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What is The Social Age? Julian Stodd, author of The Social Leadership Handbook and founder of seasaltlearning.com, joins us in the first of three episodes to explain how the changing world affects the way we learn and work.

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1: The Social Age - Social Leadership with Julian Stodd (Part 1)

Julian Stodd, author of The Social Leadership Handbook and founder of seasaltlearning.com, discusses social characteristics of communities and how to support creation of shared value and effectively manage change.  

2: Creating Communities - Social Leadership with Julian Stodd (Part 2)

Becoming a socially dynamic organization is complex. Julian Stodd, author of The Social Leadership Handbook and founder of seasaltlearning.com, emphasizes critical leadership skills in the midst of a technology-driven world and the value of relinquishing control. 

3: It's Sociology, Not Technology - Social Leadership with Julian Stodd (Part 3)

Jim Fowler, CIO at GE, chats with us during his visit to the Crotonville campus about his personal leadership development experiences and how technology is changing leadership.

4: CIO Jim Fowler, Leader in Residence

After taking up kickboxing classes and shopping around for boxing gloves, we discovered Society Nine - a premium women's boxing gear and sportswear startup founded by Lynn Le. Pleasantly surprised and inspired by the company's ethos (not to mention their awesome gloves), we asked Lynn to join us and discuss her startup journey, what she's learned along the way, the strength of women leaders in sport and life, and the importance of simply respecting the journey. Visit their website - www.societynine.com - follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram; and subscribe to the Society Nine podcast on iTunes.

5: Respect The Journey, with Lynn Le of Society Nine

If you're a sports fan you've likely seen many examples of how team leadership works (or doesn't) in real time. Erick Anderson, a former NFL linebacker who started his career at the University of Michigan, shares how athletes often influence without power, the role of confidence and believing in oneself, and how effective leaders help their teams through modeling and "surrounding leaders with leaders". Authenticity emerges as a theme throughout the discussion, and - of course - we asked about the Michigan and Ohio State rivalry.

10: Authentic Athletic Leadership, with Erick Anderson

Positivity is a powerful tool. From practicing gratitude to the power of believing in oneself, even small acts of positivity can have a big impact. Laura Schmidt knew this power of the subconscious mind and started her company "Notes to Self" by creating wearable items stamped with positive affirmations. Listen to her story about the road trip that inspired her to create her first product - socks - and the impact that she's seen positive affirmations have on others.

11: Notes to Self, with Laura Schmidt

From advancements in technology to new generations entering the workforce, the way we lead and the way organizations enable leadership is evolving. Listen to our conversation with one of GE's recent leadership program graduates as we discuss GE's approach to recruiting future leaders, the millennial experience, and exploring the broader concept of a "multipotential" workforce.

12: Generational Leadership, with Nina Bernardin

Learning is critical to growth, and there are always things we wish we learned earlier in life. Hear the 10 things Eric Dirst, President of Online Services at DeVry Education Group, wishes he knew earlier in his career.

14: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier in My Career, with Eric Dirst

The power of community cannot be understated, especially when it comes to minority communities. In this discussion with Rick Rodriguez, hear how his community both challenged and inspired him to make a career change and become an advocate for other minorities, specifically those in the Hispanic and LGBTQ populations.

17: Servant Leadership, with Rick Rodriguez

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company, graciously gave us some of her time to talk about the mind-blowing work done in collaboration with Intel and Imaginarium Studios on their production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". We discussed how technology can be used to help enhance the message in storytelling, the importance of collaboration in multidisciplinary teams, and why she thinks art informs technology and technology informs art.

You can follow Sarah on Twitter @scarahnellis and learn more about the RSC at RSC.org.uk 

Full video mentioned and sampled in this episode available here: http://tinyurl.com/IntelRSCTempest

18: Art & Technology - The RSC & Intel Unite, with Sarah Ellis

Anyone can produce content, but how do we produce content that matters? Focus on purpose! Melanie Fawcett, a creative director and storyteller, spent some time with us to discuss the era of "mobile thought leadership", how to connect with users who are at the point of choice, and shifting our perspective from "creating" per se to "documenting". One major takeaway we had: Vanity stats = numbers while engagement = people. Preach!

You can connect with Melanie on Facebook under her name, Melanie Fawcett.

19: Creating Purpose-Driven Content, with Melanie Fawcett

Deborah Streeter, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management at Cornell, joins us on this episode to cover a few key topics from eCornell's Women in Leadership courses (an online series which she authored and developed). Among them are gender bias, negotiation, and work-life balance/flow.

Find Deborah's Women in Leadership program at the following link: https://www.ecornell.com/certificates/leadership-and-strategic-management/women-in-leadership/

Sound Advice - clips from Deborah on entrepreneurship: http://deborahstreeter.com/soundadvice/

GE Employees can discover additional eCornell offerings on BrilliantYOU.

