A deep and relevant conversation with our podcast guest John Phillips, an expert in Digital Trust frameworks. John shares his expertise in digital trust technologies and how it provides opportunities for radically improving digital trust for people, organisations, and things at a personal, social and global scale. We also conversed about digital identity and its impact to industry and enterprise.
ABOUT JOHN PHILLIPS
John Phillips is an expert in Digital Trust frameworks (including Self-Sovereign Identity), is a co-founder of Sezoo, and leads the 460degrees Ventures, Emerging Technology and Education practices.
John believes that open-standard digital trust technologies such as verifiable credentials and decentralised identifiers provide an opportunity for radically improving digital trust for people, organisations, and things at a personal, social and global scale. He sees the application of these technologies as a disruptive force for improvement, and wants to be a catalyst for that change, helping people and organisations navigate their way to a better future.
Focused on Digital Trust initiatives since 2017, John was one of the global authors invited to contribute to the "Self-Sovereign Identity Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials" book, and wrote the chapter on explaining the value of SSI to business.
Since co-founding Sezoo in 2021, John has worked with the Sezoo team on digital trust projects with Australian Federal and State governments, major financial institutions and scheme operators, and medical data research organisations.
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Website: https://sezoo.digital
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sezoo/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/11dot2/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/11dot2John
A fun, reflective, and compelling conversation with Michele Madore, Founder and Managing Member of Trans4mation and the co-author of the book "Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently". This episode focuses on reflections of transformational journey and we contemplate about our own experiences and how we get there in the most transformational and least disruptive way. We also dig into referencing the colors and the different levels of vertical development.
ABOUT MICHELE MADORE
Michele Madore, Founder, Managing Member of Trans4mation, draws on a nearly 30-year career as leader, consultant, coach, and employee to help develop Agile coaches, leaders, and organizations.
She is also the Co-Author of the recently published book "Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently". She has spent 15 years helping organizations journey humanely to agility, and has coached hundreds of Agile Coaches.
A Professional Integral Coach (ICCP-2), she applies the Integral Agile Transformation Framework™ to help leaders succeed with their Agile transformations.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelemadore/
Website: https://www.trans4mation.coach/
Blog: https://www.hiddenvoices.me/
Twitter: @T4_Agile
Book: Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently by Michael Spayd, Michele Madore
CEO of Vertical Leadership Consulting, Dr. Becky Andree is our podcast guest for our episode called Leadership & the Role of High Quality Connections. We had an insightful conversation that revolved around leadership, perspectives, complexity of thinking - how it impacts the way in which we connect with other humans, and so much more.
We also talked about her approach and research on how perspectival action (perspective taking, perspective seeking, and perspective coordinating) skills contribute or enable high quality connections, those exchanges that leave us feeling energised.
ABOUT DR. BECKY ANDREE
Dr. Becky Andree is CEO of Vertical Leadership Consulting, designing thinking and connection solutions that activate untapped potential while training leaders' brains to thrive in a complex world. VLC specifically targets two root causes – missing high-quality connections that create life-giving experiences for all and capacity for complexity of thinking for individual leaders and the collective organisation. Her research and interventions have been described as “powerful”, “unique and challenging”, and “providing the disruption needed to further develop capacities”. As an international talent management visionary, leadership development expert and connections architect, she combines 25+ years in Fortune 500 companies and PhD research to understand first-hand the pressures, stress, and complexity in organisations today.
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Website: www.VerticalLeadershipConsulting.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-andree/
In this podcast episode, Terri O’Fallon takes us to the STAGES Model, an integrally based development model that charts human development from infancy to the highest levels of development that humans are capable of.
Join us as delve deeper into confronting our shadows and how embracing and just trying to stay “healthy” through these developmental stages can help our transformational journey.
ABOUT TERRI O’FALLON
Terri O'Fallon is a researcher, teacher, coach, spiritual director and designer of transformative containers. She is a leader on the frontier of transformational change in organisations and individuals and does ongoing research on the Integral STAGES developmental model which supports a MetAware tier with four later levels of development.
Her interests lie in the living experiments of evolutionary human systems, and levels of development from cradle to grave.
Terri is a partner of STAGES International, which creates programs based on the STAGES model. Terri holds Masters degrees in Special Education, in Spiritual direction and an Integral PhD in Transformative Learning and Change.
