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Special Encore Presentation: Creating the New Story of Leadership

Fri, Nov 20 Listen

60 min. from Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Betty Sue Flowers, Ph.D., poet, editor, educator, business consultant and Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. She is co-author of the book Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society. As opportunity goes global, is a new story of leadership emerging? Can we shape the future by shaping the story? Betty Sue challenges leaders to sense and help actualize emerging futures in part...

Finding Optimism in Five Minutes on Mondays

Fri, Nov 13 Listen

60 min. from Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Alan Lurie, author of Five Minutes on Mondays. Alan's path leading to this new book is in itself a good story. Following a 25-year career as an architect, he is now a Managing Director at Grubb & Ellis, a national real estate investment firm. He is also a non-denominational ordained Rabbi, leading prayer services, and writing on issues of faith and religion. Upon joining his new firm, he was asked to open the weekly...

The Art of Inspiration

Fri, Nov 6 Listen

60 min. from Fri Nov 6 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Shailja Patel, an award-winning Kenyan poet, artist & political activist. Growing up in Kenya Shailja experienced the impact of war on the lives and spirit of the people. Her path took her on a journey from working on Wall Street to living a monastic life, running non-profits, eventually finding her voice in poetry. Today she is a performance artist bringing her work to people around the world. Her one-woman show,...

Stepping Stones to Grace - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Oct 30 Listen

60 min. from Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Justine Toms, co-founder of New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network and New Dimensions Radio and author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World and co-author of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do. Justine's achievements include producing and hosting many award-winning radio series including "In Her Company: Deep Dialogues with Women of Wisdom" and "Deep Ecology for the 21st Century"....

Nature Is In the House!

Fri, Oct 23 Listen

60 min. from Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest's leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development. He is author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, and author/co-creator of the Living Building Challenge, an international green building program. Jason is a leader in the global green architecture movement and challenges us to imagine and demand...

Leadership By Design

Fri, Oct 16 Listen

60 min. from Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Stewart Emery, entrepreneur, executive coach & corporate culture consultant; he is considered a father of the Human Potential Movement & served as the first CEO of est. A bestselling author, his books include Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters, and his latest with Robert Brunner: Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company. If you think design is only what gets created on paper...

The Nature of Our Future

Fri, Oct 9 Listen

60 min. from Fri Oct 9 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Mari Margil, the Associate Director for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Her background includes a Master's degree in Public Policy & Urban Planning from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and previous experience as Director of Corporate Transformation for Corporate Ethics International. Mari and CELDF are doing inspiring, groundbreaking work to recognize the Rights of...

Courageous Leadership: Righting Justice - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Oct 2 Listen

60 min. from Fri Oct 2 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Karen Tse, Founder & CEO of International Bridges to Justice. An international human rights attorney and ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Karen Tse has been pioneering Rule of Law initiatives in Asia and Africa since 1994. As a United Nations Judicial Mentor, she trained judges and prosecutors and established the first arraignment court in Cambodia. IBJ has trained hundreds of defense lawyers in the 31...

The Wisdom to Transform

Fri, Sep 25 Listen

60 min. from Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Kristin Engvig, founder of the internationally acclaimed Women's International Networking Global Leadership Forum. She is a social entrepreneur and international consultant with a passion for the critical role women play in shaping the future and elevating leadership. Kristin says that we need transformation - not change - to shape the future. Change is an action that can be reversed. Transformation requires more of...

Leading to Wisdom

Fri, Sep 18 Listen

60 min. from Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Alan Briskin, an award-winning author, a pioneer in the field of organizational learning, and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. His books include The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Daily Miracles and Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice. His new book is The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly is based on nine years of research by him and three coauthors working in...

Leadership Endeavor: Working for Good

Fri, Sep 11 Listen

60 min. from Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Jeff Klein, CEO of Cause Alliance Marketing where he designs and facilitates collaborative cause-related marketing programs. He wrote his book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, to support conscious entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders, and change agents at work. "My intention with Working for Good is to provide a meaningful context and essential tools to support people in deeply expressing...

The Birth of Caring Societies - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Sep 4 Listen

60 min. from Fri Sep 4 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Riane Eisler, bestselling author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics; The Chalice & the Blade and The Power of Partnership. Riane recognizes, "Our nation and our world are hungry for new ways of thinking." She sees opportunity for a sympathetic world by creating "caring societies" working through the economic system. "And as long as caring is off the economic scale, it's not realistic to expect...

The Business of Change: It Takes a New Voice - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Aug 28 Listen

60 min. from Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Elliot Hoffman, CEO & co-founder of New Voice of Business. It all started while they were sipping tea on a Saturday morning- a new mandate: business must be the voice of change for the good. Today, New Voice is creating a community of business people who are awakening to the nature of the extraordinary times we are living in and who understand that the time for business as usual is over. Join the conversation to hear...

Leadership Lessons in Being Alive!

Fri, Aug 21 Listen

60 min. from Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Morgan Langan, an entrepreneur with a passion for integrating business with spirituality. He co-founded Grace Grove Retreat Center and is co-creator of One Spirit Weekend. His book to be released in 2010 is titled: The Ultimate MBA program: A Master's Degree in Being Alive! Morgan Langan was a hard driving MBA, building successful enterprises and thriving as a businessperson. He didn't have much time for "navel-gazing"...

Living Awareness: Patterns of Connection - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Aug 14 Listen

60 min. from Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Wrycza, founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness in Bali. Peter says: "In 1995 I stood in a grove of clove trees overlooking a river in a serene valley between the sea and the mountains and realized that this was my moment of choice. I could stick with my familiar work and territory in Europe. Or I could take the risk of buying land in a far-off place, and create a centre for people to connect with the...

