclusivity and removing organizational rigidity, how it affects succession planning and onboarding
• Helping teams center and come back to strategy and priorities, the power of regular communication and newsletters
• Inclusivity and team habits, engaging with the narrative and providing security for the team
• "If you don't talk about the challenges you're facing, they're just going to make them up."
• The Little Monster story, mental health, and wellbeing in the workplace
• Touching on the science of anxiety and listening to our bodies
• Recapping Cat's experiences and talking points
• Connecting with Cat

Jeremy Barr joins The Future of Teamwork today to discuss his goal to affect three billion people worldwide by scaling value systems. Show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld picks Jeremy's brain on all manner of workplace and leadership-related topics, like how to realign people's value systems, the effects of disruptive innovations in AI and automation, and how mapping systems can add clarity to employee and employer paths.

Key Takeaways

• Jeremy's background in driving human success, his path toward impacting 3 billion people worldwide
• Tracking towards 3 billion people affected by values systems
• Observations as heuristics, asking questions and listening for verbal and non-verbal discovery
• How training and technology fit into Jeremy's content, mission, and scaling efforts
• Remaining impartial to the money and focusing on the human element of impacting founders' value systems
• Re-aligning people's value systems when they're out of sync
• Thinking about innovation and disruption, the side effects and cut jobs from increases in automation
• Expansion theory and displacement by automation, a conversation about why you should choose to drive automation
• Buying time to stay alive, the employee/employer dynamic, and providing mutual value
• A great founder is a great leader, a great leader is a great human. Working with ambitious people.
• Jeremy's impact happens by leveling up leadership, enjoyment happens in quick and engaging experiences
• Identifying where you are going, gaining clarity, and evolving. Insights into human behavior.
• Setting baselines and practicing nonverbal communication
• Long-term planning and thinking about divergences in employee and employer paths. The value of mapping systems.
• Make everybody aware that you're listening and then adding value
• The future of non-verbal communication as assisted and analyzed by AI
• Tracking impact, the value of data analytics in Jeremy's goals, adapting to the AI accelerator

Today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, hosted by HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, features a conversation with Ralf Specht about finding the soul of a company and shaping your desired corporate culture by eliminating unwanted values and behaviors while ensuring your ideal culture remains in place. The two discuss Ralf's path from working in publishing, to becoming a startup founder, and his writing endeavors as an author. Ralf has written two books, 'Building Corporate Soul' and 'Beyond The Startup,' both focused on helping leaders build companies with soul. In this talk, Dane and Ralf cover why "soul" is so important to Ralf and the three levels of The Soul System for creating a company culture with a soul, happy and engaged employees, and a sense of belonging, that ultimately outperforms other companies.

Key Takeaways

• Introducing Ralf Specht, author, consultant, and founder
• Loyalty between clients and agencies, an agency where both parties have equal rights and transparency
• Leadership and accountability, collaboration and preventing internal competition
• Collaborative organizations, designing the company to prevent competition
• Discussing the bare minimum of conducting surveys and collecting useful feedback
• Evaluation and confrontation, discussing The Soul System and clarity around who you want to be as an organization
• Examining LinkedIn, their values and transformation alongside acquisition by Microsoft
• Landing on Soul, driving a culture that is in sync and discussing motivations for leaving companies
• Manifesting a positive outcome, discussing the quality of leadership and the impact on teams
• Find Ralf online

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with the founder and creator of skillfoundry.io, Eric Wise. Together, these two discuss Eric's career path and the evolution of technology in business operations, with a special emphasis on learning and development. If you're curious about data queries and analytics, generative AI, and the effect of software on skills training, this is the episode for you. Join Dane and Eric for a fascinating conversation about strengthening your organization's onboarding philosophy, and encouraging a systematic method for empowering your team's development while creating and retaining loyal employees that go above and beyond.

Key Takeaways

• Intro to Eric Wise, Founder of skillfoundry.io
• Eric on bootstrapping his business
• Getting started as an entrepreneur earlier before some life events
• Generative AI and cost reduction, still not good enough to do a human's job
• Experience and Hallucinations
• Access to answers and questions, Stack Overflow
• Where the responsibility falls for learning and development, and how companies and teams curate learning
• The "Hire, Train, Deploy" movement
• Learning and development trajectories from day one
• Onboarding knowledge and relationships
• Addressing a skills gap, hiring freezes, additive and transformative learning
• Understanding data queries and analysis, Python training programs and possibilities
• Pathways to creating transformative work
• Learning together and bonding, loyalty to team and business
• Building learning, culture, and community
• Lifetime value, thinking about the relationship between college institutions and missed opportunities in lifetime training
• Lifelong learning for everyone, not just executives
• Peer group learning, being dynamic to thrive in transformative businesses
• Connective tissue: Gaps between academic courses and job functions, partnerships between higher ed and businesses
• Computer science is one of the most dropped-out degrees, and the teaching hasn't changed
• Bringing more technical talent to a world where businesses are adapting to AI, automation, and focused learning experiences
• Not going to be replaced by AI, going to be replaced by someone who doesn't use AI
• Eric's hope for the future of teamwork, and how to contact him

Today's conversation on The Future of Teamwork features Jeff Roberts, the founder of Innovation Vista and a longtime CIO turned CEO. During the interview, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld discusses Jeff's background in the pharmaceutical industry, and how that translates to his work today helping organizations adapt and adopt the right technology to prioritize growth and efficiency. The two also discuss how difficult it is to execute strategy at scale, the merits of winning customer loyalty with disruptive, innovative products, and overall discussing the art of what's possible.

Key Takeaways

• Meet Jeff Roberts, CEO of Innovation Vista
• Fractional and virtual work, expertise on-demand regardless of location
• The art of possible, opportunity for teams in riding the pace of change with advancing capabilities
• Working through the software, tools, and processes that resulted from COVID
• A cost to using the wrong tool, then replacing it
• Human nature around job security and new waves of technology like automation and AI
• Technology as a teammate, treating AI like a junior employee
• DEEP acronym, agile approaches and mindsets around technology adoption and team growth
• Working with business leadership, talking about what is possible
• The complexity of AI and navigating the media hype around this new technology
• Efficiencies with technology and AI from Apple CarPlay to routine automation
• It's difficult to execute strategy, finding opportunities to scale strategy and partnerships
• Winning customer loyalty, innovating and disrupting
• Objective framing for services organizations, assessments, and recommendation reports
• A focus on top line rather than margin
• Technology will become more affordable because of AI
• Privacy and proprietary data
• Jeff's hope for the future of teams, leveraging AI intelligence to enhance human intelligence
• Connect with Jeff

The workplace is one of the most important areas of a person's life to have psychological safety, connection, and community. On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld sits down with Geoffrey Roche to talk about these ideas and more in the healthcare industry. Geoffrey is the Director of Workforce Development for Siemens Healthineers and speaks about the importance of proving who you are to people to build trust within workplaces. Geoffrey also talks about the role of addressing culture-discrepant behaviors and using probing questions to gain alignment with core values. Listen in and learn about why Geoffrey is optimistic about a future with more focus, and organizations that stir up 'good trouble' for the benefit of building a better system.

