How do we accept evolution and become skillful at leveraging perpetually shifting realities? What is 'Walk Away Power,' and why does it make perfect sense to talk about Chappell Roan at the Grammy Awards on The Behaviorist? Join Jaime Arroyo, Dylan, and Kedren as they reflect, explore, and develop dynamic methods and mindsets for adapting as individuals and organizations. Hear Jaime discuss how a winning modern 'game plan' actually requires that we skillfully improvise 'play by play.' Listen along as we let the antifragile framework help us reimagine who we are becoming and how we will continue to do good work in new, evolving ways.

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Join us as Mike McKenna talks with Clarke Madden from the PA Office of the State Inspector General about the way a strategy screen is just the right tool to strengthen your decision-making in your work, and even in your personal life!

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Five years after Kedren interviewed Fearless Leaders Jess King and Sam Bressi in an article on WW Press, she meets up with them again to explore what additional wisdom they’ve gleaned through the past challenging years to help leaders now. Join the three leaders in discussing the necessity of building values-aligned teams, quantifying your fears, habituating renewal, reframing uncertainty, dropping the need for credit, and even forgiving in order to sustain fearless leadership for the long game.

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Work Wisdom's 2017 office was our first foray into Work Wisdom Design, where every detail of space, light, furniture, color, and fabric, was used to cultivate an aspired identity and culture. Join Kedren Crosby and Christy Slothower in a conversation about intentionally using design to create the best future for your teams and your company. In this episode, Kedren and Christy share their motivation, methods, and aspirations for Work Wisdom Design. The conversation is driven by the words of Peter Drucker, "The best way to predict the future is to create it," and Modernist architect Mies van der Rhoe, "God is in the details." 

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Join us for a powerful conversation as Dr. Ryan Berardi sits down with Dr. Taylor Alouisa and Dr. Alex Rohrer to explore the essential role of “trust density” in fostering impactful work. Discover practical insights on building and maintaining “trust hygiene” in the face of pivotal, complex challenges that not only affect trust today but shape the foundation for stronger relationships tomorrow. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of trust in transformative ways!

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What really drives a leadership team to greatness? Hint: it’s not about everyone being a superstar. Join Sarah, Dylan, and Kedren as they share the essential ingredients that make modern executive teams excel. Discover the surprising qualities that elevate team performance and how the paradox of leadership is key to sustained team success.

Ready to rethink Genius Leadership Teams? Don't miss this insightful and funny conversation!

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The Work Wisdom team invites you to join us for our second installment of our series on Curiosity as we explore what behaviors you can adopt that enhance your ability to learn and grow. We will also explore some behaviors and mindsets that may interfere with your curiosity and block you from engaging with information in ways that are ripe for learning.

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Asking questions that help us more deeply and richly connect can be harder than it seems. Join us in our series on the benefits of cultivating curiosity as we explore the art of asking questions with Dr. Scott Waltman.

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In a world where we sense so much division, could listening be the superpower we didn’t know we needed? Join us as Mike McKenna talks with Tracy Cutler about concrete ways to truly listen deeply and connect more meaningfully across the many forms of differences in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and social lives. “Listening Across the Divide” will help you understand others even when you don’t or can’t agree.

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What is the most hard-won, unglamorous, yet high-performance skill in leadership? It may be one that is almost never discussed: killing your darlings.

How do we recalibrate our bias towards adding? How do we accept, normalize and even grieve when it is time to let go of a beloved offering, product, department for the long-term health of the organization? What role does confidence play in creating elegant and enduring companies? How does 'killing your darlings' enable us to optimally direct the energy in our companies? How must humility evolve as we scale our organizations and movements towards even higher performance, greater impact and joy?

Join Kedren and Dylan to explore the art of shedding, pruning, and tailoring your organization through elegant leadership.

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Intuition is simply knowing without fully knowing how you know. We benefit from accessing ALL of our knowledge (both cognitive and intuitive), yet some of us have been encouraged to undervalue our intuitive knowledge. Join Kedren and Sarah to learn about the four types of intuition (Expert, Creative, Relational, and Temporal) as well as Kedren's top ten favorite techniques for developing your own intuitive skills so that you have more fruitful and joyful work lives. You already have this intuition; you just need to clear the obstacles to it. Choose a few of the techniques, experiment, and let us know how you are reconnecting to your own untapped resource.

