The Leadership Window – Details, episodes & analysis

A recent wave of Federal policy announcements, executive orders, and agency communications has the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and abroad scurrying for answers and contingencies. Political ideologies aside, nonprofits must navigate these waters with artful leadership and clarity in decision-making. This week, Patrick chats with colleague Forrest Alton of 1000 Feathers about what nonprofits can proactively do to mitigate loss and risk and to manage losses if and when they occur.

From individual disagreement to global armed engagement, conflict can be dark and messy or productive and generative. Patrick chats with Dr. Doris Wesley about Dr. Wesley's research in the area of conflict and "peacebuilding."

Patrick discusses new leader integration with ICF Certified Coach and executive integration expert Eileen Rieder. From a new employee orientation to a longer on-ramp (onboarding process) and ultimately to full integration, where is your company on the continuum?

Patrick talks about coaching and learning to become a coach with Michael Wallace, the Lead Coach Trainer for Leadership Systems, Inc. (LSI), and the owner of Creative Branding Designs, which focuses on social media marketing and branding. Michael holds a BS in Communications from Appalachian State University and a Master’s degree in Education from Dallas Seminary. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at High Point University, where he teaches a course on social media communication. Michael’s focus is on developing leaders through executive coaching and content development.

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In Part 1, Patrick shared 5 key learnings from his PhD experience. In this second part, Patrick shares 5 leadership lessons he did not get in school, but from life experience. Presence, self-accountability, assumptions, and more are covered in this episode.

In this episode, your host Patrick Jinks discusses the learning he has gained through his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership studies at Columbia International University. If you are considering going back to school in leadership, you’ll appreciate this episode. If not, you’ll get the 30-minute version of a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership!

Raven Solomon is a global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion thought leader and nationally recognized keynote speaker who helps organizations get future-ready by understanding generations, racial equity, and their intersection. 

Raven’s mission is simple– to solve for racial inequity by breaking down generational and racial barriers in the workplace, replacing them with empathy and synergy that fosters productive working relationships, drives business results, and prepares organizations to compete in the not-so-distant future.

She is the author of the 2019 release Leading Your Parents: 25 Rules to Effective Multigenerational Leadership for Millennials and Gen Z, where she shares leadership principles and practical advice for young professionals seeking to transition into leadership positions in today’s diverse workplace, and the founder of the Charlotte-based Center for Next Generation Leadership and Professional Development, a startup focused on providing soft-skill development to the leaders of tomorrow. In her spare time, Raven consults with Franklin Covey, the world leader in leadership development, in the area of unconscious bias.

Raven has helped tens of thousands, from podiums around the world, close the gaps inside of dozens of industry-leading companies, and create sustainable cultural change. She’s also consulted with household brands in the areas of generational diversity & inclusion and early talent development and retention.

As the valedictorian of her college graduating class and one of the youngest-ever executives in the Fortune 50 company with which she spent nearly a decade, she has always shown that her approach to leading and influencing people yields results. Visit ravensolomon.com for more information and booking.

In this episode, Minter Dial joins Patrick from the UK to discuss authenticity in leadership, as framed in his latest book, You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader.

Minter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specializing in leadership, branding, and transformation. An agent of change, he’s a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times.

Minter’s core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He’s author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prizewinning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019).

His latest book on leadership, You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader (Kogan Page) released in January 2021. He’s been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations.

www.minterdial.com

What does it mean to have connected conversations? Why are they important? Charles Weathers joins Patrick in the studio for a conversation about authentic leadership.

Charles C. Weathers is a nationally recognized consultant and professional speaker known for helping leaders in the nonprofit, government, and private sectors facilitate courageous conversations and strengthen organizational performance. As the founder of The Weathers Group, a management firm based in Columbia, S.C., he has provided more than 15,000 hours of facilitation to over 1,100 leading organizations internationally in the last 18 years.

Charles is known for his signature keynotes, captivating audiences with his contagious energy, insight, and humor. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, certified mediator, and American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow. Charles is also a member of the National Speakers Association, the Institute of Management Consultants, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com as a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. His thought leadership is frequently featured in publications nationwide.

Hildy Gottlieb is a social scientist and asker of powerful questions.  As a student of successful social movements, the questions that have driven Hildy’s work are these: What factors lead to successful social progress? Why do some change efforts succeed while others struggle? The answer she found was simple yet profound:

Successful movements for change all have the same set of questions at the heart of their work.

Hildy now shares those questions with audiences around the world. Through the Catalytic Thinking framework she developed, those questions have been infused into the mission of the nonprofit she founded, Creating the Future, where individuals and organizations are learning how to create systems change by changing the questions they ask.

Hildy is a TEDx speaker, as well as a contributor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review and a blogger at Medium.com. She was the creator and host of the Making Change podcast, where she interviewed dozens of leaders from around the world about the factors that create powerful, positive change.