22: Women in Leadership, with Deborah Streeter

Our latest Leader in Residence at Crotonville was a real treat to work with. Ana Lucia Caltabiano provided us with great insights on how she started writing to better share deeply moving experiences, how she senses the company has changed (or not), and what she has learned from her reverse mentor. We also learn what she does in her free time (hint: it involves 350 large animals!)

23: Sr. HRM Latin America, Ana Lucia Caltabiano - Leader in Residence

Deirdre Latour was the Leader in Residence at Crotonville last week. As the Chief Communications Officer for GE, we spent some time getting her advice on how to best communicate - especially in challenging times - while keeping factors in mind like your stakeholders and self-awareness.

Follow Deirdre on Twitter @DeirdreLatour

26: Deirdre Latour, Chief Communications Officer - Leader in Residence

Katrina Collier is a social recruiting trainer, speaker, and founder of The Searchologist. She teaches companies how to get candidates' attention and the benefits that follow - like increased engagement. It got us wondering: what if we apply some of the same principles for engaging employees we already have?

In this episode, we discuss how recruitment and retention has become one and the importance of adopting social collaborative skills to encourage authentic, diverse interaction within an organization toward creating a culture that helps employees feel like they belong.

You can follow Katrina on Twitter @KatrinaMCollier and check out her website: www.thesearchologist.com

27: Social Recruitment and Retention, with Katrina Collier

Rich Laxer, CEO of GE Capital, shares his thoughts on bridging strategy and application of digital industrial, facing into your fears, and exponential vs. incremental growth.

28: Rich Laxer, CEO GE Capital - Leader in Residence

How important is company culture? For John T. Meyer of Lemonly, a visual storytelling firm based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, it's about more than just keeping employees productive and happy - it's about raising the standard.

From publicly stating company benefits on their website to providing "adventure bonuses" that employee are required to spend on an international trip of their choice, John tells us more about how and why he approaches Lemonly's policies the way he does.

29: Creating a People-Driven Company, with John T. Meyer

Vic Abate, GE's Chief Technology Officer, discusses having a sense of "N+1", what he thinks is the most disruptive technology of our time, and - of course - how he learns!

30: Vic Abate, GE's Chief Technology Officer - Leader in Residence

Anup Sharma, VP of GE Digital, joins us to discuss topics like the Digital Thread and Digital Twin during his time as Leader in Residence on the Crotonville campus. Anup also shared how preparing for and completing a triathlon this year helped him grow as a leader.

31: Anup Sharma, VP GE Digital - Leader in Residence

Denise Hamilton is a Speaker, Coach, Social Entrepreneur, and CEO and Founder of WatchHerWork - a multimedia digital platform that is helping capture, curate, and communicate female brilliance to help close the achievement gap for professional women by providing professional advice for critical moments of need. 

Listen as we discuss what led her to create WatchHerWork, her passion for democratizing access to important information on critical topics, making sure there's a place for your purse, and how YOU can contribute to the community, too.

Website: www.WatchHerWork.com
Twitter: @OfficialDHam and @WatchHerWorkTV
Instagram: watchherworktv
Facebook: WatchHerWork

Watch for Denise's book in 2018 - When Sleeping Women Wake: Moving Mountains in Life and Work

32: WatchHerWork, with Founder/CEO Denise Hamilton

Tom Westrick, VP, Chief Quality Officer and Head of Regulatory Affairs at GE Healthcare, talks about the key traits that influence a leader's brand.

33: Tom Westrick, VP & Chief Quality Officer, GEHC

For our first episode after a short hiatus, we're bringing the energy in this chat with Michael Bungay Stanier, founder of Box of Crayons - a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work - and author of The Coaching Habit and Do More Great Work. 

Listen to hear how anyone can coach in 10 minutes or less and why that doesn't mean you need to become "A" coach. Also, learn whether you have an advice monster living inside of you! :/

- More on Box of Crayons coaching programs:
https://boxofcrayons.com/michael-bungay-stanier/

- Book: www.thecoachinghabit.com

- Twitter: @boxofcrayons

34: The Coaching Habit, with Michael Bungay Stanier

Ellen Cooperperson - a dynamic coach, trainer, and communicator who won a precedent-setting name change case on the basis of the importance of language - chats with us about the power of language in transformation, the ability to have courageous conversations, and her top three characteristics of great leaders.

Websites:
www.cooperperson.com
www.connectcpc.com

35: Communicate to Connect, with Ellen Cooperperson

Mila Clarke Buckley is a digital storyteller who started her food blog, "The Hangry Woman", after being diagnosed with diabetes and struggling to find "real" resources to help her manage it. We talk about how she got started in blogging, what it's like to be an Influencer (she has over 27k Instagram followers), experimentation and failing, and how she is creating a community to inspire others to build their online presence in meaningful ways. 

