Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and the author of The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family, and Continue Growing Your Career. Stew talks with Amy about her evidence-based and very practical model for how to manage parental leave -- preparing for leave, during leave, and returning to work…[Click for more]
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Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. Her new book is You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate our Power of Persuasion and Why it Matters. Stew talks with Vanessa Bohns about eye-opening research on how people undervalue the impact they have on others and what this means for our lives at work, at home, and in the community. They review how to ask for help, negotiate boundaries , persuade others, how embarrassment informs morality…[Click for more]
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Scott Behson is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide and most recently The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Better Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness and Employee Support. Stew talks with Scott about insights for action from his new book on how to garner employer support for all employees, and for working parents in particular, in the new world created by the pandemic’s jolt…[Click for more]
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Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm, and author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Stew talks with Daisy about the useful tips she gathered from speaking to a variety of working parents across different stages of the parenting life cycle…[Click for more]
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Richard Culatta is author of Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World. He serves as CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE); senior fellow at NYU’s GovLab; and design resident at IDEO. Richard was appointed by President Obama as the Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education. Stew talks with Richard about practical ideas for how we can cultivate good digital citizenship in our children by developing five essential qualities: focusing on the quality and value of specific content and not on the amount of time spent online;…[Click for more]
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Jason Thacker is a Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group and Head of Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending. He started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble as the company's youngest global expatriate, leading priority brands in both the US and Canada. Jason holds an MBA from The Wharton School and an HBA from the Ivey Business School. Jason has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40, The Wharton School's 40 under 40 and P&G's Global Alumni under 40. Stew talks with Jason about his career, his recent paternity leave, its impact on his work, and the impact of fatherhood on his career…[Click for more]
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Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, an accomplished scholar and author, and award-winning teacher. Stew and Tsedal discuss her new book, Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere, and the pros and cons of remote work -- for performance, well-being, and relationships in all parts of our lives -- and what we’ve learned about these pushes and pulls during the disorienting world of the pandemic…[Click for more]
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Anne Driscoll and Chris Schultz are co-founders of an organization called Launch Pad and they are a married couple. Stew talks with these successful entrepreneurs and investors about what it takes for a married couple to run a company together and how their philosophy of investing in long-term relationships in growing their business affects their relationship beyond work…[Click for more]
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Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, a New York Times bestselling author on the intersection of technology and culture. He's written seven books, including Digital Minimalism and Deep Work. Stew and Cal discuss his new book, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload…[Click for more]
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Lindsey Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Management at Wharton whose research focuses on how changes in the modern workplace -- as algorithms/machine learning, short-term employment contracts, and variable pay -- affect work and workers. She recently completed a four-year ethnography of the largest employer in the gig economy, exploring. Lindsey spent over a decade in the U.S. intelligence and diplomatic communities as a technical and political analyst and completed several overseas assignments in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Stew and Lindsey discuss how the pandemic has affected gig workers both on the job and in the other parts of their lives…[Click for more]
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Dr. Kristen Shockley is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia studying how companies adapted during the pandemic, or how they haven’t adjusted, to meet the needs of worker productivity and well-being. Stew’ and Kristen discuss how couples forced to handle childcare, housework, and their day jobs have divided the responsibilities, managed zoom fatigue…[Click for more]
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Eve Rodsky is the author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live). Stew and Eve talk about her practical solution to the ubiquitous problem of inequality in our home lives…[Click for more]
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Dr. Amina Gautier is an associate professor in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Miami and a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. She’s published one hundred and twenty-nine short stories, including three award-winning short story collections -- Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and At-Risk: Stories. Among her many honors, she’s been the recipient of writing awards, prizes, and fellowships. Stew and Amina talk about her creative process, especially the importance of managing boundaries…[Click for more]
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Maurice “Tony” Ewing is the CEO of Conquer Risk, a risk management and compliance consultancy. He’s also an active columnist for Forbes and he serves on the Executive Education faculty of the University of Cambridge. Stew and Tony discuss how to talk about hot and potentially divisive issues like politics and race at work…[Click for more}
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Dr. Dana Sumpter is an associate professor of organization theory and management at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. Her research employs a cross-cultural lens in understanding social behavior at work, studying topics including energy, mindfulness, power, work/family enrichment, managerial systems, and work relationships. Stew and Dana discuss her new research, with her colleague Mona Zanhour, on mothers during the pandemic. Dana discusses best practices for working mothers, their partners in parenting, and their employers…[Click for more]
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Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler is a leading expert on conflict and organizational psychology. She’s also the founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, and author of Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home and in Life. Stew and Jennifer discuss conflict, how to recognize your typical response patterns, and ways to capitalize on the emotions engendered by conflicts and use them to de-escalate and find a new way forward…[Click for more]
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Cali Williams Yost is Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, an organization of experts in flexible workplace strategy, change management, leadership, instructional design and communications.Stew and Cali discuss how to help organizations build future-ready work cultures that attract and retain an engaged, diverse workforce; increase productivity and innovation; and enhance employee well-being…[Click for more]
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Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive In Love and Work. Jennifer’s award-winning research and teaching focus on identity, leadership, and career development. She is particularly interested in how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally, and how moments of uncertainty and crisis make us who we are. Stew and Jennifer discuss the three key choice points that couples face, moments that challenge them to combine their parallel lives and form a joint life…[Click for more]
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Christie Smith, Ph.D., is Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Apple. Previously she was Managing Principal for Deloitte Consulting’s West Division. She has decades of experience building and leading high performing teams. Kenji Yoshino, a Rhodes Scholar, is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and the Director of the Center for Diversity Inclusion and Belonging. He was formerly the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He’s written several groundbreaking books, including Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. This episode begins with Stew and Christie discussing some common struggles experienced by LGBT individuals in the workplace. Christie explains how she dealt with these issues in the beginning of her career by hiding who she was. Kenji joins the conversation to talk about the research on covering -- disguising aspects of one’s true identity in order to fit in at work -- and how this is not only applicable to the LGBT community…[Click for more]
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Ellen Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and the Research Director of the Butler center for Leadership Excellence. Ellen is an internationally recognized thought leader on employer support of work and personal life integration, gender, diversity, human resource innovation, and social change. Stew and Ellen discuss the various ways by which we manage interruptions or negotiate boundaries across different domains of life…[Click for more]
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