Key Takeaways

• Geoffrey Roche and his background in workforce development for healthcare systems
• The children of nurses, the importance of their role as critical-care workers
• What is workforce development, and what does it mean in the modern era to create innovative, transformative solutions
• Engaging and supporting youth entering the healthcare ecosystem. DEI and the impact of data
• Connection and community engagement are where transformation happens
• Serving populations by setting up a system that enables a person to be transformed
• Public service and the art of customer service
• Intentional efforts around partnering with community organizations to guide students into healthcare as a profession
• Relatability of talking to healthcare professionals, building trust with partner organizations
• Reverse mentoring programs and building new opportunities for intentional mentorship: "Prove to them who you are. You're there to help them."
• A new generation of leaders listening, mentoring, facilitating. Inclusivity and calling out leadership for not following values.
• The roots of 'Good Trouble' and Congressman John Lewis, inspiration in Geoffrey's journey
• The role of 'Good Trouble' in the workplace, creating psychological safety and accountability
• In tense moments, words can be transformational, or they can tear people down
• Giving people a chance to be human and make mistakes: "Help me understand why you would say it that way."
• Systemic challenges in the workforce, having the right people serve as preceptors. "You can never spend too much on learning and development."
• Geoffrey's role and how often it interfaces with learning and development, learning and development should report to the CEO, not Human Resources
• Learning and development is strategic in healthcare, growing together and making the space for new mindsets
• Geoffrey is optimistic about the future of focus on experience for employees, teams, and customers. Good Trouble around DEI efforts and state legislature and political issues
• Connecting with Geoffrey

Have you ever felt the pressure to be the smartest person in the room?

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, Dane Groeneveld sits down with keynote speaker, storyteller, and entrepreneur Peter Laughter to explore what distributed leadership looks like today. Together, they examine how shifting away from command-and-control structures can empower teams to solve problems, innovate, and create real meaning in their work.

If you’ve ever wondered how to unlock creativity, agency, and purpose in your organization, this conversation will challenge the old playbook and point to a future where teamwork is everything.

🔗 Connect with Peter Laughter on his website or LinkedIn

In today's conversation on The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks to author and CEO of Circle Leadership Global, Dave Clare. Dave wrote a book on leadership called 'Simplified' about leading people and teams. In this spirited conversation, Dane and Dave cover topics such as simplicity and clarity concerning employee and organizational purpose. The two also discuss the role of technology and its impact on things like culture, fears around the use of AI, and systems thinking that can benefit your purpose initiatives.

Key Takeaways

• Intro: Dave jokes about being Australian and Canadian
• All about Dave Clare, CEO of Circle Leadership Global, and his career path
• Moving from leadership programs and teams to journeys
• A customer-focused rogue comes from structure and simplicity, "add value by removing the things that don't"
• The role of clarity on a team is a core value for Dave
• A study of 25 businesses and four common problems
• Build a systematic approach that follows human behavior, "Magic happens when you find the right questions to ask"
• Three fundamentals of Dave's book 'Simplified"
• Someone to believe in, what this translates to professionally and organizationally (ecosystems, not ego-systems)
• People don't leave organizations just for money
• 90 Million Proprietary Limited, the meaning behind the name, and finding a world with workforce engagement and purpose
• Purpose of the organization through values, answering to something, not someone
• The role of technology in behavior, new organizational models, and forecasting
• What is the difference between Iron Man and Terminator
• "You're not going to lose your job to AI. You're going to lose your job to people who use AI"
• Stuck in old systems, independent but interlinked, freestyling within the framework and coaching moments
• A letter to your future self: imagine a business that doesn't exist yet but will in three years, evolving your business
• Disrupting, staying relevant in the hearts and minds of those we choose to serve
• Systems thinking is a skill, building a business evolution roadmap
• Purpose is the seed of culture
• Decision-making filters, incisions to cut in and cut out, systems of accountability
• The word "empowerment" and helping you realize you've always had power
• Creating a place where people are excited to jump out of bed and work
• How to find Dave

Today's episode of The Future of Teamwork welcomes Dr. Alison Eyring, Founder and CEO of Produgie, a SaaS platform that helps businesses align, accelerate, and amplify leader and team impact. During her conversation with show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, the two cover topics like what it is like to create a SaaS platform to address a problem, the growing importance of services for SaaS businesses, and growing customer needs without being an endless consultant. Additionally, the two cover a slew of topics including team cultures and dynamics, the role of conflict in innovation, psychometric assessments, and so much more.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:12 - 02:35] Alison Eyring, CEO of Produgie, and her path toward creating the SaaS platform
• [02:37 - 04:31] SaaS built for service offerings: tech that is built to address pain points in the real world
• [04:32 - 05:40] Partnering with Organizational Solutions
• [05:44 - 07:04] Services are profitable, building solutions into the software and offerings that grow with customer needs
• [07:06 - 09:17] Coaching and consulting is expensive and often out of reach, Produgie wants to change that
• [09:20 - 11:15] "Well, aren't consultants always looking to find a way to prolong the engagement?"
• [11:18 - 13:21] Interdependency between systems, culture, and team dynamics
• [13:21 - 16:49] Produgie as an aid for HR: Team Impact Board, and an Activation Platform
• [16:49 - 19:42] Agile practices and putting teams together, the adaptive development plan
• [19:44 - 22:01] Intentional leadership, 'Getting Results Long Distance' and performance management
• [22:00 - 23:49] Shared leadership and team governance, independence and autonomy
• [23:49 - 25:39] Kanban boards, accountability, and the problem of prolonging a solution
• [25:40 - 26:27] No research to support conflict is good for innovation
• [26:27 - 27:55] Tension and innovation in teams, exploit and explore innovation, predicting business growth
• [27:55 - 30:19] The Trifecta of Growth — Perform, Energize, Transform
• [30:21 - 31:23] What makes you successful as a leader now isn't what will make you a successful leader in the future
• [31:22 - 33:03] Psychometric assessments, the big five, and Alison's Growth Leader Framework
• [33:07 - 35:27] Practicing, checklists, and patterns that make it easier to repeat excellence
• [35:28 - 38:33] Team performance metrics and surveys with Produgie, finding a cadence that fits with their leadership style
• [38:38 - 39:59] Dedicating time to a SaaS technology platform, connecting Produgie to Slack and Microsoft Teams
• [40:00 - 42:05] DIY approaches to service options, and innovations in UI/UX, adaptive organizational tech
• [42:05 - 42:53] A freemium model for Produgie, Team Productivity without Burnout
• [42:54 - 43:49] Thinking about the future of the podcast, taking the team alignment survey
• [43:50 - 46:53] Alison's hopes for the future of teamwork, creating great groups with technology and AI
• [46:56 - 48:12] Finding out more about Produgie and Alison

Today's episode of The Future of Teamwork invites Mike Lee to speak about vulnerability, intuition, and several mental wellness practices that affect leaders and organizations. Mike is a keynote speaker and founder of MindShift Labs with a history as a wellness coach for NBA athletes. In this conversation with show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, Mike encourages: individuals to understand that their stories matter, connection and belonging, and thoughts on communication strategies like SET.