Ordinariness continues to bring her home to the practical living, breathing appreciation of the simple things in life. We wake up every morning. We grow up, quite naturally. We live through joys and sorrows, We grow old. What remains is listening, gratitude, compassion, love, forgiveness, and generosity—lifelong lessons that never seem to end.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terri-o-fallon-0b8563/
Website: https://www.terriofallon.com/
Stages International: https://www.stagesinternational.com/
Benny Ausmus, CEO and founder of Big Change Group and author of Amazon best selling book, The Transformational Leadership Compass, joins What’s NXT Podcast to talk about role complexity, assessments and mental ability as the greatest predictor of role performance variance. We also take a look at the current obstacles being faced in recruitment and why we need to change organisations’ approach to hiring and selection in this new world of work.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Benny Ausmus is an Educator and CEO of Big Change Group. Big Change partners with visionary leaders to design and develop the organisations of the future.
He is also the author of Amazon best selling book The Transformational Leadership Compass where he lays out this dynamic system of transformation to help leaders create the big changes required to adapt, thrive, and shape the future.
SHOW NOTES
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/business-coach-hr-consultant-melbourne-leadership/
Big Change Group: https://www.bigchange.group
Book: The Transformational Leadership Compass: A Dynamic Coaching System for Creating Big Change (Lioncrest Publishing; February 5, 2021)
In our new episode called Organisational Irony and the Future of Leadership with Dr. Richard Claydon, we speak with Dr. Richard Claydon about the future of work, organisational irony, and building organisations of the future. It was an absolute pleasure hearing his insights and all his amazing work that accelerate leadership development.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Dr. Richard Claydon is the Chief Cognitive Officer of EQ Lab, an extended intelligence network focused on the future of leadership, culture, management, engagement and risk. His research on value-creating behaviours in toxic, rigid or autocratic organisational environments has been described as "a touchstone for future work in management and organisation", "outstanding in daring and imagination" and "thinking at the forefront of modern discussion and debate". He teaches the leadership module for Macquarie Business School's world-leading, future-focused Global MBA.
Podcast is now available on your favorite podcast platform. You can also watch a video podcast on our YouTube page, just search What’s NXT Podcast. Enjoy the episode!
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrichardclaydon/
EQ Lab: https://www.eqlab.co/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/leadership-adapt-your-style
In this inspiring podcast filled with fun, music and insights, our guest episode Mykel Dixon, enlightens us as he speaks about creativity, building connection deeply with oneself, and preparing ourselves for the “wow of work”. This is truly an unforgettable and energetic conversation you don't want to miss.
“I'm not necessarily talking about the future of work, we're talking about the now of work because everything that we've been anticipating, expecting and hoping might happen has arrived. And why stop with the now of work when we can talk about the wow of work.”
ABOUT THE GUEST
Mykel Dixon helps fortune 500 and ASX 200 listed companies develop high-performance creative leaders and cultivate innovative, inclusive & interdependent teams.
A jazz musician by trade, gypsy by nature, fierce non-conformist and prolific anti-perfectionist. Myke leads a new wave of conscious, creative business leaders who work to make work more like play, teams more like communities, and organisations more like festivals of possibility.
Speaking globally to a stellar cast of the world’s most successful brands, Mykel gets to see first-hand what stops us making magic at work. This hurts his squishy widdle heart so he’s made it his mission to liberate the innate and infinite potential of people working 9 to 5 (or 7 to 7).
Mykel’s intent for every presentation or program is that every attendee leaves feeling more connected to their creativity, more confident to express their unique perspective, and more committed to being a force for good at work (and in life).
Named Australia’s Breakthrough Speaker of The Year (by the professional speakers association) and revered among his peers for his ability to rewrite the rules, Myke is regularly used as the ‘X-factor’ moment for any conference or event. Shifting and lifting the energy of a room from passive consumers of content to proactive co-creators of the experience.
His second book 'Everyday Creative – a dangerous guide to making magic at work' was just named the #1 Leadership Book in Australia for 2021 at the Australian Business Book Awards.
He is undeniably knowledgeable, charismatic and clever in regards to creativity, team dynamics and organisational success; yet he remains refreshingly accessible, authentic and safe for people to explore, take risks and have a go – a recipe for every kind of breakthrough.
SHOW NOTES
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mykeldixon/
Website: https://www.mykeldixon.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/mykeldixon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mykeldixon/
Book - Everyday Creative: https://www.everydaycreatives.com/
After a long break, What’s NXT Podcast with Pete & Dave is finally back for Season Two! For our season opener, we have the absolute pleasure of having Greg Miller talk about AI and forecasting the future of work.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Greg Miller is the Cofounder of award-winning AI scale-up, Faethm, and post-acquisition by Pearson, is now Senior Vice President of the global Customer business for Pearson’s Workforce Skills Division.
