Dr. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and is Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. . She is also the author of the bestselling book, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain. Stew and Dana discuss her latest book, Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise, and the ways parents can use developmental neuroscience to help their children grow and ultimately to build a society that works for families and for all of us…[Click for more]

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Diana Kapp is the author of Girls Who Run the World and now Girls Who Green the World; Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out To Save Our Planet. Stew and Diana discuss the biggest work/life issue we can imagine, climate change. Diana shares stories of inspiring women who, in the face of our rapidly failing natural environment, are taking action to make things better. These powerful narratives detail creative experiments abounding in our midst, and offer empowering ideas for how each and every one of us can do something good for our world…[Click for more]

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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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Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the author of Mastering Civility, The Cost of Bad Behavior. Stew talks with Christine about her most recent book, Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving and her research on the waning of community and effective ways of reweaving the fabric that holds our society together…[Click for more]

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Gianna Driver is Chief Human Resources Officer at Exabeam who was a student in Stew’s Total Leadership class 20 years ago. After spending five years running a global fair trade organization, she went on to build a highly successful career in human resources and recently started a new job at a company that fights cybercrime. Stew talks with Gianna about how her early life led her to want to have an impact through her work on valuing the humanity in each and every one of us…[Click for more]

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Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School She has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by HR Magazine and named by 'Business Thinkers 50' as one of the top 15 business thinkers in the world. Stew talks with Lynda Gratton about her latest book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone. To capitalize on the opportunities created by the revolutionary changes occurring in the world of work...[Click for more]

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Kevin Hancock is the CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best-known family businesses in America and 8-time consecutive Best Places to Work in Maine, and author of The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. Stew talks with Kevin about how the loss of his own voice due to a rare illness and his immersion in the culture and values of indigenous peoples radically revised leadership style…[Click for more]

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Larry Hirschhorn is a Principal and one of the founders of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR), a management consulting firm with offices in Philadelphia and Boston; a founder of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO); and the founder and director of Dynamics of Consulting, a program for experienced coaches and consultants. He has published several books and many articles linking organizational functioning to psychodynamics, among them The Workplace Within and Reworking Authority., both published by MIT Press. Larry has a PhD in Economics from MIT. Stew talks with Larry about his recently published book Grieving Aaron: Poems in Response to the Death of My Adult Son. Larry’s professional background makes him uniquely suited to offer profoundly useful insights for all those who are grieving losses and dislocations due to the death of loved ones, especially in pandemic times…[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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Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. A former senior advisor in the Obama Administration and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Bologna Business School, his book is called The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People — and the Fight for Our Future. Stew and Alec talk about what he learned starting out as a school teacher in an economically ravaged part of Baltimore; the central problems of government, the private sector, and labor politics; and creating a sustainable world. [Click for more]

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