Leadership: Empowering Transformation - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Aug 7 Listen

60 min. from Fri Aug 7 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Paul Dudley Hart, former CEO of Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, currently serving as Director at large for Mercy Corps, an International humanitarian aid and development organization. Paul travels the globe with Mercy Corps working amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Paul has learned through his assignments at Mercy...

Walking the Path of Leadership - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Jul 24 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. a cultural anthropologist, educator, corporate consultant and author. What can business learn from the ancient cultures? Angeles shares how indigenous wisdoms are relevant to global leadership today.

A Warrior Leads from the Heart - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Jul 17 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. co-founder & President of Strozzi Institute, author of several books including In Search of the Warrior Spirit and The Leadership Dojo to be released this year. Richard crosses borders and boundaries in war zones and boardrooms to teach global leaders that the mind and the body are inextricably linked: to develop one, you must cultivate the other. Can embodied leadership change the...

Leading With Dignity

Fri, Jul 10 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Linda Dunkel, President and CEO of Interaction Associates (IA) an employee owned organization known for its research and pioneering in collaborative problem solving and decision-making. In 2006 Linda was awarded the Winning Workplaces Best Bosses Award, a national honor that recognizes the most innovative and inspirational leaders of midsized and small businesses across America. When asked what she cares about, Linda...

The Currency of the Future: Each Other - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Jul 3 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jul 3 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Lynne Twist, global activist, fundraiser, Founder of The Soul of Money Institute and author of The Soul of Money. She founded the Soul of Money Institute to express her commitment to supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money. She says, "Money is a current, a carrier, a conduit for our intention. Money carries the imprimatur of our soul." Lynne has spent more than...

The Leadership of Inclusion - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Jun 26 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Don Proffit, an ethical literacy coach with the Institute for Global Ethics and President of Proffit Projects, LLC. A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, Don Proffit was assigned to alternative service in Alaska. That experience included an extended stay in the remote Inuit village of Point Hope, 150 miles above the Arctic Circle. In this isolated setting, his worldview began to take shape as he experienced...

Trading Up to Leadership - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Jun 19 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Rayona Sharpnack, founder and CEO of the Institute for Women's Leadership and author of, "Trade Up!: 5 Skills for Redesigning Your Leadership & Life from the Inside Out." "A leader's most important job is to reveal and shift the boundaries of peoples' thinking... starting with our own. These boundaries, also known as 'contexts' are what determines what actions we take, where we stop in executing our responsibilities...

The Business of Doing Good

Fri, Jun 12 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Strong, CEO and Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW, a nonprofit dedicated to Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good. In his book, Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs & Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems, Michael poses these questions: What if the distinction between business & doing good vanished? If all those who engaged in business were committed to a deeper purpose, & all those...

Leadership for a Sustainable World

Fri, Jun 5 Listen

60 min. from Fri Jun 5 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes the return of Darcy Winslow, a pioneer and practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, and Founder of Designs for a Sustainable World Collective. Fresh from an expedition to Antarctica hosted by BP Alternative Energies Division, Darcy will take us inside this exciting, eye-opening and inspiring experience where fifty global youth leaders from around the world joined her, Peter Senge, Robert Swan - polar...

Reinventing Leadership

Fri, May 29 Listen

60 min. from Fri May 29 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Nina Simons, president and co-founder of Bioneers a non-profit that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring Earth's imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. Nina's life and work are informed by her passion for the natural world, women's leadership, systems thinking, and the arts' capacity to shape culture and consciousness. Previous leadership roles Nina...

Can Business Have A Heart?

Fri, May 22 Listen

60 min. from Fri May 22 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Mark Silver founder of Heart of Business, and a successful business teacher and healer, who brings an active connection with the Divine to his work. Mark says that Heart of Business has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners to integrate the nitty gritty of business with the heart-opening truths of spirit in a way that actually helps the business be profitable and make a difference in the world....

Business With Spirit

Fri, May 15 Listen

60 min. from Fri May 15 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Melanie DewBerry-Jones author of What Was God Thinking? An Owner's Manual for Living from the Soul and founder of Soul Purpose Coaching. Melanie has been called a bringer of truth, depth & expansiveness. Leaning into her background in Native American spirituality and cosmology she offers a wholeness perspective in applying spiritual principles in business & for personal development. The sacred is about who we are, our...

To Create the Future, Change the Conversation - Special Encore Presentation

Fri, May 8 Listen

60 min. from Fri May 8 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Block award winning author, thought leader, and consultant to corporate, government, and community organizations in the realm of empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & the reconciliation of community. Peter's many books include The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Business Breakthrough Book of the Year; and his most recent, Community: The Structure of...

Media Matters: Dialogue with a Master - Special Encore Presentation!

Fri, Apr 24 Listen

60 min. from Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl Esposito welcomes Michael Toms CEO and co-founder of New Dimensions Radio and the New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network. For more than a quarter century, Michael has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called "the Socrates of radio," he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one of the premier interviewers in media today....

The Path to Purpose

Fri, Apr 10 Listen

60 min. from Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Cheryl welcomes Isabelle St-Jean, author of Living Forward, Giving Back and co-author of the award-winning anthology Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination and Excellence in the Workplace. Pursuing her passion for human development and authentic leadership in the midlife journey, Isabelle has launched a calling to the "baby boomer's" generation to rethink this stage in life as an opportunity for re-engagement. Isabelle says, "It is...

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