His 27-year career in the IT industry has spanned Silicon Valley start-ups & Australasia multinationals. Previously Greg worked at SAP where he held the role of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Greg held senior roles at Unisys, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Oracle across the Asia Pacific region.
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This year, we’re speaking to people who are challenging our thinking and living at the edge of leadership, innovation and the future of work.
New Season premiers August 3, 2022! Listen now or wherever you listen to podcasts.
This year, we’re speaking to people who are challenging our thinking and living at the edge of leadership, innovation and the future of work.
New Season premiers August 3, 2022! Watch this channel or wherever you listen to podcasts.
In this final episode of the What's NXT Podcast Season 1, we have the absolute pleasure of speaking to Holly Ransom, a globally renowned keynote speaker, disruption strategist and advocate for social and economic inclusion. We tackled all things leadership - diversity, bias, change, innovation, ideas and much more. We also had a chance to talk about her book, The Leading Edge, and how you can discover how to first lead yourself, then others through its three principles – mindset, method and mastery. You can purchase a copy of her book, The Leading Edge here.
About Holly Ransom
Holly Ransom is a globally renowned content curator, powerful speaker and master interviewer with the belief that if you walk past it, you tell the world it’s okay. Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, was Sir Richard Branson’s nominee for Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List’ of Future Game Changers to watch and was awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019. Having interviewed the likes of Barack Obama, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Billie Jean-King, Condoleezza Rice, Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and the world’s first humanoid robot Sophia, Holly fights complexity with curiosity, apathy with empowerment and fear with fact.
As a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Kennedy School Class of ’21 fellow, Holly is a recipient of the prestigious Anne Wexler Public Policy Scholarship, allowing her to action social and economic inclusion by connecting people with the decisions that affect their lives. Having released her book The Leading Edge, Holly helps people harness their own potential to lead by asking better questions, thinking beyond biased answers and building collective momentum for change. The Leading Edge is part of Holly's broader belief that we need to democratise leadership learning and break open elite leadership discourse to fire up every individual to catalyse change.
Holly was identified early as a dynamic thought leader, asked to Co- Chair the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, the United Nations Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs in 2016, and becoming the youngest Director ever to be appointed to an Australian Football Club, the mighty Port Adelaide. Holly’s podcast ‘Coffee Pods’ was named in the top ten business podcasts to listen to by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2018, and Holly has been recognised as a LinkedIn Influencer and a must-read content producer by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Herself an accomplished company director, Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit and public sectors. As founder and CEO of consulting firm Emergent, Holly has led real-world results with clients such as P&G, Microsoft, Virgin, Cisco and KPMG. Holly has also been a regular on the likes of The Drum and QandA. As a proud champion for diversity and inclusion, Holly is Chair of Pride Cup Australia, a non-profit organisation (and movement) devoted to challenging LGBTI+ discrimination within sporting clubs - and create welcoming and supportive environments for LGBTI participation and fans. A two-time Ironwoman, Holly loves to cook, dance and sing... despite her complete lack of talent at all three.
You may get in touch with Holly Ransom:
holly@emergent.global
hollyransom.com
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“For leaders, I think that the most powerful thing you can do is to create that impediment board for your people and teams. So step one, set that up and invite people to throw things in there, and dedicate half an hour to an hour every day to tackle those challenges.”
In this episode, Pete and Dave are excited to have Nick Polce, Australia & New Zealand Business Agility Lead and Associate Director of Accenture and a passionate leader in helping organisations build adaptive, responsive and resilient systems that are both value and people orientated. He shares his insights and experiences in leading and transforming teams and talks about scaling agile in large organisations and enterprise change.
About Nick Polce
With a background playing semi-professional sport, he gets a kick out of creating high-performing teams and has the uncanny ability to work with a wide-range of stakeholders, spanning from executives through to development teams.
You may connect with Nick on his LinkedIn
"The higher our self-expression and the deeper our self-awareness, the richer our life experience and the greater our self-evolution." - Dr Antoinette Braks
In this podcast episode, Pete and Dave speak to Dr Antoinette Braks about her approach to vertical development coaching with senior executives for organisational transformation. She also chatted about StageSHIFT, how it's different from other people's or theorists models and how it is being applied by leadership consultants and coaches.
