In this episode, we need to F***ing talk to my co-author and cohost Russell Stratton about some of the work that he’s been doing at the Calgary Remand Centre with individuals who have been incarcerated.
Dr. Taryn is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute. Her TEDx talk, How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage, went viral with more than 1.3 million views within a months. Her bestselling book, The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold, is endorsed by Arianna Huffington, Daniel Pink, Marshal Goldsmith and many others.
Donna is Director of Client Operations at (un)Common Logic. (un)Common Logic’s digital marketing experts are relentless in their pursuit of optimization, meticulous in their approach, and authentic in their customer service.
In this episode, co-hosts Russell and Ken sit down with Isis Fabian, a renowned Call Out Coach, to discuss the challenges of bias, backlash, and sociocultural change in today's ever-shifting cultural landscape. Isis brings her expertise in navigating high-sensitivity topics and failures of communication across identity groups, providing leaders and teams with the tools to address these issues effectively. Isis shares her background and journey in becoming an expert in bias and failures of communication across identity groups. Isis explains the concept of Call Out Coaching and how it helps individuals and groups navigate bias, backlash, and sociocultural change
In this episode, we need to f***ing talk to Marcy Fortnow. Marcy is the owner of Engaging Play, a team building and training company that delivers workshops and programs through traditional training, active facilitation and of course, engaging play. She develops and delivers experiential learning programs for corporate groups, organizations and boards to raise their leadership level, improve teamwork, enable better communication and problem-solving, and increase productivity.
In this episode, we need to talk to Meridith Grundei. Meridith is an award-winning theatre director, producer, and former Second City Improv teacher. She is also a speaker, coach and host of the podcast “Are You Waiting For Permission?” who helps presenters and speakers not be boring. Past clients include Merck, Amazon, Mercer ,CenturyLink, Google, Survey Gizmo, and a whole raft of other clients.
In this episode Ken and Russell talk with Anne-Marie Pham CEO at the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. And host of the Leader Talk podcast. Anne-Marie has worked with diverse communities and workplaces for over 25 years as a diversity and inclusion lead for Spectra Energy and the City of Calgary, and as a trainer and facilitator for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. In 2013, she received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee award for her community service. Anne-Marie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and as of October 2020, a member of the City of Calgary's Anti-Racism Action Committee.
Just in time for Pride, we feature Victoria Pelletier, the the co-author of the book “Unstoppable” and Managing Director at Accenture and LGBTQ+ advocate. She is recognized across North America as a dynamic, captivating keynote speaker and dynamic executive. She was a COO at age 24, President by 35, CEO at 41.
This year, Alberta became the first province in Canada to regulate the use of psychedelic drugs for people in therapy. But psychedelics have been used by humans in various ways, for hundreds of years. What makes them innovative now? In this episode Russell interviews fellow host Ken Cameron, founder and “Facilitator of Thinking Differently” of Corporate Culture Shift, and the boys discuss the compelling case for how psychedelic-executive leadership development allows innovators, creators and entrepreneurs to expand the upper limits of their potential to create workplace cultures that are inclusive and equitable, to forge authentic engagement with their employees and to be models of emotional intelligence for their peers.
In this episode Ken and Russell f***ing talk to Lindsay Harle-Kadatz. Lindsay is playing in the S of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) by turning company values into real, tangible action that gets people and business results that matter. She believes in the power of values as the foundation for every single business decision and process. She is a Master Practitioner in the Neuro Change Method™, and describes her self as a “Values Vixen”.