Key Takeaways

• [01:54 - 06:28] Mike Lee's background in the NBA, career as a keynote speaker, battling depression and shifting toward meditation
• [06:30 - 08:36] Shifting from building basketball players to building people, vulnerability and courage to share
• [08:39 - 10:15] Men today are still not generally talking about mental wellness, shame before understanding your story matters
• [10:15 - 12:13] Stories create connection, the power of belonging and connection
• [12:18 - 14:12] Vulnerability is sharing something in a way that helps move the needle forward, the role of humility
• [14:13 - 17:37] Vulnerability to connection, into collaboration, to momentum. Drowning in information, and still trusting your own intuition
• [17:38 - 20:54] A balance between diversity of thought and a leader's intuition, creating a connection with your own higher self and voice
• [20:52 - 26:46] Helping clients create an awareness of their higher self — the power of journaling and Mike's 3-step process for problem-solving
• [26:46 - 30:05] Performance hacking — the Nappuccino, yoga nidra, and recovery
• [30:06 - 32:13] People don't give themselves permission for rest and recovery space, trust and autonomy
• [32:13 - 35:10] Coaching from a place of love, compassion over empathy
• [35:51 - 38:27] Saying "sorry" and the SET communication strategy
• [38:31 - 40:13] Truth, little t and big T
• [40:12 - 43:07] Mike's hope for the future of teamwork — a sense of deep trust, being held, and support from others
• [43:08 - 45:54] "If we can be at 80%, we're going to be incredibly successful" — sustainability and preventing burnout
• [46:06 - 46:49] Find Mike online, Mind Shift Labs

Leanne Holdsworth joins The Future of Teamwork and host Dane Groeneveld for a spirited discussion on creating more human workplaces. Leanne is the co-author of "Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising Workplaces", with Naryan Wong, and the author of "A New Generation of Business Leaders." Outside of writing, she spends her time helping organizations and their individuals reach their full potential. During this conversation, Dane and Leanne discuss aligning personal purpose with an organization's purpose, the social outcomes of modern leadership strategies focusing on people's well-being and individuality, and how businesses can explore the journey toward empowering communities and teams. Discover how leaders can embrace autonomy, foster purpose and belonging, and humanize the workplace for a more meaningful and successful future.

Key Takeaways

• [00:12 - 02:52] Introduction to Leanne Holdsworth, co-author of Human Work
• [03:29 - 05:44] Who you are when you walk into the home at the end of the day, growth around personal purpose
• [05:46 - 10:09] What social outcomes look like if a company is leading well and individuals are investing in their communities
• [10:18 - 12:17] Activating and engaging communities to help, regardless of for- or not-for-profit, the impact of AI
• [12:18 - 14:43] AI, automation, and existential crises for communities
• [14:52 - 21:50] Leanne's book and her interviews with 11 leaders
• [15:34 - 17:17] Varied approaches to leadership and creating human workplaces
• [22:25 - 25:53] Belonging, and Human Systems
• [25:54 - 27:55] Autonomy, mastery, and purpose — finding imagination for our sense of meaning
• [27:57 - 31:06] Thankless but important work, humanizing work, emphasizing learning and growth
• [31:07 - 35:50] The next wave of understanding social outcomes for driving human work, gathering and interpreting data on creating more human workplaces
• [32:44 - 35:41] Leanne's sense of purpose after having her first child and deciding to volunteer and help victims of domestic violence
• [35:51 - 38:04] Psychological safety and constantly iterating, embracing learning and growth
• [38:05 - 42:43] The struggle of data capture for teams vs. individuals, bringing the idea of human work to a team level
• [39:17 - 42:17] What can we do to enable teams to try things without centralizing people? Safe spaces and pilot projects, trying new things
• [42:45 - 44:09] Nudging the business community towards talking about the relationship between human beings, the organization, and the way things are done to help the human community
• [44:09 - 45:42] Eliminating the complaint conversations, shifting towards collective purpose and empowerment
• [45:43 - 46:43] Closing, visit Leanne at humanworknetwork.com

Today's episode of The Future of Teamwork podcast features fellow Aussie and disruptive innovator, Luke Williams. Luke, along with show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, tackle the concepts of idea generation and building specialized teams that can disrupt habits and roadblocks that prevent success in business. Topics the two discuss include scarcity mindset and the value of sharing ideas, how to break apart existing recipes and organizational modes of thinking, and the surprising leadership lessons one can learn from the television show Bluey.

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 01:01] Introduction to the show, a fellow Aussie and Bluey
• [01:05 - 04:31] Luke's background in industrial design and how it contributed to his career, travels, and his role in disruptive innovation
• [01:05 - 04:31] Sharing of knowledge and resources vs. a scarcity mindset
• [05:58 - 10:07] A recipe for moving away from the scarcity mindset
• [10:09 - 11:41] People are cooking from a traditional recipe book, without new and better recipes, new growth theory
• [11:43 - 14:06] Running the core business, not giving employees time to think about ideas that don't support the core business
• [14:06 - 17:32] The myths of disruption, how to be the disruptive change
• [17:32 - 22:53] Rethinking disruptive innovation and creating teams that can evolve the core business
• [22:53 - 25:10] Attack the vulnerabilities, understanding strengths and weaknesses of the product and industry
• [25:10 - 27:54] Breaking apart existing recipes, denying existing cliches, removing the critical success factors to think about value
• [27:54 - 31:13] Taking teams out of the core rigidities, and using artificial frameworks and tools
• [31:13 - 34:11] Bluey, Bandit the dad, and a framework of fun that lends to disruptive thinking
• [34:11 - 35:25] The cult of personality is holding teams and individuals back
• [35:27 - 38:45] Hiring and thinking about what ingredients are needed, diversity, and working with the employees you have now
• [38:59 - 42:10] Execution is the commodity, ideas are the most valuable assets; Luke's platform Idea Skills
• [42:10 - 45:19] Ideas are the new oil, and how difficult it is to escape old ideas by not criticizing
• [45:24 - 47:05] A call to action, finding Luke in the world

Andrew Freedman stops by The Future of Teamwork to chat with host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld about practical wisdom and research-backed frameworks for driving performance culture, adapting to hybrid work, and harnessing technology to enhance team dynamics. Andrew is a managing partner at SHIFT, and author of the book "Thrive," a resource for creating more efficient, empathetic teams. During their conversation the two touch on several issues affecting the workplace today, including selecting from the wealth of HR SaaS platforms available, culture as a differentiator in the modern workplace, and the indications and implications of burnout on your employee base.