We also focus on what it takes to go from one developmental level or stage to another, and how you might adopt some of these ideas and principles to accelerate your own vertical development journey.
About Dr Antoinette Braks
Antoinette is the founder of the global StageSHIFT Coaching and Consulting Community.
She is a Master Certified Coach, has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and Transformative Coaching, an MBA from London Business School, and is the author of Executive Coaching in Strategic Holistic Leadership: The Drivers and Dynamics of Vertical Development (McGraw Hill 2020). She received the CEO Today 2020 Management Consulting Award in Leadership Coaching.
Her PhD builds on a lifelong commitment to study following an Honours degree in Law, BA in Political Science, an MBA from London Business School, an MA in Management Research and Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision at Oxford Brookes University. After an early career in executive search and selection, Antoinette shifted to organisational development followed by leadership development. She flourished in global executive roles with Shell in Latin America and Africa, and with Korn Ferry across Asia Pacific. She also led People and Culture with Vector, New Zealand’s innovative energy infrastructure company, and inaugurated the Executive Coaching Division with Hudson Australia.
In recent years she has led organisational vertical transformations and distilled the theory and principles behind the effectiveness of the StageSHIFT Transformation Programs with an extensive Coaching Certification Program in Vertical Development. Antoinette’s purposeful intent is to architect and engineer the intrinsic evolutionary capacity of the organisation, its people, and all stakeholders, at all stages of development, to build a more sustainable, healthy, equitable, and joyful world for all.
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Stage Map - For all of you who listen to today’s podcast and haven't seen the model we are talking about, you can find it here. Just scroll down.
Join Pete and Dave in this podcast episode as they chat with Carl Sanders - Edwards, CEO and Founder of Adeption, about Scaling, Vertical Development, and AI. Carl is driven to make Leadership Development that works vastly more accessible and he has over 20 years experience doing this with global organisations and start-ups. Know more about Adeption and how they build leaders with more capability and capacity through a blend of synchronous and asynchronous coaching embedding the vertical principles of perspective, heat, and reflection.
About Carl Sanders-Edwards
Carl wants to democratize leadership development. He brings a unique perspective to this challenge with experience from manufacturing, software development, leadership and innovation.
Carl has a Manufacturing Engineering undergraduate degree and started his career working with continuous improvement teams in Toyota and Fisher & Paykel (white ware manufacturer). Following this he spent five years with Accenture leading teams that developed software, business process and strategy solutions for a wide range of organizations in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Moving to the UK, he developed the management systems that enabled start-up RightMove.co.uk to grow from no revenue to a US billion dollar IPO within three years. Inspired by technology, on returning to New Zealand, Carl co-founded, grew and sold New Zealand’s largest online gift store (at the time); browniepoints.co.nz.
Carl has since brought together principles of lean manufacturing and agile software development to assist 100’s of organizations from startups to multinationals. He has helped them define their identity, develop strategies, coach leaders and deliver projects to improve performance. Through these engagements Carl recognized a common theme – successful organizations need people with continually improving leadership skills at every level. A particularly influential experience was creating a learning and development strategy for an investment company in the Middle East who wanted to develop its own CEO’s rather than hire externals.
Unsatisfied with the existing leadership development offerings Carl founded JumpShift.co.nz in New Zealand. From this base Carl has founded the technology platform Adeption.io, now based in San Francisco to deliver scalable Leadership Development coaching. Adeption.io leverages AI with an engaging app, micro learning and behavior change theory to take leadership development from classroom theory into a daily practice.
Carl has a Fulbright Scholarship in Entrepreneurship with an MBA from Babson College in Mass US where he graduated with various awards and publications including class Valedictorian.
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"When I say I teach consciousness. It's really just helping people grow as humans. It's helping people grow in their ability to think with more intricacy and grow themselves and become more integrated and integrate all these different aspects of self." - Trace Bell
In this podcast, our guest episode Trace Bell talks about Spiral Dynamics and how it can be an effective tool in understanding the development and functioning of people, cultures, and organisations. This is part two of a two-part episode. You can listen to part one in here.
Trace Bell teaches the evolution of consciousness. He is the son of author and spiritual teacher Rob Bell. Trace graduated from UCLA a little over a year ago with a degree in political science.
Since graduating college, he has been teaching with his father, working with people on their growth journeys and assisting teams and organisations transition to the next stage of consciousness.
