Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.
Practical Wisdom for Leaders is your fast-paced, forward-thinking guide to leadership. Join host Scott J. Allen as he engages with remarkable guests—from former world leaders and nonprofit innovators to renowned professors, CEOs, and authors. Each episode offers timely insights and actionable tips designed to help you lead with impact, grow personally and professionally, and make a meaningful difference in your corner of the world.
Episodes
267 episodes
Personal Growth as a Catalyst for Leadership with Todd Bertsch
Todd Bertsch is a dynamic entrepreneur, speaker, and life-optimization coach, best known as the host of The BOLT Podcast. His inspiring journey from o...
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Season 1
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Episode 267
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45:34
Dr. Flo Falayi - Leadership Redefined: Balancing Performance and Transformation
Dr. Flo Falayi, a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, leads leadership and executive development within the Advisory practice, CEO/C-Suite Accelerator, and Succession team. He focuses on executive development, coaching, team effectiveness, and...
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Episode 266
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35:19
Dr. Mary Crossan and Corey Crossan - Building Better Leaders: How Character Outshines Competence
Corey Crossan is a research and teaching fellow at The Oxford Character Project where she develops and facilitates character development programs ...
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Episode 265
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39:03
Jeffrey Beeson - Network Leadership: A New Paradigm
Jeffrey Beeson has a dual MBA in finance from the Wharton School of Business and an MA in international business from the Lauder Institute. They set the foundation for Jeffrey's interest ...
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Episode 264
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35:52
Ira Chaleff - The Power of Political Followers to Make Good Leaders and Brake Bad Ones
Ira Chaleff is an author, speaker, and executive coach in the greater Washington, DC, area. His extensive experience with the US federal government includes directing and chairing the nonpartisan Cong...
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Season 1
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Episode 263
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43:26
Zuzana Čmelíková - Leadership in Slovakia
Zuzana Čmelíková has been teaching and coaching for more than 20 years, especially in the diagnosis and creation of organizational culture, leadership development, self-manage...
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Season 1
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Episode 262
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40:30
Neal Foard - Shining a Light
Neal Foard has spent 30 years in advertising and marketing, creating award-winning campaigns for global power brands like Budweiser, Sony and Lexus. For his work on Toyota, Neal ranked among...
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Season 1
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Episode 261
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41:30
Josh Lindblom - Those Values Are Living and Breathing
After a life of playing professional baseball, Josh Lindblom quickly realized he had nothing on his resume between "player here" and "player there." He felt a deep longing to di...
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Season 1
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Episode 260
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41:42
Carey Jaros - Providing Safe Sustainable Solutions
Carey Jaros brings passion for our Purpose — Saving Lives and Making Life Better Through Well-Being Solutions — to her daily work at GOJO (the makers of Pu...
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Season 1
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Episode 259
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36:51
Dr. Ralph Gigliotti - Post-Crisis Leadership
Ralph A. Gigliotti, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Vice President for Organizational Leadership in University Academic Affairs at Rutgers University. In this role, he directs the O...
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Season 1
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Episode 258
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39:08
GC Myers - You've Got To Be a Full Person
GC Myers is a contemporary painter from the Finger Lakes region of New York. He came to painting in mid-life and quite by accident, as a result of an accident that occurred while buil...
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Season 1
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Episode 257
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36:05
Marianne Crosley - Transforming Communities
Marianne Crosley retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Leadership Center after leading the civic education leadership development and civic engagem...
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Season 1
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Episode 256
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43:03
Dr. David Day - Developing Leaders and Leadership
Dr. David V. Day holds appointments as Professor of Psychological Science and Leadership and serves as the Academic Director of the
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Episode 255
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44:12
Cathy Carroll - How to Lead a Family Business With Both Love and Logic
Cathy Carroll learned about family business leadership the best way you can – by leading her family business. After a twenty-year corporate career, she left United Airlines to lead her fa...
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Season 1
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Episode 254
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45:19
Dr. William Attaway - Growth Happens On the Other Side of Change
Dr. William Attaway is an Executive Coach specializing in leadership, mindset, and productivity who has been leading teams and coaching leaders for nearly 30 years. He's coached hundreds...
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Season 1
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Episode 253
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36:36
Dr. Lisa Marie Kerr, Dr. Liz Cavallaro, & Dr. Leigh Ann Perry - Leader Development at the Naval War College
Dr. Lisa Marie Kerr is an Associate Professor in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC). She joined NWC in September 2022 after a 30-year career in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 252
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42:57
Betsy Myers - Logic Doesn't Inspire
Betsy Myers is on a mission to improve leadership by developing leaders and teams who infuse passion and purpose into their organizations by leading from both the head and the hear...
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Season 1
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Episode 251
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31:57
Dr. Adrian Isabella & Alan Isaacson - Celebrating 250 Episodes!
Dr. Adrian Isabella is a Senior Executive and Chief Innovation Officer at LeaderEdge, a cutting-edge consultancy specializing in leadership development and organizational transformation. With a PhD in Cognitive Science and a dee...
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Season 1
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Episode 250
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36:01
Jessica Leving Siegel, Julie Stark & Denny Roberts - Humans on the Move: Welcoming Migrant Families
Jessica Leving Siegel is an award-winning writer and communications consultant with experience spanning the newspaper and magazine industry, the nonprofit sector, and the disability community. S...
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Season 1
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Episode 249
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32:33
Dr. Tim O'Brien - Looking for the Development in Leadership Development
Dr. Tim O’Brien is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School where he teaches Exercising Leadership and Developing People in degree programs and chairs the Leadership for the 21st Century and Art &...
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Season 1
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Episode 248
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44:26
Dr. David Reyes - Guide on the Side
Dr. David Reyes serves as the Talent & Leadership Development Manager at Southwest Airlines, overseeing the Leadership Development Programs strategy and execution. Before his work in Talent Development, he served in administration in higher...
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Season 1
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Episode 247
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39:24
Martin Gonzalez - Why Teams Are Harder Than Tech
Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global resea...
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Season 1
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Episode 246
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36:44
Dr. Carla Ortega Santori & Dr. Dennis McCunney - Elevating Leader Development in Higher Education
Dr. Carla Ortega Santori is the Strategic Initiatives Manager at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders. Prior to this, she developed learning and development strategies at a leading health...
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Season 1
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Episode 245
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32:07
Amjed Saffarini - Designing for Employee Engagement
As Trove’s Chief Executive Officer, Amjed Saffarini guides the organization from both a growth and customer-centric perspective, building a nationally recognized, a...
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Episode 244
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49:51
Peter Moustakerski - Seeing Around Corners
Peter Moustakerski is CEO of Family Office Exchange (FOX), the premier resource for families managing private enterprises and family wealth across generations. For over 30 years, FOX has been recognized as the industry’s most exclusive, innovat...
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Season 1
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Episode 243
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43:09