Find Andrew Freedman:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/afreedmanthrive/

https://www.shiftthework.com/

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 02:31] Andrew Freedman, author and managing partner at SHIFT
• [02:31 - 03:35] Bouncing out of bed and dialing back the energy, excitement to help
• [03:35 - 04:37] Decompression time in transit and at home, rebooting
• [05:06 - 07:08] Thrive, a result of transformative work and impact on teams
• [07:06 - 09:03] Frameworks and practical wisdom (backed by research) for living, performing, and growing
• [09:04 - 09:43] Refreshing team best practices
• [09:40 - 11:32] Different realities in the wake of Covid, accommodating different methods of communication for different neurotypes
• [11:34 - 13:39] Hybrid work and defining success for a connected culture
• [13:39 - 14:53] 2023 State of Workforce Burnout and organizational issue that correlates with hybrid work
• [14:54 - 16:37] Intentionality and asking whether or not the culture is worth it
• [16:38 - 18:42] Six measures for driving performance culture, reinforcing behavior and skills development
• [18:43 - 21:57] Skills development's context in high-performing team cultures
• [21:58 - 23:59] Many people think of skills and knowledge in a static way, and thinking about adaptability
• [24:07 - 25:41] Tools that can fragment efficient workflows, navigating options for HR SaaS and CRM
• [25:42 - 28:14] Harnessing technology so that the best tool is the member of the team utilizing it
• [28:15 - 30:05] The dark side of AI, protecting trade secrets, and culture as the one irreplaceable element of your business
• [29:53 - 31:40] Culture is the differentiator, $1.3 trillion in investments, and hasty implementation strategies
• [31:42 - 34:19] The pandemic as an accelerator of asynchronous communication and innovation (Latch as a use case)
• [34:20 - 37:21] Indicators of burnout, the cost and strain on employees
• [37:26 - 39:06] Data to substantiate the benefits of psychologically safe human experiences at work, understanding what not to tolerate any more
• [39:06 - 41:37] A natural attrition of leaders stuck in the past, and the coming shifts in culture thanks to technology
• [41:41 - 44:35] Skills development, "futuristic thinking," embracing disruptive thinking and empathy in assuming positive intent
• [44:37 - 45:45] Connect with Andrew

Today's The Future of Teamwork episode features Colin Hunter, CEO of Potential Squared International and author of 'Be More Wrong,' a book about learning fast and embracing mistakes. Show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Colin about his work coaching teams and a central mantra in those efforts: "dance with the music they bring you." Throughout the conversation, the two discuss various topics affecting the workplace, including immersive learning technologies, design thinking, feedback loops, the habits feeding your daily systems, and team development with an emphasis on creating psychological safety.

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 03:12] Meet Colin Hunter, author and CEO of Potential Squared International
• [03:12 - 04:56] "Dance with the music they bring to you," opening this idea up to DEI
• [04:58 - 06:47] Colin's work in team development is industry agnostic
• [06:49 - 09:11] Building connections builds psychological safety
• [09:16 - 11:17] How VR and immersive learning are impacting development and coaching dynamics
• [11:18 - 12:39] Riker gets to be Dane's assistant coach
• [12:39 - 13:51] Teachable moments and feedback loops
• [13:53 - 17:06] Design thinking and powerful moments of "I wonder"
• [15:12 - 17:06] Brief Back, Check Back
• [17:32 - 19:35] Dane's experience with The Action Cycle methodology
• [19:40 - 21:08] Addressing strategy and client pain points
• [21:10 - 24:37] How Colin's framework might impact a sales or service organization, breaking your echo chamber
• [24:39 - 26:11] Drawing out conversations, running towards purpose and identity
• [26:08 - 31:26 The habits feeding your systems, Lord of The Rings edition
• [31:32 - 33:42] Building systems and embracing technology
• [33:42 - 36:12] Growing systems and feedback is unique and individual
• [37:10 - 38:35] Experimentation with an outcome focus, killing bad ideas
• [38:37 - 40:30] Taking action, sticking to a game plan and path
• [40:30 - 41:32] Creating playful moments with work
• [41:33 - 43:10] Transactional relationships in work (and life), why we should be authentic and release our real person
• [43:10 - 43:52] "How to Work with Almost Anyone" the basics
• [43:52 - 44:44] Making uncommon connections
• [44:46 - 47:23] How Colin picked the title "Be More Wrong" and themes around the future of work
• [47:24 - 48:27] Regenerating a team's inner child in the age of AI
• [48:43 - 49:31] How to contact Colin

Join us for an enlightening episode of The Future of Teamwork, where we delve into the transformative world of skills-based hiring with Michelle D. Sims, a visionary leader at YUPRO Placement. This trailblazing organization is reshaping early career talent recruitment and development, focusing on advancing traditionally overlooked talent and building career pathways for non-degreed talent.

In this episode, Michelle shares how YUPRO Placement fosters a supportive community, cultivating connections and social capital through ongoing mentorship and innovative programs. Their commitment to talent goes beyond initial hiring, offering lifelong support that includes resume assistance, interview preparation, and free certifications. This comprehensive approach is changing the landscape of career development.

We'll explore the metrics that truly matter in measuring the success of these initiatives and the far-reaching impact they can have economically and socially. Through a skills-first approach, YUPRO Placement has uncovered opportunities for better workforce diversity, reduced turnover, and improved engagement. Discover how this shift in perspective is revolutionizing recruitment and creating a more inclusive and dynamic workplace.