Trace uses the psychological development model Spiral Dynamics to help people live a more whole, integrated, healthy life.
Website: https://www.tracebelll.com/
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"When I say I teach consciousness. It's really just helping people grow as humans. It's helping people grow in their ability to think with more intricacy and grow themselves and become more integrated and integrate all these different aspects of self." - Trace Bell
In this podcast, our guest episode Trace Bell talks about Spiral Dynamics and how it can be an effective tool in understanding the development and functioning of people, cultures, and organisations. This is part one of a two-part episode. You can listen to part two in here.
Trace Bell teaches the evolution of consciousness. He is the son of author and spiritual teacher Rob Bell. Trace graduated from UCLA a little over a year ago with a degree in political science.
Since graduating college, he has been teaching with his father, working with people on their growth journeys and assisting teams and organisations transition to the next stage of consciousness.
Trace uses the psychological development model Spiral Dynamics to help people live a more whole, integrated, healthy life.
Website: https://www.tracebelll.com/
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Award-winning educator, scholar, & consultant, Dr. Theo Dawson, discusses a wide range of topics related to learning and development. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Lectica®, a company dedicated to helping transform the way people learn everywhere.
In this podcast, we speak to her about optimising learning for working in complexity and also helping the leaders learn to be more adaptive through developing more effective VUCA skills.
About Dr. Theo Dawson
I'm the CEO of Lectica®, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping the world think better by producing and distributing sophisticated learning tools that support the kind of learning that matters. https://lecticalive.org
Our non-profit mission is to deliver our learning tools free of charge to individual K-12 teachers everywhere. We support this mission through donations and our for-profit arm, the Developmental Testing Service (DTS). All of the profits from DTS are donated to Lectica.
Lectica makes diagnostic and formative learning tools for schools, colleges, and the workplace. These tools measure how well people work with their knowledge in real world contexts, identify "what comes next", and provide personalized learning recommendations. https://www.linkedin.com/company/lectica-inc
It's taken over 20 years and a fair bit of struggle to develop the technology and methods we use here at Lectica. For me, it's a sandbox. But I do have a bit of a life outside of the "nonprofit that owns me". I have 3 children and 3 grandkids to play with, and I spend a fair bit of time on the trail, on my bike, or in the garden.
If you want to read and follow on Dr. Theo Dawson's work, just click through the following links:
Episode guest is Nick Petrie, who probably needs no introduction if you're in the field of leadership. Nick is a thought leader in the field of leadership development and one of the key people responsible for bringing the new approach to leadership called vertical development into the mainstream. Nick’s an author of numerous papers, a coach and skilled facilitator.
If you don't know much about vertical leadership development or what it is, please sit back and relax as Pete and Dave speak not only about that, but about the future of leadership development and work in the VUCA world.
About Nick Petrie
Nick has spent the last ten years working and living in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Britain, Scandinavia and the Middle East. He specializes in leadership development for senior executives and helping organizations build resilience in times of change.
He has a Master’s degree from Harvard University where he focused most of his studies on leadership and learning. He has two undergraduate degrees from Otago University (New Zealand) in business administration and physical education.
Some of his clients include: NASA, TDBank, Deloitte, Red Bull, Minnesota Wild Hockey, Kellogg’s, Qantas and Comcast.
He has worked across industries including; engineering, energy, law, banking, accounting, construction and television.
You can download all of Nick Whitepapers and writings here!
If you want to learn more about Vertical Development you can attend Nick's Vertical Development Incubator.
Dr. Julian Water-Lynch is an academic, strategic designer and learning facilitator. He is currently director of the entrepreneurship program and a lecturer in entrepreneurship, innovation and organisational design in the School of Management at RMIT University.
His research explores the economic and social effects of emerging technology, and how these changes impact the changing character of work and organisational design. He works with the Centre for Digital Ethnography, Blockchain Innovation Hub and Centre for Urban Research at RMIT.
His recent research has focused on the commercialisation of deep technology and individual and organisational adaptations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including practices that support both productivity and wellbeing in the new work context.
In this episode, Pete & Dave talk with Dr. Julian Waters-Lynch about Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Organisational Design.
Julian's recent article on mRNA vaccines and technology in the Conversation.
Note: “At one point during this podcast Jules implied that Stanford University didn’t significantly financially benefit from the founding of Google but subsequently realised this is incorrect. Stanford University actually held the license for the google page rank algorithm and received shares in Google."