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Inspired by the leadership book Extreme Ownership, Sarah *convinced* Nate Shea from SecureStrux to return to the podcast and dig into what Owning It means on our teams. “What’s rewarded is repeated.” In a recent March 2024 article by Zenger and Folkman, the research about the culture of empowered teams shows that if we want high engagement and productivity, we need to set the tone and help our teams by trusting them, encouraging them, and letting mistakes be opportunities to grow. It requires a fair dose of humility and willingness to let go of control. Nate and Sarah discuss the wins and the challenges of creating that culture and reveal what they think is the secret sauce to motivation and empowerment.

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Join Ryan Berardi, Mike Mason, and Kedren as they explore recent research documenting the shifts in what we truly want and expect from our leaders. The necessary and elusive role of 'Executive Presence' is evolving in significant and even some encouraging ways. What makes a leader now?  What skills should we hone to be a modern leader? Listen in to learn about both the changing and evergreen facets of leadership gravitas, communication skills, and the 'right' appearance.

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This week on The Behaviorist, join Sarah and Kedren for an impromptu discussion on how to build one's confidence. During this episode, you'll learn what mindsets, behaviors, and habits foster sustained, enhanced self-regard. Explore Work Wisdom's experience about the facets and building blocks of MODERN confidence, which include humility, polish, and deep listening.

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Join us as Janine talks with Liz Orr, creator of the Rude Ass Enneagram, about the best way to discern your number, Liz's process of writing her new book “The Unfiltered Enneagram, A Witty And Wise Guide to Self Compassion,” and how to recognize the negative patterns of your number and move toward Badass Pattern Breaking.

You can follow Liz on Instagram @rudeassenneagram and visit her website www.rudeassenneagram.com to preorder her book and get a personalized snarky message according to your enneagram number!

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We certainly needed to hear this right now, and we hope it’s perfect timing for you, too. This is possibly the most countercultural business podcast ever recorded.

What would our workplaces be like if we learned to love uncertainty? How do we double down on our inputs, our habits, our practices and let go of trying to predict the future? Why is our intolerance of uncertainty growing? How do we actually grow if we don’t expose ourselves to uncertainty?

Read this article for more context on this envelope-pushing conversation with Dr. Chris Peterson and Kedren. We challenge you to share this podcast with your teammates and discuss how this research could positively transform your organization’s culture.”

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Join us as Sarah talks with Alisa and Alex about three key ways of maximizing potential. If you’re interested in unlocking your potential or, as a leader, unlocking your team's potential, the following episode might interest you. We’re not getting anywhere fast sitting in Zoom meetings in our pajamas. How can we level up and get that boost of energy and performance that makes life exciting and worth getting up and dressed in the morning?! Tune in and find out.

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Join us as Work Wisdom’s Real-Time strategy associate, Mike McKenna talks with Work Wisdom Founder Kedren Crosby and Vanessa Philbert, CEO of Community Action Partnership, about lessons in growth mindset from one of Hollywood’s culinary anti-heros. Follow along as we slice and dice the journey of Cousin Richie from Hulu’s hit The Bear.

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We received too many requests for this content to wait until we could get into the studio. Are you burning out, or have you lost your spark?  If you’re trying to find your vibrancy, listen to Kedren as she shares her top twenty favorite ways to sustainably revive and renew in times of uncertainty or unprecedented stress.

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Join some Work Wisdom leaders to reflect on Adam Bryant’s new work on Leap to Leader. Adam Bryant has found that there are SIX focus areas when growing. 1. What do you stand for? Your values? 2. Hone your decision-making. 3. Setting the bar at the right level. 4. Compartmentalization 5. Self-awareness 6. Know and own your own story.            

Sit back and listen as Sarah, Janine, Kedren, and Matt discuss Freud, ponies, Taking the B, NOT oversharing, the Authenticity Paradox, when to recognize that you ARE a leader, and pony jokes.

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