Key Takeaways

• [00:12 - 02:26] Meet Michelle Sims, CEO of YUPRO Placement
• [02:27 - 03:46] Starting a job just 12 days before the pandemic
• [03:53 - 05:13] What latchkey means
• [05:16 - 07:20] The importance of collaborating with workforce development
• [07:24 - 10:45] Gaps Michelle is seeing and focusing on as she prepares people to join teams in the workplace
• [10:47 - 16:43] Tear the Paper Ceiling
• [16:46 - 20:12] The benefits of being a PBC, Public Benefit Corporation
• [20:14 - 24:37] How to think about skill-based hiring
• [24:37 - 26:17] A new iteration of call center staffing
• [26:19 - 29:42] Innovative ways orgs are bringing people together
• [29:43 - 32:58] Best practices for supporting those taking on an entry-level role
• [33:02 - 34:27] Psychological safety is crucial
• [34:26 - 37:54] How long YUPRO Placement has been doing this work
• [37:55 - 40:32] The power of support and community
• [40:32 - 42:28] The value of community and alumni
• [42:31 - 46:47] Looking forward: How can the workforce landscape change?
• [46:43 - 51:13] A grassroots movement
• [50:52 - 51:46] How to learn more about YUPRO Placement

Today's The Future of Teamwork episode introduces Randy Hagan, the Managing Director of Eagle Eye Management Solutions Inc. In their conversation, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld asks for Randy's thoughts on applying lessons from team sports to business teams, understanding behavior expectations and culture building on projects, and multiple strategies for finding connections that can strengthen teamwork. The two discuss the nature of 'seeking' out talent and company vision and why the future of teamwork may include fewer managers and more coaches.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 06:40] Meet Randy Hagan, and how he leads teams through complex projects
• [06:42 - 13:05] Translating lessons from sports coaching to team building for organizations
• [13:14 - 17:35] Empowerment, communication, and operating with autonomy
• [17:42 - 22:02] Setting behavior expectations when working with teams, symptoms and subcultures
• [22:18 - 24:49] Finding commonalities when working together in teams, understanding where people's perspectives are coming from
• [24:52 - 28:43] Anna Carrol's COIN method for feedback
• [28:44 - 30:45] 'Seeking' as a recurring word and guide to higher performance levels
• [30:46 - 33:33] Setting a vision with the Cogen project
• [33:34 - 36:52] Creating a purpose, being part of something great and the continual work that requires to maintain
• [36:58 - 38:16] Select great people, create a vision, and meet regularly
• [39:21 - 41:43] Facilitating interactions, talking about challenges
• [41:51 - 47:11] Randy's vision and goals for Eagle Eye and the coaching he is excited for
• [47:21 - 50:44] Coaching can be more effective than having a manager

In today's episode, HUDDL3 CEO and The Future of Teamwork host Dane Groeneveld sits down with Stuart Andrews, an expert in driving organizational transformations. The two talk about fostering alignment, empathy, and the role of a servant leadership mentality in connecting with employees. Stuart also emphasizes ways to create an understanding of business value, the importance of psychological safety, and his goals for his book, 'The Leadership Shift.'

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 02:21] Stuart's path to leadership and change management
• [02:22 - 04:59] The scale and types of transformations Stuart takes on
• [04:59 - 06:55] Silos and misalignment with KPIs
• [06:55 - 08:36] Sponsorship coalition and working toward collective results
• [08:37 - 12:01] How Stuart works with leadership on alignment exercises to address people's concerns
• [12:02 - 13:37] Dane talks about an alignment issue with Kurt Landon
• [13:39 - 16:08] Factors for leaders: vision
• [16:10 - 18:48] Strategic pillars that bolster the company vision
• [18:50 - 21:55] Factors for leadership: empathy and navigating noise
• [21:57 - 25:42] Creating policies and a culture that avoids organizational burnout
• [25:42 - 27:13] A mentality around creating value
• [27:13 - 29:44] Change management methodologies for disseminating information: ADKAR by Prosc
• [30:56 - 33:00] Psychological safety in the organization
• [33:03 - 35:48] Leadership Shift, the structure of Stuart's book
• [35:49 - 39:19] Servant leadership and genuine interest in the individual
• [39:21 - 42:13] How cultural fit and passion can affect alignment
• [42:15 - 43:54] AI and technology as team members
• [43:55 - 45:55] Stuart's takeaways and how to connect with him

How do you move a whole group of people at once – emotionally, behaviorally, and meaningfully? In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, Dane Groeneveld sits down with Lindsey Caplan, Founder and Lead Consultant at The Gathering Effect, to discuss how to move your teams to action through more effective team gatherings. Lindsey shares actionable strategies for creating onboarding programs that go beyond compliance, designing town halls that feel personal and purposeful, and using small but powerful techniques to make every meeting memorable.

Whether you’re planning a one-day session or a multi-team conference, this episode is full of practical insights for connecting, inspiring, and influencing your people.

🔗 Connect with Lindsey Caplan on her website: www.gatheringeffect.com

This week on The Future of Teamwork, HUDDL3 CEO and host Dane Groeneveld speaks with Dr. Colleen Rivers, founder of Seek, motivational coach, and emergency doctor. Discover Colleen's Six Pillars framework for Seek, encompassing movement, nutrition, sleep, spirituality, connections, and intention. In this transformational episode, learn about personalized nutrition, dialing into your universe's priorities, and the power of vulnerability for stronger relationships.

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 04:18] Meet Colleen Rivers — Founder of Seek, Motivational Coach, and Emergency Doctor
• [04:18 - 07:27] The gap in health knowledge and doctor relationships, and the complexity of the U.S. healthcare system
• [07:31 - 12:26] Online rabbit holes and the anxiety of upholding healthy habits and a life
• [12:26 - 16:00] Colleen describes the Six Pillars of her framework for Seek: Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, Spirituality, Connections, and Intention
• [16:01 - 19:32] Helping people frame their purpose and the journey toward it
• [19:35 - 23:52] Different flavors of purpose and how personal purpose can intertwine with professional purpose
• [24:31 - 28:05] Movement and nutrition, finding what you love and feeling better
• [29:33 - 33:16] The controversy and fads surrounding nutrition, our bodies are all different
• [33:16 - 37:26] Eating more whole foods, fanaticism, and personalized nutrition
• [37:27 - 41:59] Adequate sleep and the challenging pressures to earn wealth
• [42:07 - 44:12] Spirituality and dialing into your universe's priorities to reduce anxiety and depression
• [44:16 - 46:43] Asking for help is good for both people, how vulnerability can lead to stronger connections
• [46:43 - 49:51] Appreciation and attention, being intentional, and offering the gift of storytelling

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Darrin Tulley about the power of creativity, collaborative spaces, and open-minded curiosity for better outcomes. Darrin is a leader, author, and speaker specializing in helping organizations transform their culture. In their conversation, the two discuss Darrin's book "Live Your Possible," insights into evolving work environments and technology, and how prioritizing wellbeing is necessary in the modern workplace.