Resources:
https://hangrywoman.com/
http://milabeeee.com/
Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest: TheHangryWoman
Voyage Houston Interview: http://voyagehouston.com/interview/life-work-mila-clarke-buckley/

36: Digital Storytelling, with Mila Clarke Buckley

Jennifer A. Garrett, an internationally recognized author, life coach, and motivational speaker, joined us to talk about her book, Move the Ball: How the Game of American Football Can Help You Achieve Your Life Goals.

We cover topics like:
- Ensuring "you are with you"
- How to move forward when you don't have all the information you need
- The importance of managing our reactions
- Handling blitzes (people trying to inhibit your path forward)

Website: www.jenniferagarrett.com
Instagram: @MoveTheBall
Purchase the Book: https://www.amazon.com/Move-Ball-American-Football-Achieve/dp/0988786923

37: Move the Ball, with Jennifer A. Garrett

In his 2012 TEDxSanJoseCA Talk, Doug Dietz (Principal Design Thinker from GE Healthcare) talked about his "failed" MR scanner project and what he did to develop a more human-centered design through what became known as "The Adventure Series".

We talked with him to learn more about the work that went on behind the scenes of this project and what we can all learn by "falling in love with who you design for". 

TEDx Talk by Doug Dietz: https://youtu.be/jajduxPD6H4

Additional Reference (Photo and Video within):
http://thisisdesignthinking.net/2014/12/changing-experiences-through-empathy-ge-healthcares-adventure-series/

Also check out this related summary from getAbstract, "The Road to Reinvention”:  https://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/leadership-and-management/the-road-to-reinvention/22668

38: Designing With Heart: Human-Centered Design, with Doug Dietz

We caught up with an old friend in today's episode! Julian Stodd, explorer of the social age(you'll remember him from episodes 1-3), gives us more food for thought from his work over the past year on organizational trust, change, and culture. 

Hear how formal power is no longer enough to be effective, insightful anecdotes from organizations Julian has worked with, and how organizations need to earn creative investment and trust from their people.

References:
- seasaltlearning.com
- https://julianstodd.wordpress.com
- @SeaSaltLearning and @JulianStodd on Twitter
- Social Leadership Handbook: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0957319975/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_lkJXBb7ENXHZJ

Related getAbstract Summary: https://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/leadership-and-management/leadershift/12652

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39: The Socially Dynamic Organization, with Julian Stodd

You've heard it before: Storytelling is a key skill for leaders. It's one of the oldest ways to share information and instill a culture. Yet, it's not always easy for us to bring stories into the workplace.

Karen Eber has used stories across a global population to develop leaders and shape culture.  In this episode, she talks about her approach to storytelling, how to leverage stories, where to find them, and of course, she shares some stories along the way.

Find Karen on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter @KarenEber1

40: Make Waffles, Not Spaghetti: The Art of Storytelling, with Karen Eber

In this episode, guest Derrick Rumenapp talks about his journey into coaching: how he got started, what it means to him, and how others can get started. 

Read more of Derrick's reflections on his site: https://rumenapp.com/
Twitter: @DerrickRumenapp

41: Growing Into Coaching, with Derrick Rumenapp

Danielle Merfeld, Chief Technology Officer for GE Renewable Energy, visited the Crotonville campus and spent some time with us to talk about change, trends, and innovation in the energy industry. Hear about one of the digitalization trends she's most excited about and how behavioral design can be used to help better engineer processes to manage the rapid pace of change more effectively.

Twitter: @DWMerfeld

Danielle was recently named "Woman of the Year" as part of the Cleanie Awards. Learn more:
https://www.apnews.com/37c050cd27cb45a5b0f8544117e5fc35
https://cleanieawards.secure-platform.com/a/page/Winner-Gallery

She Can STEM video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxRM5ga61I

42: Danielle Merfeld, CTO Renewable Energy - Leader in Residence

Do you separate your problems from your solutions? In this episode, John Sassatelli (GE Power), Michael Sander (GE Renewable Energy), and Gregory Thomas (GE Renewable Energy) discuss how they achieved meaningful, incremental, and efficient change through design thinking to make the most impact on products and processes.

43: Design Thinking & Prototyping at GE

Remote work has been emerging as a trend for the modern workplace, along with the question of what impacts it has for employees and organizations alike.

We spoke with Yann Toutant, CEO of Econocom Netherlands and avid believer in remote work, to get his insights on how companies can  become remote friendly to both improve the quality of employees' lives and as a key strategy for organization innovation.

Connect with Yann on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yann-toutant/

44: Remote Work - An Innovation Catalyst

At GE, learning is synonymous with leadership. In the Brilliance: Leadership Learning podcast, host Chantelle Nash and other members of Crotonville, GE's premier global learning institute (established in 1956) explore topics essential to individual and organizational development, connecting with influential leaders and experts along the way to share ideas, reflect, and bring us all to success in a rapidly changing world. 

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