Key Takeaways

• [00:11 - 04:27] Darrin Tulley and working in the realm of possibilities
• [04:39 - 07:27] Seeing the bubble expanding, looking at the world with joy
• [07:28 - 09:42] Darrin's "light up" moment with Italian ice
• [09:48 - 12:04] Passion and the drawing outside the lines
• [12:06 - 13:50] Companies that focus on creativity have better outcomes
• [13:50 - 17:22] Giving people time to think, and collaborative spaces
• [17:24 - 18:51] Pride, and sharing space and work
• [18:53 - 23:46] Live Your Possible, Darrin's book
• [23:48 - 26:20] Calming our minds and breaking patterns
• [26:22 - 28:46] Open-minded curiosity and taking in perspectives
• [28:49 - 32:34] The power of book clubs for organizations
• [32:37 - 34:06] Better nurses, doctors, and catalysts for curiosity
• [34:26 - 35:48] How an open mind lends itself to better collaboration
• [35:53 - 37:02] The Simple Seed by Katie Wood
• [37:05 - 42:19] The school environment and Jane Dutton
• [42:19 - 47:00] The future of work and teams in Darrin's view
• [47:05 - 48:26] Embracing AI, technology, and wellbeing
• [48:28 - 49:45] "Involved" and a call to action to create space
• [49:48 - 51:23] Connect with Darrin

Discover how Dr. John Boudreau revolutionizes work and organizations by strengthening incentives, cultures, and fostering fulfilling and satisfying work. Host and HUDDL3 CEO, Dane Groeneveld, sits down with Dr. Boudreau to discuss the idea of transformative HR, how virtual and augmented reality provides opportunities for people to directly connect regardless of geographic location, and different definitions and systems for work.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 07:38] Introduction to John Boudreau and his work strengthening and incentivizing more fulfilling work
• [07:39 - 11:25] Transformative HR and technologies that enable better collaboration with automation
• [11:26 - 14:25] Opportunities for direct connection in virtual in augmented reality
• [14:26 - 16:09] Making knowledge transfer accessible and conversational
• [16:12 - 19:37] The power of algorithmic engines and accurate predictions
• [19:38 - 26:12] How AI is changing the workplace, and how companies are preparing for those changes
• [26:16 - 30:48] Retooling HR and applying frameworks that humanize processes
• [30:49 - 34:54] Development and the disaggregation of work, bringing business assets to communities
• [34:55 - 39:32] How we define work, and the courage and honesty to talk about workplace evolutions
• [39:38 - 44:51] Bridging the gap between academia and professional development, and John's book "Work Without Jobs"
• [44:52 - 47:35] The new work operating system and working around the edges
• [47:44 - 49:17] Connecting with Dr. John Boudreau

In today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Business Growth Strategy Expert Carl J. Cox. Carl is an expert on strategic planning and CEO of 40 Strategy. Together, they explore the challenges of executing strategic plans, the role of leadership in driving change, and the power of shifting from goals to destinations. The two also discuss how 40 Strategy has transformed teams, fostering honest feedback in leadership and what truly matters in unlocking organizational growth.

• [00:11 - 05:30] Meet Carl J. Cox
• [05:35 - 06:43] Bringing fresh perspectives and helping some clients confirm organizational challenges
• [06:44 - 08:24] $160 Billion spent on strategic planning consulting every year, but only 20% is executed
• [08:27 - 11:15] Unlocking and accepting change, and the middle management barrier
• [11:16 - 14:12] Incentives for strategic improvement and motivation
• [14:14 - 20:46] Vision and people as part of your growth strategy
• [20:48 - 25:38] Lagging indicators and leading actions
• [25:39 - 27:37] Great companies where leaders walk the talk
• [27:40 - 30:33] Leaders need to be creating other leaders, and key principles of 40 Strategy
• [30:33 - 32:19] Giving insights so people can see better ways and workflows
• [32:20 - 35:22] Lost at CEO, and understanding that leadership doesn't always get honest feedback
• [35:23 - 39:55] Fear and trepidation, switching narratives from goals to destinations
• [39:56 - 43:09] Thoughts on OKRs, measuring what matters
• [43:11 - 47:54] How do teams that have worked with 40 Strategy look now?
• [47:56 - 49:32] How people can connect with Carl

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld interviews Laura Hunter, a sustainability professional and founder of The Now Work, who shares how she applied her humanities degree to service and sustainability. They discuss the importance of genuine action over greenwashing, the rise of freelance work in the sustainability industry, and the impact of technology on seamless collaboration.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 02:49] How Laura took a humanities degree and applied it to service and sustainability
• [02:50 - 05:52] The creative side and storytelling of sustainability
• [06:00 - 09:01] How teams are coming together in the sustainability industry
• [09:04 - 10:59] The concept of greenwashing creative work without the sustainability action, jumping on the marketing bandwagon
• [11:01 - 13:28] The Now Work, building better connectivity for sustainability professionals to connect
• [13:30 - 14:38] A place for deep subject matter experts
• [14:40 - 16:46] Privilege and DEI in sustainability
• [16:46 - 17:40] What attracted Laura to independent work
• [17:41 - 20:26] Control as an excellent motivator for people
• [20:26 - 22:12] By 2027, almost half the US labor market is expected to be freelance
• [22:12 - 24:30] Different shades of full-time and part-time work
• [24:31 - 26:42] Discussing building teams and what to look for
• [27:11 - 29:20] Technology as an enabler of seamless work
• [29:21 - 31:29] A framework for solving problems with technology
• [31:29 - 33:56] Fractional work and getting the opportunity to dig deeper into other industries
• [33:58 - 36:30] A development component of Laura's SaaS platform, The Now Work
• [36:31 - 39:54] Seeing impact in the fashion and creative industries
• [39:53 - 43:11] Emerging focuses in fashion around sustainability, living wages, and de-growth
• [43:13 - 47:29] A history of fossil fuels and coal, thinking about the challenges of sustainability
• [47:30 - 48:39] Get ahold of Laura

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Mahir Iskender, the founder of Digno, a company that aims to bring a human touch to "Employee Scoring." Mahir explains how harnessing digital tools for real-time feedback and evaluation can revolutionize the employee experience and touches on gamification, incentives, and the need for improved performance management tools. During the conversation, Mahir discusses how Digno can help share insights on role clarity, performance metrics, skills training, and tools that celebrate employee performance and drive work behaviors.

Episode takeaways:

• [00:11 - 02:56] Meet Mahir and learn how Digno is making "Employee Scoring" more human
• [02:56 - 04:49] The origin of Digno and helping people perform better
• [04:51 - 06:29] Gamification, incentives, employee performance, and the need for better performance management tools
• [06:39 - 09:25] Harnessing digital tools for real-time feedback and evaluation
• [10:13 - 11:17] Combining knowledge for role clarity
• [11:18 - 11:55] Performance metrics for 10,000 employees in under a minute
• [11:58 - 16:06] Five factors that contribute to employee success
• [16:07 - 17:14] A system to celebrate good work
• [17:16 - 18:56] Skills training and predictive analytics
• [18:57 - 20:19] Approximating employee behaviors
• [20:20 - 22:31] Making employee data more accessible and visual
• [22:31 - 24:51] Goal management
• [24:51 - 27:44] Celebrating good work and driving the right behaviors
• [27:46 - 30:07] When hiring, Mahir thinks about how trainable someone is
• [30:08 - 33:17] Recognition and reward at work
• [33:17 - 38:18] Building a better system for incentives, rewards, and employee motivation
• [38:19 - 41:20] A results-oriented perspective and a more accessible future for finding freelance jobs
• [41:21 - 42:06] Disaggregating work
• [42:09 - 43:52] What does it look like to be successful with Digno
• [43:55 - 45:43] Simplifying performance evaluations
• [45:51 - 47:15] How to reach Mahir
• [47:17 - 48:49] Navigating the Big Brother stereotype to deliver employees respect and humanity

Today on The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Pinnacle's CEO and founder, Alexei Dunaway. Alexei is an executive coach redefining the career growth conversation with his SaaS platform Pinnacle. Throughout this conversation, Dane and Alexei chat about early-stage startups, setting a foundation for career growth and different coaching frameworks, and how technology is helping teams solve problems by providing the right people with the right development content.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 01:48] Meet Alexei Dunaway, executive coach and co-founder and CEO of Pinnacle
• [01:51 - 03:11] How Alexei became an executive coach
• [03:14 - 04:20] Highlights of coaching early-stage startups
• [04:20 - 06:33] Using coaching frameworks and setting the tone for a team
• [06:34 - 10:07] Coaching frameworks that have inspired Alexei and that he utilizes
• [10:09 - 13:42] Opportunities for interpersonal growth, differences from the past and recent future with COVID
• [13:43 - 15:27] Measuring actual behaviors and effectiveness
• [15:27 - 18:08] How Pinnacle helps measure progress and aids HR leaders and executives
• [18:12 - 19:53] Stretch opportunities and career growth
• [19:53 - 25:18] Programmatic ways to pull data on career conversations and incentivize career record-keeping
• [25:19 - 29:30] Personifying best practices through technology innovations
• [29:30 - 32:47] Learning knowledge attached to problems and serving people the right content
• [32:49 - 36:16] Knowledge management and hearing from peers and consultants
• [36:17 - 40:25] A peer learning model in an interactive digital environment
• [40:30 - 45:56] Predicting the future of Pinnacle in given years and what it looks like for teams to use it

Debi Yadegari, CEO and founder of Villyge, sits down with The Future of Teamwork host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld to discuss scaling empathy in the workplace.

Debi talks about her experience becoming a mother and how it helped her realize the need for more empathy top-down at organizations. She also encourages businesses to transform their cultures into more of an asset with her SaaS platform Villyge.

Villyge is a platform to open up dialogues between employees and managers. It offers a variety of tools and content to help teams meet in the middle with more empathy for the employee and the various life challenges people face while juggling work and life.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 04:29] Meet Debi Yadegari, CEO and Founder of Villyge
• [04:37 - 07:59] How Debi landed on creating a SaaS platform
• [08:02 - 13:08] How Villyge works to allow better dialogues between employees and managers
• [13:08 - 18:09] Psychological safety around sharing your life events with managers, getting in front of quit
• [18:09 - 20:02] Knowing your team's strengths and weaknesses, seeing the whole story with struggling employees
• [20:02 - 23:54] Inserting empathy and flexibility when seeing employee journeys unfold
• [23:55 - 25:49] Life events as invisible career barriers and disruptors
• [25:49 - 28:44] Educated and engaging inclusivity initiatives around life events and culture
• [28:45 - 32:08] Flexible arrangements in off-boarding and retirement that harmonize with career advancement of other employees
• [32:10 - 39:18] What it's like to use the Villyge platform and how it provides a foundation of communication
• [39:17 - 42:13] Leadership guidance in the wake of tragedies that affect employees
• [42:13 - 44:25] Using Villyge without sharing life events, a catalog of webinars for support
• [44:27 - 46:20] What the future of teamwork looks like using a system like Villyge
• [46:22 - 47:56] How to contact Debi

Join host Dane Groeneveld in an insightful conversation on The Future of Teamwork podcast with keynote speaker and story coach Francisco Mahfuz. Discover the power of storytelling in business and team environments as Francisco shares his personal journey and how it shaped his life and career. They’ll also explore the importance of holding story circles to enrich employee experience data points and the profound impact of storytelling in helping employees embody company values and making it a habit. Lastly, you can learn how analogies can make your messages more memorable and impactful when communicating with others. Revolutionize your approach to teamwork and tap into the transformative power of storytelling in this engaging podcast episode.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:11 - 03:01] Meet Francisco Mahfuz, keynote speaker and story coach
• [03:04 - 05:20] Francisco's return to storytelling
• [05:24 - 08:49] A focus on public speaking, communication around change management and culture
• [08:52 - 11:46] A focus on storytelling to improve corporate culture and events
• [11:48 - 15:14] Approaching storytelling by reviewing values and people's own reflective stories
• [15:15 - 18:38] Different truths, feedback, and finding a story that isn't a battle
• [18:40 - 24:28] Psychological safety and a "story circle" process
• [24:31 - 27:23] Story capture can help cut toxicity, and how personal anecdotes can supersede even training
• [27:25 - 32:23] Liar's Poker and other Michael Lewis books, people figuring out big messes
• [32:24 - 38:42] Making complexity simple through storytelling, knowing your audience and communication purpose
• [38:42 - 41:25] Facts are like ice cubes
• [41:26 - 44:23] What it looks like at the organizations Francisco works with
• [44:24 - 48:06] Communication isn't hierarchical, storytelling and creating a course of action
• [48:20 - 49:08] How to reach Francisco

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, Nick Smoot sits down with host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld to talk about the importance of personal narrative in helping you understand and pursue meaningful work. Nick is the Founder and CEO of Aesop Industries, a venture partner, and someone with a deep passion for developing communities. During their conversation, the two discuss Nick's venture projects, progressive policies and technologies, the inherent drive in humans to create, as well as the impact of getting involved in mission-based work.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:11 - 00:47] Introduction to Nick Smoot
• [00:49 - 02:20] Nick talks about the beginnings of his story with creating Aesop Industries and doing community work
• [02:22 - 03:49] Finding success in youth community coaching programs and opportunities to grow an EdTech company
• [03:50 - 08:35] Partnerships and venture innovations
• [09:07 - 11:57] A way to reorient a merit-based innovation approach
• [12:03 - 14:28] An identity story, and our birthright as creators to solve our own problems
• [14:30 - 17:48] Building a constant percolation of the culture you want
• [17:49 - 19:59] Sentiment mapping and understanding how communities feel
• [20:00 - 21:25] Coffee and Concepts in Victoria, TX
• [21:26 - 24:30] Growing a culture change engine that spreads
• [25:00 - 27:50] Creative or creator vs. entrepreneur or maker, a philosophy
• [27:51 - 28:30] Killing the word "entrepreneur" and building Build
• [28:35 - 32:34] Bifurcating your identity and spreading a mission-based goal
• [32:36 - 35:22] Identifying a shared problem teams face and forming a coalition
• [35:24 - 38:41] Where do we leave room for belonging, gathering, and transaction to happen in authentic, co-creative ways
• [38:45 - 39:35] Spin and watch how you spend your time, and understanding our journeys
• [39:40 - 41:10] Dane and Nick on the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder event and building wealth
• [41:12 - 42:12] Aligning yourself with the shared interest of your consumer, the idea of a "soul and goal line"
• [42:21 - 44:38] Magic exists in our own town, and taking the risk away from community events by making them more accessible
• [44:42 - 46:48] Community-based approaches and Nick's free ebook Better
• [46:53 - 48:26] How to reach Nick

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, Dane Groeneveld chats with Buddy Teaster, CEO of Soles4Souls, about how purpose-driven leadership and curiosity fuel strong teams and resilient organizations. Dane and Buddy discuss  Buddy’s new book, From Tailspin to Tailwind, which distills lessons learned from turning around Soles4Souls and leading it toward a bold goal of creating $1 billion in economic impact by 2030. The conversation looks at the ripple effect of partnerships, from global brands donating shoes to local entrepreneurs in Honduras, Haiti, and beyond who create jobs, opportunity, and dignity in their communities. 

If you’ve ever wondered how to align a team, energize a mission, or create lasting impact through collaboration, this episode is packed with lessons you can apply to both business and community work.

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In today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with Lisa Blair Fratzke about her passion for helping brands explore and find their "why." An organization's "why" is its purpose, which Lisa knows a lot about after realizing the power of storytelling as a screenwriter, Disney employee, and founder of Fratzke Consulting. Among other things, this conversation covers video's role in storytelling, intentionality and culture-building as critical to supporting their purpose, and her strategies for helping brands develop compelling value propositions.

Episode highlights:

• [00:12 - 04:50] Lisa's background in screenwriting and at Disney
• [04:55 - 07:18] The power of connections, purpose, and Lisa's goal to help companies find their "why"
• [07:19 - 09:21] Helping brands develop effective value propositions
• [09:23 - 11:49] Helping companies and their teammates find their purpose and why
• [11:55 - 13:18] Safety as a value proposition
• [13:20 - 14:26] Lisa's strategy for developing value propositions and bringing out the best
• [14:32 - 15:28] The importance of buy-in
• [15:30 - 18:51] The impact of storytelling on a Disney Cast member reference guide
• [18:51 - 21:54] Humanizing resources and different messages
• [21:55 - 24:23] Acquisitions and layers of a human-centered approach
• [24:27 - 26:25] Culture building informs everything
• [26:27 - 30:42] The importance of intentionality in gathering physically and virtually
• [30:46 - 34:04] Thoughts on the role of video in business updates and training
• [34:08 - 37:24] Video should be part of a holistic strategy to bring a message to life
• [37:34 - 40:14] Safeguarding brand reputation and enabling employee storytelling, videos
• [40:16 - 46:20] What does the future of driving belonging and impact look like for Lisa?

On this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3, speaks with John McGlothlin, a former paratrooper, and author, about how the lessons he learned from the military can help individuals become better teammates. McGlothlin shares how his military experience prepared him to work effectively with people he didn't hire and deal with unexpected challenges as a team. During their conversation, McGlothlin shares how he distilled the military culture into five "inner traits" crucial for facing any challenge. Tune in to discover how applying these principles can prepare you to work with your teams.

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 02:56] How John's background in the military informs his life as a writer
• [02:58 - 06:15] Non-combat aspects of the military and the wealth of organizational and training knowledge
• [03:55 - 06:15] Basic training and experiencing bootcamp
• [06:41 - 10:32] Dealing with unexpected challenges together, and investing/developing your team
• [10:35 - 13:25] Navigating that you can't choose your coworkers or hires in the military
• [13:27 - 15:02] Paratrooper training and what helps people deal with nearly anything
• [15:02 - 16:21] The importance of self-awareness
• [16:22 - 17:25] Using research, and recognizing the phenomenon of "pro-social lying"
• [17:27 - 18:40] A unique aspect of the military is that everyone is trained for everything
• [18:41 - 20:15] The idea of dual-training admin personnel for combat
• [20:20 - 22:49] Exposure to common core trainings
• [22:53 - 25:39] The reward for showing initiative
• [25:45 - 28:08] Efficiency and focusing on the next game
• [28:14 - 30:50] Efficiency, the idea of a skeleton crew, and focusing on your own role
• [30:51 - 31:47] Not getting caught in the noise
• [31:50 - 35:22] Adaptability and being part of the process
• [35:23 - 38:25] Putting time and energy into training, re-skilling, and growth in the modern age
• [38:29 - 39:54] Insistence and the ability to coexist
• [39:54 - 41:15] Reaching the standard for yourself
• [41:16 - 42:54] Why standards are important
• [42:57 - 45:06] Holding people accountable and communicating appropriately
• [45:07 - 47:46] The importance of documentation in training
• [47:47 - 50:48] How people can own their careers with John's framework

In today's conversation, host of The Future of Teamwork and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld talks to Marcia Daszko about the power of listening to your customers and pivoting businesses toward their greater potential. Marcia has worked with companies of all sizes to encourage cultures to adopt growth mindsets and self-organizing operation models. She and Dane touch on several aspects of good leadership, how she organizes workshops to benefit participants, and throughout the conversation highlight the importance of continual learning and engagement.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:12 - 03:14] Introduction, meet Marcia Daszko
• [03:15 - 04:49] A commitment to learning and courage
• [04:53 - 05:33] If you don't unlock the potential of teams businesses die
• [05:40 - 08:06] Leadership is learning, listening, and engaging
• [08:06 - 10:59] The courage to observe, connect, and improve
• [11:03 - 15:27] The value of your teams for the organization
• [15:27 - 19:27] Growth mindsets and a leader's role to develop their people
• [19:27 - 22:37] Connections and relationships are what is important
• [22:40 - 24:37] Leaders creating an environment for self-organizing
• [24:39 - 27:59] How Marcia's workshops are structured and examples of the ways she revamps customer organizations
• [28:02 - 32:17] Continual improvement, remaining curious about new ideas
• [32:19 - 33:21] How Dane's kid's shut down their own ideas, and how it translates to work
• [33:25 - 36:55] Focusing on learning and engaging
• [37:35 - 42:17] Simplicity and basic questions that can guide an organization's development
• [42:21 - 44:28] Show recap